7. Go with the flow
When I opened my eyes, the little girl looked at the water with a pale face and horror, a huge gray-white fin cut through the water and was swimming around us in a circle, I was also startled, judging from the size and shape of the fin, this is a great white shark, at least a ton in weight, and the shadow under the water is like a pickup truck.
The girl looked at me in horror, I forced my composure, and took out a pen from my pocket, which was the only hard object on my body, thinking that if I or the girl were bitten by it, I would use this pen to poke its eyes, although theoretically the shark would release its prey if it was poked in the eye, but I knew very well in my heart that once the shark was interested in us and attacked us, it would definitely be more than lucky!
"Slowly paddle · · " I told the little girl. I was afraid that her intense strokes would arouse the shark's appetite.
I looked around, and the outline of an island could be seen faintly behind me, and I paddled slowly down with my legs.
As soon as I turned my head, the fins disappeared from my sight, the shark dived, I knew that the shark was going to dive underwater before attacking the prey, attacking from the bottom up, biting the prey and then throwing it out of the water, I stared nervously at the water, grabbed the survival suit on the girl's back with one hand, and pushed her away when the blood was ready to swallow it, maybe she still had a chance of life.
"Swim over there, do you see?" I said as I looked at the looming island, and the girl nodded.
I stared nervously at the water for a long half minute, and there was no reaction in the dark deep water, I thought that the shark might be gone, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Poof..." The sound of water squirting from a distance sounded from afar, and I saw the slightly sloping column of water and the shape of the water column, and knew that it was a group of orcas, that is, killer whales, swimming towards us.
No wonder the great white shark will leave suddenly, it should be aware of this group of orcas, is the only natural enemy of the great white shark in the ocean, the bay where the orca exists generally does not have great white sharks, in the deep sea great white sharks will also hide far away, although the difference between the two sizes is not particularly much, but in terms of strength and wisdom skills, killer whales can often defeat the enemy with one move, not to mention in the face of a group of killer whales, great white sharks only have to be tortured and killed.
My heart is still hanging, wild killer whales are different from amusement park killer whales after all, wild killer whales are unpredictable, even amusement park killer whales have a record of killing trainers, not to mention killer whales in the vast sea, but compared to great white sharks, it is still much better, after all, dolphins are born with a good impression and curiosity about humans, as long as they do not actively harm them, most of them are friendly, and killer whales are the largest dolphins.
A pod of killer whales swam past us, and they didn't care about our presence, probably like us humans walking and seeing two dying fish lying on the road.
One of the killer whales in the group broke away from the group and swam close to us, and the tall and straight fins proved that the killer whale was in the prime of life, probably in his teens, and it seemed to be very interested in the little girl, and swam to the place where the little girl could reach and touch, and the little eyes observed the little girl and me.
The little girl looked at me, a little overwhelmed.
"It should have no malice. "I can't say for sure, but I expect that animals can feel human emotions, and that our friendliness or defensiveness can feel it too.
The girl timidly reached out to touch the whale's head, and suddenly, the girl's expression gradually stretched, as if she had received a little comfort from the exhaustion and sadness of more than twenty hours.
"Ah~~" The whale spewed out a column of water, and the splash caused by the water column hit the girl's face, and the water splash washed her hair and scattered it on her face, with a look of grievance.
At this time, the killer whale dived underwater, I felt a huge force flickering to lift me off the water, I soaked in the water for so long I could barely sit steady, I barely lifted the girl to the front and rode on the back of the whale, this felt like riding a motorcycle in the water, the sea breeze was blowing under the feet of the rapids and waves, I couldn't suppress my excitement, I even forgot my current situation for a while and smirked, the little girl was the same, excited and laughing.
The looming island gradually becomes clear, as if it has risen from the sea level.
"Ah~~" Caught off guard, we slipped off the back of this black and white giant and fell into the water, there were still more than 100 meters from the shore, and before we could say thank you, it turned around and swam away to the deep sea, and after a while, it disappeared into the sea level under the sunset.
"Thank you~" The girl wiped the water from her face and shouted loudly in the direction where the killer whale was swimming.
Looking at the outline of the small island from a distance, I found that the island is so big when I got closer, looking left and right, the coastline of about a kilometer began to gradually shrink, and I was relieved, thinking that such a large island must be marked on the map, if the lucky island is inhabited, it will be perfect, this island is about a day's distance from the accident site, only a few dozen nautical miles, and the search and rescue team should be able to find us soon.
A hundred meters from the shore, half of us swam and half washed by the waves, and finally climbed onto the beach, the sun had completely sunk below the sea level, I lay on my back on the beach, the sea breeze blew and made me shiver, the night at this moment was like the early morning inland, I heard the girl crying quietly.