Chapter 36: The Last Drop of Fresh Water

At the moment when I realized that I could no longer talk about friendship and morality with the wild man, Dan Dan suddenly pounced on my side, threw the tiger girl to the ground, and the two rolled on the board of the boat for two full circles, until Dan Dan put his back heavily on the side of the ship in order to protect the tiger girl's head, and this sudden rebellion was not stopped.

But in hindsight, it may be mainly my reason to say that it is a rebellion, and frankly speaking, I really shouldn't have used a gun against Huya because of a woman in sackcloth, although I knew that the shot that was released from the sky was not loaded with lead bullets and was not pointed at her, and it would not cause harm at all, but after all, Huya did not understand all this, perhaps, in her consciousness, the handcuff in my hand or the bird gun left behind by the indigenous tribe before was a punishment whip in the hands of the gods, as long as she wielded it, she might take her life.

Watching Dandan hunch over in pain from the impact of his back on the board; Seeing the tiger girl lying on the ground like a dead man and not making a sound, just staring at the stars with her eyes, a huge sense of guilt rushed straight to my heart.

What did they do wrong? Since my appearance, they have been abandoned by the tribe, and they have rebelled against their relatives; The old sorcerers with kind faces who didn't know if their ancestors also fell in that rebellion, and more importantly, they saved my life many times, and now, I pulled out my gun against the two of them for a demon girl who couldn't be beaten with eight poles.

I crouched down and touched Huya's long hair, she didn't move and let me fiddle with it, the blood red in her eyes gradually faded, and she turned back into the calm and determined indigenous girl.

I handed her the handcuff, hoping that she would understand that there was no bullet in the gun, and I just intimidated her, but unexpectedly, when she saw my actions, as if her mind had been cleared, she returned to the way we had when we first boarded the ship together, and fell down humbly, no longer the blood-soaked pupils that wanted to eat me alive.

Until I helped Dan Dan and lay back on the dry board, said sorry to him, and comforted him to sleep, Huya still kept her head down and didn't dare to look at me more.

I walked to her side, put the handcuff flat under her, pulled the trigger, and the sound of a firing pin frightened the tiger girl hurriedly curled up, thinking that I was going to kill her, but found that the white smoke that frightened her did not appear, so I knelt down again to probe my brain again, look at the gun, and look at me again, I pulled the trigger again, and there was a "click", this time her fear seemed to be much less, although she still retreated a little in horror, until I took out the gunpowder and loaded it into the perforation, and then loaded the lead bullet into it, Then she stuck out her tongue and rolled her eyes and made a gesture with her hand to wipe her neck, she seemed to understand what I meant, but she didn't seem to understand, she just hid timidly in the corner of the boat, and never looked up, and kept saying "Sanna, Sama" in her mouth, I didn't understand what Sama was, maybe forgiveness, or her original name.

This night, like this, I tried many ways to comfort the tiger girl, but to no avail, she did not even give me a chance to apologize, just stared at the handcuff in my hand and kept shaking, and finally, by the night, I had to crouch down and raise the handcuff like a trick into the sea, while the other hand turned it around and hid it in an empty earthen pot, only to hear the sound of the sea.

When the tiger girl heard the voice, she suddenly raised her head and looked into the water, and then saw that my hands were empty, and suddenly rubbed her forehead against my toes like a kitten, and this farce was over.

As soon as the morning dawned, I found that our situation did not seem to be getting any better, and was getting worse and worse, until noon, as the tiger girl returned to normal, and kept roaring at the balls, perhaps, the land they had calculated did not appear, or or, according to the calculation method of the two of them, there should have been a piece of land here, but now there was nothing more than the vast ocean within our sight.

Our jug was also completely bottomed out, and in the end, I fed the few remaining mouthfuls of water in the jar to Huya, and gave another small part to Dandan, and the remaining few stubs were also dipped in my fingers and fed to the still blindfolded enchantress, this time, Huya did not stop me, but stood within one step of me and was ready to deal with any disadvantage of the enchantress to me at any time.

But in fact, I am also very thirsty, human beings have a basic desire to survive, such as being so hungry that they can't stand it, they will lower their food selection standards and eat some foods that I usually don't even dare to think of, such as the coconut meat that tastes like candles and some grass roots that I ate when I first landed on a desert island. But after all, I am the only one of these two people who has a civilized foundation, and the word "equality" is at least very important to me, since they have given everything to me, then what I do, I must treat any of them equally, including myself, so yesterday I drank a lot of water, today, naturally, they will be dense, this is my bottom line and creed.

The enchantress licked the remaining watermark on her lips with her tongue, but she no longer roared like yesterday, obviously, due to the language exchange between her and Huya and Dandan, she naturally understood that we were now in a situation where we were full of water, and at this time she could still get a few drops of water to drink, which seemed to be a bit unexpected to her.

Sitting back in the shade on the board, hiding from the direct sun overhead, I decided not to plug the witch's mouth with a cloth, she can scold if she wants, threaten if she wants, anyway, now tied like a silkworm chrysalis, I really don't worry that she can take the lives of a few of us in the air, but since they are all one death, why not let the four people on this ship, whether they are friends or enemies, die more happily?

On the other hand, Dandan's eyes were full of an elusive look, as if he couldn't understand why I would give up the water to them, and the tiger girl's roar at him was like a heavy punch on cotton, and he looked like a floating cloud, just shaking the oars as hard as he could, and his skin was sunburned by the hot sun, which was particularly dazzling.

I know very well that in such a sea, if God can't arrange a heavy rain, then, within a few hours, we will be dehydrated by the scorching sun, and then we will either drink our own metabolites, or we can only use seawater to quench our thirst, seawater is not drinkable, I believe this truth even the two natives in front of us understand! It's just that they may not understand that the high concentration of salt in the sea water will only take away more water from the body, which will lead to a tragic cycle of thirst and thirst for more and more drink, which is like the human body is deficient in carbon, but it is a truth that it cannot hold the honeycomb coal with high concentration of carbon to eat.

Of course, the first person who can't stand it is naturally a demon girl who is wrapped like a zongzi, before sunset, her lips have turned up layers of white skin, her body is constantly squirming, and her head wrapped in several layers of cloth slammed into the board of the ship under her, and finally, she hummed a few words in her mouth that couldn't stand the torment, and the words had a trill, and it was like the chanting of a poet in the Middle Ages of mankind, and the voice was very feminine magnetic, like a spell.

I began to regret that I suspected that the beautiful voice might have been a kind of spiritualism, after all, she was a woman with a "past" of dementors, but this time the voice was not distracting, but only pleasant to my ears.

However, without waiting for the demon girl to say a few words, the tiger girl "fluttered" and stood up from the board, I thought that she would either kick the demon girl again or simply kill her, but she did not do this, but unexpectedly untied the cloth strips on the demon girl's body one by one!

This shocked me, could it be that the beautiful tone was another spell, and the tiger girl was falling into her way again, as I had done before?

I wanted to stand up, but my body was a little not very bright, my throat seemed to be smoking, so I couldn't even speak, the tiger girl's movements were surprisingly fast, just a dozen seconds, the restraints on the woman's body thought to be a thing of the past, shook off the tiger girl beside her, trembled and wanted to sit up, but fell down again.

But her royal blue eyes only slightly adjusted to the light, and she stared straight at me, without blinking, as if to pronounce my death!