Chapter 162: A Man's Common Disease
The brawl lasted until lunchtime, and Nana Hoshino was so tired that she couldn't beat Naoto Yoshihara into the sea, and she was very unhappy with her eyebrows, so she ate a lot during the meal, intending to grow up quickly.
Sooner or later, one day she will clean him up, and Nana Hoshino is very determined.
The afternoon sun was fierce, and the three well-fed men let the raft drift at will, and hid in the small house to avoid the sun for a few hours—a small house, but in fact it was a bamboo shed, and the waves crashing against the raft would rush in from time to time, except for a few things that were well packed in boxes, nothing to do.
Hoshino Nana drank a large coconut in her hand, and when she was bored, she drank the juice and dug up the coconut meat to eat, and when she was done, she rolled the shell around, very much like a cat that was restless.
She listened to the muffled sound of the logs squeezing each other, and the crashing sound of the logs being pushed back and forth by the waves, and felt that life at sea was not interesting at all, it was like going to prison.
Nishikujo Ruri also has nothing to do, so he scrapes the fish scales there with a knife, and throws them aside when he finishes scraping, waiting for dinner to use directly.
She's not very good at fitting in, and Naoto Yoshiwara and Nana Hoshino share secrets that make her feel strongly excluded and have always been indifferent.
She didn't even ask why Nana Hoshino had a pair of pointed ears like she hadn't seen - she hoped that Naoto Yoshihara would take the initiative to explain it to her.
Naoto Yoshihara was lying in the corner of the bamboo hut yawning, and from time to time there was seawater splashing him through the wall, but he didn't care, yawning until he burst into tears, and looked lazy that he didn't care about everything when he was full of food and drink.
He was on duty at night, just to catch up on sleep during the day.
After surviving the most scorching heat for more than three hours, Hoshino Nana had already become pickles, and she sat there listlessly, watching Naoto Yoshiwara lazily get up and walk outside, hesitated for a moment and followed.
Naoto Yoshiwara went to fix the sails again, adjusted the sails, and went around the raft to check if there was anything wrong with the rope, and finally dived into the bottom of the raft to see if the transom was working properly. When he climbed up, he saw that Nana Hoshino had already picked up a small basket of various fish, probably preparing to play a game of feeding pets in the evening.
Naoto Yoshiwara stretched and looked around at the vast ocean. There is no reference object for such a day and day, and the surrounding scenery has not changed, it feels like it has not moved, and I really don't know how long I will drift, no wonder those who have survived for a long time by lifeboats have been traumatized.
This feeling of drifting is so confusing that if you are stuck in a dinghy, you probably feel that you will never be able to drift on land!
He took a big breath of salty air, and recalled the ancient people that Nana Hoshino had told him, and wondered if those people stood on the raft like this and looked at the same sea 15,600 years ago, and would they sigh at the unknown ahead like him, or even be more anxious than him—at least he still knew that there was land in the far side of the ocean, and those who risked their lives to follow the sun, would they have doubted that the sea was boundless?
He thought back to the beginning, and secretly admired in his heart - those ancient people may not be as strong as him, and may not know as much as him, but those people have more courage than him, dare to really look directly into the unknown, step into the ocean with extremely rudimentary tools, and pursue what exists uncertainly.
That's remarkable, and that's something that most modern people in this world can't do! A comfortable and safe life has dulled those people, and they even feel that the world is forever safe.
In a sense, Uesugi is not wrong to want to do it. Humans are indeed short-sighted at times......
But where has Uesugi been chasing now? Could it be that she has already started searching the island?
Naoto Yoshiwara was a rare nostalgic wandering there, while Nana Hoshino continued to search for fish on the "deck". The raft is like a huge sieve, sifting out the sea water at any time, leaving only some fish, and sometimes leaving some very large fish, very strong, there is the feeling that a flick of the tail can knock people out, Hoshino Nana has suffered a loss, and now she has to bring a stick to pick up fish, and if it is not good to deal with it, go up and beat the fish first.
The flying fish that fell on the raft were all left behind, regardless of the species, such as oolitic and bigeye herring, and the dolphins loved these fish. She also wants squid, this thing is considered full fat, she likes to eat it, and after leaving some of it, the rest is also given to dolphins, as for other fish...... Most of them were stabbed back into the sea with sticks, and a few of them were dragged to the bamboo shed and handed over to Nishikujo Ruri for processing, and Naoto Yoshiwara tasted them.
The day before yesterday, a fish that she could not name by its scientific name tasted like trout after a little frying, and it tasted so good that it entered the travel recipe and could never go down again on the raft.
She searched patiently, occasionally using a stick to drive away the little crabs that were everywhere on the raft - only the size of a fingernail, very awkward to step on, only stealing food and bullying immobile fish, and who knows what these parasitic critters thought of this place and crawled around uninvited.
They cling to the wildly growing sea vine plants, and in less than a week they are about to take over the area, and they are considered pests on the raft.
Nana Hoshino was slightly angry and pulled a few "pests" into the sea with a stick, and then heard a loud breathing sound in her ears, like a horse snorting in her ears.
She looked around in confusion and shook her little ears. They had been drifting on the sea for a long time, and the sea was full of lungless creatures, and it had been a long time since they had heard the sound of unfamiliar breathing, and they felt a little kind.
She straightened up and looked around, only to meet Naoto Yoshiwara's eyes.
Nana Hoshino frowned and thought to herself, "Did he burp?"
Naoto Yoshihara's eyes were full of concern, and he speculated in his stomach: "What a loud fart, is it indigestion from eating too few vegetables?"
But after a while, his face changed, and he ran quickly towards Nana Hoshino, and Nana Hoshino was also extremely smart, and without even looking back, she immediately met him. When the two of them were close together, she turned her head to look, and saw a small mountain floating on the side of the raft, and her skin was shiny and black, like a leather shoe that had been carefully maintained.
Nana Hoshino was surprised: "Whale?!" After a moment, she quickly judged, "It's a toothed whale, it should be a pilot long-fin giant whale!"
Naoto Yoshihara held Nana Hoshino behind him, looked at the large, shiny head and asked softly, "Is this thing aggressive?"
Nana Hoshino was silent for a while, and said softly: "Yes, this kind of whale can overturn a whaling ship with one tail!" she said and subconsciously stuffed the stick in her hand to Naoto Yoshiwara, and Naoto Yoshiwara looked down - what do you mean, do you want to use this thing to fight with whales? What are you kidding, this thing can't kill with a cannon firing a harpoon!
"Are you trying to let me strike first?" Naoto Yoshihara wanted to spat out old blood.
Nana Hoshino said, "No, we can't do it first!" She just habitually handed over the weapon to Naoto Yoshihara, just in case, and didn't mean anything else.
The two of them were in a stalemate with the whale for a while, and they only dared to watch but not fight.
The pilot whale, as a toothed cetacean, has only one breathing port, and is spewing shallow mist, sometimes bursting out of a few thin water columns, completely lacking the air that rises to the sky like a big fountain in the movie, and it is like a half-broken water tap.
But its huge size still put a lot of pressure on Naoto Yoshiwara, and he was very worried that it would open its big mouth and gnaw off half of the raft in one gulp.
The giant whale seemed to be curious about the raft and gently pushed the raft with its huge beak, and the raft, which was a "giant cork", drifted several feet with it.
In the shadow of the bamboo shed, Nishikujo Ruri had already touched it out of the bamboo shed, and the sound of the whale's exhalation was like opening a giant exhaust fan, and it was difficult for her to hear it. She quickly threw a wooden harpoon to Naoto Yoshiwara, and she held one in her own hand, staring at the whale with a serious face, ready to pounce on it and strike a fatal blow.
For a moment, all three of them were staring at the distant human relative in the ocean, waiting for its next move—not daring to attack first, and the thing even wanted to jump on the raft to play, and the three of them had to kneel together.
After arching the raft, the pilot whale seemed to be confused, and stayed there for a moment—looking at the exposed part of the sea, it looked like a giant black hippopotamus.
After another moment, I don't know if it was out of breath or if it was boring, I dived into the sea again, and the huge whale tail rose to the sky, and finally beat the huge waves so hard that it was like a heavy rain on the raft.
The whale was so rude, but the three of Yoshiwara didn't dare to really rush up and give it a harpoon, only to see a huge black shadow of nearly twenty meters under the raft flash elegantly - the head was on the other side of the raft, and the tail was hidden in the waves on this side of the raft.
Naoto Yoshihara ran briskly to the end of the raft with a harpoon in hand, and stood on guard. If the underwater thing wants to lift the raft, it will have to fight if it can't be beaten, and go into the sea to stick its nostrils.
Fortunately, the whale didn't mean that, and after swimming a shallow distance, it resurfaced and began to inhale air. At the same time, the sea was turbulent, and seven or eight whales, large and small, surfaced out of the sea, and suddenly the sea was filled with mist.
They squirted water, inhaled, and flapped their tails on the surface of the sea for about half an hour, and then, as if they had made an appointment, they dived into the sea again, and disappeared in an instant, as if they had never been there.
Naoto Yoshihara wiped a cold sweat at this time, and Nana Hoshino rejoiced: "Fortunately, there was no conflict, if people don't attack whales, whales generally won't take the initiative to attack ships." ”
It's not like they've never encountered whales along the way, such as the Goto whale and the little roundhead whale a few times, but that thing can't threaten the raft, and it's the first time they've encountered such a large group of whales - these behemoths are afraid that they can break the raft into matchboxes all over the sea after a while.
With a big raft, you only have to worry about encountering big whales, whether it is baleen cetaceans or toothed cetaceans, as long as they are big enough, they are a great threat, and sharks, as the overlord of the ocean, are the least threatening.
It's a simple fish, and when you get on a raft, you can beat it with a stick and call it grandma.
They are in a state of peace with sharks, and occasionally gray sharks and yellow sharks will cross the raft with their dorsal fins, but that's about it, as long as they don't attack them, they have little interest in eating people.
Probably in their opinion, there are more delicious things in the sea than people.
There was a whale encounter on the road, and Nana Hoshino was stimulated and refreshed, probably not bored. At dinner, she shook the hand-cranked generator and fried the thin layer of fish.
They had a large piece of iron that had been removed from the plane, like a big plate, and it was very useful to fry the fish after pouring some animal fat. Their dinner was still hearty, with plenty of fruit – this one should be eaten first, it won't last long – and fresh fish, bacon jerky, and canned food.
Canned food comes from the spare parts on the plane, this kind of fast food that was disdained before has now become a good thing to them, not only can adjust the taste, but also can provide most of the trace elements needed by the human body, but Yoshiwara Naoto does not touch these, but it is just deduced that he has long been tired of eating them.
He basically gave up the canned food to Nishikujo Ruri and Hoshino Nana, and he has been eating fresh seafood and nibbling on jerky.
After dinner, the three of them fell into a situation where they had nothing to do, so they went to the "deck" to cool off. They circled the raft twice—more than ten meters long and seven meters wide—and after about eighty meters of travel, they were bored again, and sat down together on the edge of the raft to meet the onslaught of the waves.
Nana Hoshino dragged her basket and fed the dolphins again, then touched her head one by one. Naoto Yoshihara and Ruri Nishikujo sat on either side of Nana Hoshino, watching her play with the dolphins while keeping an eye out for her not to be swept away by the waves.
The three of them were soaking wet, but this was a normal phenomenon on the raft, and no one cared about it for a few days, and it was too difficult to keep themselves from getting wet here.
Because of the difference between men and women, even if it is hot, the three of them are more attentive, Nishikujo Ruri and Hoshino Nana have their arms and legs exposed at most, but the clothes on their bodies are soaked and inevitably a little close-fitting. Naoto Yoshihara crossed the top of Nana Hoshino and inadvertently glanced at Ruri Nishikujo, only to see a chuckle on the corner of her lips, occasionally helping Nana Hoshino to get a fish, and her slender and slender figure between her gestures was undoubtedly revealed, revealing a vigorous beauty, different from the weak style of ordinary women.
Nana Hoshino didn't pay attention to what Naoto Yoshihara was doing, the dolphins were very cute, and kept holding their beaks against her in the sea, scratching her, touching this, feeding that, and being very busy.
Nishikujo Ruri was very sensitive, she quickly noticed Naoto Yoshiwara's gaze, looked down at her clothes, and saw that her figure was undoubtedly not a little ashamed, and looked up at Naoto Yoshiwara, a pair of sword eyebrows slowly stood up.
Naoto Yoshihara noticed that he had only glanced at it, and he was immediately a little embarrassed, and said with a dry smile: "Your injury doesn't matter, right?"
Nishikujo Ruri was stunned for a moment, remembering that Naoto Yoshihara was not a womanizer, and his character was quite good, and he felt that he had misunderstood, a pair of eyebrows slowly flattened, and his expression was better, and he said lightly: "It's no big deal, it's just a flesh wound." ”
Naoto Yoshihara nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "That's good, that's good!" As he spoke, he took the opportunity to take a closer look at Nishikujo Ruri's face, and found that her face had reappeared bloody, and she was indeed recovering well.
He looked away, and there was a faint regret in his heart - he has a girlfriend, but when he sees excellent women, there will be thoughts in his heart, is this a common problem for men?
He looked at the dolphin for a while, and then thought about his girlfriend Miki Monomiya, who had just decided on the name and separated, and found that even after being separated for so long, he hadn't even thought of her a few times...... He was a little suspicious that he was a legendary scumbag, and suddenly he didn't dare to look at Nishikujo Ruri anymore.
Nishikujo Ruri didn't look away, women have a natural advantage in this regard - men look at women, and they will be suspected of being perverts for more than fifteen seconds, and women don't care, no one will think of anything else for how long women look at men.
She actually had something she wanted to ask Naoto Yoshiwara, but she felt that Naoto Yoshiwara had been hiding from her.
Why is that? The relationship between the two of them should be considered friends, right? Why didn't he take the initiative to talk to him anymore?
She looked at Naoto Yoshihara's face and tried to find out what was wrong, but she noticed that the face of the man in front of her had a faint look of frustration on her face in the faint light, and her heart suddenly moved...... Are you too cold to him?
She silently reflected for a while, and realized that she had indeed done something wrong - this man treated herself very well, although he was hiding some things, but it should be something related to Nana Hoshino, and it should be protecting the child, and it was not much of a fault. Moreover, he immediately treated himself when he had an accident, did not leave himself alone, took care of himself when he was not adapted to the environment, and never blamed and complained even if he made a mistake, which is not easy!
Ordinary people are already annoyed with two oil bottles, and if they are not annoyed, they will be arrogant, putting on a savior's face, which is disgusting......
Come to think of it this way, this man is still very good!
Good heart, strong ability, can speak, considerate, love children, except for probably a stain before, can be called an excellent man
You shouldn't be too cold to him!
After Hoshino Nana finished feeding the fish, she showed the dolphins the empty basket, and immediately the dolphins scattered very unjustly, and you are not my master if there are no fish!
Nana Hoshino watched these playmates disappear into the sea, sat there and kicked the water for a while, looked around at the shark's dorsal fin, and thought about going into the water to play, but seeing that it was already dark, she finally gave up this plan and stood up to go back.
She got up and glanced into the distance, was stunned for a moment, a little incredulous, rubbed her eyes and looked at it again, stretched out her hand and shouted, "There is light over there!"