Chapter 37: The Lonely Soul (Part II)
The sun rises every day, and Vito wakes up every day at the moment before the sun rises, and then begins to work for his daily livelihood, he has to fish first, go to the beach and tidal flats and wait for the low tide, and pick up the fish, shrimp, crab snails and all kinds of scallops left behind after the tide; He also learned to dry salt according to the methods described in the books he had read, and added it to his daily food to replenish salt to his body; At nine o'clock in the morning, when the seabirds were out foraging, he would climb the rock wall near the sea, wrap the leather vines around his waist, climb down the cliff, and dig out the seabird eggs, because of the large number of seabirds, seabird eggs have now become one of his main sources of food; Pine cones are hard to pick up, and even if they do, most of them are rotten; Then there are a few deep traps, compacting the soil on the four walls, laying soft pine needles and dead branches, and maybe there are silly hares, pheasants, badgers, or other small animals falling into them, and you can eat a delicious meal of meat and satisfy the cravings in your stomach.
In the past half a month, he has turned this small island dozens of times, and has confirmed that there are no large beasts or other creatures with strong attack power on the island, except for poisonous snakes, insects and ants, and this season, most of these poisons have entered a dormant state, so in preventing this kind of external damage, Vito does not need to spend too much energy for the time being, and he can sleep more soundly at night.
But in fact, after he has done all the things related to maintaining the continuation of life, he has devoted all his remaining time and energy to his own cultivation, since he accepted the transmission to the present, as long as there is time and there is no external interference, he will definitely practice, he keeps in mind the words of Tianshui lawsuit: accumulate a lot, make progress every day, build a foundation in a hundred days, and breastfeed in a thousand days. He was on the moon worship and on the big island he came to before, many times to practice, the exercise technique has been skilled, the breath runs smoothly, and there is no stagnation, and after each practice, he can subtlely perceive the changes in the body between the silent and silent, this change can only be experienced, can not be expressed, every time he practices to the beautiful place, he feels that the breath in the body is like a galloping horse, the spirit platform is cheerful, but he can see the details outside the body, even the wind sweeping the leaves, the shallow bottom of the fish, and the sound of the birds singing in the deep forest have been difficult to escape his six senses. And the whole person is one with all things in heaven and earth, and the body and mind are drunk, which can only be understood, which is wonderful. Practicing so diligently every day, Vito felt that his skills were improving every day, and the progress was not obvious every day at first, but then he felt the daily change of the increase in the breath, and with the change of this increment, every time he exercised, the rushing breath has changed from fine to thick, from slow to fast, and the breath has flowed everywhere, from warm to hot, just like the warm sun in winter, the earth is warm, and everything is vigorous and growing.
And what makes Vito feel special is the change in his body, he feels that he is already very keen on the six senses of sensory recognition, and on an interface, the body limbs seem to have inexhaustible strength, long, inexhaustible, and the body is becoming more and more lightweight, jumping and jumping, compared to the past, not the same day, such as a step span, originally sixty centimeters, now one step can reach ninety centimeters, the frequency can be more than three times faster, if you change to run, He used the photoelectric watch on his wrist to test, the fastest speed reached 70 kilometers per hour, and with such a speed is very easy to run for two hours, and does not feel tired, this has exceeded the limit of human beings, the height of the jump reached two meters one, a tree more than ten meters high, he rushed up, only took a little more than three seconds, more agile than the ape cheetah, and these data are still constantly refreshing. All of this shows a problem, that is, he is constantly getting stronger, he is no longer the weak, timid as a mouse, cowering in the face of trouble, worried, swallowing his anger in front of the strong, and obedient to the synthetic man who has no status and no human rights, he can choose to obey or resist, the resistance here is direct, positive, and justifiable.
The most difficult thing on the island is that he has no companions, no person to talk to, and he has to endure infinite loneliness and loneliness every day, he is very worried about his companions, even if they have no good feelings for each other at the beginning, he is worried about the malaria that Felinan and Villa have not completely recovered, whether they have been properly treated after being taken away by those men in black, and the war wounds that fell from the wolf pack and crocodiles at the beginning. As for Qiu Wuxi, he guessed that he was in the same situation, and he was being banished to an island not far from him at this time, receiving these boring and difficult training subjects. According to his understanding, this subject is to train their endurance, to stay away from society, to survive in the wilderness, and to endure loneliness.
The only thing that made him feel that there was still a trace of certainty was that he was sure that those perverted men in black would definitely come to pick them up, but he didn't know how long this period would be, more than half a month, he repeated the same schedule every day, only during the work of collecting food, practicing the exercises, and sleeping, he would not feel unbearable, and the rest of the time was really difficult to pass, he had to sit alone on the empty beach or on the top of the mountain every day and look into the distance, until the sun set, completely lost hope, He will return to his cramped lair and sleep with his head covered, and wait until the east is bright again.
But it turns out that boredom and loneliness can really give people huge psychological pressure, and if it goes on for a long time, it will even drive good people crazy. After waiting for another twenty days, Vito's psychology began to change, all kinds of speculations and suspicions came out, he wondered if those perverted fellows had forgotten about themselves, it had been more than a month, he had not seen the ship or plane that came to pick him up, every hope ended in disappointment, and irritability began to breed and spread. He began to curse the psychopathic ghosts of the men in black over and over again, and then began to recall the flight path of the helicopter when it took him to the island, and he began to have the idea of escaping the island.
No, I can't stay like this, I'm going to leave here, even if it's to go to the big island I came to before, at least that big island is much more likely to be discovered by ships and planes, and the chances of getting out of trouble are much greater. The tool boat on the outlying island, or the raft, yes, I want to make a raft, no matter how long it takes, it is better to do it than not to do it well, and it is better to sit back and wait for the action to come. Vito raised his head and resolutely set his gaze on the coniferous forest on the mountain.