Chapter 64 Finally Rescued
I never thought of it,,,,,,
I originally hoped that I would be rescued by others, but I didn't expect that I would save someone myself.
The foreign man immediately refreshed himself after drinking the water, and sat up at once, muttering to himself that he did not know what to say, but when he noticed me, he said with a somewhat frightened expression:
"Oh, my God,,, my God,"
"It looks like I'm dead, is this hell?"
Of course I didn't know what he was talking about, I just understood him talking about my God, and he seemed nervous, as if he had seen a ghost.
He probably reacted this way because he was saved and didn't know how to thank me.
So I took a few jerkys and handed them to him, but he didn't expect to look very frightened when he saw this, so I motioned to him that the whale jerky was to be eaten, and he gladly accepted.
The man took the jerky and devoured it, and I gave him the last lemon, it was really a foreigner who even ate the skin, and the foreigner looked at me and the bamboo raft while eating and said with a puzzled face: "Who are you, did you save me?"
I can't understand everything he's saying, but I'm a college student after all, and some simple English communication is still possible, but a lot of spoken English has been forgotten over the years.
I knew what he meant, so I said in stiff English: "I am Chinese,,, island in ,,,distress, living on the island for seven years,,, sick ,,, rafting,,,"
I don't know if he understood or not, but he was surprised when I said it, and got up and hugged me tightly, and then said:
"God forbid, thank God" and so on.
After a few days of communication and understanding, this man is Australian, his name is Johnson, he is 65 years old, he is a sailing enthusiast, 20 days ago in a sailing storm suddenly damaged the hull, had to abandon the ship, but the radio has been damaged, unable to call for help, drifting at sea for more than 20 days, when everything was lost, I found out.
The water and food on the boat can last the two of us for half a month, and if we are not rescued for half a month, it will be troublesome.
There was some miscommunication between the two of us, maybe it was because I had been living alone for many years, and I didn't know how to communicate with people, so I didn't talk much, but the fear of loneliness in my heart hasn't been since Johnson came along.
In this way, we drifted on the sea for seven or eight days, and the god of luck finally came to our heads.
On this day, we noticed that a huge ship was moving slowly in the distance, so we quickly took out the rescue equipment, signal rockets, smoke pipes, signal flares from the life raft, and we used all that could be used.
The giant ship also spotted our distress signal and whistled in response, and Johnson and I hugged each other happily.
Soon the steamer slowed down and lowered the dinghy, and soon the dinghy was on our raft, and there were three foreigners on board, one driving the dinghy, one filming with a camera, and the other throwing us a rope, which Johnson took and tied the raft very quickly.
Immediately after that, a crew member motioned for us to board the dinghy, but I did not board the dinghy immediately, I wrapped Zou Xinyue's letter and the drifting bottle in a plastic bag, thinking that these two things were very important to me and should not be discarded.
So Johnson and I were rescued, and when we climbed onto the deck, we found that more than a dozen people were filming both of us with their phones, especially each one looking at me with surprise.
A man dressed as a captain said to us: "Welcome aboard the Lucas"
These guys, all foreigners, took the two of us to the restaurant and prepared us a lot of water and food for us to eat.
There was no obstacle for these men to communicate with Johnson, so the captain and several others were interrogating Johnson, and they looked as if they knew Johnson.
As for me, I ate nothing but bread, sandwiches, ham, noodles, fruits and vegetables, and my favorite drink, Coca-Cola, and I devoured the astonished faces of the crew without hesitation.
Seven years these things are simply delicious to me, after a storm and clouds, I dare say that I can eat the food of ten people, and I touched my stomach with satisfaction,,,,
I noticed that several of the crew members were looking at me with their mouths wide open, and some of them had drawn a cross on their chest, as if praying for something.
At this time, a Chinese face appeared in the restaurant, and he came directly to me and said very politely: "Hello sir, welcome to the Lucas freighter, I am the chief engineer Zhang Yu Taiwanese" After speaking, he shook hands with me to express friendship.
Zhang Yu said in an authentic Taiwanese accent: "My Chinese is not very good, but I should be able to hear clearly what you say, the captain asked me to talk to you to see what can help you"
Seeing this, I thought that I was really glad to meet Chinese here, so I immediately said politely: "I am really grateful to all the crew for saving me, my name is Guan Wang, a native of Weihai, Shandong, China, and I was ,,,,,,,,in distress seven years ago."
I explained my experience in the past seven years to Zhang Yu, and I said a sentence that he translated to the crew, and by looking at their expressions, I knew that my experience was as amazing as the legend.
When I learned that this was an Australian ocean-going freighter, I asked if they could contact my family to report my safety, and Zhang Yu told me that I could use a satellite phone.
But I forgot most of the phone numbers, in the past, only the name of the person was marked in the phone book, but now I don't even know what the number of my parents and wife is.
Zhang Yu said that the captain of the ship could help me contact the Chinese embassy in Australia to help me contact my family, but it would take time.
Finally, Zhang Yu asked if there was anything else I could do to help me, and I drank a can of Coke and said, "Can I take a hot bath?" ”