As the sun completely jumped out of the sea level, the chill on everyone's bodies was gradually dissipated by the increasingly warm sunshine. On the sparkling sea, a dark blue traffic boat and a red and white inflatable life raft were gradually set up.
Three rafter frames.
These three rafters, which are nearly six meters long, are all made by tying pairs of paddles with paracords. The two ends of these three rafters are tied to the compartment beams of the traffic boat and the life raft respectively.
On the other hand, the two boats are combined into one, becoming a catamaran boat with stronger resistance to sea wind and waves.
Not only that, using the parachutes and remaining oars obtained from the exchange, as well as the spinnaker that came with the life raft, Weiyan and Hawks also made use of the parachutes and remaining oars obtained from the exchange, under the leadership of Captain Sterling and Captain Evans.
A sail was built which was not too big but could barely rotate. At the same time, everyone took off their soaked clothes and tied them tightly with ropes to the top of the sail.
"Let me explain how sailing against the wind works."
On the bow of the traffic boat, Captain Evans took the notepad and pencil that Hawkes took out from the pilot's survival bag, simply drew a few arrows and then explained, "We want to use the sail to sail against the wind.
The bow of the boat should be pointed diagonally toward the direction of the wind, and the angle of the sail should be adjusted so that the wind blows on the sail and produces diagonal forward thrust.
In this way, the boat can move forward diagonally. After traveling for a certain distance, turn the bow of the boat so that the other side of the boat and sail are facing the wind direction, and our boat will tilt in the other direction.
Drive forward."
"So when the wind is against us, our boat is actually moving along a zigzag trajectory?" Wei Ran was the first to understand the principle of sailing against the wind.
"That's right... Ah Zhi! That's right!"
Evans rubbed his nose, and then pinched the corners of his eyes, "Victor, if you were in the age of sailing, you would definitely be an excellent sailor."
"Thank you for the compliment"
Wei Ran had already pulled some of the remaining parachute cloth over as he spoke and wrapped it around Captain Evans. While changing the dressing on his injured left hand, he said, "But you seem to have caught a cold now, and we don't have any in our first aid kit."
Cold medicine, so you'd better wrap yourself up tight."
"I'll pay attention"
Captain Evans said rather nonchalantly, "We'd better use these umbrella cloths to build an awning as soon as possible before the sun rises completely. Sunburn is what we need to consider more than catching a cold."
"We still have enough umbrella cloth and enough time"
Captain Sterling pointed to the sleeping sailor moose as he spoke, "Victor, let's take a look at the moose's condition first. His forehead is very hot."
Hearing this, Wei Ran, who had just changed the captain's medicine, immediately carried the mask bag containing all the first-aid medicines to Moose's body, stretched out his hand to touch the other's forehead, and the hot temperature transmitted from his palm immediately made his heart burn.
A sinking.
After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran took off the mask around the other person's neck, wet it in the sea water, and applied it to his forehead. Then he untied the gauze on his body to expose the large burns to the sun, and applied extra wipes on the other person's face.
I applied burn ointment and fed him a tablet of sulfamethamine found in the survival bag.
"Hawkes, of the medicine in this box, give him and the two captains to take one pill every four hours until they are all taken."
Wei Ran said, and handed the watch on his wrist and the waterproof bag containing sulfamethamine to Hawks. At the same time, he did not forget to tell him, "The interval must be at least four hours. If you take too much of this medicine,
There will be serious side effects."
"Don't worry, leave it to me!"
Hawks said, having already taken the medicine bag from Wei Ran, and at the same time shook the Japanese aviation watch hanging around his neck and said, "I have already obtained a watch from the injured prisoner.
By the way, doesn’t it need to take this kind of medicine?”
Is it that Japanese pilot’s watch?
Wei Ran murmured to himself, and after putting on his watch again, he replied, "I gave him food just now, and I'll check on his condition later in the evening.
Hawks, we don't have much medicine. All the medicines found in the first aid kit combined, and now there are only 18 antibiotic pills left."
"I understand, I will save my medication."
Hawks immediately understood Wei Ran's hint, and quickly put the waterproof bag containing the medicine into the iron box, then stuffed it into the small pocket originally used to hold the flares, and hung it around his neck.
Finally, some medicine was changed for the wound on Deputy Captain Sterling's head. Everyone seized the time and used the remaining umbrella cloth to create an awning for the traffic boat and the inflatable life raft, which blocked the burning heat.
of sunshine.
"Hawkes, please take inventory of our supplies." Vice Captain Sterling said as he unscrewed the kettle filled with rainwater last night and took a sip.
"Except for the two prisoners, each of us now has two water bottles, and our helmets are filled with fresh water, so we have enough water for the time being. Of course, there is no shortage of food, except what we can find in the survival bag
In addition to the few cans, the prisoners also provided several cans.”
After a short pause, Hawkes took out a plastic box from the opened pilot's survival bag, and then took out a tin can from Vice Captain Sterling's sailor bag and said, "In addition, we also have two sets of fishing gear, and
There are meat cut from the pilot's feet as bait, although it sounds a little disgusting, but I guarantee that I can catch enough fish to fill my stomach."
"Hawkes, you are so disgusting."
Sterling said with a grin, and then took the tin can handed over by Hawks, weighed it, and said very happily, "Fortunately, when I was in Hawaii, I stuffed a fishing gear can into it.
I’m going to take it to the beach to fish.”
"It would be better if it was a can of beef," joked Captain Evans, who was wrapped in an umbrella cloth. "Hawkes, I don't want to be a man-eating Wendigo."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "I promise, I will replace those disgusting baits with the first fish I catch." As Hawkes spoke, he pointed
There are those rotten shell casings.
Evans stretched out a corner of the umbrella cloth outside the boat to feel the wind speed, and then said regretfully, "There is no wind, otherwise the sail we worked so hard to make would be of use."
“The next step is medicine.”
Wei Ran took over the topic and said, "Hawkes has all the oral antibiotics, 18 tablets in total. You must take the medicine on time. In addition, the sulfa powder is enough to change the dressings of all the wounded, including the prisoners, for about a week."
.
But there are only 4 tablets of morphine left, but the good news is that we found about 50 tablets of morphine substitutes from the prisoners. Considering that these things are extremely addictive, I will keep them for the time being.
In addition, the scalding cream is only enough for the moose to apply it up to three times, but we also have a box of sunscreen, and I plan to leave the sunscreen to the moose as a substitute for the scalding cream, so everyone must pay attention to sun protection.”
“In the end it’s weapons and other things.”
Sterling followed up and said, "We have two 1911s and a Colt revolver, as well as a submachine gun and a nuke pistol that is not easy to use. If you encounter a shark, these are very good
self-defense weapons.
In addition, we also have three steel helmets, three pieces of body armor, and two dinner plates that the moose fixed in the body armor to use as bulletproof plates."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone immediately smiled. Apparently, only the sailor Moose who worked on the deck had done this kind of thing.
"Axe," Captain Evans reminded with his own axe, "Captain Sterling, there is my axe, it is also a useful weapon."
"In that case, there are also my sailor knife, machete and folding knife in my survival bag." Hawkes also added.
"Yes, there is also Mr. Captain's axe." Sterling nodded with a smile, "and Mr. Little Chief's various props."
"I'm not a little chief." Hawks quickly waved his hand.
Little Chief, this is the latest nickname he got this morning, and this nickname was personally proposed by Big Chief Evans and approved by everyone.
"Speaking of the axe, I still have some personal belongings."
As Wei Ran spoke, he rummaged through the thermal bucket filled with supplies, and finally took out a can bottle with a medical bag on the outside and a layer of sleeves on the inside. The contents of this can bottle were naturally stolen.
of tobacco!
"Tobacco?! Where did you get so much tobacco?" Evans asked in surprise.
"I picked it up after it fell into the water," Wei Yankong said with white teeth. "I thought it could provide some buoyancy, so I never lost it."
"Don't mind me..."
"Of course I don't mind." Wei Ran nodded happily before the other party finished speaking.
Captain Sterling also didn't wait for Wei Ran to finish speaking, then he pulled off the condom and unscrewed the lid of the can, and took out a pack of Bull Durham brand tobacco and a stack of accompanying cigarette papers.
"Why does this can look so familiar to me?"
While Captain Evans was speaking, he had already pulled out the ax from his waist, "I haven't smoked with this pipe ax for a long time."
"Looks familiar to me too"
Captain Sterling took out the roll of banknotes in the middle of the can and looked at it, then took out a photo of a beautiful woman from the middle and took a look at it, and then said with certainty, "No wonder! This is the can of our gunnery chief Hagen!"
Look! This beauty is his girlfriend! I saw him showing off her."
"I think I've seen this photo before!"
Captain Evans patted his forehead, "Yes, that young man has been smoking cheap hand-rolled cigarettes. He said he wanted to save money to buy a car."
"His girlfriend is waiting for him in Hawaii." As Sterling spoke, he stuffed the roll of banknotes and the photo back into the can.
"I don't know if he survived."
Captain Evans sighed, sucked the cigarette holder at the end of the ax handle, held the ax between his knees, then picked up a handful of tobacco with his uninjured right hand and stuffed it in.
Seeing this, Wei Ran also took out the small incense pipe he found on the prisoner and shook it together with the matching leather goods. "I found this on the prisoner. Which one of you wants to use it?"
"Why is it so small?" Hawkes took it, opened the leather tobacco package, smelled it, and then returned it to Wei Ran without interest, "This is not the tobacco flavor I am used to."
"Let its owner take a sip too."
After speaking, Captain Evans looked at the two prisoners tied to the bow and stern of the ship, "Gentlemen, whose smoking utensil is this?"
"mine"
The wounded man, who had recovered from two doses of morphine and an overdose of drugs, said in English with a cold face, "You are despicable..."
"Do you smoke?" Wei Ran didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking and stretched out the smoking device in his hand outside the boat. "If you don't smoke, I will throw it away for you."
"don't want!"
The prisoner immediately said nervously, "Please...please don't throw it away! That...was given to me by my wife."
"Since you don't plan to join our tobacco party, we can only ask her to give you another gift." Before Hawks finished speaking, Wei Ran also extended his arms in a pretentious manner.
"No! She...she is dead"
The injured pilot captive said in a hoarse voice, "She died two years ago in the spring. She was a teacher. She and her students were all killed by the bombers you sent to recruit nuclear weapons."
"That was in retaliation for your attack on Pearl Harbor," Captain Sterling retorted.
"Maybe"
The injured pilot rarely retorted, "But... but my wife did die, and my children lost their mother."
"So what's your name?"
Evans took a big puff of smoke from the end of the handle of his pipe axe, and Wei Yan, who was rather tasteless, retracted his hand that was sticking out of the boat.
The injured pilot paused, then changed the subject and said, "My English name is Akira."
"So Akira," Captain Evans extended the invitation again, "Would you like to join our tobacco party?"
"Okay...Thank you, thank you." Akira, who had a somewhat awkward personality, finally nodded and allowed Hawks to help him untie his hands behind his back.
Upon seeing this, Wei Ran also handed the smoking utensil in his hand to the other party. Captain Evans was willing to show goodwill to the other party, so he naturally had nothing to say.
Not to mention that both the American and Japanese navies generally have a so-called "gentlemanly demeanor", and the Americans on the ship are not like himself and have a congenital physical aversion to the Japanese. The reality is such that he naturally has no reason to demand it.
These companions must share the same hatred with themselves.
After taking the smoking utensil, Akira, who had one foot wrapped in gauze and a condom, smiled politely at Wei Ran, who looked at him coldly, took out a small group of hair-like tobacco from the tobacco bag and stuffed it into it.
Take a puff of the incense, then take out the lighter, light it and take a puff.
"Want to try it?" Akira took the initiative and handed the incense in his hand to Wei Ran.
"No need." As Wei Ran spoke, he picked up the cigarette paper and rolled a toad cigarette himself.
"Your facial features and skin color look very similar to ours," Akira asked tentatively, "So you are..."
"Chinese people"
Wei Ran said in a calm tone, "Just like they can't forget what you did to Pearl Harbor, I can't forget what you did in Jinling in China in 1937 and everything you did in every inch of China from 1937 to the present."
After a short pause, Wei Yan blew out a thick cloud of smoke and reminded, "So you'd better not let me find a reason to attack you and your companions."
"I...I understand." Akira subconsciously moved behind him, slightly widening the distance between him and Wei Ran.
For a moment, the eight-meter-long and two-meter-wide traffic boat fell into silence, leaving only the smoke rising from everyone's fingertips, mouths and noses, and the stern of the boat, which was still tied behind its back, but had a worried look on its face.
Young pilot.
After a short rest, Hawks poured some of the slightly spoiled cocoa left in his kettle to everyone except the prisoners. After everyone drank, Wei Ran also poured the remaining cocoa into his kettle.
Most of the bottle of Coke was poured out to everyone except the prisoners.
After finishing this overly simple lunch, Evans looked at the simple sail that had not been blown up by the wind. After thinking for a while, he said, "Victor, take the thermos bucket and all the supplies and weapons to the life raft.
How about it? Of course, if you can, please leave some tobacco for us."
"No problem" Wei Ran readily agreed.
"In addition to helping to control the sail, you are also responsible for keeping an eye on the surrounding sea conditions. Of course, you also have to keep an eye on us and the prisoners on the same boat with us. If they want to do something, you can shoot directly.
Also, every morning when you come to change our dressings, Hawks will replace you on the life raft."
Evans said, having put his revolver and Indian ax into the thermal bucket, and then with the help of Sterling, he took off the telescope box from his waist and stuffed it into the thermal bucket, "Sterling,
You can arrange duty according to everyone's situation."
"Victor is in charge of the day." Sterling said without thinking, "We will be in charge of the night."
"Then let's arrange it this way"
Before he finished speaking, Evans had already helped Wei Ran throw the dried clothes into the thermal bucket, and said confidently, "Gentlemen, we have enough water and food, we even have medicine and an excellent doctor.
Medic, I think we will definitely survive. Akira-san, do you know how far we are from the nearest shore?"
"100 nautical miles, probably 100 nautical miles." Akira said reluctantly, making it clear that he still wanted to go to Laushizi Palau.
"As long as there is wind, we can return to shore in four days at most." Captain Evans continued to encourage everyone's confidence, while ignoring the desperate expressions of the two pilots.
"Victor, please take the hammock with you." As Sterling spoke, he also stuffed his hammock and a blanket into the thermal bucket. "It can at least help you get out of the water."
"Thanks"
Wei Ran did not refuse the other party's kindness. He just waited for everyone to take off an extra water bottle from their waists and put all the food, weapons and other supplies into the thermos bucket before tightening the lid.
With help, he pushed it into the sea and put it on a life raft not far away.
This Japanese life raft is, to put it bluntly, an inflatable buoyancy bag with a load-bearing net woven with rope fixed in the middle. In other words, it is a large swimming ring.
The advantages and disadvantages of this are self-evident. The advantage is that as long as the inflatable bladder does not leak, there is no need to worry about sinking into the water. As for the disadvantage, the load-bearing net in the middle of this circle of inflatable bladders is not waterproof at all.
.Although you won’t touch the sea surface when you stand on it, there are slight fluctuations in the sea surface, but it does not delay the water spray passing through the weighing net and moistening everything.
Without waiting for Hawkes to return to the traffic boat on the opposite side, Weiyan used a parachute hoist to securely fix the insulation bucket to the load-bearing net of the life raft, and then immediately fixed the hammock to the buoyancy bags on both sides.
On the hand.
Try lying on the hammock. Fortunately, the lowest point is still about 20 cm away from the load-bearing net, which is pretty good.
Sitting in the hammock, he then took out the already dried deck suit and hood and put them on one by one, and put on the toad glasses he had stolen on the Johnston.
Before putting on the trousers, he wisely cut off the trousers below the knees with a gravity knife.
By the time he got dressed again and hung a 1911 pistol on his waist, the two prisoners on the boat next door had already been untied from the ropes that bound their hands. Listening to what Captain Evans said, it seemed that
The position at the bow of the ship was assigned to the two prisoners.
He naturally knew the purpose of Captain Evans's arrangement. He asked him to bring all the supplies to this relatively safer inflatable life raft. Firstly, it allowed the two prisoners who had regained their freedom to live in peace with everyone.
Living together, and secondly, I was worried that I couldn't help but kill them both.
Looking up at the awning built with a parachute, Weiran raised his telescope and looked at the calm sea around him. Unfortunately, wherever he looked, except for the occasional frigate bird flying by, he couldn't see anything else at all.
living creature or any man-made thing.
"You can see quite clearly in this mirror." Wei Ran weighed the heavy telescope in his hand, and finally put it into the telescope box hanging on his waist.
Under the cover of the parachute cloth and the thermal bucket floating between the two boats, Wei Yan took out the oil bucket filled with hot cocoa from the metal book and prepared to make himself a cup of hot drink and start a small stove.
However, when he took out the oil barrel that was supposed to be boiling hot, he was stunned. This oil barrel, which had a capacity of 20 liters, was made of titanium alloy, and was obviously filled with hot cocoa. It was so light that it had no weight at all!
After coming back to his senses, Wei Ran immediately opened the lid of the oil drum and even took out a flashlight and put it towards the mouth of the oil drum.
"I...I fucked your uncle..."
Wei Ran looked at the empty oil drum with a livid face. Not to mention hot cocoa, it was so clean that you couldn't even smell the hot cocoa! In fact, he had no doubt that this oil drum had been filled with cocoa.
There might not even be bacteria there before you open it!
With a "pop!" sound, Wei Ran fastened the lid and hurriedly took out the other two oil barrels and opened them one by one.
As expected, the two oil drums are still empty. The water that was originally loaded on the boat is gone, and the fruits that were packed in with the water are also gone. However, the lid of one of the oil drums is still defiantly stained with
A piece of mango pulp the size of a fingernail!
"You are so cruel..."
Wei Ran gritted his teeth and rubbed the tattoo on his left hand while putting away the three unsightly titanium alloy oil drums.
Unwilling to give up, he took out the British P44 kettle filled with hot oil from the metal book. Fortunately, the heavy weight finally gave him a glimmer of hope.
I carefully unscrewed the cap and found that the hot oil that I poured in had already solidified into lumps, but fortunately, there was still only a drop of it.
While he was worrying about gains and losses, Hawkes on the next boat had already opened the survival can that Sterling had stuffed into the sailor's bag a long time ago, took out a roll of green canvas fishing gear bag, opened it, and skillfully opened it.
He hung it on his chest, then took out fish hooks one by one, hung the human flesh that Wei Ran had cut off not long ago, and hung it into the water from the other side of the traffic boat away from Wei Ran.
Hawks was not the only one who was also busy fishing, even the two captains and the two prisoners were not idle.
Except for the listless moose, the five people on the traffic boat all held fishing lines in their hands and lay on the side of the boat with their backs to the fire, staring intently at the sea. Apparently, they seemed to have reached a certain agreement to survive together.
