His son couldn’t help but comment, "Dad, that joke’s really cold."
Chen Tiefeng sighed deeply, his expression becoming serious as he said, "For the last time going out to sea, I still hope I’m not so rational, so I agreed to go to that area."
Qin Yue’s gaze swept over everyone’s faces, finally revealing a helpless smile at one point: "Alright, but I can only say I won’t be responsible for this decision."
He looked at Huang Xiaoyang and Jing Chaoyi: "Having friends like you two, I don’t know whether Younan is lucky or unlucky."
Li Younan naturally knew nothing about what was happening on the ship and the external rumors.
At this moment, he was busy standing on a raft, holding a long fish spear backwards. The fish spear was made of wood, with the tip sharpened to a fine point.
His gaze fixed on the fish in the water.
The seawater was clear at this time, with high transparency. Many sea fish were swimming in the light blue water, looking fresh and appetizing.
The sunlight reflected shimmering waves on the sea surface.
Suddenly, Li Younan moved, thrusting the fish spear down sharply.
When he lifted the spear again, a striped flatfish struggling on it appeared.
As he took the fish down and casually tossed it into a fish basket woven with fan leaves of the pandan tree next to him, he saw that besides the flatfish, there were grouper and large lobsters inside.
Looking at today’s harvest, Li Younan’s face showed a content smile.
This was his harvest after spending more than half an hour, to be honest, it didn’t take too long because there truly were too many fish in this area.
These marine creatures basically hadn’t encountered human fishing, so they had no vigilance in this aspect.
For Li Younan, it was no different than picking seafood at the seafood market.
How can seafood taste good?
It can be summarized in one word, which is fresh.
Can even the freshest seafood compare to that freshly caught from the sea?
At this time, the raft under Li Younan’s feet underwent another upgrade, from paddling to rowing.
Li Younan controlled the rowing oar with one hand, soon reaching the bay.
This bay was precisely the one he discovered earlier, perfectly suitable for docking the raft.
He secured the raft, went ashore.
Passing by a coconut tree, he casually used the long pole placed beside it to knock down two or three coconuts, picked them up, and walked towards the shelter.
At this time, Li Younan had already been tanned quite dark by the sun.
Fortunately, the emergency kit found on the plane had sufficient sunscreen, now Li Younan had roughly adapted to this degree of ultraviolet light.
Besides getting a bit darker, it didn’t affect his health.
Upon arriving at the shelter, he saw that next to the main house he had previously built, a pavilion had been constructed, which was a kitchen Li Younan specifically arranged, with no walls, just a rain-proof roof to avoid the concern of smoke while cooking.
The spring water here was still fairly clean, basically without any impurities.
Now, with a pot for boiling water, after boiling, Li Younan finally didn’t have to drink coconut juice every day.
Coconuts became a kind of beverage for leisure.
In the kitchen, besides a small stove made of stones, there was a simple wooden workbench, with a stack of utensils found on the plane.
Li Younan took a steel tray, then used the US dollar found in the emergency kit to light the fire.
Honestly, fire by friction may be cool, but the US dollar is more practical.
With the fire started, Li Younan began to cook the seafood he had obtained just now.
Here, Li Younan found two good things to use as seasoning, one was turmeric, the other was vanilla.
Reasonably speaking, these two spices, if sold at high-end restaurants outside, wouldn’t be cheap.
Combined with the aroma of the premium ingredients themselves, this meal of seafood suited Li Younan’s taste very well.
After finishing lunch, Li Younan smoked the leftover flatfish, then casually picked up a coconut, opened a hole, inserted a straw, and slowly returned to the main house.
At this time, opposite the bed was already a very spacious workbench.
Over the past two days, Li Younan sorted out all the electronic components disassembled from the plane.
Whether these electronic parts were good still required further testing.
However, the key functional components could already be roughly identified; next, it needed simultaneous testing and circuit building, which, if all goes well, could be completed in a few days.
Li Younan’s initial plan was to set up a Morse code station, like the kind in spy films, with the "beep beep beep beep beep" sound.
Although there were microphone-like parts on the plane, which are likely still good, on one hand, building a voice station is more complex in circuit setup, especially since Li Youran doesn’t have professional tools now, such as a value pencil, soldering iron, and cannot reshape the circuit board.
Moreover, voice stations demand more and higher requirements for electronic parts and have poor interference resistance.
Currently, the power issue wasn’t thoroughly solved; such low power could only transmit about ten kilometers before losing signal.
Whereas the Morse code station signals are singular, with simple structure, even without a soldering iron, most circuit constructions could be completed, with strong interference resistance; once done, it can uninterruptedly send SOS codes.
The SOS code is very simple, as soon as aircraft and ships receive it, they know it’s a distress signal.
Li Younan worked all afternoon, as the sky was about to get dark, he stretched lazily.
That’s it for today.
Next, the sky is about to get dark, which makes things more troublesome at night due to insufficient lighting.
Although he picked up a flashlight, its battery was limited and currently couldn’t be recharged.
Perhaps tomorrow, he should make a hand-cranked generator, otherwise, once the radio is completed, there will be no power source available.
Nowadays, Li Younan’s dinner has become quite abundant.
Today, he wasn’t keen on eating breadfruit, nor did he want seafood anymore.
There are quite a few seabirds here; wonder what they taste like?
Li Younan found the emergency kit again.
Inside, there was a medical rubber hose, used for tying veins during extraction, which could readily serve for making a slingshot.

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