You Xi didn't say anything. It was very risky to abandon the boat and use a rubber boat.

The speedboat's radar is small, with a maximum range of 20 nautical miles. If the location of the mainland coastline is not displayed on the radar before the fuel is used up, even if they have the physical strength to row the rubber boat for more than 20 nautical miles, it is very easy to get lost in the vast sea.

right direction.

That night, when it was her turn to watch the night, she quietly went to the front of the speedboat and stayed for a while.

The portable oil drums that were previously placed at the front and rear ends were not discarded after refueling. They were still stacked neatly together. One reason was that the hull was too light when the sea was rough and waves. These oil drums themselves also have a certain weight and can be pressed.

Secondly, the people on the speedboat are not in the habit of throwing garbage into the sea.

She untied the fixed rope, paused for two seconds and then tied the rope back.

The next day, Seaman, who was on the first night shift, got up early and planned to check all the oil barrels, hoping that by piecing them together, he could find some more fuel.

However, when he finished inspecting the stern of the speedboat and came to inspect the front end, he soon got an unexpected discovery and exclaimed with joy: "There is oil! The bucket in the corner is full, my God! It's a whole bucket! Wait - this bucket

It’s also full...three barrels! We still have three barrels of diesel! It must have been that we didn’t check it properly before!”

On the last night of duty, You Xi, who was just sleeping in the cabin of the boat, closed his eyes and listened to the joyful exclamations outside, and gently raised the corners of his lips.

How could she leave it behind when she knew how important it was?

Of course the speargun man and his gang saw it, but it didn't matter whether they saw it or not. They wouldn't meet again in the future anyway. She just wanted to make sure that Lin Wu and the others didn't see it.

As for the three barrels of diesel, Ximan and Yuan Qi were easy to deceive, and it was impossible for Lin Wu and Yuan Ning not to be suspicious at all.

But I still say the same thing. If you haven’t seen it with your own eyes, even if you find it difficult to explain or have doubts, you won’t make a hasty judgment.

Furthermore, she had already prepared to use [Lipstick Disguise] after arriving on the mainland. For the remaining mission time, it would be better for her to do it in single-player mode.

In the past few days, she was almost depressed after eating instant noodles, white porridge and canned fruits.

She has only eaten the tip of the iceberg of the various gourmet takeaways at the Star House Warehouse, including pizza, crispy roast duck, Sichuan and Hunan cuisine, Northeastern cuisine, duck wings and duck feet with various braised flavors, fried chicken... She has never eaten these before.

She was very willing to share, but she couldn't take it out. In the end, she could only take some coconut cakes, vacuum meat, pork breasts, bags of instant coffee, small cans of potato chips, and spicy strips from her backpack, which were suitable for appearing in the backpack.

Share snacks and relieve your depression at the same time.

At around eight o'clock in the morning, You Xi, who was having breakfast in the cabin, felt that the speed of the speedboat was gradually slowing down. After a while, Seaman came down from the upper level and said, "Come and take a look."

Mother and son You Xi and Yuan Qi wrapped themselves tightly in their down jackets, put on their hoods, and carried Yuanyuan fully armed out of the cabin.

The temperature has dropped again. In the early morning, the temperature had dropped below minus 30 degrees Celsius. Now it has warmed up slightly, but only by three or four degrees. Yuanyuan now has to wrap herself in a quilt when going in and out.

But luckily, apart from low temperatures, they encountered no other extreme weather conditions, and the sea surface was as calm as a giant mirror.

You Xi thought Ximan was in such a hurry because she saw land. However, when she stood by the railing and looked through the plastic sheet, she discovered that there were dense pieces of broken ice floating on the sea in front of her.

These ices are thin, irregular in shape, light white and transparent, some are large and some are small, but the overall diameter does not exceed ten centimeters, and some smaller pieces of ice are stuck to each other.

The front end of the speedboat hit these adhering ice fragments and was easily separated.

"It's sea ice." You Xi had looked up information about sea ice before. Sea ice is salt water ice formed from sea water, and it is also a type of natural disaster.

Looking around, the sea ice should be in a state of primary ice, which is formed on calm, low-temperature seas and can easily be crushed by speedboats as they move forward.

But as it gets closer to the continental shelf, the state of the sea ice will become more and more solid, and the thickness will slowly change from the current flake-like shape to 10 to 30 centimeters of thick ice, sometimes even up to one to three meters in diameter.

It will grow from the current ten centimeters to one meter or even three or four meters.

That kind of sea ice makes it difficult for any ship unless it is an icebreaker.

Sea ice was originally a phenomenon unique to the polar regions and high-latitude seas, but it was unexpected that it would now appear in the subtropics.

"What should we do now? Can we still drive forward?" Yuan Qi was a little worried.

"We can only drive forward." Yuan Ning pushed the forward lever again, "I just hope the situation ahead won't be too bad."

More than half an hour later, the sea ice in the surrounding waters became significantly larger and thicker, and its color also changed from light white and transparent to gray. When the front end of the speedboat collided, they could clearly hear the sound of the ice breaking.

When the ice surface turned gray-white, the speedboat stopped again, this time it was forced to stop.

"It can't be driven. The ice is too thick for the speedboat to break. And it's surrounded by ice. There's no room to squeeze through." Yuan Ning punched the bridge. They were already here, and they were about to reach land.

, are you just trapped and dead here?

"How much diesel do we have?" Lin Wu asked Ximan.

"I added a barrel to the fuel tank in the morning, and now there are two barrels left." Seaman understood, "Do you want to use fire to melt the ice? But there are so many ice cubes, and if diesel is used to melt the ice, we may not have enough fuel to reach the mainland.

"

fire?

Ximan's words reminded You Xi, and she looked at the silent people: "If you just need fire to melt ice, I may have a way."

A few minutes later, several people stood at the front of the speedboat, looking at the things in You Xi's hand, and fell into silence again.

The crystal glass bottle in her hand is very beautiful, about ten centimeters long, with a curved body, crystal clear pink, and a crystal bow on the top of the bottle. Holding it between her slender fingers, it looks like...

Bottle of perfume!

Everyone:......??

[High Temperature Perfume] There are five sizes in total, which can be adjusted by rotating the crystal bow. The ones she used last time were 1 and 2, and the length of the flame sprayed is about 5 cm and 20 cm.

She thought for a while, adjusted the size to the third gear this time, then opened the safety lock and pressed it against the ice.

This time was different from the last two times. When You Xi pressed the nozzle, the thermal insulation protective film automatically opened. She only felt that there was an invisible and colorless insulation film tightly wrapping her hands, arms and the entire front of her body.

stand up.

Instantly, accompanied by the faint smell of perfume, a blue flame nearly one meter long appeared in the air. The flame was as straight as a pillar, and the moment it touched the ice, it cut the thick ice in two like a laser cutter.

You Xi:......?

Everyone:......!!

When all the diesel on the speedboat was consumed, the land of Jingguo was already faintly visible.

At this moment, what lies between the speedboat and the land is a piece of fixed ice that has almost condensed into a sheet. This type of sea ice is thicker, extends from the coast, and is completely white.

In the distance, in the middle of this white fixed ice, you can see the wreckage of various ships.

Those were the traces left after the tsunami raged, and it seemed that the coastal land was not spared either.

"Does the phone have signal?" Lin Wu asked Yuan Ning.

"Yes, but it's unstable and intermittent." Yuan Ning tried to call her parents, but the signal was intermittent and she had to give up.

You Xi stood on the bow of the ship and used a telescope to check the situation on the coast: "There is currently no movement on the coastline."

"Get off the boat, put the food and water supplies on the rubber boat, and we will drag the rubber boat over." Lin Wu said, and he and Ximan began to inflate the rubber boat.

The diesel was exhausted, and the only supplies they had were water, which was not heavy. They removed the plastic film from the speedboat and used it with rope to make a simple waterproof bag, and put the remaining water and quilts in it.

Several people had wrapped blankets and other warm-weather items outside their clothes. Yuan Qi was afraid that the blanket wrapped around Yuanyuan would fall off while she was sitting in the rubber boat, so she simply tied the blanket to Yuanyuan's body with a rope.

In the past few days, whether he was at sea or seeing sea ice, Yuanyuan felt extremely strange. He sat motionless and obediently under Yuan Qi's instructions. His whole body was wrapped in a blanket, only his round eyes were exposed.

I looked curiously at the frozen world outside the rubber boat, which looked very much like the Antarctic continent I had seen on TV before.

The group of people got off the speedboat. Ximan and Lin Wu tied the rubber boat with ropes and dragged it in front. You Xi and the other three helped adjust the direction of the rubber boat from behind to avoid accidentally falling into the cracks in the ice.

But this worry is purely exaggerated. The fixed ice is as hard as the ground. Except for the slightly uneven surface, there is no need to worry about cracking.

Due to the low temperature and the difficulty of walking on the ice, they walked for more than two hours and did not reach even half of the distance. The land within sight was still out of reach.

"Let's take a rest." Lin Wu pulled down his collar and asked Yuan Ning to try to make a phone call again.

"What's the sound?" Just as Seaman was about to step into the rubber boat and sit down, he vaguely heard a subtle and familiar sound.

Soon Youxi and others also heard the sound. After carefully distinguishing it for a few seconds, they suddenly looked to the sky at the same time.

There was no sun visible in the gloomy sky, and when I looked up I could only see a patch of white, but that familiar voice became clearer and clearer.

Then, they saw something flying close in the distance.
Chapter completed!