Good luck with koi carp

Chapter 126 Marine Debris
In Chili's expectation, she would swim quite a distance today, and then when she was about to run out of energy halfway through, she would climb onto the bamboo raft tied to her waist with a rope to rest, followed by eating and drinking. water, rest for a while to regain strength and continue moving forward.


Unexpectedly, the plan could not keep up with the change.


Swimming to the junction of the shallow sea and the deep sea in one breath, Chi Li popped his head out of the water and floated on the sea. While taking a deep breath to replenish his body with oxygen, he looked into the distance and determined the next route.


Maybe she was too focused, until she felt a little itch on her shoulder exposed above the water, as if something was hitting her time and time again. The force was very light, but could not be ignored, and she looked sideways in confusion.


What caught my eye was a small, red, round... plastic beverage cap from a bottle.


The light weight prevented the drink cap from sinking to the bottom of the sea. Instead, it slowly drifted with the current and came to Chili.


Chi Li picked it up casually and put it on the bamboo raft.


She originally thought it was just a piece of marine debris that she encountered by chance, and it was nothing to mention. Unexpectedly, she encountered a half-drunk soda bottle, a single slipper, a torn plastic bag, sunglasses, and more. Have a straw!

That's pretty outrageous.


"So much garbage?"


Chili was speechless, but in line with the principle of not ignoring what she saw, she still picked up all these things and put them on the bamboo raft, and took them back together when she went back to prevent them from continuing to float on the sea and pollute the environment. It also harms marine life.


As a result, I went out to explore the sea smoothly, but for some reason it turned into picking up trash.


Chi Li picked up things along the way, and finally discovered unexpectedly that she was back on the island!

This is the other side of the deserted island. Except for the round-the-island tour with Jian Yuan when she first came to the island, she has been here again. She usually explores around the island and rarely comes here.


Because there is a large reef beach on the desert island here, the road conditions are rough and difficult to walk, and there are no useful resources, so they have never been here again.


Unexpectedly, there was a lot of rubbish scattered all over the reef beach. However, at a glance, Chili felt that there was everything, including various daily necessities, household appliances, etc., there were too many to count, and there was even a broken boat.


Subconsciously, Chi Li turned her head to look in the direction she came from. In the distance, she could vaguely see scattered new garbage floating with the water, twisting and turning, forming a long special avenue.


Knowing that she had discovered something incredible, Chi Li gave up today's plan, turned around and swam in the direction of Jian Yuan and the others.


"Jian Yuan, Sun Wen, Chen Zhuze!"


"Did you hear anything? It seemed like someone was calling our names." Sun Wen, who was hoeing the ground, looked up at Chen Zhuze opposite in confusion.


Before Chen Zhuze spoke, Jian Yuan immediately put down what he was holding, stood up and said, "It's Chi Li."


The three of them gathered together at the edge of the high platform and looked down from above. They saw that the person floating in the sea with a bamboo raft tied to his body was not Chi Li.


Seeing the three of them coming, Chili waved his hand and pointed to a place, indicating for them to go there: "Follow me, go over there."


Jian Yuan and the others didn't understand why Chi Li suddenly asked them to do this, but out of trust in their companions, they all put down what they were doing and headed to the other side of the platform under Chi Li's guidance.


Chili didn't go ashore, just swimming in the water.


She took Jian Yuan and the others all the way to the rubbish-filled reef beach and shouted to them, "Look over there!"


Sun Wen: "A lot of rubbish!"

Jian Yuan: "When did there be so much garbage here?"

Chen Zhuze: "There is garbage, does it mean that there are ships passing by here?"


The three people had three guesses, but only Jian Yuan, who like Chi Li had seen the original appearance of this place, guessed the same as her.


"The possibility of a passing ship nearby is very small. Look, there are many suitcases and even parasols here. And don't the style of this parasol look familiar to you?"


Chi Li climbed out of the water at some point and walked to them. She pointed to the suspicious points in the garbage pile and told everyone. After her prompts, Sun Wen and Chen Zhuze seemed to understand something and couldn't help but take a breath.


"I remember this parasol. Isn't this the umbrella on the island we went to travel to?"


The newly developed tourist island may be trying to unify the style. The umbrellas they put in public areas are all of the same style. As a tourist, even someone who doesn’t pay much attention to such public facilities will notice it after seeing it too much. It will inevitably leave some impression.


Now this impression is stimulated by the exact same thing, and it immediately reminds people of it.


"So these are all things brought by the tsunami." Sun Wen said in disbelief.


"Well, it's very possible, and these things should have drifted on the sea for a long time before arriving here, at least much longer than us." And they are still drifting here in a steady stream.


From this, Chili can also deduce that the location of the desert island they are currently on is probably quite far away from the island where they were killed. After all, they have been on this island for more than two months, and they only saw these floating islands now. Garbage from across the ocean.


Even if there is some time difference and some garbage floated here earlier, it must be a distance that they currently cannot reach by themselves.


Even Chili, who had increased his strength in the water, was not that capable.


As soon as this conclusion came out, everyone was a little disappointed.


"Don't be sad, think on the bright side, we won't be short of supplies in the future."


Jian Yuan's words broke everyone's depressed mood. When he woke him up, Sun Wen's expression suddenly brightened up: "Yes, I just saw a pot lying over there. Let's go pick up that pot and cook later." It will save you some effort.”


Even if there are stainless steel water cups and coconut shell bamboo tubes that can be used as pots, how can they compare to real pots?


Thinking of this, Sun Wen immediately ran over happily and picked up the pot she had spotted early in the morning.


As she expected, the pot was quite big, enough to cook meals for five or six people at a time, and it was quite thick. If they had picked up this pot earlier, maybe those pig bones wouldn't have been wasted.


"Let's go look for something useful."


Looking at Sun Wen's cheerful back, Chi Li smiled and said to Jian Yuan and Chen Zhuze.


"It's just time to look through and see if there is any furniture." Jian Yuan said as he joined the garbage picking army.


Chen Zhuze opened the nearest broken suitcase without any hesitation: "I want to find some clothes."


What is trash picking?

They are looking for treasure!


After digging around, Chili luckily found a quilt from a compression bag that was completely sealed. The quilt even had a faint fragrance and was not damaged by the sea water at all.


So the lack of winter supplies that we worried about before is now here, right?

Even though many of them were damaged to the point of being unusable, there were still a lot of good things left, and Chili and the others wanted more, so in the end everyone dug out so many things they wanted to take back that they couldn't take them all at once. over.


"How many times will it be taken?" Chi Li said.


"But it's so far here. If we go back and forth like this, we won't be able to finish it until dark, right?" Chen Zhuze stood on a high place and looked at the direction of the bamboo building, but he couldn't see it at all.


Even though they seemed to have arrived very quickly just now, it actually took them nearly two hours to get here from the Bamboo House. This was because they were in a hurry and ran all the way here. If they had just walked, It will take more time.


It takes more than four hours to go back and forth like this. You can only go two or three times a day at most, and you can't take out many things each time.


And just leaving the treasure that they had been searching for so long here, he was afraid that it would be gone when he came back to get it.


Yes, he was guarding against certain people.


"If that doesn't work, just find something convenient to hold things in, such as a suitcase or something. Once it's full, you can drag it with you. You should be able to bring more things back at once."


Jian Yuan's suggestion was unanimously approved by everyone, and they immediately turned around and looked around for a larger suitcase.


This place has everything, but the most common thing is suitcases. Maybe it was because there were so many people traveling to that island at that time. Assuming each tourist only brought one suitcase, that would be a pretty huge number.


So Chi Li and others only need to browse casually and find all kinds of sizes. No one even cares about the small second- and second-sized suitcases, and everyone can find them with a size of more than thirty inches.


In the end, after one person dug out two suitcases, each of which was almost thirty inches tall, they picked and picked again before they managed to stuff all the things they wanted most into them. Some of the things that couldn't be stuffed in were simply hung up. Outside, there is the pot that Sun Wen has been thinking about.


One of her suitcases had a pot hung on the left and right sides of the trolley, and two suitcases meant four pots. She stared at Chili.


"Do we need that many pots?"


"Why don't you need it? One for cooking, one for soup, one for rice, and one for backup. Isn't that just right?"


It's still too little for her. If she couldn't carry it, she would really like to bring two more.


Chili lowered his head and looked at the two large quilts that he had rolled up and bundled on top of the suitcase, as well as two pillows of different colors. He felt that he was not qualified to criticize others.


Not to mention the quilt, she finally dug out these two pillows. One of them was stored in a suitcase. Although it was not too dirty, it was soaked with sea water and had to be washed and dried before use. Strictly speaking, it was a pillow, but it lay so dirty in the crevices of the rocks until Chili picked it up.


Since the two pillows and quilt had to be washed thoroughly, Chili went through some well-sealed suitcases and found some detergent that could still be used.


Chen Zhuze mainly took clothes and some daily necessities, while Jian Yuan took furniture.


He picked through and found five small plastic stools that were still intact, a chair with a missing leg, and two wooden tables.


These things are either very heavy or bulky and difficult to hold.


When he was worried about what to do, Chi Li came up with an idea for him: "You pile all these on the bamboo raft, and I will pull them through the water."


"Okay, but I'll do it. You've been in the water for a long time today, so you'd better be careful not to catch a cold."


Jian Yuan felt that Chili's method was feasible, but he did not agree to let her go into the sea. This would have required several hours of walking and soaking in the cold sea water. Chili was already weak and could easily get sick.


In the end, it was Jian Yuan who pulled his own things.


Since the bamboo raft has a limited load-bearing capacity, it can still hold more or less, so although there is no way to pile everything on it that everyone wants to take away, we can still find some things that are too bulky to carry but not too heavy. Pile them on the bamboo raft and take them back.


Therefore, what Chi Li and others saw when they were walking home was that Jian Yuan had two legs in the sea, dragging a rope in his hand, and behind the rope was pulling a bamboo raft with bits and pieces on it. The ground was filled with things like plastic stools, wooden tables, plastic survival rings, parasols and so on.


"No, why did he pull the parasol back?" Sun Wen expressed confusion.


"Shade the sun." Chen Zhuze said this but didn't say it.


When everyone finally returned to the door with a bunch of things, they were all so tired that they just lay on the ground and stopped moving, like several corpses.


If someone comes who doesn't know the truth, he might be scared to death.


After finally getting over her fatigue, Sun Wen turned over and couldn't help but said to Chi Li: "It's still early, should we go there again?"


Chili went out very early in the morning, and it didn't take her long to find the garbage dump. Her swimming speed in the water was beyond what most people could expect, so she spent much less money than Sun Wen and the others expected. Find them in time and take them to the garbage dump.


It took them a while to dig through the garbage, and it took a while to get back. But calculating the time, it was actually only around three or four o'clock in the afternoon, which was not too late. If they rushed, they would indeed be able to do what Sun Wen said. , go again.


"Don't think about it. I'm too tired today. Let's talk about it tomorrow."


With the pillows and quilts she cherished and many other things, Chi Li was not very moved by the proposal. She mercilessly dismissed Sun Wen's thoughts and suppressed her heart that was ready to move.


"Ok."


Somehow, Sun Wen listened to Chi Li's words very much. Once she was unsure, she really stopped going.


Of course, another important reason is that they have to be busy cleaning the collected things and have no time to dig through the trash.


After almost resting, everyone dragged a bunch of things to the small ditch and cleaned the treasures they picked up one by one in the clear water inside.


While scrubbing the pillow vigorously, Chi Li suddenly felt as if someone was peeping at them. She immediately looked up and went back, only to see a slender figure disappearing into the grass.


Without saying anything, she lowered her head in silence and continued the movements with her hands. By the time everyone finally finished washing everything, it was already dark.


"Come and help, hold me steady."


Cleaned things naturally need to be dried, and such a large amount of items requires a lot of drying racks, but they originally only made one for use, which is not enough to dry so many things at once.


Fortunately, this is not something very embarrassing.


After building the house, Jian Yuan wanted to make some furniture, so he stocked a lot of bamboo wood and other things near the bamboo house. Now he needed a lot of clothes drying racks, so he made them on site.


Stand two bamboo poles crosswise on the ground, tie the tops with ropes, then use two bamboo poles at a distance to make the same cross frame, and then put a long bamboo pole in the middle, and a clothes drying rack is ready.
Quite simple and convenient.


Since this thing has no technical content, anyone can make it, so in order to improve efficiency, Chili and the others worked in groups of two, and each group made five clothes drying racks. Plus their original ones, it was almost enough.


There were so many clothes drying racks not only because they picked up too many things, but also because everyone, like Chi Li, each picked up a quilt.


Each of these quilts takes up a lot of space when unfolded. Basically, you can only hang two quilts on a shelf at most, so in order to dry them all, you have to make more shelves.


After drying the last piece of clothing and looking at the fabrics fluttering in the wind, Chili felt relieved.


It seems there is no need to worry this winter.


After so many twists and turns, Chi Li has given up hope that they can be rescued in the short term. Now she just wants to live well on the island until she completely fulfills the original owner's wish and leaves this world.


As for the original owner's wish, she actually has some eyebrows now.


At night, it was the dream of being swallowed up by a tsunami again.


She has had the same dream so many times that Chili has been able to get rid of the influence of the dream and watch the beginning of this dream from the perspective of a bystander.


Although it was said to be a dream, Chi Li had already guessed that it was the memory of the original owner's previous life.


She did not survive in her previous life and died in the tsunami.


Before she died, her biggest wish was to survive, but unfortunately she could only sink into the deep sea without anyone to rescue her.


In fact, Chili should not have come to this world.


Because the original owner of this world was a person with great luck, she was lucky enough to get another chance after her death. If she could take advantage of the prophet and seize the time to escape, she might not be unable to survive.


But after the original owner was reborn, her first reaction was to rush away from the island that was about to be hit by a tsunami. But it happened to be such a coincidence that all flights to and from the island were canceled that day, as were the ferry tickets, and the weather system A storm was detected, so all ships returned to the port and travel was prohibited.


It turns out that the disaster had been predicted by humans, but no one expected it. By coincidence, when the storm hit, an earthquake occurred in the area at the same time, triggering a super-large tsunami that directly engulfed the entire island, causing countless deaths and injuries.


With no way to escape and no confidence to survive that terrible disaster, the soul of the original owner finally chose to escape from this world in despair and dragged Chili in, who had just finished her experience in the previous world.


Chi Li: "..."


She was really grateful to the original owner for finally understanding the cause and effect.


Later, when Chili came, she did reverse the fate of the original owner, but she ended up living on this deserted island. In fact, she had only a slight relationship with the original owner.


Because before she died, the original owner happened to see the young people who rented the mobile villa with her luckily find a boat and climb aboard to take refuge. At that time, she screamed for help, hoping that they would save her.


Unfortunately, the wind and rain were too strong and the waves were too loud. The few people who had just escaped did not notice the original owner's cry for help. By the time Sun Wen, who was sitting closest to her, heard her movement and turned around, the original owner had already fallen into a deep sleep. No matter where it is, where can it be found?


It just so happened that due to such a mistake, part of the original owner's obsession before his death was attached to those young people.


As a result, Chili, who came here to fulfill the original owner's wish, subconsciously followed the direction of those people and came to the island, which led to some things that happened later.


I'm afraid that in the previous life of the original owner, Sun Wen and her group also survived by accidentally finding a boat, and were washed to this island by the sea after the boat capsized.


As for whether they survived on the island and waited for rescue, a few more survived. Chi Li was even less sure about this kind of thing that the original owner didn't know about, and she had no ability to predict it.


However, she could still get some useful information from the original owner's wishes and obsessions.


The good news: They will definitely be rescued someday.


After all, if not even one of Sun Wen and the others survives and is rescued, then the original owner's obsession cannot be extended to the next life, even if she did not know the final outcome of Sun Wen and the others in her previous life.


Bad news: I don’t know when help will come.


Just... let's live well here first.


Chi Li, who didn't know when she woke up, turned over and sighed heavily: "These days are really sad."


Although island survival is not a big challenge for her, for the Koi Fairy who loves all kinds of human delicacies, she is really sad. She eats seafood and gnaws weeds every day, and she almost doesn’t know what the real thing is. What does the food taste like?


Unfortunately, this shabby place doesn’t order any other seasonings, just any chili pepper!


Unfortunately, peppers don’t grow here.


Don't ask Chi Li if she knows this, she just knows it anyway.


But as for ginger, there seemed to be some. She seemed to have smelled the spicy smell before, but she couldn't find it after searching a few times. Sun Wen saw that it was getting dark and rushed her to go back, so she didn't look for it seriously. .


"You can go look for it again today."


Chili murmured to herself, then got up and went out, intending to see if all the things she had dried yesterday were dry.


As soon as he walked out of the house, he saw that Jian Yuan had gotten up early and was collecting some dried things and came back.


Turning around, he saw Chi Li standing at the door of the bamboo building. He smiled and said hello: "Good morning."


"Good morning."


Chili walked down the stairs. In order to make it easier to go up and down, there was a staircase at the door of the bamboo building, but it was a bamboo ladder with two bamboos holding a few short sticks in the middle, not that kind of ladder.


In fact, it is only half a meter high, so everyone can go up and down freely even if they are uncomfortable with stairs, but it just takes a little more effort.


"These tables and chairs are already dry. I plan to put them in the living room." Jian Yuan said, pointing to a pile of clean tables and chairs at his feet.


"I'll help you move it."


Hearing this, Chi Li stopped checking her things and first helped Jian Yuan move the tables and chairs into the bamboo building and place them separately.


Jian Yuan did not move all the tables and chairs in, but left one set outside, because the weather is still a bit hot now, and everyone is cooking and eating outside, so it is necessary to leave some tables and chairs outside.


The tables and chairs outside were placed next to the former bacon shed.


Since there was no purpose-built kitchen, the shed that Chili built casually before was actually used as a kitchen, and everyone ate there.


Fortunately, the shed is strong enough. After being exposed to wind and rain for more than a month, it has not been damaged much. However, the large leaves on the top have been smoked black and have some curled edges. It really doesn't look good. , Chili plans to find some materials to reinforce it and improve it later when she has time.


After setting up the table and chairs, Jian Yuan took out the parasol that he had dragged back with great effort, and placed it in the place where he usually does handicrafts. Under the umbrella was a folding chair that he specially selected for himself, and a small plastic round table was set up next to it. , if there is another coconut on the table and a straw inserted, what is the difference between this and an island vacation?


"You'll still enjoy it."


Chi Li, who said this, had already laid down on the folding chair. This chair is also a beach vacation chair. People can lie on it, and it can also be used as a bed when necessary.


At least Chili felt much more comfortable than sleeping directly on the bamboo floor.


"It's a pity that no bed was rushed over." She thought whimsically.


"We can make the bed ourselves. It's not difficult." Jian Yuan dragged a small bamboo stool over and sat next to Chi Li and whispered.


This small bamboo stool was made by Jian Yuan himself and is the only finished product.


It's not that he failed many times to get this finished product, but that he never had much time before and only had time to make a stool.


Originally, Jian Yuan wanted to make a fully-matched bamboo stool, bamboo table, bamboo cabinet, bamboo bed, or something else, or wooden ones. He dug out a lot of useful tools in the garbage dump yesterday, including not only knives, but even hammers. , axes, shovels, etc., and even a bundle of wire and a small pack of rusty nails. With these, whatever they need to make will be much easier.


"Let's take our time later. We have a lot of time. There's no rush."


Chi Li looked over to the land where Sun Wen and the others dug a pit yesterday, and talked about her future plans.


"We can find some better wild vegetables to plant. If we can grow them successfully, we won't have to worry about running out of vegetables in the future. Also, we can transplant a few wild fruit trees over there, and we need to plant some mosquito repellents next to the bamboo house. Plants, it would be best to get some herbs back. Also, we can dig a new fish pond. The original one is gone. This time we dig a bigger one, and then I will catch a lot of fish and just put them in to raise... "


Chi Li spoke slowly, while Jian Yuan listened patiently. There was a lot of tenderness between the two, which made Sun Wen, who was about to go out, stop in her tracks and pull Chen Shuze, who was also awake, back.


"What?"

"Don't make any noise, or I'll beat you up!"


"Are you quarreling again?" Although Sun Wen tried her best to stop it, Chili and the others were still attracted by the figure behind them. Seeing the two younger young people making noisy again, they couldn't help but ask with a smile.


For Chili and Jianyuan, who are already members of society, the two young people who are still studying are indeed still young.


"No."

"No, we were joking."


As soon as she was discovered, Sun Wen immediately distanced herself from Chen Shuze, then ran to Chi Li and squatted down and asked her: "What do you want to eat in the morning? I'll do it."


"Just do something simple, it doesn't have to be too much trouble."


"Okay, let me cook a potpourri, just in time to try the new pot."


In the past, because the pots were too small, Sun Wen had to use many pots to cook a meal, most of which were disposable. Although there was no need to clean the pots, it was still a bit uncomfortable for the chef.


Now that she could finally try cooking everyone's meals in one pot, she decided to make something sumptuous.


In the end, Sun Wen created a pot of seafood.


There is everything in it, fish, shrimp and crab are just the basics, there are also octopus, mussels, scallops, oysters, and even a few abalone in the middle.


The side dishes at the bottom include bamboo shoots, kelp and wild vegetables, and there are also a few wild fruits on the side, which is quite rich.


Although there are not many seasonings, this pot of seafood is still quite good with the fresh flavor of the seafood itself.


But after eating, Chili became more determined to find ginger. She felt that if there were more ginger, the food would definitely taste better.


After breakfast, Chili touched the things she had dried one by one. Except for the thinner sheets and pillowcases, which were dry, the inner cores with cotton were still wet and needed to be dried again.


In addition, she picked up more clean clothes for herself, which she now washed and hung on the hangers. These clothes were also dry, but Chi Li wanted them to be exposed to the sun for more time to kill bacteria, so she confiscated them.


She said hello to Jian Yuan, then picked up her handbag and a plastic shovel handed over by Jian Yuan, and set off into the woods.


This time Chili was alone, so she could safely search for what she wanted. Apart from ginger, she also planned to dig up some wild vegetables that were easy to grow, and if she was lucky, she could bring back some herbs.


Since experiencing the last incident where Jian Yuan was unwilling to take medicine, Chili realized that the various medicinal herbs hidden in the woods were actually very useful. After all, the finished medicines they had on hand were limited, even if there was an extra garbage dump now. She was able to obtain supplies, but it was just like when she found the suitcase at sea. It was really difficult to find medicines that were well preserved and had not been damaged by sea water. Even if she found them, it was still unclear whether they were right or not.


So it’s better to find some common and useful herbs and use them directly if necessary.


In this regard, Chili thinks that she still knows some ways to distinguish.


After all, I have been fed many kinds of miraculous medicines by my owners since I was a child, which is similar to how a long-term illness makes a good doctor. If you eat more, you will know how to distinguish them. You can tell what most herbs are for by smelling them. .


However, she also knew that the parts of an herb that could be used were different, and the effects were different. She didn't understand, so just don't mess around with it and just look for the kind she found for Jian Yuan last time that could be used as a whole plant. The effect of the medicine is also relatively mild.


"My memory is indeed correct."


She said that she smelled a smell similar to ginger last time, and now she came back again and found several wild ginger plants for her.


There were several pieces of ginger stuck to the bottom of each plant, and the yield was surprisingly high. In an instant, Chili, who originally just wanted to dig the ginger back for cooking, changed her mind and planned to take it back and plant it.


How can a one-time transaction compare to a life-long transaction?

Afraid of damaging the root system of the ginger, Chili was very careful when digging. It took a lot of effort to get these treasures, and then she didn't bother to look for anything else. She was afraid that the ginger would die if it was left in the soil for too long. , just transport them back and plant them first.

(End of this chapter)