An extraordinary life journey through old Beijing courtyard houses

As soon as I got ashore, I felt so cold. The temperature was barely above freezing at that time, how could I not be cold?

The key issue is that I'm also hungry. The little bit of meat I ate this morning, along with the biscuit porridge, has long been digested.

Fortunately, Four-Eyes is much more reliable than him.

While Jiang Baobin remained inactive, it had already caught two rock squirrels.

Humans are treated worse than dogs, and they call themselves time travelers? Aren't they ashamed?

Jiang Baobin: The one who lost his fur? No matter how powerful it is, it's still my dog. Doesn't it have to obediently hand over its prey for me to distribute?

After removing the knife from the spear, Jiang Baobin began to disembowel the squirrel...

After finishing his meal, Jiang Baobin prepared to practice his martial arts.

This was not something he wanted to do; he was forced to do it.

The system repeatedly emphasizes that the purpose of this mission is to significantly improve the player's martial arts skills and willpower.

Otherwise, wouldn't it be simpler to just wait out the time?

With the food provided by the system, as long as you are careful with it, you won't starve to death by the time the mission ends.

However, Jiang Baobin had just set up the frame.

Four-Eyes came running to deliver the news.

Jiang Baobin quickly grabbed his rifle and went to check. It turned out that a trap had caught a squirrel.

Because the trap is fixed to the ground, even though the prey is small, Four-Eyes can't bring it back.

After removing his prey, Jiang Baobin moved the trap to a different position.

This delay means that by the time Jiang Baobin finishes practicing Kundalini, it will be too late.

By the time I warmed up my body and went diving again, it was already afternoon.

That's right, he's preparing to explore "Black Dragon Pool" a second time!

Since the water is so deep, it can only be called a pool, not a lake.

Moreover, this thing has a fit of chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) and gave it a very common name.

This is the warmest time of day, but it's not like that underwater.

Its temperature is still rising; it will take two hours for the water temperature to reach its peak.

Jiang Baobin put all his effort into diving down.

After reaching a depth of over twenty meters, the water gradually became murky.

When it exceeded thirty meters, it had already turned green.

This indicates that the water temperature is higher below, and algae are beginning to proliferate rapidly.

However, even though it was already this deep, it still hadn't reached the bottom.

At this point, Jiang Baobin's "Wave Wrapping Skill" had reached its peak, making it impossible for him to dive even one meter further.

Even though he could vaguely see the bottom of the lake, and there seemed to be something strange down there.

Then I had no choice but to turn around and go upwards, because I felt like my lungs were about to explode!

The ascent is quite leisurely, allowing you to look around freely.

So finally we saw fish, and quite a lot of them.

As the water temperature rises, they gradually move upstream in search of food. This is a relatively uncommon fish species.

Its body is slender, somewhat resembling a "white bill," but larger in size.

According to Jiang Baobin, the largest one is as long as a hand span.

It seems there are fish in the pond, but they are in a relatively deep area. So how can we catch them?

During the ascent, Jiang Baobin discovered a strange phenomenon—

The water in the pool is hot at both ends and cold in the middle.

The surface water is hot because it has been exposed to the sun all day, but what causes the water below to be hot?

Could there be a geothermal source?

Taking advantage of the high water temperature, Jiang Baobin quickly cast his line.

Because we were fishing in deep water, we had to connect the two fishing lines together.

Thank goodness, a fish has finally taken the bait!

Unfortunately, the whole process was very short, as the fish only ate between 3 or 4 pm and 5 pm.

Later, as the sun sets, the fish swim back to the warmer, deeper waters.

Jiang Baobin concluded that, relatively speaking, this type of fish prefers animal entrails.

They should be similar to humans, still finding meat more appealing.

Dinner was plentiful, with squirrel meat and fish, and Jiang Baobin finally ate until he was about 60-70% full.

Having a solid understanding of the material makes work much more energetic.

If you ask what kind of work is available late at night?

Actually, it was Jiang Baobin who discovered a problem.

Although he had a favorable position—the wind was blowing from behind, and it was perfectly blocked by the large rock.

However, what does this mean?

That means he's upwind!

Given the animals' wariness, how could they possibly get any closer to the pond?

Therefore, we must move to a different place.

"To do a good job, one must first have the right tools!"

Jiang Baobin found a large bluestone, poured water on it, and started sharpening his entrenching tool with a "chachacha" sound.

He wanted to use this as an axe.

It's another long and agonizing night!

Because he had something on his mind, Jiang Baobin got up exceptionally early.

But the first thing to do was to start a fire.

Indeed, he failed to keep an eye on it again last night, and the campfire went out early.

Then he discovered another problem—no matter how hard he blew, the fire extinguisher stopped igniting.

This forced him to accept the reality that once the device was turned on, the fire would only last for a day or two at most.

If you don't use them sparingly, once you've used up all five tinderboxes, you'll have to resort to rubbing sticks together to make fire.

That's not as simple as it sounds; it's quite complicated.

Breakfast was simple: hot water and compressed biscuits.

Then, Jiang Baobin took his newly sharpened entrenching tool and went to cut down trees.

The so-called "tree felling" refers to using branches as thick as an arm to make a framework for building a shelter.

It took all morning to get the scaffolding up, but that was also the hardest part.

We ate squirrel meat again for lunch.

However, things weren't going well today; the traps didn't catch a single one, and we only managed to catch two thanks to Four-Eyes.

So Jiang Baobin roasted two more sweet potatoes.

Power up, dive!

This time I felt closer to the goal, but I still couldn't reach the bottom of the lake.

Because he was unwilling to give up, Jiang Baobin dived twice today.

The result was quite disappointing, because the body's energy couldn't keep up, and the second dive wasn't as deep as the first.

From this experience, Jiang Baobin deeply understood a principle—what gold and silver treasures? They're all bullshit!

In critical moments, food is the most precious thing; without food in your stomach, you are nothing!

We'll have fish for dinner.

Jiang Baobin thought to himself: If only there were oil, I could use an entrenching tool to fry the fish.

Boiled fish in plain water is really unappetizing.

Haha, it would be strange if it tasted good with just salt?

Someone asked, why doesn't he grill it?

Because it's too troublesome.

Don't be fooled by movies and TV shows into thinking that you can cook food just by building a fire.

Try it in the wild. You should know that you're not burning charcoal or machine-made charcoal, but dry branches and rotten wood.

These things produce a lot of smoke. You have to burn them until there's only a little ember left before the smoke stops and they're ready to be used for grilling.

As for cooking meat with heat radiation, how big of a fire would that be!

Jiang Baobin doesn't need to do anything else; he can just collect firewood.

He doesn't have that much free time right now.

They were all taking advantage of the good moonlight to pick up things everywhere.

That night, in order to conserve precious fire.

He dared not slack off again, frequently getting up to add firewood, keeping the campfire burning all night.

The next day, they continued building the hut, densely inserting thin branches and dry grass among the thick branches.

But according to Jiang Baobin's requirements, the entire building project was not yet finished...

While continuously building, he did not forget about exploration.

His requirements are not high now. He just wants to go one meter deeper than before each day, or even half a meter.

Persistence pays off. On the seventh day, Jiang Baobin finally saw the true face of the lake bottom.

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