Chapter 21: The Island I
The heavy rain gave Xingyu and Mia plenty of fresh water. Enough shark meat for a week also allowed the two to temporarily get rid of food.
Fishing became a pastime for the two. The two are becoming more and more confident about surviving in the sea. It's just that they haven't been able to get rid of the harassment of the sharks, which makes the two very helpless.
The food is no longer tight, and Xingyu begins to switch to fishing to pass the time, which is very ordinary fishing, but in Miya's eyes, it is a novelty.
Others learn to fish first before learning lure fishing. Mia was the opposite. Fishing is simple for them, because fishing is mainly about what bait is used to lure what fish to bait.
But they only have fish, so they don't have a choice. One morning, after the two of them had breakfast, they were bored fishing when they saw a small black dot on the horizon.
The two, who were accustomed to seeing the vast sea, quickly noticed this black spot. As the current pushes the lifeboat forward, the dot slowly turns to the size of a mung bean, and then slowly the outline is clear.
The two of them could clearly see that there was a bald island in front of them. After Mia saw that it was the island, she jumped and cheered excitedly.
But Miya soon found that Xingyu was still indifferent. Mia asked curiously, "Why are you so unhappy when you see the island?" Xingyu replied calmly: "There are many kinds of islands!" Green Island, Sand Island, Stone Island and Bald Island. And it also depends on whether it is a residential island or an uninhabited island. It is obvious that there is a bald island in front of it, and usually the bald island is uninhabited, and there may not even be animals. After Miya listened, her excited heart was half cold.
But thinking about being adrift on the sea for so long, my heart is looking forward to stepping on the ground. Mia said coquettishly: "No matter! Let's go up and have a look! Xingyu, who couldn't resist Mia, had to start calculating the direction of the current.
Xingyu calculated the currents and found that they had to adjust their direction so that they would not pass by the bald islands. The two began to paddle the dinghy and pull the lifeboat to adjust its direction, pulling the lifeboat to a position where the current could wash ashore.
As the bald island gets closer and closer, the less Heungwoo understands the bald island in front of him. Bald islands are usually islands with no fresh water or no water source because plants cannot grow and there are no roots for plants to grasp the soil.
The dirt on the island is slowly washed down to the sea by the rain. If there is a large amount of rocks on the island, it evolves into a rocky island.
Otherwise, the bald island will be slowly smoothed out by the rain and waves. The bald islands in front of me turned out to be mud islands, most of which had no plants, and were leveled as early as ancient times.
Only a few green islands that were cut off from water in the later period died due to the loss of fresh water from plants, and evolved into new bald islands.
These new bald islands usually show signs of dead plants. However, there is no trace of any vegetation in the bald islands that appear in front of you.
This made Xingyu more and more unable to see through the island. Mia saw Xingyu looking at the island with a deep brow, and her intuition told Miya that Xingyu didn't like to stay on this bald island.
Miya comforted: "Let's just go up and have a look, just as a play!" When we've had enough, we'll leave. Xingyu replied with a wry smile: "It's okay, I just think this island is weird." Then Heung-woo told Mia what he was thinking.
Mia is optimistic that nature must make sense for it to exist, and that we are just passers-by, so don't think too deeply.
Heungwoo knows that Mia misses the feeling of being grounded. So I didn't say anything more. When the current washed them ashore, Mia excitedly ran along the shore until she was tired of running and then lay down on the dry shore to rest.
When the lifeboat was washed ashore, Heung-woo noticed that the shore was full of mud and there was no beach. As far as the eye can see, the whole island looks like a bare mound.
The island is all black dirt with very few boulders. Xingyu was faintly uneasy in his heart, everything on this island was outside his cognition.
But when Xingyu saw Miya running around happily, he decided not to care. Heungwoo knows that Miya is a strong girl, and since the tsunami, Heungwoo has not seen Miya cry.
Mia pressed her vulnerability deep inside, if not properly released. Slowly, things will go wrong.
So Xingyu decided to wait for Miya to have had enough, and then he thought it was to let Miya release her depression and release her mood.
Xingyu used a wooden stick to pull the lifeboat by driving a pile on the dry ground on the shore, so that the lifeboat, dinghy and refrigerator would not be swept away by the tide when the tide was low.
After doing it, Xingyu saw that Miya was already tired of running and lying on the ground. Heungwoo ran to Miya and sat down.
After Mia saw Heungwoo sit down, she moved her body and rested her head on Heungwoo's lap. Mia looked at the sky while enjoying the feeling of lying on the ground.
That night, Mia lay on the crook of Xingyu's arm, enjoying the feeling of the curtain sweeping the ground.
"I'll tell you! It's the first time I've slept on the floor outdoors for the night! Mia chattered happily that night.
Soon, Xingyu naturally turned sideways, holding Miya's waist with his hand and one foot resting on Miya's lap. Xingyu enjoyed the feeling of quietly hugging Mia and listening to Mia's words.
As she spoke, Mia suddenly exclaimed as if she had noticed something: "You really like to use me as a pillow!" ”