Survive on a Deserted Island With the Villainous Young Lady

48 – Mud Baking (3)

Some of the weights contracted and cracked as the moisture disappeared during the baking process, but I was able to salvage a few weights that were intact.

3 out of 10.

Chester weighed the three weights in his hand, then nodded his head in satisfaction as he thought it was just right.

“Hey, if you’ve made all of them, won’t you tell me why you made them?”

“this? I’m going to upgrade the drill. How long do I have to rub it hard with my hands?”

Chester entered the studio with the finished weights.

I made a ladder on the side of the studio and put it down, so I was able to go up to the studio without going through the house.

In one corner of the studio, there were materials that Chester had prepared from time to time while making weights out of mud.

Even the ingredients were nothing special.

A drill, string, and a wooden plank with a hole in the middle and at either end.

First, pass the weight through the drill, and then put the clay between the weight and the drill to make it firmly attached.

It would be nice to apply resin and attach it, but unfortunately, most of the resin was used up while making the waterways, and the remaining ones were not properly stored and left to harden, making them unusable.

After waiting for the mud to attach the weights and drill to dry, Chester took a wooden plank and inserted it into the drill.

string next.

After putting the string tightly through the groove carved in the back of the drill, I put it back through the holes drilled at both ends of the wooden plank and tied it.

“done.”

“What is it?”

“Well, let’s see.”

Having finished what he had been thinking about for a long time, Chester took a suitable plank and approached the bonfire, which he deliberately extinguished.

“I’ll have to try this out.”

First make a groove in a wooden plank, then place a scraped-up kindling nearby.

Placing the drill in the groove he had dug in the wood, Chester began turning the drill slowly.

Then, the string attached to the drill gradually entwined the drill, and at the same time, the board connected to the string gradually went up.

After rolling up the string as much as possible, Chester grabbed the plank with his hand and pulled it down.

When the plank went down, the rolled string was automatically released, and the drill started to turn furiously.

As the drill continued to rotate for a while, the string naturally entangled itself around the drill again, and the board that Chester was lightly resting his hand on automatically went up along with the entangled string.

Once the plank had risen somewhat, Chester pressed lightly on it again, and the drill began to spin violently in the opposite direction.

If you press the board, the drill rotates, and if you wait, the rotational force maintained by the weight automatically rewinds the string.

The plank then rises automatically again, and when you lightly press it again, the drill rotates on its own.

Without having to rub the drill hard with both hands, Chester easily created an ember by simply pressing the board lightly.

The embers made in this way are moved to a kindling stick, and then a strong wind is blown to cause a fire.

After stacking the firewood and completing the bonfire, Chester showed the results of the newly made drill and asked Monia.

“how?”

“Oh, oh oh.”

Monia was impressed by the way she made the fire so comfortable to look at.

“Ohhhhh! Awesome! That is amazing! and! How did you do it?!”

“I did it with my mind.”

What you want, what you need for that want, and what you need for that need.

Think, think, combine and combine what comes to mind.

“You speak easily.”

“Well? It wasn’t easy. How long did it take me to do this one?”

It took a really long time to make just one kiln.

Since this is a humid area, the mud in the kiln did not dry well, so it was really hard.

Whether this will really work or not, while Monia wasn’t looking, I made a simple weight by sticking mud in a drill and tested it several times.

After testing with a simple weight, the weight was properly made according to the simple weight.

I found out roughly how much the weight would decrease when the mud dried, through a bunch of weights I made.

There are 10 weights baked in a kiln, but more than 30 weights made for it.

A weight that was left outside to dry and an animal came and broke it, a weight that became unusable because it was broken by itself, and a weight that became lighter because it dried out because it was more moist than expected.

There are even unbaked weights that are still not dry. They just gave up.

In addition, I had to make an additional drill point to use, so I spent a lot of time on that too.

A drill bit to use when lightly digging a groove.

A drill bit to drill a hole after making a groove.

A drill bit to use when trimming the drilled hole.

these three things.

In particular, the last drill bit took a really long time because it had to be ground into a round shape, unlike the one I had just shaved off until now.

It was fortunate that there were three well-baked weights.

Chester took the drill with the tip he had made and attached the remaining weight to it.

Monia, who kept using Chester’s new drill on a wooden plank, looked at Chester and asked.

“Hey, what’s the name of this?”

“name?”

“Yes.”

“It’s written by pressing, so you can call it a presser.”

I also thought about the word press drill, but I chose this one because I thought it was better than a press drill.

Chester started to make a hoe in earnest with the one he made while talking with Monia and the other two he had completed.

Take the blade of the hoe that you made in advance, and first take the thin, pointed tip 1 and dig a groove.

After digging the groove, take the shovel 2 with a slightly wider groove and start digging while slowly widening the groove.

To increase the effect, Chester put stone dust in the groove beforehand and used the presser 2.

Once you’ve dug out some grooves, now reverse the blade of the hoe and do the same on the other side.

You don’t need to do anything else, just keep turning the nib fixed in the groove with the presser.

If you turn and turn, a hole will eventually be drilled.

“done.”

After drilling some of the holes, Chester pulled out the last stopper 3 to widen and tidy up the holes.

At the tip of the drill of the presser 3, there is a point that Chester sharpened into a round shape as much as possible.

Place this into the drilled hole and continue turning.

The hole that was drilled gradually widened and began to be neatly arranged on its own.

“… … .”

“… … .”

Not only Chester, who was using the pad, but also Monia, watched the drilling process from the side and admired it.

Of course, even if you made this, it was not an easy task to drill a hole in the stone.

It took quite a long time.

However, it is overwhelmingly convenient.

Originally, it would have been a task to be prepared for peeling off all the skin on the palms, but it is so easy.

Watching that, Monia seemed to understand why Chester spent so long working with clay and making a kiln.

If you make it through hard work, once you make it, convenience is guaranteed from then on.

It won’t be difficult to light a fire again without embers, and if you need to drill a hole in a tree later, you won’t have to go through the lengthy work of digging out a hole with a knife and burning it with charcoal.

All you have to do is put a presser on it and gently press it with your hand.

It was a difficult concept for Monia to struggle to make something comfortable.

Because she could have everything in the world at the click of a finger, and she could do whatever she wanted.

The concept of ‘hardship’ itself did not exist in life.

But now it’s different.

I found that if I took the time to make a stone knife, I could do many convenient things with it.

It becomes possible to do many things that cannot be done by human hands, such as trimming tree branches or trimming animals.

I found that if I took the time to make traps, I would have something to eat just by sitting still.

The countless traps that Chester and Monia have steadily increased are the reason why they can live with a steady supply of food without having to hunt hard in this scorching heat.

It was a very simple logic.

A person obtains money by dedicating the labor power of his or her human resources.

With the money you earn through hard work, you can skip the hardships you have to go through to get food, clothes, and stuff, and you can quickly buy and have what you need.

Monia had never known why people worked while sweating.

I couldn’t understand its value.

That huge amount of money that you naturally earn while listening to opera, having tea time, eating, and sleeping.

I couldn’t understand struggling for a penny that wasn’t even a handful of that money.

But now, having seen the comfort that Chester had worked so hard for, Monia seemed to understand a little the value of their sweat.

You have to go through that hardship to get a comfort, but you have to go through this hardship just to eat a meal.

‘… … .’

On this uninhabited island with no civilization, watching Chester do it, Monia was understanding the world she didn’t know, the world she didn’t want to understand.

Monia watched Chester build a hoe by cutting a stick from a long tree branch, inserting it into a hole in the blade of the hoe, and tying it with a rope.

Up until now, to Monia, a hoe was an object that was carried and wielded by livestock plowing the fields.

However, it reminded me of what Chester had done to make that.

It must be worth the painstaking Chester put into making it.

There will be value in creating something new using that.

Knowing that, people who were seen as ‘livestock’ gradually ceased to be seen as livestock.

Maybe they, too, were creating their own values.

“Okay, I made it.”

In front of Monia was Chester, smiling brightly, holding the finally completed hoe.

That bright smile lingered in Monia’s mind for a long time.