After choosing the entries.
Chen Wen continued roasting the remaining seafood.
And stored the roasted seafood in a coconut shell.
Meanwhile.
On the other side of the island.
After a bout of arguments, even on the verge of a physical fight.
The men's group determined the leadership going forward.
They divided everyone into two groups according to their specialties, responsible for camp chores and exploration respectively.
For now, exploration would be led by Yan Bian, who was a guide by profession.
Camp chores would be handled by the chubby Wang Zhi, who had a better understanding of survival.
This was the result chosen by a vote from all members.
If either of them made a major mistake, they would be replaced.
Ding Decai, who had lost the leadership, felt quite bad.
Especially seeing his replacement was actually Yan Bian and Wang Zhi, who had messed up the fire extinguishing yesterday.
His mood worsened.
But now, the complaints from the group were focused on him, so Ding Decai had to agree to this decision.
With the emergence of a new leadership group.
The atmosphere in the men's group improved a bit.
The camp group, under Wang Zhi's lead, started a fire.
The exploration group, under Yan Bian's direction, was clearing the bushes around the camp.
Because during the morning scouting, Yan Bian discovered there were snakes on the island!
For safety, he thought it necessary to clear the surroundings and maintain an open view.
Their decision was well received by everyone, so people were happy to work.
The only thing both had to helplessly endure was that Ding Decai chose to leave the camp and rest alone, ignoring their commands.
Du Feng, who had always been rather silent, was slacking off as well.
Whenever asked to work, he would excuse himself, citing diarrhea and weakness.
Moreover, everyone's mood was starting to drop.
The youngest, Zhuo Hongnian, even felt homesick, which added to the team's already low spirits.
Watching this scene, the netizens were full of emotions.
[Survival is indeed hard!]
[A shocking statement: modern humans can't survive more than three days without tools!]
[As much as I want to argue, it's not completely wrong.]
[The men's group made too many detailed mistakes, it's tough!]
[They're doing pretty well, at least the show staff hasn't interfered; the women's island has already begun to use props.]
...
Women's Island.
Over on the side of the seven.
After an entire day without food, drinking only a bit of freshwater provided by the show team.
Most of the women's group appeared weak.
Someone even came close to fainting due to low blood sugar.
The show team, out of options, could only provide glucose to help them get through this time.
Of course, the women's group wasn't completely idle either.
With the help of props, someone used the bottom of a glucose bottle with sunlight to start a fire.
This could be considered progress.
Meanwhile, the group of three who left.
Survival was proceeding steadily under the guidance of professional Hua Yun.
For now, Hua Yun seemed to be advancing the quickest of the three groups.
But Hua Yun clearly knew the hidden risks in her group.
The prey on the island was limited, and she wasn't good at fishing.
This survival was to last forty days; eventually, they might face a food shortage.
This problem needed urgent solving!
...
Back to Chen Wen.
"Finally, all the seafood is roasted! Time to take a nap!"
Having been busy for half a day, Mr. Chen decided to take a short nap.
He had no plans to go out in the afternoon.
At most, he might go out to pick some coconuts.
Chen Wen set his task for today as conserving strength and fully resting.
The big event would be tomorrow morning.
Heading to the reefs for fishing!
If he could catch large prey over at the reefs.
Then he wouldn't have to worry about food for some time!
...
After sleeping for several hours.
Chen Wen rubbed his eyes and sat up.
Sleeping well in the wild wasn't really possible, but recharging was easy enough.
After daydreaming for a bit, Chen Wen decided to prepare a few things.
Going to the reefs for fishing can't be done empty-handed.
If you want to catch big fish, you have to prepare some essentials.
First off, weapons!
The reefs indeed had abundant food, but they also had things that could consider Chen Wen food!
Like sharks!
The rich fish resources of the reefs often attract sharks.
Secondly, sea snakes!
If bitten by a sea snake, Chen Wen thought he might as well find a scenic spot and wait for death.
Because sea snakes have a high probability of being venomous.
You could say most sea snakes are poisonous!
Once bitten, without timely serum injection, all you can do is wait for death!
Especially since Chen Wen is in survival mode now.
Injury, poisoning, and illness will all put him in dire straits!
Therefore, thorough preparation is essential for him.
"For weapons, how about making a long spear?"
Chen Wen looked at the things at hand and pondered over his weapon.
Given his current tools, making complicated weapons was unrealistic.
As he only had a Swiss army knife at his disposal.
So, the simplest long spear was his first choice.
After pondering a while, Chen Wen decided to make a stone spear.
Finding suitable stones, like dense and hard flint.
Then use the damaged fishing net he found to fix the stones to wood.
This way, he could get a stone spear like those used by ancestors.
But saying it is easy; doing it is hard.
Currently, the challenges are two-fold.
One is finding suitable stones, and the other is assembly.
Wood was easy to find.
Chen Wen circled around the camp and quickly found several sticks as thick as a baby's wrist.
These were branches from those unknown large trees Chen Wen had broken.
After cleaning up these sticks, he grilled them over the fire for a while.
Chen Wen started looking for stones.
On this island, volcanic rock and granite were more common.
But sedimentary flint was not as common.
Considering that flint is hard and weather-resistant.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Wen decided to search along the beach.
After all, the ocean's forces would transport flint to the beach.
And after long periods of wave erosion and accumulation, the sand layers and reefs on the beach might have flint.
Hard work paid off.
After being sunbaked for a full half-hour.
Chen Wen finally noticed a trace of flint in a reef area.
"Finally found it!"
Rubbing his neck that felt a bit sore from the sun, Chen Wen felt gratified.
Moreover, he found quite a bit of flint this time, and Chen Wen eventually took them all back.
Carrying the stones back to the shelter.
Chen Wen began processing the flint.
Generally, hard things are quite brittle, flint being a prime example of this characteristic.
In the Paleolithic era, humans used various methods like hammering, anvil striking, and bashing.
Using these brittle yet hard stones to make tools.
These tools were the well-known chipped stone tools.
In the original Africa.
Homo sapiens used these stones and sticks to create simple weapons, sweeping through the large animals on the African continent.
Now, Chen Wen decided to learn some ancient wisdom.
To make chipped stone tools!