24. Return to the shipwreck

The smell of rot filled the cockpit, and I had to climb up to breathe.

I stood on a high place and looked at the whole hull, trying to walk along the edge of the hull to the back to take a look, maybe there were other doors to get into the fishing boat, this trawler was about thirty meters long, it was considered a medium-sized fishing boat, and maybe there were other doors that were not covered or rusted by barnacles.

Finally, I returned to the cockpit, lit the prepared torch, kicked open the half-open hatch with a hard kick, and with a "bang", since I got on the boat in the morning, there has been no strange sound that Shen Yao and I have heard before, only the regular impact sound of the tide hitting the bottom of the boat, and there is no other sound.

"Hey..." I shouted into the narrow passage, trying to give myself courage, "Hey..." , There is no echo, and the attachments in the cabin have a good sound insulation effect, so that I can't judge that the back of the wall is empty by the echo, it seems that Shen Yao said that there is probably nothing of value here.

I got into the cabin and almost slipped on the wet and sticky plank, fortunately I grabbed the pipeline in the cabin in a panic, the cabin sloped down, judging from the water marks on the wall, the sea water almost submerged more than half of the cabin at high tide, and the wall was attached to the black light-resistant moss aquatic weeds, and some Baker, they were all exposed at low tide, some died because of poor ventilation or lack of oxygen, emitting a fishy smell, and stepping on it was also very slippery, I held on to the pipeline in the cabin to go in slowly.

At the end of the road, the door was rusted to death, and it was impossible to reach the freshwater warehouse or the engine room through this road, there were two doors on either side of the corridor, and I knocked on it when I passed by, and it should be able to break it.

I'd like to go first to the door on the left side of the hatch, as it's on the tilted hull facing up side, and if it's not flooded with seawater, maybe I'll find something usable.

But as soon as I pried open a crack in the hatch, a liquid like oil poured over me from the crack, and I was disappointed by the smell and the smell that made me sick.

Because the door was open inward, I wanted to go in and had to endure the stench to push the door open, but there was obviously too much pressure on it, and the black and sticky stinky mud kept flowing down from the crack of the door, as if it would not stop for a while, and the bigger the gap, the more it flowed, so I simply left the katana inserted in the gap and waited for the black mud to flow away. But by this time my torches had already burned to the end, and I had to give up for a while, go back to rest, and prepare more tools for tomorrow.

I swam back to the shore, there was still the fishy smell of those black sticky things on my body, that thing seemed to be corrosive, and the places on my body were a little red and itchy, Shen Yao sat on the beach and glanced at me coldly, she didn't know where to pick up an oversized snail shell in her hand, she was listening to it in her ear.

"Have you eaten?" she asked me suddenly.

I shook my head, and she picked up the half of the coconut shell next to her and handed it to me.

I thought it was a coconut she picked, it was better than nothing, and when I got closer, I saw two boiled blue crabs inside, looking at my surprised expression, Shen Yao lowered her head and motioned me to look behind her.

"I didn't arrest him, it was him. ”

I just noticed that the monkey, which I hadn't seen for a few days, was looking at me at the edge of the forest, and it must have been frightened by the gunfire that day.

"Thank you!"

I raised the coconut shell and said hello to the human monkey, but he shrank back into the bushes in fear, I threw away the stinky clothes in my hand, sat on the beach and prepared to eat the delicious food in front of me, it should be sitting far enough, obviously Shen Yao smelled the smell of my body, fluttered and stood up, looked at me with disgusted eyes, and then said in a disgusted tone.

"Are all men as restless as you, at any age?"

"Age?

She usually calls me "you" when she is angry, the so-called soft hands and short mouths, I don't want to go against her just after getting a benefit, and she will say it. I just think of it as enjoying the food and watching the background music of the sunset.

I was tasting the delicious food, and Shen Yao, who had been hiding far away, seemed to suddenly see a novelty, walked over and squatted beside me, and then touched my back with her fingers in surprise.

"How did you get that?"

I wanted to look back, only to find that a large area of my arms and back were red and swollen, the same places that were drenched in black mud, I didn't pay attention to it at first, I didn't expect it to swell so quickly.