We Live In Nanjing

  Chapter 51 The Three Elements of the Carpenter Girl and the Trap

  In doomsday survival, rope is especially important.

The teacher collected a lot of ropes and stored them in the building. She was a very visionary and foresighted person. When she was a child, Pinellia was not aware of it. After she grew up, Pinellia realized the teacher’s greatness. She found that the teacher took every point into consideration and arranged. Well, in the most chaotic and difficult days, she dragged the young pinellia to collect supplies little by little, and little by little, she built 11 Meihua Villa into a strong fortress.

  In the end, she slept under the greenery downstairs. Although the girl was alone, she was still well protected.

   Pinellia puts two bundles of green nylon rope on the shoulders on both sides, one bundle of 8 mm diameter and the other bundle of 10 mm diameter, which are very strong, and then go downstairs.

  Setting traps is also a science. Animals are smarter than humans think. Do not underestimate the wisdom of other creatures. This is one of the survival rules taught by the teacher.

Banxia doesn’t know what the uninvited guest who broke into Meihua Mountain Villa is. It may be a jackal, a leopard, or even a brown bear. Anyway, it is a very dangerous creature. Meihua Mountain Villa is not a good habitat. Since the teacher is still alive, they regularly clean up the environment inside the community. Due to human activities, herbivores are not close here, so large predators rarely come to the community.

  Banxia still remembers when she first noticed the thing. It was the last time she went out to fish and was followed when she returned home at night.

  Did it invade the community that night?

   Or was it already lurking here before then?

Meihua Villa is adjacent to the wide Muyuanyuan Avenue to the west, Haiyue Garden District to the north, Houbiaoying Road to the south, and the dormitory of the 28th China Electric Power Research Institute to the east. In the east, it is connected with other residential areas. In this era, the residential areas were completely covered by vegetation, and it is no different from the jungle, so the dangerous creature may come from the purple mountain in the northwest.

  The girl sits on the stairs on the first floor of Unit 11, humming a song leisurely, and stretches her two long legs close together, holding a sharp dagger in one hand and a small piece of log in the other.

  She is cutting wood.

  Banxia pushed the back of the knife with the thumb of her left hand, cutting off the sawdust piece by piece. A skilled carpenter obviously did this. She was cutting the palm-long log into a square notch.

  This is the trigger for making the trap.

Teacher    said that all traps can be simplified into three parts, namely power, traction and trigger.

  The so-called trigger is to keep the trap balanced and still when there is no prey. When there is a prey, it is the hub that triggers the trap to start. It is the core organ of the trap and is quite critical.

  The most commonly used and simplest trigger is two hooks that can fit with each other. Just like a person’s two hands are put together and four fingers are bent to hook each other, these two hooks can be made of wood.

  Two wooden blocks of similar size are cut into hooks with a knife.

  It took the girl more than half an hour to dig out a square groove in the center of the two wooden blocks, both of which were concave, and then tried to hook them together and pulled it hard.

   Very strong.

  I polished it up a bit more, and squinted at the light.

  The trigger is done!

  One third of the trap has been completed. Among the three elements, the trigger needs to be made by yourself, and the traction relies on a strong nylon rope. The rope is responsible for connecting the various components of the trap and also for transmitting power.

  The last is motivation.

  There is a natural source of power, and at the same time the easiest to get, that is the tree.

Pinellia wraps herself tightly in a plastic raincoat, wears a hood and gloves, and wears plastic rain boots on her feet. This is to prevent her own odor from remaining. Some animals have a keen sense of smell. If there are humans in the trap Smell, they will remain alert and will not be fooled.

  The girl got into the grass, and while walking deep, she lowered her head to look for traces of animal actions.

  There are mottled residential buildings on both sides, and emerald green vines hang down from the roof, covering the black hole windows.

These tall buildings have been unoccupied for more than ten years, and a building has been left vacant for ten or twenty years in a normal society and an unmanned environment. The final result is completely different-there is no such thing as a normal society without human beings and full of vitality. Locally, the evacuated Chernobyl may meet the previous conditions, but Pripyat where it is located is located in northern Ukraine, at 50 degrees north latitude, with a dry and cold climate, and the Meihua Villa in the apocalyptic era, It's more like dropping a building in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, deserted, isolated from the world, and left vacant for another twenty years.

  Most of the buildings here can no longer be inhabited. The humid climate and the erosion of plants have cracked the outer walls of the buildings. Some residential buildings cracked very seriously, and deep cracks can be seen from above.

  The girl got out of the grass and stepped on the road.

  Except for the asphalted roads, other places in the community are full of lush weeds.

The green belt of the past community is now lush vegetation, not only grass, but also shrubs, vines, and newly grown trees. They are tightly entangled, like a thick wall, those old residential buildings. Located just behind the wall.

  The greener the community is, the faster it will be swallowed by nature. Only the hardened pavement paved with floor tiles or asphalt is still stubbornly resisting.

As long as they are not broken, the plant seeds cannot germinate there. Without plants, it is still not a natural boundary. All hardened roads in this world that are paved with floor tiles, asphalt, and no weeds are the grounds of Pinellia. And natural well water does not offend river water.

  The girl found a suitable tree.

  It grows in the grass on the side of the road. It may be a Sawtooth oak. It is almost as high as a story, and its trunk is as thick as a bowl. It grows straight and becomes thinner as it goes up.

As a source of power for traps, trees provide elasticity, or elastic potential energy. This is the easiest way to obtain energy and the easiest way to use energy. Both trees and bamboo can be used in the whole world. You can store energy by breaking a bend. , Just be careful that the tree cannot be too thick or too thin.

Pinellia threw the backpack on the ground, with a knife in her mouth, and leaped upward, her legs clamped the trunk tightly, climbed up like a monkey, and drew out the knife to chop off the extra branches one by one. Drop, leaving a trunk in the middle.

  She grabbed the tip of the top of the tree trunk and jumped down gently, pulling the top of the tree to the ground, bending the tree with her own weight.

  The newly born, water-rich Sawtooth oak is very elastic. The straight trunk was pulled by the girl and bent down and bent into an N shape without breaking.

  She let go, and the tree trunk snapped back again.

  Very good, very suitable.

  Banxia slapped her hands, she was very satisfied, this tree is very suitable as a source of power for the trap.

  She has to deal with that dangerous visitor.

  The best way is to hang it from the top of the tree.

  (End of this chapter)