Beside the campfire, Hawks was chewing a piece of turtle meat and asked vaguely to Captain Sterling, who had just been imparting experience to him.
"Of course, of course I'm married."
Sterling replied while chewing a piece of turtle meat, "My wife's name is Beverly, and we got married before Christmas last year."
"The chief must also be married, right?" Wei Ran, who was also eating turtle meat, asked in a positive tone.
"My Margaret and I even have two sons."
Evans swallowed the turtle meat in his mouth and said happily, "I also have a brother and two sisters. They will definitely help me take care of Margaret and my two children."
"I have four brothers"
Sterling took a big sip of the hot soup and said, "But Beverly and I haven't planned to have children yet, so that's not bad. Even if we really can't go back, at least she won't have to suffer too much."
Seeing that the two young captains were already talking about "what if they don't survive", Wei Ran quickly asked, "Hawkes, what about you? Are you not married?"
"I chose to join the army because the girl I liked was getting married to someone else. Of course, the main reason was actually because I wanted to see the sea."
Hawks, who was only 18 years old, shrugged with a depressed look, picked up a piece of turtle head and threw it into his mouth, sucked off the little meat on it and continued, "And I don't have any brothers or sisters. Victor,
And you?"
"I don't have any brothers or sisters either"
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he picked up a piece of oyster meat with the branch that served as chopsticks and threw it into his mouth. While chewing, he said the second half of Hawks's disappointed words in his hopeful eyes, "But I have a girlfriend.
"
"It seems that I am the only one who has never even seen a woman's child," Hawks said with a depressed look, "let alone touched her."
"You will have this opportunity." After Sterling said, Wei Ran and Evans laughed in unison.
"I didn't expect that I would encounter discrimination even after I came here." After Hawks finished speaking, he also laughed along with him.
After chatting and laughing, Wei Ran filled up the remaining soup base with water and moved it to the campfire to continue cooking slowly. In this way, not only did everyone not have to drink raw water, but they also didn't have to worry about the leftover soup.
The little bit of turtle meat you eat will go bad.
Putting on wet gloves, he took out the gas bottle that had been buried by the campfire. He poured a large cup of the hot jasmine leaf tea inside for everyone, then filled it with the rainwater from last night and continued to heat it.
Then he took off his gloves and lay down on his own wooden bed.
"I wonder how those two pilots are doing?" Evans muttered, staring at the tight umbrella cloth above his head.
“Should be no worse than us”
Sterling said while lying in his hammock, "Maybe they got enough food to eat for several days. I even suspect they might have caught a shark or tuna."
“This is not bad”
Hawkes sat cross-legged on the edge of the campfire, using the Indian pipe ax to chop the sticks used to make hunting bows and said, "This way we will at least have enough time to make bows and arrows."
"That's not possible unless they have a refrigerator."
Evans reminded while rolling a cigarette, "Otherwise, even if they catch a whale, it will only take two days at most, and all the meat will probably spoil."
"So they are only two days ahead of us at most?" Sterling asked pointedly.
"We still have this, plus the coconuts we hid, so maybe we're ahead of them."
Evans said, picking up the can with a capacity of more than one liter, which was used to hold tobacco. While showing the tobacco and cash inside, he said, "If we have the opportunity to get a lot of meat these days,
Class, you can use this bottle to make cans.”
"This is a good idea." Sterling's eyes immediately lit up, and he subconsciously glanced at the few pieces of turtle meat left in the helmet.
"I only remembered it after eating."
Evans took the lead and said, "Also, Sterling, if the weather is good tomorrow, you and I will continue to explore the atoll. Then we will put on the diving mask made by Hawks with a gas mask. The harvest there may be better than
This island needs to be bigger. Victor, your job tomorrow is only to collect firewood and strengthen the camp."
"No problem." Sterling and Wei Ran immediately agreed to Evans' arrangement. As for Hawks, his job was naturally to make bows and arrows.
Compared to what they had guessed, it was actually much more difficult for Akira and Jiro on the north side of the island.
At least for Akira, just coconuts for dinner is far from enough. But not only dinner is not enough, even the firewood for the bonfire is simply not enough to burn all night long.
So even though the sun was about to set, Jiro, who had been having a fever all day, was still wielding the machete again and again, with a tense face full of sunburn, and chopping down a silver-leaf tree that was strangled by vines.
"Jiro, we need dinner."
Akira threw a piece of souvenir into his mouth, then opened the kettle and poured some, and then said dissatisfiedly, "There is even fresh water! Isn't there a spring on this island?"
"Uncle, there is nothing on this island."
Jiro asked intermittently while cutting down the tree, "Are you sure about our current location?"
"confirmed"
Akira took out a silk map from his arms and opened it, pointing to a small island on it that was only as big as a mung bean and said, "Based on your description and the terrain I saw, we are probably on Helen Island in Helen Reef.
"
"How far away are they?" Jiro stopped what he was doing and asked anxiously.
Akira opened his mouth and finally said, "70 kilometers away, we just need to get to Tobi Island, which is 70 kilometers due west. According to your father's previous letter, there are fishermen living on that island, so we can definitely do it."
Find the ship from there, and then make your way to Peleliu Island little by little."
"But wait for us..."
"They must still be alive!"
Akira used the last sip of coconut juice to wash down the pills in his mouth, and said with a crazy and confident look, "The Americans cannot occupy Peleliu Island so easily. We will definitely have enough time to rush over and join them!"
"Then we really grab a Mitsubishi 100 transport plane as planned?" Jiro swallowed, "Even if there is that golden statue, this..."
"As long as we can use the gold to buy enough seats for the family to sit and a parachute, that's it."
Akira said confidently, "We will have enough time and opportunity to hijack the plane after it takes off, and after it flies back to Nagasaki..."
"If we fail, we will be..."
"You can only bet once!"
When Akira said this, a sickly blush appeared on his excited face, but then he frowned, clutched his stomach, and limped out of the woods with half of the oar.
of beach.
"Can we really get out of here?"
Jiro murmured something to himself, and then he felt that his stomach seemed to be a little uncomfortable.
“Should cook those crabs longer next time”
While Jiro was muttering to himself, he picked up an umbrella cloth that was washed clean in the morning and walked to the beach in the opposite direction to Akira. Facing the sunset, he sprayed bloody feces with a painful expression.
It didn't rain that night as everyone expected, but Jiro was very clearly aware that dysentery seemed to have found him again.
But he knew even more clearly that this time even if the Chinese Weiran was willing to help it, it would not be able to provide any suitable medicines.
Suffering from abdominal pain and high fever all night long, Jiro lost consciousness before dawn the next day and lay huddled beside the bonfire that was barely keeping burning.
Seeing this, Akira picked up the pistol between the two of them and looked in the direction of Wei Ran and others again and again, but again and again looked at the 1911 pistol in his hand.
This pistol came from the night before landing on the island. It was the only weapon he took out from his weapons bag in the dark before preparing to sneak onto the life raft.
However, it wasn't until he and Jiro occupied the northernmost tip of the island with this weapon and buried the treasure that he noticed that there were only two bullets in the gun's magazine.
It is obviously very difficult to kill four people with two bullets. But no matter which two of Wei Ran and others he kills, the remaining two can undoubtedly kill him and Jiro easily.
.
In other words, the only thing he and Jiro currently rely on is that Ran and others don't know how many bullets are in the magazine of this gun.
Finally looking at Jiro who was shivering, Akira reluctantly put down his pistol, took out a small medicine bottle, shook out a unique product from it and stuffed it into the former's mouth, hoping that these extra refreshing candies could be given to Jiro.
Bring some help.
Soothed by the waves, the night was finally replaced by daytime, but before people on both sides of the island could start their busy day, a flash of lightning followed, followed by thunder and heavy rain.
In the camp on the north side of the island, the campfire that provided warmth to Akira's uncle and nephew had been completely extinguished due to lack of fuel. Akira, who was missing most of his foot, did not go to take over Jiro's unfinished work of cutting down the dead wood.
He helped the other party and himself put on relatively thick one-piece flight suits to combat the low temperature brought by the heavy rain in the morning.
In comparison, the southern end of the island is much better. Thanks to the firewood that Wei Ran and Sterling took turns collecting yesterday, and the windbreak wall made of branches and sticks buried in the sand, their camp is not considered a
The top is airtight, but at least the sand under your feet and your body can stay dry, let alone sleeping directly on the ground.
Even, with the pouring rain outside, the four men not only took a bath each, but also washed all their clothes and hung them on the trunk of the coconut tree.
At the edge of the sky, Wei Ran used the toothbrush he had stolen on the ship, mixed with crushed carbon powder, and carefully brushed his teeth.
Of course, compared to his hygienic attitude, the other three sailors, who also only wore a piece of umbrella cloth around their waists, had no time to bother with personal hygiene. At this time, they were holding cigarettes in Hawks's
Under the leadership, we concentrated on making bows and arrows around the campfire.
There is no way to evaluate Hawkes' craftsmanship in making hunting bows. In his opinion, it is nothing more than flattening both ends of a wooden stick to make a curve, and then using gum from an unknown tree to wrap and glue it all over.
Wrap the umbrella cloth strips around, and finally hang the bowstring made of paracord.
In comparison, even those arrow shafts made of feathers, glass fragments and wooden sticks are more complicated. Because of this, he still maintains the lethality against the set of bows and arrows that are about to be completed in Hawks' hands.
Skeptical attitude.
Regardless of whether the bows and arrows are reliable or not, the heavy rain that started in the morning not only filled the water bottles and lunch boxes and helmets of Wei Ran and others, but also completely disrupted their work plans. Fortunately, as it was approaching two o'clock in the afternoon, I watched the collection of yesterday's collection
When the firewood was about to burn out, the rain finally stopped.
Time was limited, so naturally no one dared to delay. The two captains put on damp clothes, took their tools and went straight to the southeastern atoll to continue searching for supplies and lost weapons. Hawks stayed in the camp and continued to pack his bows and arrows.
.
After Wei Ran secretly took a photo of everyone, he also put on his clothes and held a telescope. Using the cover of the woods on the center line of the island, he cautiously approached the camp on the north side of the island.
However, as the distance got closer and closer, after he raised the telescope for the last time, he raised his eyebrows strangely.
Contrary to what they had guessed yesterday, at first glance, there was nothing to eat in the camp where these two pilots were wearing jumpsuits. Even the campfire was soaked by the rain.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Forget it, at this time, these two big resentments are squatting on the left and right on the damp beach outside the woods, each showing their white buttocks
, from time to time, you can still hear the screams of these two beasts and Akira's curses.
Wei Ran quietly replaced the camera in his hand with a telephoto lens, and took a photo of each of the two beasts with their butts whiter than their faces, and then took a photo of their camp.
Carefully cleaning up his footprints, Wei Ran retreated slowly. When the bushes completely blocked his sight, he turned around and ran back a hundred or ten meters. While passing by a wild jasmine bush, he took out his engineer shovel and dug it.
pellets, carried in the hand with an umbrella cloth.
The purpose of bringing back such a jasmine flower is to pick the flowers, pick the leaves and soak them in water to replenish some vitamins. Although this may not be useful, it is much better than nothing.
First transplanting the jasmine flower next to the camp, Wei Ran ran back and forth several times to collect enough firewood, either drying it on the beach, or covering it directly on the unextinguished bonfire, or
Simply spread it around the campfire to serve as a floor.
"Victor, lend me your telescope!"
Just when Wei Ran sent back a bundle of firewood again, Hawks, who was standing on the beach, immediately waved to him.
"Aren't you even wearing any clothes?"
Wei Ran looked at Hawks dumbfounded. Although this Indian boy had shaved his beard, his hair was messy.
Forget it, but at this moment he only had a piece of umbrella cloth around his waist, but he was still holding a homemade bow and arrow in his hand. And more than ten meters away, there were two sticks poked into the coconut shell used as a target.
An arrow shaft that was made just in the morning.
"My clothes are not dry yet"
Hawks explained nonchalantly, raised his hand and pointed to the southeast and said, "Anyway, take a look over there. Are the Chief and Sterling carrying something?"
"Let me take a look," Wei Ran said, dropping the firewood in his hand, taking out his telescope and looking over.
Sure enough, just like Hawkes said, the two captains were really working together to lift a pretty big thing. But firstly, the distance was a bit far, and secondly, the thing seemed to be wrapped with an umbrella cloth.
So he didn't see it clearly.
"It seems they are carrying something." Wei Ran handed the telescope to the other party, "But it's too far away to see clearly. I'll go over and help them lift it."
With that said, he ran straight over without waiting for the other party to respond.
As the distance between the two parties got closer, Wei Ran finally managed to see clearly that what Evans and the two were carrying together turned out to be the previously lost thermos bucket! At this time, not only was the thermos bucket wrapped with an unknown piece of
Where did the umbrella cloth come from, and there were still dripping clothes on it. Correspondingly, Sterling only had a pair of underwear left on his body.
"Where did you find it?!" Wei Ran shouted and asked from a distance.
"It was found at least closer than the life raft!"
Evans responded happily, "But it was underwater at the time, and Sterling fished it out!"
"Thanks to Hawks for the gas mask"
Sterling shook the gas mask in his other hand, and said loudly at the same time, "In addition, I also found a very large clam in the underwater coral reef. But it was too big, I couldn't even
There's no way to carry it up until I bring the warchief's ax tomorrow. I guess its meat will keep us full and produce an extra can."
"I just went to Akira's camp to observe them."
As Wei Ran spoke, he took over from Evans, who could only use one hand, to help carry the light thermos bucket. At the same time, he did not forget to briefly describe the situation of the two pilots.
"How's the performance of Hawkes' bow and arrows?" Evans asked immediately after hearing Wei Ran's description.
"I just saw him test-firing." Wei Ran paused, "But I have to ask him whether it can be used."
"I don't think there is any chance of winning with bows and arrows against thermal weapons." Sterling couldn't help but said.
"It won't be any harder than our Johnston to challenge those big guys." Evans looked confident, "and we can operate at night."
"That's true." Sterling immediately became excited again, "Should we take action tonight?"
"Let's see how the bow and arrows prepared by Hawks are."
Evans paused and continued, "When we go back, we have to use all the tools at hand to reserve boiled fresh water. If we suffer from dysentery or other gastrointestinal diseases like Akira and the others, Victor will not be affected.
We found a way to conjure up medicines to help us.”
"Will they come to steal our food?" Sterling asked abruptly.
"They certainly will"
Wei Ran said with unusual certainty, "But we have to wait until they can control their anus before they have the strength to come over. Otherwise, the 500 meters distance between us would be enough for them to have diarrhea several times."
"makes sense"
After finishing speaking, Sterling grinned, "Victor, you are so disgusting. Besides, don't mention this kind of thing anymore. I really don't want to recall everything that happened on the ship."
Captain Evans, who was also kidnapped when he had diarrhea, twitched the corner of his mouth and muttered "I don't want to either".
While the three of them were chatting and thinking, they finally rushed back to the camp carrying the thermos bucket.
However, far away, Wei Ran noticed that Hawks, who had been playing with his bow and arrows in high spirits before he set off, was sitting on the beach with his head bowed. Next to him, there was a bow.
A hunting bow with cracked body and loose string.
"I messed up," Hawks said with a mournful face to the three guards. "The wood I chose is cracked. I'm sorry, I may have to find new wood."
