Chapter 32 The Water Scarcity Crisis

"How are you?"

The man, who had been soaked in water for a long time and had some blue lips, heard the words, and when he raised his head, he was obviously stunned, and a question came out of his mouth: "Why are you here?"

The two were obviously old acquaintances, Maggie Lau seemed very excited, and the man looked a little embarrassed.

Mu Xiaobai vaguely felt that there should be a story between the two.

There were three new people on the life raft, and it suddenly became crowded, and the draft of the life raft had exceeded half of its own height. Mu Xiaobai was a little worried about how long this life raft would last, and he would never encounter a big storm or something.

It was almost dusk when the sky withdrew from the dense clouds, and the sun in the west was trying its best to emit the last trace of afterglow, and the place where the water and the sky met was bright and red, magnificent, and incomparably beautiful, so that people's hearts could not help but become bright, and their hearts gave birth to hope, which made them forget their predicament for a while.

The biggest advantage of having more people is that they are no longer lonely. Many times, people are in a difficult situation, and the difficult situation finally becomes a desperate situation, and the very important reason is that loneliness destroys the will of the person, and he can ravage a person's madness and collapse until death.

The people on the life raft talked to each other from time to time, so he also knew that the three people who fell into the water were hostages taken by pirates. The pirates took a total of ten people hostage, and only five of the hostages were still alive at the moment the ship capsized, and when the ship hit the iceberg, the cabin where they were locked opened a huge hole, and after the sea water poured into the cabin, they swam out of the damage in a panic, and two people were smashed to the bottom of the sea by the heavy objects falling from the ship.

The three of them escaped like this, and they swam along the ocean current for a long time in fright, and they stopped when they were exhausted, but fortunately they met Mu Xiaobai and them.

Six people sat back to back in a tight circle.

Mu Xiaobai sat Lin Qingqing on the left side, Lin Qingqing rested his head on Mu Xiaobai's shoulder, Lin Qingqing was next to Maggie Liu on the left, and Maggie Liu was chatting with the rescued man.

Mu Xiaobai and Lin Qingqing gossiped and pricked their ears and eavesdropped on the conversation between the two. From the conversation, I learned that the man's name was Equation, and the two of them were in a relationship, and they were both ready to get married. After Maggie Lau's disappearance, there has been no news of her rescue, he was anxious to drive his own yacht, and a few friends went out to sea to look for him, unfortunately encountered a group of pirates and hijacked them.

Speaking of this, Maggie Lau moved her nose and tears, leaned her head on the person's shoulder intimately, and gently comforted Maggie Lau.

Mu Xiaobai secretly looked at the intimate appearance of the two, talented and beautiful, very compatible, just like him and Lin Qingqing, with a heartfelt smile on his face, obviously a narcissistic smile.

When night fell, the sea water was soft, but it was cold and windy, everyone was a little shivering with cold, everyone who had not eaten food for a long time had no heat on their bodies to resist the cold, Mu Xiaobai asked everyone to get closer, so that it could be warmer, so that it would not be too hypothermic and dangerous.

Then he said, "I'll go into the water and see if I can catch some fish." ”

Lin Qingqing was a little worried, "It's so dark, it's dangerous in the water, you don't want to go down." Let's wait until daylight. ”

"During the day, there is direct sunlight on the upper part of the water, and many fish are afraid of the sun and do not swim in the upper water layer. They tend to swim up the water at night, and I get down in the moonlight, and if I'm lucky, I can catch some. ”

Mu Xiaobai stayed in the water for more than ten minutes, but he found nothing, and he didn't see a single fish shadow, so he had no choice but to get on the life raft.

The sea is sparkling. A lover whispered quietly in the moonlight.

"Xiaobai, if we can't all live...."

"Don't think so, we will definitely survive, the first time we encountered the tsunami, we all survived, we have lived on the island for so long, this time such a small difficulty can still stump us. ”

Mu Xiaobai looked up at the dark night sky, there was still only one moon in the night sky, and there was not a single star.

Since the first time Mu Xiaobai noticed the unusual night sky on the island, he has developed the habit of looking at the sky every night, and he has always imagined that one day, suddenly one day, looking up at the night sky, he can see the stars in the sky, and then among the stars in the sky, he can find the constellations that he is familiar with.

But every time I will be disappointed, and this time too.

He recalled that when he was a child, whenever it was the season of wheat harvesting, when the wheat straw was piled up, he would always lie on the wheat straw alone, feel the refreshing night breeze, listen to the chirping insects in the mountains, look at the starry sky, and look forward to his bright future. But when he grew up, especially after graduating from college, the pressure of work increased sharply, and his life was not smooth, so he rarely returned to the countryside, and he rarely went back, and he would no longer lie on the wheat stalks, look at the vast starry sky, and have beautiful dreams, he lost that habit.

Now, he's got that habit back, but there's no more stars.

So they drifted all night, and when they opened their eyes in the morning, they saw the endless water.

Disappointment was written all over everyone's face.

The cold wind blew overnight, and everyone's body lost a lot of water.

However, the sun during the day was even more scorching, and everyone's body was severely dehydrated. The girl named Mina, who was rescued in the water, has been in a bad mental state due to fright, and after alternating between heat and cold and lack of water in her body, she has fallen into a coma.

During this period, Mu Xiaobai jumped off the life raft and swam at the bottom of the life raft to see if there were any fish hiding from the shadows under the life raft. The fish's eyes and spinal cord are rich in fresh water, and if you can catch a fish, you may be able to save the girl, but unfortunately there is still no trace of the fish.

He thought about the exchange mall in the system again, but the achievement points required for a bottle of water were one hundred.

He was completely powerless.

The sun was scorching, the people on the roasting boat were restless, and the water loss in everyone's body was increasing, and the situation was getting worse and worse.

The girl from the rice country slowly lost her breath.

Mu Xiaobai, who had no choice but to endure the heartache, pushed the girl into the sea.

Soon after, Lin Qingqing and another girl also began to have confusion.

Without water, Mu Xiaobai can only be weak, not to mention that he is now extremely thirsty, his throat and eyes seem to be half on fire, and his lips are also chapped with a layer of dead skin.

Maggie Liu looked at Mu Xiaobai and Lin Qingqing, felt guilty in her heart, and said: "At the beginning, if I hadn't been stubborn and had to leave that island with the pirate ship, you wouldn't be here now......"

"Don't think about it, the two of us were also willing at the time, so you don't have to feel guilty. If you die, everyone can die together, and you won't be lonely, isn't it good. ”

Mu Xiaobai looked at the bright and crystalline water, clear and clear, it seemed to be so delicious and sweet, he really wanted to bow down and drink happily.

Of course, this was just his idea, and he knew that if he really took a sip of seawater, he would only die faster.

But others may not have this kind of sanity, and the thirsty equation cries, "I want to drink water, I want to drink water." About to throw himself into the sea, Maggie Lau saw that the situation was wrong, and desperately grabbed him and didn't let him drink water, but he still had to struggle to pounce forward. Maggie Lau directly slapped him in the face.

"Smack!"

Loud and crisp.

The equation stabilized the mood at this time. Cover your face and bow your head, and stop talking. Maggie Lau shook her head helplessly, her boyfriend is good at everything, he has been pampered since he was a child, he has never suffered hardship, and his willpower is weak when he encounters a little difficulty, and sometimes he doesn't even enter himself.

A gust of sea breeze blew, and Mu Xiaobai felt that the sea breeze was a little different.

"Do you feel like the wind is a little different?"

Hearing Mu Xiaobai's words, several people straightened up and felt the sea breeze.

Maggie Lau said: "This sea breeze is a little cool?"

Several people nodded in unison.

Mu Xiaobai immediately shouted excitedly.

"Haha, we're saved. ”

"It's going to rain!"