It took Xu Wenlong almost two hours to barely clean the water in the lifeboat. He silently climbed into the cabin, and looked at the oars that had lost their oars, as if a heavy boulder had been pressed against him, and he could barely breathe.

Yu Wenli quietly came to Xu Wenlong's side, put the only remaining canned food in the bag into his hand and said, "Eat, you must be hungry." Eat well and rest for the night, and leave everything for tomorrow. ”

Xu Wenlong shook his head, stuffed the can back into Yu Wenli's hand and said, "This is our last food, it is specially prepared for you, and I hope you don't use it until the last resort." ”

Yu Wenli listened, pouted and replied angrily, "What about you?" What do you do? Don't eat it anymore? Can't starve to death like this? Do you think I'm going to watch you starve to death while you eat this canned food alone? ”

"What ...... I," Xu Wenlong said as calmly as he could, "I can think of other ways." ”

"What's the solution? It's getting dark, what else do you want? ”

"Let's try our luck in the sea!" Xu Wenlong pulled out the dagger, gently raised it in front of Yu Wenli's eyes, and turned around and walked to the side of the boat.

"Don't, don't go, that ugly ......" Before Yu Wenli finished speaking, Xu Wenlong jumped into the sea with a "bang", leaving a circle of slowly spreading ripples, including Yu Wenli who was stunned and staring at the water in a daze.

Xu Wenlong took a breath and jumped into the sea, holding the dagger motionless and suspended in the water, quietly waiting for the sea fish passing by. It's back to the days when there were no hooks, but is he still so lucky? Can you catch a "blind" sea fish to satisfy your hunger in one fell swoop?

The sun was setting in the west, slowly sinking towards the sea. But the sunlight is still strong, and it still illuminates the dark underwater world, and objects can be easily identified within a few meters.

Xu Wenlong tried his best to keep his eyes open, paying close attention to the movements around him. However, as time passed quietly, the clear water was as calm as usual, and not even a single shrimp appeared. Seeing that the roar in his ears was getting louder and louder, and the feeling of pressure in his chest was getting stronger and stronger, Xu Wenlong had no choice but to bend his knees and jump forward.

"What's wrong? Did you catch it? Seeing Xu Wenlong out of the water, Yu Wenli in the boat couldn't wait to ask him.

Xu Wenlong shook off the sea water on his head, panting and replied to her: "No, nothing, not even a small fish." ”

"It must be that ferocious ugly monster still around here. Come on quickly, but don't let it gobble up. Yu Wenli said worriedly.

"If it dares to show up, I promise it will return the hook!" Xu Wenlong waved the dagger in his hand and replied with a resolute expression. He's not bragging, after all, the hook is life. Instead of starving to death, it's better to give it a go. Anyway, there are opportunities and dangers, what if it succeeds?

"But...... But it's big, it's fierce, and it's full of fangs, and you can't beat it. ”

"Wait and see, as long as it's still here!" Xu Wenlong gasped and plunged into the water again.

Yu Wenli was in a complicated mood and extremely contradictory. both hoped that Xu Wenlong would fight the "ugly eight monsters" bravely and recapture the fish rope and hook in his stomach; I was afraid that the "ugly monsters" would be too fierce and would devour Xu Wenlong in one bite. She lay silently in the cabin, with a trembling heart, and kept murmuring and praying......

Finally, there was a "bang" on the surface of the water, and Xu Wenlong came out of the sea again, still empty-handed.

Yu Wenli looked at Xu Wenlong, who looked tired, and couldn't help but beg him distressedly: "Let's come up, let's find a way tomorrow, I'm really worried about you......"

Where did Xu Wenlong listen, turned around and sank into the sea again......

Repeated like this five or six times, although Xu Wenlong had encountered a few palm-sized small fish underwater, they were too clever and flexible, and they were fast, and they disappeared without a trace like an arrow off the string in the blink of an eye, so that he didn't catch half of the fish, and consumed a lot of physical strength in vain. In addition, the sky is getting darker and darker, and the underwater vision is getting more and more blurred. Only then did he have to give up the futile toss, and climbed into the lifeboat with his head bowed and dejected, and without wiping the wet seawater, he sat in the cabin without saying a word, and looked straight at the night sky at the twilight.

Yu Wenli walked over silently, snuggled up on Xu Wenlong like a tame cat, raised her head and looked at him guiltily and said, "I'm sorry, it's all my fault." If only ......"

"Don't blame yourself anymore," Xu Wenlong shook his head, and said with a sigh in his mouth, "If you want to blame, you can only blame me!" Actually, I should have thought that there would be ferocious sea fish and sea beasts to rob us of our catch, so I should have banned you from fishing a long time ago. Also, if I had been a little calmer, calmer and fastened the oars before rescuing the lifeboat, it wouldn't have happened...... Such undesirable consequences. ”

"In short, everything is caused by me, everything is my fault!" Yu Wenli lowered her head, and begged Xu Wenlong sadly, "So, you can scold me a few words, and hit me a few times, as long as you don't feel too sad!" ”

Xu Wenlong smiled bitterly, patted her shoulder lightly and comforted, "What do you say?" How could I hit you and scold you? Forget it, don't think too much, you better rest early and let me be alone! ”

"But I'm ...... But what if I can't sleep? Yu Wenli glanced at Xu Wenlong timidly and gently rested her head on his legs.

Xu Wenlong opened his mouth, and finally swallowed back what he was about to say. Yes, in this situation where the house leaks and rains, and the snow is worse, who can do it like water? Who can sleep peacefully?

It was dark, foggy, and there was nothing to see all around. The stars came out, twinkling and twinkling, are they quietly whimpering and sobbing? The cool sea breeze blows gently, but why is there a bone-chilling coldness? And the faint waves, long and long, who is singing a tragic elegy?

Silence, silence, long, heart-wrenching......

Grunt, Xu Wenlong's stomach began to protest. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva hard, pushed Yu Wenli beside him with his hand, turned his head sideways and asked her gently, "Have you slept?" ”

"No, what about you?" Yu Wenli replied without raising her head. Her voice was subtle and weak, but not the slightest tiredness.

"Why don't you sleep yet? It's the middle of the night. ”

"I can't sleep, I'm worried and scared!"

"Sleep, there's nothing to worry about, there's no need to be afraid!"

Yu Wen moved her body now, leaned on Xu Wenlong in a different position, and said, "You're hungry, I hear your stomach singing." If you don't eat the beef in the can, anyway, things have come to this point, and we'll talk about it later. Hopefully, it will turn out like you said, there is no end to it! ”

"I'm not hungry. If you're hungry, just eat it, just save some food. Xu Wenlong took a long breath and silently cast his gaze on the far-reaching night sky, throwing his eyes on the miserable white and cold full moon.

"I'm not hungry either." Yu Wenli lowered her eyelids and replied in a voice that couldn't be softer.

The moon sets and the sun shines. The brilliant and colorful light does not bring people full of confidence and hope, but lingering haze and gloom.

Xu Wenlong looked at Yu Wenli, who was sleeping on her legs, took off her coat, gently put it under her head, moved her body and stood up quietly. He hadn't closed his eyes all night last night, and the strong sense of urgency, anxiety, and crisis was like a devil that gripped his heart, choked his throat, made him dizzy, suffocated him, made him haggard for a moment, and made him want to wave his fists and roar head-to-head. Why? Why is fate so unfair to me? Why don't you give me a chance to save my lover if I lose it? Why? Why is that? Xu Wenlong endured the hunger in his stomach and stood silently in the cabin and looked around. The white water is vast, the sea and the sky are blue, except for the lonely and stationary lifeboat under your feet, how can you see anything that protrudes from the water? Not even half of the birds in the sky could be found.

Do you just sit back and die of hunger and thirst? Is it really to the point where the mountains and rivers are exhausted and resigned to fate? Xu Wenlong frowned, his face was solemn, and he kept muttering repeatedly. Suddenly, his eyes froze, and his face suddenly showed a cold and resolute color. No, you can't sit still! Don't leave it to fate! You have to keep moving forward, you have to keep looking for your lover! Even if you are tired, hungry and thirsty, you must die on the way to save your lover! Thinking of this, Xu Wenlong couldn't help but perk up, and an infinite force immediately surged up in his body. He quickly took off his shirt, leaned over and jumped into the sea, pushed up the dinghy, paddled his lower limbs, and swam forward with hunger and thirst......

Bang-bang......-bang

Yu Wen Tongli, who was asleep, suddenly got up from the boat and looked around with a look of doubt and confusion. She was woken up by the strange commotion and desperate to know what was going on.

"Are you crazy? Get up early in the morning and push the boat! Have you eaten? Did you catch a fish? When Xu Wenlong was found pushing the dinghy hard in the sea, Yu Wenli couldn't help but shout.

"I didn't eat, I didn't catch fish!" Xu Wenlong kept paddling his legs and continued to swim forward.

Yu Wenli was anxious, waving her fists and shouting at Xu Wenlong in the sea: "Are you hungry crazy and hungry stupid?" Push the boat without eating. How far can you push? A hundred meters? A kilometer? Or 10,000 meters? What about pushing to 100,000 meters? Isn't it in vain that your physical strength is consumed? Doesn't it make you die faster and more simply? ”

"Even if I can only move forward by ten meters and twenty meters, I have to do my best!" Xu Wenlong glanced up at Yu Wenli, and his face showed a look of tenacious determination.

Yu Wenli looked at Xu Wenlong blankly, puffing out her eyes and speechless for a long time. After a long time, she leaned over and begged him with tears: "Come up, I beg you to come up, okay?" I know that you are concerned about Sister Shiqi and want to find her as soon as possible and rescue her as soon as possible. But is it useful for you to push a boat hungry like this? It can't be pushed far. In case of...... Isn't it a pitiful and unjust thing if a ship passes by here in a few days, and you die of exhaustion and starvation? Even if Sister Shiqi is here, she will resolutely not agree! ”

"What if the pirate base is not far ahead? What if there's a small island ahead? Didn't I die a more pitiful and unjust death? Xu Wenlong was unmoved, but his swimming speed slowed down a lot. After all, if you haven't eaten, drank, or slept all night, even if King Kong is not bad, there will be times when you are soft and tired.

Yu Wenli couldn't persuade her, her face sank, and she stood up and made a gesture to take off her clothes: "You can't get up?" If I don't come up again, I'll have to come down. Believe it or not, I'm going to strip naked and jump off now? ”

Xu Wenlong was shocked, and hurriedly stopped Yu Wenli and said: "Nonsense, don't mess around!" What are you doing down here? Is it fun? Give me a good stay on the boat so that I can maintain my limited physical ......"

Flutter, the figure flashed, and the water splashed. A head came out of the water from Xu Wenlong's side, flicking water droplets wildly and looking at him with a smile. Yu Wenli has a stubborn temperament, and she has always said that she is the same, and she resolutely plunged into the sea when she begged for no result. Of course, she still hasn't taken off her clothes, and she can't really take them off. Because at this time, when Xu Wenlong turned his back to her and concentrated on rowing, she thought that it didn't matter how crazy she wanted.

Xu Wenlong looked at Yu Wenli dumbfounded, and stammered for a long time before stammering: "You, you, you...... You're really jumping. Is it okay to settle down a little? Don't mess with me anymore, okay? Don't hurry up yet! ”

"If you want to go together, if you don't go up, I won't go up!" Yu Wenli spread her limbs and swam hard with the lifeboat.

"Why? Why do you have to be so rude? ”

"It's very simple," Yu Wenli said as she swam in the water, snorting and panting, "I don't want you to be exhausted to death early." I said we want to live together, and we want to die together. What if I am left alone? Isn't it more terrifying and painful to call the heavens and the earth to be inactive, to be lonely and helpless? ”

Xu Wenlong couldn't help Yu Wenli, so he had to stop swimming, sighed and said to her: "I just want to take advantage of the physical strength and the ability to swim, and try to rush as much as possible." Doesn't it make it difficult for me to mess around like this? That's it, you get into the lifeboat first, I'll stay in the water for a while and see if there are any fish." ”

"Of course you can catch fish, but you can't lie to me. Honestly, are you lying to me? Yu Wenli looked at Xu Wenlong with a suspicious expression and said, "But forget it, it doesn't matter if you lie to me, it's a big deal to jump down again." But I state to you in advance that I won't necessarily take off my clothes the second time, and this is not to scare you, let alone joke with you. ”

"Go up, stop playing with children's tempers." Xu Wenlong held Yu Wenli's waist with both hands, pushed her into the lifeboat with one move, then pulled out the dagger from his waist and turned around and sank into the sea.

The so-called early is better than the coincidence. As soon as Xu Wenlong sank into the water, he found a sea fish swam towards him with its head and tail. It seems to weigh more than ten pounds, which is the most suitable for ambush and capture. He secretly screamed "luck" in his mouth, and then clutched the dagger and hung motionless in the sea......

The sea fish wagged its tail to look east and west, sometimes seemed to want to stop, and sometimes twisted its body and swam for a while, completely looking like it was leisurely and leisurely visiting the big set.

Xu Wenlong paid close attention to the movements of the sea fish, and slowly raised his right hand holding the dagger. He wanted to use a special move to stab the sea fish into a rework and even stab it to death in one fell swoop, so that it would lose the ability to escape in an instant. Although it is very dangerous to do so, and it may attract a large number of ferocious sharks at any time, he can't care so much about it during the critical period.

It's close, it's closer, the distance between a person and a fish is less than five or six meters away, and the faces of the sea fish are even more clearly recognizable. With a wide mouth, sharp teeth, and a pair of eyes almost the size of a ping-pong ball, the appearance is really a bit terrifying.

Xu Wenlong endured the pounding heart, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the round belly of the sea fish. That's the best point of attack, no matter how fierce and violent the fish is, in front of the nitpicky dagger, it will only be disemboweled.

At this moment, as if sensing the danger, the fish suddenly stopped, and then with a swing of its tail, its body rushed away like an arrow off the string......

Xu Wenlong's face changed, and in a hurry, he kicked his legs, and chased after him with his arms......

As the saying goes, like a fish in water. Water is the life of fish, but also the world of fish, how can people who live on land catch up with the fish in the water? Therefore, in the blink of an eye, the fish that fled from the desert escaped into the curtain wall of water, and it was difficult to find any trace of it.

Seeing this, Xu Wenlong had to give up the futile pursuit and stand up and get out of the water.

Yu Wenli, who was lying anxiously in the lifeboat, sighed, stretched out a hand and said to Xu Wenlong: "Come up, I'll pull you up." Maybe you're tired of rowing and don't feel very flexible, so it's better to take a break. When you're well-refreshed, eat a little beef, and then it's not too late to go down and catch it. ”

Xu Wenlong gasped and replied: "Almost, I caught a big fish just a little bit, but unfortunately it ran away again." After speaking, he ignored Yu Wenli's strong persuasion, and dived into the sea again.

Yu Wenli silently looked at the ripples spreading around the sea, her hands were loosened, and her body fell weakly in the cabin. She usually takes off her wet clothes to dry and changes into a dry coat to wrap herself in when she goes to the sea. Now I may really feel the situation is not good, and I don't change my clothes, so I sit in the cabin with a wet and bumpy face.

Perhaps it is true to the proverb that "when the time comes, the rusty iron shines, and the gold fades". Although Xu Wenlong has the obsession of not catching the sea fish, he has bad luck and his ideas are too back, either the small fish are too clever to catch up, or the big fish is too alert to get close. As a result, I dived again and again, but there was no gain. In the end, she was really tired, and Yu Wenli kept blaming and threatening, so she had to climb into the lifeboat with a bitter face and a depressed face, and leaned on the side of the boat with her eyebrows twisted and lonely, as if she had done something wrong, she didn't even dare to look at Yu Wenli, and always avoided her gaze.

Yu Wenli is an elf and eccentric, so she naturally knows Xu Wenlong's mood at this moment. In order to break this embarrassing situation, so that he no longer has a heavy sense of guilt. She pursed her lips and grinned, moved her body and slowly came to Xu Wenlong, sat down next to him slowly, and then taught him in an adult tone: "If you can't catch a fish, you can't catch a fish, what's there to feel guilty about?" It's not your fault, it's the fish who are too ...... It's too cunning to fall into your trap at all. Don't we still have a can of beef? Now open it up and eat a little. It's a very, very critical time, and if you don't eat it, you may have to ...... It's time to return to the west. With that, she tugged across her backpack and reached for the tin.

Xu Wenlong didn't have the heart to joke with her, so he only stopped her lightly and said: "Beef is the only ration you have to store, and you must not use it until you have to." But if you're really hungry, you can open it up and eat a bit. But it's best to endure it until dusk before eating. Because there is so little meat, we don't know when we'll be able to get out of this predicament, and if we eat it all at once, there's no hope for it anymore. ”

Yu Wenli hesitated for a moment, and finally retracted her hand and said, "Okay, then let's eat it at dusk." But I want to make it clear to you that this is not my ration alone, but the two of us together. Isn't there a saying that they are all grasshoppers in the same boat, and they should share blessings and difficulties? ”

Xu Wenlong shook his head, and was silent for a long time before slowly replying: "I have better physical fitness, and I have received similar special training, so I am more thirsty and hungry than you." ”

Yu Wenli glanced at Xu Wenlong, and muttered, "Is it rare?" Have you ever begged for food? Do you know what it feels like to have an empty stomach after eating the last meal, or even several meals? No, but I do! ”

"Rest for a while, and stop thinking about useless things." Xu Wenlong sighed, his eyes glazed over the white sea in a daze.

Yu Wenli wanted to get angry, but when she saw Xu Wenlong's eyes full of sorrow, she thought about it and didn't want to worry about him anymore. She shifted slightly, silently leaning her head against him.