After seeing off the cultural relics experts, Ye Zi and Reba returned to their previous boring days, with really nothing to do except go into the sea to get food.
Looking for trouble, Reba continued practicing martial arts and dancing, while Yezi's gaze fell on the burnt-out guns.
The five best-preserved guns remained untouched. Ye Zi casually picked up a few of the iron parts from the guns and chipped off the rust.
Although these iron parts were covered in rust after being soaked in seawater for a long time, most of the rust had separated from the parts after being burned by a fire, and could be removed with just a few taps.
The rest just needs to be sanded.
Although it can't be used, it's still good to understand its structure.
In the following days, Ye Zi spent all her free time studying these gun parts, except when she went to sea to get food.
Anything that had no use was simply tossed aside, while anything that could be disassembled was neatly categorized and stored away.
On the twentieth day of their island survival mission, after completing a routine medical check-up, Ye Zi finally finished sorting the gun parts.
There are five gun barrels that are of immediate use. These five gun barrels at least look fine, and the rifling is not severely corroded; at least traces of the rifling can be seen.
The remaining barrels were either unevenly corroded by rust, completely blocked by rust, or even had corals living inside some of them.
Although it can't be used as a spare part, it can be polished up and used as a javelin head, so it still has some value in an emergency.
What's left is the bolt, and this part is in even worse shape. Only three of them can be disassembled, and the rest are no longer of any use.
If the island is rich in resources, even just a lot of trees will do. With enough trees, the leaves can be used to make charcoal, and you can probably make some tools from those discarded gun bolts.
But now these bolts can only be piled up and discarded, with no value whatsoever.
After several days of disassembly, Ye Zi had a basic understanding of the working principle of this old-fashioned bolt-action rifle, and now it was time for the main course.
Five well-preserved rifles were taken out and laid out in a row in front of us. Reba came over with great interest to join in the fun.
Ye Zi tore off a piece of the trouser leg, turning the long pants into shorts. She used one as a dry cloth and poured gun oil on the other, setting it aside for later use.
Then they began disassembling the gun.
Ye Zi has figured it out pretty well, and the five guns provide a considerable margin for error.
However, exploration is still exploration, and without professional guidance and learning, mistakes are inevitable.
Four of the five rifles were completely disassembled, and the remaining one could only be shipped out as a spare part.
After disassembling the gun, Ye Zi took a cleaning rod and used her dry trouser leg to clean the inside of the barrel. Then she wiped it with the trouser leg, which was still wet with gun oil, and finally wiped it with a dry cloth.
All five gun barrels are like this.
Spare parts also need maintenance, so even the gun that was disassembled and damaged was not spared.
This process is quite time-consuming, mainly because Yezi is a novice with no experience and doesn't dare to overlook any corner.
They were afraid that if they were lazy for even a little bit, the gun might explode during a test shot and they would be injured, which would be a huge loss.
The barrel, bolt, chamber, firing pin, safety—every part that could be disassembled was wiped with gun oil by Ye Zi and then cleaned with a dry cloth.
If you encounter a location that hasn't been dismantled before, practice with the gun that was broken during dismantling.
Ye Zi was busy with her own affairs, while the production team finally got results.
The outcome, of course, concerns what to do with Ye Zi and the gun in his hand.
In modern society, firearms and ammunition are the main tools of war, while cold weapons such as swords, spears, and halberds have long faded from people's sight and become things used for performances and by a very small number of people.
Therefore, the guns in Ye Zi's hands were like a bug in the entire show from the moment they appeared.
Imagine others surviving in the wilderness, digging traps and waiting for prey to come to them, or approaching their prey from tens of meters away with a bow and arrow before launching an attack.
One relies on luck and experience, hoping that fate will grant them enough to eat; the other faces the danger of prey's desperate counterattack.
But Ye Zi, armed with a bolt-action rifle, fired a shot from 200 meters away, and the prey was in his grasp.
What else could this be but a bug?
If Ye Zi were only using the wooden stock parts of these old guns as firewood, that wouldn't be a problem. But Ye Zi has clearly started disassembling and assembling the guns and maintaining them.
The next step is to test the gun and practice shooting.
So many bullets, even if only half are usable, only a third are usable, or even less.
However, the sheer number of bullets and the four guns meant that even with terrible marksmanship, hitting the target wouldn't be a problem once all the bullets were fired.
But this was a shipwreck that Ye Zi found herself; it wasn't a survival tool she secretly dropped.
It was Ye Zi's own luck, not cheating.
In addition, Ye Zi didn't know how to use these old guns before, and she figured it out on her own.
It would be unreasonable to suddenly demand the confiscation of these firearms and ammunition at this time.
The person in charge of Douyin shared their views.
First, the survival location Ye Zi drew was the island in the hidden segment of the show, which was a place where resources were scarce and the food needed for survival had to be obtained from the sea. There were no other prey on the island that Ye Zi needed to shoot.
Secondly, finding the shipwreck and those guns and ammunition was Ye Zi's own luck; most people wouldn't be able to swim 800 meters away from the island to investigate.
Secondly, bringing these things back was not an easy task. Without that small boat, it would have taken Ye Zi a lot of effort to bring back so many things.
Finally, finding usable resources is a key aspect of wilderness survival.
Ye Zi not only found usable resources, but also figured out how to use them on her own.
To put it another way, shooting on land and shooting in water are two different things. The resistance and refraction of seawater make it very difficult for Ye Zi to obtain food with a gun, even less so than shooting fish with a harpoon while sitting in the water.
Taking a step back, if we take away Yezi's guns and ammunition, should we compensate Yezi with one or two tools? Would compensating her with tools be fair to the other contestants?
These are all problems, and they are very difficult to solve.
Instead of solving so many problems just to take away Ye Zi's guns and ammunition, it's better to do nothing and let the other contestants envy Ye Zi's good luck.
This is the most effortless approach.
It is also the fairest approach.
The ocean has everything. Ye Zi has fishing boats that smuggle weapons and antiques. Maybe there are also shipwrecks near the other players' survival spots, which may be smuggling weapons or shipwrecks from normal trade.
The question is whether the participants can spot this problem: are they close enough, or far enough away? Have you swum 800 meters away? Have you searched the surrounding area?
If you didn't swim that far, don't complain; just be envious.
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