After a short rest, Wei Ran and Gale once again devoted themselves to the work of clearing the snow. Even the sick Dorian and Kantan came over to help with some work within their capabilities.
"Uncle Kantan, something is wrong." Gale pushed out a bundle of dead branches from the bear cave, "There seems to be another layer below."
"There is another layer" Kantan was stunned, "Basement"
"Maybe"
Gail said uncertainly, "Victor and I have been cleaning along the corner of the wall. , but it is almost one meter deep, and there are still a lot of burnt wood and dead branches below."
"And a wall of burnt logs appeared around it"
Face. Wei Ran, who was wearing a gas mask, responded in a sullen voice, "Beyond the log wall is the stone wall. There seems to be a basement here."
"It seems we are lucky."
Quantan handed the dead branches and burnt wood that Gale pushed out to Dorian behind him, who then loaded them into the sled bucket and sent them in after gathering a cart. The tent was used as backup fuel.
"Uncle Kantan, how about we demolish the collapsed layer above"
Gail, who could already stand up in the bear cave, leaned out half of his body. Pointing to the slope above his head, he said, "If we continue to clean it down, it will definitely collapse. We might as well tear it down and build a new roof on it. Then we just need to bury it with snow, even if the Germans are standing nearby." I'm afraid they won't find us."
"Create a new layer"
Wei Ran and Kantan were both stunned. The former finally knew the origin of the shelter. , and the latter was shocked by this big project.
But soon, Kantan nodded, "It sounds okay, but"
"We have a lot of time, don't we?"
Gail simply said He called Wei Ran to climb out, then pointed to the slope on the wall and said, "It is not difficult to dismantle it. At most, the cleaning work will be a little troublesome. When the time comes, we can dig out half of it and cover it with canvas. Then start other work slowly, so at least you don't have to worry about the bonfire being discovered."
"Victor, what do you think?" Kantan looked at Wei Ran.
"I think this is a good idea."
Wei Ran agreed without thinking, then pointed at the two logs in the distance and reminded, "Don't forget we still have There is a chain saw, and there are two logs outside that are thick and long enough. As Gale said, the hardest part may just be the cleaning work."
Kantan looked up and still looked at it. In the night sky without stars, he finally nodded, "In that case, we will demolish this place now"
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but Gale had already hurried to the tent, Two pickaxes were fetched.
"You still have the strength?" Wei Ran asked after taking the pickaxe.
“Of course” while Gale was speaking, he was alreadyHe inserted the tip of the pickaxe into the gap in the remaining stone wall and started to use force.
Seeing this, Wei Ran followed suit and found a gap on the other vertical wall and started to exert force.
As the saying goes, it is always easier to destroy than to build. It only took the two of them more than ten minutes to remove a few stones. The ruins of the building that had been holding on for who knows how long began to clatter. Completely collapsed.
After completing the dismantling work, everyone returned to the warm tent, each holding a lunch box filled with broth to fill their stomachs. Then he sat on the thick, soft and warm bear skin and discussed the next construction plan energetically.
Compared to Wei Ran, who is full of physical strength and energy, these few mouthfuls of broth are absolutely crucial for Gale and others who continue to supplement their nutrition. This job of building a shelter seems to be also Invisibly, it became the driving force for the three of them to live and a substitute for Quentin's worries.
In the following time, Wei Ran followed these three weak but energetic Frenchmen and devoted all his energy to the cleaning work.
Cleaning up building debris, sleeping, drinking broth, eating baked potatoes, and even changing Kantan's dressing. After the hour hand of the seized watch on Kantan's wrist turned four and a half times, most of the foundation had been cleared.
Today, around this foundation, which is about four meters wide and five meters long, there is a stone wall that is only less than 30 centimeters high. A ring of logs arranged deep into the ground has also been exposed on the inside of the stone wall. wall.
Further inside, there are various charred wooden beams, wooden boards, and even some fragments of furniture that can barely be seen.
"I am becoming more and more curious about what happened here." Gale bent down and picked up the barrel of a double-barreled shotgun, looked at it, and threw it away far away. .
"Decades from now, there will be people who are curious about what happened here."
Wei Ran muttered secretly, cleared his throat and asked, "Uncle Kantan, we How long does it take to rest?"
Hearing this, Kantan rolled up his sleeves and looked at it, "Half an hour, in about half an hour, we can rest for twenty minutes."
"Speed up." Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he had already hugged a bundle of dead branches used as bedding for brown bears and handed them to Dorian.
"You have really good physical strength," Gale muttered enviously, panting, picking up a bundle of dead branches and handing it to Kantan.
With everyone's busy work, the pine branches laid out by the brown bears for hibernation were gradually cleared, and then a mixture of frozen soil and charcoal began to appear underneath.
“Look what I found”
Gail let out a cheer after lifting up a charred wooden board. Under the dim flashlight beam, he found something buried in the frozen soil. There is a rusty iron bucket more than half a meter high and as thick as a washbasin.
The end of the iron bucket is exposed from the soil, and there is a similarly rusty handle, which can obviously be opened.
“Bring it up, it can be used as a fireplace.” After Kantan finished speaking, he said regretfully, “Forget it, there’s no need to lift it up, just put it there and look around. What's there?"
"Let me open this iron bucket first and see what's inside."
Gail handed the flashlight to Wei Ran and grabbed the handle with both hands. Pulling, and with a clanging noise, he took off the lid of the bucket.
When Wei Ran aimed the flashlight beam at the inside of the iron barrel, what he saw were tools such as rusty nails, axes and saws. Just from the carbonized ax handle and saw handle, we know that these things must have been burned in the fire for a long time to become like this.
"It looks like there is nothing useful." Gale threw away the lid in disappointment.
"This iron bucket is the best harvest."
Wei Ran looked around, looked up at the snowflakes still flying above his head, and suggested, "We Can we take a rest first and discuss adding a cover to the basement so that we can hide inside and slowly clean up the dirt and coke when we move in?"
"Victor is right. ”
Kantan didn’t care whether it was the rest time they had agreed upon before, and he greeted Wei Ran and Gale to leave the foundation, and together they returned to the tent not far away.
By the time Dorian poured everyone a cup of boiling pine needle water, Kantan had already used four small wooden sticks to place a word "mouth" in the snow, "This is the house." The rest of the basement will be our home for the whole winter in the future."
Everyone looked at each other and smiled. Kantan picked up the fifth wooden stick and placed it on it, changing "口" to "曰" and continued. Said, "Just like Victor suggested, we have a chain saw and two logs next to it. I was just thinking about it. We can saw the relatively thin one in half vertically and put one half over the other. Use it as the main beam in the center of the foundation."
"Why don't we use one? It must be much stronger." Dorian asked with a sniffle.
“Can’t lift it”
Wei Ran, Gale and Kantan gave the same answer in unison, and Kantan took the initiative to explain, “Even if the tree is thin, , also has a thick waist. Even if we only use half of it, it would be a laborious task for us to get it over."
"That's right." Dorian touched the back of his head.
Kang Tan smiled and continued, "We will divide the remaining half into two as sub-beams."
Before he finished speaking, Kantan had already Added two more horizontal lines to the word "日" placed on the ground with wooden sticks, "Then there is the thickest log. We saw it into wooden boards and laid them on it. Finally, we dismantled the tent and laid it on it as a wooden board. Make it waterproof, so that even if we keep the stove burning inside, we won’t have to worry about water leaking out.”
“The branches we cleared out before can also be laid on it to keep warm.” Gail asideHe suggested, "After we move in, we can dig out all the soil and charcoal in the basement and spread them over."
"I have a question," the youngest Dorian said again, "Gentlemen, did we forget that we need a door?"
"We do need a door, I almost forgot."
Kantan took a sip of hot pine needles Shui, "We can reserve a place first, and after we move in, we can slowly dig out the door. Before that, it is enough to leave a temporary entrance and exit."
We agreed on the next step in a few words. Everyone rested around the stove for a while. Gale immediately moved out the two-man chain saw and was the first to go to the two crisscrossed logs not far away.
Kantan took a dead branch and measured the size. He used an ax to chop the log in the middle, which was as thick as a 200-liter oil drum. "Saw it from here. This length is enough." "Hearing this, Gale immediately started the chain saw, and with Wei Ran's help, easily cut it in half.
After getting initially familiar with the use of this antique chain saw, the next work was much simpler for Wei Ran, who was using it for the first time. With the cooperation of him and Gale, the two sections of logs that were intercepted were all sawn into planks of three to four centimeters thick. The slightly thinner log at the bottom was also split into two pieces vertically, and one of the logs was sawed vertically again into two equal pieces.
While the two of them were carpenters, the two patients, Kantan and Dorian, were not idle either. They had already used axes and pickaxes to carve out the stone wall surrounding the foundation. Fixed the dents in three main beams. ,Please remember:,Free fastest update No anti-theft No anti-theft