Chapter 22: Despair at Sea
I didn't see a single ship for two days, and I wondered if this was the golden shipping route that people say, why didn't a single freighter appear for two days, and why didn't I see a single fishing boat.
I drilled out of the life raft of the observation hole to the surrounding a large number of eyes, only in front of the endless sea and the annoying sun, now the weather is very calm, there are no clouds in the air at all, the sun is very dazzling, although it is the sea, but at this time it is also very hot, fortunately the life raft has a shade cloth, I was not directly exposed to the sun.
However, it was very hot inside the life raft, so I had to put away the shade cloth to keep it ventilated but it was still very hot, so I accelerated the consumption of water, and I ate all the bread for the past two days, and the dry food brought by the lifeboat was expired, which was really hard to swallow.
I had to find fishing gear and start fishing, but it had been half a day and there was no fish bite at all, and I couldn't help but remember that I had no research on fishing since I was a child, and I had no patience, and it seems that this is indeed the case.
It's getting dark,
At this time, the sun sets in the west, and at the junction of water and sky, a round of fiery red sun is like a burning torch, igniting the clouds in the air, and the fiery red clouds are reflected on the surrounding sea, a fiery red piece is like a fairyland, such a beautiful scenery has only appeared in books and screens before, but I did not expect that here and now I will have this and poetic picture in full view.
Suddenly, a dark shadow slowly appeared in the afterglow of the setting sun, it was a big ship, it would be a freighter coming towards me.
I don't even have to think about picking up the rocket flares that I had prepared a long time ago and looking for a good direction.
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A red flare rose high as I grabbed my pants, my shirt had been stripped off on the pirate ship, and I had no time to retrieve them when I fled. The only clothes I had on me were a pair of pants and panties, and I couldn't wave them for help.
I waved my pants and screamed as hard as I could, but the big ship didn't seem to notice me, so I quickly fired a second rocket flare, lit a smoke flare, and stood up and shook and screamed desperately.
But the big ship didn't find me, at this time it was getting farther and farther away from me, maybe in a critical situation, people would lose their calm judgment, the big ship didn't find me at all, no matter how much I asked for help, it was useless, and what was even more unfortunate was that I desperately shook the smoke bomb in my hand, which was already the third one, and accidentally lost my balance and fell into the water.
It's really unlucky, I secretly cursed, I didn't find out, I fucking fell into the water, the sea water is still very cold, I have to get back to the life raft as soon as possible, fortunately the life raft is in front of me, so I immediately swam to the life raft, but I found that I swim at the same speed as the life raft, the life raft in front of me I just can't catch it, as long as I stop the life raft will be far away from me.
What's worse is that now the fucking wind is getting up at this time, and the waves are getting bigger, and I panic when I see this, if I don't get back on the life raft, I'm going to die.
I really panicked and paddled and swam desperately, but I couldn't catch up with the life raft, which was three meters away from me at the beginning, and now it is five or six meters away, and the instinct to survive makes me even more crazy, but swimming in the waves is very physically demanding, and I was exhausted in less than twenty minutes.
The life raft is only six or seven meters away from me, this short distance is the distance between life and death for me, but I have no power to cross this distance, looking at the life raft that is close at hand but out of reach, I desperately gave up, my mind was blank, my hands and feet were not paddling to give up the struggle, slowly closed my eyes and opened my arms and waited for death to come.
When I was about to sink into the water, suddenly a stinging pain hit, I found that my right arm was hooked by something, and it was very painful, I suddenly felt that this was a fish hook, it was the fish hook on my life raft, and the fishing line was fixed on the life raft, I pulled hard and sure enough, the fishing line was still tied to the life raft.
My desire to survive by pulling the line has been rekindled.
This fishing line is my life and death line, and I thought to myself, don't break it, don't break it,,,,,
The fishing line is very thin, and when I pull my hand hard, I will immediately be strangled and feel painful, but now I can't care about the pain, I broke out at the moment of life and death, and I pulled the life raft with the fishing line, and then swam hard so that my speed could finally catch up with the life raft.
The moment I caught the life raft, the feeling of despair and helplessness immediately dissipated, and I clung to the life raft but I had no strength at all, so I had to hold on to the life raft and rest in the sea water for a while, and then I had the strength to climb up.
I shivered in the sea, and when I climbed on the life raft, my heart was at ease, and if I was unlucky, I would stuff my teeth with cold water. Now that there was a strong wind blowing on the sea, and the waves were hitting one after another, I quickly put down the waterproof cover and tightened it, turned the sea anchor back and forth, and found a thermal suit in the equipment to put on myself.
At this moment, there was no other way, I closed my eyes and lay in the life raft, the storm outside, the thunder, the rain, the sound of the waves, in the small space of the life raft made me feel very depressed and frightened, but what can I do, I can only go with the flow and silently pray in my heart to let this end soon.