Chapter 11 Lifeboats (I)
"A white bucket. Why are you so excited? It can't be a mine, right? Miya looked at Xingyu who was so excited that he stood up. Of course not, don't be cranky. You go to sleep first, and I'll tell you what it is tomorrow morning. "It's too far away, in fact, Xingyu is not sure. Heungwoo is afraid that he will disappoint Miya by mistake. And the cute and beautiful little girl is probably also a crazy lord when she makes trouble. So it's safer not to tell her yet. When Mia heard that she was told to go to sleep first, she immediately understood that Xingyu meant that he didn't sleep: "Bastard! It's going to be dark, don't mess around. I will not sleep, but I will watch you, lest you do something stupid again. ”
Xingyu thought to himself, "You're afraid I'm crazy, I'm still afraid you're crazy?" But the mouth still said, "Don't worry! What stupid thing can I do at such a distance. It's just that this thing can be important, so I want to keep watch overnight to see how the wind direction and the currents change to calculate the direction. In case we can't see it tomorrow morning, we also know about what direction it is. Go to sleep! Tomorrow will be busy, and I'm afraid I'll have to row all day long at such a distance. When Miya heard Xingyu say this, she had to obediently prepare to go to sleep. But I still don't worry about asking Xingyu to repeatedly promise not to leave the inflatable boat and not to untie the rope that binds the inflatable boat.
Heung-woo asks Mia to stay in the inflatable boat for a while. Let her know what she wants to do, so that Mia doesn't worry. There was only a glimmer of light left in the sunset, and Xingyu hurriedly took advantage of the fact that the sunset had not completely set, untied the rope of the inflatable boat, and then moved the inflatable boat to the position of shaking hands next to the refrigerator. Xingyu passed the rope through the handshake of the refrigerator, and then tied the two ends of the rope to the rope loops on the left and right sides of the back of the boat. This way, the inflatable boat won't get in the way of the paddle by pulling the rope of the refrigerator. At this time, it was completely dark. Xingyu didn't worry about Miya sleeping alone in the refrigerator, so he let Miya sleep on the boat.
Xingyu guessed that the white bucket was a self-inflatable full-cover lifeboat that had not yet opened. Before the lifeboat was inflated, it was housed in a white plastic cylinder that split in half, which looked like an oil tank. There is a rope outside the barrel that connects to the air pressure cylinder airlock inside the barrel. After pulling the rope to open the airlock, the air pressure bottle begins to inflate the lifeboat. When the lifeboat is opened, it resembles a small yurt. This lifeboat that can withstand heavy rain is an artifact for survival in shipwrecks. This is also the reason why Xingyu is nervous.
The moonlight allows Xingyu to see the flow of the waves at close range, but it is still dark at a distance. Therefore, Xingyu can only rely on the current to calculate the direction. Xingyu estimated the direction of the lifeboat's drifting, rocking the oars intermittently. Sometimes the oars are rocking, sometimes they are resting. Xingyu just didn't want to lose the direction of the lifeboat the next day, so he tried to shorten the distance as much as possible and not let the lifeboat drift out of the horizon. Therefore, tomorrow morning is the time to work hard, and now you have to save your strength.
Xingyu suffered all night, and finally a ray of morning light appeared behind the boat. When the morning light hit the inflatable boat, Xingyu nervously increased his eyes, and his gaze slowly moved towards the horizon in front of the inflatable boat with the morning light. Xingyu, who was nervous, felt that the morning light was moving very slowly. Xingyu's gaze kept sweeping left and right. Soon after, Xingyu finally saw the lifeboat. The bearing was about two kilometers in front of the inflatable boat, closer than Xingyu's estimate. Xingyu excitedly shouted: "Haha! See! See! ”
"You! Like a little kid. Mia was woken up by Heungwoo's shouts: "Now can you tell me, what is that white bucket?" ”
"It's an inflatable full-robe lifeboat, and when it's inflated, the lower half is like an inflatable pool and the top half is like a yurt. Standard survival equipment for transocean-going vessels as stipulated in international navigation law. After listening to this, Mia's eyes widened and she began to get excited: "Artifact! I asked you last night, and you didn't say. Otherwise, we can paddle through overnight. Xingyu glanced at Miya: "I guessed that you would be like this." The night is pitch dark, and the lifeboat drifts with the current, which direction are you going to row. I'm not a computer, so I can only estimate the approximate direction. And it is possible to miscalculate. ”
Mia knew that she was impulsive, and she didn't dare to quibble, so she had to say, "Okay! It's my fault! Now that you see the lifeboat, paddle over! Miya knew that Xingyu hadn't slept all night, so she said to Xingyu: "You take a rest, I'll row first." ”
"No, I'm not tired yet. You go first... Well... Go first ... Go liberate first. Wait a minute, we'll take turns rocking the paddles. As soon as Xingyu finished speaking, he saw a loaf of bread flying towards Xingyu quickly.
At night, rowing can't see the surroundings and doesn't feel slow. However, during the day, it was found that the inflatable boat dragging the refrigerator was moving very slowly. The two finally rowed to the side of the lifeboat. When the inflatable boat approached the lifeboat, Xingyu was completely sure that the white bucket in front of him was indeed a lifeboat. Xingyu immediately put on a life jacket and jumped into the sea to check. Although there were many scratches on the shell of the lifeboat, there were no cracks. The airlock rope is also there. Xingyu pulled the airlock rope, and the shell immediately split into two halves. The lifeboat quickly opened and floated on the surface of the sea.
Xingyu tied the inflatable boat to the hatch of the lifeboat and couldn't hold it. After climbing into the lifeboat, I immediately fell asleep. Miya sat beside Xingyu and looked at the tired Xingyu, quietly waiting for Xingyu to wake up.