Chapter Twenty-Seven: Building a Cabin
In the early morning, there are still conch mussels roasted next to the fire, but there are two more small fish, last night before going to bed I used mussels as bait in the sea to hook, fortunately there are two small fish on the hook in the morning, so that the morning is still quite rich, in addition to fish and shellfish and coconut milk coconut meat, I picked a papaya, although it is not ripe but can still be eaten, the taste is a little astringent but very fragrant.
After eating a big meal, I looked into the distance, and found that there was only an endless sea in front of me, and there was not even a shadow of a boat, and I thought to myself that I had drifted somewhere, and that no one would really set foot in this place, and it seemed that I was ready to live on this small island for a long time.
It is better to build a shelter from the wind and rain, and in books and television adventure shows, people in distress will first build a hut to live in in this situation.
Because I can't still sleep in the life raft, the current life raft has been in tatters, and I am very unsteady and even a little afraid to rest and sleep in the life raft, and I may have a shadow on the life raft drifting at sea, and many times I will suddenly wake up, and I think I am drifting at sea.
I first drew a sketch on the sand, four columns are two high and two low, two beams and several vertical beams, etc., in fact, it is a simple pergola that can keep out the rain, and there is no need to consider the problem of thermal insulation.
The hut doesn't need much as long as it can be sheltered from the wind and rain and lie down to sleep, and it is enough to have four or five square meters, so the amount of work is not large.
I found a place on higher ground, and there were two coconut trees that could be a little more than two meters apart, just enough to be two pillars in front of my hut, and the rest of the wood had to be collected by myself.
There should be the wood I need on the island, the life raft is equipped with a sailor's knife, although it is not big but very sharp, and the back of the knife has a serration to see wood, I took a piece of rope and walked to the island to find suitable wood.
Soon I found the wood that met the requirements for the main body of the hut, and sawed some fine bamboo, I don't know what kind of bamboo you have a thicker finger is very suitable for roof support, but this sailor knife is too small to only ten centimeters, it is really laborious to use, I have to do a lot of effort to get enough wood.
I got a few wooden sticks and my hands were blistered, and I looked at the sailor knife in my hand very helplessly, it was too small to cut the rope, but I was still lucky, this sailor knife is not a safe model, Huo Liang said that most of the sailor knives on the life raft are safety type, the blunt head can not be stabbed to prevent the trapped people from hurting each other, my sailor knife is a sharp knife, it should not be a safe type, but it is not much lethality, it is too hard to use it to see wood.
Although the materials for the building can be easily found, it is extremely difficult to work on this hot island, unfortunately, due to the lack of shoes, accidentally my foot was punctured, the wound is not very deep but very painful and bleeding, fortunately it is not far from the camp I chose, first take a few logs back, treat the wound, I limped back with difficulty, cursing as I went.
Luckily I still had some first aid bandages and medicine left, but this was the last time, and I wrapped up my wound and thought to myself that the plan to build the hut was going to be halted for a while, as the wound on my foot was painful and I had to rest for a while.
I drank a coconut while resting, and thought that I could no longer work barefoot, although the wound on my foot was not very serious, but if I was injured, I would have no medicine and no bandages, which would be troublesome if I got infected on a desert island.
Thinking that I should make a pair of shoes, I looked at the life raft in front of me, the air bag of the life raft is thick and strong enough, it should be very suitable to use it as the sole, I picked up the sailor's knife next to the life raft, ready to cut a piece of leather to make shoes, in fact, I am still a little reluctant to just like this The life raft was dismembered, after all, it carried me on the sea for a month, but there is no way, I need a pair of shoes very much now.
I ruthlessly cut off a piece of leather, with a multi-layer of tensile rubber with nylon thread in the middle, which is very suitable for making shoes, the only drawback is that it is a little soft.
Fortunately, the maintenance kit of the liferaft has scissors and 504 glue inside, they are used to repair the raft, but I have not used it, the quality of the liferaft is very good, during the time of drifting, I just used the means to pump a few times to inflat, it is a safety scissors, the whole scissors are wrapped in plastic, only the scissors are exposed, I looked at the scissors and thought that this kind of scissors is also to prevent the crew from doing too stupid things in adversity, is it that people are too worried, or I have not experienced the heart of people who live alone in times of crisis.
I am a person drifting on the sea, no one competes with me for precious resources, maybe people are in the life and death of the lack of resources, for their own survival is likely to kill the people who share resources with them, in some novels, some people in distress for a bite of food to fight to the death, and even kill their own companions to eat them in order to survive It is terrible to think about.
And I can guarantee that I will never do such a heinous thing under any circumstances, because I am human.
With tools to work with half the effort, soon a pair of simple shoes will be done, in fact, it is very simple, is to use scissors to cut out the sole, and then cut two small knives with a hand knife before and after the sole, and then use the rope to repeatedly wear a few upper seats, and wear two ropes behind the sole as shoelaces, so that a pair of simple sandals is done.
I put it on and walked and found it very good, although the soles feel very soft but you can walk boldly with confidence, very strong should not be easily punctured, and my heart is much more steady, and this small creation makes me full of confidence, just now the foot was stabbed that kind of bad luck swept away.
My feet were still very painful and I couldn't move, so I picked up the oars, of course, it was also a floatable slurry on the life raft, the pulp was made of hard plastic, and I used it as a shovel, which was still competent in the face of soft sand.
When I finished digging a pit, I sat down and rested very hard, and then looked in the direction of the sea, and then I found a black object floating in the sea.