Chapter Twenty-Eight: Drifting Garbage

There was a black object floating on the sea, the preliminary judgment was a black plastic bag, no matter what it was, as long as it could be used, it must not be let go, I threw down the paddle in my hand and got up to fish for the floating plastic bag, because the plastic bag was not far from the shore, I did not have much effort to pull it ashore.

I hurriedly opened it and a foul smell came to my nose, it looked like it was a garbage bag, it must have been the work of the cook of the unqualified fishing boat or merchant ship, but the fact that I could float here was proof that there were boats passing by.

So I looked out to sea full of hope, but there was still a vast sea in front of me, and there was not even a shadow of the ship, and I was used to being disappointed and didn't care if the ship actually appeared.

I looked at this garbage bag can be more than a meter long, it should be the largest kind, it is also a kind of luck to float here, I don't know what is inside, I grabbed the bottom of the garbage bag and lifted it hard, and all the garbage in it came out at once.

First of all, there was a very strong stench and I couldn't open my eyes, I hurried away to let the garbage smell first, and when the smell was almost gone, I took a wooden stick and began to rummage through the garbage to see if there was anything that could be used.

The most of the garbage is cans, most of the beer can also have Coke cans, about fifty of them, some tin cans, a shirt full of oil, two broken porcelain plates, a few glass bottles of spices, and the rest is rotten food waste and some very dirty plastic bags, I left the cans and the remaining garbage that could be used, I dug a pit and buried them all so as not to pollute the island.

When burying the garbage, I was pleasantly surprised to find that there seemed to be no flies on this island, because the garbage is very smelly, the area of this island is less than half a square kilometer, if there were flies would have flown over the smell, as for why there are no flies, it is very likely that this island is very far from the land, and flies can't fly, which can also prove that no one has ever come to this island to bring flies here, or that no one will come here, no boat will pass by, and I may be trapped here forever.

Whether or not to be trapped on this island forever is not something I should think about now, what I should do now is to do everything possible to survive on this isolated island, and the rest is not in consideration.

I found my work efficiency to be very low, finishing the two columns and two beams of the hut in a whole day, and injuring my left foot while collecting wood, but I didn't worry about the speed of the work, I had plenty of time anyway.

Another harvest today is the body blood shirt found in the garbage bag, although it is very dirty but I washed it many times with sea water, and now it has been dried, because there are some salt stains on the blood shirt without fresh water, it is a little uncomfortable to wear, but the jeans and body blood shirt make me look more like a person in a civilized society, and it is a little cold at night here, and it feels warmer when I wear clothes.

The next day my foot injury was not very painful, and I was much more relaxed in my movements, and after eating some coconut meat, I carried back the wood I sawed yesterday and continued to build the hut.

The hut still had two main beams and some beams left to be finished, so I cut the rope of the lifeline into sections to tie the wood, and two hours later the main body of the hut was finished.

The structure of the hut is two meters high in the front and 1.5 meters in height and two meters in width each, in fact, it is a shed without walls, the roof is composed of several beams, I also cut the tarp of the life raft and spread it on the roof of the shed, and tied it with a rope so that it can prevent rain, but for the sake of insurance, I cut some palm leaves, and then split the palm leaves from the middle, weave them into a piece, and finally put them on the roof from the bottom up and fix them with sticks, and a simple hut is completed.

Looking at the hut I have a sense of accomplishment, on the desert island this hut symbolizes civilization, which means that the wild land has been conquered by civilization, and the person who brought civilization is me, this island does not belong to anyone or any country, I found it and conquered it, so this island belongs to me Guan Wang.

It was another sunny morning, and I carved a straight letter into a coconut tree on the left side of the hut, and I had been on the desert island for five days.

I don't know why I feel very dry, but the strange thing is that I don't feel thirsty, just a simple dry mouth, I think it should be caused by me only drinking coconut water for many days without drinking pure fresh water, and the food is shellfish and coconut meat for several days in a row The body has begun to feel a little unwell, there is a slight diarrhea, there is no fresh water supply for a long time, the body is out of balance, I have to replenish pure fresh water, just drinking coconut water is not enough, but this small island has no fresh water 100%, looking at the weather seems to have no rain for a short timeใ€‚

The original plan was to build a bed in the hut, but it seemed that it had to be postponed, and now the problem of fresh water had to be solved first.

First of all, I used the leftover rainproof cloth to form a pocket cloth, and used two bamboo poles to hang it on the back eaves of the hut to fix it

A U-shaped cloth trough is ready, and as long as it rains, I can use the roof to collect rainwater.

I picked up some larger shells and straightened them in the open air, so that if it rained, they could collect rainwater directly.

However, these are all devices that can only be effective when it rains, and I still haven't solved the urgent need for fresh water.

But I'm a smart person, and I remember that in the wilderness survival show, someone used plastic sheeting to collect fresh water.

I first dug a one-meter-diameter pit in the beach, then washed the garbage bags that had drifted yesterday, wiped them with coconut water to remove the salt, and then put a canned food box in the center of the pit, which of course was also found in the garbage that had drifted yesterday. Then spread the plastic sheet on the pit and fix it with sand, and finally put a small handful of sand in the center of the plastic sheet, so that a depression is formed, and now wait for the water vapor to evaporate and condense into water.