128 Wilderness Survival

◎The long branches made a pulling sound.◎

Ye Zhizhi’s idea wasn’t anything surprising.

When she woke up, her mind clear, she decided digging through the cliff wasn't a good idea. After all, the wolves were so large, so the excavation would have to be very deep and high to get through. The jungle rained so continuously every year, and if it caused a collapse, the cost would be more than worth the effort. The cliff was so high, and digging upwards at an angle was not only a massive undertaking, but also posed significant risks.

So she thought about adapting to local conditions.

To pave a path with just stones, you have to find extra-large stones, otherwise they'll be washed away by floods or fall apart after construction. And since so many stones are needed, the project is equally massive.

But generally speaking, building a bridge over water is less dangerous than digging a tunnel.

So she decided to walk into the water and build a stone road.

However, instead of using stones to build the whole structure, they use stone piers and then use thick and long branches to build the bridge, which can save a lot of large stones.

There is a lack of everything in the mountains except trees. This is much easier than searching for suitable stones and moving them here with great difficulty. With wood as the main material and stones as the auxiliary materials, the bridge should be built quickly.

After all, no matter how short the wood is, it is still a few meters or ten meters long, which can save a lot of trouble. However, there are not many suitable branches in the canyon, so you have to go out and look for them.

Ye Zhizhi thought, there was no need to make it too complicated, just stones and trees would be enough.

She brought her friends out now just to ask them to help with some stones. She wanted to move the stones in the canyon and put them into the water to see how big the stones would be to keep them stable and not be washed away.

The rain is still drizzling today. Ye Zhizhi is fully armed again and walks in the rain with his companions, picking in the canyon.

There are many stones of different sizes scattered on the road in the canyon. Many rocks on the ground are covered by green plants. As you climb up, the moss-covered rocks appear and disappear.

Ye Zhizhi looked at a few suitable stones based on his memory, dug along the edge of the cracks, and after making sure that they were not embedded too deep in the ground, he asked the wolf, bear, snake and other animals to pry a piece out.

In terms of strength, there is not much difference between animals, but when it comes to moving stones, wolves are generally far inferior to bears and snakes.

The big bear's two paws can easily crush the opponent's bones. Its infinite strength allows it to push hard, pushing the stones stuck in the ground to move and breaking the roots climbing on the stones.

Xiaohua's snake tail directly wrapped around the rock and dragged it forward, also vibrating.

On the other hand, Yin Yi, even though he is equally powerful, his wolf structure does not allow him to fully utilize his strength in this aspect.

Ye Zhizhi deliberately formed a group with Yin Yi. She prided herself on being very strong, but when faced with a stone weighing hundreds of pounds, Ye Zhizhi pushed hard and only caused a slight vibration.

There was a small part embedded in the ground that she couldn't push.

Seeing that Xiaohua and Daxiong could easily drag the stone, Yin put his front paws on the wet stone and supported himself with his hind paws on the ground. He walked back and forth twice, gathering strength with his whole body, tensing his muscles, and trying to push forward.

Ye Zhizhi stood below and also tried his best.

The vibration of the boulder became more and more intense.

Slowly pry up from under the root and tilt it to the other side.

Seeing it difficult to move, Ye Zhizhi thought for a moment and decided to use her human ingenuity. She found a long, thick branch, inserted one end between the stone and the ground, placed a stone under the branch, ran to the end, and then pried it open with all her might.

The long branches made a pulling sound.

After Ye Zhizhi exerted force like this, it became easier and the stone rose faster. After a while, with the cooperation of Yin Yi, he turned the stone over.

The muddy side was washed away by the rain, and the muddy water flowed into the bottom of the pit.

Ye Zhizhi wanted to use the same trick again, but the wood's bearing capacity was not good enough and it broke after just a few prying attempts.

Xiaohua and Daxiong in front were almost moving the stones out of the canyon, but they had only moved five meters here.

Yin Yi found that pushing with his front paws was not effective, so he walked around the stone twice, swinging his wet tail, then put his head against the stone, used all his limbs to push forward.

Ye Zhizhi's eyes widened. Was Yin Yi trying to see who was harder, using his head against the stone? Before Ye Zhizhi could speak to stop him, a tail as black as jade extended, wrapped around the stone, and slowly crawled forward.

Da Mo noticed the two wolves behind him dawdling and couldn't stand it anymore.

Ye Zhizhi ran to the back and pushed forward with all his strength.

She thought that she and Yin Yi, brother and sister, would be invincible together, and she specially chose the biggest and farthest stone. Who knew that there was such a huge gap between her ideal and reality?

After uprooting the boulder, she was able to push it, but the ground was uneven and her body was too short, so she couldn't push it fast enough.

With Da Mo's help, the three stones were quickly moved to the river bank.

Ye Zhizhi took a look and asked Xiaohua to put the smallest stone aside and into the water.

The stone was not high enough, and was submerged as soon as it was dragged into the water.

Ye Zhizhi instructed Xiaohua to place the stone in the designated location, then asked Xiaohua to carry her into the water and then go to estimate it.

This stone is not very good, it is still too light. It has just been put down for a short time and it has moved a considerable distance. It has been directly shifted and pushed further down.

Ye Zhizhi asked Xiaohua to drag the stone that Daxiong brought into the water. Daxiong helped push it on the shore, then waited for a while and groped towards the position he remembered again, but found that it had basically not moved, although it was also submerged in water.

As for the largest stone, it was still about fifteen centimeters high when pushed into the water.

The area where she asked Xiaohua to place the stones was where the water flow was the most turbulent. If the stones could not be moved even here, then other places would be safe.

It’s settled!

Then she looked for stones and used the weight of Big Bear's stone as the minimum standard.

Unfortunately, it is raining heavily and the flood is still surging, which makes building a bridge much more difficult. We have to wait until the flood recedes before we can officially build a tree bridge.

Ye Zhizhi now has an idea in mind, but the most important thing at this stage is to wait until the rainy season is over and let the wolves successfully cross the river to hunt here, so as to prepare for winter food storage.

Now, it can only be a little rough.

Ye Zhizhi then asked the wolves and the big bear to continue helping to find and carry stones, while she and the two snakes crossed the river, and then went to the forest and asked Xiaohua to help her break the branch she liked.

Then he begged Da Mo to continue helping to find large rocks that could be exposed above the water surface and place one at a distance along the stone wall.

After Xiaohua broke the branch, Ye Zhizhi took a dagger and cut off the branches, leaving only the thickest branches in the middle. Ye Zhizhi did not waste the branches that were cut off, and planned to take them back and dry them in the sun as firewood when the weather warmed up.

Then pull the vines and tie two similar ones together side by side.

Originally she wanted to keep it simple and just put one tree trunk, but one would slide easily, so it would be more stable if she tied two.

There were more huge rocks here than on the other side of the canyon. Da Mo quietly got four or five of them and put them in the water, exposing the tops of the rocks at different levels.

Ye Zhizhi exclaimed, then tried to place the tree raft on top of the stone.

Each stone was five or six meters apart, so the tree rows she had made could connect. Ye Zhizhi made it very rough, so she worked very quickly. When she successfully built a tree bridge by connecting stones from the mountain riverbank and stones from the water, she immediately walked on it.

But that's because she's so small and light, so she'll eventually have to move around.

Ye Zhizhi walked back, picked up another raft of trees, and continued to move forward.

She built a ladder as she walked, and soon she had built a ladder for twenty or thirty meters.

But it is still quite far from the canyon entrance.

In order to prevent the rising water from washing away the raft, Ye Zhizhi tied it up with vines at the front and back, and tied the end that touched the ground to a tree trunk nearby.

This humble tree row will do the trick!

The main goal at this stage is to get the wolves over. With the wolves' jumping ability, they can get over as long as there is a foothold along the way.

So she and the two snakes continued to search for suitable stones.

Later on, they got a particularly large stone, which even the big black snake had difficulty pulling. Xiaohua also helped, and the two snakes rolled up the huge stone and swam upstream in the water.

Ye Zhizhi looked at Xiaohua and Damo, and his nose felt sore.

It was clearly none of their business, but no matter what she wanted to do, she still helped with enthusiasm, and was willing to do it no matter how hard or tiring it was.

Xiaohua even treated this as a fun game. She was swinging the water happily at the beginning, but after repeating it many times, she felt obviously tired, but she still actively helped.

Ye Zhizhi walked across the tree rows and jumped all the way to the place where there were no tree rows ahead.

“Hiss!”

Right here!

Xiaohua and Damo put it down as they were told, and then Ye Zhizhi expressed his desire to go back.

Xiaohua suddenly cheered up and swam happily to Ye Zhizhi.

After Ye Zhizhi sat on it, the two snakes quickly returned to the entrance of the canyon.

At this time, there were more than ten large rocks piled up at the entrance of the canyon, all of which were left by the big bear and the wolf pack. A corresponding large pit had been dug in the canyon and filled with water.

Ye Zhizhi thought about it and told the wolf and the bear to stop digging. There were not many suitable stones, so it would be better to look somewhere farther away.

We did this for several days in a row, but half of the connections were still unfinished. The rain was getting heavier, and thunder and lightning started again. It was very dangerous to wander in the jungle in such weather, so we returned to the cave.

As soon as they stopped, Xiaohua and Damo, who had worked the hardest, were exhausted. Although Damo was still coiled in circles without any emotion, Ye Zhizhi could see that it was so tired that it didn't want to move.

Xiaohua had already collapsed straight into a line.

Ye Zhizhi patiently massaged Xiaohua's whole body for the entire day. Her hands were so tired that they were twitching. She herself was also very tired, but seeing Xiaohua radiating joy, she felt very happy too.

Ye Zhizhi was worried that the semi-finished product they had worked so hard to produce would be wasted, so she would run out every three to five days to check if the water level had risen.

Unfortunately, it is rising slowly, but fortunately, it is not rising too much and you can still see the stone tops.

The wolves had already realized that food might be scarce, and had been consciously reducing their eating frequency and activity levels during the second half of the rainy season. Even Ye Zhizhi's repeated insistence that they didn't need to worry about food was to no avail.

When the rain began to slow down, Ye Zhizhi went out frequently to observe the water level and found that there was no sign of it falling.

The wolves began to eat and conserve their energy, knowing that the rainy season was coming to an end and they needed enough energy to prepare for the hunt.

The rain stopped falling in the gray sky, and Ye Zhizhi and his companions rushed out immediately.

They waded through the wet canyon. The flood was still turbulent and the water level had risen by a few centimeters, but they could see that most of the rocks were not submerged.

"Oh?"

Ye Zhizhi asked Yin Yi, are you confident?

They tried to fill the gap with stones when the rain subsided, but they were still too late.

But compared to the floods, there is a more serious food problem.

Yin Yi raised his head slightly, looked around, then bent slightly and jumped directly onto the stone.

Ye Zhizhi asked Xiaohua to carry her while swimming.

Given the wolf's weight, it would be difficult for Xiaohua to carry the wolf in such dangerous water, but if the wolf fell into the water, she would still try her best to help pull it ashore.

Yin Yi stood at the front, jumping forward slowly one by one. Behind him, four wolves, three white and two brown, lined up and followed suit.

The big bear tilted his head and jumped after the wolf.

When they reached a long distance in the middle and there was no time to put stones to build a bridge, Yin Yi jumped into the water, his hair floating slightly, paddling his limbs, and swimming forward along the rock wall.

In some places you can barely reach the bottom, and in some places you can only swim.

Fortunately, they had mastered swimming skills before, and the other wolves also went into the water one after another and swam forward along Yinyi's route.

As soon as Yin climbed onto a huge rock, it became even faster, jumping forward one jump after another. When it reached the place where Ye Zhizhi had built a tree raft, it was even faster, and it successfully jumped ashore almost instantly.

The silver-gray fish at the end was not very good at swimming. As he swam, he was swept outward by the water and almost fell into the middle of the water.

Big Mo, who was passing by, silently flicked his tail and knocked Silver Little Gray back to the edge of the cliff.

The big bear was quite tall, and the flood near the edge was only up to his chest at most, so he waded through the water holding onto the rock wall.

Big bears can swim, but their instinct is to avoid uncontrollable natural forces. For example, they would not dare to go down such a turbulent current.

But now seeing that all the wolves had swam down, the big bear didn't want to be left behind, so he went down as well. As he walked, he felt that the water that seemed to scare bears was not so scary after all.

Ye Zhizhi stood on the shore, counting the companions who had come ashore one by one, and there was not a single one missing. After resting for a while, they rushed into the jungle and began hunting.

Although the prey here are generally stronger, their team includes wolves, snakes and bears, and their overall strength ranks among the best in this area.

It didn't take long before they successfully hunted three or five prey.

For them, hunting is not the most difficult thing at this stage. The difficult part is how to bring the prey back.

The wolf was already so cautious when it first came out, swimming downstream. Now that it has prey, it is even more impossible for it to swim back upstream.

We have to find a way.