Starting from Robinson Crusoe-Chapter 135 - 53: The Last Reward Before the Rainy Season (3)

He always had a doubt—after going to sleep on January 29th, did he actually sleep for one day or two days?

Chen Zhou thought he should have only slept for a day, but on the island, there were no obvious reference points. He remained skeptical about the answer to this question.

Human intuition is not accurate; sometimes it adapts to what one most hopes for, deceiving oneself.

Chen Zhou was very aware of this.

Fortunately, he had an advantage that Robinson did not—a mysterious reward.

The mysterious reward comes once every 15 days, unaffected by his subjective perception, whether he slept one day or two. He could tell today by checking the beach.

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Chen Zhou still had no expectations for the content of the reward this time.

Face everything with a normal mindset, no breaking down, no cursing, no losing control.

This was his rule for receiving rewards.

Bringing along a hand axe, nails, hemp rope, and canvas, this time Chen Zhou not only wanted to take the prize but also build a rain shelter at the prize's refresh spot.

The rainy season was approaching, and this could very well be the last mysterious reward before the rainfall.

To prevent future rewards from being soaked and damaged by the rain.

Chen Zhou decided to make the prize refresh point the center and cut down some trees in the coastal forest to protect the subsequent prizes.

Not knowing the maximum size the prize could reach, he specifically brought a large three-meter square piece of canvas, taking plenty of nails and hemp rope, intending to build a larger rain shelter to avoid being unable to cover the prize.

If time wasn't so tight, he even considered building a wood-and-stone structured hall there.

He even thought of a name for the hall—the Cuttlefish Station.

Soon arriving at the beach, he habitually glanced at the place where the seal was dismantled.

The pools of blood had long disappeared from the ground, the tides surging, not even a strip of meat in sight.

"The power of time."

Silently lamenting, Chen Zhou walked over to the reward.

Before even opening the packaging, looking at the long shape wrapped in black plastic, he already guessed what was inside.

It must be a whole roll of toilet paper.

Lifting the reward, feeling the cylindrical objects squeezing together inside, Chen Zhou was even more sure of his judgment.

He opened it.

Sure enough, his guess was completely correct.

Stripping off the black plastic wrapping, counting the toilet paper inside, five rolls wide and twelve rolls long, totaling sixty rolls.

Eyeballing each roll of toilet paper as roughly 13 centimeters in length, and about seven centimeters in diameter, Chen Zhou smiled.

"Pretty generous."

Since coming to the island, he had not used paper products to wipe his butt.

Most of the time, he used small stones or twigs to solve the problem, occasionally having to wash his butt deliberately, otherwise, his underwear would always get smeared, which was disgusting.

Later, he found that the bark of driftwood was particularly suitable for wiping, so he cut down a few pieces of driftwood, stripped off the bark, and left them at home, taking two slices when going to the toilet.

Compared to other items for wiping, driftwood's performance was indeed superior, but it could not compare to toilet paper.

Chen Zhou had long prepared himself for using driftwood bark for 28 years, never expecting to use toilet paper again.

"If I use this whole roll of toilet paper sparingly, I should manage to last two years."

Thinking like this, he couldn't help but touch his butt—seemed like there was an incomplete wipe this morning.

Although toilet paper is a consumable and doesn't provide strong survival support, it significantly improves the quality of life.

Chen Zhou was very satisfied with this mysterious reward.

But he didn't immediately take the reward. Instead, he took out the hand axe, chopped down a small tree, determined the center point of the toilet paper, and drew a large circle around this point.

Since the prize was so useful, the construction of the rain shelter had to be meticulous.