Chapter 525: Survival on a Deserted Island (1/2)

Many fishermen do not understand the international distress signal. They usually wave their clothes. If they are closer, they just yell.

After Comrade Xiao Xu said this, Li Duoyu also saw the signal. Three short, three long, and three short beeps are indeed the international distress signal, that is, SOS.

But the signal only flashed for a while, and the light became dimmer and dimmer, which looked like the flashlight was out of power. Li Duoyu stopped the fishing boat after seeing the signal.

Director Liu of the Coast Guard also came over and asked Li Duoyu some questions.

"Director Li, I heard from Captain Zhang that when you contacted the shore station on Matsu Island, the other party said that the fishing boat had lost contact for a long time, right?"

Li Duoyu nodded: "Yes."

Liu Zhifeng frowned. The task given to him by his superiors was to find the living people. Now he can roughly confirm it.

Those people on Dongjia Reef should be the fishermen who lost contact on Matsu Island. This time, Shangfeng Town, including the entire Lianjiang County, did a good job in resisting wind and typhoons, and there was no lost fishing boat.

In addition, the other party would send an international distress signal, which is nine out of ten.

If it is true as Li Duoyu said, the other party has lost contact for a long time, then for them, the danger will be much greater if they delay the rescue by one day.

For them, obeying orders is their duty. Liu Zhifeng asked: "Director Li, can you be our guide and let us go to the reef to rescue?"

Li Duoyu frowned.

"Now?"

Liu Zhifeng said firmly: "Yes."

Li Duoyu hesitated, and refused decisively, and looked at his watch: "Director Liu, the water level is very low now, and there are still eight hours before the next high tide. I also have a family. I can't risk saving them just because they are from overseas provinces."

Hearing such an answer, it was expected. Liu Zhifeng tried to ask: "If we use your sampan to land on the reef, what do you think is the probability of success."

Li Duoyu asked back: "Are you familiar with this area?"

"Not very familiar."

Li Duoyu said very seriously: "Then your probability of success is only zero. If you force the reef to perform the mission, then you can only soak in the sea water and wait for me to rescue you tomorrow."

When Li Duoyu said this, he emphasized the word "fishing" very much, and Liu Zhifeng also heard what it meant.

"Okay, we understand."

Li Duoyu then asked: "Director Liu, do you want to stay here or go to our island first?"

Liu Zhifeng hesitated for a while.

"Let's go to your island first."

Liu Zhifeng didn't want to do this, but facing the order, he could only do his best. This was his duty.

The relationship with the Overseas Province has eased in the past two years. The two organizations have even started dialogues, and many societies have been working together privately.

He also heard that there are many veterans in the Overseas Province who often march and shout to go home. It is very likely that the two sides will have navigation next year.

In this context, hearing that fishermen from the Overseas Province disappeared on their side, some leaders wanted to make this matter beautiful.

When leaving, Li Duoyu turned on several sets of lights in the direction of the bonfire. If the other party knew about international rescue.

Then they should know that they have been discovered. Li Duoyu can only pray that the other party has sufficient supplies to rescue them.

When the fishing boat returned to the dock, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. Chen Jianghe actually heard the news and was waiting at the dock early.

What Li Duoyu didn't expect was that Liu Zhifeng and Chen Jianghe were also acquaintances. The two met and chatted.

Li Duoyu had been working non-stop for a long time, and his body was already a little exhausted, so he stopped receiving them and handed it over to Captain Zhang and Secretary Chen.

Li Duoyu returned home and was so tired that he fell asleep directly on the sofa. In the middle of the night, he seemed to feel someone covering him with a quilt.

Although he was very tired, Li Duoyu woke up at about four o'clock in the morning. He drank a few sips of warm water and planned to go out.

Zhou Xiaoying heard the noise and came down from the second-floor bedroom with a flashlight. She asked softly, "What time is it? Where are you going?"

Li Duoyu answered truthfully, "The fishermen from Matsu may be at Dongjia Reef. The tide is almost rising now. I'll go and see what's going on."

Hearing that they were going to Dongjia Reef again, Zhou Xiaoying frowned, "Didn't you tow the boats back last night? Why are you going out now?"

"The missing Matsu fishermen are likely to be on Dongjia Reef. We plan to go to Dongjia Reef when the tide rises in the morning."

Zhou Xiaoying frowned even more and was silent for a while. Suddenly, she said, "Why don't you stop being the village director?"

Li Duoyu sighed, "You think they won't call me if you stop being the village director."

In fact, Li Duoyu had thought about not being the village director before, but later found that it didn't make much difference whether he was the village director or not. If something really happened, they would still find you.

After all, in this era, there are probably not many people who can freely enter and exit Dongjia Reef in this sea area.

Many times, people are not in control of themselves. In his previous life, Li Duoyu was either worried about food and clothing or mortgage.

I didn't understand what "people in the world are not in control of themselves" meant. Now that I have entered this circle, I finally understand it a little.

As long as you are in this network of interpersonal relationships, there is an invisible big hand that keeps pushing you forward.

People who haven't reached that level really don't understand, but Li Duoyu has just started and can already feel it.

The relationship is so delicate. At present, the village director seems to be his identity, although his Minlong Food does better and makes more money.

But the amazing thing is that everyone seems to prefer calling him Director Li, and no one calls him Boss Li or anything like that.

And Li Duoyu could also feel that when the other party called him Director Li, he really regarded him as someone from the same circle.

If he is not appropriate, the relationship with the big leader will most likely be severed. Li Duoyu knows very well that what the leader values ​​​​is his identity as a leader in getting rich, not the person himself.

Li Duoyu said softly: "Go to bed quickly."

Zhou Xiaoying puffed out her cheeks and said, "I can't sleep."

"Let's go."

When Li Duoyu came to the pier with a flashlight, he found that there were quite a lot of people. It was only one day after the typhoon and the fishermen started fishing again.

After all, during the period after a typhoon, there will be an especially large number of big fish in the offshore waters. It is not unreasonable that the bigger the storm is, the more expensive the fish will be.

After a typhoon, the ocean currents will change, and fish schools prefer to gather. If you go fishing at this time, once the fish are caught in the net, there will be a whole school.

There are also typhoons that stir up water bodies, causing bottom organisms to rise. When the time comes, those big fish will also rise to catch food.

In short, the period after the typhoon is definitely a good time for fishing. If you are lucky, you can catch fish species that you can’t usually catch.

Lao Yang's Restaurant also opened early, but there were so many people in uniform sitting inside that the local fishermen didn't dare to go in to eat. After Li Duoyu arrived, Zhang Erhu and Director Liu quickly greeted him: "Duoyu, come here for breakfast."

Director Liu and the others looked tired. Judging from the situation, they probably didn't get a good rest last night.

After Li Duoyu came over, he ordered a large bowl of porridge, an egg and a fried dough stick.

They were in a hurry to set off.

Before setting off, Li Duoyu checked the weather. Unexpectedly, the typhoon was still raging the day before yesterday. Early this morning, the weather became calm. The night sky was also very bright, and he could even see a bright Milky Way.

Li Duoyu drove a fishing boat and towed a sampan to Dongjia Reef again.

On the dock side, some fishermen couldn't help but started talking when they saw Li Duoyu taking the patrolmen out to sea.

Zhao Xiaoliu, who was helping others fish, cursed: "Director Li has been shouting that he won't help, and he has gone to sea twice this night."

A fisherman said:

"It's not like we've already found someone."

"I heard from Xiaochao that the person is probably at Dongjia Reef."

"Why is it that damn place again?"

"Speaking of which, it's really an evil thing. It's not like the time has come and he wants to find a scapegoat again. How long has this Liu Mazi been gone?"

"Oh, I heard someone said that it was the Zhao brothers who were the first ones to find them, and they happened to be rescued by Director Li, and that's how the incident with Liu Mazi happened later."

"I think it's better not to save them. If we really save them, they will definitely find someone next time, and maybe they will be even worse than last time."

"Just let Liu Mazi's family go to Dongjia Reef to perform a ritual ceremony."

"Damn it, don't talk about such horrible things in the middle of the night, okay?"

When they said this, many fishermen couldn't help but shiver down their spines. One fisherman said: "I originally wanted to go fishing nearby, but now I don't dare to go."

When Li Duoyu's fishing boat arrived at Dongjia Reef, the tide had almost risen, and it was safest to go to the island at high tide.

Li Duoyu parked the fishing boat in a safe position, and then, almost until the belly of Dongfang fish turned white, he changed into a small sampan.

As before, Li Duoyu only brought Chen Wenchao, but not Director Liu and Company Commander Zhang.

The two of them were quite familiar with this area, and they quickly avoided the reefs below and landed on Tung Kia Reef.

Perhaps because of the typhoon we just experienced, the number of seabirds on Dongjia Reef has obviously dropped sharply. There used to be many eggs to pick up, but now there is not even a single one.

Tongjia Reef is only relatively large in the part in the sea, and the part exposed out of the sea is really not particularly big.

If someone is really here, there is no need to think about it. The person must be in that natural air-raid shelter.

Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao went straight to the air-raid shelter. Just as he had guessed, there was a small fire burning slightly there.

The smell when cooked is very strong, it feels like the smell of shit. If you guessed it correctly, they are burning dried bird droppings that have accumulated over time.

Li Duoyu did not approach the cave entrance rashly, but shouted from outside: "Luo Shuigan."

After just shouting twice, there was movement immediately. Two people came out of the cave, one of whom was older and the other was relatively younger.

The two of them looked very haggard and thin, but when they saw someone coming to them, they were so excited that their whole bodies were shaking.

The old man's lips were so dry that they were even bloodshot and trembling: "I am Luo Shuigan."

Li Duoyu glanced at the two of them and asked, "Are you two the only ones?"

"No, there are four of us, and two are not in good health and are lying inside to rest."

Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao took a look inside the cave and found that the conditions of the other two were not very good, and could even be said to be very bad.

The old man said very worriedly: "They are my eldest son and second son-in-law. One has had diarrhea for many days and now has no strength to walk. The other had a recurring fever last night."

Li Duoyu took a brief look and found that one of them was still having a fever and was shivering from time to time, while the other one looked severely dehydrated.

The condition of both of them is very bad. Now they don't even have the energy to say hello to Li Duoyu and the others. If it is a day or two later, these two people may not be able to hold on.

Li Duoyu briefly looked around. There was everything on the ground, including oyster shells, fish bones, even bird feathers and egg shells, and even a big turtle shell. It felt like the four of them were on a desert island. Like survival.

For a native islander, it is no problem to live in a place like Tung Kak Reef for a day or two.

But as long as it lasts more than five days, there will definitely be a problem, and it will be a big problem.

Li Duoyu used to like watching wilderness survival columns, and the works on "Starving Virtue" were relatively realistic.

Because in the end of survival in the wilderness, even if there is no shortage of food, your gastrointestinal rate will be the first to have problems.

Human beings are accustomed to eating cooked food. If the food is not cooked and eaten casually, it may cause gastroenteritis, especially things in the wild, which may carry various viruses and bacteria.

Speaking of which, in the previous life, when Mr. Bei and Hungry Dehuo were fighting, a group of young people who were not afraid of death actually came to Tung Kip Reef to play on a deserted island to survive.

In the end, only two days later, the group was almost wiped out because of eating poisonous textured snails.

Speaking of this, the eyes of the old man named Luo Shuigan couldn't help but turn red: "To be honest, if you hadn't come, we really wouldn't be able to hold on."

Li Duoyu said: "I discovered you last night. I gave you the signal, but the tide has gone out and we can't get to the island."

“Thank you so much.

But at this point, Luo Shuigan asked curiously: "Little brother, how do you know my name?"

Li Duoyu replied truthfully: "Your ship just happened to float to our island. I saw a group photo in your captain's diary on the ship, and your name was written on the back."

Luo Shuigen was quite shocked. In fact, their fishing boat had been broken down here for several days. When the typhoon came, the cables and anchors of their fishing boat were immediately broken. He thought that the boat must have been lost, but unexpectedly he ran away. Went to move reinforcements.

Luo Shuigan knelt down and worshiped the sea on the spot: "It's really Mazu who bless me."

"Thank you Mazu."

Next, Li Duoyu helped move the two people to the small sampan boat, and Li Duoyu learned this after chatting with the uncle.

It turned out that they had been trapped here for more than ten days, and they had been asking for help on the island for a long time. I don’t know how much dried bird droppings were burned, but no one found them.

What devastated Luo Shuigan the most was that not even a fishing boat was seen during this period, which made them even begin to doubt whether they were still in this world.

After hearing this, Li Duoyu smiled awkwardly and could only say that they were very unlucky and happened to catch up with the kelp harvesting period.

The fishing boats in the nearby waters have all gone to collect kelp. Naturally, no fishing boats will come to fish near Dongjia Reef.

If it were any other time period, he would have been discovered long ago, and he wouldn't have to survive on a deserted island for so long. (End of chapter)