Chapter Ninety-Three: Hope Dashed
"Who?" Tan Hai asked.
"Open the door, it's me, it's a bit urgent." Guo Lighting's voice came from outside the door.
Tan Hai opened the door suspiciously.
At the moment when the door opened, a dagger was pressed against Tan Hai's throat, Guo Mingming and Zhang Jianjun squeezed in and closed the door.
"What are you doing here?" Tan Hai raised his hand and didn't dare to move.
"Alright, stop acting, we've all seen it!" Guo Lighting said.
"I don't understand what I see."
"We saw you stealing, do you want me to call everyone else?"
Tan Hai's eyes rolled, and he hurriedly begged for mercy: "Brother, don't, and you didn't come to us to report us, put the knife down, we have something to say." ”
Guo Mingming let go of Tan Hai, sat on the sofa with a golden knife, picked up an apple and took a bite.
"You guys really can, we're all starving to death, you still have fruit to eat, blatant theft of things from the boat, you are killing people, do you know?" Guo Mingming's eyes are not good, and there are words in his words.
"Brother, aren't our things yours yet?"
Tan Hai gave Wu Aile a look, and Wu Aile hurriedly opened the bedside table and took out a bag of snacks.
Zhang Jianjun only glanced at it and pushed Wu Aile away, and said viciously: "Are you fools when we are?" What about biscuits and water? ”
"Okay, good, take it out."
Facing the two strong men, Tan Hai could only admit that Wu Aile wanted to go to the bathroom to get something, but Zhang Jianjun pulled him back, stood unsteadily and fell to the ground.
It didn't take long for Zhang Jianjun to come out with two boxes, opened the box in public, saw the contents of the box, and the two of them immediately understood the true identity of Tan and Wu.
"Unexpectedly, you are actually professional, no wonder you go to the sea so fast." Zhang Jianjun picked up a gemstone watch, put it on his wrist, shook it, took it off and threw it into the box.
A trace of greed flashed in Guo Mingming's eyes, he went back and forth between Chen Yaodong and Huang Mao, for money, Huang Mao also gave him a bank card, but it was just a card, how much money was in it, and whether it could be taken out was unknown.
But the contents of the box are different, jewelry and cash, these are hard currency, and you can exchange a large sum of money wherever you go.
This was exactly what he needed.
Zhang Jianjun was also moved, he couldn't spend this box of things in his life, and the two of them looked at each other and understood each other's meaning.
Another box is filled with all kinds of food, biscuits, dried meat, canned food, neatly arranged in a dazzling array of beautiful products, and even a few bottles of high-end red wine.
"Two, how about we split five or five of the things here? We'll be friends from now on. Tan Hai hurriedly said.
"Five-five?" Zhang Jianjun smiled.
"Six-four, you six and we four."
Zhang Jianjun zipped up the box and said coldly: "I think it's okay to forget about June Fourth, you have two choices, either I will call the others and throw you into the sea to feed the fish, or I will close your mouths, as for these things, we will keep them for you." ”
The child makes the choice, and Zhang Jianjun wants it all.
"Okay, it's all yours."
Tan Hai and they don't have a choice at all, as long as he dares to say half a "no", he will be stabbed into a hornet's nest by these two people in minutes.
"That's right, don't talk nonsense, or you will know the consequences."
Zhang Jianjun made a gesture of wiping his throat, then pulled the box and left the room satisfied.
After going out, the two of them quickly returned to the room, looking at the two boxes in front of them, and the two of them couldn't hide their excitement.
"I think we're going to be okay together." Guo Lighting proposed.
"That's what I thought too."
In fact, Zhang Jianjun had this idea for a long time, when Zhou Shucheng built the boat, he thought about running away alone, so he kept staring at the boat on the deck, thinking about when to start, but he didn't expect to accidentally witness Tan Hai and their theft of food.
So he immediately called Guo Mingming to blackmail the two, they just wanted to grab some food and drink, but they didn't expect such a huge gain.
With these things, they had the capital to escape, and the two hit it off and immediately decided to wait until midnight to set off.
"There's a fire!"
Suddenly a shout sounded outside the cabin, Guo Mingming and Zhang Jianjun glanced at each other, put their things and hurriedly ran out.
I saw that the starboard side of the cruise ship was blazing, and the sky was lit up by the skyrocketing fire, the paint on the railing was burned, and the air was filled with an unpleasant smell of burning.
Guo Mingming was shocked, the fire was not on the cruise ship, but a small boat, he ran over quickly, and his heart was half cold after just one look.
It was the boat that caught fire, and at this moment the boat was already surrounded by flames, crackling and crackling, burning and disintegrating at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it could not be saved.
Next to Guo Mingming, a middle-aged man was holding an oil drum in his hand and looking at the boat with a smirk.
It was clear that he was the one who set the ship on fire.
The others were also alarmed and ran out.
"Bastard!"
Ye Haiyang held the man and beat him violently, and the others also joined the ranks of the group beating.
The fire reflected the sea red, and the boat burned to ashes under the gaze of everyone, and at this moment everyone's hearts were broken, and several women fell to their knees and wept bitterly on the spot.
The last hope was also lost.
Just now, everyone was still fantasizing about life after being rescued.
Unexpectedly, everything was gone in the blink of an eye.
The man's nose was broken, and his face was covered with blood, Ye Haiyang beat the man as if he was crazy, but the man not only did not beg for mercy, but laughed and was completely stunned.
Seeing this, the others pulled Ye Haiyang away, and the man was also pulled up, his face was covered in blood, and he couldn't stand on his feet when he staggered.
"Why? Why are you doing this? Ye Haiyang's roar echoed on the deck, and he stared at the man and wanted to eat it.
But the man was still smirking, looking at the situation and going insane.
"He's crazy, even if you're not crazy, what's the use of you like this? The ship has burned down. Hu Jun said disappointedly.
The boat burned down, the fire grew smaller and smaller, a wave came and the fire was extinguished, and after a few wisps of green smoke there was nothing left.
A day's hard work was wiped out in a matter of minutes.
"Water, water is gone." The man said with a smile.
Water?
Hu Jun turned around and ran into the kitchen, and as soon as he reached the door, he felt wet under his feet, and when he looked up, he saw that several wine barrels had all been smashed, and there was not a drop of precious fresh water leaking down the ground.
The anger burned to the top of Hu Jun's head in an instant, and he gritted his teeth and rushed out of the hall, pushed aside the others and grabbed the man, and pulled out the knife and stabbed the man in the thigh.
The knife avoided the artery and pierced the nerve, and the man screamed in pain.
"You're going to kill us all if you put all the water out, you madman!" Hu Jun twisted the hilt of his knife, his expression hideous like a demon.
The tip of the knife slashed through the nerves, and the man in pain let out a scream like killing a pig.
The scream was so terrible that the faces of the other people turned white, and you can imagine the feeling of a knife turning in the flesh, the pain that a group of people could not endure at all.
"Dr. Hu, what's wrong with you?" Zhou Shucheng asked.
Hu Jun sat on the ground with a sad face and said: "Water, he has drained all the water, we have no drop of water, everyone has to die, all have to die." ”
Everyone else was stunned.
If the boat is gone, it can be rebuilt, but when the water is gone, it is really gone.
Everyone was furious, and they pounced like a pack of hungry wolves, kicking like a ball.
At first, the man was still shouting, but in the end, there was no movement at all, and someone stepped forward to sniff only to find that the man was out of breath, and he was beaten to death by everyone.
The man didn't move, his clothes were in tatters, his whole body was covered with footprints, his face was covered in blood, his eyes were staring straight at the sky, and there seemed to be a smile on the corner of his mouth.
A big living person was beaten to death like this, but everyone didn't feel the slightest sense of guilt, and even some were still unsatisfied.
The man died.
Everyone was completely messed up, the boat was gone, and the water was gone.
If the boat is gone, you can still find a way, but what about the water, what to drink tomorrow?
In such weather, you will become dehydrated in less than a day, and you will die within three days.
Dozens of people on this boat will be dying of thirst.
One by one, like ants on a hot pot, they all gathered around Zhou Shucheng to ask for countermeasures, and now the only one everyone can trust is Zhou Shucheng.
Hu Jun sat on the ground in despair, trembling and wanting to cry without tears.
Zhou Shucheng's mentality is much better than others, he has repeatedly said that the area where the cruise ship is located is dense with storms, and it is only a matter of time before it rains, although there is not much fuel on the cruise ship, there are wooden furniture to build ships and even desalinate seawater.
From now on, everyone has to collect their urine, and no water that can be used is wasted.
Li Chaoyang silently returned to the room after listening, Zhou Shucheng said that desalination of seawater is a huge project, as far as their current conditions are not only inefficient but also require a lot of fuel, the fresh water produced simply cannot supply so many people.
After being trapped for so long, many people's emotions have been suppressed to the extreme, and they are crying for a while.
A man's today may be everyone's tomorrow, and if you are so sleepy all the time, your spirit will collapse sooner or later.
The night was destined to be unpeaceful, many people were sobbing, and the footsteps of death were getting closer and closer, and the scythe was raised high.
The harvest is about to begin.
Tong Fei and Han Xue sat on opposite sides of the bed, everyone was silent, and no one wanted to speak.
"I think we'll all die soon, it's so easy to desalinate the seawater, it's just lying to myself." Tong Fei couldn't help laughing at herself.
"You're afraid of death?" Li Chaoyang asked.
"Afraid? Of course I'm afraid, but I don't want to die of thirst, how long do you think we'll be able to survive without water? ”
"I feel that it is still okay for three or five days, collect all the urine, and drink urine when there is no water to drink."
It's not the first time that Li Chaoyang has drunk urine, although the urine is a little smelly, it can really be drunk, and pouring urine on clothes when the weather is too hot can also play a role in cooling down and relieving the heat.
In short, urine is a very precious resource, and not a drop can be wasted.
"Drink it, I'd rather die of thirst than urine, I think there must be another way."
At the thought of drinking her own urine, Tong Fei couldn't help but feel sick to her stomach.
"If you don't drink it, let's wait to die, we really don't have much time left."
It's not that Li Chaoyang is alarmist, in fact, it's right in front of everyone, and uncompromise is a dead end.