ACT245: The sun is scorching

At noon, there was no wind, the sun was dazzling, and the temperature was scorching.

The yacht is full of weakness, and in the shade of the deck, many people lie on their backs, with iron buckets around them, and towels are placed on the edge of the barrels, and from time to time some people wet the towels, spread them out and cover their faces, enjoying a moment of coolness.

Song Jiu was also among them, shirtless, with chapped lips, and said weakly: "The old generation... Is there any rain today? ”

Dai Wei wiped his face, sat on the side of the ship, craned his neck to look at the blue sky, and muttered, "This way, this is the oceanic rainforest climate......

"Well, the climate is very contrasting, with high temperature, high humidity, and high salt...... I'll memorize it. Yang Xiaomeng chirped, rolled her eyes and muttered, "Is there or not?" ”

"Nope." Dai Wei shook his head with a wry smile and sighed, "It's typhoon season. ”

"I can't stand it, stop the boat, I have to go down and cool off." Song Jiu threw off the towel and stood up, staggering to the side of the boat, his eyes blackened.

"It's useless, it's all salt when you climb up, it's hotter." Sun Houji sat at the top of the stairs, holding his hat in his hand to fan the wind, and said with a smile: "Bear with me, just wait for dark." ”

"How far is it going? How many days has it been? Song Jiu actually said that, this sea area is not very peaceful, he has seen shark fins appear on the sea surface more than once, and he didn't dare to go into the water if he had the courage to do so.

"Today is the third day, tomorrow, at the latest tomorrow will be able to arrive at Taiping Island, go there to rest first, and then go to Fiery Cross Reef." The surveyors had to answer several times a day that it had been rainy for the days they had been away, that there had been a storm near the island, and that they had been praying on the way back that there would be no more rain, but it was a good thing, the rain was gone, and the drought was coming again.

"I'll just say the fishing boat, alas." Xiao Xu muttered a few words angrily, the fishing boat is equipped with air conditioning, and no matter how bad it is, there is an electric fan, so it will not be dry like this at all. The yacht environment is good, but the motor has burned out one, and the standby motor can only maintain the boat and water, if the central air conditioning is turned on, it will definitely not be loaded.

Song Jiu scolded in his heart, he didn't pay attention to him, and the sun was too poisonous, so he didn't have the strength to quarrel at all. There was a lot of food and drink prepared before the trip, but there were not many consumables such as vegetables and fruits, and the weather was hot, so everyone had a little bit of heat stroke. Cao Zheng and Dai Wei have never been to the South China Sea, and they are also ignorant of the oceanic tropical climate, and there are no doctors on board, so the problems caused by the climate can only be stubbornly topped, and there is no better solution.

In the same boat, looking up and not looking down, three days is not long or short, the separation between the two groups of people has loosened a little, although it is not good enough to call each other brothers, but at least they no longer look at each other, and occasionally they can chat a few words and joke. For example, Sun Jiji, he is a cold person, an acquaintance is hot, he was not very familiar with it before, and he can usually say a few words to Song Yao at most, but the temperature has risen suddenly in the past few days, and the cabin can't stay still.

"To be honest, the climate of the station is indeed not as good as your island, especially in summer, there are more hot days, and they are hot enough." Sun Houji sat up, scattered a circle of cigarettes to a few people around him, and said to himself: "Last year, we stopped a hospital ship at sea, and there were no living people on board, all walking corpses. The central staircase passage was locked, and the walking corpses couldn't get in, they were all dangling on the deck, and they didn't know how long they had been floating at sea. ”

Everyone lit cigarettes and listened to him bluff in vain, with no expression on their faces.

"We boarded the ship to search, and guess what?" The audience was not very enthusiastic, and Sun Jiji didn't care, and continued his story.

"It's definitely not good." Dai Wei laughed twice and sold face.

"Don't dare to hope for good things, and it's good if you can't touch something worse." Sun Houji laughed at himself, pulled the topic back to his own story, and smacked his lips: "We first cleaned up the walking corpses on the periphery, and then went on the ship to search in batches, at that time we had been patrolling the sea for two days, and the team members were tired and hungry, and their mental state was not very good. ”

"And then?"

"And ah... My lieutenant at the time was walking with me from the side of the ship to the stern, when he suddenly stopped leaving, and his face became a little strange, as if he had discovered something. Sun Jiji squeezed his eyes with a wicked smile, spit out a string of smoke rings, and said, "I asked him what was wrong, he sniffed around and said to me, 'Brother, it's so fragrant'." ”

"Heat stroke, right..."Xiao Xu squeaked lazily: "Delirious? ”

Sun Jiji was not in a hurry to reveal the answer, he looked quite happy, and instead of creating a suspenseful atmosphere, he pretended to be mysterious, but made it seem like he was telling something interesting: "I thought he was hot and confused, but when he said this, I also habitually sniffed it...... Hey, really, there's a real smell, a very familiar smell. ”

Everyone sitting around smiled knowingly, and guessed the answer in their hearts, but the stunned Qing Xiaoxu was still immersed in the suspenseful atmosphere that did not exist, and asked vigorously: "What?" Are there still survivors? Huh? Didn't you say that it was determined that there were no living people? ”

Facing the only audience who cheered, Sun Houji smiled gratefully, pondered for a while, and said: "We both felt that although the people on the ship were dead, the supplies and food should still be there, maybe what kind of food can be stored in storage?" So we followed the scent. The hospital ship was large, with two decks, and we went up the second floor from the gangway, and the scent was still there, and it was getting closer and closer, and it led us all the way to us. ”

"What? What? Xiao Xu's eyes widened, and his face was full of play.

"There's a helicopter landing pad on the aft deck on the second floor, it's empty, someone should have escaped before the walking corpse passed." Sun Houji sniffed, recalled the picture at the time, seemed to still have emotion, and said in a low voice: "But there are also unlucky, the plane took off, lowered the soft ladder to rescue, but the people below didn't have time, the soft ladder should have been caught by the walking corpse, so the people on the plane cut the soft ladder, left their own people and ran away." ”

"The people who were left behind died in the mouths of the corpses, and the soft ladder entangled a few walking corpses, and they were mixed with the fixed locks by mistake, and they were trapped until we boarded the ship."

"You know the helipad, right? Comrades in the open air, facing the sun. The fragrance we smelled was the walking corpses entangled by the soft ladder and trapped on the landing pad! Roasted alive! ”

Sun Houji shook off his burden with satisfaction, but except for Xiao Xu, who was full of surprise, the rest of the people present had a dull expression.

"Cooked, cooked?" Xiao Xu was dumbfounded, obviously shocked by the picture of his own brain.

Sun Jiji didn't care whether others were interested or not, and continued to describe it vividly: "It's cooked, the meat is cooked, but the walking corpse is not dead." I guess it was the people who boarded the ship who were infected with the virus, and the corpses were injured without care, which led to the tragedy. Most of those people were only wearing underwear, and it must have happened at night, and the whole skin and flesh were burnt, dry, black, and the fat was all baked...... Tsk, it's like a dry stir-fried beef, it's so fragrant! ”

The onlookers couldn't listen to it anymore, they hadn't seen the walking corpses roasted in the sun, but they had seen a lot of walking corpses that were engulfed in the fire, it was undeniable that there would indeed be a smell of barbecue at the scene, but it was mixed with the smell of blood and stench, how could everyone not associate the charred corpses with the dried beef.

Song Jiu couldn't help but feel a little chilly, grinned, and asked, "And then?" You two aren't going to eat the walking dead, are you? ”

The onlookers looked at each other, staring directly at Sun Houji, with the same question on his face, Xiao Xu, who had been too involved in the drama before, was already confused.

Sun Houji grinned, his eyes were a little dim, he was silent for a while, and then raised his head and said, "Do you know how my deputy died?" ”

"Won't it?" The onlookers were dumbfounded.

Sun Houji blinked his eyes, shook his head, and said: "At first, I was joking with him, but I didn't take it seriously, and medical equipment was found on the first deck, so I hurried back, and after the equipment was transferred, I found out that he didn't follow." ”

Xiao Xu swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and his face became a little ugly.

"We were on patrol for two days, and the supplies were already running out, and everyone was really hungry at that time, and it was also June, and it was a very hot summer, and many of the team members were suffering from heat stroke." Sun Houji flicked the cigarette butt and said with emotion: "He should also have suffered from heat stroke, and his mind is not very clear...... Of course, I also have a responsibility. ”

"I didn't care at the time, and I was about to count the number of people on the return trip, but I found that he still hadn't come back, so I was anxious, wondering if he was accidentally attacked by a walking corpse with a horn? We and the team members who came from the guard searched all over the ship, and we searched all over the cabin, but we found nothing. It was only then that I realized that something was wrong, and by the time I got back to the tarmac, it was too late. Sun Jiji exhaled deeply, his expression was a little distorted, and sighed: "I have seen the walking corpse eat people a lot, and I have heard of the living eating people, but it is really the first time I have seen a living person eat the walking corpse...... You can't imagine it. ”

Yang Xiaomeng sounded a little disgusted, and her mind couldn't help but think of those walking corpses in the mountain passage, how hungry you must be to eat those things. The story was boring at first, but in the end there were bright spots, but everyone could not applaud his narration, and the only gain was that the heat in his heart had subsided a lot.

Staying away from the walking dead is naturally a good thing, but everyone actually understands in their hearts that whether it is the place where the authorities are stationed or Jimbo's island, they are just places to escape from the walking dead, and from the perspective of distance, they are indeed getting farther and farther away from the walking dead, but in fact, the walking dead have never left, and the land is still the world of the walking dead, and the longer the time to hide, the slimmer the chance of returning to the land.

Clouds drifted from the sky at the right time, and from time to time the scorching sun cast a brief shade on the sea, and the deck grumbles quietly, and the idle people were quiet, in a daze, thoughtful.

Seeing that his little story made everyone fall silent, Sun Houji himself was a little embarrassed, and said: "Just say it casually, you just listen to it, don't think about it." ”

Song Jiu turned his face, his eyes happened to meet him, and after looking at him for a moment, Song Jiu asked aloud: "If this ship is floating on the sea like this, after the supplies are exhausted, will we kill each other and share food for our lives?" ”

Hearing this, everyone looked at Song Jiu, turned their eyes to Sun Houji, looked at each other, and did not answer.

There was a sound of pedaling and running at the staircase, and the acne girl ran onto the deck with an apron, looking at the group of idle people with a strange expression, and shouted, "What are you doing?" Time to eat! Shouting that you haven't responded for a long time, are you deaf or dumb? Hurry up, today Sister Jia cooks and makes you a dry fried fish piece. ”

Everyone was stunned, and sat in place, motionless.

"Huh? What do you mean? The acne girl was puzzled, looked left and right, and looked at Song Jiu: "Let's go." ”

"No, not hungry..."