Chapter 8 Boats
The next morning, when Xingyu was still asleep, he suddenly heard Miya shouting excitedly in his sleep: "Get up quickly!" Hurry up! There is a boat ahead! Xingyu, who was still ignorant, heard the word "there is a boat", and immediately got up like an electric shock, and looked in the direction pointed by Mia. "Holy! This is the ship you are talking about? Xingyu looked disappointedly at about a hundred meters ahead, an inflatable boat floating on the sea, but it had capsized.
"Isn't this a ship?" Mia looked at Heungwoo with a strange expression. Xingyu understood that he had misunderstood. Mia just said that there was a boat, and Heungwoo thought that the rescue had arrived. Xingyu had no choice but to answer with a wry smile: "This is an inflatable boat." It looks like it's supposed to be a military inflatable boat. Mia continued to ask, "Military, then it must be very strong, right?" Xingyu replied angrily: "After the tsunami, you can still float on the sea after overturning, can you not be strong?" After Xingyu finished speaking, he squatted down to find fins and put them on. Mia saw Heungwoo wearing fins and guessed that Heungwoo wanted to go into the sea to chase the inflatable boat. Miya asked worriedly, "There won't be danger, right?" Why don't we sweep the refrigerator over? ”
"It's too far away, and the refrigerator has a lot of resistance in the sea, so it's hard to paddle through." Heungwoo knew that Mia was worried about him, so he continued, "Don't worry! You forgot I have a diving license! And wearing a life jacket, there will be no accidents! I swam over and pushed the inflatable boat back. Will be back soon. ”
Although Mia knew that Xingyu was familiar with water, she still stared at Xingyu with concern and swam towards the inflatable boat. It wasn't until Xingyu's hand pulled the inflatable boat that Miya let go of her frowning brow. Xingyu was not wrong before, it is indeed a military inflatable boat. This type of inflatable boat can be equipped with a motor at the back of the boat. So Xingyu immediately swam to the back of the boat, and there was indeed an iron frame with a motor behind the boat. But I didn't see the motor. Xingyu thought to himself deprecatingly: "Too greedy! It is already a miracle that the inflatable boat was not sunk by the tumbling stones and debris of the tsunami. It would be strange if there was a motor in the back of the boat. Heung-woo tried to straighten the inflatable boat. However, this type of inflatable boat is made of cut-resistant material, which has a high density and is therefore heavy. Xingyu tried several times but failed to correct the inflatable boat. And Xingyu was also afraid that Miya would be worried if he dragged it for too long, so he decided to push the inflatable boat back to the refrigerator first, and then find a way to correct it.
Mia saw Xingyu in the distance flipping the inflatable boat, and also saw that Xingyu tried several times but failed to correct the inflatable boat. The brows that had been loosened were unconsciously furrowed. When Mia sees Xingyu slowly swimming back with an inflatable boat, Mia remembers that there is still a pair of fins in the refrigerator. Mia immediately picked up the fins as oars and tried to paddle over. However, after paddling for a while, Mia noticed that the distance between the refrigerator and the floating objects not far in front of her had not been shortened much. Xingyu is right, the water resistance of the refrigerator is large, and it is difficult to paddle. And it's not easy.
When Xingyu pushed the inflatable boat to the side of the refrigerator, he saw that the sun was already in the middle. Heung-woo climbed to the bottom of the boat, and Mia handed out mineral water and bread to Heung-woo from the refrigerator.
After Xingyu rested, he tried to flip the inflatable boat again. But I tried a few more times but it didn't work. Even Miya put on a life jacket and jumped into the water and flipped with Xingyu, but she still couldn't flip the inflatable boat. Soon after, the two climbed back to the refrigerator to rest. Xingyu lay on the refrigerator, looking at the inflatable boat while thinking of a way. Xingyu thought to himself as he muttered to himself: "There is nowhere to borrow strength in the sea. Without a fulcrum, the horizontal bar cannot be used. What to do? Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, "borrowing", "fulcrum", and "horizontal bar", and the three words crossed through Xingyu's mind again. Xingyu remembered that when he was learning to ride a heavy motorcycle, he taught the driver how to pull the motorcycle from the ground. Place your feet under the front wheels and pull the handlebar up with both hands. Then he leans backwards and uses his body weight to pull the motorcycle up. This method can also be used to flip an inflatable boat in front of you. "I figured out a way. You watch in the refrigerator, don't come down. After Xingyu finished speaking, he immediately picked up the rope and jumped into the sea again. Heungwoo tied one end of the rope to the pulp ring, then climbed to the bottom of the boat and stood on the other side. Xingyu pulled the rope with both hands, stood on the side of the boat with his feet as a fulcrum, and finally pulled the inflatable boat up with his own weight. When the inflatable boat was pulled up 60 degrees, Xingyu knew what would happen if he pulled it down again. But Xingyu didn't want to fall short, so he continued to pull up the inflatable boat more vigorously and quickly. When the inflatable boat rolled over more than 90 degrees, the bottom of the inflatable boat quickly covered Xingyu's body. Suddenly, the inflatable boat pressed Xingyu into the sea. When Mia saw this scene, she was so frightened that she kept screaming, desperately shouting Xingyu's name. Fortunately, Xingyu was mentally prepared and soon came out of the sea.
This type of military inflatable boat has several rope loops on the side of the boat, through which the rope loops are looped around the boat. People can pull the rope and get on the boat in the middle of the sea. Heung-woo tied the side of the inflatable boat to the front of the refrigerator with a rope through the rope loops at the bow and stern of the boat. Once strapped, the front of the refrigerator is like an extra platform.
After Heungwoo and Mia sat on the inflatable boat and finished dinner, it was getting dark. Heung-woo urges Mia to go back to the refrigerator. Miya asked with a dissatisfied face, "Why don't we sleep in the boat?" It's very narrow to sleep two people in the refrigerator! After Xingyu saw Miya's expression, he replied carefully: "The sea is changeable, in case the weather turns bad after we fall asleep, we will be in danger." So it's safer to continue sleeping in the refrigerator. After listening to this, Miya understood that what Xingyu said made sense. But he still puffed out his cheeks and ran into the refrigerator. When Miya saw that Xingyu wanted to close the refrigerator door without entering the refrigerator, she immediately stared at Xingyu viciously and asked, "What are you doing?" Why don't you come in yourself? Xingyu pretended to be innocent and replied: "You said that it is very narrow to sleep two people in the refrigerator." So you sleep inside, I sleep outside. After Miya heard this, she immediately went crazy: "You think of beauty!" Get in here! ”
Xingyu pressed his helmet against the cabinet door, leaving a hat-high gap for ventilation. Then Heungwoo and Mia lie down in opposite directions, Heungwoo lies at Mia's feet, and Mia lies at Heungwoo's feet. But not long after lying down, Mia got up and turned upside down to sleep next to Xingyu, facing the wall of the cabinet. Xingyu asked Mia strangely: "What's wrong?" Mia replied resentfully: "Your feet stink!" Xingyu was stunned for a moment. Soon, both of them smiled knowingly. The two strangers, who were originally strangers, are slowly closing the distance between each other.
In the quiet of the night, the two of them who were tired for a day quickly fell asleep.