Chapter 17: Pillars of Smoke

In this way, the problem seems to become much more serious.

Because on this isolated island, there is another group of madmen who hurt and even kill people, and we know the composition of this group of people at all, and they have no idea about the ratio of men to women, their age, their total number, and their race.

The only hope I have now is that these guys can't find our hiding place now, otherwise we will be invincible to them with our men and three women, after all, the more than twenty people on the beach are not their opponents, let alone us.

In this way, the problem is back to square one, not only to build a strong camp as soon as possible, but also to unite as many other survivors as possible. And the latter is more important, after all, only when there are more people, the efficiency of constructing the camp can be higher, otherwise just relying on a few of us, we don't know how to build the Year of the Monkey......

The four of us sat on the stone platform and discussed until dark, Xia Ran said that now that Chen Mengyu's illness was almost cured, there was no need for the two of them to stay in the cave all the time to hide, and they could also contribute to the search for other survivors.

I didn't agree at first, but Xia Ran said that it wasn't necessarily safe to let them stay in the cave, and if they were attacked when I was out, they would have an accident without my protection, so I nodded and agreed, but I told them that they had to stay together all the time when they went out on an "adventure" with me.

Nothing was said all night.

The next morning, after we had a few quick meals, we hid the entrance to the cave, and then I jumped down the small rocky hill with the three girls.

This was the first time we had gone out in a group, and I told each of them to take a trunk spear, and I myself to take a hatchet, and I told them once again not to panic if they encountered wild beasts, and to go up the tree as soon as possible, and to gather together as much as possible.

The goal of our mission today is simple, to expand the search radius around our small rocky mountain, to see if there are any other survivors, and of course, to pick some wild fruits along the way.

When we climbed up on the small mountain peak to look down on it before, we had already seen the terrain around our small rock mountain, and I had also walked around the neighborhood before, so I am still relatively familiar with the environment around our small rock mountain, basically no matter where I am in the surrounding area, I can accurately identify the direction where our cave is located, so there is no need to worry about getting lost.

The search radius was more than double that of the previous time when I was alone, and although we still found no one else, we were able to find out the details of the stream's path.

The stream spans a wide stretch, and seems to extend south from the northernmost point of our island, forming a pocket-like arc at the location of our little rocky hill, and the stream diverges several times in different directions on its way south. But we didn't do it any further, because if we continued to track it down, it would mean crossing a large area of unfamiliar territory, which we could never do without being fully prepared.

On the way to explore the stream, we saw a large number and variety of fish resources, and later Zhou Qiqi suggested that we go to the beach again, on the one hand, to see if there is any "seafood" that can be eaten on the beach, and on the other hand, to make sure that our SOS mark has attracted the arrival of the rescue team.

We soon arrived at the beach, first to the place where Chen Mengyu and I first landed.

This time we discovered a new edible thing, and that is turtle eggs.

It's June, and it's time for these turtles to lay their eggs.

Turtle spawning usually takes place at night or at dawn, and Zhou Qiqi, a foodie, seems to know a lot about these things, and when she arrives at the beach, she starts looking around on the beach.

I was about to ask her what kind of sheep epilepsy she was facing, when I saw Zhou Qiqi suddenly crouch down and start digging holes on the beach, and it didn't take long for her to come out with a few yellow-and-white turtle eggs.

Of course, I didn't know what it was at the time, Zhou Qiqi told me that it was a turtle egg, she said that this kind of egg is better than eggs, and the nutritional value is also high, after hearing this, several of us also searched on the beach together, and soon found more "egg pits".

In this way, there is really no need to worry about food on this island, and the safety problems we face seem to be much more serious.

After collecting the turtle eggs, we walked towards the SOS sign, still the same as the last time we left, not even the seaweed I put on it was touched, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and then I simply carved a line of words on the stone:

Survivors, please light a fire on the beach and raise the smoke, and we will come to meet as soon as we see it.

I had just carved the last word, and then two things happened at the same time.

The first was a helicopter flying over our heads, and the second was a literally thick column of smoke from the far side of the sky.

Of course, helicopters are more attractive to us.

The three girls took off their shirts and waved them desperately into the air, but the helicopter didn't seem to have any intention of stopping, but just flew over our heads and flew away to the north.

......

Depend on.

A few of us were a little overwhelmed by the joy, and the damn helicopter might as well not show up in the first place.

In the end, it was Xia Ran who called us back to reality: "Let's go! Let's go to the smoke to see the situation!"

I can't pinpoint the location of the smoke, I can only see the general direction, but the distance is impossible to estimate, because the column of smoke has no reference in the air.

I saddled the bag of turtle eggs on my back and plunged into the forest with my hatchet, followed by the maiden.

Fortunately, the physical strength of several of them is actually quite good, needless to say, Zhou Qiqi is a female man at all. Xia Ran was originally a half-public figure, and often participated in various entertainment activities, so he was used to this kind of "rushing" life for a long time. The most gratifying thing for me is Chen Mengyu, now I am sure that her illness is indeed completely cured, and she has regained the look of not letting her eyebrows on the school tennis court, walking in the jungle with a tree trunk spear like a fly, without a trace of serious illness at all.

But then again, if they didn't have this kind of good physical fitness, I'm afraid they wouldn't be alive now, at least the cruise wreck won't be able to pass.

Now it seems that I am the luckiest person...... If it weren't for some inexplicable changes in my body, I would definitely die in the sea.

In my thoughts, we were a little closer to the smoke, but we were still far from our destination, and as I ran, I found that the smoke was just right past our cave, so I hid the turtle eggs in the hole, and then continued to run towards the smoke.

The column of smoke was so dense that I didn't seem to have to worry about it disappearing, and later on, there were a few thinner columns around it.

We walked briskly through the woods for more than twenty minutes before ......

The pillar of smoke was gone.

Depend on......

The smoke column is gone, which means we can only look for it from memory, and I have to be sure what is on fire.

After a few steps, however, I felt a little turn, and I hurriedly told the other three girls to stop, and I first made out the present direction by the sun above the canopy, and then began to mark the trunk beside me with stones, otherwise we would have a problem going back, for the area we were now exploring was far beyond the area around the small rocky mountain I knew well.

However, I had barely finished my first mark when I suddenly heard a "whoosh" sound from the depths of the forest behind me.