On the Johnston, which had shrunk countless times, everyone put all their important supplies into the thermal bucket, and each used a rope to connect their belts to the handle of the thermal bucket.
In order to keep the center of gravity of the boat even, the people in urgent need of warmth did not crowd together but spread out evenly. As a result, the only two blankets were only enough for three patients.
Wei Yan and Hawkes could only hide under the stretched canvas hammock and raincoat.
Fortunately, now that they were out of the sea, the two of them were finally able to put their pants back on - even though the pants were already soaked through.
There is no doubt that this condition is definitely not comfortable, but it is still much better than being soaked in water all the time.
Not only that, after waiting for more than ten minutes, although they were greeted by heavy rain again, the sea was still calm and did not cause too many waves. Therefore, the only thing they needed to do was to blow the wind.
Scoop out as much rainwater as possible from the cabin, and fill up your own water bottles.
"Sterling"
Wei Ran patted the nearest deputy captain, pointed to the body armor padded on the bottom of the ship and asked, "How come these things are also in the ship?"
"Squeeze the position!"
Sterling, who was hiding under the blanket with a condom on his head, replied loudly, "The wind and waves were too strong before. These body armors are heavy enough to prevent the boat from capsizing."
"Does it work?" Wei Ran shouted and asked, while not forgetting to use the shell shell to scoop out the water.
"It's better than nothing!" Sterling responded while scooping out the rainwater with the steel cup that matched the kettle.
Looking at the hammock that was less than ten centimeters above his head and serving as a rain shelter, Wei Ran, who was lying in the cabin, shook his head helplessly and continued to scoop water out. Now, he just hopes that the sea will continue to remain calm.
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Time flew by to nine o'clock in the evening. As the rain became weaker and weaker and finally stopped completely, Wei Ran and Hawks, who had been soaking in the water all day, got the first chance to rest.
Although the clothes on their bodies were wet, the canvas hammock used as a bedding, the blankets or raincoats were also wet, both Wei Ran, Hawks and Sailor Moose slept exceptionally soundly.
In the latter half of the night, even the two captains were wrapped in the same blanket and fell into a deep sleep next to each other.
On this endless sea, the boat drifting with the current is like a slowly rocking crib, and the rising and falling waves around it are like a lullaby.
When Wei Ran woke up from his nightmare, the skyline behind him had been dyed a beautiful blood red by the morning glow. Not far ahead, there was a huge frigate bird standing on the bow of the ship, using its hook at this time.
Big Mouth tried to steal the sea fish that Hawks tied to the bow of the boat with his shoelaces before going to bed last night.
Looking at the other people in the cabin, they were all curled up, snoring loudly, or shaking their heads, as if they were trapped in an unpleasant dream.
Upon seeing this, Wei Yan, who was leaning on the stern engine and using the hammock covering his body for cover, carefully took out his camera bag, took out the camera from it, and pointed it at the sailors on the ship and the frigate bird on the bow.
However, just when he was about to press the shutter, he was stunned. Then, he put down the camera and looked directly ahead at the bow of the ship.
It's a life raft! A red and white life raft with a white spinnaker in the middle!
After coming back to his senses, Wei Ran raised the camera again and took a photo that included the sleeping people in the cabin, the frigate bird on the bow, and the life raft in the distance, and then moved the camera as quickly as possible.
The wide-angle lens on the camera was replaced with a super-telephoto lens and it was once again focused on the brightly colored life raft.
With the help of this lens, he could clearly see that the life raft was quickly approaching him with the help of the small triangular sail. On top of the life raft, there were two other people wearing flight suits and
Life jacket, man with flying hat on his head.
One of them was paddling hard with something, while the other was lying in the middle of the life raft. His body seemed to be covered with a white cloth.
He could even vaguely see that there seemed to be a submachine gun pressed against the white cloth!
Wei Ran pressed the shutter button as fast as possible towards the other party, and then stuffed the camera into his camera bag.
After hesitating for a moment, he did not take out the pistol in the camera bag. Instead, after putting the camera bag back into the metal book, he immediately knocked on the boat to wake up everyone who was sleeping.
While the frigate bird was scared away, Wei Ran also shouted a reminder, "Towards the bow of the ship! There is a life raft! The other party may have weapons!"
As soon as this voice came out, the rest of the people on the boat woke up immediately. After seeing the approaching life raft, Hawks was the first to pull out the pistol on his chest and put the bullet in it, while Captain Sterling
He immediately rushed to the stern of the ship and started the engine, and then pulled out his 1911 pistol.
Captain Evans later pulled out his silver-white Colt revolver and handed it to Wei Ran, and then took out one from the telescope box on his waist with a little effort.
The heavy MK43 telescope was raised with the help of the injured hand and looked towards the opposite side.
With the roar of the engine, Evans sneezed first, and then shouted loudly, "Two people! The other party has a submachine gun! Pay attention! One of them has already picked up the submachine gun, and the other has also raised his pistol.
!”
"Hold on!" Captain Sterling shouted, and at the same time, he controlled the engine to make the ship run.
"Da da da!"
Almost before and after, the opponent also fired a series of bursts, and a series of splashes gradually appeared at least ten meters away from Wei Ran and others. Immediately afterwards, the opponent fired a series of bursts again, but this time the opponent aimed
, but it’s the top of the head.
It was obvious that in addition to threatening them, the other party was also showing a very low level of goodwill.
"Can we talk?!" the man holding a submachine gun shouted in English with a strong nuclear radiation accent.
"Great Chief, I can swim through the water!"
As he spoke, Hawkes had already pulled out the underwater breathing apparatus he had modified with a gas mask, "I'm sure I can break their life raft."
"calm!"
Captain Evans did not put down the telescope he had been holding at all. "That life raft is more important than our traffic boat. The other party wants to cooperate with us, otherwise he would have hit us just now."
"Then I will kill..."
"The other guy had a grenade in his hand."
Captain Evans paused for a moment and then continued, "The things covering its body are stained red. I guess it must have been injured."
After saying that, Captain Evans put down the telescope, turned around and looked at everyone on the ship and said, "Now we are all survivors of the shipwreck, and we can only survive by helping each other. If we lose that life raft, we will only rely on our transport boats.
Maybe next time there is a wave, we will sink into the sea."
"Can..."
"Unless you can find a way to get rid of the grenade in the opponent's hand," Captain Sterling said, "without damaging the life raft."
"Everyone is ready to shoot at any time, Hawks, you will hide in the water later."
Captain Evans gave the final order, "Let's row over and talk to each other. If they are ready to seize our ship, shoot immediately. If we fail, Hawkes, you will be responsible for killing them."
they."
Seeing everyone looking at him, Hawks silently put on his gas mask and flipped into the water. He held up the bellows and hid behind the engine at the rear of the ship.
"You use this"
As Wei Ran spoke, he handed the Colt revolver in his hand to Sailor Moose, who seemed a little sluggish, while he opened the thermal bucket and took out a flare and signal transmitter from the pilot's survival bag.
Of course he remembered that the return mission required no killing after the 25th, so this signal flare was the best weapon for him. Not only could it easily kill people, but it could also easily burn the opponent's broken raft. In this vast sea
, being without a raft is almost the same as being dead.
When everything was ready, everyone took an oar, dragged Hawks who was hiding under the water, and slowly approached each other.
At the same time, the red and white inflatable life raft also lowered its white spinnaker, and the two people each lay on one side of the rubber raft, stretching out their arms and paddling with something unknown.
Gradually, the distance between the two sides has shortened to about 20 meters. This distance is not only within the range of the pistol, but also enough for both sides to see each other's situation clearly and hear each other's shouts clearly.
"Are you the ones who sent out the flare?"
In the life raft, which seemed to be able to hold at least four or five people, the pilot with a submachine gun in his hand asked an obvious question in accented English, "We have been looking for you all night."
"Just say what you want to say," Captain Sterling responded loudly. He was too lazy to be polite to the other party.
"We need medicine"
The man holding the submachine gun said nervously, "My companion is injured. We need some medicine. Can you help us?"
"There seems to be no reason for us to help you."
Captain Stirling, who was only in his mid-twenties, pointed to the ship, "Thanks to you, we are now like this."
"We are willing to use materials in exchange!"
The Japanese pilot holding a submachine gun continued, "How about a parachute? We are willing to trade one parachute for your medicine."
"Two parachutes," Sterling shouted while making a scissor hand gesture.
"No problem!" The pilot with a submachine gun on the raft readily agreed to the deal, even with deep gratitude in his tone.
"Farke!" Sterling muttered in frustration, "I offered a low price."
"Then make a new deal"
After Evans finished speaking, he cleared his throat and asked loudly in English, "Maybe we can reach a new deal."
"What deal?" the man on the raft opposite shouted in response.
"We have a medical soldier with superb medical skills"
Evans glanced at Wei Ran, who was holding the signal transmitter in his hand, and said loudly before he could express his position, "If you are willing to cooperate with us and return to land, our medical soldiers may be willing to help your friends."
"How do you want to cooperate?" asked the wounded man who had not spoken a word from beginning to end. At the same time, he also clenched the grenade in his hand.
"Let him help you heal your wounds. In exchange, how about we escape to land together?"
Captain Evans raised the oar in his hand and shook it, "If we use oars to tie our traffic boat and your life raft together, we can more safely withstand the wind and waves on this sea."
"Where do you want to go?" the pilot, who seemed injured, shouted.
"Land, of course," Captain Sterling replied.
"We are going to Palau in the east." The pilot holding a submachine gun gave an unexpected answer.
"Palau?!"
Sterling's eyes widened, "Are you crazy?! This is at least 500 nautical miles away from Palau! Do you know how far that is?"
“We are going to Palau”
The Japanese pilot holding a submachine gun said stubbornly, "It seems that we are not traveling together. Please give us the medicine, and I will throw the parachute to the sea."
"We agree to go with you to Palau, 500 nautical miles away." Captain Evans unexpectedly agreed with the other party's decision.
Seeing that in addition to Captain Sterling, the two Japanese pilots on the opposite life raft were looking at him in surprise, Evans whispered in a voice that could only be heard by people on the same boat, "We are about to enter 11
During the month of July, the North Equatorial Warm Current flows from east to west. Even if we row around the clock toward the Palau Islands in the east, the ocean current will eventually push us back to the Philippines, provided we don't let the other party raise the sail."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Why?" Sailor Moose asked in a daze.
"The northwest monsoon in winter will push us eastwards"
Vice Captain Sterling explained in a low voice, "If we raise the sail, we might actually be blown to the Palau Islands. Even if we are still floating on the water when we are blown near the equator, we might be lucky.
You can ride on the equatorial countercurrent and sail all the way to Mexico.
So as long as there is no sail, or the sail is under our control, we can definitely reach the Philippines or..."
"Indonesia"
Captain Evans and Vice Captain Sterling said the same place name at the same time, and then asked loudly, "What? Don't you want to cooperate? The probability of surviving on your own is very low."
On the life raft, the two Japanese pilots discussed in a low voice. After a while, the pilot with the submachine gun said loudly, "Let your medics come to our life raft!"
"If there are no medicines, I can't save your comrades." Wei Ran said loudly, "So before that, please use two parachutes to exchange medicines with us."
"Well done!" Before Wei Ran could finish his words, the captain and deputy captain all praised in a low voice.
"in addition!"
Wei Ran reminded the two stupid Japanese pilots loudly, "I will not go there until you can't guarantee my safety."
"I can use licking yellow and my mother..."
"Whether it's your licker or your mother, the thing you swear by is best placed in front of me."
While Wei Ran was talking, he had already opened the thermos bucket and took out an individual first aid box that he had used yesterday.
"What do you want to do?" the pilot with the grenade in his hand asked sullenly.
"Give your grenades and all the weapons and equipment to your comrades, and then come to our ship."
Captain Evans made an offer that sounded reasonable, "We are interested in your life raft, so he can use the life raft as a hostage."
After a moment's hesitation, the Japanese pilot handed the grenade to his companion, then took off his equipment and took off his flight suit. Finally, he only wore a life jacket with a piece of crotch cloth around it, and carried two bags with him.
The parachute in the parachute bag jumped out of the life raft.
"Victor, give him double the morphine." Evans whispered, "Look for an opportunity to join the gang when you send him back."
"Understood" Wei Ran responded with his lips moving, while Sterling at the stern of the boat unabashedly greeted Hawks who was hiding under the water and climbed into the cabin again.
Under the vigilant confrontation between the two sides, the red and white life raft slowly retreated, while the traffic boat Wei Ran and others were on slowly moved forward.
In the end, Wei Ran, with the help of Hawks, dragged the injured pilot to the ship.
Just by glancing at it, he noticed that the pilot, who looked to be in his thirties, had lost most of his right foot. Not only was a belt tightly tied around his ankle, but a bandage was also put on the wound.
The condom is for waterproofing.
Just as it was boarding the boat, it poured two white pills from a brown glass pill bottle hanging on the life jacket and threw them into its mouth.
Thanks to his last experience in Savage Mountain, Wei Ran recognized at a glance what the other person had eaten.
Too lazy to talk nonsense, in the name of preventing the opponent from struggling, he directly dislocated the opponent's limbs and jaw amidst the screams. Then, before waiting for the food in his stomach to take effect, he asked Hawks to sit down.
He put himself on the opponent's buttocks and helped him hold his raised right leg.
First, he injected an injection of morphine into the vein of the opponent's arm. Then, he injected an additional injection of morphine around the injured sole of the opponent's foot.
After waiting for a moment, he pinched the other person's wound. Seeing that he didn't respond at all, Wei Ran immediately started the veterinary work of cutting out the flesh and bones.
Under his busy schedule, the remaining water in the traffic boat gradually turned red, and large and small pieces of broken bones and whitish dead meat also accumulated in the shell shells beside him.
Without wasting much time, he sewed up the deboned sole of the foot very roughly, and finished the bandage by sprinkling in the remaining half pack of sulfa powder that smelled of cocoa from last night.
Finally, he helped the other party put a condom on the wound, and Wei Ran skillfully restored his jaw joint to normal. As for his limbs, we will naturally wait to discuss it later.
"Come and take it away."
Wei Ran waved to the pilot who was more than ten meters away, clutching a grenade and looking at him warily, "Whether it survives depends on its luck."
After saying that, without waiting for the other party to respond, he pushed the intoxicated devil into the water. Immediately afterwards, he also turned over and got out of the boat, and together with Hawks who came down first, he pulled the devil from left to right.
With the wounded man still wandering outside the object, he swam towards the opponent's life raft.
"Help me drag him up."
Wei Ran came to the edge of the life raft and said to the other pilot in the raft, "He is too heavy, the two of us can't push him up."
"Okay, okay!"
The pilot immediately put aside the submachine gun in his hand, held a grenade in one hand, and grabbed the hand of his unconscious companion with the other.
Almost at the same time that he started to exert force, Wei Ran came closer under the pretense of helping, and without any warning, he grabbed the opponent's wrist holding the grenade behind him.
"Hawkes!"
As soon as Wei Ran shouted, Hawks on the other side had already grabbed him by the collar, pulled him off the life raft and pushed him into the cold sea water.
Before the splashing waves hit the water again, Wei Ran squeezed the opponent's wrist hard and held the grenade with his other hand. Hawks kicked the opponent in the stomach.
Suddenly, a series of bubbles appeared on the sea surface, and Wei Ran took advantage of the opponent's struggle to successfully snatch the grenade from its hand.
"Wow!"
After the escort succeeded and pushed the life raft away, Hawks pulled the pilot's head out of the water, pulled out the 1911 pistol from his waist and pressed it against the pilot's chin.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Taking advantage of the devil's violent coughing, Captain Evans also sutured the amputation that had just been completed with the help of Sterling and Sailor Moose.
The Japanese pilot was dragged back to the ship.
"This is a shameful sneak attack!" the pilot, who had Hawks holding his gun to his chin, shouted angrily.
“You’re right”
The deputy captain, Captain Sterling, said with a mocking look on his face, "Just like your shameful sneak attack on Pearl Harbor."
With one sentence, the other party was speechless. Sterling also came over with a paddle. With the help of Hawks, he dragged the pilot in the water to the boat and stripped off all his equipment.
At the same time, Wei Ran also climbed onto the life raft, first removed the magazine of the submachine gun and emptied the bullets in the chamber, and then followed the same procedure to clean out the southern bastard gun.
By the way, he also found the small incense pipe he had seen in later generations from the flight suit taken off by the pilot he had just treated personally, as well as a leather tobacco bag with gold decorations.
, there’s even a separate compartment for a lighter.
In addition, there were a few Japanese cans and two Japanese officers' water bottles on the raft.
While he was busy cleaning up the loot, their transport boat also came up, and Hawks also threw all the pilot equipment that was stripped from the other pilot into the life raft where the gas was.
Only then did Wei Ran notice that the Japs pilot captured by him and Hawks in a sneak attack looked exceptionally young.
"Now we can talk"
After speaking, Captain Evans sneezed again, and after receiving the revolver from Sailor Moose, he asked, "Did that plane belong to you yesterday?"
"Yes." The young pilot, who had been stripped down to only his crotch cloth and whose hands were still tied behind his back, nodded and replied slightly horrified.
"Your mission is to go to the Palau Islands?" Captain Evans asked suspiciously, "Are you going to deliver some information?"
"No, it's not."
The Japanese pilot, who looked no older than Hawks, struggled for a moment and finally answered, "We are... planning to escape to Palau."
“Escape to Palau?”
Sterling raised his eyebrows, raised his head and glanced at Captain Evans. Sure enough, they both saw the same doubts in their own hearts in each other's eyes.
"He is my uncle"
The young Japanese pilot glanced at his excited companion, sighed and explained, "Yesterday we received a mission to fly a plane to ram your warship.
My uncle and I didn't want to die. We had been preparing for our escape for a long time, secretly preparing parachutes and secretly loading life rafts on the plane. We were just waiting for an opportunity."
"Yesterday was the opportunity?" Evans asked.
"right"
The young pilot nodded, "We have been waiting for the order to launch a suicide attack. Only in this way will no one notice that we are preparing to escape.
It's a pity that although we didn't hit your warship, we were still hit by your anti-aircraft fire. Otherwise, our voyage would be enough for us to escape to Palau."
"Why do you keep trying to escape to Palau?"
Hawks couldn't help but ask, and even Wei Ran, who was still sorting out the loot on the rubber raft, looked at the young prisoner curiously.
"My dad was mining phosphate there, my mom was there, and my uncle's family were there, but we haven't heard from them in two months."
The young pilot paused and continued, "Rather than die meaninglessly in the war, we want to reunite with our families more."
"Ah sneeze!"
Captain Evans sneezed again, and after blowing his nose, he said, "Your explanation gives you and your uncle a chance to survive temporarily."
After saying that, he turned to look at Sterling again, "Captain, do you remember how to use the sail?"
"of course I remember!"
Captain Sterling smiled, "Although I graduated from Caltech, using sails is a required course for the Navy."
Captain Evans picked up a parachute bag with his right hand and looked at it, then said with a smile, "Then let's make a sail that can take us home!"
