Chapter 7: Poison Tortoises, Disasters, and the Garden of Eden
The earthquake a few days ago caused a small tsunami, but the damage was not great, only a few dozen meters of the beachhead completely lost the momentum to move forward, but the process made me nervous, after all, looking at the tsunami from a distance of less than 200 meters, I may be the only one in the world who has such courage.
I knew very well that it was not a foreign object, but that my "warehouse paradise" was washed away by the waves and the wind in the beachhead reef area, because it no longer meant anything to me, but its body still gave me some light and heat.
But the hurricane that accompanied the tsunami was so powerful that it took four hours to start to recede, and the two thick trees near the beachhead were uprooted without mercy, and I could only hide in the cave and listen to the strange howl of the wind like Satan's roar and weep in horror, I was scared to death, and even trembled, and the feeling of despair slowly faded because I experienced too much.
The storm had only blown the rain away, and the fences that had been so painstakingly built were still intact, and I was relieved that the fruits of my labor had been preserved and that I would not be so depressed that I would give up on myself.
During the two days of waiting for the tide to go out, a turtle climbed on the turf not far from me, which made me very happy, after all, the spirituality of this animal is far from being matched by rabbits and birds, I tried to find a small closed trench to keep as a pet, but found that it tried to bite me several times, and even one of them had torn a corner of my clothes with its mouth, and in a fit of rage, it turned it into a barbecue that night, which was the most delicious seafood I have ever eaten, and it was beautiful, especially since it had dozens of turtle eggs in its belly, It seems that this master came ashore to lay eggs, but he went to the wrong place.
I didn't eat the eggs, but buried them under the grass at the door, ready to dig them up the next day and bury them in the spawning grounds of other turtles, hoping that they would all hatch, which I knew was a good idea, but I did.
After that day, I had hoped to climb up again, but unfortunately it was very unreliable to wait for the turtle, and I never had such a chance.
But a spirit is a spirit, and that barbecue brought me a disaster, and of course, I understand that this superstitious idea is not right.
When I realized that I had a fever, it was already the third day of eating turtles, and I was chilled until I shivered, and I couldn't sleep all night, I tried my best to comfort myself that the body's own immune function rebuilding would help me through this disease, and tried harder to comfort myself that it was not a disaster brought to me by turtles, but only a fever caused by the rain after the storm a few days ago, but when I thought of my situation and the tragic situation of being helpless around me, I was very sad.
This illness made me even have a sense of confusion, until the fifth day to go to the field to drink some clean water by the waterhole, but at that time the feeling was still a headache and miserable, during the illness can only pluck the little pigeon casually plucked and throw it into the fireplace to let it be burned, and then eat the tender meat in the burnt skin, but did not swallow a mouthful, and retched for more than ten minutes, it was so disgusting, I thought if I really ate it, then what is the difference with the wild man?
Who would have thought that vomiting would alleviate my condition, the fever did not go away, but the body began to have a malaria reaction spontaneously, not violent, I understood that this is the body detoxifying, as long as I can ensure that I keep drinking boiled water, even if it will aggravate my malaria reaction, I must keep drinking boiled water, I can survive this catastrophe.
In fact, it was exactly what I expected, but it took me half a month to fully recover, and looking back, I can almost conclude that it was the turtle that caused me the disaster, because everything reacted like "food poisoning", and since then, on this island, I no longer dare to stuff anything into my mouth, no matter how hungry, no matter how hungry, no matter how delicious!
This time I was able to heal thanks to my own diligence before, I had picked some coconuts from the island before, although not much, but in order to prevent the day of food loss and stored in the cave a dozen, this illness, all by drinking the coconut water before the shell loaded water in the fireplace to heat the hot water to drink, but unfortunately the coconut shell can only be burned once can not be used again, and, the water can not be boiled all over, but can only be regarded as warm water, the advantage is that the burned coconut meat can also be eaten, at least to satisfy hunger, scrape it off with a knife, cut it into more pieces, the better, Then put it in your mouth and chew it slowly, it tastes like chewing wax, and you can't only dig out those turtle eggs buried at the door to satisfy your hunger.
But in any case, I survived this famine, although I was still a little weak, I could barely pick up a shotgun, and after only a few steps I had to sit on the grass, looking at the sea, and asking myself in my heart: "What did you do to get to this field?" But then my conscience would answer me on its own: "Because you ate a turtle and its children!" ”。 On this day, it was already December 25th, and it had been three months and two days since the shipwreck.
I kept it for a few more days, until I was fully recovered, looked at the calendar I had carved with a knife (even when I was sick, I did not stop this simple but useful work), it didn't matter, I immediately rushed back with a shotgun to get a few birds, and also put a rabbit on the table, and even opened a bottle of Moutai.
After looking at the sky and saying thank God for keeping me alive and giving me so much food, I feasted on a table of meat, and the reason why it was so rich was because it was December 31, that is, the New Year's Eve of the Gregorian calendar.
This kind of sacrificial activity made me feel like I was back in civilized society, not the other I had just thrown pigeons into the stove or eaten raw turtle eggs a few days ago, and I even wanted to find a razor to shave my beard, which in retrospect didn't mean much.
After drinking about half a bottle of wine, I was talking nonsense in a daze, my eyes were a little blurry, and my heart was actually very vague, three months had passed, and I didn't see any hope of being rescued, or rather, the word "rescued" was actually a dream for me. I had to keep my mind completely on the island, instead of dreaming of seeing a boat that would save me one day.
After that "civilized" banquet, I began to do a very detailed exploration of this small island, and even found a stream, along which I had to walk almost three kilometers upstream, and it was actually a mountain spring, the water was clear and sweet, I gave up the stupid idea of jumping into the bath, but stared at the spring for a while, and then lay on the grass next to it and counted the many plants around the spring, one of which I could not name, But one of the golden plants with a short calf suddenly caught my attention, because the plant was slightly wider than the plants around it, and the stems and leaves were more erect than the others, and most importantly, it had a spike at the top, revealing a blue-yellow, and the spike was more than ten centimeters long, and the thickness of the thumb, although I could not tell what it was, but I could recognize the golden rice grains in the spike as the kind of millet that the pigeon carried in it.
Like stroking a sleeping mermaid, I gently plucked the tassels and put them into my jacket pocket, until I was sure that none of them were spilled on the ground, and then I continued to walk deeper with excitement, I also found some aloe vera and sugar cane, this discovery made me nervous immediately raised my gun and looked around for a long time, for fear that a few farmers would suddenly jump out of the grass and shout that this was their idler, get out, until I was sure that these were all miscellaneous aloe vera and sugar cane were wild, and then slowly put down the gun, And excitedly walked back.
The next day I went to that place again, and it didn't take much time to drive well, and I looked deeper into the mountains, and I found that there were many wild grapes, and there were many wild grapes there, and they were big and red in the cracks of the rocks, as if beckoning to me, and to tell the truth, after the experience of turtles, I kept enough restraint against this extreme temptation to dare not reach out and touch it.
On that day I did not return to the yard, but found a tall tree near the grapes and slept across it for the night, and the next day, although I felt sore, I continued to explore towards the north of the valley, and I did not stop until about six kilometers or so, this is an open field, and I heard the sound of the stream flowing in my ears, and the clear water of the stream flowed from the mountain, and although it was winter in season, it was completely spring-like, as if it had entered a dream-like beauty.
As I marched into the valley below this stream, my heart was filled with joy, as if all the gloom of the previous months had been swept away, for I knew that everything here was mine, that I was the chieftain, the king, the indisputable master.
At the end of the stream is a waterhole, the water is not deep, but the area is not small, more than 30 meters square, there are many coconut trees and lemon and orange trees around it, although I know that except for the coconut tree, these wild lemon and orange trees hardly bear fruit, but I picked a wild fruit among some of the existing fruits, and the taste was sour and sweet, and there was no bitter taste at all, which was very refreshing.
The next time I come over, I'm going to bring a small wooden box and bring back all the fruits here, because I know that for me, these fruits represent survival, represent the Black Death, and represent very precious vitamins.
But when I came back a few days later, I was surprised by a sudden change!