Chapter 44: The Rain Comes
Watching the water vapor condense little by little in the plastic pot, I smiled and said to the coconut crab: "It seems that our buddies are thirsty."
The method of seawater distillation is feasible, and the fresh water distilled every day is enough to drink, and now I don't have to worry about the problem of fresh water, but the injury to my lungs is still not to be underestimated, and I must keep recuperating and less active.
I lay in the hut for six or seven days in a row, and only went to the beach a few times to get water, and as for the food, I couldn't help but feel a little guilty when I looked at the crab shells scattered on the ground,,,,
But I didn't eat it on Sunday but another coconut crab, when I had no food I was going to go to the sea again to collect the fish cage, I knew it was very bad for the injury to the lungs, but there was no way to have not eaten for a day, although there was no appetite but no nutritional intake was not good for my recovery from the injury.
As soon as I walked out of the hut, I found myself cuddling with another coconut crab that was bigger than me on Sunday, depending on whether I was fighting or trying to mate,,,,,
When I saw this situation, I didn't have to think about anything else, there was only one thought in my mind: this coconut crab that suddenly appeared was the best ingredient.
I can't eat coconut crab in reality, although I am an entrepreneur and am not short of money, but this kind of coconut crab has never been eaten, when I found Sunday, I really wanted to eat it, but in order to get rid of the loneliness in my heart, I regarded Sunday as a pet or even a friend and brother, so I didn't eat Sunday.
But this coconut crab that suddenly appeared is different, I didn't hesitate to grab this coconut crab and roast it on the fire, this coconut crab is much bigger than Sunday, it can weigh seven or eight pounds, the color is dark gray and not as good as Sunday fire red, so you don't have to negotiate to eat.
I didn't expect that the coconut crab is so delicious, it is the best food I have ever eaten, how to describe the deliciousness of the coconut crab I can't say, but I want to say that I am absolutely likely to eat it on Sunday for this deliciousness.
Looking at the coconut shells scattered on the ground, I said guiltily to Sunday: "I'm so sorry to eat your kind, it won't be your kind?。
Fortunately, I seduced a child of his kind on Sunday, regardless of whether he was male or female, in short, it solved the food security for three or four days, so that I recuperated for seven or eight days in a row, it seems that my physique is still very good, I actually healed my internal injuries by my own body functions, and now my pain has basically disappeared.
However, my cough did not go away but it has lessened, and I am very satisfied with the recovery effect, at first I thought that I would probably hang up like this, but now it seems that I have really picked up another life.
However, it still didn't rain, so in order to distill the seawater more efficiently, I added a cooling system to the evaporator, which is to put it bluntly, a thicker bamboo tube is put on the steam pipe, and cold water is added to it to cool better.
In order not to let the bamboo tube leak, I burned the plastic bottle and dripped it in the gap of the bamboo tube to seal it, and later found that it was better to seal the gap of the bamboo tube with lemonade-dissolved foam, but I didn't expect that the dissolved foam is a good sealant.
In order to be able to survive, I had to collect firewood often, at first I wanted to use the solar cooker to distill seawater, but the efficiency of the solar cooker is too low, only at noon a day can boil the water, distillation of fresh water still depends on firewood, but chopping firewood is very hard but there is no way, but one thing makes me feel a little gratified, that is, I get a by-product when distilling seawater.
That's salt, and I get a few grams of salt every time I distill it, so I can use some of it when grilling seafood, and it tastes super good.
In this way, I survived by distilling seawater, and after another month or two, it finally rained.
The dry season came early and lasted for a long time, without a drop of rain for about half a year, and I almost died of thirst, but thanks to my clever and clever method of distilling seawater, I barely survived the dry season.
It seems that in order to cope with the consequences of water shortages caused by such severe droughts in the future, it is often said that I must store enough fresh water during the rainy season to survive the dry season.
In fact, I can store 200 kilograms of water with a waterbag converted from a lifeboat airbag, and I can use it for 200 days according to the consumption of one kilogram of water per day, but in fact I only used it for less than 100 days, and part of it was wasted for cultivating coconut saplings.
And this year's long dry season has led to a shortage of fresh water, even if I don't waste fresh water, and in the year of the great drought, my reserves of water are not enough, and it is too unreliable to rely on seawater distillation, so I have to increase my fresh water reserves in order not to happen again.
I want to set a high standard for fresh water consumption, two kilograms per day is more than enough, 365 days a year rounded up to 800 kilograms of water.
So it was decided to prepare to store 1,000 kilograms, that is, a ton of fresh water, anyway, this small island has rain during the rainy season, and a meal of fresh water can be done after one or two rains.
But I have a difficult problem to solve, and that is what I use to store fresh water.
It's easy to store fresh water in real life, just buy a few plastic buckets, but where to get buckets on this desert island.
There is no clay on the island to make pottery that can hold water, and it is a good idea to make a barrel out of wood, but the funny thing is that I don't have the craft or the tools to make a barrel.