Chapter 24 Hamster

Four prey fell under his gun in the first hunt, and Chen Ming was very satisfied with such a harvest.

Soon, he dragged the bodies of the four purple antelopes back to the river bank.

Before officially starting to deal with it, Chen Ming went back to the spacecraft and pushed the cart he had taken from the space station here to facilitate transportation later.

The four purple antelopes were still quite heavy.

One purple antelope weighed about 80 kilograms.

Even if the internal organs were removed, the skin and bones were peeled off, and only the firm meat was left, the weight of one left was more than 20 kilograms.

What's more, some inedible parts can be used to squeeze juice as nutrient solution, so except for the blood that is not easy to collect, Chen Ming didn't want to waste any.

Especially the skin of the purple antelope, this soft dark fur with lavender pattern spots looks pretty good.

And Chen Ming remembered that there seemed to be a book on leather tanning on the terminal.

Although he didn't seem to have the materials needed for tanning leather, he would freeze them for the time being, so that these furs would not go bad.

Maybe it will be useful in the future.

After working for several hours because he had not handled animals for a long time, Chen Ming finally returned to the spaceship with four completely decomposed purple gazelles.

Most of the organs and bones were stuffed into the nutrient solution extractor by Chen Ming.

Because organs are very easy to rot, Chen Ming would not dare to eat them if they were frozen for several months, so he simply disposed of them directly like this.

It happened that the efficiency of extracting nutrient solution with this type of thing was much higher than shoveling soil with a shovel.

However, Chen Ming also deliberately left some organs.

He took them to the woods east of the spaceship and set up several simple trigger traps according to the book "Simple Environmental Traps Arrangement".

Animal organs and ordinary soil can be used to extract nutrient solution, but soil is not like organs that can be used to attract carnivorous animals.

Taking some low-value things in exchange for the opportunity to harvest meat, there is not much loss even if it fails.

If it succeeds, it will be a big profit.

Chen Ming is very happy to do this kind of exchange.

After a morning of hunting and processing prey, plus setting traps later, the morning passed quickly.

At noon on the sixth day after the spacecraft landed, Chen Ming finally ate his first meat meal since he came to this world.

Although there was no seasoning, only the purple beans that Chen Ming had found before as a side dish, the taste of the purple beans stewed with antelope meat was much better than the sweet and almost greasy pulp orange fruit that Chen Ming had eaten dry the past two days.

After all, no matter how delicious something is, you will get tired of eating it every day. It is a very luxurious enjoyment for Chen Ming to be able to change the taste a little.

After lunch, Chen Ming still spent the afternoon in the reinforced fence.

Apart from anything else, Chen Ming felt that the fence he built should at least be able to withstand the impact of the group of purple-tailed deer yesterday.

Otherwise, it is better not to build a fence that collapses at the first impact.

Until the night, Chen Ming would take a look at the various books in the terminal that he might need to survive on the planet, as well as other professional books that he might use in the future before resting.

A day passed like this.

The next day, the seventh day of the spacecraft landing arrived.

As usual, Chen Ming took care of the land he planted outside, and then went to the place where he set the trap yesterday to check.

The trap did not catch the animal, but all the internal organs that Chen Ming poured into it were eaten up.

It seems that the animal is smarter than he thought.

Chen Ming was not surprised by this result, and there was no fluctuation in his heart. Such a failure was just a small episode.

Anyway, animals are not smarter than humans. If they fail this time, they will try again next time.

As the person who set the trap, he can make many mistakes, but once the animal makes a mistake, it will become his meal.

Chen Ming cleaned up the mess in the trap a little, and improved the trap a little according to the content of the book he read last night.

The remaining internal organs that had been stored in the refrigerator overnight were poured into the trap as bait.

If the trap does not harvest this time, he can only wait for the next hunting to have results before continuing.

Taking care of the fields and checking the traps are daily tasks.

What Chen Ming really wants to do today is hunting.

After yesterday's successful hunting, Chen Ming has completely understood what an inexperienced person like himself should do when hunting.

It just so happens that he has found more than one trace of animals drinking water by the river.

The herd of purple antelopes will definitely not come, but other animals may still come to drink water.

Chen Ming returned to the spaceship, put on the rough camouflage clothes he made, and set off towards the river.

But not long after Chen Ming left the spaceship.

A small animal that looks like a hamster suddenly appeared in the woods. It looked at the spaceship a few times and ran away from the woods to the fence.

Quietly passed through the gap between the fences, along the bottom of the spacecraft, the space supported by the landing gear, and ran into the field that Chen Ming had cultivated next to it.

With a few claws, he dug up a flower rice seedling that had just begun to sprout, and a pair of big teeth bit off a section in one bite.

The little hamster had a humane expression of satisfaction on his face, enjoying the food he had stolen.

However, the next moment, a shadow suddenly appeared on his head.

A basket made of wire mesh was directly buckled on his head.

"I caught you."

Chen Ming's voice sounded with the vibration of the basket hitting the ground.

I had just walked a short distance when I found that there was a strange little thing on the surveillance.

If I didn't notice it and really went hunting, the whole field would be eaten clean by it.

Just after the cage buckled the little guy, its two little claws desperately dug on the ground, and in a short while, it dug a small pit on the ground that could accommodate it and got in.

But immediately it was lifted up by Chen Ming by the back of the neck.

"Hamster?"

This little guy was furry all over, with a pair of white big teeth half exposed. He looked like he had given up struggling when he was caught by Chen Ming.

He looked pretty cute.

Chen Ming threw the thing that looked like a hamster into the wire basket that he had just used to hold it, closed the lid, and locked it.

He sprayed the entire cage with disinfectant herbal juice and stuffed it into the storage compartment.

He would deal with it when he came back.

Some animals drink water at the river very early, so Chen Ming couldn't waste too much time and had to go there quickly.

It would be best if there was a result from hunting today. If not, then it would be dinner for today.

At noon, Chen Ming returned to the spaceship empty-handed again.

Today's hunting did not go as he wished. Obviously, the commotion caused by the river yesterday made many animals temporarily give up the idea of ​​drinking water nearby.

Although Chen Ming felt a little sorry, he quickly adjusted his mood.

But when Chen Ming walked onto the spaceship and opened the door of the storage compartment, he found that the basket he used to keep the hamster he caught in the morning was broken.

There were traces of something gnawing at the broken part of the iron basket.