Nine Chapters of Mystery Chapter 72 Survival from Desperation
Finally, the mast did not enter the sea.
Three people, floating on the sea.
Bai Kui looked around: "Where are they? Just the three of us?"
Watanabe Shuichi said with a sad face: "Stop looking, I saw it very clearly just now. The whale's big tail fin hit everyone's heads. Even if... they were not beaten to pieces, they must have been seriously injured and sunk into the sea."
After speaking, Watanabe Shuichi raised his arms and shouted to the sky: "We, the Twelve Warriors of Fuso, died with honor today!! We have completed the task of preventing opium from flowing into Fuso!! The spirit of Bushido will live forever!!!"
"Strengthen your grandma's legs!" Su Wangting slapped him on the back of the head, "If you keep telling me about Bushido, do you believe that I will push you into the sea right now? You are a loser."
"What should we do now?" Bai Kui asked.
Su Wangting squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, murmuring: "On the mast just now, I seemed to vaguely see an island in the northeast. I don't know if I saw it right."
Osamu Watanabe nodded: "That's right. We knew it when we looked at the chart on the boat early in the morning. There is an island about two hundred miles away."
"Snapped!"
Su Wangting slapped him on the back of the head again.
"Didn't you know earlier?"
Watanabe Shuichi said with a sad face: "Even if I say it, it doesn't mean much. The distance is more than two hundred miles, even if I use light power to point water and walk, with my inner strength cultivation, I'm afraid I won't be able to last thirty miles.
It will exhaust its strength and sink into the sea."
Bai Kui agreed: "He's right, I can last for more than thirty miles in one breath."
Su Wangting nodded slightly: "Yes, once we run out of strength on the sea, we may not even be able to float. But if we don't give it a try, we will die."
Bai Kui gritted his teeth and said: "I'm afraid... I will die. The distance of more than two hundred miles cannot be reached no matter how hard I try."
"Who knows."
After finishing speaking, there was only a "swipe" sound, and Su Wangting jumped up from the water, used Qinggong to point the water towards the northeast.
"Hello!!"
Watanabe Shuichi and Shiro Aoi looked at each other.
"No matter what! If you die, you will die!!"
Bai Kui also jumped up and chased after him.
"The spirit of Bushido lives on!!"
Shuichi Watanabe jumped out of the water with a roar, and chased after him.
On the vast and boundless deep blue sea, three figures lined up in a row, moving quickly through the water as if they were walking on flat ground.
Dots of white water splashed under their feet, leaving a long trail on the sea, like a silver ribbon.
After galloping for more than thirty miles, he suddenly heard a "wow" sound coming from behind him. Su Wangting looked back and saw Bai Kui lying on the sea surface, slowly sinking.
Her strength was exhausted.
"brush!"
Su Wangting hurriedly rushed back, lifted Bai Kui up, and let her hold on to his back.
So Su Wangting carried Bai Kui on his back and continued to pour water.
Watanabe Shuichi, who was still gritting his teeth and holding on, was very surprised. He secretly thought that after more than thirty miles, this person's face did not change, and he did not breathe. At this time, even though there was a person on his back, the speed of his feet did not slow down at all.
Internal strength cultivation is astonishing!
After advancing a few miles, Shuichi Watanabe couldn't hold on any longer.
"I...I'm afraid I can't survive. You guys go...I'm going to accompany my eleven companions..."
Watanabe Shuichi raised his pale face and looked at Su Wangting who turned his head, showing a tired smile.
"Whether you are really a blood Shura or not...you...you are a Kyushu native, you are pretty good..."
After speaking, Watanabe Shuichi suddenly stiffened, stopped moving, and fell headfirst.
But when his face almost touched the sea, a hand grabbed his arm.
"Let...let me go, you can't move forward with two people..."
Su Wangting frowned: "Stop talking nonsense!!"
I just heard Su Wangting drink softly and continue to order water!
On his back lay Bai Kui.
His right hand was dragging Shuichi Watanabe.
However, the speed of his feet has not slowed down even a little, and his determined eyes are staring straight at the northeast.
After more than a hundred miles, Su Wangting's speed slowed down.
Breathing heavily.
He finally felt powerless.
But the corner of his mouth had already turned up into a smile.
Just because ahead, the outline of the island has clearly appeared in sight!
You can even vaguely see seabirds hovering over the island.
"Leave us alone...go by yourself..."
Bai Kui's weak voice came from behind him.
Watanabe Shuichi, on the other hand, had fainted on his back, and Su Wangting was dragging him to move in the sea.
"Do you think I will just watch you die?" Su Wangting looked back at Bai Kui.
A line of tears fell from the corners of Bai Kui's eyes: "There's nothing we can do about it. I don't blame you. Hurry up...let us go...it's better than all of us dying..."
"I should have jumped with Ruowei in the first place!!!!"
After Su Wangting yelled such a sentence inexplicably, a crackling sound came from all over Su Wangting's body!
A strong gust of wind burst out from all over Su Wangting!
Open the four meridians!!
Just listen to the constant sound of splashing water!
Su Wangting's feet moved faster!
…
When Shuichi Watanabe slowly opened his eyes, he saw seagulls circling in the sky.
I struggled to get up and found myself on a white beach.
Not far away, Bai Kui was leaning against a rock with her eyes closed to meditate.
"We...we succeeded!?" Watanabe Shuichi couldn't believe it.
Bai Kui slowly opened her eyes, nodded weakly, and pointed to her side.
Su Wangting was lying on his back on the beach, sound asleep.
The sky is getting dark.
The extremely exhausted three people did not bother to find a better place and fell asleep on the beach.
…
The next morning, Bai Kui opened her eyes leisurely.
The slightly fishy sea breeze caressed my face, and the chirping of seabirds could be heard from time to time above my head.
I stood up and stretched a lot.
Suddenly I felt that all my strength had been restored.
I saw a bonfire lit on the beach not far away, and a few dead branches stuck beside the bonfire were filled with fish, crabs, and even a few large lobsters.
It's roasting.
Shuichi Watanabe, on the other hand, rolled up his trouser legs and stood in the sea, holding a dead tree trunk that had been sharpened at one end.
I saw him poke the rod down, and when he picked it up again, there was a fish impaled on the tip of the rod. Osamu Watanabe quickly took out the fish and threw it to the beach behind him. Not long after, another rod went down.
Almost every effort is not in vain, and every effort is rewarded.
"It smells so good!" Bai Kui happily ran to the bonfire and swallowed her saliva while looking at the various seafood being roasted. "I told you that your skills as a Fuso warrior are pretty good. You can hit the right mark with just one poke. Where did you learn it?"
"
Watanabe Shuichi scratched his head, stood in the sea and said with a smile: "Fuso is an island country. We have been catching fish and shrimps on the beach since we were young. This is nothing. Although we have no other food at this time, at least we are not hungry. This fish
I promise to take care of enough shrimps and crabs every day."
"Where's Su Wangting?" Bai Kui took a big bite of grilled fish and asked vaguely.
Watanabe Osamu pouted at the woods next to the beach: "I said I was going to explore the topography of the island, so I went there early in the morning."
"Oh..." Bai Kui ate happily, her mouth full of oil.
When she finished two fish and was opening a lobster, Su Wangting's figure slowly walked out of the forest and came to sit down by the campfire.
"Fortunately, we won't die." He breathed a sigh of relief and took out a grilled fish to eat.
"Can't die?" Bai Kui looked at him puzzled.
Su Wangting nodded: "This island is not big. There are some trees, but they are not dense. Through the forest, you can see a raised stone mountain in the center of the island. There is water emerging from the spring halfway up the mountain, and there is a pool at the foot of the mountain. I tasted it.
Taste it, it’s fresh water.”
Su Wangting swallowed the fish meat and said with a smile: "With fresh water, we can't die. Otherwise, we will die of thirst."
When Bai Kui heard this, she exclaimed that she would survive the disaster, then she laughed and gnawed on the lobster.
However, Watanabe Shuichi did not touch the grilled seafood. He pulled out his samurai sword, cut a pile of sashimi with quick hands and feet, grabbed it and stuffed it into his mouth.
Su Wangting curled his lips and asked, "Does this raw food taste good?"
Watanabe Shu nodded sharply: "It's delicious, it's delicious! Is this seafood? Most of us Fuso people eat it raw, in order to taste the original sweetness of the raw meat."
Bai Kui's face was full of disdain: "You are barbaric!"
Watanabe Shuichi rolled his eyes at Shiro Aoi and continued to chew the sashimi. However, as he ate, his expression suddenly dimmed. He stared at the sashimi in silence, with a look of grievance on his face.
"What's wrong? Want a bowl of rice?" Su Wangting asked.
Watanabe Shuichi raised his head and sighed, shook his head and said: "If I haven't lost my jar of Wasami, and eat it with this sashimi, tsk tsk tsk... that's a delicacy in the world."
When Su Wangting heard this, he threw down the grilled fish in his hand, jumped up and kicked Watanabe Shuichi.
Shuichi Watanabe screamed and fell down on the beach.
"How dare you mention Vasami!!! We live on a deserted island thanks to it!!!"
"Hahaha, okay, okay! I won't mention it anymore!"
"You are so stupid and you still laugh? I will trample you to death!!"
"Ah! Ah!"
After a full meal, the three of them sat side by side on the beach, staring at the ocean and falling into silence.
The three of them were thinking about the same question.
How to get out?
Waiting for the incoming ship?
Don't even think about it, the probability of being rescued is extremely low.
There are very few ships traveling between Kyushu, Silla, and Fuso, and even if there are, they may not come close to this island.
Fishing boats are even more impossible. Whether they are fishermen from Silla or Kyushu, they will not go too deep into the ocean to fish. Most of them only operate within two hundred miles from the coastline.
After a long silence, Shuichi Watanabe said: "It seems that I can only chop down trees and build a raft myself."
Su Wangting shook his head: "No. The ocean is no better than the river, and the raft will never be able to withstand strong winds and waves."
Bai Kui hugged her knees and continued to remain silent.
Her eyes were red.
At this time, her heart was in a mess.
She worries about the well-being of her parents, who are still under house arrest.
After finally finding Su Wangting, and seeing the hope of saving people, who would have expected that he would end up living on this deserted island.
If it doesn't go well, I'll have to stay here for the rest of my life.
Could it be that we are the same as our parents in this life, and are we really confused between life and death?
Thinking of this, sadness filled my chest, and a few tears fell on the beach.
Su Wangting saw this and patted her shoulder to express comfort.
"Silly girl, instead of feeling sad in secret, it is better to go to the water pool at the foot of the rocky mountain and settle down first before making plans. Since God allows us to survive the disaster, we will always find a way to escape and ascend to heaven, what do you think?"
Bai Kui wiped away her tears and nodded: "I listen to you, let's go."
So the three of them got up and walked towards the woods.
The trees in this forest are very sparse, and there are no traces of any animals in the forest.
Not even monkeys.
But it's no wonder. This lonely island in the ocean is isolated from the world. Except for seabirds, no land animals can reach it.
Maybe the three people in trouble were the first land animals to appear on this island in ancient times.
After a while, the three of them walked out of the woods.
I saw a not-too-high stone mountain standing abruptly. On the mountainside, there was a spring hole with gurgling water, and at the foot of the mountain, there was a clear pool with a clear bottom.
Bai Kui knelt down, picked up a handful of water and took a sip. Then she looked up at Su Wangting, with a happy smile on her pretty face.
"This water is so sweet."
But Su Wangting was looking up at the mountainside of the stone mountain in trance, his brows gradually furrowed.