Chapter 90: The Dawn
Three days later, Li Cheng's seabird eggs and fresh water on the reef island were all used up, Li Cheng lay on the sailboat, and after waking up from the dazzling sun, Li Cheng's lips were extremely dry, and his head was a little worried, and he had symptoms of lack of water, dizziness, fatigue, and hallucinations.
Li Cheng looked at the endless sea, and there was a hometown spring well in his eyes, the women washed their clothes with water at the wellhead, and the villagers passing by scooped up the sweet well water and drank it heartily, Li Cheng swallowed the saliva, in this harsh environment, the way of "looking at plum to quench thirst" can promote saliva and relieve thirst.
Li Cheng shook his head, shook off the idea of walking out of the sailboat, and said weakly: "Let's still hold my button." ”
If you have a button in your mouth, it also stimulates the production of saliva, which is a method used to survive in the wild and lack of water, and of course, there is a more effective way to drink your own urine......
In the face of survival, any humble self-esteem and shame is an excuse for losers, of course, there is another way, which is to drink seawater, but it will lead to serious consequences, produce hemolysis, accelerate the arrival of death, and drink to quench thirst.
Li Cheng's fresh water reserves have been depleted for less than half a day, and Li Chengcheng has all kinds of situations, it is hard to imagine that someone can survive in the sea for months, or even longer, and the hope of life is too slim.
After holding on for so long, Li Cheng began to waver, and said to himself: "Forget it, no one will see it anyway, let's enter the Crystal Palace." When Li Cheng was about to enter the Crystal Palace to eat a lot of food, pig's trotters in his left hand, steak in his right hand, and drink a bowl of Longquan and pour a bowl, Li Cheng's sailboat had a big turtle lying on him at some point.
This large sea turtle has a body length of about 1 meter, and the feeling of the vicissitudes of the turtle shell is obviously a certain age, probably a hundred-year-old turtle, and this kind of turtle can generally live about 150 years old.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, sea turtles can live up to 152 years, making them the most well-deserved longevity among animals.
Li Cheng tried to touch the turtle, but he didn't alarm it, the turtle, as a docile marine amphibian, lives on seaweed, so like most herbivorous mammals, the attack surname is not strong.
"The big sea turtle, I'm sorry, in this case, I can only eat your ......" Li Cheng grabbed the big sea turtle to prevent it from leaving the sailboat, took out the Damascus saber, and killed the big sea turtle with one sword, sucking the abundant blood of the turtle, hearty.
The water in the body is fully replenished, some turtle meat is exposed to the sun, after high temperature roasting, the taste should be good, find some tender parts, Li Cheng directly eat raw turtle meat!
In this way, Li Cheng relied on eating turtle meat and drinking turtle blood, and survived for about 4 days, and Li Cheng drifted on the sea for 11 days, not including the 9 days on Dragon Island, which means that Li Cheng has been 20 days since his disappearance!
At dawn 20 days after Li Cheng's disappearance, Li Cheng couldn't bear it, and decided to enter the Crystal Palace this morning and enjoy it, he had enough of the floating life in the ocean, and he also experienced the power of nature, and now it was time to rest.
Just when Li Cheng was about to give up the idea of relying on his own strength to get through this difficulty, a ray of searchlight shone on Li Cheng's sailboat, a fishing boat tracking fish slowly approached with the imprint of the collision of cold and warm ocean currents, this light just hit Li Cheng, the dazzling searchlight, like a dawn, Li Cheng shouted, sent out the only remaining signal, in the darkness before dawn, the signal flare was particularly eye-catching! This is the first time Li Cheng has encountered a ship since he sailed into the sea, and it is also his last chance!
Li Cheng faintly saw the shouts and shadows of sailors on the deck, which seemed to be in Spanish? Did you come to the Atlantic? No, this should be the Pacific Ocean, combined with the flags hoisted on the fishing boat, Li Cheng is clear.
An eagle with outstretched wings holds a snake in its mouth, one claw grasps the snake's body, and the other claw steps on a cactus! Li Cheng saw a sailor put down the rubber boat, and understood that this was a Mexican fisherman, and immediately relieved himself, at least he had been saved.
On the boat, many black-haired Mexicans, surrounded Li Cheng, speaking Spanish, seemed to be asking Li Cheng why he would be in this sea area, in addition to Spanish, the official language in Mexico, English should also be a more commonly used language, so Li Cheng tried to communicate with the fishermen in English, and sure enough, a captain in his 50s said in American English: "Hello, I'm Enrique, the captain of the Tenochit, how long have you been drifting at sea, is it a plane crash?" Or is it a shipwreck? ”
Enrique is curious about the true identity of the Asian man, and as the captain of the ship, he has a responsibility and obligation to know the situation. In Mexico, people of mixed descent are mainly of Hispanic and Indian descent, followed by Indians, and to a lesser extent purebred Europeans.
Enrique is a true European, with a U.S. passport and fishing in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. His men are all native Mexicans, and they are basically of mixed European and Indian descent.
Therefore, in Mexico, people's hair and skin color are also black and yellow, and in Latin America, there are still more Indians, and they have merged into a new country.
A sailor holds a bottle of tequila with tortillas and spicy steak, all of which are unique to Mexico. In fact, the people of the world are still relatively unfamiliar with Mexican cuisine, in fact, Mexican cuisine is one of the five major cuisines in the world, which shows its status in the eyes of professional gourmets.
Li Cheng didn't have time to answer, and after gobbling it up, he ate a decent dish for the first time, wrapped in a blanket, and Li Cheng said: "I'm sorry Captain Enrique, I'm so hungry that I didn't have time to answer your question, before that, can you use a satellite phone for me?" I'm going to tell my friend that I've been missing for 20 days! Li Cheng also has a sense of time, and every day he will draw a line on the mast, a total of 11 ways, plus 9 knife marks on Dragon Island, indicating that Li Cheng has been cut off from the outside world for 20 days.
Captain Enrique was taken aback by Li Cheng's words, this Asian young man actually drifted at sea for 20 days? How did you survive? A good crew member would be fine if he was adrift at sea for a week, and he was still in good spirits when he was rescued.
This is also the reason why Li Cheng has been drying turtle meat, so he still retains his physical strength.
Enrique took Li Cheng to the central control room, and Li Cheng dialed Mars's mobile phone.
"Hey, I'm Mars, what's the matter?" Mars's voice was a little lonely, very low, less awe-inspiring than before, like a sick bear, and said weakly.
Although Li Cheng didn't know why Mars was in a bad mood, he believed that during this time, Mars would definitely try his best to search for Li Cheng.
"Mars, I'm Lee." As soon as Li Cheng finished speaking, Mars on the other end of the phone instantly became agitated and said, "Cheng, where are you, I'll pick you up right away!" I've been looking for you for almost a month, where the hell have you gone? ”
The excited Mars couldn't wait to fly to Li Cheng's side immediately and give him a punch, these Mars used up all the power networks, and under the joint search and rescue of many countries, there was still no trace of Li Cheng, and a warship was dispatched!
Such a large formation, just to search for a person who fell into the water, is too exciting, after all, according to common sense, a person disappeared in the vast sea, and was still hung by a great white shark, the chance of survival is zero.
"I have a fishing boat called the Tenochit, and I expect to be in the Gulf of Mexico by noon, and my experience at sea will be talked about when we meet, and by the way, does my family know that I am missing in the Pacific Ocean?" The reason why Li Cheng made this satellite call was to unify his voice with Mars, after all, he had been missing for 20 days, and his family should have noticed it, and Mars must have made an excuse.
"Cheng, don't worry, I haven't dared to tell your family the truth, after all, I'm afraid that they will worry and lie that you are studying in South America to learn about the art of raising alpacas." Mars is smart, although the reason for visiting alpacas in South America is far-fetched, but it is in line with Li Cheng's identity as a rancher, after all, the grizzly bear ranch is so large, in addition to raising horses, it will definitely focus on raising another kind of economic livestock, alpacas are more characteristic animals in South America, so Mars is reasonable to use this as an excuse, and he did not show flaws.
It's been almost a month, and if there is no news of Li Cheng, then this lie will always be exposed one day.
"Mars, thank you for everything you've done for me, where are you now? As soon as I got ashore, I flew over. ”
"I'm in Vancouver."
"Okay, goodbye."
Li Cheng's waterproof backpack also has a temporary emergency bank card with about $10,000, enough to buy a ticket in Mexico and pay Enrique's rescue payment.
Later, the Tenochite began to fish, and Li Cheng talked to Enrique in the cabin about his experience at sea during this time, which made the experienced captain Enrique feel a lot of emotion and let out a lot of exclamations.
The two talked happily, in order to express gratitude, Li Cheng asked for the bank card number of Enriqued's account, and promised to remit a sum of money when he returned to the shore, about 5,000 US dollars, and the rest was used to buy clothes, air tickets and the like, fortunately, he still had a Canadian passport on him, so after making it clear that he was a missing person at sea, he successfully passed the customs and flew to Vancouver, Canada, to meet with Mars.
When they met 20 days later, the two were in different moods, during which Mars trembled and was asking about the search and rescue team every day, while Li Cheng lived a life without a meal at sea, and saw the dawn before dawn in a difficult situation.
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