Chapter 10
On the second day of survival at sea, several life rafts were flying towards Wen Zheng and the others.
Xiang Hong, who was in charge of the alert, couldn't figure out what they were going to come, so he turned around and prepared to call Qin Yanjie and Wen Zheng.
"Are you the life rafts who started blowing the whistle last night?" Before Xiang Hong's hand touched Wen Zheng's shoulder, someone roared outside. Everyone was awakened, and An An was awakened directly and cried at a loss.
It actually scared my daughter to tears!
Qin Yanjie quickly picked up An An and saw that his father and brothers and sisters were there, An An quickly felt relieved to sleep again.
Ask Xie Zhuohua to help take care of An An, Qin Yanjie lead the way to the curtain.
Those who had paddled over the life raft were about to explain their purpose when they saw the curtains being pulled up, but when they saw Qin Yanjie coming out, they were stuck in their throats and couldn't speak.
I have been a leader for several years and my parents have been a teacher for more than ten years. Qin Yanjie got angry and his aura was really scary. He glanced around for a week, and he was not panicked even if he was half surrounded. He said coldly: "It was me who blew the whistle yesterday. Is there any problem?"
Wen Zheng and the others were behind, and they were full of expressions that we were not easy to mess with.
"No problem, no problem." The middle-aged man who was facing Qin Yanjie quickly shook his head. He felt that he had seen his son's head teacher. The boy just didn't know how to study hard, and he spent a lot of money in vain. When he saw the teacher, he was basically criticized. Now he has become a conditioned reflex and is scared when he sees someone who looks like a teacher.
"Then don't make noise when people sleep!" After saying that, he pulled down the door curtain directly.
"Oh, no, it's really the whistle blowing of your life raft. We have no malice, just to thank you." Someone still reacted in time and quickly explained the reason why they came here.
The middle-aged man who was speaking just now smiled awkwardly. He kept his voice very loud. He didn't pay attention just now and accidentally forgot to control it.
The matter was finally explained clearly. These life rafts gathered yesterday, thinking that everyone would not be so anxious while waiting for rescue.
But they didn't expect the sudden drop in temperature, and they didn't arrange for people to watch. If there were any sudden whistle sounds last night, many people would have caught a cold and fever. Even so, there were not enough insulation clothes, and a few of them still caught a cold.
When they talked about this today, they found that the person who blew the whistle whistle was not the one in them. The middle-aged man said he would like to thank him. No matter what the rest of the people thought, they also followed him to come.
Qin Yanjie accepted their verbal thanks on behalf of everyone. The middle-aged man patted his chest and said, "After you found that the temperature dropped, you still wanted to remind others that they are all real men. I, Lao Qian, respect such people. You can come and chat with us if you have nothing to do in the future. We are all unlucky people, and we have common topics, and we will scold Yuanning Group together."
In addition to having a big voice, this old Qian is quite good.
After being disturbed by this emergency, everyone's sleepiness was gone.
After Lao Qian and the others left, they held a small meeting again and concluded that Lao Qian could contact when needed.
The night was still the same cold that night, and everyone had already prepared their minds.
This time, there is not a self-heating hot pot to eat like the day before. I can only rely on rubbing my hands and feet and hugging each other to keep warm. I must stay awake at night, and my work and rest are completely reversed.
The food provides everyone with sufficient calories, and they also learn to make fun of bitterness and turn the chocolate from smelling martial arts into the water. The sweet taste can soothe people's emotions.
They survived the night safely.
But An An, who had the weakest resistance, caught a cold. After drinking antipyretics, An An made a uncomfortable hum in her sleep.
Qin Yanjie saw An An's uncomfortable look and his whole mood became extremely depressed. This was the third day of drifting on the sea. When will the rescuers arrive?
Not only Qin Yanjie, but the entire life raft was a little impatient except Wen Zheng. Wen Zheng gave him seven days to the mission, so he knew that he could go home after seven days, while others didn't know that not having a day of rescue means that they needed to wait forever.
This situation is not very good. In this desperate situation, you must maintain a strong mentality and firm will. Wen Zheng tried hard to think about what to say that could arouse other people's desire to survive.
He looked up and saw the sun in the sky.
The sun poked its head out of the clouds, and its appearance represented warmth.
The figure of the sun was quickly discovered by everyone. All the curtains of life rafts around were opened by the excited survivors, letting the sun shine on them, driving away the cold of the two nights.
Qin Yanjie hugged An An and came to the curtain and laughed happily.
Wen Zheng and the others' steps became much lighter, and they almost jumped forward on the bottom of the inflatable raft.
Everyone held a container containing fresh water in their hands and carefully placed it in the sun. Wen Zheng thought about it, found a small mirror from his backpack, found the right angle and fixed it, so that more sunlight shines on the water. After two nights, they not only wanted to bask in the sun, but also drink hot water. It was such a simple requirement.
When they were hungry, Du Peiran and Xiang Hong even put the compressed biscuits into the already hot water. The yellow compressed biscuits turned into a yellow paste after soaking them in the water.
Wen Zheng watched their movements from the side. It was completely impossible to arouse appetite. He would never eat like this.
At this time, Xie Zhuohua came over with a bite of the compressed biscuits, then turned around and walked back. When he appeared again, he also held a box of yellow fuzz.
What does this weather force people into?
Wen Zheng shook his head, then sat next to them holding the box with the same content.
After eating, Wen Zheng took out the empty metal box containing water that had been filled with sea water while the sun was still strong.
Wen Zheng took out the bone-cutting knife from his backpack, and a huge breathing sound came from behind him. Xie Zhuohua was so scared that his voice became sharp: "Brother Wen, there is actually a knife in your backpack."
"Oh my God! Brother, is your backpack a treasure bag? How come you can take out anything? There is such a magic weapon. This knife is not the legendary bone-cutting knife. No, Brother Wen, why are you taking out the knife at this time? There is nothing to cut." Du Peiran was not talking too much when he was nervous and afraid, but was a complete talker.
Wen Zheng rolled his eyes at Du Peiran, and slammed the back of the bone-cutting knife to the metal box, making a depression on each side of the metal box. Wen Zheng gently tapped it with the bone-cutting knife to ensure that the groove was high inside and low outside. Then Wen Zheng took out the wooden chopsticks he was in the cafeteria at that time, inserted it in the center of the metal box, gestured with his hand twice, then picked up the chopsticks and broke them into the appropriate length.
The things were all ready, Wen Zheng walked to the side with the metal box and brought out a box of sea water.
Xiang Hong suddenly realized and said, "Brother Wen, are you going to make a seawater distiller?"
"Brother Wen, you can even do the distiller?" Du Peiran immediately came over to see Wen Zheng's operation.
In fact, the operation is very simple. Wen Zheng himself tried to make a distiller, and the principles were similar. The materials were prepared in advance on the cruise ship.
Stand the chopsticks in a metal box filled with sea water, hold a plastic film and put it on the metal box, and the film will be supported by the chopsticks. When the sun shines on the container, the temperature reaches a certain level, the sea water will evaporate, and the water vapor will float upward and condense when it encounters the plastic film, and then flow along the film to the grooves on both sides of the metal box. At this time, as long as there is something to collect the water.
This operation made everyone interested, and there were several empty metal boxes, all of which started to move with great enthusiasm.
These simple stills occupy the best position of sunshine, and under everyone's attention, they successfully collected valuable fresh water.
"This is the fourth day of our rafting on the sea, and we haven't waited for the arrival of rescue. The food stored in the life raft has been eaten by us. This is because the temperature was too low two nights before, so we could only eat more to replenish the energy consumed in our bodies. There is not much food now, but we don't even see a fish, and the seabirds don't even have a shadow. There is no way to replenish the food, but fortunately the freshwater can be distilled out through the sea water. Thank God, Xiao Hong and I, let me meet Brother Wen and Qin, and I hope God can bless the rescue and come today." Du Peiran lay on the life raft, holding a pen and writing today's diary in a notebook.
Just now, Lao Qian came again and came with a book and pen. He said very open-mindedly: "I was thinking about writing something, but if I couldn't go back, I would treat it as my last words. If I threw it into the bottle, someone might find it. If we could go back safely, this thing would be a rare souvenir."
So this one became everyone's diary.
They also get other life rafts from Lao Qian's mouth.
You can see what happened from Du Peiran's diary. Resisting the cold requires more energy to replenish. Most life rafts consume a little faster food. It is not that no one thought of rainwater and distilled water. It was just a hurry to escape from the cruise ship. There were not many containers to hold water when it rained, and now there is no thing to make a distillation device.
Most people are a little anxious.
The strange temperature added to everyone's anxiety. It was so cold that the life raft was not effective some time ago. On this day, the temperature began to rise rapidly. Not long after the sun came out, everyone noticed something was wrong. Without the sun basking, the curtains of the life raft were closed again, this time to block the extremely popular sunlight yesterday.
The long-sleeved trousers I put on to keep warm were taken off and I changed to short-sleeved shorts. At noon when the temperature was the highest, everyone's foreheads began to sweat, making people want to jump into the sea and take a good shower.
However, the strong sunlight also represents ultraviolet rays. If you jump into the sea, your skin will soon be sunburned.
Chapter completed!