Chapter 3

[Player No. 38 chooses to release the extinct creature: Great Auk, completes the achievement of protecting rare animals, and now can get the reward: the fire of civilization - flint and magnesium bars. ]

"Is this a survival game teaching us that good people are rewarded? Why does it feel so ironic." Qiao Sheng curled his lips and carefully checked the flint and magnesium bars in his hand. Fortunately, there are instructions on these things. First, scrape the magnesium bars to make powder, then rub them with flint to ignite them, and you need something to help with combustion.

Looking at the sky, the sunset has appeared, and it will be dark soon. Qiao Sheng simply prepared to continue scavenging and concentrate on studying how to make torches. The main reason is that he doesn't know whether making a campfire on a floating board will kill him, so it is safer to make a few torches.

He picked up a wooden board and divided it into three equal parts. He really used all his strength to turn the board into a wooden stick. He gathered three wooden sticks together and tied them tightly from top to bottom with several ropes until he reached the middle of the wooden stick.

He turned the tied torch on the floating board and locked his target on the simple grill. He rubbed the torch inside and rubbed the fat dripping from the grilling yellow croaker onto the torch. Unfortunately, the fat content of yellow croaker itself is very low, and there is not much in the grill.

Finally, Qiao Sheng set his sights on the dozen or so fish that he had just caught. After searching for a long time, he finally set his sights on the largest salmon, which looked to weigh more than ten pounds.

She found a sharp piece of iron from the iron products, sat cross-legged on the float and started to play with the salmon. Fortunately, this game was a bit humane, and the fish stopped struggling after being caught, otherwise she would not be able to handle this fish weighing more than ten kilograms.

The head of the fish looked scary, so she chopped it off in two bangs. After observing the head and body, she felt that the pattern of the meat was quite familiar.

Recalling the process of watching the boss kill fish in the vegetable market, they always cut open the belly first, so she learned to cut open the middle of the fish belly first and take out the dirty things. Unexpectedly, there was something in the salmon's belly. When she took it out, it turned out to be a whole salmon roe.

Qiao Sheng looked at it for a long time, and the more she looked at it, the more familiar it looked. It looked like the fish roe on the rice she had eaten in the store before. She didn't pay for it at the time, but she remembered that it should not be cheap.

It's a pity that the ingredients in front of her are very good, but she has no seasoning, no tools, and even no knife. The more she thought about it, the sadder she felt.

[Name: salmon roe, freshness countdown three days, freshness can be extended after processing.]

"I understand the principle, but my ability can't keep up." Putting the salmon roe on the wooden board next to her that served as a cutting board, Qiao Sheng continued to dissect the salmon in front of her.

Considering the salmon roe just now, she was going to cut off the fish skin bit by bit. The main purpose was the fat on the fish belly. Seeing that the sunset was getting darker and darker, if she didn't light the torch, she would have to spend the night in the dark.

She was not afraid of other things, but she was afraid of the whole dark attack mode of this game. It was not that she thought too much, but it was mainly because most survival games were set up like this. Many animals also have the instinct to avoid light. Having light can make them safer.

After peeling off the skin of half of the salmon, Qiao Sheng was a little disappointed. It was said that deep-sea fish are rich in fish oil, but there is only a little fish oil in the belly. Is it that the advertisement is deceptive or her knowledge reserve is not enough.

Scraping off some fat from the salmon's belly and applying it to the torch, Qiao Sheng frowned at the familiar pattern on the salmon: "This game is quite tricky, salmon is also called salmon, and the details are all combined with a general scientific name, at least give it a folk name."

In view of the fact that she could not eat salmon sashimi, she still chose to cut off the peeled half of the salmon and grill it on a simple grill.

After adding fuel to the grill, Qiao Sheng began to untie the rope, just untie a small section, completely breaking up its fibers, and then scraping the magnesium bars with iron products.

It's not that she didn't want to light a fire directly from the grill. She had tried it when she went to grill fish just now. The fire in the grill didn't allow the torch to be ignited at all. If she hadn't accidentally completed the achievement and obtained the fire of civilization, she would have had to let the filter or the grill work all night.

After scraping the magnesium strips and sprinkling the powder on the rope fiber that had just been removed, Qiao Sheng used the iron sheet in his hand to scrape the flint. It succeeded in two times. He brought the torch close to the burning rope fiber, and the torch soon ignited. She

was originally afraid that the fire on the float would catch fire, so she had seawater ready to put out the fire at any time. However, she didn't expect that the fire would burn out after the rope fibers burned, leaving no trace on the float.

This setup is good, as it saves her from worrying about the float catching fire every day.

Qiao Sheng inserted the torch in the middle of the four floats. The illuminated area was not large, but Qiao Sheng didn't put things too far away, and all the things were concentrated in the middle.

After a while, she smelled the aroma of grilled fish, and she even sprinkled some salt on it.

When she passed by the shoe basin, she found that the potatoes she planted during the day had matured. She dug them out and found that there were actually two potatoes. This was a good deal. She buried one-third of a potato, and in less than half a day, she could harvest two potatoes, which was equivalent to a six-for-one exchange.

The most important thing was that the potatoes were considered carbohydrates. Fish could fill her stomach, but she was a living person. Without losing fat, she was afraid that she would not be able to bear not taking in any carbohydrates.

She washed the potatoes with sea water and threw them on the grill. Although she didn't know if they were clean after being washed with sea water, it should at least be better than eating them with soil.

She placed four shoe basins side by side, buried the two potato pieces left over from the day, and buried two sweet potatoes. She reluctantly poured half a bottle of fresh water into each of the four shoe basins, and consumed two bottles of fresh water in one go.

Then she started to go back and forth between the edge of the float and the filter. After filling all the glass bottles in front of her with fresh water, Qiao Sheng took the grilled salmon and potatoes off the grill. Sure enough, the ingredients that had been cleaned up this time, with the addition of salt, tasted much better.

"I want cumin, chili powder, five-spice powder, MSG, pepper powder, and I want to drink vinegar and pepper soup with the grill." Qiao Sheng had eaten two yellow croakers that didn't taste very good when there was no salt. Now that she had something salty and light, she began to want more.

"Human greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant. Desire is indeed the primary productivity. It turns out that it's not that the salmon has no bones, but that the chef picked out the bones for us." While picking out the bones from the salmon, Qiao Sheng decided that enriching the small dining table was the top priority!

After eating the fish and potatoes, Qiao Sheng began to disassemble the remaining half of the salmon. A fish weighing more than ten pounds, there is actually a lot of fish meat to pick up. The remaining ones have a shelf life of about three days, so they are simply wrapped in leaves and grilled tomorrow.

The biggest problem in front of him is the whole salmon roe. Even if it is simply to be dried, it must be cleaned first. There are too many fascia on it. Just washing it into individual particles took more than half an hour.

While rummaging through the plastic box under the torch, Qiao Sheng said that she had misunderstood the store. It made sense for this stuff to be sold at a higher price. Cleaning it up is a delicate job. She was almost blinded by all the fascia to be picked up.

After checking the progress of the torch, he was sure that it would last until dawn, so he applied the remaining salmon fat to the new rope and used it tomorrow night.

Today was such a fulfilling day that Qiao Sheng didn't have the energy to make a new torch. He packed up everything at hand, lay down on the float, listened to the sound of the sea, and fell asleep quickly.

When she opened her eyes again, she could hear not only the sound of sea water, but also the sound of flapping wings. She looked closely and saw that the great auk that she had released yesterday was fanning her ears with its short wings. After Qiao Sheng saw it clearly, she quickly sat up and took a few steps back to keep a distance from it. The great auk saw her actions and did not move forward. It imitated her and took a few steps back, revealing three eggs next to its webbed feet. Seeing that Qiao Sheng did not move, it knocked on the float with its beak to signal her, then turned around and jumped into the sea and paddled away.

"Hey, your child is not taken away. My family is not good at eating. You left this for me. Are you trusting my character too much? Letting you go is an exception! I don't have the psychological burden of killing an egg! You'd better take it all away! I really can't keep it here. Hey, why is it swimming faster and faster?" Qiao Sheng looked at the great auk with disdainful eyes. It staggered a little while while swimming, and then it was getting farther and farther away.

He picked up the egg and examined it carefully for a long time. Qiao Sheng had never seen a bird egg before. The information he searched in the game simply marked it as an egg, and there was no other information.

"I'm not being kind, I just don't have a pan or oil, otherwise breakfast would have to be a fried egg. Did the puffin see that I don't have enough money and dare to put these eggs here?" After putting the three eggs in the plastic box, Qiao Sheng still felt something was wrong, as if he was being controlled by a bird.

Breakfast was prepared with the salmon cut last night, put on a simple grill, sprinkled with a little salt, and with a wooden board as fuel, Qiao Sheng began to collect salt with the filter jug. It was too late last night and the light was not very good, so he filtered the fresh water and rested.

After collecting the salt, he added seawater to the filter and continued filtering. He checked the four shoe basins and found that the potatoes and sweet potatoes inside were ripe. He dug and dug and harvested four potatoes and four sweet potatoes. He checked the shelf life.

[Name: Sweet potatoes, potatoes, freshness countdown 180 days, freshness can be extended after processing.]

As expected, these things have a long shelf life, a full six months, while seafood is only a few days. Those can only be best preserved when they are in the stomach.

Adhering to the principle of "there is food in hand, there is no panic in the heart", the four shoe basins were planted with potatoes and sweet potatoes again, and fresh water was poured. Qiao Sheng started to eat his breakfast and threw two washed sweet potatoes on the grill for lunch.

After a full meal, I picked up the colander and started a new day's work. I don't have to worry about food. I can meet the basic needs of food and fullness by planting potatoes and fishing every day. Since I won't starve to death, the other three items of food, clothing, housing and transportation have to be put on the agenda. I feel that clothing cannot be solved in a short time, and I have to think of a way to live.

The floating board needs to be expanded. In the current situation, if the weather at sea is bad, a wave will hit me and the simple boat under my feet. The biggest difference between survival at sea and survival on land may be the location of building a home. On land, you build a house as a camp, and on the sea, you build a boat!

In summary, the primary task at this stage is to collect as many supplies as possible.

Her brain was working fast, and her hands didn't dare to stop for a moment. If she hadn't had to hold the edge of the float with one hand, she would have picked up two sieves with both hands.

However, the sieve didn't slow down Qiao Sheng's speed. Yesterday, she caught something and looked at it. Today, she just caught it and threw it back. She didn't know what she caught. When she ran out of patience, she took a sieve from her side. When one arm got tired, she switched to the other.