Chapter 1065 Old Friends Reunion
On the coastline, Xiao Peng saw a sailboat!
It wasn't the wooden raft he'd built, but a modern sailboat! And he knew what kind of boat it was! It was a French Jeanneau 490 motor sailboat! How did he know what kind of boat it was? The Derridas bought one of these when they sold their yacht and sailed around the world!
Xiao Peng wanted to shout loudly, but quickly decided to give up the idea: although he could see the motor sail boat, the distance between the two sides was actually very far, and the sound could not be transmitted over there at all!
He didn't go into the water to swim after the sailboat.
The distance to the sailboat was estimated to be more than ten nautical miles. The sailboat could still move on its own. Even if he swam fast enough, it would take him an unknown amount of time to catch up with it! And whether he could catch up was still a question!
The best thing to do now is to start a fire! In addition to burning wood, it is best to burn all the plastic products you can find. When plastic and rubber products are burned, they will produce a lot of black smoke, which will rise higher and can be seen from farther away!
Xiao Peng hurried back to the beach to light a bonfire!
He did a stupid thing.
In fact, the first thing to do when stranded on a deserted island is to build a special survival fire. If you see any signs of a ship, light it and call for help.
However, the uninhabited island where Xiao Peng was located was thousands of nautical miles away from the nearest shipping lane. He had never expected any ships to come! So he didn't build a fire!
This was a problem! When he was busy trying to put out the fire, he found that the magnesium rod was missing again!
This habit of losing things really needs to be changed!
He had two magnesium rods, one he snatched from Alvaro, and the other he brought back when he got the seasoning from his own boat. Later, he lost one of them, and Xiao Peng always carried the other one with him, but he didn't expect it to be lost again!
Damn it, didn’t those two women steal it for me?
He couldn't care less about cursing at this moment! Time was running out! He had to quickly light a fire and call for help! If he missed this opportunity, he would never get it again!
It's no exaggeration to say that this is the first time a ship has reached this sea area since the birth of the earth! Humanity really knows much less about the ocean than we think.
How to start a fire without a magnesium rod? Of course, the old way!
Xiao Peng found two pieces of flint and started hitting them hard.
But flint fire requires good flammable fire starter, and unfortunately it had just rained, so he couldn't find any suitable fire starter at all. He broke four or five pieces of flint, but still couldn't start the fire!
"Ah!" Xiao Peng lay on the beach with a look of despair. Well, it seems that he has no way to ask for help!
This is the result of being stranded on a deserted island like this without making any preparations in advance. You can't rely on anyone else, and you have to rely on yourself if you want to escape!
Xiao Peng lay on the beach, looking at the sky. Sigh, it would be nice to have a cigarette at this moment...
He was depressed for only a while before he mustered up his courage.
Why was he so discouraged? He was staying on this island as if it were a vacation. It wasn't like he couldn't escape! There was even a life raft!
So what if you drift on the sea for a while? That's a great experience!
Thinking of this, Xiao Peng became motivated again. He climbed up from the beach. No matter what, he had to get something to eat first, get enough rest, get enough water and food, and leave the island!
Alas, he was now all alone on the island, with no one to talk to! He was back to the state he was in when he first arrived on the island!
The spear he had sharpened was still there, so he could go and spear two fish to eat first!
Xiao Peng picked up his spear and prepared to spear the fish, but when he faced the sea, he was stunned again: "Huh?"
While he was busy making a fire, the sailboat had already approached the island and stopped about one or two hundred meters away from the beach at the southern end of the island. The boat had lowered its sails and dropped anchor, and two people were rowing the boat hard towards the shore!
Is this a landing?
"Oh my god!" Xiao Peng didn't even bother to spear the fish anymore and hurried to where they had landed. By the time he got there, the two people had already landed. Since they were facing away from Xiao Peng, he couldn't see their faces clearly, but he could tell they were a man and a woman. When Xiao Peng approached, they were holding a wooden sign, one holding it while the other hammered it into the ground.
"Hey! There's someone here!" Xiao Peng shouted while running!
The two men also heard Xiao Peng's voice and stopped what they were doing, looking around in confusion. They followed the sound and saw Xiao Peng running and waving his hands desperately.
Then both sides were dumbfounded.
"Xiao?"
"Mr. Derrida? Mrs. Derrida?"
Damn! That boat isn't the same as the Derridas'! That's their boat!
The Derridas' sailing trip is still underway, but they shouldn't be in South America now, they should be in Oceania! Why are they here? And what are they doing with a plank?
"Why are you here?"
"Why are you here?"
Both sides asked each other in unison.
Then both sides pointed at each other and said, "You speak first!"
Seeing no need to waste time, Xiao Peng briefly explained his situation. "I was working in the nearby waters when a storm occurred. My boat sank and I fled to this island. But how did you end up here? Aren't you going to East Africa?"
"East Africa?" Mrs. Derrida replied, "Oh, the last time we contacted each other was on the way to East Africa, but that was over half a year ago! We sailed south from East Africa and crossed the Cape of Good Hope. Now all we have to do is go to South America and then north to North America, and we'll have truly circumnavigated the globe!"
Xiao Peng scratched his head and said, "But why are you here again? This place is too far from the waterway!"
Mr. Derrida said, "Our round-the-world trip is drawing to a close. We wanted to leave some memories of our journey, didn't we? It just so happened that we discovered that if we discovered an uninhabited island that had never been discovered before, it would mean we had the right to name it. Islands near shipping routes are usually discovered by humans, so we decided to try our luck away from the shipping route! Look, isn't this the island we discovered?"
"And discovered you too!" said Mrs. Derrida.
Xiao Peng was shocked and asked, "Don't you want to live? This is too dangerous!"
Mrs. Derrida smiled and said, "Life is not that important to us now. What matters most is cherishing every second, isn't it? Even if something does happen, we'll be together. That's enough for us!"
Xiao Peng gave a thumbs-up: "You guys are awesome! But I have some bad news for you. I've already named this island. Of course, if you're willing to let me take a nice hot bath and take me away from this damn place, I'll give you the naming rights for this island!"
The Derridas were stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. "Okay! Deal!"
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