Chapter 26: Three Boxes Missing
She threw the flashlight at me, and then she tried a few more flashlights, and soon found another one with electricity.
The two of us turned on our flashlights and walked back down to the lower cabin.
"Vomit ......"
Sure enough, Amy retched as soon as she smelled the rancid stench.
"Why don't you stay up there?" I asked.
"It's okay, let's go!" Amy patted me on the shoulder, and I walked down first.
Scanning the cabin below with a flashlight, I realized where the rancid smell was coming from.
Indeed corpses.
But it's not human, it's a lot of fish carcasses.
Amy quickly brought me a long stick from above, with which I picked up the fish carcasses and looked at them.
"It looks like it's been rotting for more than twenty days. Amy said as she pinched her nose behind me.
I nodded, and said to myself, could it be that this fishing boat also had an accident when our cruise ship sank?
I took another flashlight and looked ahead, and found that there was nothing special under the cabin, it was all dead fish.
I guess the fishermen had stored the fish they had caught here, and after the fishermen disappeared, the fish rotted here.
I saw that there was nothing to see down there, and that the smell was unbearable, so I went back with Amy.
We ran to the cockpit again, and the door was unlocked.
Amy got in and immediately sat in the driver's seat and tinkered.
"Will you sail?" I asked, surprised.
"Drove a few times. Amy nodded.
"Great!" I said to myself, finally saved.
Amy clicked a few buttons on the console, and then I saw a few traffic lights come on, but before I could get excited, Amy frowned and said, "This ship is out of gas...... The main engine and auxiliary engine are running out of oil. ”
"Ran out? It can't be, right? Didn't they know to fill up the gas beforehand?"
"Obviously missed ......," Amy said helplessly.
Missed ......
I grass.
Does that mean the ship is likely to be leaking as well?
The two of us hurriedly ran to the side of the hull to take a look, and sure enough, we found that the draft of the boat seemed to be a little more than before.
"Oh no! the ship is sinking!" Amy shouted.
My heart was much stronger than the ship had sunk, and it had just kindled my hope of leaving the island, and it had knocked me to the bottom again.
"Don't be stunned, Xiao Chen!" Amy continued to shout at me, "Quick! This ship should be some time away from being completely sunk!
I shook my head and shook off all the disappointments in my mind, and then quickly ran back into the cockpit, quickly folding all the nets inside, and I removed the sticks from the nets.
When the nets were fully folded, I asked Amy to tie them all to my back, and I jumped back into the sea and returned them to shore. During this time, Amy was on the boat in charge of putting the rest of the things together so that we could transport them in a race against time.
After arriving on the shore, Zhou Qiqi also asked me why I didn't drive the boat but got things up instead, I briefly explained the situation on the boat, and then turned around and swam back again.
It took more than a dozen trips before Amy joined the transport, and we were able to get all the remaining ropes and all the tools from the hold to shore.
There were also some fixed tables and chairs in the cabin, all of which I had torn off with brute force, and by this time the sinking of the ship was already obvious, and I hastened to dismantle a total of eight chairs and four square tables with a length and width of one meter, and by the time we brought these things back to shore, we saw that the fishing boat was already crumbling.
But now there are a dozen locked iron boxes on the ship, and I have tried to move them just now, each box weighs about ten kilograms, and Amy says she can transport one at a time, and I feel like I can take two at a time, of course, if these boxes are tied to me.
I don't know what's in it, but it's worth carrying even if it's a locker.
Swimming with an iron box was not an easy task, and I felt a little overwhelmed by my current physique, and when Amy and I had to work hard to transport all the twelve large boxes to shore, the small fishing boat finally could not hold it anymore and began to sink towards the bottom of the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye.
As if God wanted to crush our desire to leave the island, the moment the ship sank to the bottom, the wind and waves at sea suddenly increased, and a violent wave smashed on the hull of the boat, throwing the fishing boat out into the depths.
The three of us stood on the beach and watched for a while, and after making sure that the boat could not get up again, we all sighed and sat down on the ground to rest.
Well...... The days have to go on......
Now let's take stock of what was "seized" during this operation.
First of all, there are fishing nets, Amy said that these are professional fishing nets at first glance, much stronger than the fishing nets we usually buy, I tried to pull them, and sure enough, they are very tough. If we spread all the nets out, we would be able to completely cover the camp at the bottom of our little rocky hill. It seems that it will be much easier for us to fish in the future.
And then there's the tools, and that's the highlight.
We took a closer look.
First of all, there were four kitchen knives, this knife was nothing special, it felt like a household kitchen knife, and I guess it was brought to the boat by these fishermen to cook.
Then there were three cross-shaped cones, two wrenches, three hammers, and two axes, which had a much longer handle than the short axe I had before, and would have made it much easier to cut down trees. There was also a vice, a long saw, and an electric pen, which we don't seem to need at the moment...... Then there were three large scissors, which Amy said seemed to be the kind of scissors that were used professionally to disembowel fish. In the end, there were five flashlights, three of which were not lit, and I guess it was just because there was no electricity, and we decided to keep the remaining two with electricity in case of emergency.
Then there are the twelve large iron chests, and the locks on these chests are so strong that if you want to open them, I am afraid that I will have to use brute force to smash them open with stones. I found a few boxes and tried to kick them a few times, but the first few didn't make a sound, and I felt that they should be soft inside. But when I kicked the fourth box, I heard the sound of the utensils breaking inside.
"Xiao Chen, you idiot! There must be a bowl here! You kicked the bowl to pieces!" Zhou Qiqi shouted.
Forehead......
On this isolated island, what I did just now was simply "heinous", each bowl is a treasure to us, now I don't dare to kick it around, thinking that it is better to move these boxes back to the camp and slowly smash them one by one, I believe there must be a lot of things we need here.
In fact, I can fully bear the weight of these dozen iron boxes combined, but the volume of these iron boxes is too large, and if they are all tied together, I am afraid that they will be half the size of a tractor, and they will definitely not be able to pass through the dense forest, so we can only divide them into three batches to carry them.
We first moved these things to a hidden area in the interior of the woods, and then we began to move them in batches.
The first two times we took nine large iron chests and all the rest of the tools and nets, but when the three of us returned one last time to retrieve the remaining three chests, we found that they were gone!
......
The three of us were a little stunned for a while, and after a long time, Zhou Qiqi said angrily: "It must be Liu Yong who took the box away!"
I frowned, and said in my heart that as far as I know, the closest person to this side is indeed Liu Yong and them, and the underground cave where those people hid before is not far from this shore, could it be that they wandered here and took it away after seeing the box?
"Go, find them!" I exclaimed.