Chapter 15: You Can't Live Without Killing
"Why did you let the turtles go?" Yun Yanuan asked directly, he was not prepared to add any emotional embellishments to the language.
Ke Xin was stunned for a moment, then rolled his eyes, and looked at Tian ignoring his question, not knowing whether to deny it with silence or acquiesce.
"It's okay if you don't speak, then listen to me!" Yun Yanuan added a piece of firewood to the bonfire, and then continued:
"The wooden fence was pulled out, not knocked down, and the turtle had no fingers and no intelligence, so it was a monkey or a man who did it. There are no traces of turtles crawling around the fence, and returnees are different from people, it is difficult for people to leave footprints on such ground, but turtles will leave obvious traces, so someone carried the turtle for a distance, and if I guessed correctly, it should have been placed in the dense bush. ”
When she said this, Ke Xin no longer looked at the sky, but stared at Yun Yanuan, her face was a little worried, at this moment Yun Yanuan already understood that it was definitely the turtle that this girl let go, she was worried that Yun Yanuan would catch the turtle again.
Yun Yanuan smiled, ignoring the hearty expression, and said to herself:
"The turtle can smell the sea, it will inevitably crawl towards the sea, but it is a bit of a pit placed by the rescuer, and it is estimated that it will have to climb a long way to reach the sea, after all, it is still very difficult for turtles to climb the hillside, especially the female turtle who has just laid eggs and is exhausted. So, I guess it may not be able to return to the sea now, and there is a good chance that it will be eaten by a fox or a few mice in the mountains, and if it is lucky enough to climb to the beach, I guess it should meet Diana and Maya at this moment. ”
"Bastard, do you have love, where is your kindness! That's a female turtle that has just laid eggs, do you know how great the mother is? You're going to eat it, yes, I let the turtle go, I'm going to save it, and I'm going to save it to the end. With that, Kexin was about to stand up and staggered towards the beach, presumably to prevent Diana from catching the turtle again.
Yun Yanuan stepped forward and grabbed her arm, pulled her into his arms, and held her with his hand, but his small fist hit his chest like raindrops, but it was not destructive.
"Don't go, if I were you, I'd expect Diana to catch that turtle, or the consequences will be something you don't want to see."
"What do you mean?" Ke Xin stared at Yun Yanuan.
"I know where the turtle lays its eggs, and if I can't catch the turtle, I'll have to bring back the eggs it lays for dinner, you know?" Yun Ya said in a deep voice.
"You're the devil, you... How can you be so cruel! "But I couldn't understand my anger.
"It's not cruelty, it's the most basic principle of survival in the jungle, and I've done the utmost kindness, otherwise I'd have brought back that nest of turtle eggs, I just made a choice between turtles and turtle eggs, eating turtles is enough for a few of us, eating turtle eggs, I'm afraid a dozen of us are enough, this is the trade-off. If the turtles run away, you'll kill a dozen turtles, you know! ”
Yun Yanuan said to her very calmly.
"Can't you just eat it all? Shells, conchs, and wild vegetables can all be eaten! Kexin began to shed tears. Yun Yanuan knew that he was highly educated, he was a leader in civilized society, he was an elite, and all kinds of environmental protection consciousness and love for wild animals were very popular in their circles, so it was difficult to accept the reality of the jungle for a while.
But he had to make her understand that there is only life and death here, and there is no mercy.
"I need a pot that can boil water to boil you medicine, and if you're sick, we also need cooked food, because we've just arrived in this environment and need hygienic and digestible food to keep us healthy.
Conch shells have no pot and can only be grilled, eating a lot of them will make us sick, and if we don't eat enough, we will not have the strength to continue looking for food, and this vicious circle will cause us to all die here.
So from now on, you have to understand one thing, you are not alone, what you do, you have to think about the survival of the four of us, we are one, this is the seaside, let go of a turtle we can also find other food, but if we are in the interior of the island, you steal the animals you catch, it may directly lead to our demise, you understand? ”
Yun Yanuan must persuade Kexin to face up to reality, otherwise she will eventually kill herself.
"I'm going to go to the beach tomorrow to look for food, and I promise we'll be fed and stop eating those cute animals, okay?" But the heart pleaded.
"Silly girl, starting tomorrow, we won't be at the beach, we're going to the depths of the island!" Yun Yanuan shook his head.
"To the depths of the island? Shouldn't we be waiting for rescue on the beach? It's going to be dangerous to go to the depths! Kexin was surprised.
"That's right, under normal circumstances, we must not leave the periphery of the island, we should wait for rescue, but this is different, this is the center of the Pacific Ocean, no freighter will pass through here, are you going to wait for ten or twenty years or even a lifetime? I don't want to. Yun Yanuan smiled.
"But, don't you even have the slimest chance of going to the island?" Kexin said.
"Do you remember the direction of the sun when we woke up?" Yun Yanuan asked.
But after thinking for a while, she pointed in a direction, but then, she seemed to be confused, and kept shaking her head and said, "Impossible, how is this possible?" What's going on? ”
"You've noticed this strange phenomenon, haven't you? Yes, we wake up in the morning and the sun rises shortly after, but what does it mean that the sunset is so close to the sun in the morning? Yun Yanuan pointed to the sunset as the sun set above the ground and continued, "It proves that this is a cruising island, not only moving, but also rotating on its own. ”
But Xin still didn't understand, what does this have to do with going to the island, Yun Yanuan didn't wait for her to ask, and continued:
"I learned during Hans's call with the mysterious commander that our destination was an island that was hidden from time to time, and that it would be difficult for satellites to observe, and that I had thought it would be a very small island, but now I know that I was wrong, that this island is not ordinarily large.
The reason why it is difficult for me to be detected by satellites, I have a hard time explaining, maybe it has something to do with its rotation, but anyway, I guess that this is our real destination, so it turns out that there are seven other ships that may not have been killed, and the expedition team is also on this island, in different directions, but in any case, the final destination is the very center of the island, to explore the deepest mysteries, and we are the same, we are going to go to the deepest part of the island, as long as we meet them, we can escape, understand? ”
Ke Xin nodded suddenly, pondered for a while, and then said to Yun Yanuan: "I won't do such a thing privately in the future, but, hey, forget it, we are now primitive people who drink blood!" ”
"That's right, we are now primitive people who drink blood, no religion, no faith, no mercy, everything is just for survival." Yun Yanuan smiled.
No one likes this kind of life, usually Yunya Nuan even encounters ants before the rain moves, will be carefully guarded, to avoid them being played by naughty children, but not here, this is a primitive jungle, is an island, there are no inexhaustible resources, some only have a saber, and four mouths to eat.
How can you live without killing?