Hard work pays off.
Around seven o'clock,
When only a tiny edge of the dazzling red wheel in the sky remained, the two children finally found the river that Jingguang had seen!
"Guang Guang, we're here!! We finally found the river!"
Jingwu happily held his brother's hand and raised it high, cheering. His disheveled and muddy little face was filled with bright round eyes that were as cool and clear as river water, sparkling with excitement and joy.
"Um."
Jingguang was infected by his brother's happiness, narrowed his eyes and nodded vigorously.
The forest self-rescue book particularly emphasizes: At night or dusk, if you are lost, unless it is extremely urgent, generally do not walk around easily. You should find a place to rest as soon as possible and wait until daybreak before walking again.
Because the forest at night is very dangerous!!!
Jingguang looked at his watch, then looked at the endless river, and estimated the distance and time he and his brother had walked from the tree.
And the distance and strength of going down the river,
It was about twice as long as the distance it took for two people to get from the forest to the river.
Although you won't get lost if you follow the river here, and it will be much faster, it will still take at least seven or eight hours...
and...
The two had not eaten since morning and were now exhausted. Even the distance they had walked through the forest had required them to rest before walking.
On the way, the two also encountered terrible snakes, huge spiders and unknown terrible big insects...
Some poisonous substances are carefully avoided when discovered.
Therefore, a lot of physical energy and time were wasted.
But fortunately, we did not encounter the tigers and wolves that Kuroda Sozan mentioned.
"Brother, can we take a rest here?"
Atobe Keigo's eyes lit up.
Finally I can take a break!
Atobe Kagemitsu could naturally feel the joy coming from his brother's heart. His frowning brows relaxed and he sat down to rest for a while.
Then the two brothers found as many dry branches as they could find at the edge of the forest, along with bark, dead leaves, moss and hay, and piled them into a large pile.
Jingguang studied fire there.
Keigo, on the other hand, continued to look for more dry branches and large logs that Keimitsu needed.
Jingguang picked up a glass bottle that had drifted to the river and filled it with water.
According to the view drawn in the book in my mind, I built a simple shelter with stones, then placed dry leaves and bark inside, laid a layer of logs on the bottom of the stove, then built a conical firewood pile, put in the fire starter, and finally stuffed in the fire starter.
On the riverbank, a transparent, cleaned glass bottle was filled with half a bottle of clear river water. A tripod made of slender branches was set up at one end and the bottle was tilted 45 degrees to use the remaining sunlight.
The golden sunlight will form a focal point through the water in the glass bottle. Next, you just need to keep this focal point still and wait patiently for the leaves to heat up.
However, there is not much sun left now, and Jing Guang doesn’t know whether he can succeed. After all, everything is just his attempt.
It's all paper talk.
"What you learn from books is always shallow, you must practice it yourself to know it thoroughly..."
Jingguang looked at the glass bottle and murmured,
I finally understand what my grandfather meant by this sentence...
To be on the safe side, wait for the sun to shine,
He was not idle either.
After a little thought, I decided to try another method mentioned in the book, and I also had the materials.
He found a relatively strong branch, bent down and untied the shoelaces of his sneakers, tied the shoelaces to the branch, and also tied the hemp rope on it to make a bow.