Chapter 1031 1030. Celebration (4/5)

Chapter 1031 1030. Celebration (45)

The house was washed away, but not completely collapsed, and the foundation had to be smashed first.

The smashed wall soil will not be thrown away, but will continue to be used to reduce the workload of people as much as possible.

Godzilla helped to smash the wall. The sledgehammer that the black man needs to grasp with both hands was like a toy in his hand.

Li Du saw that Brother Wolf was looking around, and he was about to go over and ask what he was looking at, when Godzilla shouted: "Hey, be careful, snake!"

Hearing his voice, Li Du looked over in surprise and said, "A snake came out of the wall?"

After Godzilla broke through a section of the wall, a pale yellow thing with brown spots appeared inside. It was about half a meter long, with a flat body that could twist, like a small snake.

After seeing this thing, several children scrambled for it.

Lu Guan praised: "Ma De is really a group of warriors, the training of snake catching starts from the baby?"

Brother Wolf laughed and said, "It's not a snake, it's a lungfish, an African lungfish."

Sophie was surprised: "This is a lungfish? How is it possible, it was found from the wall, my God, how did it appear?"

Li Du thought of a news article he had read, and said, "This African lungfish seems to be able to live amphibiously on land and water. They can breathe with their lungs, which are as long as their bodies..."

Brother Lang nodded and said, "Yes, lungfish are very special. They can breathe through gills when they are in the water, but they have special swim bladders and lungs in their bodies, so that they can breathe air directly even after leaving the water."

Sophie was surprised: "But it was found in the wall, don't tell me, it can survive in the wall for several years, it's impossible!"

Brother Wolf shrugged and said, "I don't know, but when the dry season comes, the pond where the lungfish lives will turn into a mud pit, so that it will dig a hole and secrete a kind of mucus after getting in. The mucus can harden into a protective cocoon. membrane."

"This kind of mucus can maintain a certain humidity and allow air to enter. At the same time, it uses its own muscle and fat as nutrients to survive, and reduces the metabolic rate to one sixtieth of the original, and then goes into aestivation."

Buick, who was working, rushed over to have a look, and said with a smile: "The fish can be stewed and eaten, but it is too small. I have seen a big fish, one meter long, found in someone's wall."

Li Du had seen similar news, but later it seemed that the media said it was fake news.

Now he has encountered the real thing, there is a fish that can be locked in dry mud and survive for several years!

Li Du overestimated the lungfish's ability to survive, and later Buick told him that the house had only been built for a year and a half, because at that time too much soil was used, too little sand and gravel, the house was not strong, and its lifespan was relatively short.

Even so, Li Du still thinks that the African lungfish is amazing. It can survive out of water for a year and a half without water or food, which is amazing.

He looked down at the little flat-headed brother who was holding a piece of wood at his feet, and decided to list them as the most powerful creatures in Africa.

As the saying goes, "Africa is not chaotic, the honey badger decides what it says", this is not just talking, and Brother Pingtou's pen is self-evident.

Brother Xiaopingtou can walk sideways in the tribe, no one dares to touch it, even the children know it can't be messed with.

It's not that it can't be provoked, but that it will keep chasing and biting after it is provoked, unless it is killed, or wait to be provoked.

Because the honey badger has little meat and likes to eat poisonous snakes, people are afraid that it will have residual poison in its body, so they dare not catch it and eat it casually.

It is for this reason that although the honey badger has a bad temper and hates others, it has not become extinct.

The house was built very quickly. After smashing it down, just bury the planks in the ground and put soil and sand inside.

After years of construction and use, there is not much sand and gravel around the Jibra tribe, so more mud can only be used to make the main body of the wall.

The resulting house is not durable enough, but it is still a house.

Listening to the gloomy discussion between Buick and some tribal blacks, Brother Wolf pointed to the plastic bottle on the ground and said, "Why don't you use this?"

"What?" Buick looked puzzled.

Brother Wolf went to pick up a Coke bottle, poured muddy water into it, tightened the cap, put it into the wooden wall, and said, "This way, is it more useful than sand?"

Staring blankly at the Coke bottle in the wall, after a few seconds, Buick slapped his thigh vigorously and shouted: "What a brilliant idea! Damn it, why didn't we think of it before?!"

This opened up new ideas for them. The tribe communicates frequently with the outside world, and every household has plastic bottles. These plastic bottles are filled with muddy water and used to make the main body of the wall, which is much better than sand.

Moreover, even if their tribal bottle is not enough, this thing is cheap and light, and can be bought at the scrap station. For their tribe, it is an inexhaustible thing.

Li Du never thought that plastic bottles could be useful, he praised Brother Lang, and Brother Lang smiled and said, "I didn't think of it out of thin air, in our course, plastic bottles filled with sand are used for bunker training. "

Seeing this festive scene, Scottie, who had been watching coldly, was dissatisfied. He snorted and said disdainfully, "Smart, useless smart."

Charlie, a black youth, poked his neck and said, "Hey, why didn't I see you have such a cleverness?"

Scottie proudly said: "What I need is great wisdom, not small cleverness. The houses of the tribe should have been eliminated long ago. As long as we have money, we can build buildings like Johannesburg!"

Sophie shook her head and joked, "That's not okay, handsome guy. The foundation of the tribe is mud, which will soften quickly once it rains, and its load-bearing capacity is relatively poor. If you build a building, I'm afraid it won't need rain, it will collapse by itself!"

Scottie stared and said, "Ha, you know a lot, you're the only one who knows, right?"

Sophie shrugged and said, "I obtained a double bachelor's degree in university, including architecture, so I really know a lot about it."

Charlie shook his head at Scotty and smiled, "Wow, so you went to college? Scotty didn't go to school, not even a day."

Scottie roared angrily: "Go away, Charlie!"

There are many people and strength, and after a day of tossing, a total of eight houses were built.

The next day was the celebration that Buick was talking about. Li Du thought that there would be another event, but Buick led the strong men in the tribe to go hunting.

What they hunt is unusual, it is a python!

After hearing the news, Li Du didn't know how to express his surprise. He asked, "Your celebration is to catch the boa constrictor? Then stew the boa constrictor?"

Buick grinned and said, "No, it's not stew. You'll know when the time comes."

Pythons hide in underground burrows except for occasional prey, so hunting them is difficult.

The hunters of the Jibra tribe must carefully search for the traces they left on the ground, and follow the traces to find the python's cave.