Chapter 169: The Dawn Before Victory

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There's nothing more workout than the harsh natural environment.

After more than fifty days of sailing, Nana Hoshino shed three layers of skin and became a black charcoal head, but her eyes were brighter. On the contrary, there is nothing more powerful than nature to destroy man's will, and Nishikujo Ruri wilts even more.

They spotted a ship on the way, but after the age of sails passed, the lookouts seemed to be slack, no matter how much they shouted, they did not attract the attention of the ship, and even the signal flare was useless, so they could only helplessly watch the distant black dots slowly disappear.

The boat was not rescued, which gave Nishikujo Ruri a fatal blow, and Naoto Yoshihara accompanied her for three days to see the stars before she felt better again.

On top of that, they encountered seabirds six times, discovered a coral reef, scooped up a plastic foam board, and withstood three storms.

The storm that had just been experienced, with a wind speed of more than 30 meters per second, swept away almost all of their leaders, and the "Good Luck" sea-crossing raft was like a wild horse on the sea, completely out of control, almost overturning several times, almost killing the three of them.

After being destroyed one after another, the raft has been unrecognizable. The bamboo shed shrunk to the point that it was almost gone, and could only barely provide shade, and the horizontal logs that existed as the deck were scattered, broken or broken, making the entire surface of the raft look pitted, and the sails were broken, and Naoto Yoshiwara donated all the clothes except his pants to the sails for sewing, but it was still weak.

"You can drink some water too!" Nana Hoshino carefully handed a broken gourd to Naoto Yoshiwara, her little face full of concern, she remembered that Naoto Yoshiwara hadn't touched water in 24 hours.

Naoto Yoshihara's pants are almost worn out, more like wearing a big pants, if he hadn't been in trouble, he would have dared to wear them like this at home, and Nana Hoshino would have swollen his head.

He shook his head and refused, "You guys drink, I don't know when it will rain next time." ”

Part of the clean water was used, part of it was polluted by the seawater, part of it was swept away by the storm, and the rest of the Yoshiwara Naoto tried not to touch it, in case it wouldn't rain for a short time.

He thought that he could hold the fish for two more days with the fish juice, wrap the fish in a cloth and twist it vigorously, or simply dig a hole in the fish, and the water that flowed out could barely quench his thirst, but the taste was ...... It's very touching, so don't mention it.

Nana Hoshino pursed her lips, the bamboo shed could not completely block the sun, and the sunlight took away too much water, and she did it to death, but she resisted the urge to drink the water in one go, carefully put the water in the gourd back into the bottle, and then tied it firmly to the log with a rope.

Nishikujo Ruri had just replenished the water, and her face looked a little better, leaning on Naoto Yoshihara, not knowing what she was thinking.

Naoto Yoshihara gently held her waist, feeling the smooth skin on her waist, everyone's clothes were worn out, and if they drifted like this, not to mention anything else, soon everyone would collectively bare their buttocks and touched her forehead with their foreheads to show comfort.

After a temporary relationship for dozens of days, they have become accustomed to intimate contact, and this contact is the only placebo for Nishikujo Ruri on this raft.

Whether a person's heart is strong or not has little to do with age, Nana Hoshino is getting stronger and stronger, and she is still full of confidence that they will definitely be able to reach the bottom island of Polynesia, while Nishikujo Ruri is depressed for a while after every storm, thinking that it is not far from the annihilation of the group, and then in a few days she will smile again, wanting to prove that she is still very strong.

The problem is that when you want to prove your strength, being strong is a problem in itself......

It's hard to see what a person really looks like until it's in danger, who would have thought that the elitist Nishikujo Ruri would be crushed by nature?

This is the second day after the storm has passed, and it is the time when Nishikujo Ruri "gets sick", and Naoto Yoshihara suspects that she has some psychological problems in the first place, plus she has not really suffered much since she was a child, and after leaving the environment and rules that she has been familiar with since childhood in urban society, she is more like the only weak person on this raft.

Her toughness comes from the fact that others want her to be tough, and out of that environment, she feels like she has her backbone broken.

Nana Hoshino has a bit of a leadership temperament, which is very similar to Kasugi Usugi. She has experienced great changes herself, but she can also accept the reality calmly, do not cry or make trouble, and will take the initiative to encourage everyone when she encounters difficulties. Her expression was still firm, even if she was terrified in her heart, her face did not change: "Don't worry, we are getting closer to the goal every moment, we will definitely be there...... Maybe we'll see the island tomorrow!"

Nishikujo Ruri nodded silently, and Naoto Yoshihara didn't care, anyway, he would hold on until the last moment, if he really didn't work, he would die!

The three of them huddled in a small shed that could only accommodate them, trying to be inactive and reducing water loss, and they were silent for a while.

Suddenly, Naoto Yoshihara looked out of the shed, and Nana Hoshino's pointed ears also trembled, and Ruri Nishikujo was the last to react, and heard a "whoosh" sound in his ears.

Nana Hoshino was dexterous, and from the moment she knelt down, she bounced up and wanted to run out of the shed, but Naoto Yoshiwara grabbed her and rushed out before her.

On the gray-black iron willow wood mast, the patched sails were still weak, but at the top of the mast stood a large black bird, flapping its wings and arranging its shiny black feathers.

Nana Hoshino only glanced at it and said in surprise: "Frigate Bird!"

This bird is famous, and although it spreads its wings for more than two meters, it is extremely light and does not have much chewiness, and Naoto Yoshiwara has eaten it a few times, unlike the small seabirds he encounters along the way. There are many birds that have the ability to cross the Pacific Ocean, or they can take off from the sea by picking up branches and trees along the way, or they can simply land and take off on the sea, while the warship bird lives on the sea and eats fish to live, but it cannot get wet.

With this bird, there must be land nearby!

Nishikujo Ruri also followed, looking at the big bird with white feathers on its neck, black wings and bright feathers, and a red airbag under its yellow pointed beak, and wondered: "Friship bird?"

She has also heard of this name, but she has heard it for a pure urban girl, and most of them can't recognize the real thing, and most of them are very different in appearance, and most of them are familiar with East Asian genera and species, such as the kind of great gulls.

Nana Hoshino thought she didn't understand, and explained in a low voice: "This bird is a champion of flight, fast, flexible in the air, and lives on fish, but it can't swim itself, and can only pick up some dead fish and dead jellyfish from the sea to eat, and in order to make up for the lack of predation ability, it will rob other birds and seize the fish and shrimp they caught, so the medieval naturalists gave it a name." Flogalen' (a type of pirate ship), and in modern times the name became a type of warship, and slowly it began to be called the frigate bird, which although it flies fast, it generally does not go too far from its nest. There are islands around here, and we've been sailing for so long, we're probably close to the bottom of the Polynesian island chain!"

The three of them stood in front of the bamboo shed and stared at the warship bird, as if they saw the hope of landing immediately, but the big bird was unaware of it, rested on the top of the mast for a while and flew away.

Nana Hoshino watched the friship bird disappear into the sky, and her excitement continued unabated, and she said loudly: "I said we were going to be there a long time ago, right! I said it a long time ago! I am the smartest! As the book says, the big-eared people of South America crossed the Pacific Ocean and landed in Polynesia! And we did it!"

She suddenly had a feeling that she was always right, and eagerly rushed to the side of the raft and began to look, hoping to be the first to see Oshima, Naoto Yoshiwara pulled the rope and chased after her, ready to put on her this victory was just around the corner, if she had an accident, she would really vomit blood.

Nishikujo Ruri let out a long breath of turbidity, looked at the raft under his feet, and then looked at the back of Naoto Yoshihara, and was stunned for a moment.

Although they were all eager to get close to the land, the "Good Luck" could not understand their feelings, and when they arrived here, the power of the trade winds was greatly reduced, and they used a tattered sail, so they continued to move slowly, until the sun went down in the west and still found nothing.

But in the setting sun, scattered flocks of birds appeared in the sky, flying towards the raft one by one. Nana Hoshino is more affirmed, firmly believing that there is a big island ahead.

The darkness before the dawn is always particularly difficult, and at night Nishikujo Ruri fell asleep with Naoto Yoshihara's arm on his pillow, and Nana Hoshino, who had been sleeping at a fixed point, even if she was drifting on the sea, showed a rare restlessness, but she couldn't leave the bamboo shed, so she kept chattering there.

That is, there are no socks, and if you want socks, Naoto Yoshihara gags her mouth.

The next day, as soon as it was dark, Hoshino Nana woke up automatically, and hurried out to hang the sails, but soon screamed. Naoto Yoshihara yawned out of the bamboo shed, and suddenly sobered up a little from the cold water vapor, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Nana Hoshino was checking the direction with a small compass, and her face was very ugly: "We changed our direction last night. ”

Yoshihara Naoto didn't understand for a while, they have been moving in one direction for the past dozens of days, the trade wind, the trade wind, is really the wind of credit, it is so creditworthy that the raft occasionally goes east, but most of the time it is in the direction of due south. He looked at the sail and found that the sail was not moving, so he suddenly said, "The wind has stopped again......"

It feels like it's not a good thing every time the wind stops, no wonder sailors in the sail era dreamed of wetting the bed without wind.

Nana Hoshino ran to the side of the raft to check it for a moment, and when she came back, she was angry, "We're heading northwest now, and we should have entered a nearland gyre last night...... We have to get rid of this current, you go and remove the horizontal plank, and I'll call Sister Nishikujo to rock the oar!"

The oar is the only part of their raft that can provide power, although it is weak and terrible compared to the sea, but the current under the Pacific Ocean is a semi-closed circulation system, and the current is weak at the moment, but it is carried into the main ocean current regardless of the words, and it is theoretically possible to force all the way to the North Pole!

Naoto Yoshihara didn't understand the seriousness of the matter, he wasn't familiar with the ocean, but seeing Nana Hoshino's serious face, he knew that it wasn't the time to ask questions and plunged into the sea.

After he dived up and down a few times, he removed all the horizontal planks, and found that the raft had begun to get out of control, and he really wanted to turn around the sea a few times, while Ruri Nishikujo and Nana Hoshino were trying to adjust their direction at the end of the raft, and they shook the oar vigorously to get out of the range of the current.

Naoto Yoshiwara hurried to help, but without the horizontal board and the sail wooden oar, it looked extremely heavy, and Nana Hoshino hung on the oar and was thrown around like a little monkey.

But the power of nature is really powerful, Naoto Yoshihara went crazy and swung the oars and couldn't let the raft break free from the control of the circulation, this circulation that should not be strong in theory unswervingly wanted to drag them to the northwest, and Nana Hoshino was holding a compass and almost exploded, they could now turn back at any time, in case they were swept into the Glydes Current, and it was almost past the trade wind season, then it was possible to really go to the North Pole!

Just go, it is absolutely impossible to make it to the North Pole alive!

By noon, there was still no wind, the weather was extremely hot, and Nishikujo Ruri had already given up, just looking at Naoto Yoshiwara with a faint expression, and Naoto Yoshiwara was sweating like rain, striving for the last ray of hope.

However, his insistence was of little avail, and according to Nana Hoshino's speculation, the worst of them was likely to be turning back, and the best of all was that they barely moved.

Nishikujo Ruri sighed, trying to persuade Naoto Yoshihara not to work in vain, but he felt that the hair in his ears shook slightly, and the trade wind came again, and he finally didn't abandon them at the last moment!

Nana Hoshino cheered as she watched the sails that were gradually puffing up again, and with the help of the wind, Naoto Yoshihara squeezed out the last of his strength to rock the oar, and finally broke out of the range of the current, and the raft headed south again.

Four hours later, in the warm sunset, they broke into a continuous stretch of reefs.

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