Chapter 6 is a prelude to exploration

This is my seventeenth day on this small island. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info The hope of getting help is negligible for me right now. As for why I can conclude that I am on an island, it is because I have spent all these seventeen days except sleeping to prove it. It can be said that when I circled around the island and returned to the place where I woke up, my heart was broken.

Dissertation? Graduation defense?

If I could get out of this island alive now, I would rather lose my bachelor's degree. But the facts tell me that this is impossible.

Again, I am not the type of person who complains. I won't be like the heroes and heroines in the so-called movies, struggling with a fact that has happened and can't be changed, and finally ending up depressed.

I think the most important thing to thank for this kind of relief is the Master who took me to the wilderness survival activities before. This kind of activity, which can greatly exercise the will, for a person who is alone on a desert island, at least has a strong psychological pillar to rely on. Don't break down emotionally and end up going crazy.

Well, without further ado. Now is the first time I have come to this isolated island is the night of the seven days.

In these seventeen days, I have been able to confirm that the island is in an unexplored phase. In human terms, it's a desert island. A desert island with no traces of human activity other than me.

As for why I'm so sure, it's because I've never found any signs of human activity on the beach. And as the most abundant ocean, there are no survivors like me, and this wine is a good proof of the fact that this island is uninhabited.

During these 17 days, I managed to obtain fresh water through the evaporation of sunlight.

This is definitely good news. Getting fresh water meant I didn't have to drink coconut water anymore.

By the way. I've been drinking coconut water for almost ten days. No matter how delicious and sweet the coconut water is, no matter how natural and pollution-free it is, if you continue to drink it for so many days, you will go crazy.

For the solar evaporation method -- that's what I call it. As for what the professional term is called, I don't have the heart to care.

The so-called sunlight evaporation method is actually the use of sunlight to evaporate seawater to obtain fresh water. This is not an uncommon approach. In water-scarce countries around the world, this approach is used to obtain fresh water. As for how to evaporate, this is so simple that I won't describe them one by one. As long as you can evaporate, then you have succeeded.

All I have to think about now is tomorrow's trip.

As I said earlier, I have traveled around this island in the past ten days. In the past ten days, in addition to sleeping and foraging, according to my travel speed, I have been able to preliminarily estimate that the area of this small island is about 200 square kilometers.

Of course, this is only a preliminary estimate. The real area may be even larger, I don't know.

For more than ten days, I wandered around the beach without entering the interior of the island. And even if you have to enter, the farthest one is only a few tens of meters deep. Because according to the concept at the time, as long as I walked along the beach, I would definitely find traces of human activity and be rescued. And one of the most direct reasons for not entering the island is also what I thought at the beginning. That is, there is no need for me to abandon the ocean, a rich resource, and enter the interior of a small island full of dangers. Unless I can't catch any more food from the ocean.

One might ask why I didn't mention a crucial point when I know so much about survival in the wilderness. Well, I'll mention it now.

That's the one question I can't accept the most. The level of unacceptability is even higher than the fact that I am stranded on this small island.

That's positioning.

That's right, it's positioning.

I don't know when this method of positioning came about, and I don't care where it came from, and then it was improved by whom. In addition to being a non-complaining person, I am also a pragmatist. As long as I think this thing works, I don't care where it came from.

Well, no more nonsense. Positioning.

There are many ancient methods of positioning. Note that I'm talking about positioning, not discerning direction. Although the two are related, they are fundamentally different. If you want to find the right direction, just look up at the sun or look at the growth rings of the trees.

However, regarding positioning, it is possible to measure the approximate position of oneself based on a series of tools that can be used at hand around oneself. The crudest part is the ability to determine whether you are in the Northern Hemisphere or the Southern Hemisphere. The most accurate, able to determine their own latitude and longitude.

The easiest way to measure this is with your own body. It can be judged by the angle formed by the split feet, supplemented by certain markers such as the sun, watch hands, shadows, etc. The most complex is the computational approach. But I hope you will forgive me that this method is too boring and complicated to describe. It's so much that I don't even want to try. (Although I tried it in the end)

Okay, having said all that, it's better to just say that the results of my measurements are going to be real.

As a result, I couldn't pinpoint my position. Even the northern and southern hemispheres have no way of knowing for sure. Without giving up, I came up with one last method. That's ocean currents. This is one of the hardest of the most difficult measurements. Based on the trajectory of the currents, I was able to know the approximate area I was in.

(Crying and laughing)

As a result, I couldn't measure it at all.

The island was surrounded by reefs, and even if the markers I threw could drift through the criss-crossed undercurrents to the open ocean, they would not have been observable with my naked eyes. Unless I can go out into the ocean.

And the consequence of doing so is nothing more than looking for death. I don't want to say much about the reasons.

Well, no. Some people may not be able to figure out where I am. Then I'll make it a little clearer. That's the sunrise on this island, and it's completely irregular.

No, not sunrise. It is the trajectory of the sun.

All positioning methods, as long as you don't go out of the solar system to a place where the sun's rays can't shine, the positioning must rely on the sun. Without the sun, there is no shadow. Without a shadow, there is no way to locate.

And now the problem arises in the trajectory of the sun.

The trajectory of the sun on this small island...... It's a bit of a mystery.

But I was too careless at the time. When I woke up on this island for the first time, I didn't realize that the sun was rising in the east and setting in the east.

No, then I don't even have the ability to judge the direction. It is also possible that it rises in the west and falls in the west.

In this way, relying on the angle of the shadow to locate or something is completely useless.

Have you ever seen the sun rising and setting at the same time?

I've seen it now, anyway. And I've been seeing each other for more than ten days, and I'm a little tired of it.

After accepting this weird fact, I began to investigate why this is.

If I can figure out the strange cause of the sun's movement on this island, then I can orient myself. That way, I'll be able to find a way out of the island.

And to figure that out, I think I'm going to have to go into a place that I desperately don't want to enter.

This place to buy is deep behind me on the island.

I'm a pragmatist, but I'm also a scientist. Let's not say that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but at least it rises from one side and sets from the other.

Wait a minute.

The rise and setting of the sun is related to the rotation of the earth around the sun and the rotation of the earth. If it is true that the sun rises from one side and sets from the same side, then it means that either the earth does not rotate completely, but only rotates 180 degrees counterclockwise, and then rotates 180 degrees counterclockwise or clockwise, and then turns back.

Of course, it is also possible that there is a problem with the rotation of the earth. In short, the rise and fall of the sun is already a fact. Then the problem must lie in the rotation or revolution of the earth. In other words, whether it is revolution or rotation, there is one side of the earth that will definitely not receive sunlight.

Can't get sunlight? Damn, didn't that become an extremely cold region? How can it be? Before I came to the island, the world was peaceful. There are only the South and North Poles on Earth.

Forget it, the more you think about these questions, the more boundless they become.

I stopped thinking.

The main reason for stopping thinking is that the big lobster and crab in front of me are about to be charred. If I hadn't taken it out quickly, I would have had to eat dirt tonight.

Either way, there's only one thing I have to do now. That is, when it dawns tomorrow, I will go deep into the interior of the island and find out what the hell is going on. Until then, I need to get a good night's sleep and face everything that will happen tomorrow.

And I always believe that no matter how much the sun changes on this island, I am still alive on Earth.

A place where I grew up and lived to the present day. That's it.

Well, good night. I'll see you tomorrow at dawn.

(Write!) Finish! Finish! ）