Chapter 135: Extreme Cold. Emotionless Logging Machine
After everyone in the yard left, everyone went into the house.
Li Rong and Tang Xiao walked through the entire villa and locked all the doors and windows to make sure no one else would come back.
The first floor was covered with a layer of ice and was uninhabitable, so everyone decided to go to the second and third floors.
"There are three rooms on the second floor, enough for us to rest. Let's not go to the third floor. We can all live closer so it's easier to take care of each other if anything happens." Li Rong suggested.
Everyone had no objection and started to allocate the rooms. Chu An and Huo Sisi shared one room, Gu Ye and Tang Xiao shared one room, and Yin Tianlin and Li Rong shared one room. In fact, they all slept in their own tents, so it didn't matter who shared with whom, but Huo Sisi insisted on dividing it this way.
"Sisi, you look down on me too much." Yin Tianlin said helplessly.
Huo Sisi rolled her eyes at him and pulled Chu An to make a fire and boil water. They each made a pile of charcoal, using the charcoal they brought from home.
Chu An boiled ginger soup. Although it was over 60 degrees below zero outside, his underwear was damp after walking for five hours, so he drank ginger soup to prevent a cold.
Huo Sisi cooked noodles, and the stew was the meat sauce that Tang Xiao had prepared at home. Yin Tianlin didn't let Chu An and Gu Ye cook alone, "You two can't eat much."
Chu An didn't hesitate and took out five scallions and a bowl of chili sauce from the little bee and contributed them as green leafy vegetables.
"Xiao An, you're amazing." Tang Xiao's eyes were shining. Li Rong was also very interested. When he was a child, he often ate dried tofu rolled with green onions. It was so delicious.
"I bought the green onions before the rainstorm, but I didn't expect to store them as winter vegetables."
Tang Xiao took a big bite and was filled with aftertaste. The most in-demand item in the market was condiments. It was good enough to have salt, but there was no way he could have expected soybean paste, or even spicy chili sauce. It was a real treat for the taste buds.
Yin Tianlin had never eaten it before, so he tried it out of curiosity. He ended up crying because it was so spicy. Huo Sisi laughed at him for being useless, but he started crying even harder, sticking out his tongue and saying that the food he ate when he was a child wasn't so spicy.
The six of them ate and talked, and the fatigue of the day was relieved. When they were full and satisfied, it was already dark, and the four boys began to set up the tent and take turns to keep watch.
Yin Tianlin and Tang Xiao worked in the first half of the night, while Li Rong and Gu Ye worked in the second half. They both still had to study new moves.
Chu An was really tired. He ignored them, went into the tent and immediately collapsed on the sleeping bag.
It was impossible to take off the clothes, so after resting for a while and taking off the shoes, he took out two hot water bottles from the space, held one in his arms and placed the other at his feet.
The first night passed peacefully. In the morning, everyone had a snack of biscuits and boiled water.
Gu Ye opened his thermos and found milk inside. He hurried to the window and quickly drank it down while pretending to look at the scenery.
Last night the wind was strong but the snow was light, and the terrain outside was blown into undulating hills. If it weren't for the villa as a reference, Gu Ye would have thought he had traveled through time.
Before setting off, the six people discussed and decided to take all the things with them. After all, people’s minds are often hidden, and there is no guarantee what this group of villagers can do.
The way up the mountain is difficult to walk on. In addition to snow, there is also ice on the bottom. If you are not careful, you will fall hard. Yin Tianlin has experienced this before. He fell very hard. Fortunately, he was wearing enough clothes and did not hurt any bones.
In addition to the difficult road and heavy luggage, it took the group some time to reach the woods.
There are mostly pine trees here, most of which are as thick as an adult's waist. More than 90% of them have frozen to death and are dark brown. Many branches are bent and broken, and the largest broken branches are as thick as a bowl. Looking around, it looks like a doomsday scene.
Chu An walked while observing the surroundings. He did not find any traces of wild animals, but there were many traces of people, such as large open spaces and uneven tree stumps. He also found two leaky cotton shoes.
Not far from the cotton shoes, there were two frozen corpses, one male and one female. Their clothes had been stripped off and half of their bodies were buried in the snow.
Yin Tianlin dragged Huo Sisi to the other side and said, "Don't look. Xiaoye, Xiaoan, don't look either."
As it turned out, the two men had already turned the corner, and the others hurriedly followed them, moving away from the corpse before preparing to take action.
"Everyone, spread out a little, don't cut in each other's direction." Tang Xiao followed Lao Li's reminder and reminded everyone, "Use the saw force evenly, don't break it."
Everyone agreed and started to disperse and choose trees. In fact, there were no requirements, just disperse.
Chu An and Gu Ye walked out thirty meters and chose a straight pine tree with a diameter of about 40 centimeters and a height of at least 20 meters. She motioned for Gu Ye to take the tools.
Gu Ye put his backpack aside, took out an axe, knocked off the ice chips, and then squatted down to saw slowly. He had read books at home, but it was still difficult to do in practice. Just like Tang Xiao said, if the saw was not done well, the saw blade would break, and they didn't have a spare one.
When Gu Ye is tired, it's Chu An's turn. When Chu An is tired, it's Gu Ye's turn. The two have reached a consensus at home. There is no need for them to be humble and they can complete the task through collaboration.
After a while, other people appeared on the mountain. They came from Chu An's direction. There were four of them in the group, three men and one woman. Their ages could not be determined, but it was already good enough to be able to tell the gender of the people.
The four men only had an axe and a kitchen knife. They looked at their own equipment and then at the saw in Gu Ye's hand, and felt sour in their hearts.
"Brother Wen, they have a saw." The woman whispered.
"Just two people robbed her." said another man.
"Don't be impulsive." Brother Wen pointed at Yin Tianlin who was not far away, "What if they are in the same group?"
"How is that possible? If we are in a group, we have to cut wood together. If there are more people, we have the opportunity to be lazy."
Brother Wen gave him a big slap on the neck, "You are the only one who is always lazy. Let's see the situation first, don't be anxious."
The four men were dawdling ten meters away from Chu An. Judging from the position of their attack, the direction of their fall was towards the two of them.
Chu An had already discovered them a long time ago. At first he was a little worried that it would affect the progress of logging. After all, fighting takes time. But he was relieved to see that they were self-aware.
As for the direction in which the tree would fall, there was no need to worry. These men swung their axes like they were swinging noodles, tickling the pine tree.
Twenty minutes later, Chu An and Gu Ye had sawed two-thirds of it. Gu Ye tried kicking it a few times, but to no avail.
Chu An asked him to take out the long flat wedge and hammer it into the saw cut with an axe, which really saved a lot of time and effort.
When the tree was about to fall, Chu An remembered that in the book, it was said that when felling a tree, one must shout, "The mountain god is in awe."
It is both to remind others to pay attention and to hope that the mountain god will not blame me. It is not appropriate to shout now, so I can only repeat it silently in my heart a few times.
When the pine tree fell, she chopped off the branches, and Gu Ye cut them into half-meter sections, and then split them into wooden baskets as thick as arms.
To split the wood, use a conical wedge, nail it into the fault, and then smash it with an axe, which saves time and effort.
Just when the two men had taken great pains to split the main trunk, another group of people came up the mountain and walked straight towards them.
The whole mountain is full of trees, is there any need to steal them?
Oh, that's right. They don't have a good saw.
As they got closer, Chu An discovered that the chatterbox Yong who was always by the side of Village Chief Yao was inside, so the others should also be from the village.
"Who told you to cut down trees here?" Nagging Yong shouted, "Do you know that this area is under our jurisdiction?"
These people are not very tall and are thin, and their cotton coats and tattered quilts do not show their stature.
Gu Ye said coldly, "Don't make trouble. You can't afford the consequences."
Gossip Yong sneered. They went back and analyzed the situation yesterday. If these people had bullets in their guns, they would have shot and killed people long ago. There is no room for mercy in today's world.
"What are the consequences? Just shoot if you dare." Chatterbox Yong said sarcastically, "If you don't dare to shoot, then don't act so arrogant, right, Brother Zhou? Haha...ah——"
The laughter turned into wails.
Gu Ye hit him on the head with a wooden stick, and blood flowed down his forehead.
Waste bullets with guns.
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