Chapter 31: The Raft

The next morning, Heung-woo woke up to see Miya sitting on the edge of the container and shaking her feet, with an unhappy look on her face.

Miya saw that Xingyu woke up, and immediately complained with a flat mouth: "This container is not easy to sleep." The top surface is full of grooves, and when you turn over, you fall into the groove. Sleeping on it is like sleeping on a bench and not being able to roll over. Xingyu looked at Miya, who looked like a complaining and coquettish, and replied that he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh: "I haven't done it yet." Wait until you pull the lifeboat up, put it on the top surface, and then roll the cardboard box of mineral water into a sleepy and flat the groove under the lifeboat, so that it will not be difficult to sleep. After breakfast, Xingyu used the same method to tie the third 12-meter-long container together.

This time, Xingyu was already familiar with it, and it only took half a day to complete it. Although Miya slept comfortably on the top of the container last night, she still couldn't help the joy in her heart when she saw the 72-square-meter top surface of the three containers connected together.

After all, a lifeboat of only nine square meters is too small compared to the top surface of three containers. The happy Mia said to Xingyu on a whim: "This is not like an artificial island at all!" A flat piece, it's more like a raft. As long as Miya is happy, Xingyu doesn't care if it looks like an artificial island or a drifting raft, and hurriedly echoes: "The troughs do look like rafts." After Xingyu and Mia returned to the lifeboat to rest, Xingyu took out the instructions of the lifeboat and studied how to remove the lifeboat's air pressure bottle.

The air pressure bottle is too heavy, if the air pressure bottle is not removed. Xingyu was worried that with just the two of them, it would be impossible to pull the lifeboat to the top.

Moreover, if you do not remove the air pressure bottle located at the bottom of the boat, the lifeboat will be uneven after being placed on the top surface. Fortunately, it is not difficult to remove the pneumatic bottle.

The air pressure bottle is located in an independent space at the bottom of the lifeboat semicircle, and the air pressure bottle can be seen by opening the zipper from the bottom of the boat, and then the interface connecting the airlock to the air pressure bottle can be removed, and the air pressure bottle can be removed without affecting the air pressure of the lifeboat.

After reading the manual, Xingyu dived under the boat to remove the air pressure bottle. Xingyu, who has diving experience, quickly and successfully removed the barometric cylinder.

Then Xingyu returned to the lifeboat, took out the pump handle and installed the inlet pump handle interface. Heungwoo and Mia take turns shaking the handle to pump the water out of the bottom of the semi-circular boat.

Pumping is not difficult, but it takes time. It took Heungwoo and Mia two hours to pump out all the water from the bottom of the semi-dome, allowing the bottom of the semi-dome to shrink up and become a flat bottom.

Then Xingyu took out a long rope and tied one end to the lifeboat, and climbed onto the top of the container with the other end of the rope.

The two of them stood on top of the container and tried to pull the lifeboat up to the top, but the lifeboat was still heavy. No matter how hard they pulled, they couldn't pull the lifeboat off the surface.

Xingyu sat on the edge of the container in frustration and looked at the lifeboat to figure out a way. At this time, Miya suddenly thought of Xingyu's rope method of pulling two containers together, so she said to Xingyu: "Your method of pulling and sticking two containers seems to be also used to pull lifeboats!" When Xingyu heard Miya say this, he immediately thought of what to do.

Thinking of the method, Xingyu excitedly ran over and kissed Mia. Miya patted Xingyu shyly: "Color! Bullying me again! Xingyu first knotted a rope loop in the middle of the rope in his hand, and then tied the rope to the corner piece on the other side of the top surface.

Then take out a long rope and tie a rope loop in the middle as well. One end of the rope is tied to the lifeboat, and the other end is tied to another corner piece on the other side.

From above, the two ropes look like a V-shape. Then tie the loop between the two ropes together to change the rope from a V-shaped to a Y-shape.

Then take a short stick and thread it into the two rope loops, twist the rope, and the rope will be shortened by twisting.

This will allow you to slowly pull the lifeboat up to the top. However, there is a limit to the distance that can be shortened by wrapping the rope at a time.

So when the rope is twisted too tightly and twisted, it is necessary to take a rope and hang the lifeboat. Then shorten the two ropes and tie them up and continue to twist tightly.

After three twists, Xingyu finally pulled the lifeboat to the top. At this time, Xingyu didn't dare to rest, for fear that a strong wind would suddenly blow the lifeboat down, and then all his efforts would be wasted.

So Xingyu supported his tired body, pulled four ropes from the four rope loops of the lifeboat, and tied the plugging hole at the bottom of the container.

By the time this step was completed, Xingyu and Mia were also tired. But watching the raft slowly improve, although tired, it was worth it.

At this time, the sun is also approaching the sea level.