A shipwreck with unusual maritime characteristics threw a 25-year-old Chinese man onto a huge and remote island.
There is no rescue, no signal, and there is no second living person on this time baseline where he is. There are only scattered wreckage that will continue to float ashore, tools that will be worn out repeatedly, shelters that will be torn apart by wild beasts, and an island that was deliberately erased by the old shipping route.
He relied on fire, fresh water, stones, wood, and a little bit of knowledge pieced together from broken pages to survive. He also relied on the same patience as keeping accounts. He dried fish, shrimps, crabs and shells into dry goods, tried to plant a few seeds, and slowly transformed a residence that was barely protected from rain into a stronghold that could keep watch, store food, and survive for many years.
But when the first unnatural stone steps appeared on the north shore, and when the ruins began to leave traces of numbers, warehousing, shipping routes and the old system, he realized that this was never just a desert island.
One day, he will have to decide whether to stick to the life he built with his own hands and bury the rest of his life in this archipelago, or build a boat to recover everything that this island has swallowed up little by little.
Reader comments
Okay, the sense of immersion is quite strong
Come on, write slowly and at a slower pace. I read another book before. The protagonist in Chapter 8 stayed on the island and survived for more than a month. There was no survival process at all.
Okay, the sense of immersion is quite strong
Come on, write slowly and at a slower pace. I read another book before. The protagonist in Chapter 8 stayed on the island and survived for more than a month. There was no survival process at all.