Chapter 8 : Decision (2)

He watched the little stammerer put the dried goods away, then picked up the small jar and walked out.

Yu Hong hurried to catch up, he had to learn where to get water.

The two of them walked out of the house, and to his surprise, the little stutterer did not go to the well to fetch water, but walked out of the gravel road and walked along the old road.

It took about ten minutes to walk.

The two found a rotten well at a low level on the side of the road.

The well was very shallow and even with the light one could see that there was only a pool of dark yellow smelly water at the bottom.

Without saying a word, the little stammer tied the water jar with a rope and lowered it down to scoop water.

"Why don't we go to the well in the village to fetch water?" Yu Hong couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

"We can't drink that!" the little stutterer answered seriously.

She looked up while fetching water and looked at Yu Hong.

"From now on, water, come here!" She pointed to the well in front of her.

"." Yu Hong nodded. Looking down at the stinking water slowly being pumped out of the well, his mood became heavier.

He helped little stutterer to seal the water jar to prevent it from spilling.

Instead of going back, they began looking for something in the nearby grass.

"Must, eat grass!" the little stutterer taught him.

"If No, then you will get sick! You will die!" she explained with gestures.

Yu Hong nodded and began to carefully study what kind of grass the other party was digging.

This is a very valuable experience. If you eat the wrong food, you may get poisoning or diarrhoea. In such a harsh environment, getting sick may mean weakness and death.

After some collection, they each took a large bag back to the house.

Little Stutter put the grass on the window to dry in the sun.

Yu Hong carefully used charcoal to record the lessons he learned. He only recorded the key points, or a simplified version, as long as he could understand it.

The recording medium was a piece of newspaper that Little Stutter had given him before.

"Do we have to go to faraway places to buy dried meat and dried mushrooms?" Yu Hong took note and looked up to ask.

"You can grow them yourself." The little stutterer answered with difficulty, "But it's not cost-effective!"

Yu Hong nodded and wrote it down.

He was about to continue asking, but suddenly a small notebook was handed to him.

The cover of the notebook was white, with a cartoon mouse pattern in the middle. Written on it were the words: Essential Survival Manual - Lin Yiyi.

Yu Hong was silent for a moment, then looked up and saw the little stutterer holding a notebook and grinning at him, revealing a mouthful of big yellow teeth.

"Thank you." He took the notebook, opened it and started reading.

It carefully records how to get water, how to buy food, the characteristics of some basic wild vegetables and where to find them.

There was not much content, but it was written in detail.

Moreover, it also records several villagers who can be contacted in Baiqiu Village, as well as their corresponding contact information.

Among them, Lao Yu was the one who made the dried meat, Dr. Xu was responsible for treating patients, a woman named Jenny was responsible for leather crafts, and there was also a candle maker. In addition, the residences of other villagers were marked. But none of them had their names written on them, so it was obvious that they were not familiar with each other.

Finally, there is a place called Post Office, located in a forest north of Baiqiu Village.

"What does the post office do?" Yu Hong asked.

"Contact the city and town, purchase goods, salt and sugar, and send letters." The little stutterer had a hard time speaking.

She gestured to him through 'dancing'.

"You must master a skill and exchange materials with people."

"I understand. I understand all of this, but I think the most important thing to solve first is the safety issue." Yu Hong said seriously.

"While you were away, the Impostor came to cause trouble twice. This is too dangerous."

His mind was racing with thoughts on how to utilise his unique black seal to achieve maximum safety.

"There's no way." The little stutterer obviously understood and considered this, and lowered his head in frustration.

"Monsters, shadows. Nothing can stop them. As long as there is a crack, the insects can get in."

"They can go through walls!" she gestured.

' Through the wall? '

Yu Hong was silent, looking at the wall in the room, he fell into thought.

"This place is too simple and poorly protected. There are gaps and holes everywhere." He remembered that the black bugs had entered through the cracks in the doors and windows before, which meant that they probably couldn't get through the walls.

He asked the stutterer and got a positive answer.

Then, after carefully inspecting the house, he quickly concluded that it was poorly protected.

"I'm going to live alone. Find another place." Yu Hong said.

'If I'm alone, I don't have to worry about pretenders. All I have to do is keep my door closed.'

The little stutterer was stunned.

She had saved many people before, but these people would have liked to spend a few more days with her and learn some basic skills before leaving.

But this man in front of her, this man named Yu Hong, just woke up and felt a little better, but he actually wanted to live alone?

Strange,

Strange man.

The little stutterer blinked.

"Are you not afraid?"

"I'm afraid, but the safety of your house is too poor." Yu Hong roughly understood the key points of this place from the information in her notebook.

"The ones that can attack us are mainly monster bugs and shadows. Although shadows can pass through walls and ignore obstacles, we can use pyroxene to disperse and drive them away.

Monster bugs can be stopped by doors and walls, as long as the gaps are blocked at critical moments. In other words, if there are enough pyroxenes and a room that is tightly sealed, basic safety can be guaranteed, right?"

Yu Hong calmed down and analysed.

His serious expression made the little stutterer stunned.

"Do you want to give it a try? Use something to block the gap, shrink the hole, and see if the bugs can get in. If they can, how big a gap will be needed? Then use it to make a ventilation net." Yu Hong asked.

"Also, how is pyroxene made? Can you teach me?" he asked seriously.

The little stutterer looked at him and nodded unconsciously.

At this moment, she seemed to see a figure in the other person, a figure deep in her memory, an extremely familiar and nostalgic figure.

After the discussion, the two began to prepare immediately.

The little stutterer rummaged around and found tools, hammers, saws, discarded wooden boards, axes, spikes and all sorts of other things.

Yu Hong had just recovered from a serious illness and his fever had just subsided. He was very weak, so he directed the little stutterer to do the work.

He found that the little stutterer was very strong, much stronger than his normal state. She also had a strong physique. In the past few days, the bed was occupied by him, and the little stammerer slept on the ground, but she didn't get sick.

According to the records in the notebook, the black bug was officially named Blood Tide.

It is clearly a black bug, but no one knows why it is named blood tide. However, Yu Hong does not care about these things. He just wants to know as much specific information as possible about the bug and the Shadow.

The two of them were busy for the whole day, and it seemed that they were feeling much better, so they were not disturbed by any Shadows.

At night, there was no blood tide of bugs.

According to Little Stutter, the blood tide usually comes every three to five days. Only with enough light can we resist all the bugs.

The blood tide is afraid of light, and the shadow is afraid of pyroxene.

This is the law of survival that people here rely on.

The next day, the two continued to follow Yu Hong's idea, sawing wooden strips and making 'blinds' to completely seal the remaining gaps in the doors and windows.

The 'blinds' can be opened during the day and lowered at night.

The 'blinds' were very simple, it was just casually made by Yu Hong. The more he heard from little stutterer about the dangers and troubles here, the more he wanted to build a base that could guarantee his basic safety, or in other words, a safe house.

But the little stutterer's house is far from meeting the requirements.

Not to mention the strange shadows and insects, just the ventilation spots in the corners of the house and the polluted and closed air can shorten the life of people living here for a long time by many years.

In addition, the water source is also a big problem. He felt that if he kept drinking that kind of dirty water, he would probably not survive long.

At night--

In the room, little stutterer and Yu Hong stood together. little stutterer held a candle high in her right hand. The flickering candlelight dispelled the darkness around them.

The hissing and tiny crawling sounds continued to be heard outside the doors and windows, but because the gaps were sealed with 'blinds', the ventilation gaps left were much smaller than before.

These black bugs can't get in at all.

"It works!" Yu Hong's face lit up with joy. He didn't expect that he just tried casually and it actually worked.

The little stutterer was also grinning happily.

Because she found that no black bugs came in from the surroundings, and even if there were, there were only a few that slipped through the net and were quickly melted by the candlelight.

In this way, the candles will be consumed more slowly, and she won't have to go to the candle store to buy them all the time, and she won't have to spend a lot of money on this.

This way she can feel much more relaxed.

Just when the two felt successful.

Suddenly,

A slight chewing sound came from outside the sealed wooden door.

The sealing strips at the gaps, the wooden doors and windows, all began to make the same chewing sound.

"No! These bugs can't get in, so they seem to have started to chew on the doors and windows!!" Yu Hong reacted immediately.

He picked up a wooden stick, rushed to the wooden door, and pushed it hard to push the bottom seal upwards.

Crash!

With a dull sound, a large number of black insects squeezed in like a tide and rushed towards the two of them.

hiss.

The black bugs rushed into the candlelight and quickly melted, evaporated, and disappeared.

The candles also began to consume faster.

In the bright yellow candlelight, Yu Hong looked at the scene in front of him, and the joy he had previously shown slowly disappeared.

' If they can't get in, will they eat the outer wall of the house? '

He finally understood why the parents of little stutterer had not sealed the house even though they knew there were black bugs.

"Did it fail?" the little stutterer asked cautiously behind him.

"It's not a complete failure." Yu Hong shook his head.

No words were spoken that night.

Early the next morning--

Yu Hong left the village and came to the woodland below the hill.

He walked around the trees in the woodland, hitting them from time to time with the back of a hammer.

The little stutterer had nothing to do, so she started collecting some herbs and pigment plants that she knew for making ink for making symbols on pyroxene.

The material she depended on for survival was pyroxene with symbols painted on it.

According to little stutterer, the pyroxene with symbols drawn on it is better than ordinary pyroxene.

The sun was shining brightly. As the little stutterer was collecting the papers, he looked up at Yu Hong who was doing something strange.

"What are you doing?" After looking for a while, she couldn't help but ask.

"I'm selecting wood and a location, preparing to build my own safe house," Yu Hong replied.

"Build a house by yourself?" The little stutterer couldn't understand.

' Can a house you build yourself be stronger than a house made of stone bricks? '