The sun rises above the sea level, and a new day has arrived.
Zhang Heng opened his eyes from the cave and found that Ed had sat up, "Good morning, Zhang."
"Morning." Zhang Heng said.
"God, I really wish I could have a cup of hot coffee, fried eggs, sausages and toast." The former Army captain lamented, "But given our current situation, we can't ask for too much, right? It's a pity that coconuts can bring us There are too few calories. A green coconut can only provide about 200 calories of energy. Even if we don’t exercise, we will consume 2,000 calories a day. In addition, we also need to expand our recipes to obtain richer sources of nutrients, huh? , since we are at the beach, I think we can take advantage of this."
"What should I do?" Zhang Heng asked.
"Don't worry, you live in a city, which makes your stomach and intestines very fragile. Even if I tell you how to get food sources from the sea, if there is no way to heat it, a crab may cause you diarrhea and dehydration. So we need fire, as well as the water source you found before, which also needs to be heated before drinking. As long as it is boiled for three minutes, most bacteria can be basically killed, so I will teach you how to make a fire first."
Ed paused and began to explain patiently, "The most important thing about making a fire is to find the right wood. Those soft woods that grow quickly are the best. The fire drill rod and the base plate can be taken from the same tree. Scrape off the bark and put it on Dry in a sunny place..."
Zhang Heng listened very carefully, but when he actually did it, he found that this matter was not as simple as he imagined.
All morning he was busy making a fire.
But the final result was repeated failures. In order to rub the drill rod, a large piece of his hand skin was rubbed off, which made him grin. At the same time, because there was no time to go out to look for food, he and Ed took the previously stored food. After eating all the coconuts, I was left hungry.
But what’s even more frustrating is expending so much effort with so little to show for it.
"Zhang, you can't go from a rookie to an expert in just one day." Ed comforted, "The beginning of anything is always the most difficult."
"That's true, but failure still makes people feel unhappy." Zhang Heng threw away the broken drill rod in his hand and said helplessly.
"Failure is also a valuable experience. Our ancestors evolved from failure tens of thousands of years ago." Ed was as considerate as ever, "You are a smart student, Zhang, don't worry, you still have time." You learn and grow, now tell me, what did you learn from this failure?”
"Wood still doesn't work. The skin of my hands is almost gone and I can't rub any sparks. I have to try something else." Zhang Heng said.
However, the weather was unpredictable. At dusk, the wind picked up on the island, and dark clouds soon came over the head. Zhang Heng had no time to clean up, and the wood he peeled off and placed on the rock wall to dry was wet by the heavy rain.
This also meant that his entire day was in vain.
Zhang Heng was lying in the cave in a large shape, looking at the ceiling of the cave with blank eyes, "Ed, I don't think your chicken soup for the soul can still work at this time."
"Then give up." Ed said calmly.
"Um?"
"But only before the rain stops, I can only vent my negative emotions so that I can better devote myself to work."
"Are you always so positive? Ed."
“Perhaps it’s because when I was hiking through the Amazon, I encountered worse conditions than now. Thinking about how I survived the difficulties then, there is no reason to give up now,” Ed said.
"Has experience made us what we are today?" Zhang Heng murmured. He remembered what the bartender had said before, and he felt like he had caught something.
"It seems that the rain will not stop until dark. Go to bed early. There is still a lot of work to do tomorrow." After Ed finished speaking, he lay down first.
The two spent the next night hungry.
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Zhang Heng got up early the next morning before dawn, mainly because he was hungry. He first ran to the coconut tree and picked a few coconuts to satisfy his hunger. He had almost finished picking a nearby coconut growing in a low place, leaving only a few coconuts left. The ones that fell were all relatively tall and difficult to knock down with stones. Zhang Heng knew that he didn't have much time left for him. He had to raise the fire quickly, otherwise he would not be able to carry out the subsequent work.
So this time he decided to take a little more risk, and after bringing Ed breakfast back, he went a little deeper into the virgin forest behind the beach.
The results were gratifying. Not only did he find a tree suitable for making fire inside, but he also found an animal that looked like a pheasant. Unfortunately, those little things were very agile. Zhang Heng flapped his wings and disappeared before he even got close. At least for now. Zhang Heng had nothing to do with them.
He broke off a branch, brought it back to the beach, and followed the same method as yesterday. In the afternoon, he finally got some smoking sawdust from it. Zhang Heng followed the knowledge taught by Ed and placed these sawdust on the leaves of the candle fruit tree. On the tinder, carefully blow air to make the wood chips shine and ignite the tinder below.
So after a while, the two people on the island finally got the long-lost flame.
"Well done, now we can avoid the risk of infection!" Ed said happily.
Zhang Heng had never thought that one day he would be so excited when he saw fire. Just as he was about to say something, a third person's voice came to his ears.
"Successfully made a fire, gained new skills - wild survival level 0, game points +3, and activated the personal character panel to check personal status."
The voice seemed familiar. Zhang Heng thought about it carefully and found that it was the voice that sounded in his ears when he was unconscious.
Zhang Heng asked Ed, "Ed, did you hear anything just now?"
The latter was a little confused, "Should I hear something?" Then he straightened his expression and said with concern, "Zhang, are you hallucinating due to dehydration?"
"…………"
Zhang Heng also wondered if he was fainted by the sun, because there was something that looked like an attribute card in front of his eyes.
Name: Zhang Heng
Sex: Male
Age: 19
Player number: 07958
Number of game rounds played: 0
Current game points: 3
Skills mastered: piano level 1, language proficiency level 1 (two languages have reached the level of daily communication)
Evaluation: This player is mediocre, has nothing commendable, and has no special skills. It is expected that he will not be able to survive the first three rounds of the game.
Zhang Heng is speechless. Putting aside the harsh comments below, why does he only have two skills?
Well, he also saw a line of small words below the skill bar - lv0 skills will not be displayed.
With his amateur piano playing level nine, he only managed to reach a pitiful level 1? The definition of skills in this game is a bit too strict. Not even one out of a hundred people can do something like making a fire with bare hands in the wild, but they can barely reach the edge of level 0.
This game seemed more difficult than he imagined.
