Volume 1 Chapter 6 The Bucket

It seems that it is qualified as a fixed water source, and the only problem is that the capacity needs to be further improved.

If I have time, I will expand it a little more, three or five plastic bottles are filled and my drinking and washing face has reduced the amount of water by half, so it can be seen that the capacity is still not enough!

In the long run, it needs at least 500 catties of capacity to ensure that there is no shortage of fresh water for ten consecutive days without rain, but my demand is relatively small in a short period of time, and these are all issues that need to be considered in the future.

After five days of observation, the situation on the island is basically clear, and the island is relatively safe for now.

Large beasts and poisonous snakes have not been found, and the living environment is generally mild, at least as long as you are diligent you should be able to ensure that you can survive, which is a good side!

On the downside, there are no animals on the island, and it may be a luxury to eat ordinary meat such as pigs, cows, and sheep.

I have seen sheep dung in the woods, but I have not seen sheep with my own eyes.

What I'm worried about is that if there are only one or two, it won't solve the problem at all, which is a very big challenge to food diversity and nutritional balance, and it may be difficult to achieve a combination of meat and vegetables for three meals a day in the future!

On the sixth day, I have been eating a lot of foods that were not common in my previous life for a few days on the island, and at the same time, due to the unhealthy eating habits and hygienic conditions due to the restrictions, my body has some negative effects!

In addition to stomach pain and retching, it was also accompanied by symptoms of diarrhea, which made people panic at first.

But fortunately, it didn't affect the outing, and it would be bad if you were bedridden......

After a hurried drink of a coconut, I once again embarked on a journey around the beach, and the fastest way to get resources is to pick up all kinds of marine debris on the beach.

His face and arms were smeared with a layer of mud again, and his head was woven with grass and leaves to shade the sun.

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Compared to the previous visit to the island, which was to check the situation on the island, the goal this time is much clearer.

The main thing is to look at the beach to find all kinds of garbage, and at the same time, all the garbage that can be picked up is picked up on the shore and put it in a pile every few hundred meters, so that after accumulating a certain amount, it will be burned again.

Burning garbage can not only protect the environment, but also let me know clearly that the next time the garbage on the beach is freshly floated, there will be no repeated pickup.

After five or six hours of running, even with the protection of sun protection, my skin was several degrees darker than before I went to the island!

The beautiful boy of the past no longer exists, now please call me Wu Heitan......

Today's harvest is quite good, three usable plastic bottles, one of which is a large bottle with a capacity of 5 catties, a drifting bottle (glass), and the most important thing is to find a rope with a diameter of two centimeters and a length of about 100 meters.

Although it cannot be eaten or drunk, there will be no shortage of rope for a long time to come, and the uses of rope are also very diverse.

However, the wet rope was so heavy that it took a lot of effort to drag it, so I had to leave it on the beach for the time being and let it continue to bask in the sun, and then collect it in two days after it had dried.

It was already after noon when I returned to the cave, and I hadn't eaten anything decent, plus my stomach was comfortable, and I only drank a coconut juice in a hurry before setting off in the morning, and the whole person looked even more listless!

I was worried that the reaction in my stomach would be worse if I ate mango and coconut again, so I grilled a slice of smoked fish from yesterday for lunch.

The fish without salt itself has no taste, and the strange smell after the smoky sun is infinitely magnified, and I almost vomited when I took a bite of the fish!

But even if it was unpalatable, I could only force myself to swallow it, thinking of the hardships when I went to the sea yesterday, I not only ate it, but also pinched my nose and ate all the fish.

Compared with the first bite, it has eased up after adaptation, but it can't save my evaluation of its unpalatableness, and now I think that I will often be accompanied by such food in the future, and the whole person is not good.

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The high temperature of more than 35 degrees has increased the amount of water intake, and the bottles of fresh water filled up the mountain yesterday were all exhausted in less than a day.

With such a fierce sun and hot weather, if it weren't for the survival crisis, I guess I would have hid in a shady place to cool off!

If everything had gone well, I would have returned to the company by now, sitting in the office blowing the air conditioner, not to mention living a comfortable life, but no matter how much it is a hundred times better than now!

Forget it, I'd better go fetch water honestly, and after thinking too much, the resentment came up again......

With the large plastic bottle and a few small bottles of water just got in the morning, the addition of large bottles can finally fill more, at least without saving drink, you can ensure the frequency of fetching water for more than a day.

A few plastic bottles of water are only enough to drink, and even drinking is very economical, otherwise you have to run two or three times a day to the well.

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There are only two-thirds of the water in the well, and I am basically at the bottom of the water when I fill a few bottles and wash my hair and face, so I am still very dissatisfied with the capacity of the well!

It happens to be a good place to escape the heat here, and while enjoying the coolness, I started to expand the well.

Compared to the laborious work of other tasks, this work can be said to be what I like more now, feeling a hint of coolness coming out of the well, and the whole body becomes happy!

It wasn't until it was getting dark that I stopped expanding the well, and this time I was finally able to reach the level of two buckets of water, about 100 catties, and only increased the capacity of one bucket of water for a few hours.

If there are metal tools, it can easily be expanded by three or five times in the same time, and the capacity of two buckets of water is still not enough, but the rice must be eaten one bite at a time, and it can only be slowly improved in the days to come!

On the way, I went to the mango tree to loot five mangoes and came back, and it would be a waste of the available resources if they were not used, and at the same time, food was relatively scarce for the past two days.

On the seventh day, the coconut and mango for several days in a row made the body have a negative impact and at the same time, the appetite also appeared disgusted, to put it bluntly, I was tired of eating.

In order to improve the food, it was just dawn, and I couldn't even see clearly when I walked in the woods, so I touched some coconut trees near them to look for coconut crabs.

After searching for the nearest few places, I found nothing, and in the blink of an eye, it was dawn, and when I thought that there was no harvest today, I found a greedy crab eating under a coconut tree more than ten minutes away.

Generally speaking, coconut crabs are diurnal and nocturnal animals, and they will nest in their holes during the day to rest, and their home is at night.

Unexpectedly, I found two guys who were bold enough one after another, and they got carried away with eating!

This time, the capture process is still the same as last time, fast and accurate, and it is still the ending of last time......

The difference is that today's coconut crab is slightly smaller, only three or four catties, and I am afraid that there is only less than one and a half catties of pure meat after removing various shells.

When the delicious crab meat unleashed its charm in my mouth again, my soul felt as if it was about to go out of my body, and the soft and tender crab meat was almost as good as lobster meat!

After a few days of evaluation, coconut crab should be the most delicious ingredient among all the food on the island, but it needs to get up early and at the same time, it is also a little unattainable.

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A full meal refreshed me and started the day again.

First of all, a small stove made of stones is used to jam the canning box, and a simple stove made of several stones is often boiled and overturned to the ground, which not only wastes food but also affects the mood.

In addition, the dry firewood stored in the cave has been burned out, and it has not rained for two or three days, so in order to prevent the embarrassment of not lighting the fire like the last rain, I collected some firewood around the area in case of emergency.

Busy hours always pass quickly, and in the afternoon I want to go into the sea again to catch some marine fish and make dried fish.

The high temperature allows the fresh fish to dry completely after only two or three days of drying, and although the dried fish is unpalatable, it can at least save my life when there is a lack of food!

Lower the net, close the net, a toss and exhaustion, but today's luck is obviously a little better than last time, a total of five fish were caught, the weight is about twelve or thirteen catties.

As I went ashore to return with my catch, my eyes swept the surface of the sea and I noticed something, a stainless steel bucket in the distance that was being swung and floated by the waves.

Although my body was a little tired, I was so sorry for not accepting this kind of good things that were sent to my door, so I didn't think too much about it, and after throwing the fish and net to the shore, I went straight into the sea and swam to the bucket!

Looking at the short distance from the shore, it is not so easy in the water, and you have to constantly change direction to move to its position as you swim. It wasn't until the distance of almost 200 meters offshore that I finally caught up, and the distance of swimming was probably 300 meters.

The moment I held the bucket made me extremely happy, but this joy did not last long, but I felt the signal of weakness from my body!

I just chased the bucket, but I didn't notice my physical state, and I had already consumed a lot of physical strength when fishing.

Seeing that my hands and feet are becoming more and more disobedient, my heart is already as anxious as an ant on a hot pot......

As I swam slowly towards the nearest beach, my brain was racing to think of ways to do it, because it would take another two or three minutes at most to hold on.

Even now, it can only be guaranteed to be unsinkable, so people have potential, and in a hurry, I poured out the water from the bucket and turned it upside down in the seawater, and then lay my whole upper body on top of it.

About half of the space at the bottom of the barrel will store air, which can provide buoyancy similar to a balloon before swimming to shore!

I did it!

I was able to go back to the shore again and sweat for myself, but I also felt afraid, and I almost gritted my teeth and insisted on being able to return to the shore.