Chapter Twenty-Five: My Island
I couldn't get tired, so I found a wooden stick to use as a crutch and started exploring along the coastline again.
There are some plastic bottles on the white sand, which can prove that there are people on the island, I quickened my pace and thought in my heart, if I meet people, how to say hello, they must not be Chinese, but should not meet cannibals, I can't help but laugh when I think of this.
But after walking for a long time, I still didn't see a person, and I thought that this must be the reason why the foreign country is vast and sparsely populated, so I insisted on continuing to walk in my rescued heart.
Suddenly, I noticed that there was a life raft in front of me, this life raft seemed very familiar, and when I saw this, I walked a few steps to the front to take a closer look, and this was not my life raft.
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I screamed hysterically, then grabbed the sand and hit the life raft frantically.
"Oh my god, are you fucking playing with me?"
I lay exhausted on the beach looking at the beat-up life raft and I wept, and the dignified seven-foot man slipped into tears of despair.
God is really going to play tricks on people and give people hope just now, but in the blink of an eye, it disappoints you, at this moment for me, it is just out of purgatory and into hell, this big ups and downs are really unbearable.
I looked at the sunset with empty eyes, extremely lost in my heart, I really hope that all this is a dream, I hope that when I wake up, I am accompanying my wife and children in my own home, I have not talked about business with Zhang Mei, I have not gone to sea to be a chef at all, I have not encountered pirates at all, and I have not been in distress and drifting, all of this is a dream.
Thinking of this, I smiled bitterly in my heart, you fool is really daydreaming, all this really happened, it is impossible to change, you don't dream.
I know that all this has really become a fact, I am powerless to change, but I really can't face it, I rely on the life raft in my heart to die of all thoughts, now it is late at night on the seaside breeze, my heart is like the waves of the sea.
In the middle of the night, the starry sky is bright and the sea surface is not rippling, the bright starry sky is reflected on the sea, I feel that there is nothing around me on the isolated island, as if I am in the boundless and vast universe, I suddenly feel that there is no distraction in my heart, and the negative haze in my heart also dissipates, and a hope for survival arises spontaneously.
I thought to myself how other people would face me if they were in this situation, would they choose to give up?
The first thing I thought of was my friends, and I smiled quite confidently when I thought of this, because the people I thought of might have given up at the beginning, and they would not have persevered until now, they don't know how to survive in the wild at all, because they have been living in a worry-free environment, and the protection of steel and concrete, so that they have completely lost the ability to survive in adversity, and I have always thought that I have this ability.
At the same time, I also think of my idols, the most famous of which is of course Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist of Robinson Crusoe, who was shipwrecked at sea and drifted to an island, and lived for 27 years with his tenacious faith and wisdom, and Chuck in the movie "Desert Island" in which Chuck lived alone on an unnamed island after a plane crash for five years, and finally managed to escape and return to civilized society.
There are also those people who survived a lot of hardships after being in distress in reality, and by the way, there are also De Ye and Bei Ye in adventure shows, they are all my idols, and I once fantasized that one day I would stage a wilderness survival drama like them.
Thinking of this, I asked myself, isn't this here and now an opportunity, as the saying goes, there will be a blessing after the catastrophe, drifting on the sea for more than a month, I thought I would be buried in the sea, but I didn't expect that in despair, fate sent me to this island, it can be said that the sky is the endless road, maybe this is God's test for me, as a man I should face the challenge, because on the other side of the ocean there is my beloved family, for them I also want to live.
When I think of this, my heart is not lost and gloomy, but full of hope and energy, thinking that tomorrow I will explore this small island.
Early in the morning I drank four more coconuts and ate some coconut meat, then checked how many useful resources were left in the life raft.
Two rocket flares, six smoke flares, in fact, these things have only been used once at sea, and there are so many left, but they are of little use to my survival in the future, but they must be kept to be the best thing to call for help if a ship passes by.
Dry food and water were gone yesterday, and there were two thermal suits that could not be used, this is a tropical island without worrying about freezing to death in the cold, and thermal clothing is not a daily clothes that can hardly be used.
There is also a rope of a few tens of meters that is not used for anything, but it should be used in the future, and there is almost nothing to use for the rest, and the most useful thing for me is a sailor knife and my lighter stick, and some fishing lines and hooks, which I am very happy because I don't have to worry about the fire.
Before leaving, I put coconut meat on all four hooks as bait, found a suitable spot, threw it into the seawater and fixed it, hoping that a fish would be hooked soon.
After packing up some supplies, and then taking a sailor knife and a lighter, I started exploring the island, hoping to find fresh water first, because survival in the wild no matter where it is, fresh water is the first thing.
I explored the depths of the island, and the vegetation on the island was not very lush, but it was not very sparse, and there were many obvious tropical plants that I could not name, but I did not know what species they were.
But I still know a few, such as the coconut tree that is found all over the island, which is the most useful tree species on the island, and he can provide me with the maximum amount of fresh water.
The island is full of palm trees, unknown shrubs, and some bamboo, which is a good building material.
The most surprising thing for me was that I found some papaya trees, although they were not as productive as artificially planted, but they could also solve my food crisis, so that I had fruits to eat, obviously some of the papayas were ripe, I picked two, and they tasted quite good.
But to my disappointment, I didn't find a water source, the whole island has no fresh water at all because it's too small, according to my measurements, the widest part of the island is about 450 meters, the longest point is about 800 meters, and the highest point is only six or seven meters, such an island is not easy to find at sea, because it is so small and low, the height of the waves will drown it out of sight, unless it is close enough, no one will find this island.