Chapter 81: Making a fire and looking for water (please read)
#It has been XXX hours since the NZXXXX flight crashed. A total of 240 passengers were killed. Several victims ST have been found and rescue operations are still underway#
Liu Ruyan turned off her phone. There was a sickly white look on her face. She had not eaten for a day and had not left the office.
He Min stood anxiously at the door of the office. She checked her phone from time to time until Shen Zhuo arrived.
"Brother Shen, please advise Mr. Liu! Mr. Liu hasn't eaten for a day." Shen Zhuo nodded and walked into the office.
"Put the file down! I'll look at it later!" Liu Ruyan turned her back to the office door.
"Miss..." Shen Zhuo called softly.
Liu Ruyan heard Shen Zhuo's voice and quickly turned to look at him.
"How's it going? Is there any news?"
"Miss, the young master has already gone there in person. There is no news yet... But among the corpses of the victims found so far, Mr. Jiang's is not included."
"Well..." Liu Ruyan pursed her lips, and there was a trace of sadness between her eyebrows.
"Miss, please have something to eat!" Shen Zhuo opened the insulated lunch box and pushed it in front of Liu Ruyan.
Liu Ruyan took the chopsticks and took a few bites appropriately. She was already very picky about food, and now she couldn't even eat it.
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Jiang Huai walked along the coast and came to a place with a wide view to see if there were any ships.
The sea was calm and there was no hope.
"Ah!" Jiang Huai shouted loudly, releasing his suppressed emotions.
In the forest behind, many seabirds flew out due to Jianghuai's shouts.
"Is there anyone?" came an echo.
Jiang Huai's eyes widened. Was he hallucinating?
It seems like someone is responding to me!
"Is there anyone there?" Jiang Huai also shouted.
This time he listened carefully and found that someone was indeed responding to him. He looked for the direction of the sound and saw a man coming towards him in the distance.
Humans are social animals and will feel a sense of security when seeing similar people. Jiang Huai put social fears behind and rushed towards the visitor.
"Brother, are you Chinese?" Jiang Huai asked impatiently.
The other person looks about twenty-seven or eighty-year-old, wearing a pair of glasses, and is polite and elegant, which fits the image of an otaku.
"Yes, are you a survivor too?" The man with glasses asked Jiang Huai.
"Yes!"
Jiang Huai and the man with glasses had a brief conversation, and both of them had a general understanding of each other.
The man with glasses is named Zhang Zhifan. He is an online writer by profession. He is really an otaku. His usual hobby is traveling around the world to find writing inspiration.
The two planned to wait for rescue together.
"Have you seen any other survivors here?" Jiang Huai asked Zhang Zhifan.
Zhang Zhifan pointed to the coast, "I woke up there. I have been waiting for rescue since I woke up. I just ran over when I heard your voice."
"But... there were other people around me when I woke up. They were all... dead, and I buried them all." When Zhang Zhifan said this, there was a bit of horror in his eyes.
Anyone who lay with several dead bodies would probably get chills down the back. Zhang Zhifan was kind enough and at least buried all the bodies.
"Did you see a girl? She was wearing a white sweatshirt and black casual pants. She looked like a college student." Jiang Huai asked Zhang Zhifan about Su Momo.
Zhang Zhifan shook his head when he heard this, "No, the corpses I buried were all male, and the only female was an old man."
Jiang Huai breathed a sigh of relief, there was still a chance. "Can you give me something to eat?" Zhang Zhifan stared at the bread on Jiang Huai's body.
Jiang Huai thought for a while and divided out a few slices for Zhang Zhifan. Only the last pack was left, and he didn't know how long it would take to wait for rescue.
"How about we see if there are any other survivors on the island?" Jiang Huai suggested.
"Okay!" Zhang Zhifan agreed without saying a word. The reason why he didn't take action before was because he was worried that he would be in danger. The two of them teamed up and started exploring along the coastline.
"By the way, do you have anything that can make a fire here?" Jiang Huai asked Zhang Zhifan.
He had experienced the discomfort of darkness last night. Today he had to find a way to get a fire out, and if there was a fire, he could burn smoke, so the chance of being rescued would be greater.
"No, you can't bring lighters on the plane, and my phone is broken." Zhang Zhifan said dejectedly.
But when his eyes glanced at Jianghuai's glass bottle, color appeared in his eyes again.
"Wait a minute, I might have a way to try."
"What method?" Jiang Huai asked doubtfully.
Zhang Zhifan pointed to the glass water cup on Jianghuai's waist, "Just use it. The bottom of the bottle is a convex mirror. The convex mirror can focus light and make fire."
"The sun is so bright now, it's a good time to light a fire!"
"Okay, let's get angry first!" The two stopped.
Zhang Zhifan asked Jiang Huai to find a way to remove the bottom of the glass bottle, while he went into the forest to find some dry firewood and grass clippings.
There was not much water left in the glass bottle, so Jiang Huai simply drank it.
Jianghuai wrapped the bottom of the glass bottle with his clothes, then found a stone and hit it on the waist of the glass bottle. After about ten hits, the glass bottle broke into two halves. Jianghuai continued to use the stone to modify the bottom of the glass bottle, thinking Make its edges flatter.
Zhang Zhifan came back from the woods with dry firewood and straw sandals, and the two of them started to focus on the sunlight with the bottom of a glass bottle under the scorching sun.
After seven or eight minutes, the hay began to turn black, and a line of white smoke slowly rose.
The hay is burning!
The two were very excited and continued to add dry grass to increase the intensity of the fire, then lit the dry wood and carried the fire to the bottom of the forest.
If the sun was shining brightly all the time, both of them would probably suffer from heat stroke. They added some more firewood to the fire, which would probably keep it burning for a long time.
"Let's go! Let's go look for fresh water. This fire should be able to last until we come back."
Jiang Huai took Zhang Zhifan to search in the woods. At the same time, he made some markers on the road to prevent getting lost.
The two shouted to the dense forest from time to time to see if there was anyone there, but received no response.
"Jiang Huai, there are coconut trees here!" Zhang Zhifan pulled Jiang Huai excitedly.
Jiang Huai looked up and saw that there were indeed several coconut trees, but the trees were more than ten meters high and the trunks were smooth, making it difficult to climb.
"We can't pick it either!" Jiang Huai was in trouble. He was not good at climbing trees, and the tree seemed to have no focus.
Zhang Zhifan patted his chest and said, "Look at me."
After that, Zhang Zhifan took off the light-blocking clothes on his head, then tore off two pieces of cloth and tied them to his hands.
Under Jiang Huai's surprised gaze, Zhang Zhifan climbed up the coconut tree like a monkey and dropped many coconuts from above.
(Please collect and read, thank you readers for reading.)
(End of chapter)