Chapter Twenty-Six: Robinson Crusoe (Part I)

For the veteran traveler of infinite space who has traveled through various worlds, faced the gods and demons of the heavens, and experienced countless adventures, the plot world of "Robinson Crusoe" can indeed be called an absolutely warm, absolutely safe, and absolutely boring place.

- Robinson Crusoe, a world-famous novel, the originator of desert island survival literature and farming novels, was written in 1719 by the English writer Daniel O Defoe. Among the more famous Western classical novels today, "Robinson Crusoe" can be said to be a very early predecessor ("War and Peace", "Les Miserables" and so on were born about a century and a half later).

The theme of this novel is simple, basically survival on a tropical desert island, but it also alludes to the enterprising adventurous spirit of Europeans in the Age of Discovery, reflecting their ambitions and dreams of opening up and conquering the world - the protagonist Robinson Crosso, born into a middle-class family in Yorkshire, England, was taught by his father to be content with the philosophy of contentment. But the new world overseas tempted him like an irresistible attraction, and the ambitious Robinson finally abandoned the comfortable and mediocre life to set sail. The first time he went to sea he almost drowned, and the second time he was taken captive by pirates, and after escaping, he made a fortune on a plantation in Brazil. But he still longed for the excitement and excitement of sailing, so he went to Africa to trade black slaves, but he was shipwrecked again on the way, and was stranded on a desert island alone, thus starting a long island career of 28 years.

On this uninhabited tropical desert island in the South Pacific, Robinson did not give up on himself, but after overcoming the initial pessimism and despair, he immediately threw himself into the struggle to conquer nature, relying on his own hands, relying on the wisdom of his mind, using the simple tools left on the ship, overcoming countless difficulties, and miraculously leaving many traces of human civilization on the desert island - building houses, digging caves, building fences, taming goats, growing grains, making canoes, baking pottery, processing flour, baking bread, etc, so that their "life is very rich". In the end, he had his own plantation, ranch, two residences, a lot of furniture, and even a lively family of dogs, cats, sheep, and parrots. These tasks were not easy, and each of them took a lot of labor and a long time, but he always failed again and again, and he was never discouraged...... This infinite courage and perseverance to conquer nature gave Robinson's image a great artistic charm.

Of course, as a typical European colonist, while playing the legendary poem of conquest of nature, Robinson did not forget to conquer mankind, using muskets and the Bible to convince the local natives, so that "Friday" willingly became his faithful servant. He fought tenaciously against nature for half his life, both to survive and to possess more wealth and land: before anyone else appeared on the island, Robinson proclaimed himself king of the desert island, and proudly said, "Everything here is mine." He then forced the rest of the island to admit that he was his subject. Even after returning to England, Robinson did not forget the hard work he had built on the island, always trying to maintain his rule over the island, and waging war with the natives of the vicinity, not unlike the American pioneers who would bloody the Indians in the future......

Closer to home, while Robinson Crusoe is a wonderfully written novel, it's a very boring place for the traveler who actually sets foot in it - no monsters, no beauties, no treasures, just a scruffy English man, and, of course, a bunch of cannibals and a bunch of European pirates......

Fortunately, when Wang Qiu and Haruhi Lianggong, who unfortunately fell into the water, finally bypassed the reef and swam to the empty beach of this tropical desert island, they saw neither cannibals nor pirates in their field of vision, only Senior Sister Ma Tong wore a wet head, wearing a very sci-fi tight swimsuit, lazily lying in the middle of the beach, groggy and basking in the sun. With sunglasses on her face and a bottle of sunscreen, a can of sports drink and a dagger at hand, as well as a change of damp clothes, she was clearly in a relatively moist situation.

“…… Hey, Senior Sister Ma Tong, get up quickly, hurry up, is this a place to sleep with peace of mind? You think you're in Hawaii? ”

Seeing the lazy appearance of this rotten female senior sister as if she was on a seaside vacation, Wang Qiu was really angry, and hurriedly rushed forward, shook her shoulders vigorously, and shouted at her, "...... Have you ever met Robinson or 'Friday,'? Where else are the others? ”

“…… Don't shake it, people aren't asleep" Ma Tong muttered dissatisfiedly, but finally barely opened his eyes, "...... I swam for a full hour to get ashore, and my bones were broken, and my legs were cramping, so I had to rest for a while before I could walk......"

- Well, it seems that the location of Senior Sister Ma Tong's landing in the sea seems to be unfortunately farther away from the island than Wang Qiu and Haruhi Suzumiya.

“…… And what about the others? Wang Qiu continued to ask, "...... You look like you got this dress out of Doraemon."

“…… Ah yes, he and Yuki Nagato and Kazuki Furuizumi came ashore earlier than me, and it seems that they were on the shore as soon as they came out, so it was good luck" Ma Tong turned over and said with a sigh, "...... They had all gone to Robinson's beach house to search for it now, but Robinson didn't seem to be there...... If you want to find them, go over to them yourself, under the cliff behind you, surrounded by a fence......"

She stretched out a hand diagonally, pointing at the only visible trace of civilization in her field of vision: a fence of stakes beneath a mountain cliff......

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Robinson's so-called "beach house" is not far from the beach, under a not-so-high cliff. In front of the cliff is a small flat meadow, no more than a hundred meters wide and less than two hundred meters long. Underneath the meadow is a gentle slope that stretches to the beach by the sea.

Perhaps because the land is so barren, except for the circle of coconut trees by the beach, the vegetation is quite scarce on both the cliffs and the gentle slopes, and the trees are even more scarce, so even if there are no roads, ordinary people can easily walk all the way from the sea to the edge of the cliff.

In order to defend what little possessions he had against possible thieves, Robinson planted a ring of sturdy wooden stakes outside the "beach house", the top of which was sharpened. Then ropes were tied and reinforced with rammed earth to form a semicircular fence so strong and strong that neither man nor beast could rush in or climb over it. Inside the fence were Robinson's wooden huts and caves that were used to store valuable food, tools, firearms, and belongings. As for the entrance and exit of the villa, he did not make a door on the fence, but used a short ladder to climb in from the top of the fence, and after entering it, he put away the ladder. This allows you to be completely isolated from the outside world and have peace of mind at night.

However, Robinson soon realized that there was no need to be so heavily guarded on this uninhabited island. And when the real invaders appeared, a fortification of this level would not be of any use at all......

For example, at this moment, when Wang Qiu flew over the "beach house" with a [bamboo dragonfly], he saw that Doraemon had a [wall ring] on the fence, and Doraemon, Kazuki Furuizumi, and Yuki Nagato were busy rummaging through the wooden houses and caves, throwing everything they could find, such as gold and silver coins, into the [automatic pawn machine...... made Wang Qiu stunned and stunned for a while.

――Is this an empty door? Or is it a raid? Hmm, it seems like both mean the same thing?

“…… Hey, Doraemon, I'm really a human being, didn't I keep saying that I had to abide by the law and didn't want to break the law and commit crimes? But what are you doing now? Taking advantage of the owner's absence, go to someone else's house to break into the empty door and steal something? Where have you fallen into your discipline? ”

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