Chapter 27: The Dead Body (I)
Heung-woo wasn't mad because he found a gun in the boat. On the contrary, they are secretly worried. The mess in the cabin, sex objects in the bedroom and a collection of firearms all indicate that there is something wrong with the people of this yacht. Xingyu climbed onto the yacht again, but there was no inflatable boat or lifeboat in the yacht. In most countries, the Maritime Administration will require the vessel to be equipped with escape equipment. Large boats should be equipped with lifeboats, small boats should be equipped with inflatable boats, and even mini boats should have life jackets. In addition, life jackets should be prepared for all personnel on board. However, Xingyu only found a life jacket on this yacht, but did not find an inflatable boat. This means that the people on the yacht have escaped, but it is not known whether the yacht ran aground during the tsunami or during yesterday's storm.
After Heungwoo and Mia returned to the lifeboat, they began to sort out the harvest this time. Space in the lifeboat is limited, so Heungwoo only leaves the ice bucket with the dough in the lifeboat. The other two ice buckets were tied to the rope loops of the lifeboat and led to float on the sea. Ammunition was left in the boat and kept on standby.
Ever since he met the yacht, Xingyu has been looking around for a long time. As a result, Mia quickly sensed Heungwoo's nervousness. Miya asked worriedly: "What's the matter, are the people who are afraid of yachts still floating on the sea?" Xingyu expressed his worries: "If the yacht is in an accident during the tsunami, then people may not be able to live." But if it had happened in the middle of yesterday's storm, it was probably near us. Looking at the situation in the yacht, I am afraid that there are only a limited number of good people. Although the two have been drifting on the sea since the tsunami, Miya did not feel bitter, and even Miya was very glad that she could still have this comfort after the disaster. So I heard Xingyu say that the people on the yacht may still be alive and may still be nearby. Mia secretly hopes not to meet anyone else. After the disaster, human nature will become very terrifying, and girls are more vulnerable in this situation. If you encounter a murderer, you will even be worse off than dead.
Unfortunately, Mia's wish did not come true. The next morning, I saw an inflatable boat drifting in the distance. The two who were fishing immediately ran back into the lifeboat. Xingyu immediately picked up a shotgun and lay down at the hatch to observe the floating inflatable boat. Miya took the pistol and lay on the door like Xingyu, but Xingyu immediately asked Miya to go down to the dinghy and row the dinghy to the other side. If something happens, Mia will run away alone, and leave herself alone. Mia refused to leave, and Xingyu had no choice but to let Miya stay in the middle of the boat.
The inflatable boat drifted closer and closer, and Xingyu could already clearly see that there were people on the boat. But the man was lying on the side of the boat, his front half of his body immersed in the sea, motionless. Xingyu knew that in the shipwreck, there were not many victims who were really thirsty to death. When the victim is hungry and crazy, he will lose his mind and attack the people around him. If there is no one around, the thirsty and crazy victims will lose their minds and throw themselves into the sea to drink the sea. When the sea water is drunk into the thirsty stomach, it is quickly absorbed, and finally the body absorbs too much salt and dies. So the victim drank seawater in a state of hunger and thirst, and died almost immediately. That's what Xingyu sees now.
But Xingyu is still not at ease, afraid that the person will pretend to be dead and have other plans. After all, the storm has not been three days now, and even if the other party does not bring water, it is impossible to be thirsty and crazy. Xingyu didn't dare to relax and kept staring at the inflatable boat, not daring to miss any details. Otherwise, you may hate the world. Under Xingyu's careful observation, Xingyu found that the section of air sacs that the person was lying on was at least half flattened compared to the others. The hull of this inflatable boat looks like a circle of airbags, but in fact, that circle of airbags is a multi-section airbag. If one airbag is broken, it will not affect the others. Now I see that the airbag where the person was lying on his stomach is flattened. Xingyu suspected in his heart that the other party was not dead at all, but stuck his head into the sea and used the air bag to breathe. Heung-woo couldn't see what was going on in the sea, and the inflatable boat floated up and down with the waves, and it was hard to notice that the airbag under the man was flattened. And when that person breathes, the bubbles that he spits out will also be dispersed by the waves. In this case, it is difficult to notice that the other party is playing dead. Fortunately, Xingyu has been observing carefully, and he can see the whole trick clearly from the slightly flattened airbag.
If the other party will do this, it must be ill-intentioned. When Heungwoo was about to aim and shoot, the other party suddenly moved. The other party's hand, holding a double-barreled fog bomb short gun, came out of the sea and shot at Xingyu in the hatch of the lifeboat. Fortunately, Xingyu kept staring at the other party, and as soon as he saw that the other party raised the double-barreled short gun, he immediately lay down and hid behind the boat under the hatch. Heung-woo heard a gunshot and felt a handful of bullets fly overhead and shoot into the lifeboat. Mia in the frightened boat screamed loudly. Heungwoo looked back and saw that Mia was not injured, but was just frightened. Xingyu immediately raised his shotgun and fired a shot from the direction where he remembered the murderer.
The thug on the inflatable boat is indeed the owner of the yacht. He was an exiled rebel in the Madai army, and after the failed military coup a few months earlier, he had been on the run at sea with the help of his comrades. On the day of the tsunami, when he heard the radio alarm, he drove the boat and pulled the accelerator to escape into the deep sea. More than a decade ago, the Maldives were hit by the South Asian tsunami. Therefore, the locals all know that when a tsunami occurs, they have to flee to the deep sea. Tsunamis pass through the bottom of the deep sea and rise to the surface at shallow waters. The owner of the yacht escaped the tsunami, but ran aground in a storm the day before yesterday and abandoned ship. He never understood why he ran aground in the deep sea. At that time, the yacht was in a storm, and suddenly there was a collision, and the yacht quickly tilted forward. He was so frightened that he thought the yacht was about to sink. Hurriedly opened the inflatable boat and grabbed a bottle of mineral water, and jumped into the sea and abandoned the ship. Later, it was found that the yacht was only tilted but never sunk. He wanted to row back to the yacht, but the wind and waves were too strong. The yacht drifted farther and farther away, and finally disappeared on the horizon. In the past three days, he has survived on a bottle of mineral water. He loves fog guns, plus identity issues. Therefore, it is safe to carry a fog bomb short gun with you all the time. The weather in the Maldives is hot, and the Maldai people usually wear a thin suit, and the military and police do not have body armor. A slight aim with a fog gun can knock a person into a sieve.
He had spotted each other earlier than Xingyu and Mia, but when he saw the ice bucket outside the lifeboat holding the ice bucket that had been on his yacht, he knew that they had been on his yacht. Although he didn't see the people in the lifeboat clearly, he didn't even see a few people on the other side. But he knew his own business, and the people in the lifeboat must have been wary of him, and it was more likely that he had already obtained the gun in the yacht. He noticed that the lifeboat was a civilian boat, so he wanted to pretend to be dead and uniformed the people who came to check it, and then control the lifeboat. But when his inflatable boat was very close to the lifeboat, the other party did not come to check. He was afraid that his trick would be discovered, and if the other party shot first, he would be finished. So he shot suddenly, and he didn't expect that the young man on the opposite side was agile and dodged the fog bomb shooting. Usually, after a person has escaped a gunshot, if he wants to stand up and shoot back, the first thing he will look at is the location of the attacker to find a target. So he immediately rolled to the stern of the boat, quickly slid into the sea, and hid behind the inflatable boat. He then raised his gun and aimed it at the door of the lifeboat and waited for the other party to stand up. Hearing the screams of a young girl from the other side, he was secretly happy. After dealing with the young man opposite, the girl can only let him do whatever he wants.