Chapter 5 :While looking for a watering hole, I found traces of peopleFEBRUARY 15, 2017 / DEATHSAVED
Well then, now that I have a full stomach next is the need to secure water.
Seeing how it’s not hot my consumption of water is pretty low, but having only a 500ml water bottle filled with barley tea is not rea.s.suring.
“Seeing how it entirely flat, I can’t see any terraces, shall I head upstream”
If I can’t find a spring then at worst ill have to filter the river water and drink it, but its hard to make filtration equipment without the right tools.
“If I have some at least some bamboo I could make do……”
After walking for 4 hours the vegetation didn’t change that much, and the width of the river remained unchanged.
“Seeing how my walking speed was about 5km per hour, that means I have been walking for around 20km, and yet the scenery remains the same”
When I was starting to get fed up, I found dense footprints belonging to animals.
“Is this an area where herbivores come to feed and drink?”
Seeing how most of the footprints are made with hooves that is the most likely scenario, and so I begin stretching my legs in that direction
The forest itself is not that thick, the sunlight shines through every now and then and the footing is solid.
After walking for around 30 minutes I found a bound that was bountifully filled with spring water.
Water flows from between the rocks, the water flowing from the pond ends up making tributaries until the previous river.
“As expected, for now securing water is done”
From now on I will change my goal to securing food.
“My aim is a bird, It would be good if I can find some quail or something similar”
To be honest, even if a large animal like a dear or wild boar gets caught in a trap i have no way of finishing it off.
A long time ago I saw a wild boar that my grandfather caught using a trap, when i saw a reasonably big tree that was shaved down to its centre, and the ground being dug up for 50cm in the shape of a doughnut, i could only remember feeling fear.
The bones of its feet were showing, Just by approaching it you would be intimidated I doubt you can charge that creature in order to hunt it without a weapon.
“If you can’t use something like a tree to repel it, then I doubt this cutter could deal with it”
An oak tree somewhat close to the feeding ground scattered around it were some unknown fruit that and I set up a number of traps of small-scale traps near the tree with scattered fruit.*
By the way, while I was looking for vines I ended finding a mountain potato and started digging it up enthusiastically, but it turned out to be around 2m deep and that made me almost cry.
It would be different if I had a scoop*, but digging using a wooden stick and a flat piece of wood was torture.
“Hmm? Could this be……”
While I was setting up a number of traps, I found a trap that was clearly live*.
“Use {Identify}”
Things made out of twisted metal wires to resemble foot snare traps are placed in a number of areas.
“without using springs, when you step on it, it tightens just by relying on the elasticity of the tree, this is pretty well made”
This means, that there are people who can make traps around here.
Whats more it was only set up yesterday.
“Encountering a sentient being which may or may not be friendly huh……For now I guess ill hide and observe”
While setting up traps I discovered a pretty good rocky area that ill make as my camp site for today.
Whats left is, to check the traps before sundown, if nothing is caught then I guess it’ll be a mountain potato festival.
Aah, the mountain potato wasn’t poisonous it was just a mountain potato.