Chapter 2 Stranded wooden crates

I shuddered at the sound of this sound, and I climbed the tree in front of me in a few steps like a monkey, but everything around me seemed to fall into a deathly silence again, and the clicking sound did not sound again, but I was still so nervous that I did not even dare to move down from the tree.

But my body's need for water still made me return to the ground after more than an hour, and I was already extremely thirsty to go through such a few hours of poor tossing, thankfully, just a few dozen meters away from that big tree, there was some fresh water, or rather, stagnant water, but it always made me very happy.

Climb to the second branch of the big tree with a full stomach, which is not too high from the ground, about three meters, but it is relatively safe after all, as long as it is not Africa here, I don't think I will be washed so far, after all, the East China Sea is still separated from Africa by the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Malacca.

I tore open the box of cigarettes that I had been tormented by riding the wind and waves with me in my arms, rubbed some tobacco in my hand and swallowed it with my eyes closed, and broke a thicker branch in the branch of the tree "next door" for self-defense (looking at this branch after dawn felt like I was lying to myself), I was so tired that even if I fell asleep, anyone, who fell into my situation, I believe would sleep like a dead man like me.

I didn't know how long I slept until the harsh sunlight pierced my face through the leaves, and I knew that it was dawn, and it seemed to be noon when I looked at the sun's position.

Yesterday's sea breeze seems to have stopped, the weather is very good, the waves not far away lazily lapping the golden sand, raising your eyes to look into the distance, if it weren't for this accident, bringing a girl to run here is definitely a comfortable travel trip, and then look at the skin on your arm that felt strange yesterday, it seems to have lightened a lot, and it is no longer like yesterday that even the blood vessels can see the scary appearance, which reassures me a lot.

I listened carefully to my surroundings with my ears pricked up, and there were no other complex sounds except the chirping of seabirds and the sound of the wind blowing leaves, and most importantly, the clicking sound did not appear, although I did not know what it was, nor did I know where it came from, but the sound was so similar to the sound before the wreck that I was sure that I would never want to hear it again in my life, and that the one at sea was enough.

I was anxious, in the distance of the reef on the other side of the beach that I saw yesterday, I faintly found a wooden box that looked like half a container in size, too far away, I could only see a rough idea, and I couldn't even distinguish the color, but I felt that it was not small. What amazed me the most was that it floated back and forth between the reefs, and immediately aroused the desire in my heart, like a big girl sitting in a glass room waving to me in revealing clothes.

Hurriedly rolled down from the tree, looking around and there was no danger. Walking along the beach towards the box monster, I found that the reef where the big box was located was actually separated from the beach by a small bay, almost a mile away from where I am now.

This distance is equal to the distance between heaven and hell for me, and I looked at the big guy, and then at the hideous reefs that stood in a row, I had to sit helplessly on the beach, sit quietly for a while, and wait for the tide to reced, as long as the tide recedes, walk down the reef, and move more than a hundred steps, I will be able to see what is going on. Luckily, the box was full of cumin, chili lamb skewers and a cold draft beer...... Well, I know it's fantasy, being able to eat, drink, anything, it's much better than tobacco and mud puddles.

Suddenly, I couldn't help but feel sad in my heart, thinking about it, but I was able to do my duty yesterday, and take a good look at the quality of the Zheng He papier-mâché ship that killed a thousand knives before boarding the ship, and I don't know if those dozens of crew members can also find such a place to live like me, or have sacrificed themselves to the Sea Dragon King, or, will there be the same few people who have washed up on my beach?

I didn't dare to shout loudly, after all, the technology of beast sourcing is simply incomparable to us humans, so I had to look around a few more times, and I didn't see a human figure, some were just a hermit crab carrying a small house on its back moved a few steps at my feet, and didn't forget to stop and tease me and look at me for a while before crawling quickly behind me.

In this way, the tide has receded a lot, I still decided to take a look at the box monster first, in case it is food, then it will allow me to survive these few days, in China's territorial waters, even if it is the high seas, there will be no isolated islands, the evil capitalists have been very perfect for the development of marine tourism, especially these islands in the East China Sea, no more than three or five days, there must be a pleasure boat with a group of scantily dressed girls running up to dance awkwardly~

I took off my life jacket and pants and jumped into the water, the reason was that I didn't want to get the clothes that had just dried again, and it felt very uncomfortable to be wet (until later, I found out that clothes were really dispensable except for **), but when I swam to the near of the box monster, and then moved to the edge of it with a deep and shallow foot, I had a strong urge to scold the street.

The box was so big that from a distance it looked like an ordinary big box more than a meter square, but in reality, it was definitely half a container.

After several laps around the reef where it was stuck, I began to suspect that the box in front of me was a certain cabin of the Zheng He yesterday, or that it was not a suspicion, but it was a certainty, because the rough wood was made of such a similar material.

Was this guy responsible for that loud bang last night? But it's not right to think about it, the sound is coming from the depths of the island, not from this direction of the reef.

Today's shipbuilding technology has separated the cabins from each other, so that if a cabin suddenly and accidentally enters the water, it can be sealed and isolated with steel plates to prevent the water from spreading to other cabins or even the entire bottom of the ship and causing serious accidents, so that the cabin will float here alone after the sinking ship falls apart.

It's just that yesterday's paper-paste goods are completely foolish, and the isolation technology is simply a decoration, which led to the current tragedy of the turbine water ingress.

The wood and color of this big creature is exactly the same as the one used by Zheng He, but the difference is that all the planks seem to have been soaked for a long time, and the surface has even produced a very serious sea flooding, and some of the surface has even been attached to a thick layer of seaweed, which makes me wonder if I didn't just faint in the sea for a night, maybe a few days or more?

I went around the big box several times to find the entrance to the warehouse, and I was surprised and frustrated, and I was surprised to see through the little gap that had been damaged that there were many small wooden boxes piled up in the cabin like cargo, wrapped in thick plastic rainproof cloths, which must have worked for me, even those rainproof cloths, which were extremely useful to me; But frustratedly, the big heavy lock hanging at the entrance of the hatch, at this moment, this situation, who do you want me to ask for the key in the wilderness?

As a last resort, he soaked himself in the sea and swam back to the beach, retrieved the dagger from his clothes left on the shore, and went back several times to find a few sharp stones, and was already half tired and half dead, but fortunately the planks were rough and unseemly, and it took several hours to break open a boxboard, and then a second and a third, until I could squeeze myself into it, into what I would call heaven by one.

I didn't have time to check what these small boxes contained, so I used a dagger to pry open one of them, and found that it was actually Moutai, useful! I didn't bother to open the second one anymore, for I had to get as many as I could back to shore before the evening, after all, the Paradise Cabin, which I had opened the planks, could easily be filled with water, and God knows how much of what was contained here would be washed away.

So, as long as I can move it, it's all mine.

With such a possessive idea, I moved these small boxes to the edge of the reef and connected them in rows, and then cut the large plastic sheet into several strands of cloth and twisted them into plastic ropes to tie them up one by one, which really took me a lot of effort, and then I started to work as a courier, fortunately, using the buoyancy of the water, to find the gap of the reef, so that I would not be dragged to the beach very troublesomely, one, two, three times, this work is extremely difficult, but I know that this is the lifeblood of my life these days, I can't guarantee that there are any valuable things in these boxes, and when I go back, I will find someone to sell them privately, just the Moutai wine in those boxes can make 1.8 million yuan, right?

The sky began to darken again, and the clouds overhead were very light, and the red sun shone on these light clouds, colorful and splendid. And I looked at the cabin still piled up a lot of small wooden boxes, I really didn't have the strength and no interest to check anything again, busy with the little plastic sheet left to tie a few buckles to the hatch and then tie the knocked down plank, the rest, let it be fate, God blew such a big guy to this reef area and stranded, it will not be easy to take it back again, although I know this thought is my own comfort, but it doesn't matter, as long as I can survive these few days, the search and rescue people will always find me, right? My country will not let his people remain here as savages, although I am a little uncertain about that......

Back on the beach, looking at the four rows of dozens of small wooden boxes, my mood was slightly different from that at noon, when I was looking forward to the low tide, but now I am looking forward to the high tide, not the high tide, I really don't have the strength to move these boxes from the beach to the tree one by one, although it is only less than a hundred steps, which is too far.

I still couldn't wait to open a small box again, because I was hungry and a little unpresentable, after all, the amount of shredded tobacco was too small, I chewed three more in the afternoon, and the taste was ...... It's like chewing poplar leaves that have dried in autumn, and you can't swallow it in your mouth, and you can't give it up when you spit it out.

The tide came much faster than I expected, and though it was still calm, the speed was amazing, and in a moment I noticed that the row of boxes farthest away from me had loosened a little, but in fact I had committed idealistic thinking and had my head short-circuited with hunger, and had put the plastic rope on the row of boxes closest to me, ignoring the direction in which the tide was coming.

I hurriedly untied the rope and tied the rope, and as I watched the boxes in the third row begin to float, I could hear the sound of tears beating against my heart.

I hurriedly dragged a small row of boxes under the tree, and turned back, but I was disappointed to find that the third row of boxes had gradually moved away from me, and the only victories I had finally retained were the remaining rows and a few small boxes floating far from me, and even my life jacket and pants were washed away from me by the deadly sea.

This made me very, very sad, and I had to start thinking about what it would be like to come to the tour group in a few days, and as soon as I got ashore, I saw a man who was naked, wearing a strip, and had a full beard!

Sitting back under the tree, he opened the first box in front of him with a sad but panicked face.

Wine! , the second box, especially wine!

Could it be that the province is holding such an activity to go out to give gifts and condolences to the masses and foreign friends along the way?

It wasn't until I opened the sixth box that I felt a little better, or rather, a surprise, two shotguns and two beautifully packaged World War I craft pistols! Equipped with some lead bullets, but no gunpowder, I believe that this broken ship could not be loaded with gunpowder, which is contrary to the conventions of international law, but I was wrong, in this pile of boxes, I found gunpowder, moreover, it is still dry, which makes me ecstatic at the same time, and at the same time began to wonder what the purpose of this trip is for this papier-mâché ship.

In addition, I also found a small box worth a thousand gold, which was actually a kind of carpenter's hand tool made in imitation of the Ming Dynasty, judging from the packaging box, it is obviously also a gift, and two boxes of the crew's kind of blue uniforms and a box of the kind of silk made of Jiangsu and Zhejiang must be very expensive, I actually picked up one of them and compared it on the body, and then felt that this move was really two hundred and five to get home, too embarrassing, so I stuffed back the box, ready to wait for the return together with the wine to sell it privately.

In all the boxes, wine accounted for four-fifths, and the food was only a box of beef jerky, and seeing that the production date was last month, I couldn't wait to take a few into my mouth with my chapped lips that could squeeze out blood, but I couldn't swallow them, I was too thirsty.

I don't know if God did it intentionally or unintentionally, but in these boxes, there was not a drop of fresh water that I needed the most.....

But in the end, my harvest was very rich, and the dirty water of the puddle next to the tree had been drained by me, which made me have a stomach trouble several times today, and I had to walk deeper into the forest for a while to find fresh water again, but this time I was too afraid to drink, but sat there and waited for a long time, and found that a bird fluttered over and looked around and drank a few sips, and I drank it in one gulp.

It's obviously not a long-term way to go on like this, after all, I have to stay here for a few days, fresh water is what I need the most, I am wearing a blue uniform, riding on a tree with a shotgun in my arms, I have to find a water source, if it really exists, maybe, in the forest behind me, there will be a spring or stream that I want, but do I really want to go in?