"Hey, everyone, look what I found!”
Lin Bei pointed at the ground in front of him. Under the surface of the sand, something was moving quickly. Seeing that this thing wanted to escape, Lin Bei directly used his feet to chase it back.
On the golden sand, a brown, translucent scorpion was trying its best to get back into the sand. Lin Bei took out a dagger and pressed the scorpion firmly on the sand. Immediately, the scorpion that was threatened raised its two pincers. At the same time, its tail with poisonous thorns on its back kept hitting the dagger.
"This is a desert scorpion. They feed on other insects. Sometimes, it would kill some young mice and birds. Their most lethal weapon was the poisonous sting on their tails. Although they looked disgusting, they could be eaten as food.”As Lin Bei spoke, he used a dagger to cut off the poisonous glands and thorns on the scorpion's tail. Then, he held the scorpion in his hand and said,"As long as you cut off the poison glands and thorns on its tail, the rest can be eaten.”
"In the desert, food is as scarce as water. Scorpions contained a lot of protein and a small amount of water. At this time, one should not be picky about food. It was already very lucky to have food.”
After saying that, Lin Bei threw the scorpion into his mouth without hesitation and started chewing. After swallowing the scorpion, Lin Bei nodded and said,"The texture is not bad. It was just that the taste was a little bad, like a lobster that had rotted for many days. Especially since there was sand on this scorpion's body, it made his teeth hurt.”
Lin Bei's actions were too many, and the audience in the live broadcast room could not react at all. They all thought that Lin Bei would at least roast the scorpion before eating it. They did not expect him to eat it so cleanly.
"Ah! My eyes, what am I seeing!”
"This is still f * cking alive!"
"F * ck, I was so scared that I peed my pants!"
"Caw... Bang... Crispy!"
"From today onwards, my knees belong to you!”
"Scorpion, at least kill me before eating!”
"Which brother said that eating worms is refreshing? I lost!"
"Monkey…Monkey Xilei!"
"Manager Ye Xiaotian 123 gifted the streamer 10 Rockets! -- Master Bei's temper is beyond my imagination. I lost!”
"My King Sai Gao gifted the streamer 10 rockets! -- Shellfish sauce is so cute when eating! Raise your shell sauce high!"
"The Death-Courting Talent gifted the streamer a plane! -- As expected of the difference in dimension, the focus of my king's tycoon was really strange!”
"I really didn't give the streamer 30 shark's fin for free! -- I feel like the menisci on my knees are going to be flattened if I keep looking!”
After eating the scorpion, Lin Bei swept his gaze across the surrounding sand. After making sure that there were no other scorpions, he continued moving forward.
"I just replenished some water and protein. Now I need to find a shelter before sunset. The most dangerous thing in the desert was a sandstorm. When a sandstorm came, the sand would engulf everything. Most importantly, it would make people lose their way. Most of the tourists who died in the desert every year died after experiencing sandstorms. Therefore, I need a safe shelter that can help me resist the invasion of the sandstorm.”
Walking on the soft sand, Lin Bei continued,"At the same time, the temperature difference between day and night in the desert is very large. During the day, the temperature would be as high as 40 degrees Celsius. At night, it would quickly drop to 10 degrees or even lower. This was because the heat of sand was small, so it absorbed heat quickly and released heat quickly. During the day, the sand quickly absorbed heat, but at night, when there was no sunlight, the heat absorbed by the sand would quickly disappear.”
"So I have to find a place that can avoid the sandstorm and keep me warm. However, in this Sea of Death, if I want to find a shelter that meets these two conditions, I think…F * ck!"
Lin Bei originally wanted to say," I think it's almost impossible." However, before he could finish, he saw a thick poplar tree standing about two kilometers away.
After adjusting the camera, the audience in the live broadcast room also saw the poplar tree. Lin Bei immediately quickened his pace and explained to the audience,"That's a poplar tree. Their roots could go six meters underground and could still grow tenaciously in the desert. Most importantly, their branches stored a large amount of water, so they were called water tung trees. I think we can get a lot of water from that poplar tree. Besides, I can sleep in a tree, which will keep me away from the cold sand at night.”
The desert was spacious and unobstructed, so he could clearly see things in the distance. However, due to the high temperature, the air would be refracted. Therefore, the things they saw were usually farther away than what they could see.
After a full hour and a half, Lin Bei finally arrived at the poplar tree. At this moment, it was already close to evening and the sun was gradually setting in the west.
Standing beside the poplar tree, Lin Bei was a little disappointed because the poplar tree had already withered. Patting the trunk of the poplar tree, Lin Bei said,"Unfortunately, this is a dead poplar tree. This audience member was wrong. Although the poplar tree was tenacious, it was not impossible for it to wither. The underground river beneath the desert was not fixed. It was constantly changing with the passage of time. When the underground river changed and there was no water source, the poplar trees would slowly wither.”
"But overall, I'm still very lucky. I can sleep on this tree tonight. In addition, the roots of poplar trees were very deep, which meant that even after they died, they would not collapse for hundreds of years, nor would they be blown away by sandstorms. Even if a sandstorm came at night, I only needed to hold on to the tree trunk tightly.”
The entire poplar tree was extremely thick, with a diameter of about 1.5 meters and a trunk height of two meters. Lin Bei easily climbed up the tree trunk. When he got up, he was surprised to find that there was a hole at the top of the tree trunk, forming a groove.
This discovery would allow him to sleep more comfortably at night. Lin Bei tried to sit in the groove. He felt a little cramped, and his legs were bent very uncomfortably. In the end, he could only helplessly put his legs in the air. This way, he immediately felt much more comfortable.
Lin Bei threw his backpack into the groove and jumped down from the poplar tree. Squatting beside the poplar tree, Lin Bei began to dig a hole half a meter square in the sand, just like at noon.
After digging, Lin Bei placed a small pot in the pit and covered it with a plastic bag, just like how he fetched water at noon. After doing all this, Lin Bei smiled and explained,"My current method of fetching water seems to be the same as at noon, but the principle is actually different. In the afternoon, they relied on high temperatures to evaporate, but now, they relied on the temperature difference between day and night. The temperature was still relatively high now, but at night, the temperature dropped sharply. The moisture in the air in the sand pit would condense into water droplets when it was cold.”
Lin Hao stood up and dusted the sand off his hands before continuing,""When I wake up, I will have water to drink.”
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