The house was washed away, but it did not completely collapse. It had to be smashed to make room for the foundation.
The smashed walls and soil would not be thrown away, but would continue to be used to minimize people's workload.
Godzilla helped to smash the wall. The sledgehammer, which the black man needed to hold with both hands, was like a toy in his hands. He smashed the wall with one hammer in each hand.
Li Du saw Brother Wolf looking around. He was about to go over and ask what was going on when Godzilla shouted, "Hey, be careful, snake!"
Hearing his voice, Li Du looked over in surprise and said, "A snake came out of the wall?"
After Godzilla smashed a section of the wall, a pale yellow thing with brown spots appeared inside. It was about half a meter long, flat, and could twist, like a small snake.
After seeing this thing, several children scrambled to get it.
Lu Guan exclaimed, "Damn, what a group of warriors. Snake catching training starts from a child."
Brother Wolf laughed and said, "It's not a snake, it's a lungfish, an African lungfish."
Sophie was surprised. "This is a lungfish? How is it possible? It was found in the wall. My God, how did it appear? "
Li Du thought of a news article he had seen and said, "This kind of African lungfish seems to be amphibious. They can breathe with their lungs, which are developed and as long as their body …"
Brother Wolf nodded and said, "Yes, lungfish are very special. They can breathe with their gills in the water, but they have special bladder and lungs so that even out of the water, they can breathe air directly."
Sophie was surprised. "But it was found in the wall. Don't tell me it can survive in the wall for years. It's impossible!"
Brother Wolf shrugged and said, "I don't know, but when the dry season comes, the pond where the lungfish live will turn into a mud pit. Then it will dig holes, go in, and secrete a mucus that hardens into a cocoon-like protective film."
"This mucus can maintain a certain degree of humidity and let in air. At the same time, it uses its own muscles and fat as nutrients to survive, reduces its metabolic rate to one-sixtieth of the original, and then goes into summer hibernation. "
Buick, who was working, rushed over to take a look and laughed. "This fish can be stewed, but it's too small. I've seen someone find a big fish in the wall, a meter long."
Li Du had seen similar news before, but it seemed that the media later said that it was fake news.
Now, he had encountered the real thing. There really was a type of fish that could be sealed in dry soil and survive for several years!
Li Du had overestimated the survival ability of the lungfish. Later, Buick told him that the house had only been built for a year and a half because too much soil had been used and too little sand and gravel had been used. The house was not strong and had a shorter lifespan.
Even so, Li Du felt that the African lungfish was very impressive. It could survive out of water for a year and a half without food and water.
He looked down at Little Flathead, who was holding a piece of wood, and decided to rank them as the most awesome creatures in Africa.
As the saying went, 'Whether Africa is chaotic or not, the honey badger has the final say.' This saying was not just for show. Brother Flattop's ability was self-evident.
Little Flathead could do whatever he wanted in the tribe. No one dared to touch him. Even the children knew that he could not be provoked.
It wasn't that they couldn't afford to provoke it, but if they provoked it, it would continue to chase after them. Unless they killed it, they could only wait to be provoked.
Because the honey badger did not have much meat and liked to eat poisonous snakes, people were worried that it had residual poison in its body, so they did not dare to catch it to eat.
It was for this reason that, although the honey badger had a bad temper and attacked anyone, it did not go extinct.
The house was built very quickly. After smashing it, the planks were buried in the ground and the soil and gravel were put in.
After many years of construction and use, there was not much gravel around the Gibra tribe, so they could only use more soil to make the main body of the wall.
The house made in this way was not strong enough, but it was still a house.
Listening to the gloomy discussion between Buick and some of the tribe's black people, Brother Wolf pointed to the plastic bottle on the ground and said, "Why don't you use this?"
"What?" Buick looked puzzled.
Brother Wolf went to pick up a Coke bottle, poured muddy water into it, screwed the lid, and put it in the wooden wall. He said, "This is more useful than sand, right?"
Buick looked at the Coke bottle in the wall. After a few seconds, he slapped his thigh and shouted, "What a wonderful idea! D * mn it, why didn't we think of it?! "
This gave them a new idea. The tribe had frequent communication with the outside world, and every household had plastic bottles. These plastic bottles, after being filled with muddy water, could be used to make the main body of the wall, which was much better than sand.
Moreover, even if their tribe did not have enough bottles, this thing was cheap and light, and they could buy it at the waste station. For their tribe, it was an inexhaustible thing.
Li Du did not think that plastic bottles could be used in this way. He praised Brother Wolf, who smiled and said, "I didn't think of it out of nowhere. In our curriculum, there is training to use plastic bottles filled with sand as a bunker."
Seeing this scene of celebration, Scotty, who had been watching coldly from the side, was dissatisfied. He snorted and said disdainfully, "Petty tricks, useless petty tricks."
The black youth, Charlie, straightened his neck and said, "Hey, why didn't I see you with such petty tricks?"
Scotty said proudly, "What I need is great wisdom, not petty tricks. These houses in the tribe should have been obsolete long ago. As long as we have money, we can build buildings like those in Johannesburg! "
Sophie shook her head and teased, "That won't do, handsome. The foundation of the tribe is made of mud. Once it rains, it will quickly soften, and its bearing capacity is relatively poor. If we build a building, I'm afraid it won't need rain. It will collapse by itself!"
Scotty stared at her and said, "Ha, you know so much. You're the only one who knows, right?"
Sophie shrugged and said, "I did a double degree in university, and one of them was architecture, so I do know a lot about this area."
Charlie shook his head at Scotty and laughed. "Wow, so you went to university? Scotty never went to school, not even for a day. "
Scotty roared angrily, "Get lost, Charlie!"
There was strength in numbers. After a day of hard work, they built a total of eight houses.
The next day was the celebration that Buick had mentioned. Li Du thought that there would be some kind of event, but in the end, Buick led the strong men of the tribe and got ready to go hunting.
What they were going to hunt was not ordinary. It was pythons!
After hearing the news, Li Du did not know how to express his surprise. He asked, "Your celebration is to catch pythons? And then stew the pythons in soup? "
Buick laughed and said, "No, it's not stew. You will know when the time comes."
Other than hunting occasionally, pythons hid in underground caves most of the time. Therefore, it was very difficult to hunt them.
The hunters of the Gibra tribe had to carefully search for the traces they left on the ground and follow the traces to find the pythons' caves.
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