Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 229 One hundred and forty-four. Friday

   "There is a problem there, I don't recommend moving to a wooden house."

The    wooden house had a faintly disturbing atmosphere, and with the strange human-shaped shadow he saw on the wall before leaving, Lu Li preferred to stay under the beach and rock wall.

   "What if I want to go?" said the woman in black robe, or Friday.

   "As you wish, I'll stay here."

   It's not sensible to be separated on an island in the deep sea, but Lu Li would rather stay at the windbreak and wait for rescue rather than going to the cabin on top of the cliff.

   "I'd rather rest in a hut than a pit full of sand."

   He got out of the windbreak and said on Friday, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

  Lu Li nodded, didn't say anything to hold back, gave her two cans of canned food and half of the matches: "This is yours, there is a path behind the rock wall to go up."

  The oil lamp and bedding of the wooden house were not brought, and they can only be left for Friday. The effect of raising a fire here will be the same.

   On Friday, he accepted Lu Li's gift and waved at Lu Li: "You can come and find me if you change your mind."

   Watching Friday go around behind the rock wall, Lu Li withdrew his gaze, lowered his head and drilled into the windbreak.

  The terrain of the windbreak is lower than that of the beach, covered with brown moist sand, and the bottom becomes narrower as it goes inward, with a depth of less than two meters. However, the space is ample enough to raise the fire with one person lying down, and the trapezoid-shaped overhead rock wall extending outwards will not allow smoke to accumulate in the depression.

   It's just early morning, and Lu Li has plenty of time to prepare. But he had better get everything by noon—enough firewood; raising fires; raising the ground at the edge of the windbreak to prevent rain; putting up a sand wall outside the windbreak and blocking the view; staying on the beach Below are prominent signs that will be spotted by passing ships; drinking water and possibly food.

   Prepare these and rest until evening, wake up before night falls, stay awake and spend the night in a shelter from the wind.

After planning how to arrange the windbreak, Lu Li first pushed the wet gravel about five centimeters thick in the windbreak to the outside of the windbreak to make the bunker more spacious, and at the same time raised the ground outside, then took off his shirt and found it 50 meters away. For a light-colored beach, take away a layer of sand that is still dry on the surface, take it back to the windproof place with a shirt, and spread it evenly on the ground.

   After three trips back and forth, a thin layer of light brown sand barely covered the dark gravel. This is not enough, Lu Li spent more than ten minutes carrying it several times, so that the thickness of the dry sand reached one or two centimeters.

   This is enough for now.

   As long as the moisture is blocked, the gravel on the lower layer will be further dried after the fire is raised.

   Slapped off most of the sand on his shirt, Lu Li pursed his dry lips, and decided to postpone the firewood collection plan and find a water source earlier.

   He has been without a drop of water all night.

  I checked the two psychic guns, and they didn't seem to have any problems, and the silver-plated bullets had already been used up, so I couldn't test whether they could fire normally.

The    psychic gun can still only be used temporarily as a fire stick.

   Leaving the beach and entering the woods, Lu Li walked towards the direction where the suspected water source was observed on the rock wall.

  The thick boots made Lu Li unable to feel the stones and dead grass on the ground, and the warm wrapping kept Lu Li warm in the cool and gloomy weather.

  Lu Li stopped and walked, his eyes wandering in the forest. From time to time he bent down to pick up stones, or put them away or throw them away.

   Most of the stones left by him are thin and smooth and flat. They can be placed by the fire, put pots or food on it, boil water and bake food.

  Lu Li picked out a fairly sharp stone as a dagger and held it in his hand.

  The 0.5-kilometer-sized island makes it not too far to go anywhere. After a few minutes, the land is close to the suspected water source.

   A faint rancid smell permeated the surrounding woods.

  Luri slowed his pace, approached in the direction from which the rancid smell came from, and saw a human-shaped corpse in front of a two-meter-sized pool of water.

   The hand holding the stone flakes tightened and gradually loosened. The humanoid corpse was oddly shaped, short, with tan fur covering its entire body.

   is a monkey.

   This dead monkey fell on the edge of the water, with its head immersed in the water. The body was highly decomposed, and the hair was tangled together. It had been dead for at least half a month.

  According to what Lu Li has seen along the way, it may be the last wild animal on this island.

   The water was not deep, and the deepest part barely covered the calf, almost dry. It looks fairly clear, and you can see the silt and fallen leaves at the bottom of the water at a glance, but this is stagnant water, and it has been contaminated with corpses.

  Lu Li was looking for live water, and he had to boil it before drinking it.

   In this world, if you get sick from drinking water, there is almost no cure.

  Unless he gets to the point where he will die of thirst if he doesn't drink water, Lu Li doesn't plan to drink the sewage in the pond.

   Looking up here, you can see a cliff-top cabin 200 meters away. This is where the suspected water source that Lu Li saw at the top of the cliff.

   He tried to find other sources of water.

  Circling around the island for a full circle, apart from drying his lips, Lu Li couldn't find any water source, and only got something on the other side of the rock wall - he picked up two empty jars.

   One of them has been trampled and cannot be used, and the other is still in good condition. If it does not leak, it can be used to boil water.

   If water is found.

   Returning to the beach from the other side of the cliff, Lu Li noticed a dark water mark on the rock wall.

  It may be the dew accumulated above, or the groundwater seeping from the rock. A silk-like slender wet water mark extends from the top of the cliff and condenses into water droplets at the lowest end, which wets a small piece of gravel.

  Lu Li reached out and dipped some of it into his mouth. The taste was mild. If the sea salt taste of his fingers was counted, the water was fresh water.

   More importantly, it is living water.

  Lu Li took the jar he picked up and walked to the beach, holding a jar of sea water. The lead-grey seawater became clear in the jar, and it was rippling and made people want to drink it.

   After confirming that the jar will not leak, Lu Li washed the stains inside and outside the jar with sea water and returned to the rock wall.

  Lu Li is not far from looking at it. It is only less than 30 meters away from the windbreak. It will not take too much time to get water back and forth.

   Looking back, Lu Li placed the jar below the waterline.

  da——

  da——

  da——

  The water dripped down, and the subtle sound of water dripping came from the bottom of the tank.

   Water drips very slowly, and it may take two hours or more to accumulate in a 300ml jar.

   And it doesn’t necessarily drip all the time.

   This place can only barely keep Lu Li from running out of water. He had better find other water sources. As long as you find this kind of rock wall that penetrates clear water, it will be enough for Luli's daily drinking.

  Other water sources…

  Lu Li recalled the newspaper he read the day before departure. The three-day weather forecast in the newspaper was cloudy, cloudy, and cloudy, but there were some light rains in the first two days.

   He remembered that the forecast was always inaccurate.

   (end of this chapter)