Chapter 4 The Blonde Youth by the Fire

Arriving at the bamboo forest, Stern took out the axe from the space ring and began to chop the bamboo, about 30 bamboos in a row, removing the branches and the top, leaving the trunk of uniform thickness, and then went to the mountain to cut some soft rattan, and then moved these cut materials to the seaside, and used rattan to connect the bamboo, a simple bamboo raft more than two meters wide and four or five meters long was done. It took half a day to do this, and I rested a few times on the way, this body is still too weak, and it needs to be strengthened, and he can do it in two hours if he is the one he used to do. Stern put all the things in the space ring on the beach, except for a bundle of hemp rope and a few sacks, and when he got on the boat, he could also use the space ring to hold some more valuable things. He hastily ate some dried cassava with fresh water, then took off his coat, picked up a bamboo pole of moderate length as an oar, dragged the bamboo raft to the sea, climbed onto the bamboo raft and slowly rowed towards the big boat.

There are signs of high tide on the sea today, and the sea breeze is getting stronger again, and the waves are wave after wave. Stern rowed slowly on the bamboo pole with difficulty, and when he came to the side of the big boat, he took out the hemp rope he brought and fixed one end to the bamboo raft, and then jumped off the bamboo raft, climbed onto the boat, and fixed the other end to the mast. There was more water in the cabin, and he found an unusually strong rubber rope on the ship, and collected all the quilts and clothes in the three rooms into a bundle and pulled them to the deck, as well as a few pairs of boots, and a jar of salt that he put into the space ring. Drilling into the cabin again, he found more than 100 gold coins, which were presumably from several other people. The bodies of those people were still on the beach yesterday morning, and they were swept into the sea by the wind in the afternoon, and Stern didn't pay much attention to it, and put all the gold coins he collected and his own more than 500 gold coins into the space ring, maybe one day he would have the opportunity to leave the island and still be able to use it. He also found two compasses and put them in them, which were necessary for sailing and would be used later when he began to explore the island. In the warehouse, he found a bag of things that would be essential for his later life on the island - flint. With flint to make a fire and eat hot food, he put the flint into the space ring, went to his room and filled the rest of the rum to fill the ring, and the other two boxes of dry bread and oatmeal biscuits had been soaked in the sea water and made it inedible. There were also some iron basins, shovels, shovels and buckets, wooden bowls, etc., which would be used in the future, all of which were packed into the sacks brought with them and carried outside the cabin.

A large piece of canvas hung from the mast outside the cabin whirring in the fierce sea breeze, and Stern lowered the canvas and rolled it up into a ball, a canvas that was large enough to be useful when brought to the island. So far, the harvest has been good, and with these tools, it will not be difficult to get along on an uninhabited island. But there was another thing that worried him was that he had searched through the entire cabin and could not find anything to eat, and it was all soaked in the sea. The remaining dried cassava is only enough for him to last less than 10 days, and the fresh water is only two small buckets on the beach, which is estimated to last half a month, and he must find food and fresh water sources on the island within 10 days. The wind was getting stronger, and the ship began to shake slightly, and he had to leave the ship and return to the island in order to prevent what had happened yesterday from happening to him again. He carefully threw the things on the bamboo raft, untied the hemp rope fixed on the mast, jumped onto the bamboo raft, and returned to the island with the impact of the waves.

The things that were removed from the boat were placed far away from the sea, and the wind continued to rise, and soon after returning to the island, the sea was once again stormy. Stern put on his clothes and walked up the hillside, and was not startled to see the spectacular scene on the sea, the waves more than ten meters high washed the big boat towards the shore for dozens of meters, and when the tide receded, the big boat was swept back. After a few round-trips, the big ship was ruthlessly destroyed by the stormy waves, Stern saw that there were still many things on the ship that had not been moved down, of course, he was also glad to have returned to the shore in time, if he was trapped on the ship, then the hope of survival was very slim.

The wind was still blowing, Stern picked up his axe and climbed over the hillside towards the forest opposite, it was already close to evening, and it would be dark in a short time, and once it was dark, the temperature would drop a lot and he would be awakened several times last night, so he had to chop some firewood to keep warm. Stern came to the big tree where he slept last night, put down the chopped firewood, took some and piled them up, and then took out the flint from the spatial ring and lit the firewood, by this time it was completely dark. After a busy day, the things that were brought up were put on the beach on the other side of the hillside, and there would be no accidents when they were placed there, and there was probably no one else on this island but him. The whirring wind on the other side of the hill continued with the sound of the waves, and I don't know when it will stop, Stern was on the outskirts of the forest, the terrain was low, and there was a hillside blocking it, so there was no wind blowing at all, sitting next to the fire and roasting a warm campfire, and the whole body was warm.

It was Stern's second day on the island and the second day he came into the world. I have been running back and forth between the ship and the island for the past two days, and now that the ship is engulfed by the waves, I should think more about how to live on the island in the future. He took out some dried cassava from the space ring, and also took out a bottle of rum, fortunately these cans were not broken, pulled out the oak cork and approached the mouth of the can to smell it, it was so fragrant. A young man in his twenties was alone by the fire under a large tree, leisurely eating dried cassava and drinking rum, his golden hair glistening against the blazing fire.

Stern had thought of planting a few bamboos next to the fire, and then put the canvas on the bamboo to make a simple tent, and spend the night in the tent, but the canvas had to be picked up on the other side of the hill, and he was too lazy to move after a tiring day of drinking, and it was not safe to spend the night on the ground, so he had to find a place quickly, which would not be attacked by wild beasts, nor would it be exposed to wind and rain, so that he could sleep peacefully and store the pile of things on the beach. Stern climbed up the tree to spend the night in the tree, and he took out a thicker coat from his ring and put it over his body, by which time the fire under the tree had been extinguished, and the wind on the hillside was much quieter.