Chapter 2: Accidental fall into the lake
Opening up the backpack, it is really waterproof, there was not a drop of water inside, and all things Xiaobei has are equipped with a waterproof bag, it’s double insurance, she takes out a set of close-fitting clothes and a fall coat, quickly taking off the water soaked clothes, she wiped her body with a towel, and changed into dry clothes, she find a set of spare blue jackets, and puts the wet clothes on a large stone.
Sitting on the lakeside, Xiaobei discovered that the lake was really beautiful. The crystal clear lake is hundreds of square meters in size. It is the first time she has seen such a beautiful and clean lake. She will let the others see it later. She thinks of her mobile phone and takes out the mobile phone that was in the waterproof bag from the backpack. Although she knows that there is probably no signal in this place, there was still a glimmer of hope. She really didn't have any signal. The familiar Chinese mobile words that would normally appear were not seen. Xiaobei was completely disappointed. She took a few photos of the lake with her beloved SLR camera. She took the photos of the lake seriously. She was an amateur photographer, but she had taken a lot of good photos and even sold them to some photography magazines. Inadvertently, she won the third prize, which gave her great motivation, as long as she came out to play, she had to take the SLR camera with her, taking photos along the way, returning home and opening it up on her computer to enjoy it. She took more than 30 photos before she put the camera away in her bag.
Xiaobei found that the weather was fine, but it was very volatile. It was raining just now, then it was sunny again. If it didn’t rain, she wouldn't have fallen down so badly. She complained that she wouldn’t sit still and think about them. This mountain range is a few hundred miles away. It takes at least three days to go out. It seems that it is necessary to be mentally prepared. Now she is a little tired. Xiaobei decided to set up camp. In this camp, the terrain is flat, there is a close to the water source, it is a very good camping position. The only fly in the ointment is that there is only a total of one person here, it is might be okay during the day, but what will happen at night.
But this is not the time to be afraid, first she set up a tent, by opening an automatic tent, and skillfully set it up, then fill the air in the cushion, she got a sleeping bag, take the backpack, find the toiletries, take out a folding bucket, and went to the lake. While picking up a bucket of spare food, there is a sort of food such as compressed biscuits, noodles, ham, chocolate, and vacuum of pickled goods, a packet of cakes and some fruits, they had originally planned to go for six days, now it had only been three days, there is still a lot of food. She wouldn't be hungry in three or four days. Looking at the clear lake, there are fish coming out with the bubbles from time to time. She is a little embarrassed. Let's get a few tips. She is a standard foodie. Love food, naturally practices a lot of cooking, especially seafood fish and shrimp, from the backpack, she finds a folding fishing rod, and a small fishing net, snack goods often prepared so she could come out to explore, these are in order to prepare for the occasion. She stares at the girl’s backpack, but also dragged in, she hesitated before she opened it to take a look, anyway, she was lost in the middle of nowhere, as the savior, the food belongs to her, after all, she doesn’t know when she can go out, so she is always prepared. Finding not only a large bag of food, but also goods, unfortunately most of them are snacks, that girl really likes these snacks of all kinds, they were quite rich, with some fruits, Xiaobei put them together and stuffed it in her mouth, the things are almost the same, she has some of her own as well. Finally, she took out her solar camping lights and placed them under the sun to charge, for guarantees that it will last at night. She found a dagger and put it away, in case she might need it for self-defense at night. She is trying to collect the bag, there was a strange thing found, it was like a toy pistol? Packed in a waterproof bag, Xiaobei curiously opened, carefully examined it, it actually turned to be an anesthesia gun, not a real gun, along with two boxes of explosives, the gun is relatively simple, she did not expect this girl had such strange things? Does this girl’s father run a zoo? This is a good thing. Xiaobei studied for a long time and tried to make a shot. The range is only a dozen meters. The bullet can be reused. The anesthetic medicine must be supplemented. As an intern, she knows that this kind of thing has no substantial harm to people. A person hit with it would be unconscious for up to an hour, while a large animal would be unconscious for half an hour, it would buy her enough to run away. Xiaobei was very satisfied. She put the gun in her pocket, and collected the ammunition. She thought deeply on her situation.
Xiaobei took the fishing rod and the fishing net and walked out of the tent to prepare for catching the fish. This is what she often does, she is also experienced. Surviving in the wild, the first thing to do is make a fishing rod, make the fishing line, and put a small bell, then one must find an able place to support the pole, with a special bait, she had tried Taobao before, the effect is good, she gets to the other side, rolls up her trouser leg, and took off her coat.
She waded into the lake water, setting up the fishnet, and waited for ten minutes, carefully closing the net, she feels that since the network cable sunk in her hand, obviously it had hit a target, Xiaobei excited for a while, only a few times, and there is a little harvest, this first time there is fish in the net? It seems that there is no pollution here, and there is much fish. She carefully took the net and pulled it to the shore. The fish in the underwater fishing net is still struggling. Xiaobei found that the weight was not light, she is happy to have a harvested good fortune. Pulling the fishing nets out the water, she found that the resistance is even greater. After all, it is a small net, she found that there was a net of fish, there are more than a dozen, the big one was at least a dozen kilograms, while the small ones were three or four pounds. Was it this simple?
Xiaobei is a bit surprised, is there no natural predators in this lake? She did not pull out the fish, half of the fishnet was put back into the water, half of it was on the water surface, and the net rope was fixed with big stones so that the fish would not die. Then the sound of the bell sounded where the fish was harvested, Xiaobei ran. In the past, the fishing line, there is one, or a big fish, it seems that there are more than ten kilograms, this is still the first time she has caught such a large fish, before while fishing in the past she would only catch fish up to three or five pounds of fish, but this fish is too strong. Diving in the water, Xiaobei spent ten minutes struggling around with it, before she was finally able to pull it on the shore, it was not willing to use the tail to beat the grass around in struggle, Xiaobei was busy to withdraw it from the shore, she would eat it tonight! The food crisis is now solved. Now, it was time to find some firewood. For her safety at night, she will find more firewood for the fire and find it better for the people who are good, but Xiaobei is also clear, there is no signal in the mountain if she wants to report to the police. She has to go out before she can get a signal. She also has to find her way down the cliff. She must think that she had finished playing. Even if the police is called, it will be a three-day wait. So she has to wait patiently. Xiaobei simply doesn't want to do this. She is not inexperienced, not injured, although a person may not be able to go out, thinking of it, there was peace of mind to find some firewood, not far from the woods, she took out the rope and the folding shovel, to get a lot of firewood, and observe the surroundings. In the last four weeks, there seem to be no animal footprints, which is a good thing. Once she had enough firewood, Xiaobei intends to go back. She stumbled across two fruit trees. One is a peach, the other is quite strange. She knows that the peach trees have knots that are big and, full of branches, but these branches have grown very low.
Little Ramblings
So sorry about the slow updates, I wasn’t kidding when I said the updates were really slow.
The first 8-9 chapters or so are about Xiaobei surviving in the woods before he comes across signs of civilization again if anyone was wondering.
Again, sorry.