Chapter 5
There are 8 bottles of nutrient solution left.
8, which means that Jiang Yunu has used up more than one whole box of the two boxes of food supplies she found, and it also means that she has been in this world for more than ten days.
She has also been living alone on this deserted island for ten days.
Ten days is neither too long nor too short, enough for Jiang Yunu to turn this small deserted island upside down.
She had tried her best, but apart from the two boxes of nutrient solution she found at the beginning, she had dismantled all the equipment in the base that she could, and the box covers, pipe covers, and plastic strapping that she had tried her best to use, plus the usable salt water resources that she had tasted herself as a "Shennong"... Apart from these, she had not found anything else that could be used.
As the saying goes, a good cook cannot cook without rice. No matter how bold and adventurous Jiang Yunu is, he cannot create resource utilization and transformation out of thin air on a deserted island.
During these ten days, Jiang Yunu explored the entire island on foot, and she could even count the number of steps it took her to walk around the coast.
At first, Jiang Yunu had the idea that "maybe she could find a way to leave the island". She circled around the coast again and again, tried to slowly walk into the shallow water area of the "sea water", and swam deeper into the water with the little swimming skills she had learned.
Jiang Yunu has given up trying to find marine life. She just wants to see if there are any other "secret bases" hidden deeper in the waters - for example, there is actually an underwater space under the strange sea area next to the island.
During the ten days of exploring the isolated island, Jiang Yunu discovered that there were no docks or ports along the entire circular coastline.
After realizing this, she returned to the base and walked around it again, focusing on exploring the ground and walls of the base, trying to find out if there was any "subspace" in the base that she had not noticed.
But unfortunately, Jiang Yunu's exploration of the base was just like her exploration of the "sea water".
Jiang Yunu did not find any subspace in the base, so she dived into the deep water and swam around. Thanks to her special talent, she could see things underwater, but she still could not see any buildings underwater.
All I could see was that she couldn't swim any further from the shore.
Otherwise, when his strength was exhausted and he couldn't swim back to the shore before hunger consumed him, Jiang Yunu might very well survive for more than a week by living off his savings, but end up drowning in the "seawater" of unknown composition because he took too many risks.
It really sounds like a loss.
"I got back before I was salted and turned into a salty mess."
Jiang Yunu swam across the "sea water" and when he returned to the base, he greeted the white-haired child who was still sitting quietly on the bench.
Jiang Yunu could only confirm that people had indeed entered and exited this isolated island before, but after her initial exploration failed, she continued to circle around the base and the "sea water" for three days, climbed to the top of the barren mountain, and explored the top of the mountain and the mountain wall to see if there was any place that looked like it could be used to park vehicles.
Nothing was found.
Jiang Yunu didn't know how those people whose conversations she had heard left here, just as she didn't know how they came here.
Jiang Yunu couldn't find a way to leave the island with the help of ready-made vehicles, so she came up with a new idea.
Jiang Yunu thought very boldly: Can I build something myself and try to row out of this water?
The idea was bold enough, yet it didn't seem completely impossible.
Jiang Yunu did what she said. She further utilized the limited equipment in the base, putting together the alloy plates that were barely knocked down, the lightweight plastic baskets, the foam columns that seemed to increase buoyancy, and the remaining materials that had been carefully wrapped with waterproof tape to have a certain degree of waterproofness. Then she tested their assembly possibilities one by one, and carried the things she had finally pieced together to the shore by hand.
The moon hanging over the desolate mountain on the lonely island accompanied the little child in transporting a boat that could not be sailed. It watched quietly, using the moonlight to guide people, as if indulging Jiang Yunu to pursue a dream that was destined to be unattainable.
The "boat" that Jiang Yunu had spent a lot of effort to build could not even make it into the shallow water area and ran aground on the beach. After being transported into the water, it began to slowly sink.
"Okay." Jiang Yunu's efforts were in vain, but he was not discouraged by the result. He just sighed under the moonlight, "Failure is also very normal."
Before the "ship" slipped into deep water and the limited material resources were literally "wasted", Jiang Yunu took great effort to pull it back to the shore, dismantled the "ship", and restored it to a pile of parts.
After failing once, Jiang Yunu did not give up. She thought that maybe she was greedy and wanted to build a ship without blueprints using such useless materials and her limited practical experience. This was totally unrealistic.
Rather than building a boat, she might as well just tie foam pillars to a plastic basket, tape the bottom with waterproof tape, and see if she can row away with just the basket.
Jiang Yunu really dares to think of anything and does whatever he says.
So after one night, the moon once again watched quietly as Jiang Yunu came to the beach and tried to go into the water to paddle the basket.
The foam column and basket are indeed better than the "boat". At least it really floats and can bear the weight of a child.
Jiang Yunu took the oar made from her old steel stick and floated quietly on the "sea" illuminated by the moonlight for a while, but in the end, she gave up going out to sea in the basket, and pushed along the clear and shallow waves, letting several gentle waves bring her and the basket back to the shore.
Jiang Yunu turned over and got out of the basket in the shallow water on the beach, and pulled it like an alternative "floating board", bringing the "basket boat" back to the shore.
Jiang Yunu was a little exhausted, so she was not in a hurry to return to the base. She sat down on the beach first, stretched her calves toward the gentle waves, and could vaguely feel the splashing water on her bare feet.
She leaned her upper body back, and her elbows sank into the fine sand, then stopped when they sank to a certain depth.
The soft sand supported her body, allowing her to lie half-up on the ground.
There was nothing else to look at in the night sky on the island, so she just looked at the moon.
"Do you know that I can't get out?" Jiang Yunu talked to the moon in the sky.
The moon witnessed her two failed attempts to leave the island, but her tone did not contain any resentment, only helplessness.
"The basket can float, but I need to paddle constantly, which requires a lot of energy. I can't guarantee that the remaining nutrient solution will sustain me to the next shore." Jiang Yunu shared with Yueliang the reasons why she gave up paddling. "Besides the uncertainty of physical strength and energy supply, there are two other reasons: First, I can't guarantee that these waters will always be as calm as they are now. If a big wave comes later, it will overturn me and the basket, and I will drown in this strange salt water, becoming a 'salty man' floating on the sea. Second, if this island is the only land here, what will I do if I can't find another shore even if I paddle a long way?"
This was the reason Jiang Yunu told Yueliang, and it was also the reason why she used rational thinking even in her boldness to weigh judgments and convince herself.
Jiang Yunu had previously suspected that this "sea" was fake, and suspected that perhaps both the island and the sea were man-made. These days, as she dismantled the instruments within the base, she not only gained a deeper understanding of the world's technological advancements, but this advancement also gave her some other conjectures.
She went from suspecting that the island and the sea were man-made to suspecting that perhaps this was not an island on the edge of a continent at all.
What if this is a small planet?
If this is a planet, there is only this one island on the entire planet, and the rest is all water. It is an artificial planet specially used to "recycle" certain creations, and has been abandoned along with the base on this isolated island, becoming an abandoned planet.
That's just escaping from the island, what's the point?
There is nowhere else to go except this island, so we must find a way to leave this planet.
But of course this is all just speculation.
Jiang Yunu had no way to verify whether her guess was correct. She was not sure whether her casual thought was right, but conversely, she could not be sure that she was wrong.
After all, Jiang Yunu has a strong intuition, and it has helped her a lot since she was a child.
This lingering doubt and the inexplicable intuition made Jiang Yunu finally choose to return to the isolated island. She lay on the beach and looked at the moon. She talked to the moon, but the moon just listened and did not reply.
"Are you wondering why I am still busy like this when I already have a guess in my mind and have foreseen my failure?" Jiang Yunu said to Yueliang.
The moon still did not answer, only the moonlight shone on her.
Jiang Yunu exhaled lightly: "I don't know either."
The night on the isolated island is very quiet, with only the sound of wind and some waves.
After a while, Jiang Yunu said in the moonlight: "Maybe it's because I don't want to give up in my bones."
Jiang Yunu said that she wanted to be the last person to give up on herself, but in fact, she might be the one who refuses to give up until the last moment.
"Sometimes, even though people know that there is little hope, they will still try to do things with a slight chance of success." Jiang Yunu sat up from the fine sand. She stood up and began to brush off the sand on her body.
Some of the sand mixed with water and stuck to her body, but she just let it go.
Jiang Yunu stretched out lazily on the beach under the moonlight. All her efforts were in vain. This time it was not like she was gambling on whether the "salt water resources" could be consumed. The goddess of luck did not favor her and did not point out a new way of survival for her.
But there was no sign of depression on her face.
"Anyway, I don't regret my efforts. At least I have tried every possible method I could think of and tried my best to save myself." Jiang Yunu told Yueliang.
Most of the time, things in the world cannot go as we wish. As long as you have tried your best, there is no need to regret it. This is also one of Jiang Yunu's life creeds.
The "leave the island plan" completely failed. This was one of the important things she fought hard for herself during the ten days on the deserted island, but had to give up because of the reality.
There are 8 bottles of nutrient solution left, equivalent to 126 hours.
If we take into account the time when he relied on water to survive after running out of ammunition and food, Jiang Yunu could still survive for about 8 days.
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