In December, the problem of the wells became even more severe, and the amount of water dropped further, and even a heavy rain did not allow the wells to fill up and overflow!

If you compare the amount of water coming in today with the normal state before, then it used to be like a small stream, but now it can only be regarded as a small ditch, and the difference is huge.

The same rain that used to keep the well water overflowing for days is now not even full.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is not as good as the swimming pool, but the swimming pool can be maintained for three or five days after the rain, and the well is difficult to hold up for three or five days, and the problem is becoming more and more serious!

In order to prevent the water from flowing out of the well and completely failing, I started the second round of the search for water.

Even if I know that there is little hope, there is always hope before I have traveled every inch of the island, in case my character explodes!

In fact, it is not too complicated, almost every part of the island has been walked several times in a few years on the island, and the area that can be directly excluded without going again can account for more than half of the total area.

Therefore, the targets of the inspection are mainly those suspicious locations, especially some rock walls and shady places, where there is a high probability of traces of fresh water.

There is nothing to prepare, and I set off directly with great anticipation, the sooner this matter is resolved, the better, even if it can't be solved, you can abandon your illusions and seek a solution.

The search process went smoothly, and there were no injuries or other accidents, but the further back the search, the cooler the heart became.

It wasn't until the end of the week that I could tell from the look on my face that the situation was not optimistic, and I thought I was in big trouble!

The only places on the island where there is significant fresh water are wells, and there are only three other places where fresh water is possible, or where further digging is needed to determine what is going on, but I don't think it's very climatous.

The first is a puddle of paper-making foam, the second is a stone wall 500 meters away that has slow seepage of water, and the third is the taro field, which maintains a relatively moist soil all year round, and I feel that there may be groundwater.

There are certain possibilities in several places, and as for whether it can successfully produce fresh water in the end, it still needs to be excavated and cleaned before it can be verified!

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Without any further delay, my heart was so urgent that I felt like my eyebrows were burning, and in addition to taking care of my daily affairs, I gave priority to clearing the big pit of soaked bark.

Long-term observation has found that water is guaranteed in the puddle for most of the year, and I feel that there is a high probability of fresh water, and I estimate that there is more than 30% hope.

I don't dare to say too much, Sancheng is a considerable possibility that I predicted, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, the more things happened more than once or twice, and I was always slapped in the face quickly afterwards, so I can't say too much!

The area of the puddle is not small, at least four or five square meters, and there is still more than half a meter of water in it, not to mention silt.

I first scooped out all the water in the bucket and poured it out, and the silt inside was also cleaned out, the water was quite simple, the silt was really not a human thing, and it was like a mud man, not to mention, the silt was still stuck in the legs, and it was difficult to pull it out when you stood in!

But it doesn't matter, as long as there is fresh water, no matter how difficult it is, I have no complaints, but the reality is really so ruthless, after three days of cleaning and two days of deep digging, the results are very disappointing, there is no fresh water here.

Reasonable, but also unexpected, although I say three percent, in fact, my inner expectations are very high, however......

I think that it can maintain a certain amount of water for a long time, in addition to its location, which is the only depression within a few tens of meters nearby, and the surrounding vegetation is dense and not directly exposed to sunlight, and the evaporation rate of water is obviously slower than in other places.

One of the three places that took a lot of time to find was removed, and at the same time, the one with a higher probability and closer distance!

A few days of hard work is not completely in vain, at least after the rain the puddle will be filled with water again, when the time will be more convenient to soak the bark, when there is no water here to pump water filtration is also an option, it is better than running to the beach to fetch water.

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The distance of the second place is relatively far, and its location is not very good, the road in the past is rugged and difficult, I have a resistance mentality, if you want to draw water in a place 500 meters away for a long time in the future, it is really not very convenient.

But the reality does not give me the conditions to pick and choose, if I don't do it hard, I can only face a lack of water, and delay a lot of time for water!

The water seeping out here was not obvious, and the flow rate was so slow that it was difficult to seep out a bottle of water in a day, so I had to spend time enlarging it like an expanding well, hoping that there would be a gap in it similar to the one in the current well.

Recently, the focus of the work has shifted almost entirely to finding water, and there is no time to even mow the grass for the sheep, but fortunately the greens have almost grown, otherwise the sheep may not have enough to eat every day.

In the next three days, I drilled a well directly at the location of the water seepage, and the material here is similar to the material of the current well, which is relatively hard stone wall, so the progress is not satisfactory.

But it is enough to verify the situation of fresh water here, and it takes three days to chisel into the mountain wall for one meter, but the amount of water is the same as the amount of water on the outside, and there is no obvious increase, not to mention that the rain is sufficient in the past few days.

This situation is very desperate, no matter how deep I go into it, it is useless, maybe it only has such a large amount of traffic in it, or it is just a small fork in the mainstream.

I don't know how deep it is, and I don't know where the water is going unless I have the determination to cut through the mountain wall, but that's obviously impossible!

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The only hope left is the taro field, and if there is still none, then I can only beg God's mercy to restore the well to its original state!

The taro field is farther away from home, and it will be more troublesome to take it home if there is water, but I don't have a choice, everything depends on the outcome.

The excavation work was relatively easy, much easier than the previous one, which was chiseled with a chisel axe, but a large pit more than two meters deep was dug in two days, but there was no muddy water gathering at the bottom, just a little muddy feeling.

I didn't dig any further, and I was worried that I would fall into the pit and not be able to climb up, so I could only check whether there would be stagnant water in it after two days.

In fact, I was very worried, after all, this is my last hope, if it is the same result as the previous two, I think I will go crazy!

I was nervous for two days, and on the third day I was going to check the situation at the puddle that I had dug out, and I couldn't tell what the mood was, maybe similar to the feeling of checking how many points I had scored after the exam, worry and panic were the two main mentalities.

With this mentality, the journey is very complicated, and the mind is predicting various outcomes until you reach your destination.

I want to cry......

The amount of water in the puddle can only hold half a bucket of water, which is still accumulated in two days, which is a drop in the bucket for me, who normally needs several buckets of water a day!

All three hopes were shattered, and more than half a month before and after had to come to the bamboo basket to draw water, and my mind became blank at this moment!

Even though I had expected this to happen at the beginning, it was still hard to accept that the well water would shrink further or even dry up.

Heaven is going to kill me, what can I do?

Actually, I can't, at least lately, I haven't found a way to deal with it, so I can only drink filtered water or collect steam when I'm short of water!

Fortunately, a rain can ensure that I can barely have water for three or five days, but it is more troublesome to collect and filter, and the weather is quite smooth this season, and I have not experienced a long period of drought.

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In January, after the last crocodile hunt, I was originally going to wash my hands and stop hunting before the New Year, but recently because of the problem of fresh water, I have a headache, and I urgently need a target to divert the anger in my heart, otherwise it will be very uncomfortable to hold it in my heart.

The crocodile was chosen for this target, and only by fighting it could I forget about the other unpleasantness, so it was also a disaster!

If the crocodile could speak, it would definitely pull me to complain about how miserable I was, not only was I going to be hunted for nothing, but I also found it to release my anger.

And all I can say is, sorry, only the earthquake......

It was the earthquake that brought us closer from two places that had no intersection at all to an island, and our very nature dictated that it was either you or I died!

The weapons and equipment that have not been used for a month or two have grown a lot of rust, and it is inevitable that they need to be polished before departure, and only arrows can enjoy the treatment of not rusting.

Iron tools rust and need to be re-polished every time they are used, which is very troublesome but there is nothing to be done, which is a problem that I can't solve!

The next day, I set out again with my freshly sharpened weapon and full of rage to look for the crocodile, and now it is the season to make bacon, if I can hunt a crocodile to make serious bacon, I believe it will be delicious!

The wells are becoming more and more of a threat to me, and I have some ideas for an ultimate solution, but this will require the priority of removing all the crocodiles from the island, as this solution requires going to sea.

As more and more crocodiles were killed, there was no longer the tension at the beginning, and there was even a strong expectation for the next battle.

I feel that the bestiality in my body is becoming more and more obvious after living on the island for a few years, and I like to use violent means to solve things when I do things, and I no longer resist blood and killing.

As a modern civilized person, this is a bit difficult for me to accept, and I don't know when I started to develop in this direction.

But I don't think I'm wrong, civilization and reason can only be applied in a modern society, and if we implement this kind of thinking in a primitive environment, we can only put ourselves in danger and cause unbearable consequences!

When you encounter a wild beast, you have to behave more like a wild beast than it, and only if you are more ferocious than it can you survive, as evidenced by the crocodile you killed.