Chapter 1052 Visitors from the Deserted Island
Xiao Peng was chopping palm trees with a stone axe to make a raft when he heard a cry for help on the wind.
"We have to leave here. This is all hallucination!" Xiao Peng shook his head and continued to chop trees, but the cries for help became clearer and clearer.
He turned his head and saw an orange inflatable life raft floating on the sea near the island, and someone on the life raft was waving at him.
"Oh my god!" Xiao Peng was shocked. Is this a ghost? How can I see people in this godforsaken place? Is this also a survivor of the storm?
Reality is indeed more unreasonable than fiction.
Surviving a storm is a miracle, and two different groups of survivors drifting to the same uninhabited island? That's a miracle among miracles! The probability of this is probably about the same as the probability of Xiao Peng peeing on the shore and causing a tsunami to kill himself...
However, Xiao Peng did not go into the sea to help, but sat on the shore and watched them.
In fact, he didn't need to lend a hand at all.
In the deep ocean, there are strong ocean currents near islands that attract nearby objects toward the islands, which is why plastic waste can be found on this uninhabited island.
If you were stranded on a deserted island and wanted to escape, the biggest challenge might not be finding food or building a raft, but rather getting the raft off the island. Of course, Xiao Peng wasn't afraid of such troubles: strength isn't without its advantages!
More than ten minutes later, the life raft approached the island under the guidance of the tide. Three men and two women got off the boat. When Xiao Peng saw them, he was a little dazed for a moment - the combination of these people was a bit weird.
Among the three men, one who is a little older and fatter is a white man, and looks a bit like a Dutch man, while the other two men have the standard appearance of South American men: due to long-term colonization, most South Americans are mixed-race people, including whites, Indians, blacks... Most of them look handsome, but their skin color is dark, and many of them look more Asian.
What about the other two girls? One is a standard blonde beauty, while the other is a mixed-race with black hair. Her skin color is more like that of a black person.
One of the men walked towards Xiao Peng excitedly: "Are you the island keeper here? We need help! Which country does this island belong to?"
"Island guard?" Xiao Peng was stunned after hearing this, and then he understood why he said that!
He had only been on the island for a few days. Although he was dressed in rags, he looked like a normal person. Many countries would station personnel on important islands within their territories to guard the islands. These people were called island guards.
Xiao Peng shook his head. "Well, I think you misunderstood. I'm not an island keeper. I was trapped on this island by a storm. It's an uninhabited island. There's no trace of human activity on this island, so it must be an uninhabited island that has never been discovered. I named it 'Daxia Island'."
Humans know very little about the ocean, let alone the seabed. Even the high seas are not well understood.
Despite the advancement of satellite technology, there are still tens of thousands of islands in the ocean that have never been discovered. These islands are either far from shipping lanes or have no usable resources.
Another reason why people have no interest in these islands is that they are basically located in the high seas.
Because according to the law, everything on the high seas belongs to no country or individual. Zhang San can collect resources, resupply, rest, and live on an island; Li Si can do the same. No one can declare that an island belongs to any country or individual.
If Zhang San, after much effort and expense, discovers an island rich in resources and plans to develop it, Li Si, Zhao Wu, and others will flock to develop it, effectively giving someone else a dowry. There's practically no country on the planet that would waste taxpayers' money on such a thing. Who would be so foolish as to not even develop the resources within their own territorial waters?
So what's the benefit of discovering an island that has never been discovered before? That means you have the right to name the island. Xiao Peng hasn't confirmed whether this island has been discovered by humans, but he's going to give it a name first!
The people who were dragging the life raft to the shore were stunned when they heard this. One girl couldn't help crying, and another girl was there to comfort her.
Xiao Peng looked at the two girls. Tsk, tsk, how thin they were wearing! The fabric on their bodies combined wouldn't even be enough to make him a pair of underwear...
But it's really pleasing to the eye - are these two girls raised on a diet of cows? Their development is unnatural!
"Brother, is there anything to eat?" The person who started talking to Xiao Peng suddenly said.
Xiao Peng didn't think much about it and pointed to a few palm leaves nearby and said, "There are fish and shellfish over there. I just caught them. But there is no fire right now. I think you should be able to make a fire."
He wasn't kidding. Xiao Peng had plenty of the inflatable life rafts they used. These were usually about the size of a suitcase. They contained a first aid kit and basic wilderness survival tools, including magnesium rods.
A magnesium rod is a tool for making fire in any condition. It's incredibly convenient to use: simply scrape some magnesium powder off the rod, place it near a flammable material like hay or paper, and quickly rub the rod with a metal object to create sparks. A unique feature of magnesium rods, unlike lighters and matches, is that they can still be used after being soaked in water and dried, even in rainy or snowy conditions. This makes them one of the best fire-making tools for the outdoors. They're essential tools in any inflatable life raft's survival kit.
The man was stunned when he heard this: "How do we make a fire? Drill two sticks together to make fire?"
Xiao Peng's face was filled with gloom. He walked straight to the life raft that had brought them there. The emergency kit inside had been opened, and the can of compressed biscuits had been opened, leaving only an empty can. The two bottles of water still had some water in them, but it was probably rainwater. The disinfectant sponge and gauze bandage were soaked with seawater. The first aid ointment and antibiotic ointment were left untouched in the bag. The scissors and tweezers were nowhere to be found.
"Here!" Xiao Peng found a magnesium rod that looked like a pencil. "I can use this to start a fire! Where are the scissors in here? Forget it, do you have a knife I can use?"
The man who spoke to Xiao Peng did not speak, but looked at another long-haired South American man. The other man nodded to him, and then he handed Xiao Peng a knife.
"Nice knife!" Xiao Peng took the knife, found some relatively dry grass, and started a fire with a magnesium rod. "See, starting a fire isn't hard... Buddy! What do you want to do?"
I didn't know when a gun was pointed at my head.
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