Chapter 13 Polar Survival
At this time, the whole sea has returned to calm. Although it was a hasty incident, the people who were eligible to sit on that transport ship, except for Xiao Xiaoxiao's unexpected appearance, were all professional soldiers with the most rigorous training.
Several participating teams, with their own captains as the core, regrouped. Each team more or less found a few pieces of wreckage that could float on the water, although the buoyancy of these things was limited, but they stretched out their right hand to grab the floating object, floated on their backs, and then gently patted the water with their left hand, with this action, it was enough for them to maintain normal breathing in a near-resting way.
What each vice-captain is doing now is counting how much fresh water and food there is on the team members, and what equipment or instruments are not lost; The captain has already begun to assign tasks to the team members, among them, some of them are responsible for collecting fresh water, some are responsible for collecting food, and among them, one person has been assigned to observe the sea breeze, waves, and weather changes, and look for possible land or islands.
The members of the special forces are by no means weak, and without the weight of their weapons, they can swim directly in the sea with their bare hands, at least at a distance of 10,000 meters. The biggest reason that made several captains feel like they were on the verge of being a big enemy was that if they remembered correctly, they were now in a position at least sixty kilometers away from the island where they were participating in survival training!
Even on land, it takes more than ten hours to hike alone, and it takes at least two days to conquer such a long distance by swimming in the sea. When everything was arranged, the eight team captains glanced at each other, and they all clearly understood that the most brutal elimination had begun. From this point on, they are not only competitors, but also partners who must fight side by side with each other, otherwise, in this unpredictable, unpredictable sea full of unknown dangers and variables, none of them will be able to reach the end smoothly!
It is a peculiar relationship of competition and coexistence.
Xiao Xiaoxiao lay on the metal box, with a comfortable face, no one thought that this bastard was still in the box, preparing a portable high-pressure gas pipe, he used this gas pipe to inject pressure into the gas tank in the box, and then use the air pressure propulsion to make the metal box, like a jet boat, penetrate the sea.
But soon, Xiao Xiaoxiao got bored, he lay on the box, watched the other people's swimming movements, and finally couldn't help but ask Fengyinglou: "You are not from the synchronized swimming team, why do you keep changing your swimming style?" ”
Kazekage was swimming slowly in the manner of a dog, and when he heard Xiao Xiaoxiao's question, he replied, "We have to swim a long distance, and in this case, we must maintain the necessary physical strength." The kind of movement I use now is the slowest swimming, but it saves physical strength. We don't have a lifebuoy, and in this case, with the same movement, swimming for a long time, it is likely that the muscles will twitch due to excessive muscle tension. Therefore, all of our team members will take turns to change to backstroke, as long as they stretch out one hand and grab the float around everyone, they will be carried forward by everyone, and take the opportunity to relax the muscles of the whole body. And the team members who do not have their turn can also use the side stroke, so that only one arm is needed to paddle, and you can also let your arms get alternate rest......"
The Wind Shadow Building was endless, as if the instructor was giving a lecture to the students, and it was suddenly interrupted. Xiao Xiaoxiao lay on the metal box with a confused face, and said in a voice so loud that it could almost deaf others: "What are you saying, I can't hear it, can you be louder?" ”
In order to save physical strength, he had to use the way of dog planing, and he swam forward in the water a little bit, and this time the answer was quite simple, he raised his right thumb upside down, and gestured to Xiao Xiaoxiao, "Copy!" ”
Xiaoxiao's reaction was not slow, he raised his middle finger and said loudly: "!" ”
After arguing with Fengyinglou, Xiaoxiao Xiaoxiao put his attention on the team of Fengyinglou, two girls who were in charge of outreach work, and they didn't need to participate in this kind of inhuman assessment with them. "Two beauties, do you want to come and catch my hovercraft, as long as you call me a good brother, we can take turns to lie on it and rest."
Knowing that the small ears of laughter are not easy to use now, Xu Tingting smiled, first with a big mouth, and said "thank you" to the smile, and then she suddenly used the speed of speech like a machine gun to shoot her face and hit a series of attacks that were absolutely unrelated to the lady: "You Saiaron who was swept by a car, a mutant of the frog prince, a handsome guy with Martian DNA, a straw rope on his head and a belt around his waist, and a shirtless tie, and he thinks he is an undefeated fool in the East......"
Everyone around looked at the "tongue war" that was taking place on this side with shocked and funny eyes, and they had been scolded so much that they were scolded, and Xiao Xiaoxiao still had a bright smile, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, help the beauties, love the flowers of the motherland, this is the philosophy that I Xiao Xiaoxiao has been trying to defend all my life!" ”
Chen Yan is still more honest and what she said is more pertinent: "Sister Tingting, we don't have a kettle on us, and you don't want to waste saliva because of quarrels and increase the burden on Brother Fengyinglou, right?" ”
Xu Tingting immediately closed her mouth. At this moment, the voice of the Wind Shadow House suddenly came from their ears: "Grab the box immediately!" ”
"You should clearly know that your physical strength is impossible to support to the end, since you have chosen this most difficult walk, don't think about quitting halfway, let alone thinking about the helicopter hovering above us!"
Fengying Lou looked at Xu Tingting and Chen Yan deeply, "If this is a real battlefield, we won't have reinforcements, let alone helicopters, if you want to survive, you must face up to your shortcomings and find a way to make up for it." If you can't do even a bit, quit my team immediately! ”
In the end, the Wind Shadow Building is already full of voice. Xu Tingting and Chen Yan both bit their lips, and in the end, they still smiled and waved triumphantly, swam over and grabbed the box tightly, and slowly floated forward under its drive.
As time passed, their group of more than 100 people finally slowly showed the characteristics of China's best special forces.
Almost no one touches the kettle next to them, and the water in it is life-saving. After a few hours of swimming, everyone was already hungry, and no one was going to eat the food they had brought with them, not because they didn't want to eat it, but because they clearly understood that when drinking water was scarce, they should never eat compressed biscuits, which were too dry food.
Looking at the participating team of Fengyinglou, after catching a fish weighing four or five catties in the sea, they only dug out the fish's eyes and the flesh mass of the vertebrae, and threw the whole fish back into the sea, Xiaoxiao couldn't help but widen his eyes. He blurted out, "What does it mean that there are ready-made fish and meat that you don't eat?" ”
Lying on the metal box, temporarily out of the seawater, Xu Tingting, who can finally stretch her body and aches, can now be said to be soft in eating people's mouths and short in people's hands, although she threw Xiao Xiaoxiao a white eyeball, but for the sake of his current soaking in the sea water, he still lay on Xiao Xiaoxiao's ear, and reluctantly explained: "The eyes of the fish, as well as the spine parts, have watery liquids, these liquids are not only edible, because there is no salt, but also can quench thirst, in the case of water must be saved, This is one of the most effective ways to survive at sea surface. ”
"But......" Xiao Xiaoxiao stretched out his hand to point to the fish that had been gouged out of his eyes and vertebrae, floating on the surface of the sea, but no one paid attention to it, and said, "Is it necessary to waste such a big fish, besides, the fish is full of liquid, where can't you take two bites?" ”
Xu Tingting stretched out her hand and knocked Xiaoxiao's head, and raised her voice: "Miss Ben only explained once, you, a scout auditor, give me a straight ear to listen, only the eyes of the fish, and the liquid in the vertebrae, which is closest to fresh water, and the liquid in other parts contains a lot of protein and fat, digesting these liquids will accelerate the loss of water in the body, from the perspective of nutrient intake and water loss in the body, the final result is that the gains outweigh the losses!" ”
Xiao Xiaoxiao, a scout auditor, now looks at Xu Tingting's gaze, and can already be said to admire. He nodded again and again, but he picked up the big fish that had been taken out of his body and thrown back to the sea. "At first, I thought that this kind of sea fish, which I don't have any impression of, and the mixed pattern looks like it makes people feel frightened, and the flesh of the eyes and vertebrae can be eaten, and the rest of the parts are poisonous. Since it's just a matter of fresh water, it's easy to do, and we must not waste it. ”
Xu Tingting and Chen Yan looked at each other when they heard this, and before they could speak, Xiaoxiao, a guy who was like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, suddenly let out an exclamation again: "Look, some of them are eating seaweed!" ”
Seaweed, like common sense, does not only grow on the coast, and there are some floating organisms in the ocean far from the land-based base. Sargassum, for example, is found in the warm waters of oceans around the world. There are also some seaweeds below the low tide that cannot be exposed to sunlight for a long time, but can only grow in the deep sea, and cannot be found near the coastline.
Even if he is not a special soldier, Xiao Xiaoxiao clearly knows that these seaweed plants are so tough that they often chew for a long time, and there is no way to send them into the stomach, and there is too much salt on the surface, which is difficult to digest if they are not boiled. He really didn't understand why these people around him, knowing this, still worked hard to chew the seaweed, until the end, and then stuffed the pile of chewing toys into his stomach.
After thinking about it for a while, Xiao Xiaoxiao asked uncertainly: "You won't tell me that eating that kind of thing can replenish the water in your body, right?" ”
"Whoosh!"
Chen Yan was still nodding, Xu Tingting suddenly raised her hand, threw out a wooden block tied with a rope, and then pulled the rope back hard.
The lid of the mineral water bottle was twisted very tightly, so the note inside, which I don't know how long it had been in and how long it had been floating on the surface of the sea, was still dry. Xu Tingting twisted the cap of the bottle and took out the note inside.
This is a text message written on sticky note paper, and its owner, with dog-like broken words, wrote on it: "If you are a beauty, please be moved by our unexpected encounter." Don't you think that in a certain year, a certain month, and a certain day, in the vast ocean, I left a small drifting bottle, let it take my heart to seek true love, drift at will, until I was picked up by the lovely and beautiful you, is a kind of fate given to us by God? If we take this drifting bottle as a starting point and collide with the spark of love, isn't this a romantic story worth remembering for a lifetime? If you're a girl (that's a must), if you're a young girl (that's how it should be), if you're a young, pretty girl (preferably that's the case), contact me. ”
On this note, there is also a mobile phone number, a QQ number, plus an email address.
This is clearly a little boy who doesn't know which one is still dreaming, and he made it out of his hands, after reading this love letter that cast a net in a large area and focused on fishing, Xu Tingting twitched the corners of her mouth and said in a low voice: "Boring!" ”
"Don't! Other! Other! Xiao Xiaoxiao suddenly stretched out his hand and snatched the love letter from Xu Tingting's hand, his action was too large, and he almost lifted Xu Tingting directly off the "boat". I read this love letter carefully, and memorized all the mobile phone numbers and QQ numbers with my heart, until I was sure that I would not forget the two strings of numbers in another year and a half.
Looking at the weird smile on Xiaoxiao's face, the two girls couldn't help but shiver together. This guy, so desperately remembering each other's mobile phones and QQ numbers, wouldn't he want to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime "fate" to take the opportunity to flirt with a pure and cute little boy who is still dreaming of romantic and beautiful love, right?!
"Huh?" Xiao Xiao shouted: "Look, there are seabirds, there may be land nearby!" ”
Looking in the direction of Xiaoxiao's little finger, Xu Tingting and Chen Yan really saw a black and white waterfowl, skimming diagonally across the sea. It stands to reason that if there are seabirds, there must be islands nearby, or at least a coral reef.
"I'm going to you!" Xu Tingting looked disdainful, "Please, the captain of the ninth team, is it good to have a little common sense, that's a black tern!" Known as the marathon champion of the animal kingdom, this seabird is about to travel the world for four years after its birth, and it's not wrong to say that they call the world home. If you see a black tern, you can tell that if there is an island nearby, you might as well swim back now, and it will be easier to find land. ”
Xiao Xiaoxiao looked at Xu Tingting, the adoration on his face became more obvious, and he suddenly asked, "Sister, how old are you?" ”
Xu Tingting immediately became vigilant: "What do you want to do?" ”
"Forget it!" Xiao Xiaoxiao was soon discouraged, "I can live for another four years at most, but if you want to pursue a beautiful girl like you who has a heart and is strong enough, let you die for the original goal first, and after a dormant period, then discover my cuteness, and finally accept my feelings, it will take at least five years." This kind of poignant love that is destined to have no result, let's let it be nipped in the bud and continue to exist only in the trash TV series that is a Korean specialty! ”
After saying these words, Xiao Xiaoxiao glanced at Chen Yan again, "As for this Chen Yan sister beside you, she looks gentle and cute, but a person like her, once she identifies the target, she will be more determined and more difficult to chase, and if you want to carry her into the cave room, I think it will take at least eight years!" ”
Xu Tingting and Chen Yan said in unison: "I'm bah! ”
After saying a word, Xu Tingting and Chen Yan fell silent again.
Xiao Xiaoxiao does not have the teaching of the top masters of psychology in China, but his rich life experience and self-filling learning have allowed him to practice a pair of discerning eyes. He saw through the emotional entanglement between Fengyinglou, Xu Tingting and Chen Yan at a glance, and concluded at a glance that the two girls Xu Tingting and Chen Yan could only face an unrequited love, and even judged how young they would have to be before they could finally give up this doomed relationship and find their other half again.
This kind of person, even if he is not a special soldier, must not be underestimated on the battlefield where everything is done!
Xu Tingting finally began to face up to Xiao Xiaoxiao, "Hey, the three of us have no water, no food, and no other people have the ability to hunt in the sea, what should we do?" ”
At this moment, the Wind Shadow House let go of the float and swam to them, "There may be land like Coral Island ahead, you guys try to hold on a little longer." ”
Xu Tingting and Chen Yan nodded together, and after soaking in the sea water for nearly seven hours, they were indeed almost at the limit of their two girls. Seeing the smile next to him, Xiaoxiao's eyes widened again, and he knew without asking, this curious baby, who wanted to know what the Wind Shadow Building was on, could determine that there would be islands on this blue, almost invisible sea.
Xu Tingting leaned in Xiaoxiao's ear and said loudly: "Look at what is in front of us?" ”
Xiao Xiaoxiao replied quite frankly: "Hai! ”
"Nonsense!" Xu Tingting was angry and funny, "You can see carefully that in the direction of our three o'clock, the water under the clouds is green!" This natural phenomenon, known as 'lagoon light', is a special sight caused by the small water surface on the coral islands that reflect sunlight. ”
"Also, haven't you noticed that the flow of water around us has changed?"
Chen Yan finally spoke, "The high tide is also a specific manifestation of the upcoming land. If we encounter an island, the tide will change direction, the prevailing wind can make the tide stronger, but it will be weaker when blocked by the island, and now the sea breeze around us has not changed, but the tide and waves have become stronger, so we are already almost certain that an island formed by a coral reef is in the direction of the downwind, that is, directly in front of us. ”
Frankly speaking, Chen Yan's explanation, Xiao Xiaoxiao listened to it half-understood, but because of this, Chen Yan became extraordinarily tall in his eyes, and even when he looked at Chen Yan, there was a kind of hotness that made girls blush and hot. You must know that Xu Tingting and Chen Yan, although they have not officially entered the Fifth Special Force Elite Training School, but the two of them were specially transferred to assist Fengying Building, in a sense, it is enough to show that they have an amazing memory that is almost like a war dictionary, and they can work together to assist Fengying Building to insist on training at night outside of school.
Of course, Xiao Xiaoxiao didn't know this, but a few hours of getting along with each other was enough for him to understand that the two girls in front of him were definitely two treasure troves with rich contents, and he suddenly said: "When I get to the island in a while, I invite you two to drink hot fresh fish soup, how about it?" ”
Xu Tingting and Chen Yan shook their heads together, although they all knew that there was a solar cooker in this small metal box, but this kind of coral island is often not very large, unless it has just rained, otherwise, there will be no fresh water to drink on it. They would never think that their group would have the luxury of allowing anyone to consume a large amount of fresh water to cook any fresh fish soup.
After swimming on the surface for seven hours, the eight teams finally found their first island where they could stand. In fact, it is more appropriate to say that it is not so much an island as a pile of rubble standing in the middle of the sea. The part of it that can be exposed above the surface of the sea is only a few tens of square meters in size, and if you look down from a high place, the island is like a bowl filled with the sea water that rushes in at high tide. In this case, there are even fewer places on the entire island that can be settled, and there is no way for more than 100 members of the eight teams to land at all, so they can only take turns to go up in batches to rest.
A group of professionally trained soldiers with the most rigorous training sat on the island, quietly recovering their strength, but their eyes always involuntarily glanced at the small group composed of Xiao Xiaoxiao, Xu Tingting, and Chen Yan.
"Laughing little uncle, you are so good!"
Hearing Chen Yan's praise, although she was a little cold to the title of "uncle", Xiao Xiaoxiao still couldn't help but show an extremely proud expression. It's four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun on the sea is still quite blazing, find a fixed position, set up your own solar cooker, it only took ten minutes, Xiao Xiaoxiao boiled all the seawater in the three detachable kettles.
The water vapor rose in a curling manner, but it was all blocked by a wooden board, and finally it turned into water droplets helplessly, just along a cotton thread fixed on the wooden board by Xiao Xiaoxiao, and kept dripping down, and it happened to fall into the container that Xiao Xiao had prepared a long time ago.
Looking at the speed at which he collects fresh water, not to mention boiling fish soup, even if it is boiling the feet of three people, it is more than enough.
As special forces, when participating in field survival training, they, professional soldiers, have long been prepared to shed their skin even if they don't die, but today, Xiao Xiaoxiao has completely subverted their theories. Listening to the three people shouting there, when the fragrance of fresh fish soup, with the small island as the core, rose curlingly, as the sea breeze spread into the distance, more clearly and unmistakably into the noses of everyone present, these professional soldiers were really depressed.
Obviously there is no supply, obviously participating in the most demanding field survival training in China, and selecting the strongest team from it, going abroad to participate in the second "Blue Shield" world military competition.
However, thanks to the assistance of Xu Tingting and Chen Yan, the two wise women among women, otherwise Xiaoxiao would never have been able to smile so brightly at this time.
You know, they are now on Coral Island, and a considerable part of the fish that infest near Coral Island are highly toxic in their bodies. The most dramatic thing is that these fish, some of them are highly toxic all year round, some are poisonous in the body in certain months of the year, and when they eat it at other times, they will only feel that the meat is delicious, and there are some fish, the meat can be eaten, but if anyone is greedy and eats their internal organs, or fish eggs, then 100% will be poisoned and killed!
At the beginning, Xiao Xiaoxiao also caught a few fish with confidence, if Xu Tingting hadn't found it earlier, he would have thrown these fish directly into the soup pot without hesitation. The biggest reason for Xiao Xiaoxiao to make such a move is that he saw with his own eyes that a seabird flew low above the sea, caught the same fish directly, and sent it into his stomach.
Seabirds, the indigenous inhabitants of the sea, know better than humans which fish to eat and which not to touch. Fortunately, Xu Tingting found out early enough, otherwise, not only the three of them, it is estimated that even the seeded team of Fengying Building, which is the most promising to pass the qualifiers, will be directly pulled into the helicopter hovering above their heads because of Xiao Xiaoxiao's self-righteous judgment, and finally sent to the hospital for first aid.
"You pig's head!"
In front of the little smile, Xu Tingting jumped to her feet and threw out all the fish that the little laughing little ones had worked so hard to get out of the waterhole on the island more than 20 meters away. "It's okay for the bird to eat, you dare to eat, the bird can still bounce around on the high-voltage wires, why don't you just reach out and touch those tens of thousands of volts of high-voltage wires, and directly turn yourself into a charcoal?!"
In the face of Xu Tingting's fierce reprimand, the little classmate was ashamed, and lowered his head in confusion.
Chen Yan was more kind, and made a necessary explanation for Xiaoxiao's classmates: "Birds are extremely insensitive to poisonous surnames, and they have been preying on these poisonous fish for a long time, and they have considerable resistance. So, there are quite a few fish, seabirds that eat a little bit of nothing, we eat and will be seriously injured. For example, these fish you caught, their poison, have a water-soluble surname, no matter how we boil, it is impossible to ease the poison, once the poison surname enters the body, our lips, fingers, toes will be numb, and even the nerves will be wrong, touch the cold thing, feel hot, touch the hot thing feel cold. If it is not rescued in time, it can even lead to lifelong paralysis. ”
In order to let Xiao Xiaoxiao hear her explanation clearly, Chen Yan, like Xu Tingting, leaned into Xiao Xiaoxiao's ear and said. The warm breath hit the pinna of the laughing little one.
In the end, Xiaoxiao's face turned red.
(To be continued)