At noon, I continued to soak in the sea until four o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was no longer so hot, and I started fishing.
We were lucky that we didn't encounter that kind of big fish or sharks again, and only caught some pomfret and snapper.
These pomfret are very common and always appear in groups.
Whenever I encounter them, I can basically catch one or two, enough for us to make enough dried fish.
In this way, we drifted boringly on the sea for five days.
Catherine and Zhu Ya were lucky that they didn't experience the severe hunger period in the first five days, and they already had water and enough food.
During these five days, my body gradually recovered.
Of course, this is still a long way from the normal state, but I am already very satisfied.
If the days go on like this, I believe that the three of us will definitely survive.
However, on the sixth day, I compared the data recorded by the navigation and found that our latitude did not rise much, and it seemed to have been hovering near the Tropic of Capricorn.
It is not surprising that this happened, because we are in the middle of the South Equatorial Current, where the direction of the ocean current is not as obvious as in the north and south, and may even change due to changes in wind direction.
What I am most worried about is whether the speedboat is spinning in the middle of the South Equatorial Current. If this is the case, we may drift for months and cannot escape from this sea!
But from the observations of the past few days, the situation seems to be true.
A sense of despair surged into my heart like a wave, making me feel extremely uncomfortable.
Although there is no shortage of food and water now, long-term drifting on the sea and a single food will gradually cause problems in our body and mind.
"Mr. Rosen, what's wrong with you?" Catherine asked worriedly when she saw my silence.
I glanced at Catherine, and her face looked much better than a few days ago.
Seeing that I responded with silence, Catherine's face became more worried, but in a few seconds, her worry turned into determination. She looked at me and said, "Mr. Rosen, tell me, we can bear it. Nothing is worse than being on a medical ship."
"Yes, uncle, no matter what the future holds, we must persist to live to the end. We will not give up until the last moment!" Zhu Ya also saw the bad result from my gloomy face.
Seeing Catherine and Zhu Ya so optimistic and strong, I was also deeply touched.
Yes, nothing is more important than living!
In an extreme survival environment, losing faith is equivalent to losing life.
This is not a superficial word to encourage people, but a real survival skill.
People will be killed by their own psychological suggestions, and they will also create miracles by their own psychological suggestions.
Just like the fake blood dripping experiment conducted by psychologist Maggardner - tell the death row prisoner that he will be subjected to bloodletting torture, then tie him to the rack, blindfold him, and then use ice cubes to scratch his wrists hard to create the feeling of a knife passing through his wrists, and then continue to let warm water flow through his wrists to drip into the container to imitate blood flowing out.
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Finally, the death row prisoner really died.
This is caused by psychological suggestion causing physiological effects on the human body.
In fact, this is not just psychological damage.
The prisoner is suggested that he will die from bleeding, and the warm water and dripping sound released from the tube constantly stimulate and strengthen this suggestion, causing the death row prisoner to continue to have extreme fear, thereby causing excessive physiological reactions and increasing adrenaline secretion.
This will reduce the blood supply to a certain part of the body, thereby ensuring that the muscles get enough blood to enhance muscle efficiency, so that ordinary people can burst out with super strong fighting and escape abilities at the critical moment of life and death.
But this situation should not last long.
Death row prisoners have been in this situation all the time. Due to the reduced blood supply, the oxygen transported by red blood cells is also reduced accordingly.
Once the capillaries are deprived of oxygen, plasma will penetrate into the tissues around the blood vessels, resulting in reduced blood flow and low blood pressure, affecting the organ function of blood circulation in the body, and eventually leading to death in a vicious cycle!
Psychology directly affects the physiological level, which is an irrefutable fact!
"Yes, we should try our best to survive, and we believe that we can survive!" I took a deep breath and looked at Catherine and Zhu Ya with a firm gaze.
In this environment, we are always encouraging each other, and it really works.
"So, Mr. Rosen, can you tell me what happened?" Catherine asked.
I told Catherine and Zhu Ya truthfully that we are probably in the middle of the Indian Ocean now, which may be very far away from the land, and we are still wandering.
"If we are lucky, we will drift westward and it will take about a year to reach Port Louis; if we drift northwestward for half a year, we can reach the British Indian Ocean Territory, that is, the Chagos Islands... But this is just a lucky situation..."
I told Catherine and Zhu Ya this heavy news, and their optimism disappeared immediately.
Obviously, Catherine and Zhu Ya did not expect the outcome to be so serious.
The worst outcome that Catherine and Zhu Ya could imagine would be drifting for one or two months, right?
With water and food, drifting for one or two months for ordinary people is indeed close to the limit.
"Misfortunes only pick on the unfortunate", I have deeply experienced this at this moment.
Death will not relax until it strangles the throat of our fate.
"Don't be too discouraged, maybe we can encounter one or two small islands. Those small islands are so small that they will not be recorded on the map, but they can give us more living space."
This time, it was my turn to comfort Catherine and Zhu Ya.
I knew that Catherine and Zhu Ya's willpower and optimism were given by ignorance. I really shouldn't have told these two women this desperate information. I overestimated their ability to bear.
"Such an island must not be high, can we see it?" Zhu Ya asked worriedly.
I nodded and told Zhu Ya that as long as it was within five kilometers, we would have a chance to see it.
Moreover, there are usually seabirds living on such small islands, where you can find a lot of food, but there is also a risk of being drowned.
The lagoon water on the island is basically seawater, but don't worry too much. Once you get on the island, you will have more opportunities to obtain fresh water resources.
I painted a picture of a vibrant future for Catherine and Zhu Ya, which gave them a lot of confidence again.
In fact, only I know that the probability of this is very small, and it will almost never happen.
In this way, we spent another two days with extremely slim hope.
Everyone's spirit became more depressed.
On the seventh day of drifting on the sea, the sky was not so clear that night, and there were many cumulus clouds like the previous two days.
But it didn't rain, or it rained in other places, and we just missed it. After all, it is common to rain in tropical waters.
We have collected a lot of water now, and even if it doesn't rain, it won't be too bad for us.
Of course, a little rain would be better.
But the most feared thing is the storm.
Our speedboat can no longer withstand the wind and waves. Once it capsizes, it will be difficult for us to turn it back over.
At that time, we can only drift on the belly of the boat, not only risking sliding into the sea, but also being exposed to the sun. At the same time, we can no longer collect fresh water.
At that time, we are really not far from death.
"Look!"
Just as Catherine and I were lying on the deck bored, Zhu Ya, who had been sitting on the edge, suddenly shouted, as if she had discovered something new.