Chapter 231 Unknown Island
It's dawn and the wind is calm. If I hadn't seen the chaotic ruins on the yacht, I would have been in a good mood.
The blue sea and blue sky, and several floating clouds wandered in the sky. Not far away, several seagulls circled and danced, chasing and fighting. From time to time, they dived into the sea, proudly holding a small fish and flying to the mast to enjoy a big meal.
Under the mast, Zhang Pingping frowned and looked at a pile of items that were about to become garbage in a daze. It has been a busy morning, and the yacht has finally been cleaned up. Fortunately, the hull itself is not very damaged, and only two places hit by lightning are dark and two big holes.
But the saddest thing is that there is no one on the yacht except for the three of them. Half an hour ago, when they cleaned up the cabin, they found that Captain Adams had been martyred, but strangely, he died in the captain's room with the sailor. And it should be seen from the scene that the two were attacked by wind and waves in a fight and died at the same time.
Why did the two fight and even die in the captain's room? This is already an unsolved mystery. Zhang Ping and others don't have the patience and energy to be Sherlock Holmes. At present, the biggest question in front of them is: who can drive the boat away?
"Okay, I'll try it." Zhang Ping stood up helplessly and walked to the cab. The rest of the two quickly followed.
Taking the hard-won instruction manual, Zhang Ping tried to recall the little driving technique that Captain Adams told him before and began the adventurous experiment. After an hour of hard work, the motor of the yacht finally sounded. The three of them shouted with joy!
Unfortunately, it seems that there is an engine that can't move. However, as long as he can move, Zhang Ping controls the steering wheel and is very proud of his achievements. At this time, Eli called out, "Zhang Ping, where should I drive? Do you know?"
It was not until then that the three of them paid attention to a problem that could not be ignored. They couldn't understand the nautical chart at all, and they didn't know what nautical route to take. For them, they are blind now and have no sense of direction at all.
Finally, Zhang Ping patted his head. What do you think? According to the map, Miami should be in the southwest direction, and this compass can still be understood. Therefore, under the command of Zhang Ping, two temporary female sailors drove the yacht slowly to the southwest.
Along the way, the three of them shouted and kept arguing about how to drive. The noise slowly eliminated the shadow of the death of Captain Adams and several sailors.
It seems that their bad luck has faded with the departure of last night's hurricane. It was almost noon, Elie called out in surprise: "There is a boat in front of us. We are rescued!"
Zhang Ping and Polikova were also overjoyed and looked into the distance. Zhang Ping looked at it for a while, and his face became extremely ugly. He said in a muffled voice, "The pirate ship in front of him may be!"
Elie and Polikova can only see the blurred shadow of the ship in the distance, just as if Zhang Ping was joking. But as the two speedboats got closer and closer, the figures standing on them were faintly visible, and the faces of the two women were getting worse and worse. As Zhang Ping said, they were two pirate ships, with about ten people on them, wearing messy clothes, but each with weapons in their hands, not pirates.
Zhang Ping shouted loudly: "Don't be in a daze. It must be too late to run now. Hurry up and find the weapons. I remember that there should be some guns on the ship.
Three people are holding submachine guns and waiting. The two speedboats quickly arrived in front of them. First, they circled the yacht twice, and then hit one left and one right. The two women separated on both sides. When they were not far away from each other, they shot and began to shoot. The other side saw that the people on the yacht had been prepared and retreated slightly, and then the two sides launched a defensive attack.
Elie's shooting is very good, much better than Zhang Ping Polikova, and it is difficult to suppress the pirates on her side. But Zhang Ping and others encountered difficulties. The other party can't swim back and forth, and it is difficult to pose a threat to the other party. However, the pirates were also very patient, slowly circling around the yacht, waiting for the three people to run out of ammunition.
At this time, Zhang Ping suddenly noticed that there was movement at the tail of the yacht. With a flash of thoughts in his heart, he rushed to the back and fixed his eyes. It turned out that this group of pirates were playing a dark trick. Two water ghosts came up from behind. As soon as they climbed to the deck wetly, they were shot by Zhang Ping and cleaned up all.
Seeing that the water ghost was useless, the two speedboats were even more crazy and even rushed directly, but under the strong firepower of Zhang Ping and the others, they returned without success and left.
Looking at the shadow of the pirate ship, Ellie asked nervously, "Zhang Ping, what should I do? They will definitely bring more pirates when they go back this time."
Zhang Ping calculates that there is no good way. He can only hope on the other party, that's all. The motor started again, and the yacht continued to move forward. Polikova screamed loudly, but this time it brought good news. Just not far ahead, an island appeared faintly.
Fortunately, until the yacht docked, the pirate did not appear. After Zhang Ping tied the cable to a huge stone, he jumped off the boat with two women.
It seems that it has begun to transshipment. Zhang Ping soon found that not far from where they moored, there was a long and narrow estuary. There was a small lake hiding in the dense jungle. It is just right to accommodate their yacht, which is found by others, especially pirates, from the sea.
Zhang Ping carefully started the yacht and drove it into the lake. After fixing it, he jumped off the boat with two women and looked around at the island. From their observations on the yacht, the island is about a few kilometers from east to west. Except for a few beaches, most of them are cliffs covered with green trees. It remains to be seen how deep the vertical direction of the island is and whether there are still people in it.
At this time, there is still a distance from dark. Zhang Ping was worried and wanted to climb to the top of the mountain to see what was going on. The two women were already exhausted by this time, so they had to stay in the boat to rest and tell him to be careful.
Zhang Ping took a machete in his hand and walked into the jungle. From the outside, the top of the mountain is not more than a few hundred meters high. But when he went in, Zhang Ping understood why the jungle war was a terrible thing. Just a few steps away, Zhang Ping announced that he had given up. But using a machete to cut out a way out, the workload is too much.
Seeing that Zhang Ping retreated, Ellie's strength also recovered a lot. She laughed and said, "What, there is no way ahead? Give up? My hero!"
Zhang Ping shook his head and said helplessly, "There is a jungle in front of me. I'm afraid it's not easy to walk. I'll find another way out." Look at the surrounding environment. In addition to the jungle in front of you, there is a cliff on the left and a flat on the right side, but I'm afraid it will take some time to take a detour over the top of the mountain.
Seeing Zhang Ping walk into the yacht, take out a bundle of ropes and walk to the bottom of the cliff. Only then did Ellie know that Zhang Ping actually wanted to climb directly to the cliff. This was a shortcut, but the cliff was dozens of meters high, and she was dizzy after looking at it for a long time. She also called out Polikova curiously. While cheering for Zhang Ping, the two watched how Zhang Ping climbed up.
In fact, every cliff is not slippery, and there will always be some places to support. As long as you are bold and flexible enough, you are still very promising. Zhang Ping stood at the bottom of the cliff, saw a protrusion, pedaled with his feet, and then rubbed himself and climbed up. At the beginning, a few meters were easy to climb, but soon in the middle, Zhang Ping encountered a difficult problem. The stone here is like an eagle's beak, which sticks out abruptly, but below, it is about 90 degrees, and the eagle's beak is 2 meters away from the inside to the outside.
At this time, something happened that surprised Ellie and Polikova. Under the eagle's beak, Zhang Ping actually hooked a stone below with his feet and leaned forward, almost parallel to the eagle's beak rock. His hands stretched forward, and his fingertips had touched the eagle's beak above.
Then Zhang Ping roared, his feet loosened, and the weight of his whole body hung on two fingers. Then with his fingers, he slowly raised his body, and finally climbed over the eagle-billed rock. Ellie and Polikova were stunned. They would never have made such a move. It takes a great degree of strength and physical flexibility to do this.
In fact, for Zhang Ping, it doesn't have to be so troublesome at all. He only needs to use his true force under his feet and float in mid-air for a short time, but this is too shocking. He didn't want others to know that he was the legendary immortal, so he had to adopt this stupid method.
When it came to the top, Zhang Ping circled the rope around the eagle-billed rock three times, tried hard to be firm, and hung the rope down with satisfaction to facilitate Ellie and Polikova's rock climbing up and down.
After walking along the cliff for more than ten minutes, Zhang Ping came to the highest peak on the island. Looking around, Zhang Ping was shocked by what he saw in front of him. The depth of the island is not very long, about five kilometers at most, but the peaks are stacked and the trees are green, which is a great scenery. The place where I stand is also the highest point of the island, and then it gradually decreases. In the farthest place is a narrow beach, which emits silver light in the afterglow of the sunset, and the scenery is very beautiful.
After watching it, Zhang Ping felt that their luck was still a little bad. If they were moored on the other side, the silver beach, how comfortable it would be. Unfortunately, except for the hidden small inland lake, there is no scenery worth enjoying here. Moreover, except for my own shortcut, the rest of the roads seem to be not easy to walk. Not to mention the jungle, it is not only difficult to walk, but I'm afraid there are many poisonous insects, snakes and ants in it. On the other hand, it should be better than here in the jungle, but it seems that the journey is very far away to go around the jungle. Anyway, it will take half a day.
Following the original road to the bottom of the cliff, Zhang Ping excitedly informed the two women of his discovery. When the two knew that there was a silver beach on the other side of the island, and the scenery was extremely beautiful, they had to ask Zhang Ping to lead the way. However, after Zhang Ping told them the difficulty and distance of the road, the two of them spoke in unison and accused Zhang Ping of not learning driving skills well at the beginning, but he did not know the direction. When he arrived at this island, even the moored place was so far away. It was really unforgivable and heinous...
In view of the fact that it is getting late, no matter how urgent the mood is, it is impossible to go to the beach. The two have to return to the yacht and can only spend the night here tonight.