The spectators nearby were also startled, including those guys who were hiding in the bushes trying to get free memberships.
They were watching this big shot's performance with great interest when they heard him let out a shrill scream, and then he rushed towards the woods in the bushes without any regard for anything else.
The wildebeest that had been cheering and shouting for help were also panicked and didn't know what to do. They could only follow their leader as they rushed into the forest.
The beasts hiding downwind were terrified by this sight, thinking that their attempt to freeload without paying for a membership had been discovered.
They immediately estimated that they wouldn't even have time to pull up their pants, and that they would all be running away as fast as they could.
I called over Pat and Top, two excellent scouts, one to take charge of the ground and the other to take charge of the air, and we checked the area again.
After confirming that the rabble had all fled, Dante and I returned to the tribe and told them that everything had been resolved.
Then, led by Su Su, our group of seven headed toward the brine spring that Su Su had mentioned.
This time, we encountered no unexpected situations and successfully found the brine spring that Su Su had mentioned.
Actually, even before I found the spring, I already knew roughly where it was located.
This is thanks to the salt water flowing out of the ground. The constant flow of salt water creates a saline-alkali area along the path of the water, where many plants cannot survive.
Even if there are some plants with strong vitality, they won't grow very well. Also, there will definitely be no plants growing next to the main road where saltwater flows.
This is because the salt concentration here has far exceeded the range that plants can tolerate.
We eventually found a spring about the size of a finger gushing out from behind a rock. Don't underestimate this small stream; in ancient times, it would have been a sure way to make a fortune.
This spring water is different from the clear spring water we usually see. The brine flowing out of it isn't very clear; instead, it has a slightly turbid appearance.
I dipped my finger in the spring water and put it in my mouth to try it. It tasted salty, but not very salty.
However, it has already reached the concentration of medical saline solution. If this were a pot of meat soup, its saltiness would be just right.
Besides the salty taste, the water also had a slightly astringent taste, which was probably caused by the calcium sulfate and magnesium chloride it contained.
Some of these things shouldn't be eaten in large quantities; I'll have to find a way to purify them when I get back.
It should at least be purified to the level of traditional coarse salt so that it won't cause any problems if people consume it long-term.
We found the raw materials, and we could have simply filled the baskets with brine and gone back to the tribe to start processing salt, but I found that the brine was not very efficient for making salt.
It wasn't easy for us to make this trip back, so I still want to get as much high-concentration saline solution as possible to take back.
Firstly, it can save us time traveling back and forth, and secondly, it can increase the salt production.
There are quite a few dead trees near the spring. Now I need to find a container to boil the brine for the initial processing of the brine.
Dante was somewhat troubled when I told him that I wanted to concentrate the brine before taking it back. Fire and firewood were not hard to obtain, but where could I find a container to boil the water?
There was no bamboo nearby at the moment. If there were bamboo, it could be used to make a pot for boiling water.
I was lost in thought at that moment, but I soon had a new idea. Although we don't have bamboo here, we do have quite a few tall eucalyptus trees.
Most of them are much thicker than bamboo. We can peel off the eucalyptus bark with a knife, then bend the corners and fix them with spikes to make bark pots. We can then arrange them on a fire to boil salt water.
As soon as we finished speaking, we immediately divided the work and got busy. Su Su and the two locals were responsible for finding some stones nearby according to my requirements and building a low wall with a spacing of no more than 15 centimeters and a height of 30 centimeters.
To ensure that the low walls they built were of uniform height, I specifically found a tree branch and broke it off at about 30 centimeters, so that they could stack the stones according to this standard.
The two natives went to the vicinity to collect more dry firewood. This was not difficult; it just required some physical strength to carry it together.
The task of finding eucalyptus bark naturally fell to Dante and me. We had to bring back the complete bark before everyone else finished, and then fold up the four corners of the bark to make a container that could hold water.
I left Top and Pat to Su Su and the others, and I let Pat roam around in the nearby airspace every now and then.
It can detect any abnormalities in a timely manner, and its eagle-eye technology can help people avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Dante and I once ventured into a tall eucalyptus forest, not intending to climb very high.
It wasn't difficult to fell trees as thick as a bowl. We took turns chopping down the trees, and in no time, three trees had fallen thanks to our vigorous hacking.
The tree is already ten or twenty meters tall. Even excluding the thinner tip, there are still about seventeen or eighteen meters of usable part of the tree.
We made ring cuts on the bark of the three trees, one meter at a time, and then made a cut in the center of the bark, which easily separated the bark from the trunk.
The whole process of peeling bark and cutting down trees took us about 40 minutes, which was relatively short and within an acceptable range for us.
When they returned to the original location of the brine spring, the ground was already piled with firewood. Although it was still a bit damp, it wasn't a big problem.
Su Su's progress is also very fast. Six stone walls, each about one meter long and spaced 15 centimeters apart, have already been built.
The next step is to connect the four corners of a one-meter-long piece of bark to make a water container.
This task was not difficult; we quickly turned all the bark into box shapes.
Su Su found some dry tinder to start a fire, while the rest of us men continued to build up the stone wall.
Finally, we used up all the stones nearby, so we had to give up the idea of ​​continuing. Now we have eleven such low walls.
My idea is to place the prepared bark boxes on these stone walls, and then light firewood in the gaps between the stone walls. This way, the fire can directly penetrate the bark to boil the brine and evaporate the excess water.
However, we can't boil the salt directly like we would in a metal pot, because that would cause the dried bark to burn, and all our work would be for nothing.
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