Volume 1 Chapter 9 The Knife

With it sandwiched between two layers of soles, it is difficult to hurt the soles of my feet even if the spikes of various thorny vines fall on the ground and are stepped on by me.

In the future, I can finally walk like a normal swagger!

The production method of the two shoes does not seem complicated, but by the time the shoes are finished, it will be completely dark, and at this time in the next few days, I have already eaten dinner and sat down in the cave, and I began to recall the past and imagine how to deal with the crisis that followed.

But the hard work was worth it, and when they were worn on my feet, I felt the comfort I hadn't felt for a long time, and it was worth the few hours of forgetting to sleep and eat!

The main task of the tenth day is to finish the unfinished work of yesterday, bring a wooden stick for self-defense, smear the face and exposed skin with wet mud, and then carry the backpack on his back for another tour of the island.

Compared with the previous two island tours, this time a big improvement is the drinking water, you can bring two bottles of fresh water to quench your thirst on the road before departure.

The first two times basically didn't have this kind of treatment, and my mouth was dry all the way!

The weather was still as violent as usual, and I wanted to go back to the cave again to cool off, but I just thought about the current state of existence, and this thought was just a thought, at least for a short time, there were no conditions that could make me willful!

In the first hour or so, except for some garbage that could not be used, I basically didn't find anything, only the magnificence of the sea and the occasional seabird flying in the sky presented a beautiful sea scenery in front of my eyes, which made people obsessed......

As I walked forward, I burned the garbage that had accumulated on the first two piles, and in order to save the amount of gas for the only lighter, I kept borrowing the fire to ignite all the piles.

Halfway through the journey, I saw the wreck of a sunken ship at least 500 meters away on the seabed, which was not found during the first two passes, and from a preliminary visual point of view, it was about 50 meters long, and with my limited knowledge, I felt that it was a fishing boat.

In addition, it can be judged that there is a high probability that it was wrecked in recent years, because part of the hull is still relatively bright, and a small part of the paint background is leaking outside.

But its existence is more of a curiosity to me, after soaking in the sea for so long, the things on it are basically broken, and even if there is, I can't get it.

With a distance of more than 500 meters and a water depth of more than 10 meters, even if the ship is full of all kinds of materials that can be used, it is obviously not something I can covet, and my ability determines all this!

So after looking at it infatuated for a while, it moved on.

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In the second half of the journey, there is a gradual increase in garbage on a certain section of the beach, that is, one side of the island, and from my many observations, it may be directed towards a certain country or region that produces more garbage.

In addition to the scattered garbage, there is also a large pile of garbage washed ashore by the waves, floating between the sea and the sand, four or five meters away from the beach.

Expecting to pick up the supplies, I didn't miss this opportunity, so I put down my belongings and rushed straight to it, using a long branch to cut it over.

After separating them, I ran back and forth many times before finally dragging them all to the beach out of reach, and although they looked tattered and most of them still had something like moss growing on them, it didn't dampen my enthusiasm for them!

I can't help it, because I'm so poor now that I don't want to miss anything of value, even if it's looking for it in the garbage.

It took me about ten minutes to clean up, and I finally sorted out most of the unusable garbage and the small amount of materials that could be used, even though both hands were dirty, and there was a stench emanating from it, and then I showed a happy expression.

The items that can be used include: two plastic bags that are not broken, three ordinary plastic bottles, a towel that is not used or used, and iron products that have been dismantled from various items for less than a pound.

Of course, this is only a selection of usable and newer items, and non-usable and very worn items are not on my list.

Another item worth writing about is a tattered old-fashioned door panel, a rotten door panel is of course of little use to me, but it has a metal door buckle on it that is not new or old, but it is a good thing to use, even a good thing to look at!

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I picked up a stone on the shore and smashed the door buckle down with a few simple strokes, the degree of decay of the wooden door made me not use much force, and the door buckle that I had just removed was rusty and looked quite inconspicuous.

But after rubbing the sand and stones to remove the rust on the surface, what appeared in my hand was a small piece of iron about 10 centimeters long and about 4 centimeters wide!

Although it was irregular and slightly deformed in some places, it didn't affect my love for it in the slightest, because I finally got my first metal weapon since I went to the island......

Its existence at least allows me to say goodbye to the half-cut and half-ripped stone knife, and every time I kill a fish with a stone knife, it makes me so angry that I can't wait to throw the fish away.

With such a small piece of iron, killing fish and cutting meat can save me a lot of time, and at the same time, the experience can be greatly improved!

There are a lot of pebbles on the beach, and I chose one of them to be a whetstone of the right size and material, and I can't wait to make it gorgeous and help my life as soon as possible.

Although sharpening knives is relatively simple, its difficulty is not the same as sharpening knives, the first is that the head is small and difficult to master, and the second is that the thickness is consistent, and it takes a long time to sharpen it.

So for the rest of the hour, I could be seen sitting in the shadows by the beach sharpening my knives, and occasionally grinning and smirking......

After more than an hour, although I couldn't see the sun in the shadows, my face was covered with sweat, and a knife that was still sharp was finally sharpened.

It is inferior to modern knives in all aspects, but the sharpness is not much worse, after all, if the material is the same, even if it is only the size of a melon seed, it will not affect the sharpness at all.

I was happy to get a knife for a long time, and I continued to move forward, after all, there was still a long way to go.

I had only walked a few hundred meters ahead, and a large area of the reef was relatively difficult to walk, which made my speed very slow.

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It's annoying to slow down due to the topography, but there is also a very big discovery, and when I looked at the bottom of the sea below the stones, I found that there were large oysters attached to these stones!

Oysters, also known as oysters, are a kind of seafood shellfish that is very nutritious and high in zinc.

And now this large piece belongs to me, and I can pick it at any time!

In fact, I have dug up more than a dozen lower stomachs a few days ago, and I thought it was very delicious and wanted to collect more.

So I stopped collecting oysters again, and didn't stop until I had pried two or three pounds and put them in the back basket.

Without digging too far, although these seafood are nutritious, eating too much at one time is still harmful to the body, and there is also a risk of diarrhea.

And digging too much will be bad when you go back, and the waste is not in line with my original intention.

In addition to oysters, I also harvested another type of seafood, which was more than a dozen leeches that I dug up on the beach.

In the past, I used to see people on TV looking for some small holes the size of their fingers on the beach near the sea, and after finding them, they sprinkled some salt into them, and then a creature inside would come out of the hole after being stimulated by the salt.

I used to feel very happy, so out of curiosity, I went to the edge of the beach waterline to look for this seafood, and finally lived up to my expectations and found many small holes of different sizes.

It's just that there is no salt, so the efficiency of digging one by one with a stick is very low, and there are still parts of it that are empty, but after digging out the first one, this thought can't be stopped, and the more you dig, the more you want to dig.

After working for an hour or two, I only harvested more than a dozen, and after my curiosity was satisfied, I had to give up first when it looked more difficult.

If there is more salt in the future, this is one of the pleasures of relieving stress!

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It was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon when I returned to the cave, and before I knew it, it had taken me six or seven hours, and my stomach was protesting against me as early as when I was digging oysters.

While the fire was lit, a stove was built around the fire with a few stones of good size, and the canned boxes had been beaten into the cold by me.

Its size is really not enough for a person's food, and now that there is a better choice, it can only sit idle and wait for the bucket to burn out before going out of the mountain!

Half an hour later, the seafood was fully cooked, and I once again realized how delicious the natural and pollution-free seafood is.

Although it is only cooked in water, there is no seasoning. They taste so delicious.

It's just that because I'm in a hurry to get out of the pot, there is a small amount of mud and sand in it, and the feeling in my mouth is not very good, and it still doesn't prevent me from praising them!

It's no wonder that oysters are the raw material for making oyster sauce, which is so delicious that it seems that making oyster sauce can be one of the solutions to the problem of no seasoning when there are enough ingredients.

Since I went to the island, there is no mobile phone that has led to a very serious problem, that is, there is no way to know what time it is, and this is undoubtedly the least difficult problem in the past, everyone has a mobile phone, and most people have a watch!

Here it has become a huge problem, for which I have tried many ways but it is impossible to achieve it, even the number of days on the island is carved by me with stones on the rocks, and every day I carve a stroke, to this day there are ten strokes!

Later, I plan to use charcoal to write it down in a notebook, which is relatively safer.

In order to know the exact time of day, I finally decided to determine the approximate time by looking at the position of the sun, for example, in summer, when the sun is directly above my head, it is around 12 o'clock at noon, and the sun sets at 7:30 to 8 o'clock in the evening......