Chapter 55: The Drifting Bottle
I built in my mind that there are three options for a raft that can float across the ocean, the first is to use coconut trees to be directly tied into a raft, but I found that coconut trees are very heavy, low buoyancy and difficult to bundle, and it is very likely that soaking in seawater for a long time will reduce buoyancy, so it is not the first choice.
The second is to make a raft out of bamboo and then use soil cement to solve the problem of waterproofing, although the solution is good, but it is only my idea, no one has ever tried it, in case something happens at sea, it will be over, it is not feasible.
The third way is to collect enough bamboo and wood to tie them into four large bundles, and then connect them in series, build a pergola on top of it, so that you can shelter from the sun and rain, and collect rainwater, and finally store as much fresh water and food as possible, if I am lucky, I will rely on this kind of raft to return to the real world.
Although I conceived the raft, it was too difficult to do, firstly I did not have the right tools, secondly, I needed a lot of time every day to collect food, thirdly, my cough and chest pain had become a burden, in short, all the conditions were not very favorable for me, the only advantage was that I had time.
A lot of time passed, and I didn't prepare much of the materials for building the raft, and I still spent a lot of time every day for food.
Recently, I don't know what happened, but I couldn't catch many fish with more than a dozen fishing cages, so I had no choice but to dive to catch food.
Although diving was not good for my old lung injury, there was no way for the bird to die for food, I was really hungry and had to take risks.
Actually, I like diving, because being in the water can make me forget all the unpleasantness, as if I am in a fantasy and a beautiful illusion, and it belongs only to me, but it is rare to have a large turtle to accompany me to swim underwater.
Today I was lucky enough to dive and harvest a lot of seafood, which has been filled with a small raft.
This small raft is made of plastic bottles and bamboo, and it can float on the surface of the sea, mainly for loading the collected seafood, as long as it is secured with a rope.
I pulled a small raft full of seafood and proudly returned to the shore, diving is indeed very physically demanding, and when I came to the shore, I suddenly lay on the beach, although I was very tired but still happy, because today I can have a big meal.
I lay down on the beach and took a nap, when suddenly the sound of jingling bells sounded in my ears, and when I listened closely, it seemed to be the sound of iron nails hitting glass, and I saw a small crab two meters away hitting a glass bottle half-buried in the sand with its crab claws.
I got up and dug the glass bottle out of the sand and took a closer look at it, and it turned out to be a drifting bottle.
This drifting bottle is in the shape of a four-cornered diamond by a wooden stopper to plug the mouth of the bottle, the bottom of the bottle should be filled with some heavy objects to make its mouth float off the water, which also shows that its owner is very careful, the surface of the bottle is very dirty and white dirt so that I can't see what is inside, which also shows that this drifting bottle has been drifting in the ocean for a long time.
I was very excited to find a drifting bottle on this desert island, I lived alone on a desert island for five or six years, and there was no outside news, which made me crazy, but I didn't expect to find a drifting bottle today, the most primitive way to send letters, let me come across, what is inside the drifting bottle, what is really my expectation.
I grabbed a handful of sand and rubbed it on the surface of the bottle to remove the dirt, and I found that the only thing inside the bottle was yellowed thin cardboard, written in English on both sides, and the cardboard was painted with a retouched border and a small golden bee.
It seems that the person who released the drifting bottle at that time was very careful, but looking at the immature techniques and notes, it must be a child, but this is also very suitable for the crowd of drifting bottles.
How could an adult be naïve enough to really use a drifting bottle to send a letter,,,,
The content on the cardboard is very simple, after all, I am a college student, although my English is not very good, but I can understand the general content of the cardboard.
"Whoever picked up the bottle please write to me, we will be friends, I will always wait"
That's the general content of the cardboard, and the content on the back should be the address and zip code.
At first, I naively thought that the bottle was a treasure map or something like a letter, but I didn't expect it to be a child's friend-seeking letter.
It's really disappointing and even more disappointing.
Although the content of the drifting bottle is not what I hoped, it really makes me happy to be able to pick up this drifting bottle, which is how lucky it is in the real world, and it is undoubtedly that if I win the jackpot, I will definitely send a circle of friends to show off.
This drifting bottle can float here also shows a point, as long as the floating object does not sink, one day it will float ashore and be discovered, although this probability is very low, but there will be one, and I am the lucky one, maybe this drifting bottle will bring me good luck.
The contents of the bottle are very simple, and I don't need to open it to know it, so I hang it in front of the window and touch it every day, hoping that it will bring me good luck.
It's no wonder that since I have this little drifting bottle, I feel very comfortable, full of energy and hope every day, and luck has also come, and the catch of more seafood.
Sometimes I also think that if I can return to the real world, I must find the owner of the drifting bottle and thank him for the luck he brought me.