I asked you to escape, but you became a soldier in World War II

Chapter 184: Island of Hope

After confirming that it was an island, Lin Chen immediately swam towards it at full speed.

There is a saying on land that "a horse will die if it runs towards the mountain", and it turns out that there is also a saying in the sea that "a person will die if it swims towards the island".

I swam until it was almost dark and finally reached the shore with great difficulty.

This military king who swept across the Eurasian continent almost died in the sea. It was really dangerous.

After a short rest, it was already completely dark.

He didn't have any tools, so he could only temporarily climb up a tree to survive for the night.
Without knowing the specific situation, climbing a tree to rest is the best way. Otherwise, what if there are any ferocious beasts on the island?
It is relatively safer in the trees.

Apart from being a little cold at night, everything was relatively peaceful. After all, Lin Chen was really sleepy as he hadn't had a good sleep for many days.

When I woke up the next day, I was woken up by a squirrel.

Lin Chen's first reaction was that this guy was so cute. He even wanted to touch his furry tail.

As it turned out, the little guy was very clever and ran away in a flash.

He hadn't recovered from his shock at first, and now he was extremely hungry, so he had to find a way to get something to eat.

After carefully observing the surroundings and making sure there was no danger, he climbed down from the tree.
He was pleasantly surprised to find that there were several coconut trees not far away. It was obvious that the fruits on them were huge, much larger than all the coconuts he had eaten in his previous life.

He is very good at climbing trees.

He climbed up in no time and picked the three largest ones.

This time he fully learned the lesson from the last Blackbird incident and did not dare to use too much, as too much would easily lead to waste.

On this small island, waste is not only shameful, it is definitely a sign of not wanting to live.

The coconut shell is very hard and cannot be opened without tools.

If you pick it up and smash it against a rock, it will most likely explode and you won't be able to drink the soup. That would be such a waste of resources.

Fortunately, he had learned how to do this in his previous life. He found two pieces of sand and gravel and started smashing it with a big stone.
After getting a sharper stone,
Place the coconut in the grooved area to secure it.

Then use it as an awl, take a medium stone, and start tapping slowly.

It took only a few strokes to drill through the thick coconut skin.

Turn it over, and a stream of sweet and sharp coconut water will enter your mouth.
It feels so great.

After finishing the coconut juice, Lin Chen began to smash the thing against the rock wall.

"Boom~"

As expected, the coconut broke into pieces, revealing the white flesh.

Lin Chen ran over quickly, not caring whether it was dirty or not, and quickly grabbed a few large pieces of coconut meat and started chewing them.

Soon, he used the same method to solve the other two coconuts.

The breakfast was quite rich and he even burped. It was so happy and comfortable.

However, Lin Chen clearly understood that he could not eat coconuts for every meal, and the number of coconuts was extremely limited. Once they were all eaten, they would be gone. He had to find a way to eat something else.

Now that I’m full, I have the energy to go and see what this island is like.

Like most people stranded on a desert island, he began to climb to the top of the island in order to get a panoramic view of the island.

We were lucky enough to find some fresh wild fruits on the way.

Because he had never seen this kind of thing before, just in case, Lin Chen only tasted a small bite first, and it turned out to be almost the same as an apple. This is really a good thing.
It made him drool. When he was in the Japanese military camp, he had high-end fruits and fine food every day, but now even an apple was a luxury.

When I was in Tokyo, I didn't care about this thing at all.
I guess even the dogs in the US military camps don't eat it.

现在
He really felt a little regretful. Why did he come out for no reason?
I really fell for Director Duo’s trick!

After waiting for a long time, he still didn't feel anything unusual. Alas, the original upgrade gift package was really rubbish.

Radiation protection?
It would be better to give yourself a skill to identify whether wild fruits are poisonous or not.
But it’s meaningless to say this now.

Now that we are here, we can only keep going and must survive.

I still have a lot of money left to spend.

Thinking of this, he became excited and picked up a red fruit and started to eat it.
The taste is very refreshing, almost like apple.

In order to commemorate his arrival on the deserted island and to bring good luck, he gave the fruit a name similar to that of an apple: the peace fruit.

I picked a few and continued on my way.

The further we go, the harder it is to walk on the road. It is incredibly steep.

Fortunately, Lin Chen had excellent climbing skills, and he also made a rope out of vines, so he managed to climb up, but it was already noon.

I finally stood on a high place and could see the whole picture of the island.

Unfortunately, this is really just an island, not a continent.

This shattered Lin Chen's only little fantasy, and he might have to plan to stay for a long time.

And its location is not the highest point. There is a high mountain on the north side of the island. It looks like a volcano?
Lin Chen's eyesight is excellent. After several system upgrades, he can see farther and more clearly than ordinary people.
The structure on the top of the mountain is most likely a volcano.
But it is not clear whether it is an active volcano or a dormant volcano, and he does not have the ability or interest to explore it at the moment.

There is a large beach on the east side of the island, and there seem to be many coconut trees there.
To the west is a large forest, with all kinds of towering trees blocking the view.

He was now at the southernmost part of the island. Looking down, he found a great advantage here, that is, there was a stream.
Although the flow was small, he tasted it and confirmed that it was fresh water.

As long as there is fresh water, everything will be easy. There is also a cave at the foot of the mountain.
It was too far away to see clearly what was going on inside.
But if I want to build a small boat in the future, that place will be a good harbor where I can shelter from the wind.

Of course, these are all things to follow.

It seemed that no other survivors had arrived on the entire island, as there was no smoke from cooking fires, nor any signs of survivors washing ashore.

What depressed Lin Chen the most was that he had been here for such a long time, but there was no plane passing by in the sky, and no ship on the sea level, which meant that this place was far away from the shipping route.

Alas, it really is a deserted island.

In order to increase his hope of leaving, Lin Chen named this island Hope Island.

Following the stream down the mountain, we finally found a small cave on the mountainside.

It wasn't that Lin Chen had to live so high, it was just that the stream water had completely penetrated into the cracks in the rocks as soon as it reached this point.
If you go down further, there is no water source. This is really a bummer. If you live at the foot of the mountain, it means you have to go up the mountain to get water in the future. But living here, it is more troublesome to get food. You have to go to the beach to get food every day.

It is impossible for him to go up the mountain to fetch water every day, the time cost is too high.

Although the cave is small, I can slowly transform it.
We need to get a fire quickly now. It is very dangerous to live on the mountainside without a fire.

No one knows whether there are any ferocious beasts on this island. Although Lin Chen is very powerful, he has no weapons and it is impossible for him to stay awake all the time.

Because there were no lighters, we had to use the most primitive methods to make fire.

The common practice of making fire by rubbing two sticks together is the most foolish.
Lin Chen had tried it before when he was in the army. If it weren't for the right time, place and people, he wouldn't be able to drill out the fire.
Other methods of making fire by rubbing wooden sticks back and forth also have a low success rate.

The instructor's most popular method is called "Iroquois fire-making method".

This method is simple and efficient, even a girl can do it successfully. The only requirements are two thin ropes, a thin stick, a hard horizontal wooden board, and a relatively heavy wooden wheel.

The thin rope can be replaced by shoelaces, and long sticks are easy to find, but it is more troublesome to drill holes in the wooden wheel.
This is a completely manual labor. Due to the lack of tools, I used a stone awl to drill for a long time.
One end of the drill shaft is wrapped with two shoelaces, and the other ends of the shoelaces are fixed on a hard horizontal wooden board.

The long stick is used as the drill axis, and the middle part is fixed with a hard wooden wheel. After winding it several times, a simple accelerator is ready.

He used some pine needles collected along the way and a wooden board as a cushion.
After winding the rope, press down the horizontal plate hard to make the drill shaft rotate at a very high speed.
Then, when the speed increases, heat can be generated through friction and eventually sparks can be produced through high-temperature drilling.

After just a few dozen back and forth movements, white smoke soon rose from the pine needles.

Lin Chen was overjoyed. He put some shavings around, then leaned over and blew on them a few times.
"Wow~"

It’s on!
Lin Chen wiped the sweat from his forehead without caring about it, and quickly moved it to the small pit for storing flammable materials that had been prepared long ago.

When the fire is a little bigger, put a few small wooden sticks on it.
Try to leave some space at the bottom, otherwise it will easily fail to burn due to lack of oxygen.

After the small sticks were also burning, Lin Chen calmed down and put a few larger dead branches on top.

The flames crackled.
But Lin Chen was very excited.
Although he had learned this method of making fire in the army in his previous life, it was only in theory. When he went out for training and actual combat, he had all the modern equipment.

Only this time, fire was obtained entirely by primitive methods, using only their own hands.

This feeling was really great. He began to admire those primitive people very much. They had no one to teach them, and they figured it out completely on their own.

If you have fire, you must have food.

After Lin Chen lit the fire, he hurried down the mountain to the beach to "catch seafood".

The place where he lived was said to be on the mountainside, but in fact it was not far from the seaside, because the mountain was not very high, probably only about 200 meters above sea level.
So we arrived at the beach soon.

Because he was concerned about the fire, he moved quickly and took away almost everything he could find.
For example, shells and crabs,
I even found a stranded fish near the coast.
The species was very strange. He had never seen it before.
Never mind, just put them all in life jackets and pack them up and take them away.

To his great surprise, he actually found a beer bottle on the beach.

At first glance, this style is made in the United States, but the label on it has been eroded by sea water and the content cannot be seen.

Lin Chen washed him clean and he could go back to his "home" to be a water bottle.

With this treasure, I no longer have to lie down by the stream to drink water.

The only drawback is that this kind of glass bottle cannot be used to cook food, especially fresh water cannot be boiled. Drinking raw water for a long time is definitely not good for the body.

But we can't be greedy now. Having a bottle is already a great gift from God.

After Lin Chen came back, he immediately started the "barbecue mode".
Take all the food out, string it up on sticks, and roast it over the fire.

Grilling with this kind of open fire requires a lot of patience and skills.

If it is too close, it will burn easily, and if it is too far, it will not be cooked easily.

He could only keep turning the food over, but fortunately the thing he had the most was time.

The first string is the "hard dish".
The fish body was roasted till golden brown and oozing with oil. The aroma was so fragrant that it penetrated into Lin Chen's nostrils. Lin Chen, who hadn't eaten cooked food for a long time, almost drooled.

Seeing that it was almost cooked, he quickly took it and took a big bite.

烫，
It’s so damn hot!

But it smells really damn good!
I exhale in big gulps, but I just can't bear to spit it out.
After a while, it finally returned to normal temperature, and Lin Chen began to chew this rare island game.

The good thing about sea fish is that it has a natural salty taste and is boneless.

The snow-white fish meat wrapped in the golden fish skin was so delicious that one could not stop eating it. In just a short while, Lin Chen had eaten up all the huge sea fish, even the tail and the head were chewed into pieces.

After a fish is eaten, the leftovers are the icing on the cake.

It is really delicious to eat while grilling. The only drawback is that it takes too much time.

A few hours passed like this,

After he had enough water and food, Lin Chen went to get some dry branches nearby before it got dark.

Especially the fallen and rotten trees, he dragged them all into the cave.

These things can be stored as firewood, and secondly, they can be used to block the cave entrance to prevent attacks by wild beasts.

I'm not familiar with the situation on the island, so it's better to be careful.
It's really inconvenient to have no weapon in hand.

Night fell quickly. Lin Chen was lying in the innermost part of the cave. In the middle was a shallow pit with a small fire burning in it.

The nights on the island were still a little chilly, but now with the fire, the cave was noticeably warmer.

Especially since this cave is quite humid, there are many insects in it. Lin Chen sprinkled the carbon ash from burning during the day in the cave, which can have the effect of repelling insects.

Moreover, many insects are afraid of fire, so when faced with such an unknown thing, they can only "move" collectively.

This made the small bed made of dead leaves where Lin Chen slept feel a lot warmer, at least there were no insects or ants to disturb him.

Rest in your own "mansion" and drink a sip of mountain spring water when you are thirsty.

If I hadn't ended up here, I could have considered it a rare trip.

But the conditions are a little bit difficult.

During this time, there were some rustling noises outside. Perhaps some small animals were curious about the fire, so they came here to take a look, but they did not dare to come in.

(End of this chapter)