"I...I seem to have seen the direction Mr. Zhuang landed..."
Ding Hao, who had just been pulled up by Peng Fei, spat out the salty sea water in his mouth and said a little uncertainly.
"Did you see it? Over there?"
After Peng Fei heard Ding Hao's words, he grabbed Ding Hao's collar and asked loudly.
"I'm not sure, but when I landed, I looked up and it seemed to be floating in that direction..."
The direction Ding Hao pointed was the stormy sea area just now. However, the storm on the sea came and went quickly. Now it has basically dissipated. The dark clouds in the sky are not so thick. A few stars shine on the sea, like
It's like a fishing fire.
"Brother He, you go rowing first, I'll make a call and go out..."
Peng Fei spent almost the past two hours fighting against the waves without stopping for a moment. He was exhausted by this time.
As a special soldier with rich experience in wilderness survival, Peng Fei knew the importance of physical strength. After handing the oar to He Shuang, Peng Fei first took out a piece of chocolate and bit it in his mouth, and then took the plastic quilt from Tian Ya.
Satellite phone wrapped in bag.
"Xiao...Xiao Peng, can you give me some water?"
After Tianya handed the phone to Peng Fei, she said a little embarrassedly that she didn't know how she went through all the trouble. One of the four bottles of mineral water she had on her body was gone.
"Drink, but going to the toilet will be troublesome..."
Peng Fei threw a bottle of water over. His words also made Tianya, who was about to drink a gulp of water, become extremely ladylike in an instant. She just wet her lips with water and tightened the bottle cap.
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At this time, it was already three or four o'clock in the morning. Ouyang Lei was wearing a coat and walking back and forth in the study. There was no news from Zhuang Rui, which made him restless and sleepless all night.
"Zhuang Rui, are you okay?"
Suddenly he heard a ringtone. Ouyang Lei rushed to the table and grabbed the phone, but the busy signal came from it. Only then did Ouyang Lei react, pick up the phone and press the answer button.
"I am Peng Fei. I have found everyone except Brother Zhuang. Now I am looking for Brother Zhuang..."
Peng Fei knew that the person opposite had a high position, but this was not the time to respect him, so he explained the current situation straight to the point.
"There was no accident while skydiving, right?"
After hearing Peng Fei's words, Ouyang Lei raised his heart for a long time and finally put it back in his stomach.
As long as the plane was not on board when it exploded, it shouldn't be a big problem. In another two hours, the Chinese warship that was originally conducting a military visit to the Indian Ocean would arrive at the designated sea area.
"Reporting to the chief, Brother Zhuang's parachute is open, but the landing location is slightly off. We are looking for it now..."
Peng Fei repeatedly asked about the approximate height of the parachute he saw, and he was sure that it was Zhuang Rui, so he gave the above answer.
"Okay, please pay attention to your safety and keep your phone on at all times. The rescue team will arrive in two hours at the latest..."
Ouyang Lei breathed a long sigh of relief. After hanging up the phone, he reached for the landline, but after thinking for a moment, he still didn't pick it up. The old man should have gone to bed by now.
Just when Ouyang Lei wanted to lie down for a while, the landline phone suddenly rang harshly.
"Grandpa, why don't you rest up so late?"
After Ouyang Lei picked up the phone, he couldn't help but be surprised when he heard the voice coming from the other end of the phone.
Ouyang Gang did not answer his grandson's words. He waved his hand to the special nurse on the side, telling her not to disturb him, and then he said to the phone: "How is Xiao Rui? Is there any news?"
"There's news. My little brother has skydive and the parachute has opened normally. Grandpa, you don't have to worry. Go to sleep quickly..."
When Ouyang Lei was talking, he looked up at the clock on the wall. The hour hand happened to point to four in the morning. Only then did he feel that the old man's love and care for his grandson actually disrupted his daily routine for decades.
I have been waiting until now.
"Find Xiao Rui tomorrow and ask him to call me..."
The old man had a tired expression on his face. After hanging up the phone, he returned to the room with the help of the nurse. The whole night of waiting consumed the old man's energy as much as commanding a battle when he was young!
"Pfft, cough..."
As soon as Zhuang Rui emerged from the sea, he was knocked back into the water by a big wave. Zhuang Rui, who had never swum in waves, suffered a big loss and drank several mouthfuls of sea water.
Although the wind in this sea area has weakened a lot, the sea is still rough, and the waves are overwhelming one after another. Zhuang Rui is dizzy and has a lot of salty sweat in his stomach.
At this time, Zhuang Rui missed the scene of floating in the air very much. He did not expect that what would happen if he fell into the sea would be like this. He had been struggling in the sea for more than ten minutes. Zhuang Rui had been struggling in the sea for more than ten minutes.
Rui couldn't breathe comfortably.
"Nary, what kind of place is this? Peng Fei, He Shuang, Ding... Well, cough cough..."
Zhuang Rui couldn't stand the endless waves anymore, so he swam out of the water with all his life. He opened his mouth to shout a few times, but was immediately choked back by a big wave, choking Zhuang Rui and almost coughing up blood.
Several waves struck in a row, which made Zhuang Rui understand the unpredictable power of God. He wanted to use human power to fight nature, but he was really overestimating his own capabilities.
After calming down, Zhuang Rui learned the lesson, stopped sliding his hands, relaxed his whole body, and floated on the sea relying only on the buoyancy of the life jacket.
In this way, although the waves are big, they can no longer hit Zhuang Rui. Sometimes the big waves will sweep him into the sea to a depth of more than ten meters. However, Zhuang Rui, who was prepared in advance, can hold it in time every time.
He regained his breath and relied on the buoyancy of the life jacket to float to the surface again.
Zhuang Rui didn't know how long he had been floating in the waves, but the sky slowly became brighter, as if the storm last night had never appeared. When the sun jumped out from the east, the sky and the sea were all rendered into
Golden color.
"Damn, it finally stopped..."
As the sun rose, the waves gradually calmed down. The seawater seemed to be stationary, but Zhuang Rui discovered that the seawater still had a direction. At least his body was always moving.
"Let's eat something first..."
After struggling all night, although spiritual energy can be used to restore physical strength, spiritual energy cannot be used as food. Zhuang Rui took out a piece of sticky chocolate soaked in seawater from the pocket of his life jacket and stuffed it directly into his mouth. He desperately needed to replenish calories now.
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The chocolate that was originally sweet now had a fishy smell, which made Zhuang Rui put a lot of effort into swallowing it. Zhuang Rui paid more attention to his own life than the taste of chocolate.
Chocolate cannot be soaked. After Zhuang Rui ate all the four or five pieces of chocolate in his pocket, he took out the mineral water and took a big sip.
Zhuang Rui didn't think about saving some water. He thought that the rescue team sent by Ouyang Lei would be able to find him soon. However, Zhuang Rui didn't know that he was already far away from the coordinates.
One hundred kilometers.
There was a heavy fog on the sea surface in the early morning. Although it was not impossible to see even if you stretched out your hand, it was still hazy and unclear to see dozens of meters away.
An hour passed, and Zhuang Rui drank a bottle of water, his heart filled with the joy of escaping death.
Two hours later, Zhuang Rui drank the second bottle of water and thought in his mind, how to deal with that bastard Muta later?
Three hours later, the sun had already risen above Zhuang Rui's head. The hot sunshine forced Zhuang Rui to bury his head in the water from time to time to reduce the sunlight exposure.
Five hours have passed. The hour hand of Zhuang Rui's watch has already pointed to twelve noon. The four bottles of mineral water in Zhuang Rui's pocket have all been drunk. His lips are white and chapped from the salty sea water.
stand up.
Fortunately, Zhuang Rui found a rock in the fourth hour. Although Zhuang Rui's arm was slightly injured when he hit it, he still had a place to stay.
This is a dead coral reef. It is no more than two meters high above the sea surface and is more than one square meter in size. Zhuang Rui can only sit on it and cannot lie down.
"What went wrong? Why haven't the rescue teams arrived yet?"
At this moment, Zhuang Rui felt that something was wrong. It had been more than ten hours since the plane crashed. During this period, Zhuang Rui didn't even see a plane, let alone a ship.
This phenomenon is very abnormal. With the current development of the aviation industry, the Indian Ocean is also a very busy waterway. How could there be no planes passing by?
After waiting for another hour, Zhuang Rui began to long for rain, because the water in the body evaporated so much at sea that Zhuang Rui could even lick his lips with his tongue and take away a piece of blood-stained skin.
Compared to the mirage in the desert, facing the vast ocean without a sip of drinking water, this situation is obviously more miserable. Zhuang Rui tried to drink two sips of sea water, but he was so uncomfortable that he almost vomited out the gall.
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Zhuang Rui vowed that he would never overeat again in the future. If he had saved the four bottles of water just now, he would have been able to last for two days, instead of being at the end of his rope like now.
"No, if you continue to stay like this, you will die of thirst or death from the sun..."
Zhuang Rui stood up and looked around. He wanted to see if there were any islands around where he could solve the problem of drinking water.
"Huh? There are a lot of rocks here?"
After calming down, Zhuang Rui discovered that there were many large and small rocks on the sea ahead. Some were large enough for people to lie down on, while the smaller ones were smaller than the one under his feet.
"That's... an island?!"
The early morning fog had dissipated, and Zhuang Rui discovered that the outline of an island faintly appeared on the distant sea.
