Elves: Angler's Rainy Day Team

Chapter 11, Finding Fresh Water

After reaching out to test the humidity of the soil, Yu Hai took a piece of dry and hard bamboo and used it as a shovel to dig the soil.

He also dug a forearm-deep mud pit, and he stopped, because there was no water here, but the soil was relatively wet.

Seeing this big pit, he began to have doubts about the direction in which he was looking for fresh water.

After resting for a while, he looked at the mud pit dug out by the bamboo slices. There was only some knuckle-deep water oozing from the bottom, just a small mouthful of water, which was better than nothing.

At least it proves that his direction is correct, but the efficiency is too low.

He patted off the dirt on his palms, put his fingers deep into the mud pit, lightly dipped some muddy black mud water, put it on the tip of his tongue to feel it, tasted the taste of fresh water, and spit out the sand in his mouth.

After confirming that the bottom of the mud pit is fresh water, he picked up the foam board on the side and covered it over the mud pit, and then picked up a stone to press the foam board to prevent garbage from being blown into the mud pit.

At most, it can only be used as spare fresh water. It is unknown how much fresh water can seep out of the soil, and the quality of the water is hard to describe. He dare not drink it at all, and needs to be boiled.

There is no fresh water here, and he needs to find new fresh water. Getting up from the mud, he continues to search for fresh water along the coastline.

In fact, it's not that he hasn't thought about the fruit trees on the coast, but there are a group of elves guarding under or on each fruit tree.

Claw crabs, needle bees, sparrows...

Seeing these elves, he always walked around, and he didn't dare to touch the territory of these elves. With three legs, he couldn't beat these elves, and he wasn't enough to catch them.

He didn't want his head to bloom or die from poisoning, he still honestly searched for fresh water, which was his only way out at the moment.

Not too far from the shelter, only seven or eight minutes away, he found another damp place.

This time it was a reef. Under the scorching sun for several days, a rock far away from the sea was still very wet. He didn't care about other things. He lay faceless on the rock, opened his chapped and bleeding lips, and licked the rock with the tip of his tongue, licking fresh water.

Immediately he was overjoyed, the secret passage was here, he immediately raised his head and looked up along the wet rocks, there were more wet rocks on it, so he touched the wet rocks and saw a rock dripping water.

The speed of dripping water is not very fast, only one or two drops per second, but it is better than nothing, it is more reliable than the previous mud pit.

He took off the plastic bottle he was carrying, put it under the rock to catch the water, and waited for the water to fall. He lay down beside the rock and felt that his whole body was several degrees cooler, perhaps because it was relatively humid here.

Listening to the ticking sound of water dripping into the plastic bottle, he felt the long-lost peace of mind, and finally had fresh water to drink, and fish soup was no longer a luxury.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, he looked at the plastic bottle that was half filled with fresh water, reached out to pick up the plastic bottle, raised the mouth of the bottle to his chapped lips, and watched the fresh water in the bottle slowly flow into his mouth and down his throat.

After his throat was moistened with fresh water, he finally felt alive, but suddenly there was a violent cough, and he subconsciously bent over and coughed violently, "cough, cough, cough..."

It may be that he drank too fast and choked on the water. He had just drank the fresh water in his mouth, but he was coughed up again before he could taste it. It was a pity.

After coughing violently, Yu Hai looked at the fresh water he had just coughed up on the ground, and sighed secretly, but seeing that there was still fresh water in the bottle, he immediately became overjoyed, and couldn't hide the joy in his heart.

This water can't be called authentic fresh water, it has a slightly salty taste, I don't know if it's because of the container, or the water is just like that.

But the water is acceptable, it's better than drinking nothing at all.

This time he didn't rush to drink water, but slowly drank the fresh water in the bottle in small sips.

In fact, it is not correct to drink raw water directly from the wild. The raw water in the wild should be boiled before drinking, including the dewdrops before.

But he was extremely short of water, and he couldn't wait at all, so he could only quench his thirst first.

If you drink unboiled water in this way, if you are lucky, nothing will happen. If you are unlucky, you may have diarrhea.

At worst, he was parasitized by parasites, constantly sucking his nutrients, and finally was squeezed dry by the parasites to death.

I hope that the elf world is really a beautiful world like in the anime, without bandit-like creatures like parasites, otherwise he will suffer.

Put the plastic bottle back to the water receiving place, and fix the plastic bottle with stones, and then he returned to the shelter, ready to change to a larger plastic bucket for fresh water.

He had no choice but to drink raw water before. When there is enough fresh water, he will boil it before drinking.

When he returned to the shelter, the mosquito-repellent tadpoles were also tired, and he collapsed on the sand, panting continuously. Even when he came back, the mosquito-repellent tadpoles were not interested.

Seeing him take the plastic bucket and leave in a hurry, the mosquito coil tadpoles still got up and followed his footsteps, and followed him to the water collection point.

At this time, the plastic bottle was half full of fresh water. Yu Hai held it in his hand and asked the mosquito-repellent tadpole, "Mosquito-repellent tadpole, do you want some water?"

As Yu Hai said, he made a gesture of drinking water, and put the mouth of the bottle next to the mouth of the mosquito-repellent tadpole.

Regarding Yu Hai's strange behavior, the mosquito-repellent tadpole just stuck out its tongue, licked the fresh water from the bottle mouth, smacked its lips, and called to Yu Hai, "Yo, yo..."

"Want to drink?" Yu Hai pressed the mouth of the bottle, guessing what the mosquito-repellent tadpole wanted to express.

Mosquito-repellent tadpoles saw fresh water flowing out of the bottle, and hurriedly took it with their mouths, and drank the fresh water fed by Yu Hai.

Seeing this, Yu Hai knew he had guessed right, and let the mosquito-repellent tadpoles drink up the fresh water in the bottle.

After drinking the fresh water, the mosquito-repellent tadpoles still smacked their lips, raising their big black eyes and looking at the plastic bucket with a look of unfinished business.

But Yu Hai immediately raised his hand to cover the big black eyes of the mosquito coil tadpole. This plastic bucket cannot be destroyed by the mosquito coil tadpole. It is the source of life and a life-saving good thing.

Then he picked up the mosquito coil tadpoles and returned to the shelter. On the way, he picked up several large plastic buckets and paid attention to whether any large pots were washed ashore.

With fresh water, he can cook seafood soup and finally have a warm meal.

According to the dripping speed of the rock, a 500ml plastic bottle can receive half a bottle of fresh water in about 10 minutes.

It is conservatively estimated that one bucket of water can be collected in the morning, about four or five liters of water.

Counting the night, four barrels of water can be received 24 hours a day, which is about [-] liters, which translates to about [-] kilograms of fresh water.

(End of this chapter)