Survival From The Wilderness: Mission Master

Chapter 414

Chapter 440 Counting Materials

Under the shining of torches, the five people discussed the loopholes that were simply repaired in a low voice for a while.

According to a few people’s shallow sailing knowledge and yesterday’s observations, there are only three layers of repairs in this place.

Located in the center, there is a layer of planks connected longitudinally to the keel that need to be repaired. Supported by this layer of planks, there are a layer of horizontal planks in and out, which also need to be repaired.

The difficulty of this repair is second. The key problem is that they can’t complete these tasks in a short time. According to Annie’s estimation, the repair of the cabin will take about a week, not to mention the sail mast and some small details. s things. Counting all these, it is estimated that it will take two weeks.

After all, it is impossible for them to be busy on this ship all day, they also need to search for food for themselves, and explore the surroundings on alert. It is considered high efficiency to complete one or two procedures every day.

In order to repair the cabin, they must dismantle what they originally repaired, so that the ship will get into the water again. So I went around and went back to the original problem. The boat must be brought to the shore where the tide cannot rise before subsequent repairs are possible.

But fortunately, the time of the five people is no longer urgent, and there is plenty of time to think and operate.

After a while, the professor slowly said 633: “I have an idea. The few of us can’t drag this ship on land. Can we change our thinking and create a waterway artificially?”

“Then start with a sailboat and dig a waterway on the beach. When the tide is high, drive the boat into the waterway. I think this is a short tens of meters, and there should be no accidents. When the tide is about to ebb, we will use it again. The sand blocked the entrance of the water channel and prevented the sailing boat from being pushed out of the water channel by the tide. Then we would find time to let the water dry, so as to achieve our goal.

Purpose.

After listening to the professor’s words, the fat man said with a slightly embarrassed expression: “Professor, to be able to accommodate the river channel that this big ship enters, just rely on us, when will we dig…”

The professor shook his head and said: “If there is a better way, I would not propose this option. But as far as I see it now, only this method is feasible.

“Moreover, the difficulty of digging on the beach should not be great. In terms of tools, although there is no shovel or hoe in the craftsman’s box, we can make some wooden shovel by ourselves. The quality is not required, as long as there is that (accf) shape. It can also reduce the difficulty of our work.”

At this time, the fat man was also silent, although he could expect that if he followed the professor’s instructions, the time required for the ship repair work would be greatly extended, and it would also be very laborious. But what the professor said was also the truth. They seemed to have no more choices.

The silence lasted for a while. This time Annie took the lead to speak: “I agree with the professor’s plan. This is an urgent matter. We should not consider ship repairs more important than survival. Our most important task recently is to strengthen. The camp and the fortifications on the way from the camp to the beach, beware of the strangers who may land on the island. In addition, you must digest the materials obtained from the ship and move the remaining materials back to the camp. It’s repairing this ship.”

Under Lu Xueyi’s translation, Aunt Ge also agreed and said: “I think it’s still unknown whether this ship can be repaired or not, but the potatoes we get are solid. Let’s take our time here and finish some things every day. That’s it, I still want to find a place earlier to plant those potatoes.”

At this time, it seems that everyone has no opinion. The professor finally made a final decision: “In this case, we will follow this plan. It is not confirmed that the ship is still there today, so no tools or anything have been brought out. So the specific work will begin tomorrow. , Today we will find some food and go back. I don’t know if the turtle eggs I found last time survived the storm that day.

“You can also bring some non-heavy materials back by the way to reduce the burden next time.”

Now that the plan has been determined, everyone did not hesitate anymore. As the professor said, they left the bottom cabin and went down the rope ladder to the beach again, and started looking for food.

Just for safety, everyone is still a group of people, and at the same time they are not too far apart, they are all within their own line of sight.

The professor took Annie and Aunt Ge to the place where he buried the turtle eggs the day before yesterday. Quite nervously, I dug out the sand. Fortunately, the turtle eggs were still lying quietly in the pit, and there was no accident.

Putting the turtle eggs into the bag carefully, the professor smiled contentedly.

Then, as usual, the fish catchers caught the fish, and those looking for other marine products also searched carefully on the beach. Soon, everyone once again gathered in front of the sailing boat. At this time, the tide had faintly started to rise. Everyone glanced at the big ship behind him, then smiled and set off back to the camp.

Since today is considered to be a fruitful harvest, everyone has no extra portable goods, so they did not go to find out the goods hidden yesterday, but went straight back to the camp.

Since I harvested a lot of kitchen utensils on the boat, there are a lot of bottles and cans. I went back to the camp. After everyone recovered last night, they also cleaned these things. So cooking is much more convenient than before. At least there is no need to get a slate omelette.

After a simple lunch, it was still early, and a group of five people dragged all the supplies they found yesterday out of the cave and put them under the sun to prepare for an inventory.

The most important harvest is naturally potatoes and lemons, followed by a large box of tools, including hammers, axes, saws, tape measures, scissors and the like. Unfortunately, there are no larger tools, such as shovel and shovel.

In addition, there are the kitchen utensils just mentioned, some iron pots of different calibers, and a big pot.

The daily necessities are very miscellaneous, this time I only brought back some of the more necessary ones. What excites everyone is the three oil lamps and the lamp oil put together, which greatly eases the lighting problem in the cave. Only a small part of the clothes and quilts were brought back, and more were left on the beach side, waiting to be brought back together on the next trip.

What is left is a small amount of medicine, a barrel of gunpowder and a total of six muskets. I didn’t bring all the gunpowder back. Although it was important, it was too heavy.

After simply counting the supplies, the professor pondered for a moment and said: “Mother, let’s go find a place to plant the potatoes today. This matter should be sooner or later.”

“Also fat man, you and Annie will arrange more traps near the camp. This time with these tools, the efficiency should be much higher.”