Chapter 4 My "Real Estate"
This is the fourth time I have felt the daylight here, but it is slightly different, the sea breeze is much stronger than in previous days, which makes me feel very comfortable, but I am a little worried and quickly run out of the fence to look at the goods around me and the "warehouse paradise" on the reef side.
Fortunately, everything is still the same as before, which made my kicking mood calm down immediately, although I am still looking forward to the rescue, but I know that the probability of search and rescue is sometimes weak, the success rate is not optimistic, I bet on the probability of success of this search and rescue on the word "effort", because I know that the fourth day will be the time for the search and rescue team to expand the search area, just like the search and rescue missions I participated in in the Navy in the past, they will carry out the search and rescue of nearby islands in territorial waters, That's crucial and why I had to put this camp in a prominent place.
But I still haven't given up my infinite greed and demand for the goods in "Heaven", there are not many small boxes left, and I plan to move them all over this time, not because I am in a hurry, but because the punctured foot makes me feel uncomfortable, I have to find something like Qihuang nearby and stuff it in my socks and pray that this thing will work.
Looking up at the position of the sun, it seems that I didn't sleep lazy today, very early.
When I first came up with the idea of carrying them all at once, I chopped up two dozen small tree trunks near the beach with a small axe, and then tied them up with plastic sheeting and vines to make a simple raft, which was actually very plastic-sheeted, you know, and it hurt me a lot.
It took about five or six hours, two trips back and forth, and frankly, I was still too lazy, and if I had made a bigger raft and some levers earlier, I might have been able to take advantage of the buoyancy of the ebb tide to carry the big box with me, and I did try to do so, but it was so heavy that I didn't think about it until a storm broke it up, and I just picked up a few pieces of loose planks on the beach as a souvenir.
The luck of these two small boxes is really not good, or it may be that the raft is too bulky, and my greed has caused a lot of small boxes on it, and when I paddled the raft to go around the reef area, a wave slapped me in the water with people and goods, which made me lose a lot, but fortunately this is the morning, if I catch the low tide and encounter such an accident, then I may never want to see these boxes again in my life.
Of course, this accident also made me have to spend more time than usual to carry the small boxes scattered in the water one by one onto the raft and keep treading water, that feeling of crying without tears will be unforgettable for me for a long time to come, and it is also with this lesson that I will never do anything greedy in my life in the future.
However, the harvest of this centralized transportation is also very large, in addition to replenishing the number of items that I already have, I was also surprised to find some such as scissors and some cutlery in a box.
However, the most surprising thing for me was a lockbox wrapped in plastic sheeting, but I don't feel like I'm ready to open it right now, although I have a great curiosity about it, but I'm worried that once I'm rescued and the goods are found, then the fact that this lockbox was smashed by me can easily be a big sin on my head, after all, if there is a secret in it that I shouldn't know, it must end badly, right?
The sea breeze is getting stronger and stronger, and after the last trip of transport, the sea breeze even formed a small storm, which made me have to go back to the camp to strengthen my little tent, I don't want to watch it drift to heaven, looking at the "property" all around, I feel a lot more at ease, but the location of my camp happens to be in the open field in front of the valley behind me, that is to say, this is the widest place with the horn mouth, very windy, looking at the increasingly dense dark clouds in the sky and the tent behind me that may be crumbling at any time and may be blown away at any time, I knew that I had to find a real place to live at once, and, as soon as possible, I would not be taken away by a storm of all the fruits of victory, even though I was already unlucky, and the terrain was so low, in the event of a flash flood in the mountains, it would not only be the spoils of war that would be taken away by a wave, but probably myself.
On the way to the mountains with a shotgun, I mentally calculated some criteria for choosing a place to live: for example, it had to be leeward, which was a very important one; It's best to have a water source around, of course, I'm not sure if this condition can be established, or it can be used as an option, and it's better to be clean and shaded; The most important thing is to be able to see the sea, and it is better to have a large flat area around me where I can put a big SOS sign with the trunk of a tree so that the heavens can find me.
In fact, it didn't take much effort to find such a standard place to live, and there happened to be a flat plot of land a little above that small hill, and I didn't even look for the next place to choose, so I settled on this "real estate".
Behind this flat land is the mountain, very steep and this flat land formed a right angle of nearly 90 degrees, like a wall to provide me with shelter behind me, at least the beast wants to sneak up on my head or behind me, and this mountain wall, there is a natural hole, although the hole is not big, only about 20 square meters, but I can live in it without any problem, and even can toss my small boxes one by one.
The flat ground in front of the cave couldn't be more perfect, the depth is tens of meters, and it is very wide, the view is very, very good, I can walk a few steps to see the sea in my direction, it is a gentle slope that gradually slopes outward, and I don't have to think about the problem of water accumulation, the direction is just facing south, I can see the morning sun, and I don't have to worry about the trouble of the west sun on me.
I ran back to the camp, but unfortunately the original tent had been blown up by the wind, fortunately it was not blown to the sky, but was stopped by the branches on my head and hung on the tree, I had to climb up and take it off, the wind was a little strong, the branches shook greatly in the wind, several times I wanted to give up this tent, after all, I still have a few banners printed with words to build one or two more tents out, but I still persevered, and took the risk to drag the small tent in my hand.
Throughout the afternoon, I only did a seemingly mechanical repetitive labor, "carrying", carrying the small boxes into the cave two by two, because I was worried that the storm would come down quickly (in fact, my experience was too little, such a wind could not be called a storm at all, until a period of time later I saw the real "storm" after I knew how daunting it was), I didn't even plan the use of the cave space in advance, so the small box was casually stacked on the ground, so these repetitive labor progressed quickly, All the removal work was completed before the rainstorm came.
But the torrential rain I feared was only dry thunder and no rain, and the wind gradually subsided, until it was almost evening, and the clouds of fire floated in the sky, and they were diffused into one, forming a vast sea of clouds in the whole mountainous area, leaving only the highest peak, and the rolling clouds passed over the mountain, and went straight down the deep valley, like a waterfall, and the momentum was magnificent.
I stepped out of the small cave, looked at the beautiful clouds and the flowing clouds in the valley at my feet, looked back at the boxes in the cave, and decided to clean up here first, I drew a semicircular outline in front of the cave, and then looked around for some wide wood, and removed a lot of the planks of the small boxes in the cave and inserted them into the semicircle to form a low fence, and then hammered them one by one with the hammers in those tools to make them stronger, and then sharpened them with axes, and looked at this small courtyard, I suddenly felt as if I had made these fences like a craft, and I immediately felt a little bit of a private home!
I shook and shook, and I still didn't feel very steady, these farmer workers had no training after all, and I put the plastic ropes that I had used to tie the boxes to these fences and connected them, and piled a small pile of stones on the roots of each fence, and I was grateful that I had tossed this fence so hard, because they were the functional tools I had used for the longest time, and there was no one, and my entry and exit were only a step until late at night, I cut down a lot of tree trunks more than two meters high and put up a big SOS pattern in the yard to put an end to these hard work.
However, I later found out that I was completely unsuspecting, and that I didn't have to be so wary of the beasts here.
I've always thought of myself as a very big person, very much like my sister, but she always said that I was too a girl, and I always thought about things very carefully, but not free enough, every time I was arguing about these, Lao Tan would laugh on the side and watch the two of us tear up, oh, Lao Tan is my mother's recognized godson, well, I have to admit that he is more like my father and my mother's own son, I am like a dry one.
The old man of the old Tan family and the old military commander of my family used to be comrades-in-arms, and the two of us can be said to have grown up in the same compound, but he is six years older than me, my mother said that he was a loyal person, my sister said that he was an understanding person, and I said that he was a heartless person, and sometimes he would rather suffer his own losses than be a good person.
The day after I entered the military academy, this stupid lack was transferred from the aviation to the naval school by my father, and also became an instructor in my school district, which made me immediately have a feeling of being watched, and this feeling has survived until graduation, but who would have thought, Lao Tzu has graduated, and Lao Tan has also been assigned to the same base, although there is no longer any affiliation, but the rank is one level higher than me, and I am supported like a son every day, which makes me very annoying.
But now, I wish I had such a master by my side, to help me build a yard and help me build a tent, I know this is a selfish thought, but I do think so, and in the time to come, I think he may have more time than he thinks of a freshly bathed and fragrant girl.
Missing my relatives seems to be a compulsory lesson for me for the past two days, but the work in my hands has not stopped, and I have set up a small canopy in front of the cave, which is made of the canopy that I have taken the risk of dragging down from the branches, I know that it is very unsightly, and it can even be said to be ugly, but the emphasis is on functionality, yes, isn't functionality the most needed feature now?
I even built a ten-centimeter-high threshold at the entrance of the cave out of earth and gravel, which I did anyway, even though it took time and errands. I looked back and recalled the things I had done today, and even I felt incredible, our ancestors had an old saying, called "Decline and Exhaustion" again and again, but I really didn't have the interest in building another pigsty or making some sparks out, after all, these are not my necessities.
In the middle of the night, suddenly the sky suddenly lit up, and a bolt of lightning swept across the sky like a branch vein to illuminate my whole yard, and then there was a very dense thunder, and in a few moments, the rain of beans smashed on my canopy and banged.
Doesn't it mean that if there are burning clouds in the evening, then it must be good weather? When I was a child, I learned to look at the clouds and understand the weather, so why is it a lie?
Suddenly, I jumped up from the bed of the wooden box, and stared at the pile of boxes in the corner, lightning and gunpowder, these two things were connected together, and I immediately felt terrified.
But then I lay back in bed, because I realized one thing, if the electric current caused by the lightning really detonated the gunpowder in the wooden box, then I would not have waited to be killed by the explosion, but had been broken down into a pile of black ash by the electric current in advance.
But then I removed the gunpowder from my cave, after all, this thing is not in order, through some kind of special event, such as a spark when roasting a leg of lamb, will cause me to evaporate from the world and take my little life, the fortune teller said that I can live to be 90 years old, but I can't bet on a blind fortune teller, so they were moved far away to another cave not too far from me.
But these are all later words, this is my fourth day on the island, and this storm has basically decreed that I may be rescued tonight, and all I can pray for now is that tomorrow will be a sunny day, and that the fences, canopies, and other facilities that I have built with great effort today will withstand the test of the evil forces of the torrential rain and the wind, and I pray to all the gods who can think of it, that any of them will come to me and help me. Take me back to the civilized world where you can listen to music, surf the Internet, watch girls and roast sheep.