"There's a problem there, and I don't recommend moving to a cabin."
There was a faint unsettling atmosphere in the wooden house, and coupled with the strange humanoid shadow he saw on the wall before leaving, Lu Li preferred to stay under the rock wall on the beach.
"What if I want to go?" said the woman in black robe, or Friday.
"You can do whatever you want, I'll stay here."
It was unwise to separate on an island located in the deep sea, but rather than go to the cabin on the top of the cliff, Lu Li would rather stay at a windproof point and wait for rescue.
"I'd rather rest in a hut than in a pit full of sand."
Friday got out of the windproof place and said that he seemed to be in a good mood.
Lu Li nodded and didn't say anything to persuade her. He gave her two cans of cans and half of matches: "This is yours. There is a path behind the rock wall that you can go up."
Lu Li didn't bring the oil lamp and bedding in the wooden house, so he could only leave them for Friday, when the fire would be lit here and the effect would be the same.
Friday accepted Lu Li's gift and waved to Lu Li: "If you change your mind, you can come and see me."
Watching Friday go around to the back of the rock wall, Lu Li withdrew his gaze and lowered his head to get under the windproof treatment.
The terrain of the windbreak is lower than that of the beach. The moist brown sand becomes narrower as you go inward, with a depth of less than two meters. However, there is plenty of space, enough for one person to lie down and start a fire. The trapezoid extends outward.
The overhead rock wall will not allow smoke to accumulate in the depressions.
It was just early morning, so Lu Li had plenty of time to prepare. But he had better get everything ready before noon - enough firewood; setting up a fire; raising the ground level at the edge of the windbreak to prevent rain; and building a wall outside the windbreak.
A wall of sand to protect you from the wind and block your view; leave eye-catching markings on the beach that can be spotted by passing ships; a source of drinkable water and possibly food.
After preparing these, rest until evening, wake up before nightfall, and stay awake to spend the whole night in a windproof place.
After planning how to arrange the wind break, Lu Li first pushed about five centimeters of moist gravel from the wind break to the outside of the wind break to make the bunker space more spacious. At the same time, he raised the ground outside. Then he took off his shirt and found it fifty meters away.
On a lighter-colored beach, take away a layer of relatively dry gravel on the surface, carry it back to a windproof place in your shirt pocket, and spread it evenly on the ground.
After three trips back and forth, a thin layer of light brown sand barely covered the dark gravel. This was not enough, so Lu Li spent more than ten minutes moving it several times to make the thickness of the dry sand reach one to two centimeters.
This is enough for now.
As long as the moisture is blocked, the underlying gravel will be further dried when the fire rises.
After patting off most of the sand on his shirt, Lu Li pursed his dry lips and decided to postpone his plan to collect firewood and search for water sources in advance.
He had been without water all night.
After checking the two psychic guns, there was nothing wrong with their appearance, and the silver-plated bullets had long been used up, so I couldn't test whether they could fire normally.
The psychic gun can still only be used temporarily as a fire stick.
Leaving the beach and entering the woods, Lu Li walked towards the direction where he observed a suspected water source on the rock wall.
The thick short boots made Lu Li unable to feel the stones and dry grass on his feet, and the warm wrap allowed Lu Li to maintain a touch of warmth in the slightly cool and gloomy weather.
Lu Li walked and stopped, his eyes wandering through the forest. From time to time, he bent down to pick up stones, put them away or throw them away.
Most of the stones left behind by him are thin and smooth on one side. They can be placed next to the fire, put pots or food on them, boil water and bake food.
Lu Li picked out a fairly sharp stone as a dagger and held it in his hand.
The 0.5-kilometer-sized island made it easy to go anywhere. A few minutes later, Luli was close to a suspected water source.
A faint rancid smell permeated the surrounding woods.
Lu Li slowed down his steps and approached in the direction of the rotting smell. He saw a humanoid corpse in front of a two-meter-large water pool.
The hand holding the stone tablet tightened, and then gradually relaxed. The humanoid corpse had a strange shape, short, and brown hair covered the body.
It's a monkey.
The dead monkey fell beside the water, with its head submerged in the water. The body was highly decomposed and its hair was tangled. It had been dead for at least half a month.
According to what Lu Li saw and heard along the way, it might be the last wild animal on this island.
The water is not deep, and the deepest part is barely above your calves, and it is almost dry. It looks quite clear, and you can see the mud and fallen leaves at the bottom of the water at a glance, but this is stagnant water and it has been polluted by corpses.
Lu Li wanted to find running water and boil it before drinking.
In this world, if you get sick from drinking water, there is almost no cure.
Unless he reached the point where he would die of dehydration and thirst if he didn't drink water, Lu Li had no intention of drinking the sewage in the pool.
Looking up here, you can see the small wooden house on the cliff top two hundred meters away. This is the suspected water source that Lu Li saw on the cliff top.
He has to find other water sources.
After circling the entire island, Lu Li failed to find any water source except to make his lips drier. He only found something on the other side of the rock wall - he picked up two empty jars.
One of them has been trampled and cannot be used, but the other one is still intact. If it doesn't leak, it can be used to boil water.
If you find water.
Returning to the beach from the other side of the cliff, Lu Li noticed a trace of dark water on the rock wall.
Perhaps it was the dew accumulated above, or perhaps it was the groundwater seeping out of the rock. A thin line of moist water traces extended from the top of the cliff, condensing into water droplets at the lowest end and dripping, wetting a small piece of gravel.
Lu Li reached out and dipped some into his mouth. The taste was bland. If you include the taste of sea salt on your fingers, the water was fresh water.
More importantly, it is living water.
Lu Li walked to the beach with the jar he picked up and filled up a jar of seawater. The lead-gray seawater became clear in the jar, rippling and making people want to drink it all.
After making sure that the jar would not leak, Lu Li used seawater to clean the stains on the inside and outside of the jar and returned to the rock wall.
Lu Li looked not far away. It was less than thirty meters away from the windbreak. It wouldn't take too much time to get water back and forth.
Looking away, Lu Li placed the jar below the waterline.
clatter--
clatter--
clatter--
Water drops fell, and the subtle sound of water drops came from the bottom of the jar.
The water drips very slowly, and it may take two hours or more to accumulate in the jar with a capacity of only 300 ml.
And it doesn't necessarily keep dripping.
This place can barely keep Lu Li from running out of water. It would be best for him to find other water sources. As long as he can find this kind of rock wall with clear water seeping through, it will be enough for Lu Li's daily drinking.
Other water sources…
Lu Li recalled the newspaper he had read the day before departure. The three-day weather forecast in the newspaper was cloudy and cloudy, but there had been some light rain in the previous two days.
He remembered that the forecasts were always inaccurate.