Alaska Gold Rush Diary

Chapter 74 Indigenous Market

Since Edward knew nothing about cooking, he only purchased equipment and other supplies in the past two days, leaving the purchase of daily necessities to Zhou Xin.

Zhou Xin went to the largest market in the area and bought daily necessities such as salt, oil, rice, and flour.

Unlike before in Livinggood, this time there was one more person, and the daily food consumption doubled, but the amount of food that could be carried was reduced.

Fortunately, the rainforest is rich in resources, and with the relevant knowledge and experience, finding food to sustain life is not a problem.

As a result, Zhou Xin will have to spend a lot of time every day looking for food.

Fortunately, with the advent of ore washing machines, they can carry out mechanized operations, which actually reduces the time spent on the gold panning itself.

This ore washing machine is small enough that Edward can take care of it by himself.

Once you find a gold-rich stream by "smelling gold," you can start panning for gold using a mining machine.

In the days that followed, all the two of them needed to do each day was spend time collecting enough soil.

After completing his daily task of collecting soil, Zhou Xin can explore the rainforest more deeply, searching for food and, incidentally, the next gold mining spot.

With real guns and ammunition in hand, he was completely unafraid even if he encountered ferocious animals such as wild boars.

With Logan around, small animals like pheasants are practically delivered to their doorstep as soon as they appear.

In addition, with the widespread presence of cassava, palm, and other plants in the rainforest, it is not difficult to fill one's stomach.

Therefore, when he went shopping this time, he mainly bought condiments, and only bought a small amount of rice and noodles for emergencies.

This gold panning trip in the primeval forest can also be considered a rainforest survival journey.

Of course, the most important thing to be careful about is the preparation of medicines.

The rainforest here is home to a variety of venomous snakes, especially giant vipers, coral snakes, green tree pythons, and anacondas, which are just as dangerous as the venomous snakes in Australia.

Moreover, because they couldn't bring refrigeration equipment, they were unable to prepare snake antivenom this time.

Being bitten by a venomous snake could be fatal.

Therefore, this time we can only focus on prevention, and we must have plenty of snake prevention and repellent supplies.

Another thing that needs special preparation in advance is mosquito prevention measures.

Because of the dry climate in the Western Australian wilderness, there are very few mosquitoes, so they didn't suffer from this problem much there.

However, the rainforest is a paradise for all kinds of mosquitoes, especially at night. If you don't take precautions, you will become a buffet for all kinds of mosquitoes.

As for venomous insects such as spiders and scorpions, although they are not as dangerous as venomous snakes, if a bite is not treated effectively, complications may occur, and even life may be endangered.

In response to these dangers, Zhou Xin was meticulous, spending an entire day running around the city to ensure that he was as well prepared as possible.

Even after buying a large backpack full of medicine and snake and insect repellent, Zhou Xin still felt somewhat uneasy.

He heard that in the Liluna region, near the edge of the rainforest, there was a large indigenous market where many locals sold various specialties.

Today, due to the influence of modern civilization, the indigenous people who lived in the rainforest have gradually left the forest and integrated into modern civilization.

However, although they no longer live in the forest, they still retain many indigenous characteristics in their lifestyle and customs.

They are all absolute jungle survival experts, with extensive experience in dealing with venomous insects and snakes, and in responding to their bites.

So Zhou Xin decided to go there and see if he could buy some folk medicine to treat bites from poisonous insects and snakes.

Since they were going to enter the rainforest from there anyway, the two packed their belongings and left Georgetown in a local minibus.

The area around Liluna is not prosperous; it has only a few simple streets.

The presence of the indigenous market attracts a large number of tourists, making it quite lively.

The two found a reasonably clean hotel to stay in and then headed straight for the indigenous market.

The indigenous market was bustling, but also very chaotic.

Some indigenous people, wearing strange decorations on their heads and with animal teeth interspersed in their faces, either squatted by the roadside to set up stalls or occupied a formal stall, each selling strange and unusual goods.

Zhou Xin saw that some stalls displayed strange fruits, some displayed dried meat and fish pieces of unknown animals, and some displayed unidentified things packaged in bamboo tubes.

He even saw someone selling several tapirs and armadillos.

Of course, there are also some people dressed in ordinary clothes who sell normal goods such as alcohol, food, and clothing.

This kind of market, full of wildness, mystery and indigenous characteristics, is indeed very attractive to people who have lived in civilized society for a long time.

The two walked through the muddy streets, searching for something that might be useful to them.

After walking around for a while, they suddenly heard a scream from not far away, followed by a barrage of curses.

Looking in the direction of the sound, they saw a boy of about fifteen or sixteen years old running through the market, clutching something in his hand.

Two men with sticks followed behind him, shouting and cursing as they chased after him.

"You damned thief, I'm going to beat you to death today!"

The boy was thin but extremely agile, leaping and bounding between the stalls, and the two men could never catch him.

Just as the boy was about to shake off the two men and run out of the market, another man suddenly jumped out from the side and hit the boy's leg with a stick.

The boy was caught off guard and the blow knocked him to the ground.

"You bastard, you think you can run away!" The man angrily struck the boy again and again with his stick.

The boy curled up, clutching the object tightly to his chest with one hand and protecting his head with the other, enduring the rain of blows from the stick without uttering a sound.

At this moment, two other men caught up, their faces full of anger.

"Run again, you thief, you bastard!"

The two joined the group beating the boy, and sticks continued to fall on him.

But the boy remained silent, simply clutching the object in his hands tightly.

Many people gathered around, but seeing the three men's fierce appearance, no one dared to step forward to stop them.

After all, the boy was the one who stole first, so the three men had every reason to commit such a cruel act.

"I'll go stop them!" Edward said as he walked over.

Zhou Xin did not stop him, but followed behind him, while his right hand hung down, ready to draw the simulated air gun at any moment.

After all, using a real gun in a busy city would be too conspicuous and could potentially injure others.

He didn't want to be thrown in jail before his gold rush even began.

Moreover, the opponents were only armed with sticks, so an air rifle would be sufficient to deal with them.