Chapter 1577 Collecting Resin

Of course, these are all incidental. Huang Hai's main job is to hunt wild animals.

Every day when he goes out, the first thing he does is to check the traps around, take away the captured prey, and then restore the triggered traps to their original state. This is the main source of meat for the two.

Then he goes to the forest to hunt animals. Squirrels, hares and the like begin to appear again. Huang Hai uses a more sophisticated bow and arrow to hunt one or two wild animals every day.

This makes the meat storage of the two richer, and they have accumulated a lot of fur and bones.

And recently, a more precious resource has been found, which has brought great changes to the lives of the two.

Huang Hai found a group of pine trees!

In fact, when Huang Hai was hunting a squirrel, the squirrel ran quickly to the south. He went all the way south and came to an area he had never been to before, about 7km away from the camp.

It was after he came here that he found that there were many squirrels here, and there were many pine cones falling on the ground.

So, without being able to hunt squirrels, he directly collected a batch of pine cones and took them back.

Pine cones are edible, and the remaining shells can be used as firewood, which generates very high heat. They are a very precious material.

However, when Bai Hao saw a pile of pine cones, his eyes lit up immediately, and he immediately asked where these pine cones came from?

Huang Hai explained the situation, and for a moment he was a little confused, saying: "What's wrong, Haozi, this thing should not be valuable? Although pine cones are edible, the food they provide is still a small part, and even if they are used as firewood, they are not very durable, so the value should be relatively low."

Bai Hao shook his head and said: "No, it's another important resource, pine resin!"

Bai Hao briefly explained that pine trees also produced another important material, which is pine resin.

Rosin has a function, which is to make candles!

This is of great significance to the development of civilization and can bring light to the night.

In the future, as the temperature gradually rises, there is no need to light the fireplace at night. This will not only make the temperature in the shelter too high and there is a risk of fire, but also consume a lot of charcoal and increase resource loss.

But how to illuminate at night?

Candles are a very good choice.

If you can collect enough rosin, you can make candles and illuminate at night.

Moreover, candles should be able to exchange a lot of survival coins, which is a product with relatively high technological content.

Even in future transactions, candles can be used as objects of transaction, which have very important significance and value among survivors.

After learning about this situation, Huang Hai nodded self-righteously: "Why didn't I think of it! Then I will go to the pine forest tomorrow?"

Bai Hao was silent for a moment, shook his head and said: "You stay in the camp tomorrow, I will go over to take a look, the pine trees you mentioned may be near my original camp, if possible... I will go back to the original camp for two days and collect a batch of pine resin."

Bai Hao obviously knew how to collect pine resin, so he took the matter on himself, and Huang Hai did not refuse.

The next day, Bai Hao carried a bamboo backpack with some food and some bamboo tubes, and went directly to the original shelter.

After walking for about half a day, he came directly to the shelter that was made before. It has not collapsed yet. It seems that it was still very solid when it was built.

However, the interior has been stained with some dust, and all the furniture and living facilities have been moved away, which looks a bit shabby.

Bai Hao gently stroked the dust in my hand and murmured to himself: "It seems that this place can be used as a temporary camp. It should be a good choice to live here temporarily in the future."

At the beginning, because of the wild wolves, they left this area, but now both of them have bows and arrows, and they are very sophisticated bows and arrows. It is not a problem to hunt wild wolves together.

If possible, he also hopes to encounter a small wild wolf to supplement them with a batch of meat.

After settling here, Bai Hao began to look for the pine forest according to the direction indicated by Huang Hai.

And not long after walking, he found the pine forest in the southwest direction. The area is very large, and there are many pine cones on the ground, which can be seen at a glance.

But these pine cones are not his target, his target is pine resin.

The so-called rosin is the resin secreted by the pine tree trunk. If you cut the epidermis to form a channel, the rosin inside will flow out along the channel and be collected in a container below.

Bai Hao tried to cut a hole, and then he could see some juice flowing out. Then he put the bamboo tube below and tied it to the tree to ensure that the rosin could stay in the bamboo tube.

He brought a total of 15 bamboo tubes this time, tied them to 15 pine trees to collect rosin, and only needed to come back to check after a while.

After doing all this, it didn't take too long for Bai Hao to explore the surrounding forest.

At that time, when he was still living in the first camp, he didn't explore too far away, so he didn't know much about the surrounding situation.

Now it's just time to check if there are other precious resources and materials.

Unexpectedly, there were some gains. He found another rhizome. He did not hesitate too much and collected all of them.

He dug until the sun was about to set, then he put away his tools and returned to the old camp to live.

He planned to stay here for two days, and then return to the camp after collecting a batch of pine resin.

During these few days, he could collect food around.

The next day, he went out as usual, first checked the collection of pine resin, and found that the amount was very small, only one layer at the bottom of the bamboo tube.

On the one hand, it was because the flow speed was relatively slow, and on the other hand, it was because there was more volatile, and it was normal for the amount to be small.

He did not care too much and continued to collect plant rhizomes around. This time, in addition to digging rhizomes, he also accidentally discovered a new food-chili.

This was definitely an unexpected surprise. Bai Hao was very excited when he saw the red peppers with strange shapes. This meant that the food in the future would be better, and he might even have a hot pot.

This time, he did not pick the peppers directly, but dug out the roots of the whole pepper and planned to take them back to the vegetable garden to plant, so that he could have peppers to eat for a long time in the future.