Chapter 52: The Battle between Girl and Beast

Banxia looked up at the surrounding environment. She was surrounded by buildings and lush vegetation.

On the left is Building 15, and on the right is Building 17. A small path runs between the two buildings. Both sides of the asphalt road are lined with dense shrubs, making it impenetrable. The air is filled with an almost sticky scent of plants.

Plants also breathe, they photosynthesize and respire, their movements are slow, weak and imperceptible, but when you are in a world surrounded by plants, stuck to them, and growing luxuriantly, you will be surprised to find that they have merged into a huge living organism with billions of stomata all over its body, and each pore is breathing. Every deep breath taken by this huge, boundless slime-mold-like green creature in front of the girl is long and endless.

Banxia stood at the position where the tree trunk had just been bent and hung down, squatted down, picked up a wrench, placed a wooden hook upside down on the soil, and hammered it vertically into the ground, clang clang clang, until only the hook was exposed on the ground.

Then hold it tightly with both hands and pull it up hard until your face turns red and you can't pull it out. Then make sure it is nailed firmly and part of the trigger is ready.

This is the fixed hook, responsible for keeping the mechanism stationary and stable.

The second hook is a movable hook, which is responsible for triggering the mechanism.

Banxia took out the second wooden hook, chiseled two holes at the end of the movable hook, and passed two nylon ropes through each hole.

The two ropes are of different lengths, one is half a meter long and the other is two meters long. The functions of the two ropes are different. The short nylon rope will be tied to the top of the tree later. It is responsible for pulling the bent trunk to the ground. The other long rope needs to be extended to form a loop to catch prey.

The girl climbed up the tree again and bent the trunk. She lay on the bent oak tree and tied the nylon rope with the hook to the top of the trunk and tied a firm knot so that the hook was hanging on the top of the tree. After doing this, Banxia stretched her arm hard and hooked the hook onto the fixed hook on the ground.

The grooves of the two wooden hooks fit into each other, and the bent oak is fixed.

The girl carefully released her arms that were pressing down on the tree trunk, and the oak trunk slowly rebounded until the nylon rope was stretched straight and stopped moving. At this moment, the huge elastic force competed vertically with the fixed hook driven into the ground. The two hooks were playing tug-of-war and achieved a balance, and the entire trap mechanism remained in an N shape and motionless.

The first nylon rope is tied.

Next comes the second nylon rope.

The second nylon rope was also tied to the movable hook. The girl walked backwards and gently stretched it out. When it was five or six steps away, she made a slipknot loop with a diameter of thirty to forty centimeters.

The rope loop was placed flat on the grass. Banxia then went to find a few small tree branches, inserted them into the soil, and propped up the rope loop in the air, about 20 to 30 centimeters above the ground.

This completes the trap setting.

This is a simple noose trap. The working principle is obvious. The bent tree trunk provides elastic force. It is firmly pulled to the ground by the hook. If it is not touched, it will remain stable. But if an animal steps into the rope loop and is caught by the closing rope loop, the animal will inevitably pull the hook horizontally when struggling to escape. The two hooks can remain stable in the vertical direction, but they will become unhooked if pulled horizontally.

Once unhooked, the huge elastic potential energy stored in the trunk will be suddenly released, and the trunk will immediately bounce back, pulling the rope and hanging the prey into the air.

It's like an ancient catapult.

The principle is simple, but effective.

The teacher once said that in the post-apocalyptic era, the most basic rule of survival is to lie down. The less you struggle, the longer you live.

You can bring a pistol and a bow and arrow, but that cannot be your primary means of hunting. Animals are dangerous, whether they are predators or herbivores, they are dangerous to humans, so try to avoid direct conflicts with them. Use underhanded tactics when you can, and use traps when you can.

The girl let out a long sigh and stood on the grass to stretch her sore wrists.

The rope loop is still empty for the time being, and some bait will have to be put in the center of the rope loop. Banxia estimates that the uninvited guest is a ferocious predator, so the bait should be meat.

Meat alone is not enough.

To be on the safe side, you have to mix rat poison into the bait.

In case a leopard or even a brown bear was caught, Banxia was not sure if this simple trap could restrain such a large and powerful creature, so she mixed some poison into the bait.

Using traps alone is not enough, you also need to use drugs!

Poison them!

Unfortunately, the rat poison has not been delivered yet. Three or four days ago, Banxia told BG4MXH that she needed rat poison, but she didn’t know what went wrong and the time capsule has not been delivered to her.

The night before last, he asked me to go to the gate of the community and break down the wall, saying that the time capsule was hidden there.

I spent the whole afternoon yesterday trying to break it open but couldn't.

Solid cement is so strong that it would be impossible to break it open without heavy machinery or explosives.

Banxia only had a pitiful engineer shovel in her hand, and no matter how she dug, it could only leave a few white marks. She was sore all over, but the concrete wall remained motionless.

She couldn't really do anything about it.

“This is outrageous.”

The girl said.

"This is outrageous!"

The girl yelled at the concrete wall.

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Banxia picked up dead leaves and weeds and gently covered the trap mechanism and nylon rope until they became one. This was a necessary concealment measure, as the bright rope loop would easily alert animals.

After doing all this, she walked around the trap a few more times to make sure that the rope loop could not be seen from any angle.

The girl resisted the urge to try putting her foot through the rope loop.

Humans are such strange creatures, they always like to test the edge of death again and again. If you draw a circle on the ground, there will be 100% chance that someone will step into it. If they don't step on it, they will feel uncomfortable all over. Banxia dismissed this dangerous idea from her mind. If the mechanism was triggered, she would be hung on the tree, and no one here could help her.

Banxia packed up and left the scene, erasing all traces of her actions.

It's okay to leave the trap here. Come back when you have the bait ready.

She was going to prepare the next trap.

One trap is not enough, more must be set. If resources were not limited, Banxia would even want to place animal traps all over Meihua Villa.

Banxia planned to set up four traps at different locations inside the Meihua Villa community. She didn't believe that she could not catch the uninvited guest. This was human wisdom. Even if she was the last human in the world, she could not let those beasts look down on her.

This is a showdown between the girl and the beast.

She carried her bag and bow and arrow and walked back along the asphalt road. She had to urge BG4MXH to deliver the rat poison as soon as possible tonight. Of course, this time he had to not seal it in cement.

A whistling wind blew in the alley between the two buildings. All of a sudden, all the grass and trees swayed in the wind, rising and falling like waves. Banxia suddenly stopped, turned her head and looked around suspiciously.

Looking around, it's lush and green.

Banxia frowned.

Is it an illusion?

Am I seeing enemies everywhere?

What is laughing?

(End of this chapter)