Chapter 159: Sixty-five Thousand Kings and Rafts
Because it is located in the tropics, which is closer to the equator, the tidal phenomenon on the island is not obvious, and only a short stretch of tidal flats is revealed, and the white waves of the sea start to lap the beach again.
The beach is not very extensive, about less than 500 meters long, and is probably the result of 10,000 years of erosion by the ocean current. Nana Hoshino has a resolute face, sticking to her small shack and waiting for Naoto Yoshiwara to return, thinking about the reasons for the formation of this strange landform - which involves the drift of the earth's tectonic plates, atmospheric climatology, the theory of ocean currents, and astronomy.
It can be seen that reading is still useful, at least it will not be too boring if it is difficult.
It was getting dark, and the temperature was starting to drop. Although it is located in the tropics, the rainforest, known as the "lungs of the earth", is not called for nothing, and constantly spews out bursts of cool air, making people feel that the whole body is surrounded by "yin qi".
Nana Hoshino tried Ruri Nishikujo's forehead, it didn't feel too hot, and she was slightly relieved, thinking that the wound probably wouldn't be inflamed, and she was afraid that she would be cold, so she took out her sleeping bag and thought about it, and probably couldn't stuff her in, so she finally had to take a blanket and cover her with another one.
She was extremely patient and trusting of Naoto Yoshiwara, and she did not get impatient when he was gone for a long time, but faithfully completed the task assigned to her like a puppy, until her pointed ears trembled and pointed her gun at the darkness.
"It's me, don't be nervous!" Naoto Yoshihara didn't show his figure out of the darkness, and first shouted, "Turn off the insurance, don't go out of the way and kill me." β
After a lot of hard work, it's really funny to shoot the "daughter" with one shot.
He waited to confirm that it was safe before he came over, threw the big fish he was carrying on his shoulders to the ground, took out a bag of bird eggs and a seabird and put it aside, sat down and began to clean his shoes, and said with a smile: "It's a little troublesome, there is no one in this bird place, we are on an isolated island!"
This is expected, Nana Hoshino nodded and returned the gun to him, and then rolled up her sleeves with a serious face, looking at this big fish that occasionally slapped its tail and didn't know how to start-I should be in charge of housework and cooking, right? But this fish must be more than forty pounds, I may not be able to beat it! Do you want to wait for it to die naturally?
She pondered for a while, but she could tell the genus of the fish, but she didn't have a clue how to kill it, and Yoshiwara touched her head, got up and went to the rainforest to get back dead branches and leaves, bamboo and the like, and then dug a pit and pad stones, quickly built a small fire pit, and succeeded in raising the fire.
Nana Hoshino has no experience living in the wilderness - she was a child who grew up in a standard city, and even if she was given a lighter, she would have to think for a long time to figure out how to set the damp branches on fire - so she could only watch Naoto Yoshiwara himself get busy there.
Naoto Yoshihara took out a small pot and boiled half a pot of bottled water, without stinginess, there is no shortage of fresh water on this island, and quickly dismembered the fish and carefully peeled off the fish skin, scraping all the pale white fish skin oil under the fish skin into the pot.
Nana Hoshino squatted to the side and watched, and asked in a low voice, "What is this for?"
Naoto Yoshihara smiled slightly and said, "Make up for Nishikujo." He thought that Hoshino Nana might be bored, so he handed her a shaved branch, "You can stir it, fish skin oil is very replenishing, and there are not many big fish, which is a relatively rare thing." β
Nana Hoshino obediently squatted by the fire and stirred the soup, Naoto Yoshihara looked at her and pulled her eyebrows, obviously not in a good mood, knowing that a series of things had happened that made her depressed and not lively, so she said: "Don't just stir, dip your hand in the soup." β
Nana Hoshino hesitated and said, "Use your hands, isn't this hygienic, is there anything special about it?"
She doesn't know how to cook fish soup in the wild, and she is humble and studious.
Naoto Yoshihara said seriously: "Of course there is a special one! Nishikujo has shed a lot of blood, and now he has lost his body, and he must make up for it!"
"What does that have to do with me reaching into the soup?" Hoshino Nanako looked at him suspiciously, unable to understand the connection for a moment.
If Miki Momonomiya had ordered, she would have already put her hand in, but Naoto Yoshiwara would have to guard against it, and he had a bad heart.
Naoto Yoshihara said sincerely: "It is said that the thousand-year-old king is eighty-thousand-year-old turtle, and you have lived for sixty-five million years, which is equivalent to sixty-five thousand kings condensed together...... You reach in and dip it, and a little cuticle will definitely be a big supplement, maybe tomorrow Nishikujo will be able to jump up and run!"
"You scoundrel!" Nana Hoshino was stunned and reacted, and immediately became furious, stopped stirring the soup, and took the branch and hit Naoto Yoshiwara!
Naoto Yoshihara laughed and held the fish to resist, and said with a smile: "You're so stingy, if Nishikujo was injured to protect you, wouldn't you like to drop some skin and make it up for her?"
Nana Hoshino was blocked by him even a few hits, and there was nothing she could do about him, and when she saw his hippie smile, she didn't want to mess with him anymore, so she pouted and started mixing the pot of soup again, just squinting at him - this annoying thing, always which pot is not opened, nasty ghost!
Naoto Yoshihara happily scraped the fish skin oil, covered the eggs with hot sand, plucked the bird's feathers, removed the internal organs, and skewered the fish pieces and roasted them, before smiling: "Okay, no kidding! Hoshino, you don't need to be unhappy about what has happened, and you don't need to worry about what will happen tomorrow!"
Nana Hoshino flattened her mouth and said, "You said it simply!"
Try to be an alien instead! Live a good life, and suddenly become an orphan, not the kind of orphan who only dies in one family, but the whole planet is gone!
Try to pretend that none of this happened!
Naoto Yoshiwara turned the skewers and said: "People are like this, there will always be regrets about the past, there will always be worries about the future, but everyone forgets that the present moment will become the past, and the present moment is the future of the past, so the most important thing is to live the present moment - don't let regrets appear one after another, don't let worries about the future always become reality, that's even worse!"
Naoto Yoshihara glanced at Nana Hoshino's unconvinced little face, and then preemptively said, "I won't argue with you, at least I'll make myself happy now, that's right...... It's already happened, don't worry about it, don't worry about the future because of these things, you have to learn to live in the present moment!"
Nana Hoshino glanced at him disdainfully, a fool is a lot of fun!
However, Naoto Yoshiwara was able to notice that she was in a bad mood, and he didn't look at her differently because she was an alien, which made her feel a little more comfortable - although the comfort was clumsy, it was good for his brain, and he was always concerned.
The fish soup slowly boiled into a milky white, and when the semi-saturated fat was completely melted with the water, Naoto Yoshihara added some fish meat to it, boiled it into a semi-thick fish porridge, and then took a pinch of salt and put it in it - thanks to the light aircraft prepared by the Sky Flying Club, this high-end club still attaches more importance to the lives of customers, and prepared a full set of rescue materials in case of forced landing in the barren mountains and mountains, and almost stuffed a cook in the back cabin of the plane.
The aroma of the fish porridge was strong, and it spread around the fire, and Naoto Yoshihara helped Nishikujo Ruri over, and slowly Nishikujo Ruri's stomach "gurgled", and people began to swallow subconsciously, and finally slowly opened their eyes.
Her body needs nutrients, and her brain's self-protection measures have not reached the level of a deep coma, which smells and wakes up even if she doesn't wake up!
The brain let her sleep well to repair her body, but her stomach was dry, forcing the brain to get people up and go to eat.
Nishikujo Ruri, who had just woken up, was drooling, obviously not understanding the current situation, leaning in Naoto Yoshihara's arms and looking around in confusion - this scene changed a little quickly, wasn't it a crash and forced landing, why did it become camping again? But it's so fragrant......
She swallowed another mouthful of saliva, subconsciously noticing whether the saliva was coming out of the coma.
Naoto Yoshihara chuckled and calmed her heart first, and said, "We were forced to land on the island, and you are not disabled but just lost too much blood to recuperate." Hoshino is not injured, there is plenty of water and food, and you don't have to worry about anything. β
The weakened Nishikujo Ruri wanted to raise her eyebrows, but the two sword eyebrows couldn't move, and she felt very uncomfortable snuggling in a man's arms - this was a situation that had never happened before, but now she was dizzy and her limbs were weak, so she could only acquiesce, try to keep her calm and said lightly: "That's good." β
Nana Hoshino served her soup in a bowl with only one bowl, felt that the temperature was right and brought it to her mouth, flattened her mouth and pulled her eyebrows and said, "Thank you!"
Ruri Nishikujo smiled softly at her and said softly, "You're welcome, Hoshino-chan, any adult would make the same choice as me at that time." β
Hoshino Nana doesn't like Nishikujo Ruri, there is still a "hatred" between the two, but she has received kindness, she doesn't know what expression to use to face her for a while, so she pretends that nothing has happened before and gently holds the soup bowl to feed her porridge.
Nishikujo Ruri looked at Hoshino Nana and swallowed it lightly with a smile, only to feel that her mouth was full of fragrance.
Naoto Yoshihara said with concern: "How does it taste? Wang Ba refuses to contribute, there is only fish in the soup, will the fishy smell be too strong?"
Nana Hoshino endured it twice and didn't throw the bowl in his face, while Ruri Nishikujo glanced at him and said lightly: "It's okay to have fish, let you bother!"
This guy ...... It's not bad, I didn't leave myself alone, and I didn't fall into the ground.
Nishikujo Ruri is not a weak woman, after eating a bowl of fish porridge, she was obviously much more energetic, and asked for another bowl. This time she insisted on sitting by herself, holding a bowl to drink, and drank the fish porridge in a small pot all the time.
Naoto Yoshiwara was eating grilled fish pieces and grilled birds on the side, while Nana Hoshino was interested in bird eggs and ate one after another - she tried to figure out what kind of eggs they were, but failed.
After finishing the meal, Nishikujo Ruri fell into a drowsiness again, after all, he was bleeding all over the ground, and after another injection, he was put in a sleeping bag by Naoto Yoshihara and fell asleep peacefully.
Nana Hoshino insisted that she couldn't do nothing, wiped her mouth and began to clean up the mess alone, and Naoto Yoshihara let her go. He leaned on a stone and looked up at the starry sky, only to see a silver light.
Nana Hoshino returned from burying the garbage and found Naoto Yoshihara collapsed there, so she added some dead branches to the fire pit - not for warmth, but to repel insects and provide light.
She also sat down next to Naoto Yoshihara, looked up at the stars in the sky with a small face, and was also shocked by this spectacular scene, and said in surprise: "The book says that the equator is the place where you can see the most constellations on the earth, which sounds very ordinary, but it really looks like this...... You can also see the nebula with the naked eye, it's amazing!"
Naoto Yoshihara said vaguely: "Yes, it's useless not to go out and walk around and just stay at home and read, there are some things that you can only understand when you see them with your own eyes." β
Nana Hoshino rarely agreed with him, nodded her little head and said, "Yes!" After a pause, she sighed softly, "A lot has happened in the past few days, and it feels like a dream......"
Naoto Yoshiwara's voice was still muffled, and replied, "I think it's good, your age is the time to do things, and it's good for your growth." At my age, I don't want to move, and I feel troubled about everything......"
Nana Hoshino heard that something was wrong, so she threw her aside, looked at him and asked strangely, "What are you eating?"
Naoto Yoshihara chirped and said, "It's nothing, a little snack." β
Nana Hoshino sniffed, smelled a hint of bitterness, unceremoniously reached out to pick his mouth, and shouted, "No, you show me what you're eating!"
Naoto Yoshiwara stretched out his hand and pushed her little face, and said unhappily: "I'm so tired, can't I take a break?"
Nana Hoshino refused to let go even if her face was squeezed and deformed, and she insisted on taking out the contents of his mouth with her big teeth and looking at it, shouting, "It's definitely not a good thing, what did you find on the island?!"
She knows that many plants in the South American rainforest can be processed into drugs, and originally Naoto Yoshihara smoked and drank alcohol is not a good thing, and it will be over if she takes drugs again!
Yoshihara Naoto couldn't resist her - her teeth were about to be broken off, so she could only take out a handful of leaves to show her, and said impatiently: "This thing is only a drug after it has been purified, and the original ecology is not counted, many people chew it, it can reduce fatigue, you don't understand." β
Nana Hoshino grabbed a handful and looked at it, and immediately almost died of anger, and shouted: "You don't learn well, don't think I'm easy to deceive! This is coca leaves, which can purify cocaine!"
The coca bush is a traditional plant on the American continent and the main ingredient for cocaine, which is bitter and reduces hunger and fatigue when chewed raw, and is known as the "holy grass" by the locals in the producing area, and is used by many people on a daily basis β but that doesn't stop Hoshino from defining it as a harmful substance.
She wanted to confiscate the leaves, but Naoto Yoshiwara refused. His tobacco had been soaked in soup in the sea, and he had finally found something that could relieve his fatigue, so how could he easily hand it over.
He forcibly argued, "This thing can provide high calories, I need to maintain my strength, this is not a good thing!"
"You're lying to the ghost!" Hoshino Nana didn't give an inch, and said angrily: "Then I should also maintain my strength, so should I eat it too!"
As she spoke, she grabbed the leaves and stuffed them into her mouth, and this time Naoto Yoshihara picked at her - saying that, this thing is not a good thing after all, and children can't eat this.
The two of them quarreled for a while, but the leaves were still confiscated by Nana Hoshino. Naoto Yoshihara was depressed for a while, other people's daughters are intimate little padded jackets, and their own family is like a savage girlfriend, not to mention anything, he stretched out his hand and picked his mouth, and he wanted to die!
Nana Hoshino tore the leaves and buried them, and then dug into Naoto Yoshihara again, and sat down again angrily after confirming that there was really no more - this guy can do new tricks without staring at him for two minutes, and he won't stop without killing himself, it's really annoying!
One big and one small were quiet again, and the fuss was going around, and Nana Hoshino's original depressed mood disappeared, and it was replaced by Naoto Yoshihara sighing - these two fools know so much, they already knew that they were hiding and chewing, and they couldn't eat leaves without smoking or drinking, how did they live these days!
Nana Hoshino was next to Naoto Yoshihara, the night breeze was blowing, Naoto Yoshiwara was helpless and gently hugged her shoulder, and the two of them looked at the brilliant starry sky together. After a long while, Nana Hoshino spoke softly, "By the way, I've figured out a way to get out of here." β
Naoto Yoshiwara snorted and asked, "What's the solution?"
"We're not going to Peru, we're going to Easter Island, Marquesas Islands, Tahiti!"
Naoto Yoshiwara lowered his head in surprise and asked uncertainly, "Is the Easter Island you said the island of the big-eared stone statue?"
He hadn't heard of the latter two, but he had seen Easter Island in the movies.
Nana Hoshino nodded and said, "Yes, it's that Easter Island...... By the way, the stone statue is called 'Tiki', not Big Ears. β
Naoto Yoshiwara was speechless for a moment, what did he call that stone statue!
He looked at Nana Hoshino with a mentally retarded expression and asked, "If I'm not mistaken, that place is not far from Oceania...... We're so close to Peru and then we're halfway across the Pacific Ocean and there?"
What kind of whimsical brain is this? I can cross half the Pacific Ocean, so let's go back to Dongying!
"We are now close to Peru, but the trade winds and currents will not allow us to get close to it, on the contrary, the trade winds will send us all the way to the bottom of Polynesia - Polynesia is one of the three major island groups in the Pacific Ocean, in a large triangle, with the Hawaiian Islands at the top, and the two corners at the bottom are New Zealand and Easter Island, let's go to the bottom of it, there are people there!"
Naoto Yoshiwara wanted to die, and this thing thought about it for a long time and came up with such a bad idea. He sighed: "The Pacific Ocean is not our bathtub, it is very big, and it is impossible for us to get there if we can't get to Peru in a rubber boat...... It's thousands of nautical miles, isn't it?"
"Four thousand nautical miles!" Hoshino Nana said first, and then added: "Instead of using rubber boats, we will build rafts!"
"Pull it down! This idea doesn't work, we're three hundred nautical miles from Peru at most, and I'll row there tomorrow and find a plane or boat to pick you up." β
Three hundred nautical miles and four thousand nautical miles, people in their right minds should know how to choose!
Nana Hoshino insisted: "No, you can't go! You should know that the sea is also flowing, and it is very fast! There is an incomparably complex system of currents under the surface of the sea, and the devil knows where it will take you, and if you want to go or go against the trade winds, can you row three hundred nautical miles in one go? As long as you stop, you will go backwards, and it is basically impossible to return here again - I don't want to be separated from you, I want to risk us together!"
She looked at the hesitant Yoshihara Naoto and said again: "Let's build a raft, and then we don't have to do anything, as long as we sit on it honestly, the trade winds blowing southward, the Berlang current, will take us to an island at the bottom of the Polynesian island group, four thousand nautical miles is far away, but it is much safer than you force it to cross three hundred nautical miles! That is to follow the sea and follow the trade winds, not to fight against them, and at the same time the raft can carry a lot of food and water, and it can also resist stronger wind and waves, and it is saferβ It's easier and safer, so why don't we go to Polynesia instead of Peru? and more importantly...... If something happens, we can at least die together!"
Yoshihara Nao's heart warmed, hugged her tightly, and said with a smile: "Your idea is good, but I've never heard of raft sailing, and it's too much, so let me go and have some luck." β
This idea feels stupid, he is not embarrassed to say it, it is always a child's heart!
Nana Hoshino raised her little face and glanced at him, and said strangely, "The raft crossing the sea has a history of two thousand years, don't you know?"
Naoto Yoshihara was stunned: "I don't know, this thing ...... Isn't it only possible to float in the river?" he only remembered that the lumberjacks loved to use rafts, and he had never heard of anything else.
"Of course not!" "In the fifth century A.D., the white race and the local brown people of South America lost the battle, so they sailed in the direction of the setting sun under the leadership of their chieftain Kantiki - they are red-haired, fair-skinned people who like to have their ears widened, known in history as 'big-eared people', and are extremely good at farming, but they were defeated by the expanding Incas on the plateau of the Andes, and they can only go in search of new, Having a peaceful land, and worshipping the sun, they set out towards the place where the sun set, and sent thousands of rafts at a time to take everyone with them, and finally succeeded in reaching the bottom of the Polynesian island group, where they began to multiply again, and finally became one with the local indigenous people! Kang in Kantiki means chieftain, and Tiki is now recognized by the locals as an ancestor, a prophet (a person who brought advanced farming civilization), and a statue of him with big ears was built, and even his skin was dyed white during the festival!"
Naoto Yoshihara was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he couldn't believe that this was true, and Nana Hoshino further said: "More than three hundred years after Kantiki, there was the Inca leader Buck~ Yubankui sent thousands of people on a raft to find the islands in the Pacific Ocean - they almost couldn't go back, and they were tired until the trade winds stopped and half of them were tired before rowing back! This is why I don't want you to go to Peru by yourself, it's easy to leave South America, but it's difficult to go back, there are countless cross-currents and many circulations!"
Nana Hoshino took another deep breath and said, "And then nearly two hundred years passed, and it was ...... again."
Naoto Yoshiwara covered her mouth and said, "Okay, don't say any more! Are you sure you're reading a serious book instead of a serious book?"
If this thing reads two fantasy or made up adventure logs and takes it seriously, then it will be dead if it drifts to the sea!
Nana Hoshino opened his hand unhappily and said, "Of course not, that's serious history!"
Yoshiwara Naoto was a little moved, if people from 1,600 years ago could do it, then it would really be a gamble, at least the raft felt more reliable than going directly to the rubber boat, and indeed as this guy said, at least he could bring more than a hundred times more things.
Even if half of the road falls apart, you can use a rubber boat to support it again.
With hope in his eyes, he asked, "Will you build the raft with the big ears?"
Nana Hoshino affirmed: "Of course not, the book doesn't say it!" After she finished speaking, she saw Naoto Yoshihara's face change, and hurriedly said: "I know the materials and approximate dimensions, and I also know a lot about physics, so it is impossible for the ancients to make them and we can't make them...... With the rainforest behind us, there's no shortage of materials. β
"What does it look like?"
"Double-layer shuttle type. The bottom layer is seven or nine thick balsa logs, the middle three are long and the two sides are short, tied with straw rope without a little iron, and the upper layer is a thin balsa wood relative to the bottom row. Then a bamboo shed was built in the middle of the dhow, and at the tail was a long oar that controlled the direction - the draft was shallow and could carry a lot of water, food and people. β
Yoshihara made up for a while, and felt that it looked good.
Nana Hoshino stretched out her small hand and firmly held his big hand, and continued to insist on her opinion: "If I had to choose, instead of letting you risk three hundred nautical miles by yourself, it would be better for us to float four thousand nautical miles together!"
Naoto Yoshihara looked at her determined little face, thought about it and felt that it was reliable, anyway, there was danger at both ends, and finally sighed: "Okay, listen to you, tomorrow we will start building a raft and prepare to cross the Pacific Ocean!"