Eight hundred and twentieth chapters escape from death
Chapter 825: Escape from Death
The fleet performing military missions in the Indian Ocean was the first to arrive in the designated waters and the first to discover the survivors of the plane crash.
At around six o'clock in the morning, Peng Fei and others boarded the battleship and changed into clean clothes. The two girls were so frightened that they developed a high fever and were assigned to rooms to sleep.
Peng Fei only rested for a while and then followed the rescue team to search for Zhuang Rui. However, as the search scope continued to expand, no trace of Zhuang Rui was found.
As time went by, Peng Fei became anxious and his temper became violent. After several requests to fly the helicopter on the battleship to search for Zhuang Rui were rejected, he almost had a conflict with the commander.
"What? We haven't found it yet. You have more than a dozen warships and hundreds of aircraft, but you can't even find a single person in an area of 30 nautical miles?"
Ouyang Lei's face was ashen. He didn't sleep well yesterday. He was woken up by the phone at six o'clock in the morning.
After hearing the news that the people involved in the plane crash had been found, Ouyang Lei thought Zhuang Rui was safe, but the next news made Ouyang Lei completely sleepless and he stayed by the phone the whole time.
"Chief, all the planes have been dispatched, but Zhuang Rui is still nowhere to be seen. I...I suspect..."
The voice on the other end of the phone was a little hesitant and hesitated to say anything further.
"Don't doubt it. If you want to see people alive or dead, you must see their corpses. This is an order. Also, the South China Sea Fleet should be arriving soon. You two will work together to expand the search area. Remember, you must find me!"
Ouyang Lei interrupted the other party rudely. If he couldn't find Zhuang Rui, he didn't know how he should explain to the old man. How should he face his widowed sister-in-law and Zhuang Rui's wife who was about to give birth?
"Yes, I promise to complete the task!"
Although the promise was firm on the phone, Ouyang Lei was still very uneasy. After hanging up the phone, Ouyang Lei sat for a while, stood up and hurried out of the office.
"Arrange the plane, I'm going to the South China Sea Fleet for work inspection..."
Some things are just like this, and can be justified by another reason. Although everyone knows Ouyang Lei's purpose of going to the South China Sea Fleet at this moment, no one can say anything to accuse him.
"Lao Xie, what do you think?"
On the deck of the command ship, two naval officers with the rank of rear admiral hanging on their shoulders were having a conversation.
"How else can we look? The South China Sea Fleet has come out, let's keep looking..."
The man called Lao Xie was the highest ranking member of the visiting team and the deputy commander of the East China Sea Fleet, one of the three major fleets. Standing next to him was deputy political commissar Shen Hua.
Shen Hua glanced at Commander Xie and said: "It has been more than 20 hours since the plane crashed. Besides, there was another storm in this sea area yesterday. I estimate that the missing people should have died. Why bother with people and money?"
ah……"
Political Commissar Shen was a little disapproving of this mission. As the chief steward of a fleet, he knew clearly that the supply consumption of a fleet at sea for a day was extremely astonishing.
Now, in order to search for the people on a plane crash, not only did they temporarily terminate their mission, but they also dispatched the South China Sea Fleet, which is closest to the Indian Ocean. You know, that is a national strategic force.
However, the order was issued directly by the Military Commission, and even if it was not understood, it had to be carried out. Political Commissar Shen could only complain in front of his old partner.
"Old Shen, don't talk nonsense. Remember the instructions above. If you want to see people alive or dead, you will see corpses. Expand the search area by another 30 nautical miles..."
Commander Xie interrupted the political commissar. The order was given to him directly by Deputy Chief Ouyang of the General Staff. In the past ten hours, the Deputy Chief made seven or eight phone calls in succession, and his tone became increasingly tense.
The worse.
After reading yesterday's sea weather report and asking several other survivors, Commander Xie was not very optimistic about the possibility of the man named Zhuang Rui surviving.
A general who has spent half his life on the sea is no stranger to storms. Even these armored warships may be overturned by storms, let alone people entering them.
"But……"
"No need to say any more, if you continue to issue the order, the search range will be expanded to thirty nautical miles..."
Commander Xie waved to the guards standing far away and issued new orders.
One nautical mile is nearly 2 kilometers away. Expanding the search range by 30 nautical miles will be almost 60 kilometers. This is beyond the scope of yesterday's storm. If it can't be found again, Commander Xie will have nothing to do.
Zhuang Rui felt like a rag doll, being torn around mercilessly by the sea. He almost fainted as he was hit by big waves. If he hadn't seen the coast so close to him, Zhuang Rui would have been there long ago.
I can't hold on anymore.
It was only the last twenty meters, but Zhuang Rui couldn't reach the shore no matter what. The gravitational force of the returning tide was too great. Zhuang Rui was no more than a piece of grass at this moment and had no ability to resist.
"ah!!!"
Zhuang Rui became increasingly uneasy. He felt that the tide seemed to be completely receding. If he could no longer set foot on land, he would most likely be sucked into the depths of the Indian Ocean.
After raising his head out of the sea and letting out a roar, Zhuang Rui poured all his spiritual energy into his body. The influx of spiritual energy made him full of energy in an instant, and he plunged into the sea with a sudden force.
The depth of the water here was only three or four meters deep. After Zhuang Rui dived to the bottom of the water, he stuck his hands firmly in the mud on the bottom of the sea and crawled towards the shore with difficulty.
One after another undersea currents hit Zhuang Rui's body. Due to the buoyancy of the seawater and the life jacket, Zhuang Rui's entire body floated. If Zhuang Rui hadn't just grabbed a small reef, Zhuang Rui would have been sucked into the deep sea at this moment.
A minute passed, and Zhuang Rui's hands firmly grasped the rock.
Two minutes passed, and a feeling of suffocation came, but Zhuang Rui could still hold on.
Three minutes passed, and Zhuang Rui began to slowly exhale the air in his chest.
Five minutes passed, and Zhuang Rui's face turned a little blue, but he felt that the suction coming from the sea water did not seem to be that strong anymore.
Eight minutes passed. Zhuang Rui's brain was extremely deprived of oxygen, his face had blue veins exposed, and his whole body felt like it was going to explode. In order to hold on a little longer, Zhuang Rui buried half of his head into the sand at the bottom of the sea.
Twelve minutes passed. After taking a mouthful of sea sand, Zhuang Rui couldn't bear it anymore. He kicked his feet on the bottom of the sea and jumped up with his whole body.
"Cough...cough...bah, bah..."
As soon as he got out of the sea, Zhuang Rui hurriedly opened his mouth to breathe in the air. Unexpectedly, he almost sucked in the sand in his mouth. He coughed and his face turned red. At this time, he didn't realize that he even had two feet.
They have all left the sea.
"Ah? What's going on? When can I jump so high?"
Zhuang Rui still remembered that when he was diving, he was still three or four meters above the sea surface. But now, Zhuang Rui just felt like he jumped up out of thin air, and the buoyancy and pressure of the seawater disappeared in an instant.
Looking down, Zhuang Rui saw that his entire body was exposed to the air.
It wasn't until Zhuang Rui fell from the air to the sea that he realized that the water, which was originally three to four meters deep, could only barely cover his calf.
"Damn, I was in such deep water just now, I almost suffocated to death???"
Zhuang Rui's hypoxic brain was stunned for a while before he realized what he had just done. He just had to raise his head to breathe air, but instead, like an ostrich, he buried his head in the sea sand and almost lost his life.
Tied to death.
"I...I'm so fucking stupid..."
Zhuang Rui slapped himself. He really couldn't forget the fact that he almost choked to death just now.
But Zhuang Rui didn't know that he was just over a minute away from breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest time to hold his breath in water, set by Canadian Robert Forster in 1959.
It cannot but be said that human potential is infinite. As far as Zhuang Rui's normal level is concerned, he can usually persist for five minutes, which is pretty good.
"I'm on shore? What's going on?"
After getting angry with himself, Zhuang Rui realized this problem. However, for a moment, Zhuang Rui did not expect that this was a normal phenomenon after the sea receded. Of course, this was all caused by the lack of oxygen in the brain.
Just when Zhuang Rui was about to jump up to celebrate his escape from death, his expression suddenly changed because he heard a strange sound in his ears, coming from behind.
Zhuang Rui looked back and saw a wave that was seven or eight meters high, more than ten meters away from him, like a monster opening its mouth and swallowing him.
"Oh my god!"
Zhuang Rui no longer cared about celebrating, his legs jumped up as if they were loaded with springs, and he ran towards the shore as hard as he could.
However, Zhuang Rui obviously had no training in sprinting in the sea. Just when he ran about ten meters, the huge wave behind him directly hit his body and flew up. It was like a giant's big hand, easily knocking Zhuang Rui away.
Rui's body was thrown several meters away.
And that huge wave slowly retracted into the sea. The sea surface not far away was still churning, as if preparing for the next wave.
After Zhuang Rui stood up in a daze, his eyes were blurred. If he hadn't fallen on the beach, he would have been killed in one fell swoop. Zhuang Rui instinctively felt that it was not safe here, and his whole body was swaying toward him.
Go to the other side of the sea.
"boom!"
When he reached a place covered with rocks, Zhuang Rui finally couldn't hold on anymore and fell heavily to the ground. When his forehead touched the ground, it rubbed against a rock, and blood suddenly came out.
However, Zhuang Rui no longer felt any pain at this time.
After nearly 20 hours of fighting with the sea, the tension and relaxation after escaping from death, and the exhaustion of all physical and spiritual energy, Zhuang Rui could no longer hold on at this moment and fell into a drowsy sleep.
That night, Zhuang Rui had many dreams. He dreamed about his mother helping him mend his clothes when he was a child. He dreamed about the surprise that Qin Xuanbing's face brought to him when he first met Qin Xuanbing.
When working in the pawn shop, the two robbers and the bullets fired at themselves!
"ah!"
As if he really felt the pain, Zhuang Rui yelled in pain and opened his eyes, only to find that in his right hand, a sea crab had just released the pliers holding his fingers and sneaked into the reef in a sneaky way.
"I'm alive?!"
The dream took Zhuang Rui as if he had gone through a reincarnation. After opening his eyes, Zhuang Rui found that he... was still alive. The pain from his fingers made him realize this clearly.
"Ahhhhhh, I'm still alive!"
Zhuang Rui jumped up. He couldn't think about why it was already dark now, nor could he care about the pain of stepping on the rocks without shoes. Zhuang Rui just wanted to vent now. The reason was very simple. It was so good to be alive!
Running wildly on the beach without any goal, roaring without meaning, Zhuang Rui's body was doing all kinds of strange postures. If this was photographed, it would look like modern art.
It wasn't until his voice became hoarse and he couldn't shout anymore that Zhuang Rui lay down heavily on the beach, looking at the blue sky and white clouds, his mood gradually calmed down.
"It seems that it was evening when I landed ashore, right?"
At this moment, Zhuang Rui recalled the experience before he fainted, and still felt palpitations involuntarily.
Raising his hand to look at the waterproof watch, Zhuang Rui realized that he had slept for sixteen or seventeen hours, and it was already noon the next day.
"thirsty……"
After Zhuang Rui woke up from his abnormal state, he suddenly felt unbearably hungry and thirsty. He quickly took off his life jacket and counted his remaining belongings.
The result made Zhuang Rui a little disappointed. Except for Peng Fei's knife, there were only three pieces of compressed biscuits left, and the two pieces of bread that he had been reluctant to eat had been soaked into batter by sea water because the packaging bags were broken.
In other words, if there is nothing edible on the island, Zhuang Rui will have to rely on these three compressed biscuits to wait for the arrival of rescuers.
"If you survive a catastrophe, you will be blessed later. I haven't seen my son or daughter yet..."
Zhuang Rui comforted himself in his heart, then tore open a bag of compressed biscuits. After chewing it slowly in his mouth, he swallowed it with difficulty. He didn't drink water, which became Zhuang Rui's biggest problem.
It seemed like he saw a coconut tree yesterday. Zhuang Rui stood up and began to look at the island. He didn't know if it was a desert island or one that had been developed. But looking at the desolate surroundings, the former was more likely.
Some.
"Huh? It's fresh water!"
Zhuang Rui suddenly saw a puddle of clear water in the recess of a rock next to him. He quickly ran over, dipped his finger in a drop and put it in his mouth.
For a moment, Zhuang Rui burst into tears. The most important crisis in his life was finally solved.
