Chapter 643: Nature's Gift (Part 2)

I don't know if it's the Atlantean bloodline that makes Arthur extra strong, or if he's just naturally powerful. In short, surviving in the primitive forest is completely difficult for him. Cutting wood and moving wood is just the beginning.

What Arthur wants to do is very simple, which is to place the cut wood horizontally on the ground, then place the entire refrigerator horizontally on the cylindrical wood as a chassis, and then put other supplies on it.

When pushing the refrigerator, the wood becomes wheels, so it can be more labor-saving and move forward faster.

Although, for Hal and Schiller, lifting it over might be faster than this, but since it's agreed not to cheat, it's better to use methods that ordinary people can use.

This is a double-door square refrigerator, which should be custom-made to adapt to the special space in the plane cabin. After cutting off the power, it no longer has refrigeration function, but at least it can be used as a storage box. Moreover, the insulation layer of the refrigerator can also make the food melt slowly until it persists to the cave with relatively low temperature.

Because the rolling logs themselves have weight, some herbaceous plants will be directly flattened and will not hinder the path forward. And when the refrigerator rolls to a log at the very front, the wood behind must be moved to the front. At this time, it is basically the three people taking turns.

Hal and Schiller's special abilities make them basically not feel tired, but what is surprising is that Arthur can also keep up and will not fall behind at all.

From here to the cave they stayed in before, there is a distance that is not close, but until the end, Arthur did not appear exhausted. And when moving the refrigerator into the cave, he still had time to chat. He said: "Seriously, this reminds me of when I followed the fleet out to sea."

"You might not know how tiring deep-sea fishing is. When I was 17, I followed my uncle out to sea to catch tuna, and I didn't sleep for four whole days..."

Schiller carried the first half of the refrigerator and turned back to ask: "Are you responsible for watching the fish finder?"

"No, of course not. How could I do that kind of work? I'm just an ordinary sailor responsible for catching fish." Arthur shook his head and said: "At that time, we didn't encounter tuna, but it didn't matter. Tuna is a rare fish species to begin with, and bluefin and yellowfin tuna are very hard to encounter."

"But at that time, we happened to encounter a group of skipjack tuna. This kind of fish is also easy to sell, and because they move in groups, the catch is very large. In those few days, we just cast nets, collected nets, cast nets, collected nets. When hungry, we ate some burgers, and when physically exhausted, we drank some functional drinks, or went to smoke a cigarette..."

"However, hard work pays off. At that time, it happened to be a shortage of dried skipjack tuna, and the catch sold for a large sum of money, which also made my uncle's business better. After he got older, he didn't do deep-sea fishing business, but instead started to be a dealer for various fishing boats."

"Oh." Schiller suddenly remembered and said: "Is it the uncle who lent you the fishing boat? He indeed looks like a captain."

"He is the best captain." Arthur said with some pride, but soon, he sighed with some regret and said: "Actually, my father was also a legendary captain when he was young, and even the name of Captain Curry echoed along the entire East Coast..."

"At that time, he brought back a blue marlin that refreshed the East Coast fishing record. It's hard for me to describe to you how big this fish was, but everyone was stunned. He was the lucky captain who was popular for a while."

"But I don't know why, later, he didn't go to sea anymore, stayed in Blüdhaven, and became a lighthouse keeper. Many sailors felt sorry for him, and my uncle also tried to persuade him, but no matter what, he was unwilling to go to sea again."

Arthur looked forward. In the gaps of the dense rainforest, one could still see the blue seawater. He said: "There are old sailors who followed him who have legends. He encountered a sea monster at sea, experienced a series of dangerous adventures, and finally returned to the shore."

"They said he angered the sea monster and was cursed by the sea monster. From then on, he could never touch seawater again. I don't know if this is true, but I know he often looks at the ocean, and there is a kind of longing in his eyes..."

The few people put the refrigerator on the ground and rested in place. During the rest, Hal asked with some curiosity: "I don't mean to offend, but your mother..."

"My father said she died in a shipwreck, but it should have been when I was very young. I don't remember her at all." Arthur shook his head, seemingly unwilling to talk more. And Schiller, who knew the truth, didn't intend to remind him. This was his private matter after all.

Of course, although I don't know what the attitude of Atlantis in this universe is towards humans, one point must be admitted. As long as Cat Getan is still a coastal city, Atlantis can't make much of a wave.

Although ordinary industrial pollution is difficult to threaten Atlantis in the deep sea, Cat Getan's industrial pollution definitely can. To take a step back, if a fish unfortunately bites the Joker first and returns to the ocean, then after a while, Atlantis will become a gift from nature.

When the three moved the refrigerator and other supplies back to the cave, Oliver widened his eyes in surprise and said: "... Where are the passengers?"

Arthur put the refrigerator on the ground and said: "The one that crashed wasn't a passenger plane, but the transportation I used to come to California. This pilot Hal wanted to fly this plane to find me, but unfortunately it crashed."

"Don't worry about these, let's look at nature's gift." Schiller walked to the refrigerator, opened the door, and found that most of the things in the freezing layer had melted, but the things in the cold fresh layer were preserved quite well.

"Reincarnation Paradise"

Most of the food in the freezing layer is meat and seafood. In this temperature environment, this kind of food cannot be preserved for too long. Schiller knows this, so he simply turned out all the meat that started to melt, preparing to deal with it all at once.

Many people know that if you want to extend the preservation time of meat, you must use a seasoning, which is salt. But the salt obtained in the food storage room of the plane is only a small jar, packed in a very common Western seasoning bottle. It's okay to sprinkle a little for seasoning when roasting meat, but if you want to use salt to treat meat, this amount is definitely not enough.

But fortunately, this island has both seawater and freshwater at the same time, which means that the most basic conditions for salt making are met. As long as the method of making salt from seawater is used, they can get salt to treat meat.

At present, these meats are placed in the cave with relatively low temperature and can still be preserved for a short period of time. During this period, it should be enough to spend some salt to treat them.

Schiller has the theory of seawater sun-drying salt method in his mind, but he has never put it into practice. After he proposed this point, the few people looked at each other. After all, after modern society, salt has become a seasoning that can be seen everywhere. Even Arthur and Oliver, who live in coastal cities, have not personally made salt from seawater.

Schiller intends to make a meal with these still fresh foods, and then distribute the work separately to start a real desert island survival trip.

Among these four people, the only ones who can cook are Schiller and Hal. The food made by Arthur and Oliver can only be said to be edible and cannot be talked about at all. So, Schiller and Hal each undertook part of the responsibility of cooking.

The conditions in the cave are very limited. There is definitely no stove, only a stone pot and the stone slab made before, and there is no grill and rack to support the stone pot.

Arthur sawed the wood brought back before with a saw, shaved it into wooden sticks, and built a simple rack, supported above the fire, so that the stone pot could be hung on the rack to cook things.

Afterward, Arthur tried to burn charcoal, but perhaps because of the special nature of palm wood, charcoal is difficult to maintain burning and heat, so he could only build the same rack to support the stone slab.

Although the stream water outside can also be used, because it has not been allowed to stand, there will be some impurities. And the few people are a bit hungry and don't want to wait for the stream water to stand. Hal climbed up the coconut tree, picked a few coconuts, and used them as the water source for cooking.

This kind of coconut tree is not a coconut tree specifically for consumption, so the leaves are very small, and the coconut juice has no taste, but it is enough for cooking.

Schiller first opened a gap in the coconut with the previous metal saw, then poured the coconut juice into the pot, found some dried mushrooms from the vegetables in the cold storage room, and when the coconut juice was heated to a temperature of about 50 or 60 degrees, threw the mushrooms in, and then found a stone slab to cover the pot.

After boiling for about a minute, when the water started to boil, take away the pot, then throw the chicken pieces cut with stones into it, knock open a few more coconuts, pour the coconut juice in to blanch it, pour out the water, then add coconut juice to cover the ingredients, and start stewing.

Other meats are handed over to Hal to deal with, but he didn't directly use the stone slab to fry meat at the beginning, but took out the thawed oysters and shrimp from the refrigerator.

Peel out the oyster meat, peel the shrimp meat, fry out the juice, chop the two ingredients, add peeled tomatoes, and fry them together until cooked.

Next, take out the previous shrimp heads, put them on the high-temperature stone slab to fry out the shrimp oil, mix the shrimp oil with the sauce made before, and it becomes orange-red seafood sauce.

"In Coast City, this is a seafood sauce that every restaurant will use for seasoning. However, we usually use smaller clams and that kind of small shrimp that cannot be sold. Although the size is not as big as these ingredients, the taste is more delicious."

Arthur and Oliver were almost driven crazy by the things these two people made. Not to mention that mushroom stewed chicken is a golden combination to begin with, that kind of meat smell and fragrance, across the lid of the stone slab, could permeate the entire cave.

And the seafood sauce made by Hal was even more fragrant, because the stone slab itself had no cover, and the smell of the food being cooked would make everyone who was hungry to the extreme appetite.

"I can't wait anymore, hurry up, I want to eat now, my stomach is already protesting from hunger..." Arthur squatted beside the stone slab, waiting to feast at the first moment the food came out of the pot.

Although Oliver didn't speak, that was only because of the last restraint of his rich young master. He didn't want to behave like someone who hadn't seen the world, but having been hungry for so many days, he was obviously the one who wanted to eat most quickly.

However, Schiller and Hal had never tried cooking in this environment. The barren conditions instead aroused their enthusiasm for creation.

Schiller took out a few slices of bread and placed them on the lid of the stone pot. Because the open fire ignited by the branches was very strong, the flames swallowed the entire stone pot, causing the stone slab above to be very hot. After Schiller baked the bread slices slightly harder, he began to break the bread slices.

After making the bread slices very broken, add a small amount of coconut juice to mix, turn into a paste, then spread into a pancake shape, and fry into thin pancakes. Fry the beef to about medium-rare, chop the onion and chili, apply to the beef, and then roll it into the thin pancake together with cheese.

Because the pancake is relatively small, so compared to tacos, it looks more like dumplings. However, because of the bread dough, it cannot be pinched, and it is also more like a folded miniature pizza.

Seeing this scene, Hal knew he had to show off. He brought a piece of pork tenderloin and a piece of pork belly. First, fry out the oil with pork belly, then cut the pork tenderloin into minced meat, fry it slightly with oil, and mix it with the previous seafood sauce.

Take out a larger coconut, knock it open, cut off the upper part, keep the coconut juice inside, then pick up the dried spaghetti and put it in, and place it on the fire under the stone slab to heat.

The spaghetti softened quickly. Before the coconut shell was burned, the noodles were almost cooked. Stir-fry the cooked spaghetti with the seafood meat sauce, then take the four coconut shells used before, burn them slightly hot on the fire, put a small piece of butter at the bottom, divide the pasta into four portions and put them in, sprinkle with shredded cheese, and the seafood meat sauce cheese coconut spaghetti was done.

Seeing this scene, Schiller knew he had to show his real skills. When he started to roll up his sleeves, Arthur, who was already dizzy from hunger, rushed up to stop him and said: "Professor, that's enough, this is not a Michelin competition scene, let's start eating..."

Schiller glanced sideways at the triumphant Hal and said: "No, you must have respect for my food. Get out of the way, I remember there is a whole duck in the refrigerator, it should have thawed by now, I'll make a mud stove and show you what is called real roast duck..."

Oliver, who was lying on the ground, almost couldn't catch his breath, and Arthur also lay on the ground. Besides helplessness, he was really too hungry to have any strength.

Half an hour later, Bruce, who found this cave along the smoke, stood at the cave entrance, looking at the two people who were almost starving to death and the table of food that could be called a feast with full of doubt. ===== CHAPTER 644 =====