On the second evening, Doug could already move around. However, at the sight of his indignant face, all the members of the Hit-Plane Brotherhood couldn't help but laugh out loud. On the first day of survival training, Doug, who was squatting in the bushes, had been stung by a scorpion. Thankfully, the scorpion was not too poisonous, especially after being "cured" by the other members of the Hit-Plane Brotherhood. After a day of pain, Doug was able to move around freely. However, after being stung by that scorpion, everybody became alert. Only then did they understand what "do not expose your butts to the air" meant. Thankfully, that scorpion was not too poisonous and was just a common one. If it was a mutated, highly poisonous scorpion, a poisonous snake, or some other poisonous insect, Doug might have already been a corpse.
Nobody wanted to be stung by something from the ground or the bushes when they were squatting there defenseless. After being alert, on the first evening, because of what had happened to Doug, they spent the whole night building a toilet not far away from the tree base. Barley even sprinkled a layer of poisonous insect repellent powder around the toilet and the Dragon-Claw Tree, completely relieving them of any worries.
The entire day of the second day of the survival training was also calm. Aside from Doug, who was recuperating on the bed, all the other members of the Hit-Plane Brotherhood Club took off their clothes and took turns to dig holes in the tree like squirrels. They used axes, military shovels, daggers, and long sabers. After sweating like raindrops during the day, they had basically completed the second step of the renovation of the tree base. In the middle of the hollow huge Dragon-Claw Tree, they had dug out three floors from top to bottom, which could finally accommodate seven people.
After completing the basic transformation of the treehouse base, after two days of consumption, the total amount of food piled up by the seven of them was less than 30kg. It could only last for another four days at most. The pressure of survival was overwhelming, so on the third day of the survival trial, everyone had decided that they must find a way to get food today.
On the third morning, Zhang Tie was the first one to wake up. With the recovery of Qi, blood, and vitality, Zhang Tie finally woke up from his dreamless sleep at six o 'clock on the third day. Zhang Tie opened his eyes and saw that the tree base was just a disguise. He didn't really plan to dig for food.
When he worked in the grocery store, Zhang Tie had learned some skills and knowledge about survival in the wild from Donder and other pioneers. These skills and abilities could not be learned at school, such as how to set traps and catch prey in the wild. After observing the environment of the Wild Wolf Valley for the past two days, Zhang Tie realized that he could try some of these skills and methods.
Zhang Tie first chopped a bamboo in the wild bamboo field near the tree base and tied it into two one-meter-long sections. When he passed by a chestnut forest, Zhang Tie found a three-meter-long chestnut tree as thick as a duck's egg and chopped it off with a multifunctional military shovel. After cutting off the excess branches and leaves, Zhang Tie obtained a spear shaft. He then took out the steel spearhead from his waist and fixed the nails on the spear shaft, making it a two-meter-long spear. With the spear in hand, Zhang Tie suddenly became much more courageous. Following his memory, Zhang Tie ran towards a place less than 500 m away from the tree base with the two bamboos hanging on his waist and the spear in his hand.
As most of the participants chose to live within a distance of 5,000 m from the castle, in the past two days, all the birds and beasts within this distance had been targeted by people. They had been chased away, while the unlucky ones had been killed. It was relatively safer within this distance as there were not many dangerous wild beasts. Therefore, Zhang Tie didn't need to worry too much about moving alone.
Before arriving at that place, Zhang Tie had already heard the sound of flowing water from behind the hillside. Turning around the hillside, he saw a 7-8 m wide stream in front of him. The riverside was covered with weeds, reeds, and aquatic plants. Zhang Tie's arrival startled several waterfowl. Although the water in this stream was not crystal clear, it was still clean. Zhang Tie squatted by the riverside and carefully observed it for about 5-6 minutes. He found that chopstick-long fish would jump out of the water from time to time. Additionally, besides fish, he didn't see any ferocious aquatic animals such as crocodiles. After observing for a while, Zhang Tie made up his mind. Using his long spear, he opened the way and walked upstream. There would always be a stream at regular intervals. Every time he passed by a stream, he would stop and observe it carefully. Finally, he shook his head in disappointment and continued walking. After walking along the riverside for 700-800 m, Zhang Tie had already seen five streams, none of which he was satisfied with. However, the stream in front of him could no longer go further. In front of him was a ravine and a cliff. If he wanted to cross it, he could only swim across it or make a detour. When Zhang Tie prepared to make a detour, he heard the sound of flowing water.
"What?" Zhang Tie stopped. If his spiritual energy had not surged by 7 times recently, which made his senses more sensitive, he might not have heard the sound at all. The faint rustling sound came from a very hidden place in front of him. Zhang Tie swept the ground with his spear to open the way. After passing by a pile of weeds and brambles on one side of the cliff, the rustling sound became clearer. Sticking to the cliff, Zhang Tie looked for the source of the sound along the ravine. After turning left and right and passing by some huge rocks, he saw a 1-m wide brook covered with pebbles which could only reach his feet. It flowed down the cliff and the ravine and converged into the river here.
At the sight of this brook, Zhang Tie's eyes turned bright.
Looking at the location and the slope of the brook, as well as the depth and quality of the brook, Zhang Tie gestured with his hands. Finally, he became reassured. "God will not disappoint those who are determined. Here it is..."
After inserting his long spear into the ground, Zhang Tie took out his military shovel and took off his shoes. He then started to dig at a place not far from the mouth of the brook. He shoveled the sand and pebbles into the bank of the brook. After more than one hour, he dug a small man-made water tank in the size of 50 cm deeper than 2 m above the mouth of the brook, which was more than 2 m above the mouth of the brook.
After digging this small pool, Zhang Tie picked up those pebbles around the brook and made a small dam above the pool. Closely after that, he started to level a section of waterway which was about 2 m from the small pool to the entrance of the river. Zhang Tie picked up all the stones which were larger than the size of eggs and bigger pebbles in this section of waterway. After that, he constantly found some fine sand and pebbles which were smaller than the size of a thumb from the upper reaches of the brook and started to sprinkle them on this section of waterway which was longer than 2 m. After that, he leveled some places where the drop and the slope of the brook were larger than the size of a thumb. As a result, the width of the brook became a bit narrower while the depth of the water flow increased a lot...
In this way, Zhang Tie started to move back and forth. Finally, he used his dagger to cut the two sections of bamboo into thin bamboo strips. Using the bamboo strips and the nearby willow twigs, he weaved a bowl-sized conical object and placed it at the outlet of the small pool. This process took him almost the whole morning.
When it was almost noon, Zhang Tie sat under a tree beside the brook. Wiping the sweat off his forehead, he looked at the result of his hard work in the morning. Due to Zhang Tie's efforts, the previously tranquil brook from the estuary to the upstream of the brook had completely changed its appearance.
Zhang Tie slightly changed the flow speed and slope of the brook so that the water flowed more slowly. At the same time, the depth of the brook increased a bit. Previously, the depth of the brook was between 5 cm and 10 cm. Some places were covered with pebbles, which were less than 3 cm deep. After removing those big, unsightly stones and shoveling away some sand and soil, the depth of the water in this section was basically above 20 cm. Above this section of water was the deeper small pool that Zhang Tie had dug. Below the only outlet of the small pool was the conical object that Zhang Tie had weaved with bamboo strips and willow twigs like an ugly pointed hat. Although it looked a bit rough, it was the "door" of this small pool. The conical object's opening was facing the direction of the river, while its tail was inside the small pool. Its simple conical structure made it loose inside and tight outside, and it could only be entered but not exited. That was to say, it was easy for things to drill in from the opening. Those bamboo strips were basically not stressed inside, while from the outside, especially at the tail, it was very difficult for anything longer than a finger to drill in through the conical tail.
This small conical object was the key to make this trap work. 20 m above this small pool, Zhang Tie built 8 small dams using those big pebbles. Almost every two to three meters was a small dam.
Of course, the purpose of these small cobblestone dams was not to block the water, but to form a natural drop, so that when the water flowed down from these small dams, it could act as an oxygenation. After this thorough modification, the oxygen content of the water would increase greatly when it flowed into the river. Sensing this, some fish that liked oxygen would definitely swim up from the entrance of the stream. This was the nature of many fish. Finally, those fish that swam up would fall into the small pool that Zhang Tie had set up. This small pool and the conical bamboo hat were like a natural fish cage. As long as the fish swam into it, they would not be able to swim out and could only wait for Zhang Tie's arrival.
This was a hunting skill taught by Donder. Instead of using a fishing net or a harpoon, Zhang Tie made use of the fish's nature. Under the suitable terrain and conditions, as long as he made proper modification and made a small tool, he would be able to lure the fish into the trap one after another. At that time, Donder had sighed that humans were similar to fish. Fish liked oxygen in the water, while humans liked alcohol, women, wealth, and arrogance. The brilliant traps were all made according to the prey's nature and preferences.
The stream water was still a bit turbid. Zhang Tie rested under a tree beside him for a while and ate some dried rations for lunch. After that, the stream water gradually became clear. The water splashed and flowed into the river, and after a short while, the turbid water at the entrance of the river had been washed away. When Zhang Tie was about to leave, he chopped off another luxuriant twig and placed it above the small pool, covering it. After doing all this, Zhang Tie walked towards Wild Wolf Castle. On the way, he used the skills that he had learned before to make two traps to deal with small wild beasts and animals using the elasticity and gravity of twigs on the roadside.
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