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Chapter 6 - Smoke House

first I need to hang the animals upside down and drain them of all blood than skin them and salt the hides to preserve them. salt is easy native Americans used to get salt from sand be strains sand in water and boiling the water over and over to get salt ill have to do that while these are draining the animals of blood. I'll also have to build a smokehouse to smoke and preserve the meat in got a while before the meat goes bad after the blood is drained but I will need to hurry. I'll create some cast iron pans with the iron I have as well as a type of strainer and some meat hooks as well.

with a goal in mind, I get started first with the hanging of the animals and draining them. Next I great some molds of basic cast iron pan and pot as well as a strainer and a dozen meat hooks though not that high quality it should work. letting those cool down before submerging them I next get started on a small smokehouse rather simple to make now that I have an ax. now I can focus on making salt, going over the process I read about I kept reading it over and over until I had about 100 pounds of salt. altogether 8 hours have passed and it should be about time to skin my animals. grabbing my ax since after cutting down trees all day it has gotten pretty sharp. the cool thing about most axes they tend to get sharper the more they are used to cut wood to a limit at least it will never replace grind sharpening but at least you will never have a dull blade.

doing a rather poor and unskilled skinning job I complete that and lay the hide down and cover them in salt I know it's not really the correct way of doing it but ill perfect it in the future. then I carve the meat into segments and hang them on the hooks to slowly but smoked in the smokehouse while grabbing a cut of deer meat for dinner that night. can't wait to eat something other than fish. it's will take about a day for the hide to be preserved correctly. at least for a makeshift bed it definitely won't be high quality. seeing once again another day pass by so quickly I decide to go to sleep and log out for now.

Opening my eyes for the first time in almost 24 hours it takes a minute to adjust to the light outside slowly exiting the cabin I stretch out a bit and decided to do some basic workouts to try and get into good shape. science has come far in genetic enhancements so most people are pretty fit naturally but you can always look better. after doing some light workouts I decide to shower and order some food to be delivered to the house.

while in the shower I start to think about what I need to research steel is a big thing I must learn to make as well as more advances carpentry skills and mechanical engineering. A proper forge design will be necessary for the future ill look online and see what's the best way to keep a good flow of molten ore going and how to properly separate ore from rock. hearing the doorbell for the elevator I hurriedly get out of the shower wrap a towel around my waist and go to answer it knowing it's my food.

Opening my door a see a cute delivery girl holding a pizza box in her hands she looks up about to greet me before freezing stock still and going as red as a tomato. my hair was swept back out of my face showing my silver eyes and one of if not the best looking face on the planet. I personally have always hated how I look due to no one ever actually being able to hold a proper conversation with me never being able to get a word out. I have never had guy friends do to the hate I receive for how I look.

My eyes are a genetic marker showing that I have a special ability that being my eidetic memory my face on the other hand was random while both my parent were very good looking easily model material they still don't hold a candle to me and I was ok with that up until they died. now that I'm alone and can't have a proper conversation with people I hardly ever speak if at all unless addressed personally.

sighing and rolling my eyes I grabbed the pizza box out of her frozen hands as she stares blankly at me I wave my NFC chip over her hand giving her a good tip and close the elevator door on her, not even bothering to try and break her out of her funk. It's a waste of energy she will most likely stand there for an hour before realizing what happened and hurry and leave it's not the first time and won't be the last it's why I cover my face and keep my hair messy in public.

walking into the kitchen I throw my pizza on the counter and grab a slice out "Nothing like a good bbq meatball pizza" taking a bite a sigh in happiness. I truly love this pizza right up there with lasagna. heading into my room to my computer I start doing my research for a few hours all while chowing down on pizza, man am I glad genetics makes it's almost impossible to go overweight anymore.