Chapter 19
After arranging the hare, having lunch, and emptying her backpack, Qiao Sheng went to the island again.
She now feels like a special forces soldier when she sees an island. She walks like crazy every day. It’s a pity that she doesn’t have a mobile phone now, otherwise her number of steps would definitely be the number one in her circle of friends. She
also spent the afternoon walking like crazy. She came back quite early, before it got dark. She spread all the supplies she brought back from the bag on the floating board, put on her backpack and went to the forest to collect wood and leaves like crazy .
It was not until it was completely dark that she returned to the floating board with a bag full of wood.
She was still a little tired after a busy day, but the food she ate that day was quite complete, so she decided to make a good dinner.
She put some kelp in the pork chop soup, and added some radishes after it boiled. She also cooked diced rabbit meat with hot peppers, and heated up the unfinished roasted corn in her backpack as a main course.
Before eating, she went to check on the rabbit. The radish strips in the nest had been eaten up. The rabbit was huddled in a corner listlessly, holding a radish strip in its mouth, and eating weakly.
Qiao Sheng was stunned by this situation. He had eaten a lot, so why did he look so much worse after half a day?
She picked up the rabbit and checked if it had defecated or urinated, but the banana leaves in the plastic bucket were clean and dry, so there was nothing wrong. She checked if there was anything wrong with the baby in the belly, and looked at the rabbit over and over for a long time, but there was nothing wrong.
Qiao Sheng couldn't find the problem, so she put the rabbit back in the nest. When she sat back on the bamboo chair and drank the pork chop soup, she suddenly thought of a possibility. When she left, she only thought about putting radishes in the nest to prevent the rabbit from being hungry. She didn't leave any water for the rabbit, so it wouldn't be thirsty again.
I put down the soup bowl in my hand, took a coconut bowl and filled it with water brought back from the island. As soon as I put it into the rabbit's nest, I saw the wild rabbit, which was originally lying lazily, rushed over in one step, put its three-petal mouth on the water, and licked the water with its little tongue, which made Qiao Sheng laugh.
I took a handful of grass that I had picked in the afternoon from my bag and put it into the rabbit's nest. The rabbit drank the water and obviously slowed down. It nibbled a few bites of grass and licked a few sips of water. It was eating quite happily.
After returning to the dining table and eating my own dinner, I took out all the wild rabbits I had hunted today, moved a small bamboo chair to sit next to the floating board and peeled the rabbit skins. Today, I harvested more than 30 rabbits. Together with yesterday's, there are nearly 80 rabbit skins. It should be no problem to piece them together to make a rabbit fur coat, and then make a mattress and quilt.
It's a pity that I didn't encounter sheep on the two islands, otherwise I could cut the wool to make a sweater and trousers, which would be more secure during the winter.
Put the edible rabbit meat into the storage box, and wait until the floating board floats on the sea, then cut the meat and make rabbit meat jerky. Now the priority is to clean the fur.
I made two small wooden basins with wooden boards, scooped out clean water from the large wooden barrel, put the rabbit skins in and scrub them, mainly to wash away the blood and dirt on the fur.
Although there is no shortage of water now, she has developed a habit of saving water in the past few days. She only changed the water after washing it until she couldn't stand it anymore. She changed the water four times for 80 rabbit skins, an average of once every 20 skins. She
washed the rabbit skins and used a kitchen knife to remove the fat from the skins bit by bit. She checked each skin and spread the rabbit skins on the floating board. There was no room on the drying rack, which was full of wild boar strips.
She was worried that there were not enough rabbit skins just now, but when she spread them on the floating board, she found that the floating board was a little small and she couldn't spread out the pile of rabbit skins.
She had to take out wooden boards and leaves to expand the floating board. Now there are 4*4 floating boards, plus 9 fishing nets.
Empty the fishing net, then remove it, and extend it outward to form a total of 36 floating boards in a 6*6 pattern. Add all the outer circle of fishing nets to form a circle. Qiao Sheng calculated that he had to make 20 more floating boards. There were nine fishing nets tied to the boat, and there was an unused one in the storage box, so he still needed to make 18 more fishing nets.
It was a little late, so I slept when I felt tired. I did as much as I could. I made one floating board at a time, and when I was tying the floating boards with my hands and feet, I couldn't help but complain that this job was too tiring. This game is not user-friendly at all. Why can't the floating boards be automatically generated at the designated location?
[After testing, the automatic generation function of floating boards requested by player No. 38 requires the ship to be upgraded to unlock. 】The sudden sound of machinery startled Qiao Sheng, and he almost dropped the float in his hand.
"Can you not appear so suddenly every time? Can you not be so scary in the middle of the night? Can you tell me how to upgrade the ship? You ask me to upgrade the ship every time, but you don't give me any hints. It's not good to keep guessing." Qiao Sheng asked while continuing to tie the floats.
【If the number of floats in contact with the sea surface exceeds 100, the ship level can be upgraded to level 2. 】
"One hundred? There are only sixteen floats now, and I have to tie almost all of them to upgrade? Then to upgrade to level 3, won't I have to tie two hundred floats?" Qiao Sheng was dumbfounded when he heard the number. This workload was too much.
【After upgrading to level 2, the system will provide players with the upgrade conditions for level 3 ships. 】
"I understand, I understand. A first-level boat has no right to ask about the affairs of a third-level boss." He couldn't help but roll his eyes and continued to tie up the float in his hand.
Since the requirement is 100 pieces, he has to study how to tie it. Simply making a square of 10*10 may cause trouble in the future. Now her float is completely free to drift with the wind. What if it drifts to some islands with limited width in the future? The key point is that no boat is made in a square.
After Qiao Sheng took the iron sheet and drew squares on the wooden board, he finally figured out that these 100 pieces can be built into a rectangle, 8*13, which is 104 pieces. The outer circle of the fishing net requires 46 pieces. Without considering the fishing net problem, she still needs more than 80 floats.
That means there are still 160 wooden boards and 160 plastic products missing. She has a lot of wooden boards, but not enough plastic products. In addition, she has recently made water filters and rabbit nests that use plastic products, and the only source of plastic products is from fishing at sea. The boat has to float.
Tonight, she will build a 6*6 size floating board and lay rabbit skins on it to dry in the sun during the day. Tomorrow, she will go to the sea to dig more mud and sand, and then cut more trees on the shore. Then she can collect anchors and continue her drifting on the sea.
With a goal in mind, Qiao Sheng started to speed up. When she had tied 20 floating boards with great difficulty, she was already sleepy. She resisted the sleepiness and made 18 more nets. Together with the 10 she had made before, she tied a circle around the 36 floating boards. The more nets she put in, the more supplies she could collect.
After finishing all this, she fell asleep immediately. Since entering this game, the quality of her sleep has been really good. The skill of falling asleep in seconds has been activated. She will never be unable to fall asleep again. Now she closes her eyes and wakes up at dawn.
After getting up in the morning and having a simple meal, Qiao Sheng went to the sea with a small bag on her back. This time, she was quicker, so she could dig mud and sand near the rocky area. When her bag was full, she would go up to empty it, and then go down to continue digging. She was afraid that she would not find an island during her novice period. She
did not stop until she filled two empty storage boxes. After changing clothes, she went ashore and started cutting trees. After going back and forth many times, a large gap was left in the forest that was originally not far from the shore.
Before leaving, Qiao Sheng was still feeling the rocks on the shore to make a stone mill. The previous stone mortar was not as labor-saving as the stone mill. When
setting sail again, Qiao Sheng was very satisfied. There was a stone mill in the kitchen area. After she threshed the wheat, she could grind it into flour.
These three and a half days were so fulfilling. She didn't stop for a moment, but she was so busy. She didn't collect as much supplies as she and Li Mu did on the last island. There is still strength in numbers. It is normal for survival games to have online connections. It's too tiring to be alone.
She fed the mother rabbit water and carrots, emptied all the fishing nets on the outer circle of the float, and then lay on the bed to take a rest. It has been almost half a month since she entered the game, and she hasn't rested for a day. While the float has just started to float, she needs to take a nap to slow down.
It was dark when she woke up. Qiao Sheng sat on the bed in a daze. It was just a nap, but how could an entire afternoon pass by like this? She wanted to dry the wheat, but she missed it.
She sighed, got up and cooked dinner. While the soup was cooking, she prepared to clean the banana leaves for the rabbit. She walked to the rabbit's nest and took out the leftover carrot strips and water basin. She held the rabbit's ears with one hand and picked up the dirty banana leaves with the other hand and put them on the float. Then she lifted the rabbit's butt and put it back into the nest. Suddenly, there was a tuft of fluff on her hand. Qiao Sheng held the fluff and wondered. She had heard that dogs and cats shed, but how come wild rabbits also shed? This was not the kind of long-haired rabbit that we raise at home.
After checking, I found out that this is rabbit fur. It seems that it can be used to make clothes. I don’t know how to use it specifically, but I can keep it for now and use it sooner or later.
Qiao Sheng was very happy about this new harvest. He was just kind-hearted before and didn’t shoot the pregnant rabbit. Unexpectedly, feeding two radishes would bring her a surprise.
After dinner, I started to clean up the rabbit skins on the floating board. Because it was spread on one side on the floating board, only one side was dried after a day of drying. The other side was still a little damp to the touch.
Turn the 80 rabbit skins over one by one. According to this situation, it will be enough to dry them for another day tomorrow.
The wheat will be taken out and laid out to dry tomorrow morning. The radishes also need to be washed, cut into strips and dried. Fortunately, the float was expanded last night, otherwise there would be no place to dry all this food.
The fishing nets around the outer circle of the float collected a circle of supplies. Sure enough, the boat had a lot more things when it was sailing than when it was docked.
Although she got up a little late for her nap, it did not affect her continuing to go to bed early. It was because she was too tired in the past few days, and she couldn't recover after a
good sleep. Before going to bed, she also changed the crops in the planting pots, poured the fresh water from the two water filters into the water tank, and refilled the plastic bucket with sea water. After doing all these, she went to bed with peace of mind.