Chapter 239: Battle Royale • Wilderness Survival (6)
The method of producing fresh water with a plastic bucket was very simple.
Two years ago, when Everly escaped from the zombie city of Radyard, she had made a simple solar distillation device on a sightseeing boat. This used a similar principle.
First, pour seawater into the dog food bucket until it is about one-third full, then stretch a condom over the opening. The tip of the condom was shaped like a tiny point, like the tip of an umbrella, and when fitting it over the bucket, that little point had to face directly toward the bottom of the bucket.
Tie a piece of yarn to the pointed tip, and tie the other end of the yarn to the middle of a thin wooden stick.
The stick had to be longer than the mouth of the mineral water bottle. That way, after inserting the stick vertically into the empty bottle’s opening and pulling the yarn, the stick would turn sideways inside the bottle and become firmly wedged across the mouth, suspending the bottle in midair.
When this setup was left under the blazing sun, the seawater inside the bucket would evaporate and form condensation on the condom. The droplets would slide along the curved surface toward the tiny pointed tip in the center, then travel downward along the yarn at the tip and drip into the plastic bottle hanging below.
However, this drinking-water device could wait until after they boarded the raft. For now, the plastic bucket had other uses.
After eating lunch by the riverbank, Everly and Misha got busy.
The two of them first carried everything from the riverbank—the folding pot, backpacks, dog food, dog food bucket, and so on—to the beach below the cape.