The sun rose early on the sea. Under the sunlight, the reflection of the seawater shone on Du Yuan and Li Shiya's faces. Behind them were dozens of survivors of yesterday's plane crash. After the pirates fled in panic last night, they came out of the cave. When they came out, they discovered that the pirates who kidnapped them had actually escaped. This made everyone a little overjoyed. They didn't expect that they would actually be saved. Everyone didn't understand the situation, but they just ran away with their tails between their legs.
But the problem was that the pirates had run away, but they had driven away the only ship. Now there was not even a ship on the island. How could these dozens of people escape from this isolated island? This became a big problem in front of everyone.
Fortunately, the pirates did not take away the supplies on the island when they ran away. Otherwise, these dozens of people would probably starve to death before they could be rescued. Du Yuan took two people and counted all the food and fresh water left by the pirates on the island. After a rough calculation, the remaining food on the island was distributed to 54 people, which was only enough for everyone to eat for a day. That was to say, if they ate it today, they would have to starve tomorrow.
Du Yuan couldn't help but worry. It had already been more than ten hours since their plane crashed yesterday. Now they were all trapped on this deserted island. They had no way of contacting the outside world, nor did they have any means of transportation by sea. The only thing they could do now was to wait for rescue.
Li Shiya didn't say anything. She sat on a rock on the coast and looked to the east. She was also waiting. She was waiting for Jiang Cheng. She believed that he would come back to save her.
Du Yuan sat beside Li Shiya and said with a sigh, "Girl, do you think your man is dead or alive now?" Du Yuan couldn't help but start to worry about Jiang Cheng's situation. Jiang Cheng went to fight with the sharks alone. They didn't know whether he was alive or not. If he was not dead now, had he been rescued? If he was rescued, he should come to find them immediately. But it was almost noon, why was there no sign of him on the sea?
When Li Shiya heard Old Du talking about Jiang Cheng, she said without hesitation, "Of course he is alive. He is an unkillable cockroach. He won't die so easily. He will definitely bring people to save us. He will!"
Du Yuan didn't expect Li Shiya to believe in Jiang Cheng so much. According to his estimation, if Jiang Cheng was really alive, it would have been sixteen hours since they were kidnapped by the pirates. It was impossible for him not to find people to find them, because his wife was here.
Just as Du Yuan was thinking about this, Li Shiya, who was sitting next to him, suddenly stood up from the rock, pointed to the sea not far away and said excitedly, "Brother Du, look, a ship!"
When Du Yuan heard that there was a ship coming, he immediately stood up and stared at the surface of the sea. He discovered that on the surface of the sea, there was indeed a very old warship sailing towards them. After a while, the cruise ship also sounded its horn.
As soon as the whistle sounded, the survivors hiding in the woods suddenly became excited. Everyone rushed out of the woods and saw the cruise ship coming closer and closer. They desperately shook their arms and screamed loudly, hoping to attract the attention of the cruise ship. Several young men were afraid that the cruise ship didn't see them, so they took off their clothes and waved them vigorously.
At this moment, on this retired warship, Jiang Cheng and Li Weichang were looking at the island with binoculars. Early this morning, Jiang Cheng boarded this cruise ship and went out to sea to look for Li Shiya and the survivors. According to the pictures taken by the satellite, after he went to fight with the shark, a small fishing boat picked up all the survivors. However, when the Malaysian government asked the countries near the sea, they all said that they had not seen these refugees. Therefore, Jiang Cheng boldly guessed that Li Shiya and the survivors were very likely to have encountered the Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean.
He immediately asked the Malaysian government to send people and ships to search all the islands near the sea area. According to the Malaysian experts, the speed of the fishing boat that rescued the survivors was not fast. It could at most travel a few hundred nautical miles in one night. According to the weather report last night, there was a strong wind near the sea area. At midnight last night, the wind and waves on the sea were at least ten degrees. The fishing boat couldn't have gone far. It was very likely to have stopped on a nearby island, or it was swallowed by the waves and sunk to the bottom of the sea.
Jiang Cheng asked Minister Hazak for people and ships, and Hazak agreed without thinking. He sent two rescue helicopters, a decommissioned frigate, and four cruise ships to Jiang Cheng. Jiang Cheng took this huge rescue fleet out to the sea early in the morning. In order to race against time, Jiang Cheng asked the rescue helicopters to take the lead. They first flew all the islands in the nearby sea area to see if there were any traces of ships.
Unfortunately, after the two planes flew over a dozen islands, they still couldn't find any trace of the ship. Jiang Cheng couldn't help but wonder, could it be that the dinghy-like fishing boat from last night had traveled thousands of nautical miles in one night, or was it really buried at the bottom of the sea? He asked the captain of the cruise ship, "Now, which island have we not visited?"
The captain told him that there was a large island with a radius of about a hundred miles that they had not been to. Jiang Cheng hurriedly wanted to send a helicopter to explore the pirate island first. However, there was a problem at this time. This morning, the fuel carried by the helicopter had been used up. Now, it could only be parked on the warship as a decoration.
The captain also advised Jiang Cheng that the island had been abandoned for hundreds of years. No ships would dock there for a long time because it was no longer suitable for ships to dock there. However, Jiang Cheng refused to believe it. He insisted that the captain must go to the island because it was the only island in the nearby sea area that had not been explored. Although it was the farthest island from the sea area where the incident happened, as long as there was a glimmer of hope …
Jiang Cheng didn't want to give up.
In fact, at this time, both the captain and Li Weichang felt that the mysterious fishing boat and the survivors were likely to have been blown to the bottom of the sea by the hurricane last night. However, considering that Jiang Cheng's wife and his comrades were among the survivors, Li Weichang and the captain didn't want to hurt Jiang Cheng. They had to order the helmsman to sail to the island to investigate, so that Jiang Cheng would give up.
However, things were often unpredictable. When Li Weichang saw the refugees standing in a row on the island through his binoculars and waving at them, he couldn't believe it. He didn't expect that these air crash victims were still alive after experiencing so many disasters. It was really unbelievable. Li Weichang had been doing rescue work at sea all his life, but this was the first time he had seen so many survivors from a plane crash at sea. In his previous rescue operations, the survival rate of a plane crash at sea was too low. There were hundreds of passengers on a plane, and it was rare for four or five of them to survive until rescue. However, this time, so many people were still alive. He did a rough count and found that there were about forty to fifty people on the island.
Li Weichang said happily, "Mr. Jiang, we found them. We found them!"
Jiang Cheng was also in a good mood because he saw Old Du and Li Shiya standing on the island and waving at them through the binoculars. Seeing that Li Shiya was fine, his heart that had been hanging in suspense finally relaxed.
Li Weichang hurriedly ordered the helmsman to speed up. The 100-ton cruise ship whistled and sailed toward the island.
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The next morning, in the International General Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, Jiang Cheng was sitting on the edge of Li Shiya's bed. He gently held her hand, looked at her with a smile, and said, "Shiya, you scared me to death. Do you know that after I came back, I couldn't find you no matter how hard I tried? I was so worried. Fortunately, God blessed you and you were safe and sound. Otherwise, I would never forgive myself in my life."
Li Shiya smiled and said, "You're still talking about it. If you hadn't fought with the shark, Brother Du and I wouldn't have been captured by the pirates. Fortunately, Brother Du was here this time. If it weren't for him, I would still be in the hands of the pirates. Maybe, maybe …"
Jiang Cheng was ashamed. He said to Du Yuan, who was lying on the other bed, "Old Du, I really want to thank you this time. Fortunately, you are here, or my wife would have been miserable. Tell me, what do you want? As long as I can do it, I will definitely give it to you."
Du Yuan waved his hand and said, "Don't be so polite. I'm just doing my duty. I was entrusted with a task, and I'm loyal to it. You entrusted Little Lee to me before you left. I didn't have the ability to let her fall into the hands of the pirates, and that was already a dereliction of duty. If I let those black devils tarnish her, then how would I have the face to live?"
Jiang Cheng gave him a thumbs-up and said, "You're a real man. Hey, Old Du, now that we're saved, what are your plans? Are you going to continue to work in Paris?"
Du Yuan thought for a moment and replied, "No, this time they (the Malaysian government) gave me a lot of money to keep my mouth shut. I plan to take the money back to my hometown. After all, although I can make money abroad, no one can take care of my wife and children at home."
Hearing that he was going back to China, Jiang Cheng quickly asked, "Old Du, where are you from? What are you going to do after returning to China? "
"My home is near the river. As for what I'm going to do, I haven't thought about it yet. Maybe I'll use the money to do some small business."
When Jiang Cheng heard that he was actually from the provincial capital, he was overjoyed. He hurriedly asked, "Old Du, there's an empty instructor position in my company. Would you like to take it?"
Du Yuan said absent-mindedly, "I'll think about it!"
Jiang Cheng said, "I'll give you another 500 soldiers!"
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