Chapter 41: The Stele, the Dead Wood, the Abandoned Part
"Biting?"
In the vast sea, Ma Liang, who was originally slumped on the speedboat, immediately sat up, stared at the bent fishing rod in Zhang Xiaoman's hand with bright eyes, pursed his lips and said, "It looks like it should be a big fish!" ”
"It's not good if it's too big, you can't catch it with both hands......" Zhang Xiaoman pulled the fishing rod hard, turned his head and glanced at Ma Liang, and said angrily, "Don't look at the excitement, hurry up and come over to help, whether you can have a good meal depends on this rod!" ”
Sima Bei smiled when he heard this, and immediately twisted his fat body and leaned over, holding his hands tightly on the fishing rod, and suddenly felt a huge force coming, and said in shock, "So heavy!" I guess it's a shark! ”
Zhang Xiaoman swallowed his saliva, "Even if it's a shark, you can still eat it if you catch it with a stick and knock it out!" ”
"Sharks are protected from the wild, so you can't eat them...... Why don't we let it go......"
"Let you go...... Fart! The law stipulates that the protection of everyone's life is the first priority for people under extremely harsh conditions...... Not to mention that this is a shark, it's a giant panda, and in our current situation of starvation, no one cares whether it's braised or stewed! ”
"Forget about the giant pandas, people are so cute, they can't talk about it......"
"There can't be a giant panda in this sea! Sensei beep, work harder, let's hurry up and pull this thing up! ”
"Gotcha...... I'll count to three, let's fall back together, just by virtue of the tonnage of you and me, we can be dragged up! Three! ”
Boom!
Ma Liang and Zhang Xiaoman leaned back in unison, held the fishing rod with all their strength, and lay down on the steel plate of the speedboat.
The next moment, a large fish more than three meters long jumped out of the water with a hook.
Zhang Xiaoman and Ma Liang's eyes couldn't help but widen a little, and their faces were full of ecstasy as they watched the big fish fly over the two of them.
Fell on the edge of the speedboat steel plate.
Just as the two were about to get up and pounce on the big fish, the big fish suddenly flicked its tail a few times, slapped Zhang Xiaoman and Ma Liang twice, and then spit out the hook and plunged into the sea.
Ma Liang hurriedly climbed to the edge of the steel plate, reached out to grab it, but didn't catch anything, and said angrily, "Are even fish so cunning now!" ”
Zhang Xiaoman looked at the calm sea, wiped the water stains on his face, and said bitterly, "The sea, it's all water......"
Ma Liang collapsed on the speedboat again, touched his gurgling belly, and said weakly, "My stomach is about to run out of oil and water, or let's go home...... It's been a day and a night, just floating on the sea, and there is no mobile phone signal, so I can't order a takeout! ”
Zhang Xiaoman sighed lightly, looked at the two remaining barrels of gasoline on the speedboat, and lifted his glasses and said, "According to my calculations, it should be right, why is it gone...... It's all here, let's drift a few kilometers further, maybe through this fog, you can find Sima Bei...... If we don't find it through this fog, let's turn around and go back, these two barrels of oil will be enough to support us back to the port. ”
"Xiaoman, tell me the truth, what were you and Sima Bei doing on the bridge that day?"
"Find someone."
"Who?"
"The abductors of my daughter."
"Your daughter was abducted? Why didn't I know about this? ”
"This kind of small case will definitely not alarm you, the captain of the criminal investigation team."
"I mean, why don't you talk to me?"
"In terms of finding people, Sima Bei is more experienced than you, and he belongs to dogs."
"Too experienced, now he has lost himself."
Zhang Xiaoman also lay on the steel plate, his hands pillowed behind his head, and said leisurely, "I can't lose it, I have a tracker on him!" ”
Ma Liang blinked and asked, "Then why don't you check his location first on the shore?" ”
"I checked it on the first day, but there was no signal...... It may be flooded, but it's not a big problem, Sima Bei will fix it! Zhang Xiaoman let out a long sigh, "I think that at the beginning, when I bought that watch, the boss still said that imported goods, waterproof, anti-drop and anti-theft...... It turned out to be watery. ”
"You can believe the words of a merchant...... Merchant merchant, how to get rich without hurting people! Ma Liang replied with a pout, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a small island looming in the sea fog not far away, and immediately sat up again, rubbed his eyes, confirmed that he was not mistaken, and hurriedly pushed Zhang Xiaoman, and said excitedly, "Brother Man, we can go ashore!" ”
Zhang Xiaoman pursed his lips, "Be patient, wait a little longer, drift a little longer, I will definitely take you ashore today, and when the big deal comes, I will invite you to have a big meal and make up for the fat lost in the past two days!" ”
"No......" Ma Liang pointed to the island in front of him, and said excitedly, "Let's find the disappeared island you said!" ”
Zhang Xiaoman immediately bounced up, followed Ma Liang's fingers, and sure enough, he saw a small island floating in the sea fog, quickly took out his mobile phone, opened the offline map application, marked the location he was at the moment, clicked on the place where the original island should exist, stared at the distance number displayed on the mobile phone, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly, "Four hundred and twenty-five kilometers...... It should be it! ”
Ma Liang sighed, "When I first set off, you said that there should be an island over there, but it disappeared, I actually didn't believe it at the time, I didn't expect that there would really be an island that could run away!" ”
"Eliminate all the impossibilities, even if the rest is unbelievable, it should be the correct answer......" Zhang Xiaoman said softly while starting the speedboat, "Sit tight, let's go pick up Sima Bei and go home!" ”
As soon as the words fell, the speedboat sprang out, drawing a straight white line on the sea, scattering countless schools of fish.
More than ten minutes later, Ma Liang, whose face was full of seawater, and Zhang Xiaoman, whose lenses were full of white mist, finally stepped on the island, feeling the stability of being down-to-earth again, and both of them couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.
Zhang Xiaoman wiped the lenses, put on his eyes again, scanned the surroundings of the coastal beach, and saw a stone tablet dozens of meters away, and immediately walked over quickly, brushed off the dust and sand on it, stared at the words on the stone tablet, and whispered, "Jiji Island ......"
Ma Liang also followed, glanced at the stone stele, smashed his mouth and said, "This name is quite special, if you find a few Internet celebrities to check in, you can designate it to be popular!" ”
"If you want to punch in, you have to get the consent of the owner, otherwise you will trespass into the house and be beaten to death by someone."
"Master? Who lives here? ”
"Nonsense, no one lives, how can there be such a large stone tablet here, and there used to be more than one person living here...... It weighs at least three hundred pounds, and one person can't move it at all. ”
"Is it possible to cut it into several pieces and then stick it together with mud...... In layman's terms, it is the dismemberment of corpses. ”
"Impossible, the hardness of this stone is comparable to diamond, it is very difficult to cut, and if you live alone on this island, there is no need to pestle such a large stone tablet and take great pains to engrave a few words, just like when you live alone in the police officer's quarters, you don't even bother to wash your socks."
"The truth is so true, but I still wash my socks, how can anyone wear smelly socks every day, how much buryed!"
"Why not, you haven't seen it, it doesn't mean that there isn't, Sima Bei doesn't wash his socks, he not only doesn't wash his socks, but he doesn't even wash his face."
"I don't want my face! So can we follow the taste and find him on this island? ”
Zhang Xiaoman shook his head, "Theoretically, it's okay, but it's a pity that he is not on this island." ”
Ma Liang said with a puzzled face, "You haven't looked for it, how do you know that he's not here, isn't it a little too arbitrary?" ”
Zhang Xiaoman slowly climbed up the stone monument, looked at the bare island, and said expressionlessly, "Do you still need to find this?" See for yourself, at a glance! There is not a single tree here, it is all barren, and it can be said that there is no grass at all! ”
Ma Liang also stood on the stone tablet in a leisurely manner, glanced around, sniffed and said, "Abandoned!" ”
Zhang Xiaoman jumped off the stele, patted the dust on his body, walked straight to the speedboat, and said unhurriedly, "Let's go, let's go back to D City to rest first, and then make plans." ”
"Don't give up," Ma Liang also jumped off the stele, followed Zhang Xiaoman quickly, and said with a shriveled belly, "Although I'm a little hungry, I'm not very hungry, I can toss for a while, don't be discouraged, this person didn't expect anything, Zhuge Liang was so smart that he didn't expect his own descendants to go home and buy tickets!" Look for it again, maybe we can drift forward for a while, and we can smell the smelly socks! ”
Zhang Xiaoman squinted at Ma Liang, raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Who told you that I guessed wrong?" ”
Ma Liang was stunned for a moment, tilted his head and said, "Didn't you say that Sima Bei must be on this disappearing island?" Now the island is found, but Sima Bei is not here......"
"He's really on this disappearing island, but not on the island we're looking for," Zhang Xiaoman held his eyes again, jumped on the speedboat, and looked at the white sea fog, "To be precise, this island is only a part of the disappearing island...... Didn't you notice a lot of rotting stumps on the island? ”
Ma Liang stepped onto the speedboat, looked back at the island, nodded and said, "As soon as you say that, I found out that there are indeed a lot of rotten piles, what is the mystery in this?" ”
"It's not mysterious," Zhang Xiaoman sighed softly, "It's just evidence of human greed!" Originally, this place was supposed to be full of birds and flowers, and the trees were green, but in order to develop, they were frantically cut down, and eventually the trees were gone, and people could not survive, so they had to abandon this part. If you can't see your own sin, you can feel at ease that you haven't made a mistake, but you're just deceiving yourself! ”
Ma Liang nodded thoughtfully, suddenly thought of something, and looked at Zhang Xiaoman with a sideways face, "You just said that this is a part that has been discarded, so is Sima Bei on top of the remaining part?" How did such a large island get abandoned? And also...... This island doesn't have long legs, why do you run away? Did the rest of the part run faster than the island, or was it slower, or did it take a turn halfway through? How do we find the rest of the piece? ”
"Why do you have so many questions, why do you see too many of 100,000!" Zhang Xiaoman glanced at Ma Liang, lay on the speedboat, looked at the petrel hovering alone in the air, and sighed, "Another poor child who doesn't know where his home is, what a sin...... Let's go, let's go back and fill our stomachs first, and then slowly think about the questions you mentioned. ”
Ma Liang cut lightly, started the speedboat, and muttered, "You don't know everything." ”
Just as the speedboat was speeding away from the desert island, the petrel, which had been hovering in the air for a long time, suddenly turned in a different direction and flew towards the northernmost part of the desert island, resting on a dead tree behind a huge rock.
The branches of the dead trees were covered with rotten wild cats, each with a strip of cloth tied around its neck, and each strip of cloth had a name on it.
As soon as the sea breeze blew, all the strips of cloth floated up, and the strip of cloth at the lowest point of the dead tree suddenly appeared two words, petrel.