Plains..? [Misc]

I need an update.
/Check Pockets (inventory)

You check your pockets.
You have 2 long sticks
Metal Machine
Salt Shaker
Pickaxe.

Throw them away /Carefully examine each item for damage or strange/weird parts.

No damage on anything.

The machine has a screen, a button and some weird blue panes on the top.

Does anyone know what the button does?

/Can the panels come off?

Nope.

What now?

/Press button

You push it once.

Nothing happens.

Now what?

/Examine the screen as I press the button. If it does nothing, hold the button.

It does nothing as you press it once.

However…
You hold the button.

It whirs to life.
“Salt Extractor Ad Hominem 9000 is activated. What do you want to do?”

Catch fish

You proceed to catch a fish.
But where?

/Extract salt

You attempt to extract salt, but you have nothing to extract salt from.

What now?

/hit the machine with pickaxe hard

You hit the machine with the pickaxe hard.

You break the machine.

Game over. Try again?

Yes
/repeat all the same actions to the point before machine was hit

No actions found.
No machine was hit.

You wake up in the middle of a lush green field, neatly trimmed to ankle level.

What now?

Go to the cave