Volume 1 Chapter 13 Water Shortage

At present, all the things include: a lighter (but only half of the gas), a stainless steel bucket, more than a dozen plastic bottles and glass bottles, a backpack, a swimming ring, a notebook, a can box, a small blade, a rope, and a pair of worn fishing nets.

There are also two sets of summer clothes and straw sandals, as well as corn and sweet potato seeds with an unknown future.

There are only these things that can be used in hand, and one word is "poor", it is so poor, so poor that I have the urge to cry!

It's sad that there are too few things that can be used on their own, and some of these limited things are useless, such as backpacks and swimming rings, which are very useless!

Some of them don't last long, such as lighters, buckets, cans, etc., and more realistically, compared with modern metal tools, their practicality is not even improvised!

Now I want to find someone to cry poor, there should be no poorer players than me on a desert island, and even if there is, they will make a quick fortune with the help of Goldfinger and the system!

And I have a long way to go......

It's been more than a week since the last time it rained, the shower, and I haven't had a drop of rain since, and although rainy days are not my liking, I prefer the weather to be smooth in comparison.

Due to the very limited capacity of the well, when I went to fetch water yesterday afternoon, there was less than one-fifth of the usual amount of water left at the bottom of the well, and it was filled with three bottles of water.

I was worried when I saw the bottom of the well, but I didn't come up with any good solution to the problem of water shortage except for the rain!

Could it be that you see that I have been arrogant lately, and you are ready to give me a dismissal?! I don't think God is generally knowledgeable, but I've fallen to this point......

The lack of water is not good news for me, almost all the locations on the island have been traveled, and there is no fresh water anywhere else.

And the only coconut that can be used as a fresh water emergency is usually picked up one by one as if picking up money, and the ones that can be picked up on the ground are basically picked up, and the rest are on the top of the very high coconut trees.

With the tree-climbing skills of my two knives, there is really no way to take the coconut on the tree, it is more difficult to cut the tree, and secondly, the coconut can only be used as an emergency drink, and drinking it continuously for more than a few days will also have bad consequences.

This means that if it doesn't rain again, there will really be no water to drink, the problem is very serious, and the situation is quite serious!

Of course, I felt a sense of urgency after discovering that there was no water in the well, so I went to the big puddle where I had found turbid fresh water before, but the result was that there was not much water in it.

The limited fresh water can no longer be called turbid, it is basically close to the appearance of paste, and obviously has no use value.

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The height of the island is about three or four hundred meters, but the cave where I am located is about one hundred and fifty meters, the top of the mountain is almost two hundred meters, and the spring water is overflowing from the rocky mountain on one side, and the height of the hill is only about 100 meters.

The height restriction and the fact that most of the water is made of stone I think will also make it not too long to store the water in it, which will be exhausted in ten days and half a month.

The decisive factor was that the capacity of the well was too small, and the defect that the material at the bottom of the well was still mud accelerated the loss of fresh water, and the result was that there was no water in the well for just over a week.

Even though this is a good time to expand the capacity of the well, the thought of not having fresh water is not in the mood to do such useless work, and even doing things is a little listless!

I now feel even more fortunate at the beginning of my visit to the island, if there were no coconuts on the island, the freshwater problem in the first few days would not have been solved.

It's chilling to think about the consequences, the process of dying from lack of water is too painful, and even more tragic than an accident!

There is no left of the three bottles of water yesterday afternoon, and the three catties of water can last until now It is the result of saving to drink, otherwise it is not enough to drink for three or five hours in such a hot weather.

The depletion of stored water, coupled with the extremely scarce amount of water from the wells, means that there is no fresh water reserve now, which is desperate!

The lack of fresh water makes people very anxious, and the location of the well and the presence of fresh water once made me think that there might be a flooding point near the mountain wall.

Slowly looking for traces of other fresh water along the perimeter of the mountain wall, the process is not easy, many places are extremely steep, and there is even a danger, if you don't react fast enough, you will probably have been injured!

However, after a week of walking, no progress was made, and the only thing that was certain was that there was no fresh water anywhere else, and the only place where there was fresh water was the wells that usually fetched water.

There was still a glimmer of illusion before departure, and now this glimmer of illusion has also been shattered, which is difficult to accept!

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In order to save as much water as possible, I started to reduce my activities to slow down the loss of water in my body, hoping to survive until it rains, that is, sleep there and wait for death!

But after half an hour I felt so stupid that I couldn't cry and I was completely close to death, because no one knew it would rain in a few days!

There are other ways to solve this problem, and while I was sleeping, I thought that when I cooked, there was always hot air coming out of the pot, and this hot air was water vapor.

The feeling when boiling salt a few days ago was more intuitive, that is, the sodium chloride crystals were left behind by evaporating fresh water.

I have to worry about my IQ, seawater is also water, only because it is adulterated with various substances, especially "sodium chloride", that is, table salt, and gradually becomes salty.

The amount of salt buried in the ground is dissolved by the water and becomes seawater, and the amount of seawater is too large to dissolve most of the salt in the formation, and it becomes more and more salty later, but this does not change that seawater is also formed by freshwater.

Using modern technology, seawater can be turned into drinking water and pure water in life, so only need to extract some fresh water from seawater to completely solve the problem of water shortage.

I'm such a genius!!

Before going into the sea to fetch water, I first collected a lot of firewood in the nearby woods and piled it up next to the simple stove to prepare for the large amount of evaporated seawater in the future.

The process of bringing the seawater back is still the same as the last time I made salt, but it reminded me that I can evaporate the seawater and refine the salt at the same time, how perfect it is!

So I wanted to boil it directly, and I first filtered it, and then poured the filtered seawater into a bucket on the fire to boil, and then folded it in half with one of my only two short sleeves to cover the mouth of the barrel to collect steam.

Then it's time to wait, steam is fresh water, just like when we put the lid on the pot for less than two minutes when stir-frying, there will be a lot of water droplets on the lid after it is removed.

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In the case of a fire, every three to five minutes the clothes covered by the barrel will absorb enough steam, and I only need to pick it up like a face and wring a towel to screw the water into the filter, and the filtered fresh water will flow directly into the plastic bottle prepared below.

This is the case with a complete process, although the process is not complicated, but people cannot leave for a moment, especially when going down the mountain to fetch water, the clothes on the bucket must also be put aside to prevent them from being burned.

The process is slow and boring, and the amount of water that I twist every three to five minutes is about enough for me to drink a small sip, which should be about one or two when converted into units, and I can collect about three to four catties of water in two hours.

This efficiency is very satisfying, because since I came to the island, the water has not been sufficient, so my savage-like habits have wasted daily tasks such as bathing and washing faces, or the frequency is very low!

If the boiled fresh water is used as pure drinking water, only about five catties of water per day can basically meet the demand, and of course, if you count cooking, ten catties of water can barely guarantee a day.

The output of basically five hours can ensure the use of a day under normal circumstances, and the result is still good, and the remaining half a day is basically enough to find food, as long as it lasts until it rains, this kind of day will end immediately, so it is also a few days at most.

If you use it all the time of the day to evaporate fresh water, you should be able to get a full bucket of stainless steel buckets, but because it needs to be used for cooking, it is limited to use it as a simple container, and only large and small plastic bottles can be used for fresh water.

All plastic bottles are used to fill up with fresh water and can hold almost 13 catties, alas, I just want to sigh when I see such a capacity......

It took more than half a day to fill all the containers, and there was not much salt in the barrel, because only about 30 catties of seawater were boiled in total, and it may not be half a catty.

After pouring out the seawater on the top, pour the crystals that have settled at the bottom into the canning box, and don't plan to dispose of them again for the time being, and store them until a certain amount of fresh water is collected later, and then boil the salt out together.

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And now I desperately need to cook something with a bucket, and I'm already hungry with my chest and back!

For the next two days, in addition to spending three or five hours boiling fresh water, I went down to the sea again and started fishing, as if now I had no choice but to get food from the sea.

What makes people happy is that the fish made with salt not only restores its texture, but also allows you to eat the umami of the meat, which is the charm of salt.

For a while, I became obsessed with the taste of fish......

It's just a pity that there is a lack of other spices, if there are chili peppers and various condiments, then my time on this island is very enjoyable, and I can taste all kinds of natural food every day.

While tasting the food, I fantasized about how delicious the ingredients here and the full range of seasonings in the restaurant would be, and I couldn't stand it just thinking about it!

Forget it, I'll wipe my saliva......

One net a day is now the frequency of fishing, and it is very physically demanding to cast a net, and it will take some time for the bay to recover before new fish can be replenished.