Chapter 646: The Great Failure to Survive in the Wilderness (Part 2)
After Hal's heroic sacrifice, the glider was finally made, but Arthur was not too keen on this kind of transportation. He would rather walk directly, as having his feet off the ground would make him feel insecure.
However, this was not the case for pilot Hal. After the initial failure, he fell in love with the feeling of soaring into the sky.
It's different from sitting in the cockpit of an airplane. I'm flying through the wind of nature, listening to the sounds of streams and waves, and standing side by side with seabirds all over the sky, just like a piece of light feather. Every time I glide, Hal's heart is blown away.
I feel very intoxicated.
However, this was to solve the problem of rushing, so after gliding a few times, Hal took on the responsibility of transporting goods.
The efficiency of the fishing trap is indeed extremely high. After a while, several plump sea fish were caught, which was perfect for stewing in soup.
With the efforts of Hal, Bruce and Arthur, the salt drying field was initially completed.
The location for drying salt was finally chosen next to a flat sandy area downstream of the creek. It is relatively close to both Danshui and sea water, so it is relatively convenient.
The salt particles simply condensed by drying the seawater are coarse salt, which tastes very bitter and contains many chemicals that are not suitable for absorption and cannot be eaten directly. However, the ancient method of drying salt has long solved this problem.
The coarse salt obtained by sun-drying salt is dissolved in water again to form a saturated brine, which is then filtered through the dense fiber fabric used by Bruce to make hang gliding wings to filter out most of the insoluble impurities.
After that, use the stone pot used for cooking to boil saturated salt water. During the boiling process, the water in the saturated salt water will evaporate, and the corresponding salt will crystallize and adhere to the inner wall of the stone pot.
Scrape off this part of the salt and repeat the operation several times. At this time, this part of the salt is ready for consumption.
However, since sea salt also contains some soluble impurities, which give the salt a bitter taste, to remove these impurities, burned plants must be used.
Plant ash contains potassium carbonate, which can be used directly as potassium fertilizer when planting, or it can also be used to decompose the bitter components in table salt.
Bruce found some relatively dry plants, burned them into ashes, added the ashes to a large pot of salt water, and then continued to boil them at high temperatures. In this way, the crystals precipitated on the pot became non-toxic and edible.
, and only tastes as salty as table salt.
Of course, this kind of salt is generally called coarse salt in modern society, and it is incomparable with the refined salt produced in factories. However, it is this kind of coarse salt that is used to process meat in many areas.
Salt, they believe that the minerals in coarse salt are good for the body.
Therefore, after processing at this step, the salt can be used directly. When living on a desert island, if you omit the subsequent steps of purification and plant ash, you only need to boil it several times and the salt you get will be barely enough.
Bruce, who used it but pursued perfection, finally came up with white fine salt that is similar to modern table salt.
After doing all this, it was already dark. The three of them had been busy all afternoon. They were all hungry at this time, but they were very satisfied. Especially Arthur and Hal, they both felt that they had broadened their horizons. They did not expect it at all.
You can also make salt from sea water in this way.
The next step was to bring the salt back and start processing the meat, but by the time they returned to the cave, Schiller and Oliver were asleep and hadn't even eaten dinner.
The reason may be the spark between a doctor who is not a quack but whose surgical skills are not that good, and a completely disobedient patient.
First of all, Schiller is not a surgeon, but because he has worked in a hospital, he can barely deal with some trauma. What makes him better than ordinary people is that even if it is not done well, he can still use gray fog to repair it.
Moreover, DC Schiller has always been relatively radical in terms of medical style. In terms of trauma treatment, he has also inherited this radical style and basically doesn't care much about other people's struggles.
And Oliver, even if he has been struggling to survive here for three months, can't erase the fact that he was once a rich boy with tender skin and tender flesh.
At first, with the support of his will to survive, he was able to forget all pain and just want to live. But after he was full of wine and food, sleepiness came over him, and he returned to the illusion of pampering.
Because of this, he is particularly sensitive to pain. Coupled with Schiller's extremely rough techniques, the two cannot be said to be doctors and patients, but can only be said to be in harmony.
If he could use special abilities, Schiller could definitely hold down Oliver, but the problem was that he couldn't, so he couldn't let the gray mist knock Oliver out.
Because of the existence of the gray mist, Schiller's body has extremely powerful physical strength, but without using the tentacles of the gray mist, Schiller only has two arms and two legs. He has to separate one
Use your hand to treat the wound, then only one hand is left to hold Oliver down.
Facts have proved that even with great strength, it is difficult to completely suppress an adult who is struggling in pain with one hand. In the end, Schiller almost strangled Oliver to death before finally finishing it for him.
Wound.
Both of them had spent a lot of energy, so while the other three were busy trying to survive in the wilderness, they had already fallen asleep in the cave.
Oliver really fell asleep, and Schiller was just using sleep to calm down his anger that he wanted to strangle the future Green Arrow here.
Seeing that the two of them were asleep, the other three people did not intend to bother setting up a pot for cooking. They simply set up a fish grill, processed the fish they had just caught, put it on a skewer, and started grilling the fish.
At noon, Hal's seafood sauce was not used up yet. Two fish were brushed with sauce, one fish was sprinkled with salt, and the other fish was cut into fish meat and put into coconut, and the fish soup was stewed with the coconut milk.
There was a burst of fragrance coming from the platform outside the cave, the night breeze on the island gave a hint of coolness, the sky and the coast were connected, and the stars twinkled in the dark blue night sky.
"Do you know? This time I went home and my parents apologized to me..." Hal took a bite of the fish and was burned. He kept breathing in his mouth. His eyes looked a little red, maybe because
The food is too hot and the night breeze is too cold.
"They no longer prevent me from becoming a pilot, and they no longer even force me to stay near Beach City. They even told me in a consultative tone that it would be great if I could go home once a month.
…”
"If they had said this to me a few years ago, I would have been ecstatic, almost jumping with joy, feeling that they were finally reasonable..." Hal brought the fish soup over, took a sip, and pumped hard.
No one could tell whether he shed tears because he was burned.
"But I think they are old. I thought I had been away from home for decades. They are really old..."
"Parents are like this. If you leave for a long time, when you come back, you will find that they are really much older." Arthur also said, he took a bite of the grilled fish, spit out the thorns, and then
Said: "When I went fishing with distant water, I only went to sea for more than three months. When I came back, my father seemed to have aged 30 years..."
"Did you know? There is a legend in Blüdhaven..." Arthur sneezed because of the boiling fish soup. He sniffed hard and said, "If a child follows a big boat out to sea to fish, and
Parents go to church and pray to God. Then, when their children are in danger of being killed in a shipwreck, God will take away some of their life span and let the children return safely..."
"Bullshit," Bruce commented.
"The point of this story is that in Blüdhaven, when every young sailor goes to sea, every pair of parents will go and pray for them. Even if they know that this may damage their lifespan, they still have to do it.
Including my father."
Bruce was silent. Hal glanced at him and changed the topic without any trace. He said: "Bloodhaven and Seaside City are really similar. This city should have been better developed."
"I read the history of Seaside City in a fishing magazine." Arthur swallowed the last bite of grilled fish and said, "You are lucky to have encountered the gold rush and developed the city, but in fact, I
I don’t envy you, because Blüdhaven is really peaceful. If someone really comes to dig for gold, those foreigners will definitely cause trouble, and I don’t want that.”
Hal nodded and said: "It is true that big cities are better than big cities, but small towns and villages are not necessarily bad. Everyone likes their hometown the most, whether it is a city or a country..."
This sentence made Bruce think. He thought that among the several reasons for becoming Batman to fight criminals, "he loves Gotham" was not one of them. At least that was what he thought before.
This damn sinful city has nothing worth remembering, but it has brought him the heaviest scars.
However, when he sees the possibility of Gotham changing for the better, he still feels a little inspired and excited.
It is not until they have left thousands of miles away that people realize that they have an eternal hometown, and the same is true for Bruce.
When he mentioned the words hometown and hometown, the first place that came to his mind was still the dark city.
All the residents in this city feel that it is not good enough, but they would rather admit that they are bad than indulge in this bizarre dark abyss and have the wildest nightmares, and Batman is no exception.
The rising sensibility made Bruce feel nervous and anxious. He was completely unsuited to this sensibility, so he wanted to find something to do to get rid of this emotion.
He threw away the grilled fish sticks, stood up, clapped his hands, and said, "I think you have almost rested. There is still a lot of work to do. We have to spend more time and energy to survive on the desert island."
energy……"
Hal and Arthur, who were already full and sleepy, looked at each other and sighed helplessly.
The next morning, Schiller woke up and opened his eyes. The sunlight outside the cave was particularly dazzling. He stretched out his hand to cover his eyes and slowly walked outside the cave, wanting to go out and breathe some fresh air.
Then, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at the densely packed pulley devices outside the cave and the zip lines that were densely covered in the rain forest like spider webs.