Chapter 18: Deepening
Tao Yuan is not a person who likes to peep, and he has no habit of meddling.
He's here, both out of deal with Robert and Rose, and out of curiosity.
Tao Yuan wanted to know who was behind this Peter, and from the fact that he found that Peter was not affected by the impact in the undercurrent and turbulent stream, he knew that there was something behind Peter that was helping him, otherwise there would be no way for Peter to be so seriously injured.
At the same time, he also wanted to find out whether Peter was Peter or not, and now, he began to wonder if he was wrong, if it was not Peter's body that fell into the sea under the cliff, then who would it be?
The pain on his body and his curiosity about unknown enemies made Tao Yuan feel as if he had returned to the past, and every cell in his body was full of vitality, which was his enjoyment.
Early morning.
Inside the Great Stone Cave.
Peter, who had been tossing around Vanessa for most of the night, had already gotten up, and it seemed that last night's "hard work" had no effect on him.
Belic is also an early riser, and he is sitting by the campfire, adding firewood to the fire.
"Hey, Bellic, I think we should sit down and have a meeting and decide how we're going to survive in the future, we need more than just food. ”
Peter sat across from Belich, the campfire dispelling the morning chill and making people sleepy again.
Belic didn't look up, continued to make the campfire, and asked:
"Do you have any ideas?"
Peter nodded, his expression became serious, and he said in a deep voice:
"After last night's incident, I feel a little ... How to say it, there is a kind of enlightenment, that is, we have to move, if we want to get food, if we want to live, we must go deep into the jungle, otherwise if we stay here, we will starve to death sooner or later. ”
Morning risers gather around the campfire to keep warm, and the island's early morning is as cold as a late autumn night in the north.
Belic slowly raised his head, looked at Peter, his expression was very serious, and said:
"Before talking about whether or not to enter the jungle, I would love to know why you chose to go deep into the jungle instead of coming back to wake us up after being attacked by Tao Yuan last night?"
It was an almost interrogative tone.
But Peter apparently didn't mind, and he spread his hands and said:
"This is where I became enlightened, last night I was preparing to take a bath on the side of the cave, and I saw Tao Yuan walking towards the beach with a somewhat blank expression, I found that his expression was a little wrong, so I called him, but I didn't expect Tao Yuan to turn his head and attack me like crazy without saying a word.
I was frightened, Tao Yuan's direction blocked the way back to the stone cave, and I had no choice but to retreat and burrow into the jungle. It was a tough chase, but I wasn't just lucky to survive.
Because, Tao Yuan is also a human being, he will also trip over the roots of the tree, and he will also be pricked by thorns, this is where I became enlightened, we all made preconceived mistakes. Whether it's Tao Yuan, or this island. ”
No one spoke, and they were all waiting for Peter's next words, which proved that they believed Peter's words.
Peter paused for a moment and continued:
"Since we came to this island, we have hinted in our hearts that the island is a dangerous place, because most of us were bloodstained when we were at the airport, and the people with the blood stains survived, which created a psychological implication for us that there were supernatural forces in this air crash, and it can be said that the real source of our people's fear comes from this.
Next, we saw the wreckage of Flight 9527, which made the supernatural hints in us stronger, and even began to believe.
From that moment on, we all forgot about science, really, about science.
When Tao Yuan showed his fast and powerful body and weird flying knife, we unexpectedly divided him into mysterious powers, thinking that he was invincible, so we began to fear him in our hearts, but yesterday's facts proved that he was just a person and had no superpowers.
Speaking of the black figure on the edge of the jungle, Tao Yuan said that the black figure was bleeding, but his knife could not penetrate the human body, and Dr. Adolf also explained to us why he couldn't wear it, so we classified the black figure as supernatural power, and even thought he was a ghost.
However, if we return to rationality and analyze it carefully, first of all, we don't know what kind of clothes the black figure is wearing, loose or tight, and we don't know whether the black shadow is fat or thin, if he is wearing loose clothes, and Tao Yuan's knife only penetrates the loose shoulder pads on its shoulders and scratches the muscles of the black shadow's big arm, then there is a reasonable explanation for everything?"
The person next to him nodded secretly, and Adolf even said:
"It makes sense, we are all a little preconceived, or we are all scared and lose our minds. ”
Peter nodded and smiled at Adolf, and continued:
"Therefore, there is no supernatural power at all, as long as we judge these things with scientific ideas and calm down, then we can live well. ”
Green rubbed his hands, squinted his sleepy eyes, and said:
"Then we don't have to move, so why go deep into the jungle? let's just live here, and then go to the jungle together every day to find food. ”
Many people have this kind of precarious thinking, because they believe that on the beach, they have a better chance of encountering passing ships and returning to civilization.
Peter looked around at the crowd, pointed out of the cave, and said:
"Do you see the survivors of Flight 9527 here, even the bones and graves?"
Everyone shook their heads, in fact, except for the accident at the beginning when they saw the wreckage of Flight 9527, they did not see any clues to the survivors of Flight 9527.
Peter said very seriously:
"That's it, it proves that the people of Flight 9527 chose to go deep into the jungle, and I personally think that they went into the jungle for two reasons.
The first is that the jungle is easier to get food and even better living conditions. Second, I think they might be looking for a way out.
It's not nonsense, we are in a corner of the world, we think this is an island, but no one sees the other side, what if it's just a peninsula?
I even wondered if the people of Flight 9527 had returned to the civilized world after being gone for the past few months, so I believe they must have been surrounded by reporters and interviewed with the smiles of the lucky and victorious on their faces. ”
This last sentence seems to be a joke, but it is also the most demagogic sentence.
Because this sentence gave this group of desperate people a glimmer of hope, and it was a very dramatic hope.
No one can expect a drowning person to be able to tell whether it is a straw or a rope at hand, they will hold on tightly anyway, and either they will sink or survive.
The camp began to get busy.
They agreed that going deep into the jungle and finding a way out of life was the only hope.
In the distance, Tao Yuan, who saw all this, said to himself:
"Is that what Peter was for......"