365.Water Source [Second Watch]
"The spring is in this direction!" I walked through the leafy forest with Kate, Charlie, and Locke, in the direction of the cave.
"How did you find this direction?" Kate pushed aside a vine in front of her, feeling strange that I was able to find clear water in such a difficult place.
"Shit luck!" I turned back to her.
Finally, after walking for about half an hour, we finally came to the cave I found last night.
"This is it!" I said to Kate and the three of them, who were looking around behind me.
"It's incredible." Charlie looked around the cave and said with emotion.
"yes!" Locke felt the same way.
"Guys, we should look through the luggage and maybe find something useful." Charlie looked at the wreckage of the plane and the luggage scattered on the ground.
"He has a point." Locke nodded, echoing as he surveyed his surroundings.
"Really?" Charlie was suspicious of Locke's complicity.
"Yes, that's right, give me your water bottle. Pay special attention to medical supplies, especially any medications. I nodded and spoke to Charlie.
"Drugs? Good! Charlie handed his backpack to Locke, who handed it to me, and Kate and Locke and I squatted down by the small pool, filling each bottle with water, while Charlie looked through the luggage and other things scattered on the ground by himself.
Charlie looked through a few suitcases, and saw that Kate and Locke and I were all facing away from him, so he stood up quietly and walked slowly to the outside of the cave.
Coming to a hidden place outside the cave, Charlie took out the small plastic in his trouser pocket, and was just about to open it, when Locke's voice came from behind, and the voice was very soft: "Don't move!" ”
"Look, I just want 。。。。。。" Charlie hurriedly put the small plastic bag in his hand back into his trouser pocket, and was about to explain, but was interrupted by Locke:
"Don't move!" Locke's expression was solemn, which made Charlie puzzled.
"What's going on?" Kate and I also walked over.
"Shh Locke made a silent gesture.
"He stepped on a honeycomb!" Locke finally whispered the reason for his nervousness.
"Oh my God, how can there be honeycombs on the ground? Aren't the honeycombs all in the trees? Charlie looked at his feet and saw that he was indeed standing on top of a honeycomb, and at the same time, he noticed a few bees "buzzing" near him.
"What should I do?" Kate and I got closer.
Locke's face was ugly: "When he moves, he will step through the honeycomb, and when the bees in the nest will pour out of the nest and attack us." ”
"Oh guys, I don't like bees! It's true, I'm so scared of bees, I'm allergic if I get stung. Charlie was also truly aware of his danger at this time.
You know, a single bee is not terrible, what is terrible is that bees have a deadly nature, that is, their extremely sensitive to the outside world swarm defense system, if they feel the danger of the existence, they will be like crazy out of the nest, at this time, whether it is a person or livestock, as long as it is a moving object, the raging swarm must attack. What's even more terrifying is that even if the victim has long been forced to retreat away from the hive, the bees will still chase after them and kill them all.
No one can resist this pervasive attack, and if a bee is stung dozens of times, it will lead to death.
"Alright, Charlie, don't speak. We've got to find something to seal the honeycomb. ”
Locke's words were to me and Kate.
"Cover it up?" Charlie's voice began to tremble.
"Yes, hurry up." Seeing that the situation was serious, Kate and I didn't say anything more, and turned back to the cave, hoping to find something there to cover the honeycomb. At this time, the bees that stopped on Charlie's body and face gradually increased. At this time, I immediately took off my military uniform, and at the exclamation of the crowd, I immediately pounced on the hive, I wrapped the hive, tied my clothes tightly, and threw it outside.
The crowd looked at me in horror, and Locke said, "You're crazy! ”
I smiled: "I'm not crazy, but in the face of unexpected situations, we must use unexpected means!" ”
"Thank you, Guan, that, you saved my life again!" Charlie said with his head bowed.
I looked at his hands still in his pockets, and I said, "Now in this dangerous place, you need to keep your head clear at all times, you know?" ”
Charlie was stunned, looked at me in surprise, he opened his mouth wide and said, "You, you know?" ”
"I've always known that, but don't worry, I'm not a police officer." I laughed.
At this time, Locke and Kate were a little confused, but we still chose to move on, and at this time, we suddenly inadvertently aimed behind Charlie, which was a groove in the rock above the waterhole, and there was a corpse in it, the corpse had rotted so badly that only a skeleton remained, but the clothes on the body were still intact.
Suddenly seeing this corpse, Charlie opened his eyes and mouth wide, startled. Seeing Charlie's strange appearance, I stopped and glanced behind me, but, after all, I was used to seeing dead people, and when I saw the corpse, I was not as scared as Charlie, but was just taken aback.
"Who is he? How did it end up here? ”
Seeing that I had walked over to the recess where the corpse was placed and examined the corpse, Kate asked me a little.
"There's no way to do an autopsy now, but his bones don't seem to have been traumatized, and look, there's another body here, and it looks like someone buried them here."
Lying on the edge of the groove, I found another corpse, both of which were placed in the groove in the rock wall, because of the proximity to the water source, the groove was full of plants, and it was not easy for people to find it if it were not for close observation, which is why I did not find these two bodies last time.
"Who?"
"I don't know!"
"Where did they come from?"
"Didn't you shoot and kill a polar bear last week?"
"Yes!"
"Where did that polar bear come from?"
I didn't answer Kate's question directly, but I asked her a question, and Kate certainly understood what I meant, so I didn't ask similar questions, because even if she asked me, I wouldn't be able to give her a reasonable explanation, but now we are sure that there is another group of people on this island besides our group, and these people are probably not from one of our planes, and they have guns.
"How long have these skeletons been here?"
"It's been a long time, it will take forty to fifty years for the clothes to decay to this extent."
As I answered Kate's question, I touched one of the corpses with my hand, and the clothes on it shattered at the touch. I touched the body with my hand again, found a small cloth bag, and poured out two small stones, one black and one white, the surface of the stone was very smooth, and under the light of the faint light from the patio, it shimmered with a different kind of brilliance and look, but I could not recognize what the material of these two small stones was.
"I'm starting to regret volunteering to carry water." Kate said to me with a smile.
"These caves are sheltered from the elements, and it would be a shame if they were only used as tombs. Adam and Eve must have lived here, their plane crashed or they were shipwrecked, so they were just like us and they ended up on this desert island and found this place, and they knew that they would survive in this cave. The infinite supply of clean water, the dense foliage that blocks the sunlight, also has a cooling effect, and the entrance is narrow, making it easier to resist predators. We don't have to carry the water to them, we have to take them to the water source, where we can live. With that, I stood up, slung my backpack on my back, glanced at Kate, and walked out of the cave.
Kate stood still and thought for a moment before following behind me, followed by the others.