The thundershower came and went quickly, and after half an hour, the rain stopped abruptly, and the sun shone brightly in an instant.

"The weather on this island is unpredictable, and it looks like we need to solve the problem of temporary accommodation as soon as possible." The uncle who told us to give up the dagger said earlier.

Big Bear glanced at him and said, "You are really an afterthought, how can you cut wood without a knife to build a house?" Is it all by hand? ”

The uncle smiled slightly, pulled out a backpack from behind him, patted it and said, "I have a baby here." ”

We patronized and picked up equipment on the beach before, and no one paid attention to when this uncle was carrying a bag, I looked at the uncle suspiciously, and thought to myself, Could it be that you are the reincarnation of a robot cat, and you can take out the presidential suite inside?

Uncle pulled open the backpack and pulled out two folding sapper shovels from it, and I almost jumped up in excitement when I saw the sapper shovel, which is much better than any short knife. This kind of sapper shovel is simply an artifact for survival in the wild, and different parts can play different functions, but how can this uncle have this thing?

The uncle looked at everyone, and triumphantly took out a bag of slender steel nails, two flints, and a simple drinking water filter from his bag, which seemed to be specially prepared for this shipwreck.

Da Xiong took the sapper shovel and looked at it carefully, and suddenly approached the uncle and frowned and said, "Old man, you didn't deliberately sink the cruise ship, right?" When you go out to play with these guys, where are you going to open up your territory? ”

The uncle smiled and said: "Laughing, some people in this world are afraid of taking planes, some people are afraid of making trains, and I am afraid of making ships, so every time I travel, I will prepare these things in case of accidents, which is the same as people who are afraid of taking planes to prepare their own parachutes." ”

I said, "But how did you get these things on board?" ”

The uncle sighed, the smug look on his face dissipated without a trace, replaced by loneliness and sadness, he said: "My son also works on this cruise ship, he is usually busy with work, so he helps me arrange cruise trips every once in a while, on the one hand, let me go out for a walk, on the other hand, I can see me more in my spare time." What I didn't expect was..."

Speaking of this, everyone fell silent again, and people seemed so small and powerless in the face of disaster.

Suddenly, an uncle fell to the ground with an ordinary sound, we were startled, and quickly gathered around to check the situation, a girl gave him a simple examination, and then shook her head and said that unless he could be sent to the hospital immediately for first aid, it was estimated that there was nothing he could do.

As soon as she said this, the other girl sat on the ground and began to cry, maybe she was afraid, maybe she was melancholy, but in short, her crying annihilated all the joy we had seen the sapper shovel before.

I discussed it with my uncle and the big bear, it is not okay to go on like this, everyone is now demoralized, emotionally unstable, and the body is even weaker, if you don't replenish food and water as soon as possible, and then there will be a heavy rain, I am afraid that everyone will really not have a chance to see the rescue fleet.

I asked the bear to carry a sapper shovel and then took the two girls to find food and water, while the uncle took the rest of the people to build a temporary shelter from local materials, and I carried the dead uncle to the beach to bury him.

After the division of labor is clear, we will act separately, I told the big bear to be careful, this island feels very big, I don't know what dangerous things will be on the island, especially some poisonous snakes, wild boars and the like, remember not to be reckless, the big bear patted his chest and said, "You put a hundred and twenty hearts, uncle, I will be hungry and almost starry eyes, those things meet me they are unlucky, not to mention poisonous snakes and wild boars, now the green dragon and white tiger are standing in front of me, I can also stew them in the pot." ”

I didn't bother to talk to him, and I was going to go to the beach with my deceased uncle on my back, when a girl named Su Yuliu suddenly stood up and wanted to go with me.

After arriving at the beach, Su Yuliu and I found two iron plates and dug a pit, and then spread a layer of leaves and a layer of torn clothes into the pit, which is a simple tomb.

The salty and wet sea breeze gently brushed my face, I looked at the wordless monument and then looked at the sea in the distance, and suddenly sighed in my heart, will I go with the wind, or will I bury my bones here?

Seeing that I didn't speak, Su Yuliu also stood beside me, she looked into the distance and asked me: "The so-called being able to be searched and rescued soon, is it just that you comforted everyone and made it up?" ”

I looked at her in surprise and said, "How can this be made up, this is what I deduced based on my professional knowledge, do you think, we have such a big cruise ship, so many tourists on it, suddenly wrecked at sea, can the country not send people to search and rescue." ”

Su Yuliu said: "Having said that, if the cruise ship was taken away from the established course before capsizing, and then finally sank completely to the bottom of the sea, it would be difficult for the search and rescue team to delineate the search and rescue scope, right?" And if we are no longer in the scope of theoretical search and rescue, does that mean that no one will ever find us? ”

I don't know what this girl means, how to discourage herself, what she said makes sense, but after all, it is also a more extreme situation, I usually burn incense and worship the Buddha, it shouldn't be too bad.

I said, "Don't think about it, if that's the case, it's fate, and we should be thinking about how to live now." ”

"Live?" Su Yuliu suddenly turned her head to look at me with rain, although this girl was a little embarrassed by the rain before, but she still couldn't hide her beauty, this sad and sad face made people look pitiful, she said: "My parents and sister are all gone, what's the point of me giving birth even if I survive?" As she spoke, she suddenly ran to the sea, and I quickly chased after her and dragged her, but this girl was also very stubborn, desperately trying to shake off my hand, I gritted my teeth and hugged her horizontally, and no matter how she tossed, forcibly took her away from the beach.

After returning to our temporary camp, Uncle Song had already set up a simple shed, with a layer of wide leaves on the top of the shed, a rain cloth underneath, and another layer of leaves underneath, supported by wooden stakes at the four corners, and leaves tied with rattan on three sides, leaving only one side to enter and exit.

In addition to me and Uncle Song, there are six girls on our side, among which Su Yuliu, Sun Yuxi, Zhou An'an, and Xue Ying are all young girls in their early twenties, Li Shanshan is slightly older than thirty-five, and there is also Hu Hongmei in her early forties, and finally there is an uncle who has not spoken and is estimated to be almost seventy.

Uncle Song said to me, "There is no way to do this for the time being, this kind of quick and simple shed is easy to collapse when it is too big, and there is no suitable wood on the seaside, if you want to build that kind of solid wooden house, you can only go to the depths of the island to find it, and it is not a day or two to build." ”

Hu Hongmei also said: "Anyway, we are temporarily sheltering from the rain, and we don't live here permanently, so it doesn't matter if we are crowded." ”

Soon they also returned, and he said that the bushes on the island were dense and the rattans were intertwined, and if it were not for the sappers to open the way, it would have been difficult to move an inch, and they had not walked far enough to be out of breath, and the water was not found, but some plantains were found to temporarily satisfy their hunger.

Our group hadn't eaten or drunk for more than ten hours, and the bunches of plantain that Big Bear had brought back were quickly swept away. But this is not the way to go, this little food is not enough to fill the stomach, and the most important thing is that it is difficult for us to last too long without fresh water.

I said to the people, "Whether we are going to stay here for a day or a few days, food and water are necessary, and this plantain is definitely not enough, so I'll go out and find it again." ”

As soon as I finished speaking, Uncle Song disagreed, he said: "It's getting late now, the terrain on the island is complicated, and you don't have lighting and navigation equipment, it's easy to get lost, even if you want to find it, it's tomorrow." ”

Big Bear also said: "That is, we only drove that little road during the day today, and you can't go far when you go out at night now, so don't toss around, maybe the rescue team will be able to find us tomorrow." ”

Everyone was hungry and thirsty, but no one wanted me to go out on an adventure, and everyone endured physical torture and crammed into a simple hut to toss and turn.

Uncle Song and I lit a fire in front of the shed, and the flames dancing in the wind were happily jumping up and down carefree, but our hearts were nowhere to put them.

This was the first day of the past, and we had put out SOS distress signals out of rocks on the beach, and made more than a dozen flags out of wood tied to tattered clothes, which should have been seen if a rescue team had arrived. And we are not far from the beach now, and if there are lights and whistles on the sea, we can see it at first, but we have done everything we can and waited, and there is still only the whistling sea breeze.