Chapter 12
I don’t know how this game works. We are in the same sea area, and the water flow and wind speed are the same. The only difference is that Li Mu’s float board has a few more blocks than hers. How come it is drifting farther and farther? Soon, only a black dot can be seen.
I slept too little and was exhausted after just getting up. I am a little sleepy now that I am full. However, considering that we are not very far from the island now, it will still be dangerous if someone chases us. Qiao Sheng did not dare to lie on the bed to catch up on sleep.
He took the dried coconuts and the tool bench for rubbing coconuts to the side of the water tank, and first took the machete and opened all the coconuts in the water tank filled with coconut water.
Sitting on the tool bench, facing the wood basin, he began to rub the coconut. Li Mu had taken away the pot of coconut oil that he had boiled before. He had to rely on the remaining coconut oil for cooking these two days. He might as well process some more coconut oil.
The newly installed seawater filter had already started working. Qiao Sheng was rubbing the coconut while observing. He completed two filtrations in one morning. He poured the fresh water into the water tank and measured it. It would be full in about five or six times.
In fact, the water tank was not big. It was estimated that Li Mu also considered the load-bearing capacity of the float when making it, and did not dare to make it too big.
When the first round of fresh water filtration was completed, the woodpile basin in front of Qiao Sheng was almost full of coconut flakes. He added fresh water and rubbed it repeatedly, and put the iron pot next to the woodpile basin. Before, the coconut flakes were squeezed by hand, and there was still a lot of coconut milk that could not be filtered out. Although there was no gauze now, there was cotton cloth.
He used a coconut bowl to put the coconut milk with coconut flakes in the woodpile basin into the scooped cotton cloth, and then squeezed the cotton cloth hard to leave the coconut flakes in the cloth, and squeezed the coconut milk into the iron pot. This was repeated many times before the coconut milk in the woodpile basin was filtered out.
After adding enough fuel to the stove, she moved the iron pot to the stove and started to boil coconut oil.
After finishing this, Qiao Sheng glanced and saw that the peppers in the two planting pots were ripe, so she quickly picked them. This was the only green vegetable she had, so she had to take good care of it.
After getting it in her hand, she checked the freshness. It was only ten days old. She originally wanted to plant more, but now it seems that it is enough to eat, and she can plant more as she eats. It’s a pity that she didn’t ask Li Mu if eating too many peppers would make her get a sore throat.
This broken game is full of pitfalls. There is a shortage of medical care and medicine now. If she really eats something bad, it will be a loss.
After searching the storage box, she confirmed that there were still a lot of potatoes, corns, and sweet potatoes, so she planted the ramie seeds and cotton seeds that Li Mu had given her before. Filling the storage box was what she wanted to do at this stage. Food and clothing always had to be put first.
After checking that there was enough fuel in the stove and that there was no problem with the coconut milk in the pot, Qiao Sheng took out the materials to expand the floating board. She had added a lot of things to the floating board in the past two days, and now she had to pay attention to her feet when walking around, for fear that she would accidentally bump something into the sea.
Qiao Sheng was also used to expanding the floating board. She made the floating board and the ropes, and tied them in twos, which were safe and strong.
Not long ago, the 3*3 floating board was added with seven more along the two sides, becoming a 4*4 shape. Now these sixteen floating boards are much larger, and the range of activities is finally not so crowded, and the things piled in the middle can be moved out.
The first thing to be moved out was the drying rack. The kelp on the rack had been dried, so they were taken down and stuffed into the storage box. There was nothing on the drying rack, so it was very convenient to move it. When Li Mu fixed it at the beginning, he should have considered the problem of movement, and the bottom of the rack was not fixed firmly.
Originally, Qiao Sheng thought she had to use a lot of strength to get the fixed place up. After a closer look, when it was installed, the support place was actually three-pronged. Some stones were tied with ropes and placed underneath to increase the weight and maintain balance. Now it is also very convenient to move.
All the movable things were moved to the outside, leaving a lot of space in the middle. I was just dissatisfied with the small range of activities, and I was not used to the sudden expansion. In the end, I put a few more storage boxes in the middle, and the float was full again, which made me feel comfortable.
After packing up the float, Qiao Sheng took a break for a while. When the coconut oil was ready, he wiped a glass bottle, found a colander, and poured the oil into it. There was still some oil at the bottom of the pot, which Qiao Sheng soaked on the rope and prepared to use as a torch fuel.
"I struggled for so long, but there was only this little oil. I need it for cooking and making fire. Why does this survival game make me so tired!" Qiao Sheng sighed and complained.
After turning off the fire in the stove, he checked his own value bar. Everything was safe. He looked around and didn't see any people or ships with his naked eyes. He lay down to take a nap while he was safe. He had slept late the day before and was in a hurry to run in the morning. At first, he just felt sleepy but not tired. When he finished all the work in front of him, he was tired and sleepy.
Lying on the bed, Qiao Sheng was still thinking that although he was a poor person, it was good to meet Li Mu, the little lucky star. Without him, she couldn't sleep on this wooden bed for two or three days after entering the game. Even if the bed was made of leaves, the pillow under her head was also made of leaves, and she was covered with a piece of cotton cloth, but this condition was estimated to be far beyond most players.
Qiao Sheng was a little confused after opening and closing her eyes. She looked at the sun for a long time before she realized that she had slept for an entire afternoon and the sun was about to set.
Without a mobile phone or a watch, it was impossible to set an alarm. But now, she always slept until she woke up naturally and she had to watch the sun to tell the time. This time, she knew clearly that the sun rose in the east and set in the west. Fortunately, her obsessive-compulsive disorder was not serious. If she met a strict person, he would be driven crazy.
She got up and lit the torch first. After sleeping for an entire afternoon, she checked her hunger level. It was not too much. However, considering that she had slept for a long time this time, she estimated that she would have to cook dinner if she slept until midnight.
I originally wanted to simply cook some soup and roast some sweet potatoes, but suddenly I remembered the fried rabbit meat cubes with chili peppers that I gave to Li Mu in the morning, and decided to have one for myself. The rabbit meat had not been processed, so it would not stay fresh for long, so it was best to eat it as soon as possible, and think about how to process the rest to increase its freshness. I
finally didn't have to wait any longer because I had two stoves cooking at the same time. In the iron pot was fried rabbit meat cubes with chili peppers, and in the clay pot in the other stove was kelp, corn and fish soup.
The speed of cooking out of the pot was much faster than that of the soup in the clay pot. I put the fried rabbit meat cubes into the coconut bowl, and the soup in the clay pot had not yet boiled.
After making sure that there was no problem with the fire in the stove, Qiao Sheng could not wait to collect the crops in the planting pots and the fresh water in the water filter. Since he entered this game, he has not had any free time except sleeping.
It was already dark, without the sun, and the new water filter had stopped working. Qiao Sheng picked up the plastic box of fresh water and poured the water into the water tank. He also collected the salt in the plastic box of sea water and filled the plastic box with sea water again.
In this way, when the sun rises tomorrow, the water filter can start working. The new equipment is good, and no one has to watch and add fuel. It really is true that technology changes life.
Considering that there was too little salt, Qiao Sheng added fuel to his simple water filter and continued to work. Anyway, he was free and there were plenty of planks and leaves in the storage box, so he didn't mind consuming them appropriately.
Scooping here, shoveling there, time passed quickly. I slept too long in the afternoon and was not sleepy now. Qiao Sheng collected the last jug of fresh water and let the simple water filter rest.
There were two large water tanks, one filled with fresh water and the other with coconut water. The fresh water tank was already two-thirds full, and the coconut water tank was only one-quarter full. Qiao Sheng even checked it out. The fresh water was not fresh, and the coconut water was only fresh for five days.
Thinking that if there was no chance to go ashore in the next few days, I might have to boil coconut oil. It would be better to change all drinking water to coconut water in the next few days. Unfortunately, I should have let Li Mu take some away yesterday. The coconut water that was opened in the past few days is in her water tank.
It was getting dark, but Qiao Sheng still didn't feel like sleeping, so she took the materials from the storage box to make two sieves, and started to collect while sitting on the floating board.
Do more work, because when you are busy, you will get tired, and when you are tired, you will easily fall asleep. In the past few days of living on the sea, Qiao Sheng has long been accustomed to working in the dark. After all, during the novice protection period, you won't get hurt if you put your hands in the sea.
When the durability of the two sieves was completely used up, a lot of supplies were already piled on the floating board behind her.
Collecting supplies in the dark is a simple job, and now she has mastered this skill, but it is a bit troublesome to pack up supplies in the dark, and you have to move and carry them, so it is better to wait until dawn.
After walking around the floating board where supplies were piled, Qiao Sheng went into the bathroom to tidy up and went to bed.
As expected, he fell asleep quickly after working hard. When he opened his eyes again, it was already dawn.
Sitting on the bed, squinting his eyes and looking around, he woke up. There was still a vast ocean around him, and no islands or floating boards could be seen. The torches lit last night had long been extinguished.
Qiao Sheng got up, folded up the cotton cloth that covered him, pressed it under Ye Zi's pillow, took some salted fresh water and went to the bathroom to wash up. When he came out, he stretched his waist facing the sun, twisted his body and moved around. A beautiful day starts with work.
Breakfast was simple, roasted corn, a bowl of coconut water from the water tank, and then I started to pack up the supplies I had worked so hard to collect last night. The harvest was not very good. In addition to the three drift bottles, the rest were just wooden boards, leaves, plastic and iron products.
It seems that these are the only supplies I have salvaged from the sea in the past few days. If you want to enrich your supply reserves, an island is essential. Only by going to the island can you have the opportunity to go to the sea to collect mud and rare metals.
After sorting the supplies into storage boxes, I started to open the three drift bottles. This time, my luck was not so good. In addition to opening a piece of rare metal copper, the remaining two were sweet potatoes. Qiao Sheng was still looking forward to a production chart, but she didn't expect it to be so simple and she was sent away.