Chapter 012: Living on an Island?
No matter how glamorous and brilliant your future is, it is the future after all.
Now, Wen Ming must make sure that he survives in the isolated island, until the search and rescue team finds him, or runs into a passing freighter.
"Will it ...... There are no search and rescue teams at all, and there are no passing freighters, and I will be trapped on this isolated island for the rest of my life, until one day I die of old age, starvation, and disease? ”
The vast majority of people have a pessimistic mentality, and when they encounter anything, they will always get used to thinking in the bad direction, even the worst possible thing. Because the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, if at the beginning, there is no hope, then, as long as there is a little gain, it will make people happy.
When a new day arrives, Wen Ming's mind has all the technical knowledge that Apple had from its creation to Jobs' death. But this knowledge is completely useless for him now, and what he needs most on this isolated island is pure drinking water, food, clothing, shelter, and so on.
"The value of money is given by human society, and if there is only one person left in this world, like me now, then neither money nor knowledge that can change the world will have any effect."
The fire that had been raised last night had been extinguished, which made Wen Ming very injured, and he worked hard for half an hour to grind out several blisters on his palms, but they were extinguished because he forgot to fill in the dead branches.
Thinking of the method of making fire called 'fire farming' and the pain he endured when using it, Wen Ming's heart became even more sad.
"If anyone can give me a lighter now, I am willing to give him 1% of my company. No, if 1% of the shares are calculated according to the market value of $600 billion, that's $6 billion, isn't that too much? ”
Wen Ming's current identity is just a first-year freshman at Harvard University, and a few days ago he was worried that he would be expelled from the school because he failed the exam, and his total net worth was only 30,000 US dollars. Now, the question of buying a lighter for $6 billion is already being considered.
"Do you want to give him a full set of Apple products instead?" Lifetime free upgrades, this should be someone willing. ”
Wen Ming found the dead hibiscus branch that he used yesterday again, and began to continue to use the wooden stick to rub and rub on it.
"No, people in this world have never seen Apple's products at all, so they don't agree with Apple's products at all. So, what I just promised didn't really mean anything? ”
It seemed that when he was so whimsical and entertaining himself, Wen Ming couldn't feel the pain caused by the blisters on his palms that had been ground up.
In order to prevent the blisters from being worn away, he also deliberately found some fresh leaves to use as gloves before rubbing them with wooden sticks. But those leaves didn't give him much protection.
After grinding out the blisters, if you don't touch the blisters, it doesn't hurt much. Wen Ming was also a hard-working person in his previous life, otherwise he would not have handed out flyers on weekends. However, when Wen Ming continued to use the wooden stick to rub and rub after those blisters were worn out, the refreshing feeling brought by the pain made him 'moan' from time to time.
"If you had been on this island, you would have died from madness, if not because of the lack of necessities for life."
In the early days of living on an isolated island, materials are the source of life that human beings need most, but in the later stage, loneliness is the biggest enemy of human survival.
In the process of talking to himself, Wen Ming smelled a hot and burnt smell, which was the dead branches of the hibiscus, and the heat generated by the friction of the wooden sticks caused the burning chips on the hibiscus.
Wen Ming swallowed a mouthful of saliva, this taste made him, who had not eaten for many hours, have the desire to swallow.
After using dried pine needles and igniting the fire, Wen Ming breathed a sigh of relief.
Fire is the most important 'tool' in the process of human evolution, and after successfully lighting the fire again, Wen Ming felt that he had a greater hope of living.
But before Wen Ming became happy, the sky was not beautiful, and a torrential rain poured down.
"I'm grass!"
scolded angrily, and didn't know who he was scolding, Wen Ming spread it directly next to his fire, and took the fresh leaves placed next to him to block the fire.
If you are an experienced expert in wilderness survival, you should take into account the possibility of rain when making a fire. Ke Wenming's wild survival experience comes from some programs he watched in his previous life, so naturally it is impossible to cover everything.
The island, where the subtropics and the tropics meet, receives abundant rainfall, which is small but frequent.
After finally erecting a shanty for his fire, Wen Ming tasted the taste of water at the corner of his mouth.
"Rainwater can be drunk!"
Eyes lit up, Wen Ming began to think of a way to store water, the coconut shell that was cracked yesterday, the huge leaves folded into a bowl......
Ten minutes later, the rain stopped and the sky cleared again.
Soaking wet, Wen Ming simply stripped off his clothes, his clothes were already torn, the only thing that was intact was his underwear.
Sticking his underwear to a nearby stone to dry, Wen Ming began to maintain his fire naked.
Dead branches that have been wet by rain can also burn, but they produce a lot of smoke. However, this is exactly what Wen Ming needs now, he needs to point out his location to rescuers or passers-by.
I made a bonfire alone, and looked at the smoke rising into the sky, and Wen Ming's heart was full of anticipation.
He set up another fire in the middle of the bunker.
Sand is a good insulating object, which can ensure that the heat in it is not lost, and after learning some of the methods in the wilderness survival show, Wen Ming found some clean stones.
There was no pot, so he had to heat the stone and throw it into a coconut shell to boil the rainwater inside.
Raw water can only quench a momentary thirst, and if you don't pay attention to food hygiene on this desert island, Wen Ming feels that he will be strained to death. That kind of death is something that Wen Ming is unwilling to accept.
Boil water with hot stones, which is very tedious and cumbersome.
But Wen Ming had no choice but to use this method patiently, hoping to be able to drink a sip of clean hot water.
A person can live for seven days without eating, but without drinking water, he may not survive even three days.
After wasting half a day's effort, the sun had turned to the middle of the sky, and Wen Ming finally drank a sip of hot water. Although there is a lot of dust like charcoal powder in the hot water, Wen Ming can't care about it.
If you want to keep the stone hot, you can't clean it first, but if you don't, it will get on the ashes of the fire.
"It's better than those survivors who drink their own urine, right?"
Wen Ming felt that this first sip of water was the best water he had ever drunk in the first half of his life.
Seeing that the water storage had been reduced by half, Wen Ming felt that he needed to find a new water storage tool, otherwise, if it didn't rain for a few days, he would die of thirst.
But this problem, Wen Ming decided to solve it in the afternoon, and what he needs to solve most now is food.
Looking at the endless sea, and then at the dense woods behind him, Wen Ming still decided to ask for food from the sea.
There are many dangers in the sea, but if you are only on the shore, it is safer than the poisonous insects that appear in the woods without knowing where to go.
As a new generation of botanists, Wen Ming naturally has some understanding of some organisms. The islands at the intersection of the subtropics and the tropics are really not low.
"I want to eat seafood."
Wen Ming put on his sun-dried underwear and threw himself into the sea, because he was afraid that some fish would use a certain part of his body as 'bait'.
Don't underestimate the fish near this desert island, many of which grow to their most gifted size without human predation.
"Conch, shell ......"
He can only dive for about 40 seconds in one breath, he is not a professional diver after all, but these 40 seconds and 40 seconds have made him discover a lot of good things.
"Holy, such a big turtle?"
"It must be delicious!"