From Robinson Crusoe

Chapter 85 Do you want to become light? (Happy New Year!)

After returning home, the scene inside the cave was far from as bad as Chen Zhou had imagined.

There was no cat feces or urine on the ground, only some chewed dried fish and body parts of small animals.

Ti Zi is not at home, he may be out hunting.

Only Little Huihui was left alone in the storage room, sleeping soundly - even when the "big sister" was not there, it carefully restricted its activities and would never step out of line.

The surface of the bedding on the bed was covered with a layer of sand and dirt, and there was an oval-shaped indentation in the center of the quilt where the cat had curled up.

The hay in the chinchilla's box has not been eaten up yet, but most of the fresh grass has been eaten, and a lot of feces has accumulated.

Putting down the plants he had collected, Chen Zhou started a fire, tidied up the house simply, and went out with an oil lamp to check on the fields.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it. Once you look at it, the good mood you had when inspecting the cave because of the pet's sensible behavior is instantly gone.

A few rice plants in the field had just bloomed and the rice grains were eaten by rabbits at the roots.

Moreover, this group of hateful guys not only ate the rice ears, but also left several piles of black feces and a row of footprints at the edge of the field, as if they were deliberately provoking us.

After nearly four months of hard work taking care of the crops, we suffered such a loss just when the harvest was about to begin.

When he thought about how in the early days of agriculture, the seeds produced by these mature rice plants could produce more food in the next round of planting, which would be of even greater significance in the snowball process, Chen Zhou's hatred for rabbits immediately reached its peak.

"Damn it, these three-petal mouths really don't take me seriously at all.

It seems that we haven't used enough condoms during this period, and we can't give them any good treatment.

Wait, this time the earthquake is over and we have plenty of time, I will play with you guys.”

Chen Zhou propped up the scarecrow with a sheep skull and the bare rabbit fur pole at the edge of the field, and then his eyes swept along the edge of the field.

He decided to plant "rabbit flags" along the front of the fields to comfort the rice plants that had died tragically.

He picked up the withered rice stalks with a painful look on his face, and holding a lantern, he carefully counted the crops in the field.

The rabbits destroyed a total of 23 rice plants. Excluding two plants that died inexplicably, there were still 103 adult rice plants that had bloomed in the field.

Barley and wheat grew slowly and were not attractive enough to rabbits, so they luckily escaped the disaster and all the more than 80 plants survived.

Place the rice stalks at the kitchen door.

After dinner, Chen Zhou took Lai Fu to the edge of the field and tied him up, letting him guard there for one night. He then went back to the house to sleep with a head full of ideas for "rabbit eradication".

……

The temperature was exceptionally high on the 26th.

The interior of the cave, which lacked sufficient light, also became unusually hot.

Covered with a sealskin quilt, he slept until noon. He wanted to lie in bed for a while longer, but Chen Zhou couldn't stand the rising temperature and got up from the bed lazily.

I washed my face with cold water to clear my mind, walked out of the kitchen, stretched, and enjoyed the breeze outside for a moment.

Just as I was about to go back to the house to light a fire and cook, I heard Lai Fu barking in the field.

It has been a long time since it was tied up for a whole night since the rainy season began.

Chen Zhou slept in the morning, and Lai Fu was hungry and wanted to eat breakfast, but he couldn't break free from the rope. After finally hearing the sound of his owner getting up, he immediately shouted impatiently to remind his owner of his presence.

He scratched his head and slowly went down the platform to untie Lai Fu.

In the field, Chen Zhou saw grapes brought back from hunting.

After not seeing him for a few days, Ti Zi's hair became brighter, and a light layer of hair grew in the places where the rope had once been tied.

Far from being ugly, it actually adds a bit of fierce charm to it.

It lowered its head and held a little rabbit in its mouth.

The rabbit's neck had been bitten off and its body was limp. Its lower body was dragging on the ground as Grapes ran, stirring up the loose soil.

When he saw Chen Zhou, Ti Zi did not approach him immediately. Instead, he cautiously took two steps back, walked around him and Lai Fu, and continued to move towards the cave.

Knowing that wild animals would not fully trust humans in a short period of time after being domesticated, Chen Zhou did not disturb Tizi.

As long as it can treat the cave as its home and always stay nearby to catch mice and rabbits and scare off birds, it will be the greatest help to the family and we can't ask for more.

……

If you get up late, you will be late in everything.

By the time Chen Zhou finished his housework and came to the beach, it was already past noon, the sun was hanging low in the sky, and the temperature was high.

From a distance, you can see that the heat distorts the view above the beach, and the scattered wooden boards and stones after being cut also become distorted.

In the center of the circled reward point, there was a huge black packaging bag on the sand. The size of the bag was much larger than the packaging of the Brain-Breaking Artifact.

Stepping over the collapsed outer wall and touching the packaging bag, Chen Zhou hissed and quickly retracted his hand.

Black absorbs heat, and after being baked on this flat, uncovered beach for a whole morning, it felt quite hot to the touch, probably around 60 or 70 degrees.

He took out a piece of canvas from his arms and used it as a cushion. Holding a corner of the package, he walked to the woods by the sea. Under the shade of the trees, Chen Zhou cut open the package.

While walking with the package bag, he did not hear any metal collision sound inside the bag, and felt that there should be no hard objects inside.

At first he thought the reward was a three-piece bedding set or clothing that is common in the evening.

But I also felt that the whole bag was too heavy, much heavier than the same volume of fabric.

This aroused his curiosity and he was eager to know what was in the package.

The entire packaging bag is more than 1.2 meters long, more than 70 centimeters wide, and bulging.

After cutting open the bag, two objects stacked on top of each other and packed in a thick transparent plastic bag were revealed.

The surfaces of the two unidentified objects were painted with metallic paint, with the colors mainly being dark blue, red, and silver, giving Chen Zhou an inexplicably familiar feeling.

Without roughly tearing open the thin black outer packaging, he carefully took out the two independent packaging bags inside the bag, and found a flattened paper box in the middle of the packaging bags. On the paper box was painted a pattern that he had longed for countless times in his childhood - the magic wand.

"Ah? You want me to turn into light?"

Knowing what was going on in his mind, Chen Zhou put the magic wand aside.

Looking at the smaller of the two independent packaging bags, it is an Ultraman head cover.

As for the large packaging bag, it is naturally a one-piece suit that is connected from top to bottom.

Although the outer packaging looks a bit ridiculous, if you look closely at the paint and workmanship of the leather case, you can definitely feel that this special leather case is very expensive.

If you take out the head cover alone, you can see that Ultraman's eyes are made of a gray-white mold similar to tempered glass, and the light on the forehead is also made of glass, instead of cheaper plastic.

Reaching into the headgear and feeling around, I found two buttons, which I presumed were used to turn on the lights.

After estimating the size of the headgear, taking off his wide-brimmed hat, and touching his messy hair, Chen Zhou wisely gave up the idea of wearing it and tried pressing two buttons.

After a crisp click, he didn't see the eye or forehead light turn on, thinking that the light was too strong and not obvious, he covered his eyes and forehead with his hands to check, and it turned out that it was indeed not bright. Puzzled, Chen Zhou stretched open the neck of the leather case and looked inside, and then he found that there was an empty place for installing batteries at the lower back of Ultraman's head.

Without electricity, how can the light be turned on?

As for the material of the headgear, it feels very much like rubber products, not breathable, very thick, and the inside does not have the friction like rubber. It has a layer of elastic nylon for easy wearing.

Chen Zhou was a loyal fan of Ultraman when he was a child.

On a holiday afternoon, sitting in front of an old large-head color TV, he slowly watched the first special effects film in his life.

In the final battle, he cried when he saw the darkness of the monsters covering the entire world and Ultraman turned into a stone statue.

When the plot progressed to the point where children all over the world reached out their hands and turned into light to save Ultraman, he also reached out his hand, wanting to lend his power to Ultraman.

When he was in school, he was always envious when he saw his classmates showing off the SHINING BAMBOO toys and Ultraman masks that their parents bought for them.

But his family's financial situation at that time did not allow him to have the same toys as his classmates.

When he grew up, he gradually forgot his childhood wishes and buried that childish and naive self deep in his memory.

At this moment, holding the leather case in his hand and looking at the magic wand beside him, Chen Zhou felt quite emotional.

Sometimes, he really couldn't understand why his wish at a certain stage of his life would be fulfilled in such a place and in such a strange way.

It is said that the world is unpredictable, and his unpredictability is a little too unbelievable.

After stretching the headgear and feeling that it was elastic enough, Chen Zhou put it on his head without giving up. However, the size didn't match and his big head couldn't fit into it at all.

Looking at the jumpsuit, it was similar to the hood and was several sizes smaller than his body.

According to Chen Zhou's estimation, this leather suit should be suitable for women with a height of 173-175 cm, or men with smaller frames and less muscle mass.

For a sturdy and strong man like him, if he wants to put on this leather suit, he must lose at least 60 kilograms before he can barely put it on, otherwise there is no chance.

"Alas, it seems that people who are too fat are not worthy of turning into light..."

Sighing, Chen Zhou stuffed the jumpsuits back into the packaging bag and thought about how to use them.

Before this, he had thought about using the jumpsuit as a diving suit or raincoat, but the mismatch in body shape completely rejected this idea.

Even if the jumpsuit is elastic, it is impossible to bridge such a huge body size gap.

Then, he came up with an idea to ruin a good thing - cut the entire leather case into small pieces and use it as rubber material.

But looking at this exquisite leather suit, he was still a little reluctant to buy it.

There is no urgent need for rubber cloth in any of the current work. Even if rubber is needed to modify a firearm, the material from cutting open a phone case will be enough, and there is no need to destroy this leather case.

“Forget it, I’ll find a place to use it in the future. If not, just leave it in the cave!
Just like the statue of Wang Lingguan, even if it is useless, at least it can be exchanged for money.

But I have already removed the base of the bronze statue, so the price has been greatly reduced. This leather case won’t be of any use for a while, so I hope it can be kept safe until the end of the challenge…”

Chen Zhou stuffed the leather case and the holy light stick back into the packaging bag and temporarily left them under the shade of a tree. He put on a wide-brimmed hat to block the sun and began to build a new circle of wooden and stone walls.

……

The sun in the dry season is extremely hot, and the temperature on the beach rises rapidly, baking the wooden boards to crack and making the stone bricks and lead plates scalding hot.

Good building materials, but their structure was destroyed.

When moving the wooden boards, Chen Zhou felt very sad when he saw some of them were covered with huge cracks, but he didn't have any good solution.

This is what happens when fresh wood is subjected to intense toasting.

As for the high-quality wood that is not prone to cracking after being slowly dried in the shade, it is still piled up in the forest and will take another two or three years to be aired out.

In order to avoid the influence of inferior wood on the strength of the building, Chen Zhou plans to divide the wooden boards cut in the rainy and dry seasons into two types.

The wooden boards cut during the rainy season are placed in the forest to dry in the shade and will be used in key parts of the building later.

The wooden boards cut during the dry season are divided into three grades: the best grade is used to build houses, the medium grade is used to lay floors, and the worst grade is directly sawed and used as firewood.

……

According to his own ideas, Chen Zhou sorted the old wooden boards, cut down trees, and built new wooden and stone walls on the beach.

During his free time before the earthquake, he had transported a batch of stones to the beach, which came in handy at this time and saved a lot of time looking for stones.

……

Another busy day has passed.

Returning to the cave in the golden afterglow of the setting sun, the tired Chen Zhou gave himself a short break and went to bed early after dinner.

On April 4, before dawn, he climbed out of bed.

After spending the whole night gathering his energy, he did not have breakfast as he was worried that it would affect his reaction speed and concentration.

Bring a matchlock, a box of lead bullets, gunpowder and other supporting equipment, as well as a bag full of string and a short-handled axe.

He untied Lai Fu, and before the dawn was about to break, he began a bloody reckoning with the hare.

This time, the fields were damaged by rabbits, resulting in a loss of more than one-sixth of the rice, which made Chen Zhou very angry.

Therefore, his methods were no longer as gentle as before.

While patrolling the edge of the woods, he was collecting old traps, looking for rabbit trails to set new traps, and using a dagger to carve marks on the bark of suspected rabbit holes.

After finding the moist rabbit droppings, he immediately crushed it with a twig and placed it next to Laifu's nose so that it could remember and track the smell.

Noticing his owner's serious attitude, Lai Fu stopped laughing and showed the qualities a hunting dog should have.

It tried to erect its limp ears, lowered its proud head, put its nose close to the ground, and kept sniffing, trying to catch the special smell of the digested grass leaves.

A man and a dog were walking in the forest.

As more rabbit tracks were discovered, more and more carefully laid traps were set.

While carving a mark on a tree, Chen Zhou suddenly heard Lai Fu's excited shout.

Thinking it had caught the rabbit, Chen Zhou hurried over and saw clearly who Lai Fu was barking at in the grass, which made him laugh and cry.

It turned out to be a pile of fresher rabbit feces, not a rabbit.

"Idiot, I'm the master who asked you to find shit, not you to find shit."

Smiling and touching Lai Fu's head, Chen Zhou looked around, pulled a strand of rabbit hair from the branch of the bush and put it next to Lai Fu's nose.

"Look for this, got it?"

After touching Lai Fu's head, he got a firm and short reply - Woof!

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