Chapter 1051 Trapped on a Deserted Island
Fabian and the others were searching for Xiao Peng, but Xiao Peng was lying on the beach, looking up at the sky.
He is extremely helpless now.
In fact, what Bellucci said was right. Xiao Peng was now confident that he would not die in the sea - but he could not guarantee that his ship would not "die" in the sea.
He stayed in the South Atlantic Anomaly for half a year and finally achieved his goal. However, when he decided to return to the Netherlands, Xiao Peng encountered a storm because he did not pay attention to the weather.
It was because he was too confident. When he came out, he only rented a 32-foot speedboat, which could not withstand the storm at all! Xiao Peng could only hide on the seabed to avoid the storm - no matter how strong the storm was, the seabed was quiet.
But when the storm passed, Xiao Peng's speedboat was nowhere to be found, so he could only find a small island nearby to stay.
He was currently located right between Africa and South America. Swimming back such a long distance? That was unrealistic. Finding a shark to take him back? At such a distance, the only options were great white sharks and whale sharks, but they were nowhere to be found here!
He has been trapped on this island for three months - looking back on his life in these three months, it is simply unbearable.
Time goes back to three months ago.
When Xiao Peng arrived on the island, he first took a walk around to observe the environment.
This is an uninhabited island not even marked on the map. The only modern tools here are some plastic bottles washed up on the shore and discarded plastic cargo nets.
It's quite sad to say that the problem of plastic waste pollution is so serious now. It is so serious that plastic particles can be found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. There are plastic waste abandoned by humans in every corner of the earth. However, Xiao Peng did not expect that at this time, the only plastic waste he could find to help him survive was these plastic wastes.
Watching wilderness survival shows, you can almost always find coconut trees on a deserted tropical island. But that's just bullshit!
Although there are coconuts on Xiao Peng's island, they're actually from the genus Cocos. While the word "coconut" is in its name, this plant is completely different from the coconut. It's only about a meter tall, and the fruit it produces is no bigger than a soybean! Is this thing edible?
You said that this place is not far from Brazil according to the map, so why can't we learn from Brazil and have coconuts everywhere?
As for other green plants? Sigh... The plant characteristics here are somewhat similar to the lowland rainforests of West Africa: tall palm trees, low-lying Meike coconuts, ferns and mosses - these are not edible!
Although he found wild cassava, he swears to God that his experience of eating cassava in West Africa was not a good memory.
Cassava is a starchy root vegetable known as the "King of Starch," one of the three major tuber crops, and the world's sixth-largest food crop. The pearls in your bubble tea are actually made from cassava starch. However, there's a lot to know about how to eat it.
Most varieties of cassava contain cyanate toxins, which are poisonous! Some varieties are more toxic than others. Cassava is also grown as food in southwestern China, but they generally use the light green variety, which is less toxic after the skin is peeled. Xiao Peng couldn't figure out what kind of wild cassava he saw here.
In layman's terms, cassava is divided into "bitter cassava" and "sweet cassava." Sweet cassava is mildly toxic, while bitter cassava is highly toxic. Bitter cassava contains linalool, which reacts with stomach acid to produce hydrocyanic acid, which can cause nerve paralysis or even permanent paralysis. The saying "getting drunk from cassava" refers to a mild symptom of cassava poisoning.
Both sweet and bitter cassava are toxic, the only difference is the degree of toxicity.
Alas, although cassava is the "king of starches," it's only used in developed countries to make industrial starch. Only underdeveloped regions like Africa and Southeast Asia rely on it as a staple food. They soak it to remove toxins and cook it before eating. But that requires fresh water!
Despite the island's abundant greenery, Xiao Peng couldn't find any fresh water. However, Xiao Peng wasn't disappointed. Based on his geography knowledge, if an island like this didn't have a water source, it meant there was a groundwater level. These islands typically had a C-shaped topography, and the circular depression at the opening of the C was the island's natural drainage basin. That's where Xiao Peng could find groundwater.
But this again requires excavation tools.
What was Xiao Peng's digging tool? He hammered two rocks together for a long time to make a stone axe, tied it with nylon rope and a wooden stick. It turned out to be a very good tool!
Of course, this was also thanks to Xiao Peng's incredible strength: forging a stone axe might take an average person two or three days, but Xiao Peng finished it in just over an hour. He also had an unexpected bonus—the rock he used to forge the axe was limestone, which contained flint nodules. The sparks produced during the hammering process gave Xiao Peng fire.
This was much easier than drilling wood to make fire—that was definitely the most advanced wilderness survival technique, and it was impossible for ordinary people to successfully do it! Even if Xiao Peng had all his strength, he wouldn't have been confident that he could successfully drill wood to make fire. This method of striking flint to produce flames saved Xiao Peng a lot of trouble.
After digging in the depression for a long time, we finally found an underground water source. But how could we drink the black, muddy water?
Luckily, he found a lot of plastic bottles and put the burnt charcoal powder in them to filter. He also ate the clams he found in the sea and used the shells as containers to hold the filtered water. Then...
It’s fucking raining!
"Oh my God! Are you planning to kill me?"
Then he remembered that the rainy season had arrived again!
Now there is no need to worry about fresh water, but the fire is gone!
Although there is plenty of flint, the dry coconut fibers used to start the fire have all been soaked in water. How can we start the fire?
The most infuriating thing was that the palm-leaf hut he had painstakingly built was completely vulnerable to the downpour: Isn't it said that winds are weaker near the equator? Why was it so strong here?
Look at the movies, people can find the cave as soon as they get on the island, but Xiao Peng looked around but couldn’t find anything.
Movies are really all lies...
Xiao Peng was so disheartened.
If I stay here alone, I'll go crazy sooner or later! I have to find a way to leave here!
You could make a raft and paddle back! Otherwise, wouldn't that be a waste of your energy?
On the fourth day on the island, Xiao Peng decided to build a raft to save himself, but a new incident occurred!
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