Are You Telling An Eight-Year-Old To Survive In The Wilderness?

Chapter 80: Fire Saw

Hearing that there were snakes, the four women trembled and took a step back.

“But aren’t there too few branches in the periphery of the forest?”

Scarlett Johansson looked troubled.

“It’s okay, just gather however much you can find. We can just use it sparsely for tonight.”

“When we set off tomorrow, we can gather some more on the way. This way, we don’t have to search for them at the last minute.”

The few of them hesitated for a moment and nodded.

The four of them walked to the edge of the forest and began to search for branches that they could use.

The four women teased each other as they walked.

Natalie Portman walked far away and even looked back at Bell with a smile.

“An interesting fellow. He’s quite a gentleman despite his young age.”

Hearing Natalie Portman’s words, Scarlett Johansson raised her eyebrows and couldn’t help but feel alarmed.

She felt like someone was snatching something important from her.

“This little guy is only eight years old. Don’t have any dirty thoughts.”

Hearing Scarlett Johansson’s words, Natalie Portman was stunned. Then, as if she had discovered something fun, she went to Scarlett Johansson’s side.

“How about eight years old? A few years will be gone in a blink of an eye.”

Natalie Portman did not look like she was joking. Scarlett Johansson was stunned. Then she said nervously.

“Hey, be rational. You can’t joke about this.”

“I know Bell very well. You can’t make a move on him!”

Just as Scarlett Johansson finished speaking, the people beside her had strange expressions.

Natalie Portman covered her mouth and giggled.

“Alright, stop teasing her. Look at how nervous she is.”

Hearing this, Scarlett finally realized that she had been played.

Annie Hathaway followed.

The girls stopped after having some fun teasing Scarlett.

“You don’t really have any thoughts about this little guy, do you?”

After the fun, Keira asked Scarlett.

Scarlett was stunned. She was about to shake her head in denial when she saw the others looking at her suspiciously.

Scarlett felt a sense of guilt and swallowed the words she wanted to say.

“You guys are too much.”

With that, Scarlett ran away from the group.

Seeing this, the others stopped the topic.

Bell did not know about this. He was busy with something else.

Bell walked to the bamboo forest that he had discovered earlier.

He explained to everyone as he walked.

“Actually, there are three plants that can be of great help to you on this desolate island.”

“The three plants are coconut trees, banana trees, and bamboo.”

“Our chances of survival will increase greatly when we find these three things.”

“The coconut can not only provide you with a lot of water, but also replenish your vitamins and nutrition with the coconut meat inside.”

“The huge leaves can also hide you from the sun. They are rare treasures.”

“As for the banana tree, it can provide us with fresh water. Moreover, the internal structure of the banana tree is mostly made of fibers. If you can weave a rope with it, you can do many things. For example, hunting and making traps.”

“As for bamboo, it’s naturally the best material to build a shelter. If your skills are good enough, you can also create tools like a water canteen and a bamboo raft.”

Bell said as he cut the bamboo with the dagger.

However, the dagger was a small tool after all, so the chopping speed was inevitably slower.

After a long while, Bell had only cut three to four bamboos.

“These are enough for us.”

After trimming the bamboo sticks, Bell dragged them back to the beach.

Scarlett and the others had already gathered some firewood and were waiting for Bell on the beach.

Seeing Bell dragging such huge bamboos, the few of them quickly went forward to help.

After a round of work, Bell finally decided to build the shelter between two tall trees.

The trees on the desolate island were not too tall.

Because of the monsoon climate here, the tall trees would be blown apart. As time passed, they were naturally eliminated.

Using this kind of trees that did not have a tall trunk could save Bell a lot of trouble.

He only needed to place two prepared bamboo sticks on the tree and some banana leaves on them to build a simple shelter.

Bell quickly built the shelter with the cut bamboo.

Looking at the simple shelter, the girls were a little excited.

This was their first time out in Wilderness Survival. With Bell around, the few of them did not seem nervous. Instead, they were very curious about many things.

“Alright, everyone, our shelter is built.”

“We still have some bamboo left. It can be used to improve our rest.”

Bell cut the remaining bamboo into bamboo strips that were about two meters long.

Then, he spread these bamboo strips on the ground and used them as a simple floor.

“The audience who watched my previous program should have already guessed why I did it.”

“That’s right, it’s to isolate the sand and prevent the sand from sucking away our heat when we sleep at night. It will be troublesome if we catch a cold.”

Seeing that Bell had finished building the shelter, the women looked at the shelter curiously.

At this moment, Bell was preparing for the next task.

“The problem of water and shelter is settled. It’s getting dark. We need to think about food.”

“Before that, we need to start a fire.”

“The fire can let us maintain enough temperature at night and cook food. These are essential.”

“Most importantly, if a boat passes by, if we’re lucky, they might see the fire and come over.”

“In that case, we will have basically passed this round.”

“But the prerequisite is that we can light this fire first.”

While speaking, Bell looked at the branches that Scarlett and the others had picked up and chose some that were dry.

“In the previous programs, everyone has seen the method of drilling wood to start a fire, but today, I am going to teach everyone a new method.”

“This method is called fire saw.”

“Some of you might know it as bamboo fire saw.”

“The condition for using this method to start a fire is that you have to have dry bamboo.”

Bell cut the bamboo with his dagger.

Then, he rubbed the leftover banana leaves into easily combustible fibers.

“Actually, this method of starting a fire is very simple, and the success rate is very high. You just need to stuff the fibers into bamboo and use another bamboo to constantly rub against it.”

Bell said while rubbing the bamboo against the bamboo.

The camera zoomed in and saw that the bamboo piece that Bell was rubbing was already slightly charred.

Immediately after, the high temperature of the friction ignited the filling in the bamboo.

Bell stopped.

He gently blew on the sparks and the fire quickly became stronger.

The few women had already surrounded him.

Seeing that Bell had started a fire so easily, their eyes revealed surprise.