Chapter 13: Island Exit Plan
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Although the speedboat Yuan Xi had used before was old, it was still good in all aspects. It also had a cabin to protect against wind and rain, and it could be used after a little repair.
In addition, she was able to escape from the sea when a tsunami was approaching, and accurately identify the direction and return safely to the area of L Island. It can be seen that she can also do the third point.
The most difficult part is the second point. Youxi had previously asked a local sailor with sailing experience. From L Island to the nearest mainland, it is conservatively estimated to be 1,200 nautical miles. Ordinary small and medium-sized speedboats can
travel about 40 nautical miles per hour at full speed, and the fuel tank of a speedboat ranges from 50 liters to 150 liters. Calculated based on a 150-liter tank, it can run for more than 3 hours after filling it up.
It takes at least 30 hours to travel 1,200 nautical miles. It is impossible for a speedboat to run at full speed 24 hours a day. The main engine will have problems. According to insurance, it sails about 8 to 10 hours a day. If it sails 10 hours a day, it sails about 400 nautical miles a day. It takes at least three days to travel 1,200 nautical miles.
If converted into fuel, it is estimated to be around 1,500 liters.
It is a difficult problem to get so much fuel, but it is not completely unsolvable.
It is just that ordinary speedboats cannot have such a large fuel tank. If diesel barrels are carried on board, so much fuel will be nearly 1,300 kilograms. Some small speedboats have limited load capacity and cannot be loaded at all. Even
within the load-bearing range, it is very dangerous to place a large amount of fuel on a bumpy boat. The sea is not like land. If something happens, there is nowhere to escape. The only result is to be buried in the vast sea.
However, Youxi has space.
The fuel barrels can be stacked up, and the safety factor is 100%.
But for her, the biggest difficulty lies here. Can she persuade the other party to leave together without exposing the space?
After persuading, how to secretly transfer the fuel to the space? After
she proposed this plan, Yuanli's focus was also on the second problem: the source and storage of fuel.
L Island is too far away from other mainlands, and other islands within the sea route back to China were also hit by tsunamis and could not be used as transit stations. As for the large ships on L Island, almost all of them were destroyed in the tsunami. The speedboats that can still be used today are basically small and medium-sized. When the tsunami occurred, they were in the deep sea area like the speedboat where Yuanli was, and they were lucky to survive with experienced helmsmen.
If these boats were not unable to carry everyone for long voyages, the people on the island would have thought of leaving long ago.
Between the risk of leaving and staying safely, most people would easily choose the latter.
The same is true for Yuan Qing. The current situation is not so bad that she has to leave, but leaving is destined to be an adventure.
She frowned and thought for a long time, then slowly said: "Actually, it's not completely impossible. We can think of a source of fuel... but it takes time to prepare. Besides, my injury is not fully healed yet, and I definitely can't go out to sea in this state. Wait for me for a few more days. I will give you an accurate answer in five days."
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It hasn't been five days yet, and Wanghai Mountain has become chaotic.
In the past few days, the temperature has not recovered, but has dropped from 7 or 8 degrees to zero. The rapid temperature drop and the unprecedented cold airflow have not only frightened the people of Haiguo, but also panicked the surviving tourists from all over the world.
The air conditioners in all the hotels on L Island only have cooling effects. Even if they can heat, they are not very helpful under the power restriction. For a while, cold-proof supplies have become more important than food and water.
The rescue team emptied all the clothes, blankets and blankets in stock. Almost everyone wore several layers of clothes and wrapped themselves in various blankets. It was still cold, so most people began to think of various ways, such as hiding in the room, dismantling wooden chairs and starting a fire to keep warm.
After putting out the eighth small-scale fire caused by improper use of fire, the rescue team sent people to light several fires in the lobbies of several hotels and guesthouses so that the survivors could gather together to keep warm, temporarily alleviating the cold problem.
The situation in the B&B area was better, because almost all the B&Bs here had a public kitchen with a stove on the first floor. The survivors in the B&Bs were too cold to stay in the room, so they gathered in the kitchen to burn firewood for warmth.
As a result, there were many more survivors who originally lived in the hotel area in the B&B area.
Two groups of people also moved into the B&B where Youxi was located. One group was from H country, both men and women, who exchanged some food for the right to live in the room and occupied the room on the left side of the stairs on the first floor.
The other group was made up of Japanese people, almost all of them men, occupying the rooms on the right side of the first floor stairs. They always stared at other people coming in and out of the B&B, and their eyes made Youxi and Yuanqi more alert.
Yuanqi no longer went to the kitchen on the first floor to cook. She also exchanged food with the proprietress for an alcohol stove, and took the pot and bowl from the kitchen to make some simple food in the room.
In this way, every time she cooked porridge or noodles, she never forgot to send a portion to Youxi.
Youxi felt embarrassed and helpless, and pretended to go out for a walk. When she came back, she said that she also got an alcohol stove and could cook by herself in the future.
She also made a pot of sausage and carrot clay pot rice that night and sent it downstairs. The ingredients were also simple, but Youxi's cooking skills were not worse than Yuanqi's, and even better than hers.
Yuanyuan didn't even need to be fed. She ate a big bowl of clay pot rice by herself, and even licked the rice grains on the spoon clean.
However, the harmonious atmosphere only lasted for that night. Before dawn, Youxi heard strange movements outside the door. The sound was not loud, but she was very alert and woke up immediately.
She took out the stun gun and held it in her hand. She first looked outside with cat eyes, then opened the door. Not far from the door, there was a strange man wearing a mask lying in the corridor.
When she squatted down to check, Yuan Qing came up the stairs holding a rope: "You're awake? That's great. Tie this man up and hand him over to the rescue team later."
"This man..."
"He must be here to look for supplies." Yuan Qing used the word "look", but she knew You Xi could understand what he really meant. "He probably knew that you were the only girl living on the fifth floor, so he came up here before dawn. I was a little heavy-handed, so I'm afraid you'll be dizzy for a while."
Yuan Qing had the habit of doing morning exercises. He had stopped for a few days because of his injury. Today, he felt that his wound had healed well, so he wanted to walk up the stairs slowly to stretch his arms and legs, and she happened to bump into him.
"Thank you, are you okay?"
"It's okay, I was very careful this time and didn't hurt the wound."
You Xi quickly tied the man's hands behind his back, then went back to the room to get a towel provided by the B&B and planned to stuff it into his mouth. As a result, when she turned the man over and pulled off his mask, she found that the other person looked familiar, "This is..."
"Well, it should be one of the two groups of people on the first floor." The other person had a lot of different faces and seldom went out. Yuan Xi only recognized him roughly and couldn't tell whether he was from Japan or H country.
This person is different from the one that Youxi knocked down before. He is not a villain, because the two groups of people downstairs are tourists. At present, the order is not completely chaotic, and they dare not come openly, so they use such a petty theft method, and they also choose Youxi who lives alone.
Youxi sighed. She has been very cautious when traveling these days. In order to avoid being abrupt, she always wraps a thin blanket that is a bit worn out on the outside of her down jacket, and always wears a hat, and tries to reduce the number of times she goes downstairs.
Even if they are targeted like this, it can be seen that the situation here is getting worse rapidly.
Yuan Qi frowned and was silent for a moment, as if he had made up his mind: "Let's leave as soon as possible. I'll go to Lin Wu to discuss it today."
After breakfast, You Xi took advantage of Yuan Qi's absence to consult with the B&B owner and moved from the fifth floor to the fourth floor, living next to Yuan Qi and his friends.
This room is still on the westernmost side, but unlike the rooms upstairs, the balcony faces west. Standing on the balcony, you can not only see what's going on in the south of the B&B, but also what's happening under the cliff to the north of the B&B.
After the tsunami, the vacant room has never been cleaned, but the doors and windows are closed, so it's still clean inside, but the air is a bit bad. Youxi opened the balcony door for ventilation, and as usual, he used the high-powered telescope he had just exchanged for on the balcony to check the situation in the distance.
The water level seemed to have dropped a little from before, but it was only the difference from five layers to four and a half layers. The once bustling resort island was now deserted except for Wanghai Mountain.
The buildings exposed above the water revealed a gray and dead silence in the pale light of the early morning. The empty windows were like the mouths of monsters, and looking at them for a long time would make people feel hopeless.
When Yuan Xi returned, he not only brought the rescue team, but also brought back Lin Wu.
As soon as I walked to the second floor, I found that there were many people gathered at the corner of the stairs. There were several young women on the second floor, several men and women on the first floor, and even the owner and his wife of the B&B were all looking in to join in the fun.
"What's going on?" Yuan Xi asked the woman on the second floor.
The other party pointed upstairs and said, "Those Japanese people on the first floor are causing trouble."
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