Because the distance was too far, Zhuang Rui could only roughly see the outline of an island, but this also made him ecstatic. Being able to see land in this boundless sea was no less exciting than seeing an oasis in the desert.
generally.
"Are there any compressed biscuits or bread?"
Zhuang Rui emptied the pockets of his life jacket and found that except for seven or eight sealed compressed biscuits and two fist-sized pieces of bread, there was no other food inside.
The terrible thing is that these two things require water to eat. Although Zhuang Rui's stomach is growling with hunger, he still stuffs these things back into his pocket. He would rather starve to death than die of thirst.
There was also a small knife that Peng Fei thrust into Zhuang Rui. The black blade gave off an inexplicable cold light. If it hadn't been inserted into the foam inside the life jacket, Zhuang Rui wouldn't have known how to carry it.
Standing on the reef, Zhuang Rui observed the flow of the sea water. What made him happy was that the sea water seemed to be flowing towards the island. This would increase his chances of swimming to the island.
As the saying goes, a horse can run fast when looking up a mountain, and the same is true in the sea. Friends who have been on a seagoing ship will know that when a seagoing ship is about to dock, you can see the coastline from a distance, but it often takes a long time to reach it within sight.
The place.
However...the island in the distance still gave Zhuang Rui endless hope.
"Damn it, let's fight!"
Looking at the looming island in the distance, Zhuang Rui gritted his teeth. Without fresh water, staying on this reef would lead to death sooner or later.
I originally hoped that the rescue team could find me, but after more than ten hours, I didn't even see a bird, let alone a human figure. It seemed that Zhuang Rui was the only one left in the world. That kind of loneliness made me feel uncomfortable.
Zhuang Rui really couldn't bear it.
Moreover, it is now the time of day when the sea water rises. If the sea water ebbs and waits until the evening, then even if Zhuang Rui stays on the reef, he will most likely be pulled to the bottom of the sea by the terrifying suction force.
Although Zhuang Rui has special abilities, he is not from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. If you keep him bored for a few minutes, your life will still be at risk.
"Plop!"
Zhuang Rui jumped into the water awkwardly and swam towards the island.
Zhuang Rui learned how to swim with Liu Chuan when they were young in Yunlong Lake in Pengcheng. Although the posture was not very graceful, it was very practical. In addition, he had sufficient physical strength. After a few minutes, he swam hundreds of meters to the life-saving reef.
Far behind.
"***, what is this place?"
In order to avoid being attacked by sharks in the sea, Zhuang Rui always released his spiritual energy when swimming. He found that in this sea area, the rocks he just saw were just the tip of the iceberg.
Under the sea water, there are countless semi-tidal reefs. Just by swimming a few hundred meters in the sea water, Zhuang Rui discovered no less than hundreds of reefs. If the sea water recedes, this place will definitely become a jagged place with strange rocks.
of tourist attraction.
As for semi-tidal reefs, they refer to the reefs that are exposed to the sea surface when the tide ebbs halfway, and are submerged when the tide rises. We are currently in the high tide period, so many reefs are not exposed to the water.
This kind of reef can be called a ship killer. The semi-tidal reef hidden in the seawater has strange shapes and jagged rocks. The large one is dozens of square meters, and the small one is about three or four meters.
The draft of the semi-tidal reef is very shallow. If the ship really sails into this sea area, it will definitely hit the reef and sink. Like the reef that Zhuang Rui just swam by, it is long and pointed in shape, like a rooster's crest, and is only a few meters away from the water.
About one meter away, if a boat touches it, it will be like being stuck in a sharp knife.
The detection range of Zhuang Rui's spiritual energy is now about five hundred meters. While swimming, Zhuang Rui also checked the depth of this sea area. The river bed can be seen at about sixty or seventy meters.
However, compared with the river bed covered with fine sand, the river bed here is more colorful, with countless fish swimming in it, and it is covered with colorful coral reefs. What makes Zhuang Rui's eyes bright is that among those reefs and sand
, and there are many shipwrecks.
Some ships have their bows upward and their hulls buried in the river bed, while others are lying flat on the river bed, with seaweed and moss growing everywhere on the sailing boards.
Some boats can no longer be distinguished, and they are integrated with the rocks. Countless fish are swimming among them, and this place has become their habitat.
Most of these shipwrecks are wooden ships, presumably left over from the age of navigation in the 15th and 16th centuries, and come in various forms.
However, most of the sunken ships on the seabed are wooden schooners, and the hull joints are all connected with wooden pegs. After looking for a long time, Zhuang Rui did not find a modern iron-clad ship. If these wooden ships were salvaged, they might be able to be sailed.
An ancient ship museum.
On a large ship about thirty meters long, Zhuang Rui could clearly see that the round holes in the hull that were originally used to extend oars have now become gates for marine life to enter and exit.
Moreover, in those rotten wooden boats, Zhuang Rui could clearly sense the existence of spiritual energy, and there were countless stars.
"Damn, I can't eat when I see it, I'm so damn suffocated..."
Sensing the places where the spiritual energy of different strengths and weaknesses were, Zhuang Rui felt itchy in his heart.
No need to ask, those things must be old treasures. No wonder some people always say that the ocean is the greatest treasure in the world.
In order to set foot on land as soon as possible, Zhuang Rui kept combing his body with spiritual energy and swam towards the distant islands. Only when he was very tired did he find a reef that could be seen everywhere to rest.
These reefs have little impact on Zhuang Rui, and he can occasionally stop and rest. But the terrible thing is that there are so many marine life in this sea area, and most of them cling to the reefs.
Most of the spiritual energy Zhuang Rui dispersed was injected into the bodies of these marine creatures.
A coral reef can support four hundred species of fish. Zhuang Rui's aura attracted groups of colorful sea fish that Zhuang Rui couldn't even name. There was even a large turtle about one meter in diameter among them.
The sea creatures that had absorbed the spiritual energy emerged from the rocks one after another, as if on stimulants, and followed Zhuang Rui.
After the initial surprise, Zhuang Rui actually enjoyed this situation. You know, the lonely feeling of being alone in the sea is difficult to describe in words.
Now that there are so many sea fish by his side, Zhuang Rui feels much better.
"Damn, is that... a shark?"
After Zhuang Rui swam forward a few hundred meters, he suddenly found that the fish behind him became chaotic. A big guy covered in silver and about two meters long rushed into the fish and opened his mouth with jagged teeth.
The big mouth swallowed up the fish that were escaping in all directions.
This frightened Zhuang Rui so much that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven. Although he had imagined that he might encounter sharks in the sea, Zhuang Rui never imagined that this thing was actually attracted by his own aura.
Although the shark was still twenty or thirty meters away from him, Zhuang Rui's heart was already jumping into his throat. He quickly restrained his spiritual energy and did not dare to continue swimming. He relied on the buoyancy of the life jacket to float.
On the sea.
"Buddha bless, Bodhisattva bless, don't come here, don't come here, you can't see me, you can't see me..."
After seeing the shark disperse the school of fish, it swam towards him leisurely. Zhuang Rui's heart was beating so fast that it almost reached his throat.
Zhuang Rui muttered in his mouth, his expression at the moment was like that character who plays a character with special powers in the Hong Kong Six Little Fortunes movie, hoping that this big guy can't see him.
However, the shark didn't seem to understand Zhuang Rui's language very well, so it still swam over slowly and looked at Zhuang Rui with a pair of eyes as black as marbles.
"Knife, yes, I still have a knife..."
Zhuang Rui's hand was holding the knife. Although he knew that this thing would not pose any threat to the shark, it could still make him feel more comfortable. It was like catching a person who fell from a cliff.
It's like a life-saving straw.
As the shark approached, Zhuang Rui's spirit became tense. He knew that he had no chance of winning if he met the shark in the sea, but Zhuang Rui refused to give up. He had not seen his unborn children yet!
The shark did not come straight towards Zhuang Rui, but circled around Zhuang Rui, as if sniffing something with its nose. After about ten seconds, it suddenly swung its tail fin and swam toward the bottom of the sea.
"I will never eat shark fins again. Who the hell said sharks eat people?"
After seeing the shark swim away, Zhuang Rui's whole body seemed to have been drained of strength, and he seemed to have collapsed. If it weren't for the life jacket, he would have sunk to the bottom of the sea.
Zhuang Rui would be extremely resentful of Spielberg. If it hadn't been for the movie "Jaws" directed by this guy, would he have been so frightened like this?
But Zhuang Rui didn't know that there are more than 380 types of sharks in the ocean, and only about 30 of them will actively attack humans. Most sharks just make a living on ocean fish and are not that fond of human flesh.
of.
And Zhuang Rui is also very lucky. The one he encountered just now was just an ordinary thresher shark, not a bloodthirsty great white shark. If it were a great white shark, even if Zhuang Rui worshiped all the gods and Buddhas in the sky, he would probably
This time he will also be buried in the belly of the fish.
Finding a reef dozens of meters away from him, Zhuang Rui mustered up all his strength and swam over. After climbing onto the reef, Zhuang Rui didn't want to move at all. The scene just now was too exciting and made his cerebral cortex
The hormones secreted are dozens of times higher than usual.
After lying on the rocks for half an hour, Zhuang Rui finally recovered. Looking at the sun that was gradually sinking to the sea level, Zhuang Rui mustered up his courage and jumped into the sea again.
Staying on this reef, which is only two or three meters high above the sea, is not a safe choice. When the tide goes out, it is very likely to be swept into the depths of the ocean by the sea water.
Now swimming in the sea, Zhuang Rui no longer dared to release his spiritual energy and looked around. Although the shark just didn't bite, it would probably scare him to death if he was timid. Zhuang Rui didn't have the guts to try it again.
Exciting things.
As Zhuang Rui paddled exhaustedly, the blurry islands in the distance gradually became clearer. However, as the sun set in the west, mist slowly appeared on the sea. The entire island was shrouded in mist, full of mystery.
feel.
"There are still five hundred meters..."
Zhuang Rui used spiritual energy and could already see the white beach, which almost made him burst into tears. After floating in the sea for nearly 20 hours, Zhuang Rui felt that his whole body seemed to be swollen.
This sea water is not very deep anymore, only about twenty or thirty meters. The sea turtles and those large sea fish with weird wings that we saw just now have disappeared. There are only some smaller fish, which come from various places.
In and out of the coral reef.
The sun slowly set toward the sea level, and at this time, the calm sea started to ripple again. Small waves made it extremely difficult for Zhuang Rui to swim. He would often swim out for several meters before being knocked back by a wave.
"This won't work. You have to dive into the sea..."
Zhuang Rui felt that the flow of the sea had changed. It seemed that the tide was beginning to ebb. The waves moved forward and back unpredictably. This was also a sign of the ebb of the sea.
Taking a deep breath, Zhuang Rui dove into the water and snorkeled toward the coast. The water under the surface was relatively calm.
After swimming dozens of meters in one breath, until his chest was so tight that he was about to explode, Zhuang Rui came out of the water and took a deep breath of air.
Such continuous diving brought Zhuang Rui closer and closer to the island. Looking at the tall coconut trees not far from the coast, Zhuang Rui suddenly burst into tears with excitement.
"With coconuts here, even if there's no water, you'll still be damn thirsty, buddy."
However, when Zhuang Rui was still thirty or forty meters away from the island, he felt that the sea water behind him suddenly issued a huge suction force, pulling him back more than twenty meters.
"The sea is about to ebb..."
Zhuang Rui suddenly reacted, which made him feel frightened. This kind of suction was simply not something he could resist.
Seeing that the island was getting further and further away, just when Zhuang Rui was almost desperate, a big wave suddenly hit him and pushed Zhuang Rui more than 20 meters to the shore.
"You are paralyzed, are you playing with me?"
Zhuang Rui was surprised and happy. He took a sharp breath, dived into the water, and rowed to the shore with all his strength. He only prayed that the sea would ebb for a few minutes at night, and as long as he could step on the beach, he would be able to escape the disaster.
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The ebb tide of the sea is not as rapid as that of a river, but it is a process. At this stage, the waves on the seashore will become particularly large, and they will sweep away all living things on the shore and pull them to the bottom of the sea.
Fortunately for Zhuang Rui, there are reefs everywhere around the island.
These reefs changed the flow of the sea water, making it gentler even at low tide, which gave Zhuang Rui a chance of survival.
