Chapter Thirty-Nine: An Unexpected Discovery

Environmentalists claim that plastic waste has also appeared in the Antarctic and Arctic, and even in the deep sea, plastic waste has been found, and it can be said that almost every corner of the world has been invaded by plastic waste.

This small island far from the mainland is not immune to the invasion of plastic waste, plastic bottles, foam boards, plastic bags, and even some worn-out fishing nets can be found everywhere near the island's beaches, but fortunately there are not many of them.

It is said that the tropics are very hot, and the island where I am is a tropical island originally thought that it would be hot all year round, but I didn't expect that the temperature is very cool recently, just like the autumn temperature in northern China is about 25 degrees, this kind of lukewarm weather is the most suitable for people to travel, which is if I used to take my family to travel every National Day.

The thought of playing with my parents, siblings, wife, and children makes me very happy, but it is just a memory in my mind.

In reality, I am just alone living on this desert island, I warn myself not to miss the past, not to miss anything, to try to forget family and friends, I even hypnotized myself in this world, I have no relatives, I can only face everything alone.

People often say that a person in a difficult situation must have spiritual sustenance in order to live, and I think what people call spiritual sustenance is a kind of self-comfort, and even has the element of self-hypnosis or self-deception.

For example, the male protagonist in "The Rest of the Desert Island" shows a basketball as his friend, and speaks to the basketball that has no life, no thoughts and can't speak all day long, I think the male protagonist knows very well that basketball is a dead thing without life and no thoughts, and he pins all his spirit on this bloodless basketball, in fact, this is a kind of self-deception, and he fantasizes about a friend and a partner for himself.

This kind of fantasy is not a good way to do it in difficult situations, and it can make people's hearts full of hope to live.

However, I don't want to hypnotize myself with this self-deceptive method, maybe it's everyone's mental capacity or brain thinking, I think that the imaginary things and things are the sustenance of where they don't exist.

There are also people who use the longing for their loved ones to encourage themselves, and always fantasize about the beautiful vision of seeing and reuniting with their families to remind themselves to live well, so that their hearts will always be full of hope.

But I knew very well in my heart that everything was just a fantasy, and the thought of my family on this desert island would only make me feel more indefinite, and let my heart be full of hope, but it made me feel more disappointed.

It seems that these self-deceptive methods don't work for me, but I have found one solution that works well for me, and that is to forget.

I forced myself to forget everything about my past, all my family, my friends, my career.

It's ridiculous to say that my way of forgetting everything is actually a kind of self-deception, no matter what, on this desert island

My only thought was to live and wait for the opportunity to arise.

I feel that since God arranged for me to come to this island, this is fate, and I also claim that this island is owned by me, and I also named it Guan Wang, so I am responsible for this island.

These days, the weather is very cool, and it is very comfortable to move, but I am not comfortable to see the plastic waste everywhere on the island, so I might as well clean up this small island while the weather is cool.

I got up early in the morning, after all, it is still very hot during the day, especially around noon, and I have to avoid working at the hottest time of the day, and as soon as the day is shining, I carry the bamboo basket I have woven along the shore of the island to pick up garbage.

In fact, the garbage on the island is not as bad as expected, which may be that the island is too far from the mainland to be polluted by too much plastic waste.

After two days of searching and collecting, I picked up two baskets of garbage, mostly plastic bottles and foam pieces, and I did not burn them and destroy them, but piled them up near the hut to see if I could use them in the future.

During the two days of picking up garbage, I made a surprising discovery, that is, I found a huge crab under a coconut tree, or a giant coconut crab to be exact.

At first, I was shocked when I found it, thinking it was a huge red spider, but when I looked closely, it was clear that it was a coconut crab more than half a meter long.

I grabbed the coconut crab carefully and cautiously, but I was still a little afraid in my heart, for fear that I would be caught by the crab claws of the coconut crab, and if the huge crab claws were really clamped, my fingers would be pinched off immediately.

This coconut crab is more than half a meter bigger than a basin, some food programs coconut crab is the top ingredient, is the world's most expensive and largest crab, can eat this delicious people are either rich or expensive, did not expect that there are coconut crabs on this small island, it is really a feast.

The coconut crab is very huge, it moves very slowly, the coconut crab as the name suggests in some sources that it mainly feeds on coconut, the coconut crab can easily break the coconut with its huge crab claws, and then eat the coconut water and coconut meat inside, so the coconut crab has a coconut flavor and is recognized as the top ingredient.

I took the coconut crab back to the hut and prepared to roast it on the fire, thinking about it was delicious, and when I got back to the hut, I immediately took out the lighter stick and made a fire, when I lit the fire, I looked back and found that the coconut crab in the bamboo basket was gone, and I thought that the delicious taste in my mouth would not be so good.

However, I immediately realized that I must not have been able to escape far with the speed of the coconut crab, and I found the coconut crab crawling slowly outside the hut I came to.

I was very happy to see the slow coconut crab, and I couldn't help but say, "Look where you run, I'll roast you right away."

I was surprised when I said this, because it seemed like I hadn't spoken in a long time.

A word from the writer