Chapter 638: City and Wilderness (Part II)
Oliver Quinn, a pampered rich boy since childhood, was pushed into the sea for some reason, drifted to a desert island, and survived alone for three months on this isolated island in the harsh sea conditions.
Generally speaking, this situation is unlikely, and the probability of being able to encounter an island floating in the ocean is very low, and it is almost impossible to survive here without any survival knowledge and skills.
However, Oliver, who later became Green Arrow, is not only more tenacious than ordinary people, but also has better luck than ordinary people.
The place where he was pushed into the water was not far from the island, and his perennial fitness habits ensured that he had enough physical strength to float on the water and successfully disembark from the island's shallows.
But again, he was unfortunate that this season was the season when tropical storms often came, and as soon as he came ashore, he encountered a storm that consumed so much physical strength that he could not maintain a good rhythm of survival for a long time afterward.
Desert Island Survival is not as simple as many people think, in the desert island survival game, players can see their survival values, when they are hungry, when they are thirsty, they can judge by the hunger bar and the water bar.
However, in the real world, there is no such data, Oliver has just experienced the storm, and he has consumed a lot of physical strength, but he does not have an accurate judgment, he mistakenly thinks that he is still energetic, so he plans to climb to the top of the cliff, the highest point of this isolated island, to see if he can see the ship.
However, the terrain was far more difficult to walk than he had imagined, and he was already hungry halfway through.
At this time, the most fatal problem appeared, although Oliver had no experience in wilderness survival, he finally knew that fruits and mushrooms in the wild could not be eaten casually, so the road to eat plants to fill his stomach was blocked.
Then all that's left is to hunt and eat meat, and there are a lot of prey in the rainforest, with birds in the sky, fish in the water, and turtles on the beach, and the problem is that he can't deal with any of them.
He couldn't catch birds or fish with his bare hands, he had to make tools, but to make tools, he needed to find raw materials, and to get them, he had to spend physical strength collecting plants or groping for stones.
But because he had misjudged his physical strength before, by the time he realized that he was hungry, he had no strength to do these things.
The vast majority of the losers who survive in the wilderness fail for this reason, human beings know very little about their own bodies, and there are many abnormal conditions that cannot be discovered at the first time, and when they are discovered, they are irreversible.
However, Oliver's luck was a little better than the others, and he found a creek with some small fish in the puddle at the drop of the creek, which he could catch without much effort.
This small fish didn't have much meat, but it was quite a lot of it, and it was easy to obtain, and it was just after the storm was over, and the fish came to the surface one after another, and they were directly caught by Oliver, and after they were killed and disposed of, they didn't have time to light a fire to grill the fish, and they were sent into their mouths. …
"Seriously, the smell wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be, maybe because I was so hungry at the time that I thought they were delicious......" Oliver said as he lit a fire in the cave.
"If you eat it raw, fish is already relatively good, especially when the fish is clean, at least it doesn't smell strange." Arthur nodded and said.
"But you have to watch out for parasites, the kind of fish you're talking about should be a fish in the water, right? Parasites are still quite scary. Schiller reminded.
Oliver shook his head and said, "I'm more afraid of starvation than parasites, and for a long time, it was this group of small fish that ensured that I didn't starve to death, and I survived the early stage smoothly." ”
"And after that?" Arthur asked with some curiosity, he had never heard such a Robinsonian adventure story, so he was very interested in it.
"After regaining my strength, I knew that the next storm would not be long before I had to find a shelter for myself, I wanted to build one for myself, but I found that I wouldn't ...... at all" Oliver had a look of helplessness on his face.
Expecting a rich boy to learn how to survive overnight was a fantasy, and in the beginning, Oliver had to use some dense palm leaves to entangle and tie them between two large trees to make an awning.
But because he didn't know how to weave, entanglement was to tie knots indiscriminately, and the shed had a very low lifespan and a lot of leaves, so he had to keep shifting his position so that there were enough palm trees for him to plow leaves.
The only good thing about guarding the creek is that there is no shortage of water, and the food problem can be solved temporarily, the only fatal thing is the impending tropical storm.
"After seven or eight days there, I realized that I had to get out of there, and if I didn't, I might die there the next time the storm came."
"I've got to find a place that's strong enough to be a shelter, and not just a place to put those leaves on top of my head."
"And then you found this cave?" Schiller asked,
"Yes, I consider myself lucky to have such a cave for me to take refuge in, but the problem here is that there is no food, the water source is far away, and I have to make tools to try hunting, otherwise I will starve to death."
Arthur's gaze fell on the bow in his hand, and he said, "You did this?" Not bad. ”
Oliver sighed and said, "I just remember the general shape of the bow and arrow, the string of the bow and arrow is still made of the fibers of palm leaves, and the elasticity is insufficient, so the bow and arrow cannot fly far, and because the tail of the arrow has no feathers to maintain balance, the accuracy is very poor." ”
"However, in my second month, I managed to hunt a wounded cormorant with this bow and have a full meal."
"It was that meal that sustained me until now, after that, I could only eat a few small lizards, or shells and hermit crabs that I stumbled upon, there are no large fleshy animals on this island, but if there were, I would probably die."
"Have you ever thought about fishing?" Schiller asked. …
Oliver showed an embarrassed expression and said, "I know how to fish, and I've participated in sea fishing, but ......"
"Oh, I see," Arthur made a knowing expression, and said, "It's normal, the old people who come to our tour are like that, they don't know the various brands of fishing rods, they don't know the difference between fishing lines, and what is the use of fishing bait, and if they don't catch it, they ask someone else to buy it." ”
"Of course, I don't deny that some people really like fishing, and I can talk to them quite a bit, but this group of rich people often like to underestimate sea fishing too much, and they don't think about it, the brand of fishing rod they use, the type of fishing line and the type of bait they use, in fact, are all good lessons learned by others."
"If I throw them on a desert island, they're afraid they won't be able to make a single rod, let alone make a line, catch bait, find a suitable place to put the rod, and change the timing of the rod depending on the rod and line type."
Oliver nodded, and said thoughtfully, "It's not that I haven't tried to make a fishing rod, and everyone knows that offshore fish are the best source of food......
"However, there is no pliable wood that can be used to make fishing rods, and the use of fiber to make the line is very bad, and I use small fish in the stream as bait, and there is no fish to bite the ......hook," Oliver sighed, and recounted his failure, saying:
"What's more, fishing on the deck of a cruise ship is completely different from being on the beach or on a reef, and sometimes it's hard for me to tell if the fish is hooked or not, and I can't feel it at all."
Referring to this part, Arthur was very interested, and he said: "I think, you use the same material as your arrow shaft to make a fishing rod, this kind of thing should be some kind of plant stem, but the hardness is too high, and it is too brittle, it is okay to make an arrow shaft, and it is easy to break halfway to make a fishing rod." ”
"Also, it is actually possible to use fiber to make fishing line, and the requirements for fishing line for offshore fishing are not high, but if you want to fish with a fishing line with little toughness, the technique is very important, and you must reel in time."
"And bait, it's fine to use the kind of small fish you mentioned, but maybe it's better to use their entrails......"
"Then why not give it a try?" Schiller turned his head to look outside and said, "The storm has stopped, it's time to go out and have a look." ”
A few people walked out along the door of the cave, and found that the plants on the island had been blown beyond recognition, Arthur turned back to Oliver and said, "You wait here, Professor Schiller, please take care of him, and I'll go find some materials to come back." ”
Because there were really no large predators on this island, although the resources were relatively expensive and scarce, they were not too dangerous, so the two let Arthur go out alone, and Arthur came back in less than half an hour, with a bunch of things in his hands.
He made a net out of the same material as his hat, which looked like a fishing net, but when he held the four corners, he could use it to hold things.
There was a small stone in it, a large mess of leaves, and some plant rhizomes, and he carried a slender log on his shoulder.
Arthur put these things on the ground, then pointed to them and said to the two of them, "Professor Schiller, please dispose of this stone, this half of it can be made into a pot, or a bowl, and this half will be sharpened later, and it will be used to cut fiber and wood later." ”…
Arthur saw that Schiller could dig such a large piece of rock wall, and knew that he had the ability to handle stones, so he specially brought back a large stone, which was relatively flat, wide up and down, left and right, but not very deep, so it was suitable for making a shallow pot, and the edge was just right for an axe.
"Let's go and separate the leaves, tear them into strips, and then go to the creek and get some water, and boil the water over the fire, and boil the fibers again."
"The boiled fibers will be tougher and stronger, and won't be as brittle as the original leaves." Arthur was at the head of the story, saying, "See this net? Although I use it to hold things, it's actually a small fishing net, a hand-cast net made by fishermen from boiled fibers, which can be used to cast the net to catch fish. ”
Arthur sat down and began to sort out the leaves, and he said, "I saw when I came, there were many fish in the vicinity, and it was better to cast a net to catch fish than a fishing rod." ”
"The storm has blown down a lot of big trees, so we can go and find some wood, make a small wooden boat, and throw the net a little further away from the shore, so that the fish in one net will be enough for us to eat for a long time."
Schiller looked at his face, Arthur was a little uncomfortable staring at him, and after a while, Schiller looked down at the stone and said, "I take back what I said before, you don't have to go to the metropolis to try it." ”
Schiller sighed, thinking in his heart that maybe he was arrogant enough to think that cities were all that human beings had, but in fact, there were many places on this earth that had not been set foot by humans, and there were many such wilderness and islands.
In the city, he can leisurely drink coffee, stand in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows and watch the rain, even if it is so cold in the Gotham night, it will only become his sleep music.
However, when you come to a deserted island, the conditions that determine survival are no longer the complex knowledge of those civilized societies, but the simple fishermen's scriptures in Arthur's mind.
Of the three, Arthur, who is the youngest, has never read anything, and has not experienced the life of a big city, can have an advantage in survival.
Soon, the sunlight shone through the thick clouds, and the water-stained plants became erect again.
Schiller thought that in a cartoon that focuses on cities and their people, few people will notice that these cities and people also inhabit this blue planet, and here, there is an incomparably vast world.
In just a few dozen minutes, the forest was once again full of life, and compared to this scene, the various stories that took place in the dark city were like small episodes in a grand performance.
Perhaps, a bat that has been living in a cave has been traveling around for more than ten years, but it has not had the patience to devote itself to the wilderness.
Therefore, I can only listen to the interlude with my ears, trying in vain to find artistry in the uncomplicated tune, until I feel that I am alone, and the music is high and low.
Thinking of this, Schiller suddenly smiled and said to Arthur, "You guys get it first, I'll go get some fresh air." With that, he left the cave.
Twenty minutes later, above the island, Schiller sat in the cab of the Batfighter and said, "Which button is to turn off the engine?" ”
Hal next to him swallowed and said, "Are you sure you want to do this?" I can't afford to pay for this thing. ”
"It's okay, someone can afford it."
As he spoke, Schiller lifted a transparent plastic cover and thumped the red button inside.
Dozens of seconds later, there was a violent tremor in the cave, and Arthur and Oliver turned their heads suddenly, and the flames of the explosion illuminated their faces and made their mouths open in shock.
At the same time, a voice full of doubts came from Wayne Manor:
"How did you crash??????"
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