Volume 1 Chapter 2 Overnight in a cave
But now I can't care about so much, and surviving is the first priority.
After walking along the beach for a while and not finding any serious danger, I broke off a branch more than a meter long and about three centimeters in diameter at the edge of the woods to give myself courage, and then slowly explored the woods above.
The beach is empty, but it's not a good place to camp, and if you want to find a good place to live, you have to look for it in the woods.
Fortunately, the island's forests are not as gloomy as primeval forests, with relatively few weeds on the ground covered in leaves, and many dead trees that have been blown down by the typhoon have fallen to the ground.
There are many places where the sun shines in, and some open areas are not too scary.
But the fear of the unknown is human nature, and even I, a child who grew up playing crazy in the countryside, was so nervous that I was sweating profusely after walking in the woods for a while!
After a few minutes of rest in the open area, the exploration continued, and the weeds in the woods were not so dense that they could not be lowered by foot as the islands they had seen on TV before, but half of the area was very sparse.
Where there is grass, sweep it with a wooden stick before walking to ensure safety, and if you are bitten by a poisonous snake here, you will have to wait for death!
Fortunately, the poisonous snakes and fierce beasts that I was most worried about had not yet been discovered, which eased my heart a little.
It's just that the higher temperature is uncomfortable, it's hard to be exposed to direct sunlight on the beach, but it's also uncomfortable in the woods because of the sultry heat caused by air circulation, but it's not the same as uncomfortable!
Walking in the woods with only socks on my feet was quite dangerous, and I had already scratched two wounds, but there was nothing I could do.
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After about two hours, I finally saw a small cave with a natural depression on a small hill wall, about one meter and a half above the ground, with an area of about one square meter, but it was not very regular.
It is about a kilometer away from the shore, and it is only less than 200 meters away from the nearest seashore, and there is a fairly flat land of dozens of square meters on the outside of the cave.
The trees in the open space are relatively sparse, and when tools are made to cut down these trees, it is still a good place to move.
This location can't be said to be very good, but living in a cave more than one meter high, and at the same time there is a space for dozens of square meters of activities outside, it is a good choice!
Seeing that the sky is white, it is not far from getting dark, and in the absence of a better choice, it seems that I can only spend the night in this cave tonight!
Due to the height of the cave, I had to find a few rocks to cushion directly under the cave before climbing in.
First of all, the first feeling is that the space in the cave is very small, and it is very difficult to even sit, and it is estimated that if you sit directly in it for a night, you will definitely have back pain when you get up tomorrow morning......
When you fall asleep, you may fall directly from the outside and fall to the ground, which is also very dangerous if you hit your head first if you are more than one meter high.
For this reason, I decided to use a wooden stick to trim the shape of the cave first, so that the inside could at least be regularized and smooth.
Happily, the walls of the cave are made of earth, and the soil is not too hard due to weathering, so if it is made of rocks, it will probably have to be found elsewhere.
After two hours of digging and sweating profusely, I finally expanded the area inside to be able to sit normally, and the ground was basically flat.
I stopped and continued to waste my energy, at this time I always had to save as much energy as possible, not only in terms of food, but also in case of sudden danger by maintaining sufficient energy!
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I drank only a few coconuts for the whole day, and I didn't eat anything, and I was already hungry with my chest and back, but it would be completely dark in half an hour at most, and it was obviously not practical to go out and look for food, and it seemed that I would have to survive tonight.
It was obviously a luxury to make a fire without firewood, but for the time being it didn't matter, because I had nothing to bake and feared that the light of the fire would attract wild beasts!
In the last moments before dark, I found some dried leaves to cushion the floor of the cave, which at least made sure that it was softer to sit down and that it absorbed less moisture.
The only bread in the bag under the hunger really can't be kept, so I can only take it out first to cushion the cushion and solve the crisis tonight.
I still don't want to drink milk, because I feel that it is not yet time to need it more, so I must leave a little last resort!
Although a loaf of bread did not make people full, it finally suppressed the hunger, and the day's encounters can be regarded as ups and downs, and I was already exhausted.
As soon as it was dark I was ready to go to bed, but I didn't expect to fall asleep quickly, but the sound of the wind in the woods and some strange cries filled my ears, and I woke up again after a while.
After getting used to living in the city, it must be torture to sleep in the wild, all kinds of noises come and go, and the key posture of sitting in a cave also greatly affects the sleep experience.
I woke up in the morning with a pair of dark circles under my eyes, and I didn't sleep well after a night of worry, but fortunately the weather in mid-August was above 20 degrees even at night.
If you spend the night in a cave without any warmth in winter, even if you don't die, you will probably have to lose half your life!
When the sky was slightly brighter, I went down to the ground, first found some dead branches and leaves, and started a small fire, which was a great consolation that the lighter was not broken, otherwise the living conditions would have been even worse.
The clothes I was wearing had been dried out yesterday in the heat and my body temperature, but the clothes and notebook in my bag were still damp, so I baked them by the fire and waited for the sun to come out for a while before putting them in a place where they could get the sun.
The stomach problem has not been solved, and the hunger of last night's bread has come out again after a night of digestion, and when I look around, I find that there is a coconut tree not far away.
The almighty coconut is simply my savior, in the absence of other food, I can only think of picking up two coconuts and coming back to save the emergency, if there is no coconut, I don't know how to mix it up for the past two days.
I took yesterday's stick and headed for the coconut tree again, and I didn't rejoice in my heart, it was a good thing to have coconuts, but I didn't find any other food, so it was a little troublesome.
But what people didn't expect was that when I got to the coconut tree twenty or thirty meters away, I saw a black thing bigger than a basin next to a coconut under the tree, and it looked very ugly with teeth and claws!
I wasn't shocked, in fact, there were some guesses about seeing this shape, and my curiosity made me slowly bend down to get closer to it, and as expected, I found that it was a large crab, that is, a coconut crab.
It's a joy to see it, just grab it and not only solve the breakfast problem, but even the whole day's food is enough!
Holding a stick, I quietly touched it, the process was not thrilling, maybe it was not vigilant because no one had ever existed on the island, and I kept getting closer to it without noticing, but kept feasting.
Its reaction set the stage for the success of the operation, and when it was still four or five meters away, I lunged up and struck it with a stick.
I was so decisive that it was a ghost before it even reacted, and things went so smoothly that it was beyond imagination!
Looking at the open coconut crab from a distance, it is very large, but after it is closed, it will be much smaller, and the feeling of lifting it in the hand should be about five or six catties, which is more than enough to solve today's food problem!
While carrying the crab, I picked up a few coconuts as a drink, and after a short time of leaving, the fire continued to burn, and while throwing two more firewood into the fire, I threw the crab's two large tongs into the fire.
After a minute or two, the grease in the shell was bubbling out, and I was in no mood to do anything else, so I waited quietly by the fire for it to cook.
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After five minutes, I felt that it was almost there, and I hurriedly pulled the crab claws out of the fire with a wooden stick, although the temperature was still very hot, I couldn't care about it so much, and the rich fragrance made my mouth water.
The taste of the natural ingredients itself is very pure, and the extreme taste of crab meat is so big that people can almost swallow it with their tongue for a while!
With a coconut, the two crabs were almost eighty percent full, and I felt full of strength, even if there was a cow in front of me!
Of course, this is overthinking......
The current situation of poverty and whiteness does not allow speculation here, and there are countless difficulties and obstacles waiting to be solved.
After a full meal, I was able to recover my strength to the fullest, and in the morning I was still going to explore the woods, I wanted to see if there was a better place to stay, and last night's cave was still not satisfactory.
Remembering my present position, I took my stick and walked towards the distant woods, but trembling and sweating profusely wandered through the woods all morning, and found something else in a suitable place to live.
Among them is a puddle with an area of three or four square meters, but the water in it is not very clean and cannot be drunk directly, but it should be fine after filtering it for emergencies, and a few wild vegetables and herbs were found.
They may be helpful to me in the future, but they are of little use for the time being, I just remember the location and do not touch them, and the wild vegetables cooked over the fire are really not interesting.
Another big bonus was seeing a group of pheasant-like animals, but I didn't see them too clearly, maybe just seabirds, but that's not something that can be solved right now!
What can be called harvest is to find a few cassava, dig out one of them to get a long strip of fruit of about three or four catties of size, which can be regarded as an unexpected joy.
At this time, you can't be a little picky, any food determines life and death, not to mention that the taste of cassava is similar to that of sweet potatoes, and the taste is very good.
Walking in the woods was highly stressful, so in order to make it easier to go back, I went down to the beach and walked back along the beach, which was not only safer, but also much shorter!
Happily, two plastic bottles were picked up on the beach, and the container for temporarily holding water was solved.