Chapter 233 Setting Sail
The fresh squid was quite chewy, and my jaw muscles became sour and astringent after I had finally finished eating the nine tentacles of the squid. Each one was wet and sticky, with a fishy smell.
After biting off the last one, the tentacle with the suction cup kept twitching at the corner of the mouth and actually stuck directly to Bifang's skin.
Bifang took a sip, but found that the tentacles were too strong and could not suck it in at all. He had to pull it off with his hands and put it into his mouth, and continued chewing. The audience was traumatized by what they saw, it was too fierce.
Halfway through chewing, Bifang seemed to suddenly remember and reminded.
"I forgot to mention that if you eat squid or octopus tentacles raw, you must chew them thoroughly and never swallow them. Invertebrates like these can still move even after they are dead. If you don't chew them thoroughly, they may get stuck in your trachea and cause suffocation."
After saying that, Bifang opened its mouth to show the audience. The night mode was not as clear as the daytime mode, but the audience could feel that even though most of the tentacles were chewed into pieces, they were still wriggling, which was creepy.
[Fuck, I can’t look at squids and octopuses anymore! ]
[Damn, this is too strong, only Lao Fang can eat it, right? ]
[I have goosebumps, shit! ]
[Crab roe and mantis shrimp are given to the anchor as a gift of meat bone *1. —Awesome! ]
[By the way, what kind of squid is this? It feels a little different from usual ones. I have never seen it before. Are you sure it is not poisonous? ]
[Will there be no parasites if eaten raw? 】
[What are you afraid of? Seafood has fewer parasites, otherwise the Japanese wouldn't be so happy to eat it. Besides, it's not the first time that Lao Fang has eaten it raw. Didn't he eat the heart raw last time? ]
The scene of eating fresh seafood really stimulated the audience, and thousands of comments appeared in a short time. This was the result of Bifang's triple protection of comment qualifications, comment time and number of comments in the background.
Many big anchors only limit themselves to two levels at most. If there are more, it will seem that they are not very popular. How can they dare to be like Bifang, who opens three levels at the first try? Even so, there are still a lot of barrages, and they are densely packed.
It is hard to imagine how explosive the barrage would be without this triple insurance. I am afraid there would be tens of thousands of barrages at the climax, which is really amazing.
Bifang simply flipped through it, picked out two items that raised the most questions and provided brief explanations of the misunderstandings in the knowledge. As a result, the first item caught the audience's attention.
"First of all, regarding the squid species, I don't really know it, but it should be from the same family as the calamari, and they look very similar."
audience:"!!!"
Is there something you don’t know?
Many viewers stared with their eyes wide open, as if they could not believe that the words "I don't know" would come out of Bifang's mouth.
[It's over, Lao Fang has been possessed by someone else! Tell me, who are you? ]
[Kill Fang Shen, grab the first place, sorry, I went to the wrong set]
Most of the audience reacted as above, but Bifang rolled his eyes helplessly. There were so many species in the world, how could he possibly know every one of them? Even the red wilderness survival skills might not be able to reach this level.
Unless he lights up the skill of marine life identification.
"There are hundreds of species of squid in the ocean. How can I possibly know every one of them?"
How dare you eat it even though you don’t know me!
The audience was even more surprised. Isn’t Master Fang afraid of being poisonous?
Many people have heard that a single blue-ringed octopus can kill dozens of people and can secrete a neurotoxin that is 10,000 times more powerful than cyanide!
“Surviving in the wilderness does not mean you have to know every living thing. We need to be good at using our wisdom.”
Bifang nodded his head. There was a huge difference between the two. He had never encountered any species that were difficult to identify before, so he didn't show it. As a result, the audience formed a fixed mindset that they could only eat it if they knew it, and could not eat it if they didn't know it.
"There is one very important point about squids. There is only one kind of poisonous squid, and that thing is called the fire squid." Bifang grabbed the squid he had not finished eating and shook it. "You can tell from the name that this one is obviously not poisonous."
indeed.
The audience nodded. The squid caught by Bifang was similar to what we usually eat, but there were some slight differences. As Bifang said, it might be a kind of squid.
"That's how wilderness survival works. You don't need to remember which of the 300 kinds of squid are edible, you just need to remember which ones are not edible. Otherwise, if you try to remember more than 300 species, you'll be exhausted, right?"
If you look at the problem from a different perspective, things will become much simpler.
Moreover, squids are not protected animals, and the rarer species are all deep-sea squids, so Bifang can’t catch them even if he wants to.
"There is also the problem of parasites. Many people think that salt water has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, so there are fewer parasites in marine fish. How is that possible? Marine fish have no fewer parasites than river fish, and may even have more. You should know that the most resource-rich place in the world is the ocean. The first cells appeared in the ocean, and the species richness far exceeds that of land. In addition, the marine ecological civilization is very complete, so there are no fewer marine parasites. You have such an illusion entirely because of the osmotic pressure. The parasites in seafood are not adapted to the osmotic pressure in the human body, so their survival rate is much lower than that of freshwater products, and the chance of infection is low. This has created the illusion that there are fewer marine parasites."
As he said that, Bifang began to gnaw on the squid's trunk. He had no fire, so he could only eat it raw. Moreover, the squid had few parasites, so it could be eaten raw.
To be honest, this squid is not very delicious. It is very fishy and has a faint stench. Bifang suspected that it was not served on the table because it was not delicious, which led to him not knowing it very well.
If there is fire, the first thing to do is to make a fire and cook food.
But such hope can only be pinned on finding the island.
"So everyone should try to eat cooked food as much as possible. Chen Deng in the Three Kingdoms loved eating sashimi and died. The description in history books is very scary. When Hua Tuo treated him, Chen Deng vomited three liters of worms, and all the red heads were moving."
【??? The red heads are all moving? What the hell?】
[There is a picture...]
[Isn't it just a bunch of worms? Ugh!]
Many viewers were incapable of accepting the idea of spitting out parasites from the mouth, especially the red worms, which looked like a bunch of thin red earthworms were spitting out, or they came out from the internal organs.
Bifang took another bite of squid meat. The four squids greatly alleviated his survival difficulties and he had hope in life.
If humans are engines, then food is the fuel. A good car needs good oil. This stuff is very high in protein. The stomach of the fish king, which has been empty for several days, keeps working, continuously breaking down food and transporting it to the stomach and intestines for absorption and digestion. The heat quickly rises, and it feels so great!
The coldness in his limbs was eliminated, and Master Bi, who was tired all day, was finally able to have a good rest.
He had no intention of saving and swallowed the whole squid. Only then did Bifang have time to do more work, starting with the cuttlefish ink.
After cleaning the squid's face, Bifang collected the excess squid ink on the life raft bit by bit. It wasn't much, but it was better than nothing. Although this stuff has low toxicity, it does have a temporary paralyzing effect. After the fishermen caught the squid with a scoop net, they let it spray the ink in the scoop net, and then fished the fish onto the boat to avoid spraying the ink on people. It can be seen that it still has a certain impact.
I don’t know if Bifang will be useful, but it’s better to be prepared.
The container became a big problem, so Bifang had to hollow out another squid and use its head as a temporary container to hold the ink, which left the audience stunned.
After doing all this, Bifang felt sleepy. People tend to feel sleepy after eating and drinking enough. Now it was dark, it was time to go to bed.
After a simple farewell, Bifang closed the live broadcast. The live broadcast room began to play a loop of the scene of Bifang conquering the storm. The waves were one after another, and the small life raft was heading towards the big waves, fearless and brave.
A group of viewers stared at the live broadcast room in wide eyes. This is a new feature of Langya. When the anchor goes off the air, the screen no longer goes black. Instead, the previous exciting content is played in a loop. Therefore, it was several minutes later that the viewers realized that the live broadcast had ended and left with a sense of unfulfilled desire.
Inside the helicopter, Jarrett was sitting in the upper seat flipping through the ratings report with a serious look on his face, while Pondy, photography director Ji, the four-member team and others sitting on both sides of him all had happy expressions on their faces, but the general manager had not said a word, so they could only barely suppress the desire to speak.
When Jarrett finished reading it carefully, his expression became even more solemn, and his hands were shaking slightly, which made people wonder if it was a precursor to Parkinson's disease.
Today's highest rating was 3.6%, and the average rating was 3.1%. Such results...
So, my show is so popular?
For a new program without any word-of-mouth accumulation, the average viewership rate of 3.1% is already extremely exaggerated, okay?
The most important thing is that it was just aired today and it has already made it into the top ten of the hit list, which is simply an incredible statistic. If it were changed to other more popular channels, I'm afraid it would have a chance of being in the top five.
This kind of adventurous TV program completely hits the G-spot of young people abroad. Storms, squid fishing without bait, and survival at sea, the combination of these is simply exciting, okay?
Nowadays, any TV channel is under pressure from the Internet, which has taken away a large part of the TV audience. TV has become increasingly weaker, like a weak chicken. The Discovery Channel has been trying to innovate, and it has achieved such good results, which undoubtedly proves everyone's ability.
But will I be able to achieve such good results in the future?
Jarrett smiled and shook his head, not thinking about it anymore. No matter what, today was a day worth celebrating. He looked around and led the applause: "Well done!"
Everyone cheered loudly. Pondy looked at Jarrett, who nodded. Pondy immediately took out the supply box and distributed canned food to everyone. Everyone got several, and everyone who got the cans became even more excited.
Because of their location, although they couldn't have nothing to eat like Bifang, they could only receive a certain amount of compressed biscuits, canned food and other foods every day. After three days in a row, they were tired of eating them, so it would be great to have a canned meal.
As for Bifang, there was nothing to be done. He couldn't celebrate with us. Letting him eat would be cheating. We could only wait for his live broadcast to finish, and then everyone could find a good place to have a meal together.
After all, he is the biggest contributor!
The next morning, Bifang opened his eyes and was stimulated by the sunlight. He squinted for a long time before gradually adapting.
It’s another nice day with sunny weather . How long have you slept?
It is nine or ten o'clock now. It seems that I was very tired yesterday. I slept for more than ten hours.
Bifang was still a little confused after just waking up, but he roughly estimated the time based on the height of the sun. He touched his head and found that the headache was still there, but not as severe.
The good news is that Bifang didn't catch a cold. To be honest, after being caught in the rain yesterday, Bifang was prepared to catch a cold or even a fever, but he didn't.
It seems that the training is very effective, Bifang thought.
The temperature of the underwater training device provided by the system can naturally be adjusted. Bifang has swum in zero-degree water more than once. After nearly a week of adaptive training, his tolerance is still very high.
The moment Bifang woke up, the camera director who had been paying attention to the camera immediately wanted to start the live broadcast. Unexpectedly, Bifang waved at the camera, then took down the drone parked on the top of the tent, stuffed it into the tent, stood out from the zipper, and completely blocked the camera.
The camera director was stunned for a moment, but soon realized what Bifang was going to do.
People have three urgent needs.
Seeing this, he was not in a hurry to start the live broadcast. After everything was completed after a few minutes, the camera director started the live broadcast under Bifang's instructions.
After saying hello as usual, Bifang started today’s live broadcast.
[Are you being lazy, Lao Fang? You didn't even start the live broadcast until 9:30. I waited for more than an hour, and I was just brushing my wolf teeth, waiting for you to start the live broadcast]
【Plus one, I have waited for a long time】
[Must compensate! Broadcast additionally in the evening! ]
[Yes! You must compensate us by broadcasting more, otherwise we will stay in the live broadcast room! ]
[Will you stay here? Langya Boss will probably wake up laughing in his dreams. Please stay here for a few more times.]
Bifang smiled and said nothing more. He still had a lot of things to do. It was not a big deal to deal with the squid for the time being. Although the sun was out, the temperature was still not high. There was no problem in storing it for two or three days. Only after that would he have to consider the issue of drying and preservation.
Next came four cuttlefish bones, which were really good stuff, real "hard stuff".
"I should be thankful that I caught a cuttlefish instead of a squid. If it was a squid, it wouldn't have this hard 'bone' but something like soft plastic, which wouldn't be very useful to me. But the cuttlefish bone is different. It's actually very hard."
Bifang picked up two cuttlefish bones and knocked them against each other, making a bone-like banging sound, which did sound quite hard.
"Although squids are invertebrates, they have a bony inner shell, which is called 'cuttlebone'. Of course, the bony inner shell of squids is different from the bones of humans and many animals, and it is not the bone that people usually understand. Its main component is calcium carbonate."
Calcium carbonate?
Chalk?
Won't it break if you bend it?
"Yes, it is chalk, but the structure of this bone of the squid is different. The unique structure makes it very tough. Judging from its hardness and toughness alone, it is also a very good material. It can not only be used as medicine, but also polished into some jewelry. So I plan to grind it into a fish hook..."
Bifang held a piece of fish bone and broke it with force. Soon it broke into two pieces. But that was not the end. Bifang broke it twice more and broke the fish bone into four pieces.
Although the zipper is made of metal, its hardness and toughness are much better than those of cuttlefish bones. The only problem is that it is too small. Apart from attracting small creatures like squids, other fish it can catch would at most be small fish the size of a palm.
The fish bone was divided into four parts, and the next step was to grind it. Without tools, one could only use the material itself. Bifang directly used one piece of fish bone to grind another. The bone powder fell down at a very fast speed. Before long, the prototypes of two fish hooks appeared.
The newly made fish hook is obviously much larger than the previous one and very thick. The overall shape is an anchor, thin on both sides and wide in the middle. This structure prevents the fish hook from breaking as much as possible.
After all, no matter how hard it is or how good its structure is, it is still calcium carbonate, which is slightly inferior to real bones, not to mention modern metal fish hooks. But it is definitely better than a zipper. If you string squid tentacles on it, you might be able to catch some big fish.
The audience was also very excited, finally there was a tool!
Are you going to show off your skills next?
About half an hour later, the four fish hooks were all made. After washing them in sea water, they were smooth and thick. One was about the size of a bent little finger, many times larger than the previous metal buckle.
Bifang couldn't wait to tear off a squid tentacles, put it on the fishhook, and then threw it into the sea, waiting for the fish to bite.
What follows is a long wait?
No, Bifang did something that was somewhat unexpected to everyone.
He's taking down the tent!
Crazy!
The audience couldn't understand what Bifang did. Why did he take down the tent? What if it rained next time without the tent?
They didn’t demolish it during a storm, so why would they demolish it when the sun is shining?
The screen was full of comments trying to dissuade Bifang. Bifang saw it but refused to listen and continued to dismantle the tent. The edge of the tent was seamlessly connected to the raft, so Bifang had to be very careful when using the fishhook to avoid damaging the raft and causing it to leak.
For three days, Bifang had been making a mistake, until yesterday's storm brought enlightenment, and this morning Bifang vaguely realized the problem.
He subconsciously thought that the life raft should drift slowly and wait for rescue, because there were no conditions that could support the navigation of an inflatable life raft.
Any life-saving guidebook will say the same thing: stay where you are as much as possible, don't swim, fire flares or fuel, eat supplies and wait for rescue.
But Bifang overlooked one question: was his purpose to wait for rescue?
Not at all!
He had to survive for twenty-one days and find as much land as possible during this period!
He had no supplies, no flares, no fuel, and had to rely on himself for everything.
So why not take the initiative to move forward and find a continent or an island?
A violent storm took him to an unknown place. If Bifang had not pressed down the tent, the strong wind and waves might have caused him to drift for dozens of kilometers.
The life raft can move forward with just a few small conditions.
Bifang needs a tent.
When the sail!
