Chapter 2 - 1: Challenging Robinson: 10,000 Days of Survival on a Deserted Island! (Part )
[5. To lower the challenger’s mortality rate and increase the fun of the challenge, challengers will receive an original copy of "Robinson Crusoe" that can be endlessly browsed, along with a "mysterious reward" every 15 days once the challenge officially starts.]
[6. Once the challenge begins, there is no quitting halfway or pausing; dying in the challenge means dying in the real world. The organizers are not responsible for the challenger’s safety and will not compensate for a challenger’s death.]
[7. To sign up successfully, just reply to the post stating your participation. Once approved, you will be automatically transported to the "large-scale reality challenge venue across time and space" to officially start the challenge.]
[8. All rights to interpret the challenge belong to the organizers. If you have any objections, please contact the Time Travel Administration Bureau.]
"They’ve made it sound quite convincing, but sadly, it’s all fake. Believing you are from the Time Travel Administration Bureau is like believing I am Emperor Qin Shi Huang."
Silently mocking this peculiar post author in his heart, Chen Zhou scrolled through the replies under the post.
[I choose the blue pill!]
[Choose, choose, choose. If I choose, will you give it to me?.jpg]
[+3...]
[Rational discussion: the risks and rewards of this challenge are completely disproportionate. Without calculating purity, collectible value, and smelting loss, the total value of gold and silver coins is only over 728,000.
The duration is up to 28 years, and you might lose your life in the process. The prize is less than those foreign outdoor survival reality shows.
Even supporting the African brothers’ construction has a better cost-to-benefit ratio than participating in this challenge.
Honestly, is the post author skimming rewards from the challengers?]
[Skimming rewards +1, I remember the winner of that foreign show "Alone" got a reward of 500,000 dollars, and they didn’t have to risk death—they could quit anytime. Your conditions are absurd!]
[So let’s be honest, Robinson’s island survival difficulty is way lower than "Alone’s" difficulty.
Robinson had a dream starting condition with a whole merchant ship’s resources to use—stuff that can be eaten for months with just biscuits and bread.
Moreover, the island is rich in resources, has a warm climate suitable for farming, allows two harvests a year, and has no large predators. Lots of wild fruits, goats, turtles, seabirds, and pigeons abound. One can even kill seals for oil or go fishing, and merely being a bit laborious can keep hunger at bay.
The only danger—the cannibals—would flee in terror at gunshots and pose no threat to challengers.
I think as long as the mental state doesn’t collapse, and one avoids drinking raw water or getting seriously ill, it’s hardly a survival challenge and more like a vacation.]
[The upstairs commenter is too funny. A day, two days, or even half a month might be like vacation, but can you vacation for 28 years?
With the modern average person in a sub-optimal health state, weak physique, unfamiliar with farming, susceptible to the wind and rain, how can they compare to Robinson?
𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
Forget everything else, when it comes to the ship’s resources floating on the sea, without the determination to avoid drowning, you wouldn’t be able to carry them.
This is the simplest part; building houses, farming, catching goats, fishing, digging clay, firing pottery—which are you skilled at?
Thrown onto the beach, you might as well wait quietly to die!]
[I actually think the biggest difficulty of this challenge is the mental strain.
A deserted island in the 17th century, with no internet, no phones, no snacks, no delivery, no modern facilities or technology products to enhance life quality—it’s hard for a normal person to adapt.
Keep in mind that this challenge lasts over ten thousand days. Forget ordinary people—even retired military personnel like Bear Grylls, who frequently film survival challenges, might suffer mental breakdowns.
Not to mention, during these over ten thousand days, you can’t idle; you must work hard without breaks for 365 days a year—building houses, farming, raising goats, picking fruits, doubling as a carpenter and farmer, with daily tasks that never end. A slight slackness might lead to starving to death.
Even ignoring that severity, you’d face numerous natural disasters and unforeseeable accidents in 20 years of island life.
In such conditions, any sudden small incident could be the straw to break the camel’s back.
In such an environment, people would extremely crave companionship and might become depressed or develop schizophrenia due to overwhelming solitude.
Even if one were to persevere through the long duration, after the challenge ends, challengers might find themselves unable to communicate with people due to prolonged disconnect from society, struggling to reintegrate into modern life.
Frankly, with such difficulty and the high likelihood of irreversible mental harm for such little reward, even if real, no one would sign up. I recommend the post author to make the reward section more reasonable.]
[Hey~ I have a bold idea!
I just checked, and there are many giant sea turtles on Robinson’s stranded island—they are translated as tortoise shells in the domestic version. Robinson caught many tortoises for food in the original book.
Note that the price of tortoise shells is not cheap, and the island is evidently a breeding ground for tortoises.
If you get a hundred or eighty tortoises, carefully preserve the tortoise shells, bring them back and sell them—they might fetch a few million, far exceeding the challenge reward!]
[Police: Go on, I’m listening.]
[Illegal! I see legality!]
[For your bold idea, there is a complete set of criminal laws in our country.]
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The forum members are always keen on armchair strategizing, piling up thousands of layers on the post in just a few hours. Among them were +3 long-timers with water experience, dedicated oatmeal bros, crazy online jesters, foul-mouthed trolls, nitpickers, and not lacking serious analysts digging through original texts.