Chapter 246: Water and Flame
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Wrapped in a parachute, she survived this difficult night, and when she got up in the morning, Zhao Rushuang was a lot haggard, she was picking up shellfish on the beach, Su Wei hugged Shen Mengqi, who was pale, and didn't close her eyes all night.
Shen Mengqi opened her eyes, and the hot sun shone on her, but she was chilled.
"I, I probably won't make it. Shen Mengqi shuddered: "I never thought that I would die on a lonely island in the end, and I didn't even know the direction of my home." β
Su Wei licked her lips and gave her the last bit of fresh water she had saved, and then hesitated, but still touched a red capsule pill.
"If I die, don't throw me down and bury me. Shen Mengqi coughed.
Su Wei shook her head and shoved the pill into her mouth.
The hallucinogens are now used on Shen Mengqi, just to quench her thirst, but there is no way, Su Wei found that she has lost the consciousness of resistance, and her body functions are even more messy.
Shen Mengqi really quieted down, her spirit immediately improved, and she even stood up, she waved her hands: "Su Wei, look, there are so many bubbles, so beautiful." β
She had a serious hallucination, waving her hand and patting the non-existent colored bubbles, which was originally a desolate and terrifying island, but at this time, in Shen Mengqi's eyes, it was like heaven.
"Su Wei, come here to take a look, I've found something here!" shouted Zhao Rushuang in the distance.
Su Wei hugged Shen Mengqi, wrapped her in a parachute, and waited for her to close her eyes, then walked quickly to the beach.
Su Wei already had a slight lack of water, and Zhao Rushuang's condition should be more serious, but the two women were still full of energy.
Su Wei is supported by the weak breath in her body, as well as her good physical exercise these days. As for Zhao Rushuang, she can't understand her more and more, and her ability to survive in the wild is not weaker than Su Wei.
Su Wei came to Zhao Rushuang's location, which was a raised reef by the sea, and there was a crack between the gray-white rocks.
The first thing Su Wei saw was the fresh water stored in the crack, and she couldn't help but be overjoyed, Zhao Rushuang waved her hand, stretched out her hand to try it in the water, and then stretched it out to her mouth: "Taste it." β
Su Wei licked her fingers, bitter and salty.
"This isn't freshwater?"
"It's fresh water, but there's more sea salt stored here......"
Zhao Rushuang scraped with her fingernails on the edge of the stone wall, and the blue-white sea salt particles fell.
Su Wei stretched out her hand and touched it: "Pure natural sea salt?"
Zhao Rushuang nodded: "And after the decomposition of the fresh water here, the harmful minerals of sea salt are almost decomposed, and they can be used directly." β
Both are in good spirits now.
And most importantly......
"Salt water can relieve the symptoms of dysentery, I still need it, I also need a little plaster......" Su Wei quickly scraped the stone salt and quickly collected a handful.
Zhao Rushuang handed her a few medicine bottles, and Su Wei continued to collect sea salt with the medicine bottles.
Zhao Rushuang began to untie the parachute bag, and used a stone to unpack a fixed iron piece on the side of the parachute bag, and the smooth and thin iron piece rotated in her hand: "I'm going to get some plaster, but it's ...... You've got to find a way to make a fire, we need fire. β
Su Wei nodded and whispered, "Thank you." β
She had to admit that fortunately Zhao Rushuang was here, this woman with the ability to survive was not inferior to herself, and she definitely helped herself a lot at this time.
Alone, Su Wei is sure that she can live, but in the face of the sick Shen Mengqi, she has no certainty.
After collecting the sea salt, Su Wei found another stone pit at the bottom of the reef side, which contained fresh water to support them for at least two or three days.
Su Wei returned to the beach, saw that Shen Mengqi was still sleeping, relieved, thought about it quietly, suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly ran to the shore close to the sea.
The gray-white sand, the sand is as fine as dust, Su Wei smashed a small tree with a stone, removed the branches and leaves, returned to the shore, and began to dig up the sand.
It was very damp underneath the sand, and after digging about twenty centimeters deep, Su Wei finally saw the pale yellow insect skin and carapace under the sea sand.
Great! Sure enough, there's something good down there.
Su Wei continued to dig and was even more happy when she touched something brown like a stone.
The branch stirred slightly, and the stone-like thing trembled, Su Wei immediately grabbed it with both hands, pulled it fiercely, and with all her strength, a turtle with a diameter of at least half a meter was pulled out by her.
It can be said that the giant sea turtle hides under the beach to lay its eggs in the hot summer, and does not come out into the sea with the baby turtle until autumn and October.
Su Wei dragged the big turtle, and Zhao Rushuang came over with a bag of gypsum rock powder, which was also very happy.
The two continued to dig on the beach, and under the location of the giant turtle, a nest of more than 20 turtle eggs was found, all the size of a fist.
Turtles are killed with pieces of iron, their shells are filled, and the flesh is cleaned and put into shells.
Zhao Rushuang had already sharpened the blade of iron in the backpack, and now everything was ready, only the flame was missing.
"Are you coming or am I coming?" Zhao Rushuang put a dry wooden stick on the ground, and a groove was chiseled in the middle of the wooden stick, and a pinch of bark silk was placed next to it.
Su Wei frowned: "It's difficult, the air is very damp, and it is even more difficult to drill wood for fire." β
Zhao Rushuang picked up a branch and began to drill into the groove of the wooden stick: "Do you have any other way?"
The corners of Su Wei's mouth curled, she didn't speak, and watched Zhao Rushuang sweating there to drill wood for fire.
Unlike what is described in the movie, it is actually very difficult to drill wood to make fire, which is a very patient and physical work.
The wooden stick that Zhao Rushuang found was dry on the surface, but fresh on the inside, so it was even more difficult.
She kept drilling for half an hour, rested for a while, and continued to drill, the branches began to smoke, Zhao Rushuang squatted down, put the bark silk on it, and blew gently, but it still failed.
The air is humid and the bark filaments are not fine enough......
Zhao Rushuang drilled for another half an hour and lay down on the side: "Hey, I'm tired to death!"
Her hands were red and swollen, and the fine skin and tender flesh of her palms were bruised by the branches.
Throwing the branch to Su Wei, Zhao Rushuang gasped: "Stinky girl, you have rested long enough, hurry up, keep drilling, I must see the fire tonight, I want to eat roast turtle meat......"
Su Wei got up and stretched: "Okay, I must eat barbecue tonight!"
Instead of taking the branch, she pulled the parachute bag and began to unpack the button next to the bag.
Zhao Rushuang's eyes widened, but Su Wei disassembled the one-button button of the parachute and took out a lithium battery underneath.
The round lithium battery was on the ground, Su Wei found a stone to cushion it, asked for Zhao Rushuang's iron knife, and slashed it hard.
The lithium battery broke a hole, and Su Wei used two wires as wires to short-circuit the positive and negative poles of the battery, and the battery instantly emitted smoke, and then emitted fiery red electric sparks.
The bark silk was thrown up, and the flames burst into flames.
"Damn!" Zhao Rushuang looked at her red and swollen hands, annoyed and angry: "Su Wei, you stinky girl, why didn't you say it earlier! Did you already think of a way to make a fire?"
Su Wei giggled: "yes, I thought about it in the morning." But seeing that you are so positive, I still want you to try drilling wood to make fire. β
Zhao Rushuang grabbed a handful of sand and threw it over: "Stinky girl, you are looking for death." β
The two of them threw sand and fought, but they almost extinguished the fire, and they were startled, and hurriedly piled up the branches, and the flames burned more and more.
Zhao Rushuang separated the two fires, one of which slowed down the damp leaves, and a thick smoke rose up, as long as there were boats passing on the sea, it could definitely be seen within a certain distance.
However, it was not yet dark, and the sea was filled with fog.
"Have you ever seen fog on the sea?" Zhao Rushuang smiled bitterly.
Su Wei sighed: "Yes, but it was on the Atlantic Ocean, when the fog at sea was so bad, that is, I couldn't see anyone around me on the boat." β
Fog at sea is rare because the temperature difference between the air and the sea is too large, causing the cold air to float smoothly and condense water vapor.
Most of the time, it is formed only in cold climates.
But now, the sea fog has shrouded the isolated island, and the gray around it has gradually become thicker, and it is impossible to reach out to the five fingers.
Su Wei and Zhao Rushuang moved the fire to a rock and added dozens of large logs to keep the fire.
Zhao Rushuang shook her head, now she understands the horror of this island, even if there is a rescue helicopter, you can't find them.
She went to the beach to fetch the shells she had already collected.
Two large shells are like pans, one stewed with shellfish and the other with turtle eggs.
The white and tender turtle meat is on the fire, already roasted golden, and the sound of sizzling is dripping with golden grease.
The aroma permeated the surroundings, and Shen Mengqi poked her head out of the parachute: "I'm so hungry......"
Su Wei only gave her water, and she drank warm boiled water with salt.
Shen Mengqi was poured several bottles of salt water, and she couldn't stand it: "Su Wei, I don't want to drink it." β
"Salt water can help you relieve dysentery...... Su Wei said, opening another turtle egg, mixing egg whites and gypsum powder into the medicine bottle, forcing Shen Mengqi to drink two more bottles.
Zhao Rushuang smiled beside him: "Gypsum can relieve your diarrhea, egg whites supplement protein, Mr. Shen, you are really lucky, you met the two of us, otherwise you will die." β
After drinking the egg whites, Shen Mengqi ate two boiled turtle eggs in one go, dipped in sea salt, and the taste was simply delicious.
She still wanted to eat meat, but she was coaxed by Su Wei for a long time before giving up.
And Su Wei and Zhao Rushuang ate delicate roast turtle meat, ate turtle eggs, and drank delicious shellfish broth, which was simply a seafood feast.
Finally fed, lying in the parachute, the fog has lifted.
It was dark, and the parachutes pulled up from the two trees under the rocks formed a perfect hammock, and the three girls lay in the hammock, covered with another parachute.
The stars are shining, and the fire burning under the rocks brings endless warmth.
The temperature on this isolated island was less than 10 degrees at night, but now they were all warm.
After a long time, Zhao Rushuang suddenly jumped down: "It's so itchy, I'm going to take a shower, Su Wei, what about you?"
Su Wei didn't speak, and watched Zhao Rushuang take off her clothes one by one and walk towards the sea......