02 Evil spear

He could not catch a hare, but he found some fruit....​

Within 10 meters of the crossing, he spotted an apple tree. Yes, yes, it was an apple-tree, and exactly like the apple he had seen at the Blue Star.

The skin was red and spotted, and inside was a yellow pulp, in the centre of which were the seeds of the apple-tree, one by one.

Though the apple was not hungry, it did not leave him to starve in these strange surroundings.

The meal will have to be satisfied with apples.

After three successive apples, he was seventy percent full..​ However, he did not choose to pick some other apples to eat. Seventy percent full is sufficient.

After eating and resting awhile, it was time to build a fire.

Fire is the best weapon against this beast. The beast may be afraid to come near the fire, so to be safe to-night we must get the fire up as soon as possible.

He knew how to make a fire out of wood, but he had never tried it before, not with a match, not with wood.

He had no experience of that kind.

Before you can start a fire, you need to get all the preliminaries ready, such as finding dry wood and wool.

Why should he feel either of these things? ​Firewood. It is needless to say that wood is not necessary for the firing of fireworks.

The wool, in fact, is the kindling with which the fire is kindled. He had seen it on his show, and he had taken to heart the idea that every boy had to survive in the wild.

Even he, occasionally after watching the show, still fantasizes about which island or forest to live in.

But that can only be imagined, and no man in his right mind would give up his existing social life to run away to an island or a wood for a wild existence.

To his surprise, he now learned to put that knowledge to use.. In the end, will he make it??​ It's up to him to make it work.

Firewood to burn, is here to be had in abundance; pick up a few dry ones and pile them together, and it is also easy to find kindling, simply by finding some withered leaves, crushing them and piling them together.

And then, very importantly, to stop the fire, we need to find a wood drill and a piece of wood.

There was, of course, no wood drill, so he had to make his own..He took a stone and a bar, and rubbed it against the stone until the top of the bar was a sharp point, and then he found a stone with a sharp point, and pressed the sharp point into the wood, and then he turned it until there was a small hole in the middle of the wood, and then he stopped.

Place a few crushed leaves in a pit in the middle of the wood.

Then he pushes a wood drill into the leaves, and it's up to him to use his 20-plus years as a single man to start a fire.

The evenness of his hand compensated for the consequent constant rubbing of the centre of the bit, which, with the friction of his hand, began to turn in an orderly manner.

From a slow pace at the beginning to a very fast pace at the end.

But after a few minutes, there was no sign of smoke, meaning there was no spark.

But he did not give up, and at last the yellow day paid off, and after more than 10 minutes of turning, there was a taste of burning at last, and wisps of smoke from the little pit of wood kept gushing out.

That's half the battle.

Remove the stick and, carefully, slowly blow into the hole until you see a red dot in the hole.

Then he turned the log over and tossed the sparks over the crushed leaves. At last he lay on his stomach like a toad, and carefully blew into the pile of leaves.

There was a sudden search, and flames shot up through the leaves and sang his hair.

He has not had a haircut in a month..​ It's so deep.

But he paid no attention to the burnt hair. He just patted it and it smirked.

In the wild, fire is more influential than hair.

He picked up the dry wood by his side, and kept putting it on the pile of leaves.. Soon the wood was alight.

As the wood was dry, it was easy to light it.

A clearing had previously been cleared so that the flames would not consume the entire forest and cook it.

It cannot be cleaned up.. Before this, the ground was covered with a thick layer of leaves.

It was also dry enough to set the leaves on fire, which could end up setting the entire forest on fire.

He saw that the flames were already rising, but to be on the safe side he went and found some stones and surrounded the fire and made a fire.

One is to prevent the wind from blowing the seeds elsewhere, especially on dried leaves.

The second is that this also works to keep the wind from blowing the flames out.

Although the flames were rising, he thought of another problem, the lack of water.

We cannot do that.. Without water, he might not last more than a few days.

Water is the most important resource for mankind.

But it was not practical to go out and look for it now, as the sun seemed to be setting.

We shall have to wait till to-morrow to see if we can find a creek or anything.

There were, however, abundant resources, such as wild rabbits, which he chased away, and then somehow returned with more, but he could only stare.

For he could not keep up.

As it happened, he saw the lance lying close by, and smiled wickedly.

It's cheap.