[Extreme Night Wilderness Survival] Wooden Ladder

Wang Yu picked up the entrenching tool and began chopping cedar wood.

After chopping for a while, Wang Yu found that using an entrenching tool to fell trees was indeed inferior to using an axe.

The entrenching tool's versatility weakened its ability to chop trees. Luckily, he had not gone after a thicker big tree. Using this entrenching tool on a thicker tree would have taken even more effort.

This cedar was seven centimeters thick, which was not particularly large. Wang Yu chopped for a few minutes, and once the cedar was swaying on the verge of falling, it toppled over.

After the cedar fell, Wang Yu began using the entrenching tool to chop off its branches.

The cedar had many branches, costing Wang Yu quite a bit of effort. After chopping them all off, he used the 'Measuring Tool' to measure the cedar's tree trunk. It was over six meters long.

Afterward, Wang Yu selected another cedar nearby that was about the same thickness and began chopping.

After felling the cedar, Wang Yu similarly chopped off all its branches, then measured its length. It was also over six meters long.

Wang Yu cut both cedar trunks, each over six meters long, down to 4.5 meters.

Then Wang Yu sorted through the branches from the two cedars, picking out those about three centimeters thick and chopping them into forty-centimeter wooden sticks.

After finishing all that, Wang Yu began carrying the wood back to the shelter.

He made four trips back and forth. The two 4.5-meter-long trunks took two trips.

Then he carried ten forty-centimeter wooden sticks in one trip.

Finally, Wang Yu bundled up the remaining cedar branches and carried them back as well.

He placed everything he had brought back beneath the giant rocks.

Next, Wang Yu laid the two 4.5-meter cedar trunks neatly side by side, then used the entrenching tool to cut notches into them.

He made a three-centimeter groove every forty centimeters along the cedar trunks, cutting ten grooves into each trunk.

After cutting ten grooves into both cedar trunks, Wang Yu placed them parallel to each other, then fitted the three-centimeter-thick, forty-centimeter-long wooden sticks into the grooves in sequence.

After installing the ten wooden sticks, Wang Yu tightly bound every joint where the sticks fit into the grooves with vines, just in case.

That completed a 4.5-meter-long wooden ladder.

Wang Yu stood the wooden ladder up. It was very heavy, but he could still carry it.

Then Wang Yu carried the ladder to the back of the first giant rock he had put down. The stone wall on this side was only 4.1 meters high, so Wang Yu leaned the ladder directly against it.

After positioning the ladder, Wang Yu held up a torch and climbed it.

A height of 4.1 meters was neither high nor low. After climbing up to the 4.1-meter-high notch, Wang Yu saw the situation atop the giant rocks for the first time.

The top of the giant rocks was covered in thick moss and littered with bird droppings. Other than this notch, the rest of the surface was relatively flat, covering roughly Thirty Square meters.

The situation atop all four giant rocks was naturally exactly the same.

Wang Yu wanted to take a look around on top of the giant rocks, but they were covered in moss, so he decided to clear the moss first at a later time.

Standing in the Giant Rock Notch, there was a "railing" in front of the shelter.

This "railing" was a groove formed by the notch being wedged between two giant rocks.

The giant rocks on both sides were 5.4 meters high, while the notch was 4.1 meters high, forming a groove 1.3 meters high, 0.7 meters wide, and 1.1 meters long.

The 1.1-meter length was the length where the two giant rocks pressed together. Every connection between the four giant rocks was 1.1 meters long.

Wang Yu entered the groove and looked down from the edge at the front. Below was the inside of the shelter. Then he stuck the torch into the giant rock, left the groove, and descended the ladder through the notch to the ground.

After reaching the ground, Wang Yu picked up the bundle of cedar branches he had carried back, then climbed the wooden ladder to the notch again.

At the edge of the groove, Wang Yu threw the bundle of cedar branches into the stone wall enclosure.

Then Wang Yu returned to the other side of the groove. With one hand gripping the top of the giant rock's stone wall, he pulled the wooden ladder upward with the other. The ladder was heavy, so he had to be careful.

After pulling the ladder onto the Top of the Giant Stone, Wang Yu carried it into the groove and slowly lowered it through the notch at the edge of the groove into the shelter.

After setting the ladder in place, Wang Yu climbed down it to the ground and entered the shelter.

The interior of this stone wall enclosure was about 5.3 meters long and three meters wide, around Sixteen Square meters. That was an extremely large area for a wilderness shelter.

Wang Yu had already built a fire pit inside the stone wall enclosure. It was nearly extinguished now, so he immediately added dry wood.

Then Wang Yu opened up the bundle of cedar branches he had thrown down and lay on them.

He could finally relax. He had spent an entire day in the pitch-black wilderness without letting his guard down for a moment. Now, surrounded by four giant rocks more than six to seven meters thick, he finally felt a little safer.

That was also why Wang Yu had planned to build the shelter this way. What people lacked most in the dark night was a sense of security. Naturally, he had to make the shelter safer. At the very least, once he returned to the shelter, he would not have to remain tense and could relax.

When Wang Yu saw the notch in the giant rock's stone wall, he had a sudden idea. He wanted to use the notch to enter and leave the shelter, turning the stone wall's flaw into an advantage.

It was very safe inside the stone wall enclosure, but there were drawbacks. Entering and leaving by ladder was inconvenient, and he could only improve it later. Still, sacrificing a little convenience for safety was worth it.

After lying down on the cedar branches beside the fire pit, Wang Yu felt truly exhausted from the day and wanted to rest early.

He had not chosen items for spending the night, such as a tent or sleeping bag, so he could only sleep like this. However, sleeping inside the stone wall enclosure was safe, and with its small space and the fire basin, he would not be cold.

Before going to sleep, Wang Yu opened the [Chat Channel], wanting to see whether there was any useful information.

As soon as he opened the [Chat Channel], Wang Yu discovered that Jia Feng, the internet celebrity he followed, had posted an update.

[Ding, player Jia Feng listed Homemade Torch*10 on the 'Trading Channel'.]

[Jia Feng: Brothers, I've listed Finnish Torches on the Trading Channel that can burn for One Hour. You can trade food, dry firewood, or other items for them.

I've also posted a video showing how to make a Finnish Torch. Everyone can learn from it.]

After internet celebrity Jia Feng listed the Finnish Torches, he also informed his fans in the group.

Then Jia Feng posted a video on how to make a Finnish Torch.

By the time Wang Yu saw these messages, it was too late. When he entered the [Trading Channel], the Homemade Torches Jia Feng had listed had long since been traded away.

It seemed he would need to pay more attention to the [Chat Channel] in the future.

He had only opened the [Chat Channel] three times today, so he had only come across much of the information afterward.

Jia Feng had posted a video, so Wang Yu clicked in and took a look. It showed Jia Feng demonstrating how to make a Finnish Torch.

This Finnish Torch was actually quite simple.

All one had to do was find a very thick log, stand it upright, drill a hole down from the top into the wood core, then drill a horizontal hole through the middle of the log.

That way, the flame could burn inside the log.

What a good idea.

The method was simple enough, but without tools, it would not be simple at all. A log was not so easy to drill holes into.

Jia Feng had chosen a hammer and chisel, which could naturally bore holes into a log.

Wang Yu did not have suitable tools, so he could only study it later.