One Hundred Days on an Uninhabited Island

When rainwater seeps into the soil, it is likely to gather underground to form groundwater, and when it seeps into rocks, it may drip in a hole in the rocks, but the infiltrated rainwater will eventually be lost due to Supplies terminated.

Of course, if it is an island with frequent rainy seasons, the dripping water in the cave may last for a long time, which may be the case for the dripping water in the cave they found.

At the beginning, Wen Siqi thought the same way. After two days of observation, she felt that it was not only rainwater dripping, the water dripping in the cave was not fast, but it was definitely not slow. The speed should have been over long ago, but judging by the signs of dripping water, it was clearly not just rain seepage.

In other words, there is a water vein for the dripping water in the cave to waste. This water vein is most likely coming from the crater. This is why Wen Siqi still has to find a water source when there is a method of distilling seawater.

After hearing Wen Siqi's analysis, Jiang Xinran and the others thought for a while and discussed with each other, and agreed with Wen Siqi's decision to find a water source.

A stable, effortless water source, which may be used for them for a long time, is worth choosing over distilled seawater. Even if the water quality is a bit poor, it will be burned again in the end. Let you go, don’t you choose?

As for the candidates...

Tell Lin Jianfei and the old man about water use and finding water sources. Neither of them objected to this. It's time to go out, and the others stay in the camp.

After assigning the next target tasks, the group will start the day's work.

Wen Siqi led the water source search team to go to the jungle to find soil for pottery. After assigning tasks, they set off.

After the three left, the others were ready to do their own thing.

The old man was in charge of distilling seawater. Taking advantage of the seawater heating, he repaired the fishing net that Wen Suiyun picked up. As long as he reconnected the broken parts, he could take a raft to a place farther from the coast. go fishing.

It’s just a pity that the speed is slower, the fishing net line is too thin, and the tangle is also messy. The eyes of the old man can’t see it. corner.

The old lady is weaving a pannier.This island is much bigger than the last one, even if it takes a whole day to go around, or one day is not enough, not to mention looking for water from the rainforest, this time must be more than a day or two, it is impossible not to drink during this period Water, whether there is water on the road is an uncertain factor, so you need a basket with more water and take it with you.

The material for weaving the baskets is the rattan found in the jungle. There are plenty of rattans in this thing. Take out a few thicker rattans and arrange them in a star shape, then tie the intersections with bark, and then Take the cane of Ezeki and weave it spirally along the rubber cane.

The weaving method is very easy, and the old lady quickly made an outline.

Han Tang sat beside her under a coconut tree weaving straw sandals.

Compared with the coir raincoat, which may be useless in sunny days, they should have a pair of straw sandals to protect their feet when they go into the jungle all day long, especially for the three people who are going to explore the island. The project of the coir raincoat was put aside.

The method of weaving straw sandals is learned from a wilderness survival video I saw on the Internet. The UP owner did not bring anything except photography equipment into a primitive rainforest in southern Xinjiang to survive. The equipment from head to toe depends on brains and Made with both hands, straw sandals are one of them, and she also tried to do them in her free time. She has a deep memory and just came in handy.

The knitting tools were entrusted to the old man to make them in a hurry last night, and an embroidery stretcher was made with the tree vines that became soft after baking, which is the embroidery tools used to be, so that the weaving of straw sandals will be more convenient.

Then use the bark to make some horizontal and vertical intersecting warp and weft threads on the embroidery frame, and weave on it, because she has had hands-on experience, and she seems to have a lot of talent in this aspect, and she is not a bit unfamiliar at this time. The feeling, come at your fingertips.

The speed is also slower. After all, the binding is more compact, and it takes more time than using two feet to fix it. It is more durable to weave one casually, and it is not easy to be pierced by branches through the gap to the feet.

Moreover, she can't reach her feet now.

I heard there are other ways, but she doesn't know how.

The source of the bark is to rely on Wang Zhenzhen and Ye Yajie to pick it up. There are many thin-skinned and tender trees in the jungle. You don’t need to go too deep, you can see one or two when you look up, and the growth is not very thick. Use a few more axes After peeling off the skin, Ye Yajie peeled it off with her hands, and a large piece could be peeled off without much effort.

The two of them cooperated harmoniously, but they liked to talk a little bit. Yao Yanan, who came to chop firewood with Mu Jie, listened to each other's cordial greetings nearby for a long time.

Then Wen Suiyun tore the peeled bark into the size Han Tang needed.

At this time, the sun was still not strong, and the mountain wall on the east side blocked the sun even more. The elongated shadow made the beach quite cool, and this coolness brought faster efficiency to their operations.

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In the jungle, Wen Siqi and the others couldn't hear the sound of the waves clearly after traveling for half an hour. The denser vegetation blocked the light so that only shallow shadows remained, and their progress slowed down a lot.

"Brother Lin—"

"careful!"

Two voices sounded one after the other, followed by the pulling force from behind and the pulling force on the arms, Lin Jianfei quickly retracted the step that had not yet landed.

"Is there something?"

Looking around, Lin Jianfei didn't find anything. There were only insects and other sounds in his ears that had been buzzing since he entered the jungle, and he couldn't tell whether there were other creatures approaching from them.

Wen Siqi glanced at Jiang Xinran, who looked away, and raised her hand straight to a bush half a step in front of Lin Jianfei's right, "There is a snake, green."

Lin Jianfei looked in the direction she pointed, and there was indeed a snake, which was swimming on the bushes, moving quickly, and was still looking at them at this moment, sticking out its long tongue.

It is a very slender snake, it looks a bit flat at first glance, like kelp in a snake, its whole body is green, mixed in the mainly green bushes, like a color-changing lizard that is difficult to find, if it is not for Wen Siqi and Jiang Xinran to pull it, Maybe he just touched it.

"Bamboo Leaf Green?"

The green snake, Lin Jianfei subconsciously thought of the snake with the most elegant name and the strongest venom, and it was also the only snake he could find that matched the color of the snake in front of him.

"It doesn't look like it. I remember that Zhuyeqing's body is not as slender as this one, and the tail is not pure green, and the head seems to be bigger than it."

Wen Siqi observed slightly, and found that this snake was slightly different from the Zhuyeqing in memory, especially the pure green tail, which was obviously different from Zhuyeqing's slightly yellow tail.

"Could it be the green skinny snake? I've seen a snake like it in the pictures. It's name is the green skinny snake. It's slightly poisonous."

Jiang Xinran was closer to the side, out of the attack range of the snake, and closer than Wen Siqi and Lin Jianfei.

"Let's go around."

Regardless of whether the snake in front of him was a green and thin snake, in order to avoid unnecessary troubles caused by being regarded as an intruder, Wen Siqi felt that it was necessary to take a step back.

Besides, she didn't want to have any more dealings with snakes.

Touching the arm, the cold and slippery feeling that I touched a few days ago reappeared at this moment, goosebumps arose, and Wen Siqi's face became a little ugly, so she took a step around first.

Lin Jianfei quickly followed, while Jiang Xinran followed after watching Wen Siqi who didn't look back for a while.

The three of them walked along the mountain wall. Firstly, they might find water veins that supply the cave with dripping water. Secondly, the soil along the mountain wall is relatively moist, and there might be suitable clay.

However, since they came in, they haven't found a suitable clay for making clay pots. Either the sand is mixed too much, or the particles of the mixture are too large. When you pinch it, it's obvious that it's all inferior goods.

Although the soil can be soaked and stirred and then filtered, and the obtained mud can be dried to obtain a smaller particle of soil, but this is a waste of time, because they don't have so much water to soak and stir it, and they don't have a suitable mixing container. , you can't take the bucket of boiling water to stir it.

As they moved forward, they dug some soil at intervals to see if it was suitable. The three of them walked for another half an hour.

It was past nine o'clock on the island, and they finally found suitable clay in a place where there were traces of water washing, and not far from it, they could see a puddle, which was obviously much larger than the puddle found on the previous island. , It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small pool.

At the other end of the puddle, Wen Siqi also found a waterway that was about to disappear.

According to the traces they saw, Wen Siqi and the others speculated that this waterway might have been a stream a long time ago. Later, for some reason, the water channel was diverted and no longer passed through here. It is small, and water seeps into the ground again, and there is no trace of it on the other side of the puddle.

The three of them couldn't help feeling a burst of joy at this guess. If it was true, then there must be a stream nearby or farther away.

How can this make them not excited.

"Let's put aside the matter of the water source for now, let's see if the soil is suitable for making clay pots."

Is there really a current?Where is the current?These are still uncertain guesses, verification will take some time, but instead of searching now, Wen Siqi immediately suppressed her excitement.

He bent down and grabbed a handful of soil.

It just happened that there was a heavy rain some time ago, and the rainwater flowed through here, digging up the layer of sediment on the waterway, and you can feel the moisture of the soil.

Squeeze it, not much gritty, nice stickiness.

"Just try it with the dirt here."

"it is good."

Lin Jianfei put down the iron bucket he brought and started digging the soil.

This bucket was found by Wen Suiyun together with the fishing net. It was not flat at the time. It took Lin Jianfei some time to forcefully knock it back to its original shape. Unfortunately, it can't be used as a bucket because it has holes, but it can still hold soil.

There is not much clay that can be dug in one place, and a layer of silt can be hung up, and a few pieces of clay can be dug out, and then there will be silt again, which is not viscous enough.

Fortunately, this waterway is a bit long, and the excavated soil filled a bucket, and there is still a small section that has not been excavated.

"That's all for now, let's go back first, and then come back with a few bottles and get some water."

Except for this bucket, the self-defense spears in their hands, and a bottle of water to quench their thirst, they didn't bring anything else. The water in the puddle definitely couldn't be brought back together this trip, and they had to go again.

Fortunately, they walked along the mountain wall all the way. Although they made a detour before, they detoured back at the end. There is no need to be afraid of getting lost, and there is no need to make unnecessary gestures, just go straight.

Jiang Xinran and the two of them naturally did not object, they nodded one after another, Lin Jianfei picked up the bucket, turned around and walked back, Wen Siqi walked last.