The morning after I had just finished the straw shed and the new stove, before I had time to celebrate, another big problem was in front of me.

The only lighter went on strike, there was no tinder, and it hit me like a bolt from the blue!

There's an old saying that "when you're unlucky, you plug your teeth with cold water", and my recent luck is clearly in line with drinking cold water to plug your teeth.

It has not yet established itself on the island, and now one of the important reliance has failed again......

In fact, I also know the condition of it very well when I used it every day, and I was very careful to save it when I used it every day.

However, there is always a time when the money runs out, and there is always a time when the lighter runs out of gas.

Even if you are mentally prepared in advance, it is still devastating when it does not work, and I am already thinking about how to spend the next days when I need to light a fire every day, and it will not be too easy anyway!

The three most important necessities for anyone who survives in the wilderness are food, water, and fire, and the rest can be overcome through perseverance and finding a way, but these three are not solved for a long time......

For the next few minutes, I sat on the ground in a daze, worrying about the future fire, and also worried about the days to come!

After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't think of a better solution, and at present, with my state and ability, it seems that the most realistic way is to drill wood for fire.

Most of the other better ways can't be realized, and I don't think of them for the time being.

Relatively speaking, the conditions required to drill wood for fire are the simplest, and the production of tools does not require a high level of skill, but it is a bit of a headache for the physical exertion.

But it is still very necessary to make some attempts, at least today's fire must be lit.

The tools were not complicated, I first found an arm-thick piece of dry wood, cut one side of it into a flat surface with a newly made stone axe, and made a small bow out of a small branch and rope.

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Finally, choose a slightly concave stone and place it on the top of the small wooden stick that rotates, during which the small stick needs to be rotated constantly must be straight and smooth to achieve faster rotation, and at the same time be relatively hard.

It's complicated, but it's actually very simple to make, just a few minutes of basic tools to make.

Then it's time to compete in endurance and physical strength, just wrap the rope on the small bow around the stick and pull it a few times or so, and the stick will keep turning to generate heat.

It doesn't require skill, it just needs to be quick and skillful.

In order to be more proficient in lighting fires in the future, I spent the next two or three hours practicing making fires, and the results achieved were only three successes, and there was obvious discouragement and frustration in my heart at this time!

I don't know if it's because of the problem with the choice of wood, or if I don't grasp the skills when turning around, but in short, the low success rate makes the mood not very good.

After dropping the tools, he sat next to him in a daze, thinking about what other ways to start a fire without relying on modern technology.

In the meantime, I had to take care of the fire that had just been lit in the stove, and I didn't want to use it again for dinner.

While taking care of the fire, he was not idle, and he also scattered the corn seeds that had been dried for several days into the ground to breed.

When I was a child, the general seed seedlings at home would be evenly sprinkled into a special small plot with a lot of fertilizer and manure to make a simple seedbed, but here can only be a simple version.

The method is similar, but it is more rudimentary, and the fertilizer is only grass ash and some manure that endures the smell and puts some manure into the ground, and finally covers the seeds with a thin layer of soil.

As for whether it can succeed or not, it depends on the will of God, and it is still worrying about how much breeding is going on this season!

The next morning's fire was unpleasant, and it took a full hour to light the fire again, and the good mood of the morning was completely ruined, but there was no better way to solve it.

However, all this progressed in the morning when I went to explore the woods, and although there were no new discoveries in other crops, the sight of a hollow plant gave me an interesting inspiration.

I think of one of the ways that an ancient ancestor saved the fire--- the fire fold!

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Although I haven't seen the real thing, I just thought of some plots that I often saw in TV dramas before, and when I opened the lid of the cylinder and blew it gently, the flames "soared" out of the cylinder.

When I was a child, I thought it was very lofty, because matches were still used to light the fire at home at that time, and lighters were not very popular at that time!

It's a promising idea, and at first glance it seems like there's a good chance of success, but everything has to wait for validation to know the outcome, and blind optimism is not a good thing for me!

Do what you think, this is the only freedom I have on the island, if I do it early, if I succeed, I can solve the problem earlier, and if I don't succeed, I can try other ways as soon as possible.

In fact, the best choice of material for the outer cylinder is metal, and the most convenient is bamboo.

But now the conditions are not only metal, but also bamboo, which I have the impression that does not exist on the island, at least until now, I have not found it.

It seems that only the hollow plant I just saw can barely achieve a similar effect, so I can only try it first.

The main materials used to make the fire fold are the outer cylinder and paper, and the composition of the material is relatively simple, and it is unbelievably simple.

First, I used a knife to collect a bunch of these hollow plants of various sizes, and then I had to pack the idea of a notebook in the paper.

But I probably know that this kind of paper doesn't seem to work as well as straw paper, because the fibers of straw paper are more messy and more sensitive to fire.

But nothing is a certainty, and I spent the next few minutes working on the paper.

By repeatedly rubbing the paper, its fiber structure will become more flammable, and then the kneaded paper is spread and rolled into the diameter of the cylinder and stuffed into the cylinder.

Before moving on to the next step, I had to dig wood to make fire, which was really not a job I was willing to do, and I was almost useless after a single session!

Fortunately, it was much smoother than yesterday, and it only took more than ten minutes to ignite again!

Ignite one end of the paper for half a minute and then stuff it back into the cylinder, and then another problem arises, because I don't have a suitable lid because of the material, and there is no way to seal it.

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Of course, that means the experiment can't be carried out, and I won't be defeated so easily!

There was no lid, so I blocked the mouth of the barrel with my fingers to seal it to verify that I could achieve the desired result.

After five minutes, release your finger and gently blow inside, and it will be a success!

The flame lit up again gave me a lot of confidence, but I blocked the mouth of the barrel again for the sake of difficulty.

This time it was longer, almost twenty minutes later, and the results were still exciting!

It seems that technically it is already possible to determine that there is no difficulty, and only the problem of sealing needs to be solved later, and the problem of fire is solved!

In the absence of any basis and reference, the test can only be carried out step by step, and the final result is to plug the mouth of the small cylinder with a small piece of wet mud like dough to achieve the effect of insulating the air.

Every time I light the fire, I take out the mud ball and blow it, and then block it with the mud ball after use, which is the easiest and most effective way I can think of.

The experiment proved that it was not bad, and it was ignited normally after several different time verifications, but it was necessary to pay attention to the method of blowing and the correct way of preservation!

I am deeply relieved that the problem of tinder has been preliminarily resolved......

When the lighter is not broken, I am always worried about the difficulty of drilling wood to make fire in the future, and sometimes I can think of the difficulty of falling asleep at night.

Of course, the two days have indeed been stumped by the fire, but fortunately this difficult bone has been solved by other means.

Otherwise, when I think of the annoyance of manually making fire every day, my hair can turn gray.

Not only will it waste a lot of time and energy, but it will also increase the uncertainty, in case you can't light the fire for many days because of the humid climate, you can only eat raw food to spend the day!

I didn't want to spend too much time on this issue to make sure that one of them would ignite the other if there was a situation where it couldn't be hit.

If a problem is solved, there will be problems constantly, then I will not have time to deal with various problems every day, and I will basically not be idle.

And I'm just a lazy person who likes to be idle, and I never let go when I'm lazy......

I'm going to make a simple fence by enclosing all the important passages that are now accessible from the vegetable patch with tree stumps and some branches!

Although no other mammals were found on the island, only the flocks of sheep from a distance threatened the vegetable patch, but I was afraid that they would suddenly go crazy and run to the cave and find the vegetable patch.

If I happen to sneak up on me while I'm out doing other things and I'm not at home, the crops in the field will definitely be swept away.

Although it can't bankrupt me, it can also bring me to the brink of bankruptcy, but the crops in the field, especially "corn", are a great hope!

Being prepared for danger in times of peace has always been an important guiding ideology for me, and it is only natural to make fences to prevent this from happening!

Most of the various wooden stakes required for the fence were provided by the trees that cleared the open space last time, and although the seven long and eight short ones were not uniform, they all guaranteed a length of more than one meter and a half.

The homework is still simple and rough, and it continues my usual style.

First, the stump is barely sharpened with a stone axe and then hammered into the soil, each with an interval of about 20 centimeters, and finally a layer of live branches with leaves is placed directly around the perimeter of the stake to block it.

It's actually a lazy way to save trouble, but you don't need to care about these details.

Anyway, even so, it has been able to play a role in stopping sheep, and everything here is not beautiful, mainly practical and sufficient.

The next morning, before I woke up, I found that it was raining outside again, and it was obvious that I might be idle again!

After a simple breakfast in the grass hut, it seemed a little idle, and the cave could not be expanded, and it felt that there would be a safety risk if it was expanded.

The existing area occasionally has the situation of falling dirt, even if it does not fall much, but every time it happens, you can worry about it for a long time!

Thinking that there was nothing to do on a rainy day, I simply knitted straw sandals again, after all, straw sandals are consumables, and it is estimated that a pair of straw sandals will be worn out in less than a month when they jump up and down in the forest every day.