Chapter 7: Pirates
After Li Hao got dressed, he went to the beach and turned around.
There are no coconut groves common in the tropics, just a few perennial deciduous trees and unknown thorns and weeds.
Managed to find a worn-out shoe and bring it back to Madanya, who had been missing before she climbed the reef last night.
Li Hao himself wears high-top shoes, and the laces are very strong, but they are very heavy after entering the water.
Not only in the water, the shells on the shore are very sharp, Li Hao would rather wear them than take them off, after sitting down and twisting the water in the shoes, Ma Danya also got dressed, she was squatting down and twisting the corset just now, which is also the reason why Li Hao avoided looking for shoes, Ma Danya may not mind, but Li Hao still does it according to his own moral standards.
Just as Li Hao got his shoes and just stood up, two figures quickly ran closer, and when they got closer, they saw that it was a gray-faced man, wearing a dark red T-shirt, followed by a woman in a blue skirt.
The man saw that Li Hao, who was standing up, was burly, a lot taller than him, and slowly retreated back after stopping. The woman's eyes behind the man were big, and the eye circles were a little red and swollen, which should be for bright eyes in normal times, but now there were bloodshot eyeballs, obviously just crying.
Li Hao ignored them, holding a life jacket in one hand and pulling Ma Danya in the other direction.
From the eyes and movements of the comer, it was already clear that he had bad intentions, and he must have thought that Li Hao and Ma Danya had food on them, or that he was interested in their life jackets.
After finding a whitish sandal on the beach again, Li Hao pulled off a strap from his life jacket and fixed the sandal on Madanya's other foot.
Something is better than nothing!
There are two small hills on the island, and the highest sea level is only about 100 meters, and the trees are relatively sparse, and the grass is half a man high.
Ma Danya limped behind Li Hao, her two shoes were of different heights, and her posture looked a little funny, but she couldn't see it when she climbed the mountain.
After walking for a while, they saw a small pool, and Madanya eagerly held it in her hands and drank it in a big gulp.
Water is not a problem that Li Hao is worried about.
For islands with a range of more than two kilometers, the groundwater in the middle zone can be safely drunk, and the soil has the ability to purify. And there is a lot of rain in the tropics, and it is common to have water in low-lying places, not to mention the woods here.
The whole island is not large, the possibility of large beasts on the island is extremely low, they cannot survive without food, and they cannot form a complete food chain, and now the most desired thing is that there are wild fruits on the mountain, and they want to easily catch fish in the sea, which is the scene in the movie.
"There's wild fruit here!" As soon as Li Hao thought so, Ma Danya suddenly said loudly.
Li Hao hurriedly ran over, he was not hungry and panicked, but he was afraid that Ma Danya would eat poisonous things.
Luckily, Madanya was holding a small, ordinary fruit, and a taller tree next to her was full of brightly colored fruits, and larger than what she was holding.
Li Hao vigorously broke open the wild fruit she handed over, and there was no white pulp coming out of the flesh, and then picked a whole one and put it in the small pool where she drank the water just now, and the wild fruit could float.
At this time, Li Hao gently licked the half of the wild fruit that he had just broken with the tip of his tongue, there was no bitter taste, signaling that Ma Danya could eat it with confidence.
Ma Danya gave Li Hao a thumbs up as she ate.
"It's best not to pick the tree next to you." Li Hao said after eating a few wild fruits.
"Hmm!" Madanya nodded repeatedly.
Although the wild fruit is not so sweet, it is good to fill the stomach, and the problem of food and clothing is solved for the time being.
The two of them continued to climb up, and after the smaller hill was a small slope, and beyond that there was another hill not much higher.
After climbing the relatively high hill, Madanya hurriedly turned on her phone, but there was no signal.
Li Hao looked around, the small hill blocked the view of the place where he landed, so far I don't know how many people there are on this island, but it is certain that the pair of men and women I met just now must also be the survivors who got off the Estee Danlan cruise ship yesterday, although they are tired, they still have eager and hopeful eyes, and people who have been on the desert island for a long time will not be like that.
As I thought, the island is only two kilometers in circumference, not more than three kilometers, but there is a larger island in the distance.
"No signal!" Madanya stomped her foot anxiously.
At this time, the wind became stronger, the leaves rattled, and Li Hao didn't fully hear what she said, but he knew what was going on just by looking at her expression.
"It's normal if there's no signal." Li Hao comforted her.
"So what now?" From hope to loss, Madanya's eyes turned red.
"You see there's a bigger island over there, and there should be more opportunities, maybe there are fishermen living there." Li Hao pointed into the distance.
Li Hao's sentence is a bit nonsense and foolish, these islands have never passed through for more than a year, from Yangon to Sri Lanka and back to Yangon, the large and small islands in the Bay of Bengal have passed through more than a dozen times in a year, he is very familiar with the sea situation in the Bay of Bengal, this will not be the Coco Islands, nor is it like the islands in the Bay of Bengal, because the islands he has seen are not so big.
Is it the Indian Andaman Islands?
It's impossible, it's no more than six or seven hours in an afternoon, and I shouldn't be able to drift that far!
"So far! Swim again. Ma Danya became depressed, she didn't know what Li Hao was thinking at this time.
"Either wait here for rescue, or go over there, and you should swim in a big pool, knowing that you swim in the pool all morning, and the distance is farther than from here to that island!" Li Hao was cheering her up.
"That's different, the sea is still more dangerous, and the pool can be ashore at any time to rest." Ma Danya pouted again in front of Li Hao.
"Why don't you stay on this island and I'll go find out first?" Li Hao continued.
"No, that man just now is not a good person at first glance, he will eat me!" Madanya stomped her foot again.
"Okay, rest for a day first, and then plan tomorrow!" Li Hao took Ma Danya's hand and found a low-lying sheltered place to rest.
The midday sun was a bit hot, but it was still cool in the shade of the trees, and with the sound of leaves, Madanya quickly fell asleep.
Li Hao leaned against a tree pole and narrowed his eyes.
I don't know how long it was, but a gunshot woke him up.
Li Hao opened his eyes, the shade of the tree had been stretched for a long time, it should be four or five o'clock in the afternoon, he bowed down and pulled up Ma Danya, her hands were trembling.
The two of them bent their waists and felt in the direction of the gunshots, which was not where they had come ashore.
Not long after walking, Li Hao pushed aside the bushes and saw through the gap that the man in the dark red T-shirt was already lying on the ground, and the woman in the blue dress wailed and tried to shake the man's body.
"Pirates! It's your mouth, and you can ...... whatever you say! ”
Before Ma Danya finished speaking, Li Hao covered her mouth with his hand, because he saw two women standing not far from the fallen man, and behind each of them was a man in camouflage uniform with a gun pointed at them, and a blonde-haired woman in a leotard kept gesturing and talking to the island.
She must have been telling them that someone had gone up to the top of the island.
Li Hao knew that the situation was not good, and motioned to Madanya not to move.