Chapter 20 Making a Raft
In the afternoon, we finally passed through the big forest ahead, and the trees gradually became sparse.
"We'll be in the Moluo wet swamp soon. Be careful. This is a wetland and you often encounter some poisons..." Liu Linglong has already begun to tell us, and I can clearly feel that the climate here is beginning to become wet.
Swamps are mostly caused by excessive moisture in the soil on the surface or under the surface, which is closely related to the landform conditions, climate and water heat conditions.
Generally, a particularly large swamp area is surrounded by water, like a huge swamp next to a large forest, I was surprised.
As soon as we walked out of the big forest, we saw some dead trees in front of us penetrated from the swamp. I felt that this place was part of the forest before, but the terrain was relatively short. After being flooded, it became what it is now.
Let’s put it this way, at the exit of the forest, you can see waters ahead, and there are many floating duckweeds, dead trees, and some flora on it. But at the first glance, you can’t see the edge at all!
"How deep is the water here?" I frowned. If it was really like Liu Linglong said that there were crocodiles, piranhas or horns in this Moluo wet swamp, then wouldn't we have a dead end if we go down?
Liu Linglong sighed: "The water here is not deep, it can only flood our thighs, but it is said that the deepest place in front can flood a person..."
"Then how can we get over?" Terry frowned at this time.
Liu Linglong said: "There is no road at all. The waters here are bumpy. Some places are deep and some places shallow. The places where flora grow in the water you see are places where we can step on it, but you should also pay attention before stepping on it, because there are some places that are difficult to see in depth. If you accidentally step on it, you will step on it..."
After listening to Liu Linglong's narration, I suddenly felt a little regretful. This Moluo wet swamp seems to be a dangerous place. If we had chosen to go to the cannibal village, would it be a little better?
"It's really hard to imagine how that person came out of here at that time?" Liu Linglong couldn't help but sigh at the wetland.
"You still have to think so. Although it is very shallow here, it is all water. How did the people of the Naxima tribe come out? They couldn't have wade through the water directly, right? Even if these places are so deep, how could it be?" Rong Zhenxiang said with some questions at this time.
I thought for a while and said, "Let's do this, we'll make a raft, otherwise it won't work... If we step into the water and encounter piranhas, we can't find a place to hide, and we will be eaten in minutes!"
"Well, this is a good method..." Terry couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praised.
"Since that's the case, let's hurry up and find some thinner wood, and then use tree vines to support it. The osmanthus bamboo in our hands can be used as a bamboo pole to push the raft forward!"
Because we have six people, now we have to make a relatively large raft that can carry the weight of six people.
However, at this time I also began to wonder how the group of wildebeests rode through the swamp? Or did they just live in the big forest?
Of course, none of these matters, and I didn't think about it.
The tools we can use to cut down tree trunks seem to be only an axe, so the glorious and arduous task of cutting down trees was handed over to Liu Linglong. Terry’s and I were used to polish the trunks and try to make the gap between the trunks smaller, so that it can also effectively reduce the time when some aquatic plants enter the gap to prevent forward movement.
I told Liu Linglong to cut wood as thick as an arm, so it would be a little easier to tie it with a vine and it would be tied tighter. Terry and I have been polishing it with jun1 dao. I have to say that the quality of this Nepalese jun1 dao is pretty good. No matter how hard I pick up the wood, it will never cause any harm to it.
I think if Lisa's spirit in heaven knew that I would use the Nepali jun1 she gave me to me to make a raft, I would not know what I would think.
Rong Zhenxiang, the little girl and Lin Cang kept finding a lot of vines around. For the strength of the raft, we needed a lot of vines.
In order to make the load-bearing capacity of the raft stronger, I plan to let everyone join me to add a layer on the original foundation framework, so that the load-bearing capacity can be greatly increased, and of course, it is more time-consuming.
The production of rafts is not easy to say, nor is it difficult to say.
The average diameter of the wood I asked Liu Linglong to cut was about ten centimeters. Think about it, there were six of us, and maybe we would have to rest and sleep on the raft, so we would set the length to about three meters and five meters.
Although we have six people, it is not very easy to make a raft. It took nearly half a day to prepare the materials. It was already evening when we found all the materials.
So we found a place to rest tonight.
Early the next morning, we returned to our place yesterday and continued to make our raft.
I asked everyone to place twenty wood neatly on the ground, and then use roundabout weaving methods to tie the twenty woods together for the first time with vines, just like weaving fences, but the only difference is that we must try to keep the raft from gaps.
After tying a layer of vines, we laid a layer of wood on it and tied it again. It was not until we made sure the raft was strong that we finally finished it.
I added a "wooden wall" around the raft, with the purpose of not being able to get the raft crooked when the water flow is unstable. In this way, we can also press our feet against all sides, so that it will not easily slip off and prevent some aquatic creatures from boarding our raft because there is no protection around.
I thought that everything should be ready, but Liu Linglong said that even if we use rafts to cross the swamp, we still need to travel at least thirty kilometers. More importantly, the water plants here are not balanced at all, and we still need to circumnavigate the plants on the swamp, so that it will be more than thirty kilometers.tqr1
Then, after all, it will take three or four days for us to use a raft to cross this swamp. Who knows if it will rain in the next few days?
At this time, the wild boar skin we peeled before came in handy.
Although the area of wild boar skin is only two or three square meters, if it rains, it will be enough for the six of us to hide from the rain.
So, we used five or six thinner woods to drill holes in the middle of the raft, then drilled holes in the four corners of the wild boar skin, and then used vines to sew roughly, and finally tied them to a few woods.
My goodness is so perfect, and I have a tent.
Chapter completed!