Facing the ravages of nature, we were helpless, like ants struggling desperately in a turbulent river, biting fallen leaves to escape, and could only pray to God, hoping that the raging storm would subside soon.
Perhaps only in this way can we survive, but it may be just a psychological effect.
However, God did not seem to intend to let us, the three survivors who had suffered so much, go. As if to test our will, after we struggled for an hour, another huge wave came!
This time, we were not so lucky!
The hull was at the top of the wave, with the top of the head covering the sky and the sun, and the bottom was the bottomless valley!
The speedboat was instantly overturned by the huge waves, and the entire hull was immediately swept into the sea, rolling violently on the seabed like a drum.
Countless bubbles with white foam kept emerging from around the hull and surging upwards!
The three of us were like a toy boat that fell into a washing machine. We were in the cabin and felt dizzy, just like passengers who were thrown out of the cabin without seat belts in a car accident. The only consciousness was to try to stay awake!
It took us ten seconds to surface from the bottom of the sea!
At this moment, the dizzy head made me unable to think. A lot of seawater poured into my nasal cavity, and my body seemed to be torn apart.
I think the three of us might die!
My heart was shouting-God, let us go! Let us suffer less!
However, God did not seem to be satisfied. When the hull was washed out, the rope threw the three of us out of the sea.
Then, we were teased by the waves again!
If it weren't for the ropes on our bodies, no matter how hard we swam, we would never float up from the bottom of the sea with undercurrents.
It was the rope I tied before that saved our lives!
Zhu Ya kept choking on water beside me, while Catherine, who was in good physical condition and familiar with water, gasped for air after floating up.
I saw that Zhu Ya was struggling to tread water, so I took off the only life jacket on my body and let her wear it.
This was the item I used to escape from the medical ship. If I didn't give it to Catherine and Zhu Ya, they would naturally have nothing to say. I am not cold-blooded, but I just don't want to be responsible for them with my life.
But at this moment, I need to help Zhu Ya and let her recover.
Zhu Ya put on the life jacket I gave her. On her painful face, her eyes, which were red from choking on water, were full of gratitude in the dim light.
"Hold on, I believe we will get through it soon." I grabbed Zhu Ya's hair, lifted her face, and shouted at her.
The storm will not calm down because of prayer, and it will continue to torture us!
We hugged each other tightly and fought against the ruthlessness of the sea together!
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I cursed again in my heart - damn God, we will not submit to you, let alone become your devout believers! You are just a clay statue with a false reputation! You are a coward!
However, the storm did not intensify or subside because of my curse.
The three of us were like dust that accidentally fell into the water, inconspicuous in front of the sea.
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I don’t know how long we resisted the storm, how many times we were choked, and the feeling that even breathing seemed a luxury made us feel desperate.
Our physical strength had long been exhausted. After the storm gradually subsided, we used our last strength to grab the edge of the overturned hull.
At this moment, the speedboat was like a huge gourd ladle falling into the water, constantly floating up and down in the sea.
I don’t know how long this lasted.
It wasn’t until the gray cumulus clouds on the horizon were pierced by a ray of sunset light, and sprinkled on the surging and dark sea like holy light, that I saw hope!
"Hurry, help me turn the boat over!"
I climbed up to the bottom of the boat with difficulty, and then turned to the other side.
Catherine and Zhu Ya did the same.
We stepped on the other side of the bottom of the boat, and while sinking one side of the boat, we leaned our bodies and pulled the rope like a sail.
With the momentum of the waves, the three of us pulled hard at the same time as one side of the boat sank, and the speedboat miraculously turned over.
We almost used up our last bit of strength to climb onto the wet deck.
I lay on the rear deck, gasping for air, breathing in the precious air.
I don't know how long I rested like this, but the fatigue on my body was hard to dissipate. The hull kept shaking up and down, making us feel drowsy.
When I recovered a little, I found that the awning of the speedboat on which we depended for survival had been swept away by the wind and waves, leaving only six broken plastic pillars standing bare on both sides of the hull.
I didn't care about my fatigue, and immediately turned over and climbed to the front deck. Seeing the intact small door of the storage room, my hanging heart finally relaxed a little!
The three of us drank the fresh water in the rescue box before entering the storm because we needed to put the life-saving supplies in it.
So, fresh water will now become the biggest crisis.
The water collected in the middle deck is mostly seawater and cannot be drunk.
While it was still raining, I quickly opened the storage room and took out the raincoat that I had used as a water sail.
I opened the raincoat and hung it on the broken pillar to form a new awning roof.
The rain kept falling on the raincoat and slowly gathered in the middle.
The outer layer of this raincoat is waterproof, and the inner layer is canvas, which is very durable.
It was used as a water sail in the water before, and it was not damaged, but the inner canvas was covered with seaweed and some barnacles, making it look like an old piece of clothing that had been soaked in the sea for a long time.
Catherine and Zhu Ya looked at the sky and cried. This time I didn't stop them from releasing their emotions.
After this disaster, each of us was filled with mixed emotions. None of us had the joy of surviving the disaster on our faces.
The reason is that this "rest of life" is not a real "life".
We have only survived a catastrophe, but as long as we remain in this vast and merciless ocean, catastrophes may occur at any time, and we may all die in the end.
Negative emotions, like the haze of death, began to shroud everyone's soul.
In the evening.
The rain stopped and the storm was far away from us.
I poured the collected rainwater back into the rescue box.
Catherine and Zhu Ya were exhausted and lay under their raincoats to rest. Their faces were as pale as paper and their lips were wrinkled with white wrinkles. Their naked bodies had been drifting on the sea for too long and were a little dark.
I was also exhausted and had no extra energy to do anything else. So I also lay between Catherine and Zhu Ya to rest.
When I woke up, it was already midnight.
Because I couldn't know the exact time, I felt hungry and thirsty after waking up, so I started to distribute food and water to everyone.
Without the roof of the speedboat, the only way to collect dew was to rely on raincoats, but the raincoats could not collect much.
And without the water sail, the speed of moving purely by the ocean current was very slow. If the raincoat is made into a sail, its area is too small and it will not be very useful.
The cramped environment put me in trouble again.
Looking at the clear night sky, I was full of helplessness.
Physically and mentally exhausted, I began to recall the life I had lived, ponder the origin and meaning of life, and fantasize about the origin of the universe and the world outside the earth.
Thinking about these is just a psychological protection mechanism to find comfort for death, so that the body thinks that it will exist in another form after death.