After being stranded on a deserted island, they all plotted against me

This is what Lan Yueting suddenly thought of when she was peeling taro with a knife.

She remembered a thing called "Deer Power" in her backyard.

The predecessor was a farm tool used in Japanese farmland to scare away deer, wild boars, birds, etc.

Later, it was regarded by many people as the representative of "Japanese style", "fresh style" and "Zen style", and was introduced into China to become a part of courtyard decoration.

However, installing this modified version of Lu Wei's taro-knocking artifact is only the first step.

The next issue to be resolved is the power issue.

This job is not something Lan Yueting can do.

This is because it requires laying a bamboo trough and drawing water from the waterfall.

Zhang Liu, who had already finished feeding the pigs, decisively took on the job.

Su Yan and Anya stood nearby, chewing honeycomb and studying seriously.

Split a 20-meter-long bamboo in a straight line, then build two fulcrums on the pool and the edge of the pool respectively, and then attach the bamboo sink with the middle bamboo section partition removed.

In just over ten minutes, the first section of the gutter was completed.

As the bamboo trough was inserted into the waterfall, a small stream of waterfall water was soon guided down.

Feeling that the water level was a bit high, Zhang Liu immediately made some subtle adjustments.

The purpose is to allow the water to maintain a small stream momentum into the taro-beating machine.

Thereby, the rear end of the bamboo tube is slowly filled with water and automatically sinks.

When some of the water inside is spilled out, the other end tied to the stone will slowly hit downwards due to the change in gravity.

In the first test, the stone was lifted high up and then fell steadily onto the taro in the small clay pot below, making a slight muffled sound.

As a result, the small layer of taro pieces on the surface of the clay pot showed slight deformation.

This kind of force is most suitable for pounding taro.

It is easy to fail to hit with enough force, but too much force may break the clay pot.

"Success!" Seeing this scene, Lan Yueting immediately cheered and then hugged the boy next to her.

Feeling two soft things pressing against his chest, Zhang Liu felt a little dazed.

This was a feeling that Anya's hug last night could not have brought.

But at this moment, Lan Yueting not only irritated Zhang Liu.

Su Yan and Anya were standing beside them, holding a mouthful of honey, their eyes filled with shock.

It was not until they saw the two soft masses being flattened and taking shape that they suddenly realized how much of a difference there was between them and Lan Yueting...

Basically, it's the armor difference between two Type 89 tanks and one KV-1...

"In this case, can I go down and help you?" Lan Yueting naturally felt her chest pressing against the man, but she had a smile on her face all the time, as if she didn't feel it at all.

He even pushed his body forward twice.

According to the original arrangement, everyone would go their separate ways after completing their morning work, but Lan Yueting would stay here and continue grinding taro.

She wanted to make this automatic taro pounding machine so that she could better help Zhang Liu.

"Okay, then let's go build a house together." After hearing Lan Yueting's words that sounded like a plea, although Zhang Liu was a little surprised by the other party's tone, he still nodded to indicate that there was no problem.

If it weren't for the fact that manpower was needed over there in the cave, he would have wanted all eight girls to stay here to help.

After a brief rest, the group arrived at the shelter on the eastern mountainside before noon.

And this time they brought long-term supplies such as pickled pork and fruits.

It was just a simple move.

Although we can directly use the natural water source such as the pool at the waterfall, and there are also many resources such as fruit trees around the top of the mountain, not to mention the taro forest and the unexplored areas ahead.

The existence of other wild boars in the unexplored areas indicates that there are sufficient food resources.

But in terms of open maps and planting, the top of the mountain is really incomparable.

First of all, the soil on the top of the mountain is red sandy soil, which is not suitable for transplanting crops. Perhaps for this reason, the trees growing on the upper part of the mountainside are either thorn bushes that do not have high requirements for fertility, or various large trees with very deep roots.

There are only a few places where banana trees grow.

The soil over there is black and red, which obviously means it has decent fertility.

Although the soil near the riverbed is black and obviously very fertile, it is very suitable for growing crops.

But the fact that there were more than an even number of wild boars around was enough to make Zhang Liu give up.

He didn't dare to fight with more than two wild boars.

And the most important point is that everyone is not here to open up new land.

The goal of the nine people is definitely not to live here forever.

There is only one result they want, and that is to escape.

A mountain top with a smaller resource range cannot fulfill this most important function.

After weighing the pros and cons, Zhang Liu decisively gave up the top of the mountain, which was the easiest to defend and the most difficult to attack.

Instead, the semi-permanent camp was located on the eastern side of the mountainside, a place with both offensive and defensive capabilities that could encompass the resources of the entire island if advanced, and rely on the resources on the top of the mountain if retreated.

"I'm going to build the water pipeline first." He first built a simple smoking rack and began to smoke pork jerky on the open space. Then Zhang Liu began to cut down the remaining forty bamboos on the open space.

Next to him were the four girls who were building the first bamboo house on the vacant lot.

Although Anya, Su Yan, Xiang Wanying and Lan Yueting did not directly participate in the construction of the bamboo house.

But this kind of thing itself is not a difficult thing.

With the reference of the bamboo house at the foot of the mountain east of Zhangliu, Lan Yueting was responsible for making the fence, while Xiang Wanying went to the side to collect banana leaves as the walls and roof interlayers.

As for Anya and Su Yan, they had already started to build the framework with the clanging sounds.

When Zhang Liu cut down the third bamboo and split it in half to make two bamboo sinks, the basic framework of the bamboo house on the eastern hillside of the mountain was completed.

It was getting late and the sun was high in the sky, so everyone gave up on continuing to work and went into the shelter to rest and avoid the scorching sun.

"The basic framework of the bamboo house should be completed by tonight." Just like a subordinate reporting to a general, Anya said to Zhang Liu: "The first bamboo house will be completed around noon tomorrow."

"The next step is to complete the things inside. We need tables, stools, and beds!" Su Yan also said, "These things should be completed before the evening. Then we can live in the house!"

After she finished speaking, she looked at Zhang Liu with a very proud look in her eyes, with her head slightly tilted up, obviously looking like she wanted to "touch him".

Chapter 370: The dry waterway was moistened and water came out

"Well, you did a great job!" Zhang Liu did not disappoint Su Yan. He nodded and praised her. Then he reached out and pressed his hand on the other's silver-white head.

The hair is fine, soft, extremely smooth, and slightly warm, making it really hard to put down.

As he wanted to touch it more and more, his eyes passed over the wooden fence and fell on the frame of the bamboo house about ten meters away.

Thinking back to the hard process of building the bamboo house, Zhang Liu couldn't help but sigh in his heart that there is strength in numbers.

"Speaking of this period of time, I feel that the air becomes frighteningly stuffy every afternoon." Xiang Wanying poured a glass of mint water from the sheepskin bag and drank it in one gulp.

Feeling the clear feeling flowing through her chest, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Maybe it's because the rainy season is coming, Zhang Liu, when you leave, how about taking some mint with you?"

"I have the same idea. Anyway, Qin Ruoyan has brought back a lot of mint, which is already drying in the shade. I'll go back and dry it in the sun, and it will be almost done." Zhang Liu nodded and looked far away at the high mountain to his northeast. He suddenly said, "I am seriously considering whether to climb this mountain."

To climb this highest peak...

No matter what the plan was told to Qin Ruoshuang at the beginning.

This sentence is an unavoidable part of the subsequent discussion on everyone's plan to escape from the predicament.

Because the highest peak represents the most powerful vision.

But now, after climbing to the top of the hill, I can almost see the entire picture of the island.

The densely packed areas covered by the tree canopy are definitely not visible by climbing to the highest peak.

So with the rainy season approaching, I have to hit the road immediately.

Such a thought suddenly flashed through Zhang Liu's mind.

That means it doesn't matter even if I don't climb this mountain, right?

By saving the time of climbing, it would be more convenient and safer to cross the island and expand the exploration area, right?

Although the highest peak is most likely the source of water for the entire island, exploring it is essentially meaningless except for wasting time and resources, right?

After hearing Zhang Liu's words, all the girls were stunned and felt a little at a loss.

Under the influence of what they had seen and heard, they had already regarded climbing the highest peak as something that the other party would definitely accomplish, but now Zhang Liu suddenly said that he didn't want to climb anymore...

Xiang Wanying was the first to react, and then she suddenly asked the question she had been thinking about for a long time without answering: "Zhang Liu, I have a strange question, why is there water flowing down from that mountain?"

If this highest peak is towering into the clouds and has snow.

She could also understand it as the melting of snow.

But the lush greenery on the top of the highest peak can be seen with the naked eye, so there is definitely no problem with snow.

So where do the water veins come from?

This question has always puzzled Xiang Wanying. She didn't have time to ask it before, but now that someone mentioned it, she started to ask.

"The water in the mountains usually comes out from the cracks in the mountains." Zhang Liu casually recited the geography knowledge from his high school textbook: "Plants on the mountains absorb water, and groundwater flows out from the cracks during this process, and then flows all the way here along the mountain range."

Pointing to the waterfall on the top of the hill next to him and the waterway on the south side of the hill that turned into a large puddle and mud pit halfway up, he continued, "I suspect there are also underground cracks over there. Unless it's the rainy season, it will always block the waterway here."

"So that's how it is." After hearing Zhang Liu's explanation, although Xiang Wanying still had some confusion, she nodded slightly to indicate that she understood the general idea.

"In fact, if there are survivors who can climb up this mountain and are still alive, they basically don't need us to rescue them. And those who need us to rescue, even if they climb up this mountain, are likely to be in danger." Anya took out a ball of honeycomb from the banana leaf package and put it in her mouth while chewing and said, "Zhang Liu, there is really no need for you to climb this mountain."

Hearing Anya's words, Lan Yueting and Anya opened their mouths slightly, and then silently swallowed back the words they wanted to say.

The two of them also wanted to persuade Zhang Liu with these words.

Now that Anya has gotten there first, I can only consider other excuses.

"Let's talk about this later. I just suddenly felt this way." As he spoke, Zhang Liu leaned against the wooden wall and suggested, "Let's take a break."

"Yeah!" Hearing his words, all the girls nodded, and then slept on the ground, either leaning against or lying down.

As the warm wind blew, the girls, who had been tired for the whole morning, took a short break.

But Zhang Liu quietly opened his eyes and stared at the highest peak from afar.

There is actually another concept behind climbing, and that is the spiritual desire to conquer.

The highest peak represents the highest difficulty, and conquering it means overcoming the difficulty.

When he was just imprisoned, he was still a proud and arrogant young man. He even felt that he could build a ship and sail out to sea to escape in a few months. The plan promised by Qin Ruoshuang was calculated in days.

After surviving in the wilderness for this period of time, Zhang Liu has developed respect for this place.

He no longer dared to have too many inexplicable impulsive thoughts...

At the same time, Qin Ruoyan, Qin Ruoshuang, Xiang Lingying and Gu Qingrou also came to the river on the south side of the hill.

Their target was the multi-person shelter that had been built earlier, where they planned to hide from the scorching sun at noon.

"There is water here?" Qin Ruoyan, who was walking on the road and looking at the turbid river water flowing slowly in the river, showed some surprise in her eyes as she held a large piece of "fluffy rotten wood lump" in her hand.

She clearly remembered that when she and others went up the mountain a few days ago, the river mud here was cracked due to the sun, and then swollen by rainwater and turned into mud.

As a result, the water is now flowing like a small stream again.

"Maybe it has something to do with the last rainfall?" Gu Qingrou made her own guess beside her. She looked up at the sun that was still hanging steadily in the sky and whispered, "Maybe the rainy season is coming?"

"The water is dirty and doesn't look drinkable." Xiang Lingying, who was walking at the back with Qin Ruoshuang, frowned slightly and said, "It would be better if it was clearer. We can replenish the water source."

"It's okay. We can drink the water directly from the waterfall in the future." Qin Ruoshuang said with a smile beside her: "By then, we can take a bath every day, not to mention replenishing the water source..."

Hearing her sister's words, Qin Ruoyan's expression suddenly softened. She remembered the first bath she took on this deserted island.

The bathroom cabinet that Zhang Liu made for himself...

Chapter 375: Half-automated taro flour production line (Monthly ticket reward plus chapter 47)

While they were talking, they had already arrived at the shelter.