Volume 2 Chapter 121 Exploring a New Island (5)
There is a medicine that can professionally treat trauma, which is a blessing for adventurers like me!
As with all the crops found before, all the weeds and vines around it have been cleared and marked with a very visible mark to collect the seeds over time.
It's too early to be happy, only when the seeds are harvested into your bag can you be completely assured, otherwise if a strong wind blows it off directly one day, it can only be happy in vain in the end!
While I was still overjoyed to find the thistle, another surprise followed, and on the afternoon of the sixth day, there were traces of fresh water!
The height of this area is basically more than 100 meters, and it is indeed a place where there may be fresh water, but I didn't expect the process to go so smoothly, and I couldn't believe it.
It is about 30 meters above the sea, and it is also a small cave, and water flows slowly out of the cracks in it, and I almost jumped up at the first sight of it, and the water problem has finally progressed!
Now I just want to sing a song to express my heart, which is more joyful than finding carrots and thistles, after all, this is the ultimate goal of going to the island!
In fact, I didn't be happy for long, I experienced many disappointments that made me quickly calm down, there is a saying that "laugh at the end to laugh better", before the result is determined, it is likely to be as happy as before.
So the first thing to do is to check the speed of the water flow and the topography here, and whether there is any possibility of digging and expanding into a well.
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After five minutes, it was concluded that there was nothing wrong with the terrain, and that it should not be difficult to expand the capacity of the well on the main island, but the water flow was smaller than I had imagined, especially when I looked closely, and it was only possible to make a drop in two or three seconds.
In order to give a good estimate of its capabilities, I began to use my weapon to widen the gap in the water flow, hoping for a larger flow of water, but the result did not improve significantly, and the flow rate remained the same as before.
From the bottom of my heart, I am a little disappointed, the weather has been normal recently, and the water is at a normal level, and if the water volume cannot be increased, it will be difficult to maintain the domestic water supply!
At its current rate, it may only provide one to one and a half barrels of water a day, and it may not be available when the temperature is high.
Looking at my situation, I need at least two or three buckets of water a day to live a very frugal life, and if you count the washing of pots and pans and bath water, it is difficult to stop five buckets of water a day.
So after marking it and digging out a puddle that could hold ten pounds of water, I didn't delay here, at least until I had walked through all the size of the island, and I wasn't going to spend time enlarging it.
My idea is that if there is no other source of water on the island, there is no other choice but to decide its fate.
Of course, it can also be said that it is my fate, and in the end, I will choose to maintain the status quo or relocate because of the abundance of water!
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The longer I stay here, the more I feel like I am, even if there are unknown areas in the woods that I haven't walked before, I don't feel as daunted as I did at the beginning, but I get more and more excited.
That's right, it's excitement, the area of the island is only nearly half of the area was inspected, and two very valuable plants were found, and a water source was discovered, and the remaining half of the area didn't know what surprises were waiting for me, which made people unconsciously increase their speed.
On the seventh day there was no harvest, and the only thing that could be called a few coconuts and a reduction of an area to be identified.
On the eighth day, there was another important discovery, this original operation was only to solve the problem of fresh water, but now there is a sense of treasure exploration, if you are not still looking for fresh water, it is contrary to the original intention!
This time it was a fruit --- grapes!
There was more than one grape plant, but three of them, each of which climbed up like vines climbing the wall, and Teng climbed up two trees with many branches.
It really looks very inconspicuous, if it weren't for the fact that the leaves are a bit similar to the grapes in my memory, and there are small grape grains the size of peas, I guess I will miss it.
Of course, in the end, I was lucky, and with a strong curiosity, it was inevitable that I would find it!
It can be said that this is a very important crop for me, and recently I have been finding a variety of plants that have a great impact on me, and it has been a little numb for a while.
One surprise is called a surprise, and two surprises are also surprises, but there are too many surprises to get used to it, but it is not so exciting at first!
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If I were to occasionally walk through the woods on the island and find grapes, I would be so happy that I couldn't sleep for several nights on end, because grapes are not just a fruit, but a material for making something more important.
This is --- wine, and grapes can make wine, which is part of the red wine that we see every day.
My saliva is about to flow out when I think of this, because it is not only a wine but also a nutritious drink, and drinking it in moderation can play a role in stimulating the nerves and improving muscle tone.
It's hard to say what kind of delicacy it is, but for someone who used to drink a lot and didn't drink it for years, seeing it is like seeing a big table of food after two or three days of hunger.
So I have to rely on their seeds to grow more vines, to carry forward the grapes on this island, and to make wine to enrich my life.
Unfortunately, the grapes are not ripe yet, and it will take at least two months or so to be picked, and although I can't wait to drink the wine soon, I can't do anything about it, so I can only wait slowly, although it is an ordeal.
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On the ninth day, there was no trace of water, and no valuable plants were found, but I found that there was a good flat land in the front of the middle of the island, and although it was overgrown with various trees, it would be a good place to remove the trees if we were to move in the future.
First, the terrain is flat, and secondly, it is not far from the location where the fresh water was found two days ago, the distance of two hundred meters is instantaneous, and the drop from the sea surface is also forty or fifty meters, so there is no need to worry about the threat of crocodiles.
Overall, I'm fairly happy with what the island has found out so far, the only thing missing is water, and if there is no more suitable water source, I probably won't be here.
Even if the abacus is playing well now, the most attractive thing for me is still fresh water, and when the time comes, come and collect the seeds of several crops that have been found!
The exploration was canceled for the next three days due to meteorological reasons, and it was not until the fourth day that we continued to set off, which was also the tenth day on the island, but unfortunately I didn't even find anything for the next two days.
On the thirteenth day, there was a major discovery again, and I saw a large bamboo forest in front of me, and the material that I had been thinking about when I was making the basket was finally found, and it was such a large area!
The fifteenth Emperor lived up to his wishes, and I finally found traces of fresh water again in the middle and rear of the island, and as I walked on a hillside, I gradually heard the sound of water dripping.
Of course, this discovery made me stop my movements and listen attentively, and found that it was not a hallucination, but the sound of real water droplets, and when I approached the area, I saw that there was a stream of water that had wet an area two or three meters wide from top to bottom.
Seeing this, I first used a long knife and a dagger to dig a small pit in the soil, and as expected, as the amount of water slowly increased, the small pit overflowed in two or three minutes.
This proves that the mountain spring water here is very abundant, several times richer than the well that was used for several years before!
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Ignoring nothing else, I began to continue up the dripping mountain break, which should be my future source of water.
Almost 20 meters upward, the ground was a little slippery and not easy to walk, but my enthusiasm was unprecedentedly high, and I even had the urge to cry!
Finally, I found fresh water again, and it was still a vibrant water source, with a spring water the thickness of chopsticks gushing out of the cracks in the rocks, clear and sweet, and evocative......
I haven't taken a serious bath for a long time, and I stood next to me and took a bath, which was refreshing!
The only trouble is that the location is not very good, the height is almost at the waist of the highest peak, the vertical height from the sea should be about 70 meters, the steep terrain makes it a problem to get water, at least you need to cut down some trees to build a road out.
There is no difficulty in digging a well, this is also a mountain wall, and I don't think it's a big problem to dig into it one or two meters to build a well with a capacity of thirty or forty barrels, after all, the tools for digging are ready-made, but I didn't bring them.
It's unbelievable that the problem of fresh water has been solved in this way, but the reality is right in front of you, and there is no illusion that you can drink clear spring water when you open your mouth!
The island is rich in materials and is relatively satisfactory in all aspects, at least from the current state, except for spending a lot of time as a lumberjack and clearing the wasteland, it is better than the island in other aspects.
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In fact, the task of exploring the island here can be said to be over at this time, but I didn't, there is less than a tenth of the area left to be investigated, and if I don't go through the whole island, my heart is still unsteady!
This kind of unsteadiness not only has the greed to want new crops, but also the anxiety about the unknown, in case the luck is too bad, there happens to be a beast activity in this area, and it will be too late to regret it when you move up......
Sure enough, the next day I found dozens of rubber trees in the woods, and although it did not produce edible fruits, rubber had various practical values, and natural rubber had a wide range of uses, even in such a primitive life.
The results of the last day were also quite good, and my decision could not have been more correct, and if I had found a source of water and simply abandoned the exploration of this last small area, the crop would have been completely abandoned.
This time I found a few spinach plants, and for me, who had been tired of eating greens for a long time, a new leafy green vegetable could save me from the sea of misery!
Without hesitation, I dug up a few spinach plants and prepared to take them back to the island for transplantation.
It's better to let it grow here, but the tail area of the island is relatively large, and even if you make your own mark, you probably won't be able to find it next time, so in order to prevent separation is goodbye, you can only dig it back carefully!