After waiting for two days, Nanqu finally saw the bison herd move to another place and successfully found the salt lake there.
Having found the salt mine, Nanqu's mission was complete. She no longer followed the bison herd, but instead collected some salt blocks during a period of relative calm at the salt lake before leaving.
Nan Qu felt very lucky because lake salt is edible, unlike sea salt and mineral salt. This was a very fortunate thing for Nan Qu, who had waited there for two days to find salt.
Humans cannot live without salt, but they do not need to consume large amounts of it. If stored properly, the salt blocks collected in Nanqu can crystallize enough for a long time.
With the salt, Nan Qu's uneasy heart finally found some comfort.
However, Regal remained unconscious, and there was no movement in the space. All Nanqu could do was stay alive.
Composing herself, Nanqu returned to the woods. Along the way, besides gathering fruit, Nanqu also set several traps and found sharp stones.
Since there was no movement in the space, she decided to make herself a sharp stone axe first.
Nanqu lacked drilling skills; she couldn't drill holes in stones or tree branches. The simplest way she could do it was to use the sharp edge of a stone to split the collected stick in two.
Of course, you just need to point the sharp side of the stone at the top of the stick, hold it steady, and then tap the stone with another stick.
In this way, the stick can be split in two without much effort.
Next, use stones to hammer grooves into the two sections of the stick. Then find a stone shaped like an axe and use other stones to hammer grooves into the back part as well.
Then place the axe between the grooves of the two wooden sticks and tie it together with the pliable yet resilient thin vines that have been pounded. A simple stone axe is now complete.
With the stone axe in hand, Nanqu began searching for thicker trees in the jungle. Many trees lay fallen on the ground. If possible, Nanqu tried to avoid cutting down trees. It wasn't that she cared about the forest, but rather that she didn't trust the tools in her hands.
After splitting open a large tree that had fallen to the ground, Nanqu, having destroyed a stone axe, made himself a large wooden shovel. He then repaired the stone axe.
The wooden shovel was sharpened by Nanqu with a stone, sharp enough to shovel the soil off the ground.
However, after three days here, Nanqu has a general understanding of the weather. It rains almost every day, though to varying degrees.
In that case, if the construction of houses in the southern area cannot be completed within a day, they are very likely to be destroyed.
Therefore, before building a house, Nanqu should prepare all the materials he/she needs.
For five consecutive days, Nanqu collected wood and stones.
After that, they began processing the collected timber.
These past few days, Nanqu has been sleeping on the rattan bed she made on the first day. Sometimes, when it rains at night, she gets woken up by the rain.
It must be said that Nan Qu doesn't know how others will react, but after being repeatedly pushed to her limits, she has completely given up.
She treated the rain like a bath; her body was incredibly resilient, even to her own disbelief. For example, she recovered from an injury overnight. And despite the raging storm, she didn't shiver from the cold.
For example, she gets soaked in the rain every day, yet she remains healthy.
Even the only unavoidable thing—having to find leaves to cover myself every day—has become somewhat of a habit since there are no outsiders around.
Of course, Nanqu did improve here; at least she learned to make fire by rubbing sticks together and was able to eat meat.
After two more days of processing the collected wood, Nanqu finally began to dig a large pit with a wooden shovel one morning after a heavy rain.
Originally, Nan Qu wanted to build a treehouse, after all, she was once a child and had also dreamed of fairy tales.
However, when she saw the howling wind on that rainy day, she changed her mind. She didn't like the whole room shaking while she slept that day. It made her feel too unsafe.
Therefore, after much thought, Nanqu decided to build the house on the ground.
Ideally, it should be very discreet.
Based on her understanding of the world's weather over the past few days, she knows that after a heavy rain, the rain will be much lighter for the next two days.
To prevent the house from being blown down by strong winds, Nanqu planned to build half of it underground. Therefore, the pit she needed to dig would have to be much deeper.
To prevent the large pit he dug from becoming a pool of water, Nanqu had to build the roof before the heavy rains arrived. He also needed to get the drainage system in place.
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