Chapter 226 Achievement Shattered
Bifang suddenly stretched out his hand and took Haizao onto the life raft while Haizao was not paying attention.
"Ha, it's quite heavy."
The moment the seaweed was thrown out, Bifang estimated that it weighed several kilograms, and if he really ate it, it would probably take him several days to eat.
What a great harvest.
"However, natural seaweed is tough and contains a lot of salt, so it is difficult to digest. Eating too much at once can easily cause constipation. It can only be used to solve urgent problems. And if you are dehydrated, try not to eat it."
Constipation or difficulty urinating or concentrated urination are all very abnormal in harsh environments and need to be treated with caution.
Bifang absolutely does not want to encounter such a situation, especially when the program crew is present. Even if they will blur the footage, there is no guarantee that they will not shoot something weird.
By then, your reputation will be ruined.
"I've said before that any food will consume water from your body, unless you eat fruit, which replenishes more water than you consume. But seaweed is obviously not one of them. It's even a bit salty. Eating too much can easily lead to dehydration."
Bifang was picking up seaweed on the life raft, but he didn't find any small fish or shrimp. However, he was not discouraged. Being able to harvest seaweed was already quite good. At least this gift from the sea could allow him to hold on for a few more days.
As long as time goes by, there will always be a turning point.
If the base number is large enough, even the smallest probability event may happen.
Bifang picked one of the seaweeds and held it under the moonlight to identify it carefully. After looking at it for a long time, he happily confirmed that it was indeed Sargassum!
Without hesitation, Bifang simply wiped the stems twice, cleaned them simply, and stuffed the Sargassum directly into his mouth to chew, and the light salty and fresh taste spread.
"Hmm, it tastes pretty good, a bit like the smell of the sea, but the plant itself is not dead or rotten, it's still very crisp, but my mouth feels drier after eating it, but it's not as salty as I imagined."
Bifang picked another piece of Sargassum and strung it on the fishhook. Although it was not a meat bait, it was much better than before with grass. Moreover, if he really put up meat bait, he could not help but worry about attracting some ferocious carnivorous fish.
If a large carnivorous fish comes, his small, broken boat will most likely be destroyed and the fish will die.
After hanging the bait, Bifang zipped up the life raft, hoping to drink distilled water again.
"It's a pity that what we encountered was just a piece of debris. If you encountered a place where Sargassum grows, you would definitely be shocked. It doesn't look like water grass at all, it's simply a grassland on the sea."
While eating, Bifang introduced the real growth environment of Sargassum. When he had nothing to do, he used this to pass the time, or to retain the audience.
Sargassum is a very common species of algae, but they differ in how they grow in the Atlantic Ocean.
Once Sargassum begins to reproduce here, people usually call this sea area the Sargasso Sea. If the sea surface is calm all year round and the ocean currents are weak, the seawater between different water layers will not mix, so the nutrient renewal rate in the shallow water layer is very slow and it will almost soon be occupied by Sargassum.
"As early as when explorer Columbus led an expedition fleet to explore the Atlantic Ocean, the sailors on the ship discovered a green 'grassland'. In fact, as you have guessed, it was not a grassland, but a Sargasso Sea."
"Columbus was very happy at the time and thought he had reached India. He ordered the ship to go into the 'grassland'. It turned out that the 'grassland' was endless seaweed. In the end, they were trapped in it for a month before they came out."
[Fuck, a month? So long?]
[Columbus was really miserable. I always thought that mistaking North America for Asia was a dark side of his history, but I didn’t expect there was something darker.]
[One month? Is it that scary?]
"Yes , the Sargasso Sea looks beautiful. But many ships were accidentally caught in the seaweed and could not escape. The seaweed would crawl onto their ship decks like snakes and wrap around the ship. Over time, because there was no food and fresh water, many crew members would eventually die of starvation. Therefore, the Sargasso Sea is called the 'cemetery on the sea' and the 'devil's sea'."
"Because the sea surface was occupied, many plankton could not survive, and then a large number of fish suffocated and died and rotted. The smell of this 'green field' was very disgusting, and there were destroyed ships everywhere."
Bifang had never seen it with his own eyes, but his experience in surviving in the wilderness told him how terrifying the scene was. It was like hell.
[Fuck, so scary? ]
[If Lao Fang is trapped, he will be in trouble.]
[Sargasso seaweed is so powerful? It can even eat people! ]
[Isn't this thing the same as the red tide? Why is it so long? ]
"Almost all of them are harmful, and people still don't have a precise answer to how Sargassum grows. Some oceanographers think that Sargassum drifts from other seas and accumulates over time."
"Some people also believe that these Sargassum algae originally grew on the seabed of this sea area, and later floated from the seabed to the surface under the influence of seabed currents."
"Of course, the most surprising thing is the mobility of Sargassum, which is like long legs and drifts from time to time. Many scientists often encounter such a strange thing: sometimes they see a large green Sargassum, but after a while, the Sargassum disappears again."
Bifang chewing the Sargassum in his mouth not only illustrates the characteristics of Sargassum, but also explains the netizens' doubts about the so-called "arrangement of the program team."
Really not.
It is quite normal to encounter Sargassum while drifting on the sea, especially in the North Atlantic. If you haven't encountered it once, you would be embarrassed to say that you have been to the Atlantic.
[Damn, the achievement of going hungry for nine meals in three days failed]
[Damn it, Fang Shen was actually allowed to eat]
[It’s getting better, it’s getting better again. This situation can make Fang Shen break the situation. How abominable.]
[But I think another achievement can be unlocked, breaking the stick holding record! ]
[Oh, damn, why didn't I think of this? Okay, I'll bet, all wolf howls, I bet Fang Shen won't get the tree stick this time! ]
[Fuck, I'm all in too, all in! If I can find a stick, I'll eat this monitor! ]
The manager in the live broadcast room immediately opened a wolf-hair betting game to bet on whether Bifang could get the tree stick this time.
This seems to be a new rule of the platform. You use a wolf hair to press yes or no, and the winner can share the loser's wolf hair.
As soon as the market opened, the "no" option instantly squeezed out the "yes" option. Everyone felt that it was a sure win. There were more than 100,000 wolf hair strands, and God knows how many people participated in it.
Quite good at having fun.
Bifang smiled. He also bet a hundred sticks. He didn't care about such a small bet and stuffed two pieces .
This thing can not only satisfy hunger, but also contains rich minerals and vitamins, and is nutritionally balanced. It is a good harvest. It directly restored a large amount of blood to Bifang who had been hungry for two days.
After eating some Sargassum, water droplets began to condense in the life raft again. Bifang was thirsty, so he drank all the water. Then he scooped out the excess water in the life raft, wiped the raft dry with a bath towel, and lay down.
"When sleeping at night, the raft body cannot be too humid, otherwise long-term contact with sea water will easily cause skin ulcers. I have mentioned this before."
"If a boat or rubber raft is left unprotected for a long time, water may accumulate everywhere in the boat, and your feet will have to be immersed in seawater for a long time, which is quite troublesome."
"Moderate exercise can help protect your feet and prevent frostbite. Being naked is quite dangerous. When you rest, you should cover your body and move your limbs slightly when you are observing."
"Unfortunately, I don't have a blanket, only a wet towel. Fortunately, I was caught in the bathhouse, otherwise I might not even have this towel."
Bifang laughed at himself.
He also had to think about how to survive the next nineteen days. A ball of seaweed was not enough, he needed meat.
On the second day of survival at sea, the harvest was a ball of Sargassum.
