Chapter 0826 – Escape from Death

The fleet that was on a military visit mission in the waters of the Indian Ocean was the first to arrive at the designated waters, and the first to discover the survivors of the plane crash.

At six o’clock in the morning, Peng Fei and the others boarded the battleship and changed into clean clothes, the two girls, due to the shock, started a high fever and were arranged to go to sleep in their rooms.

Peng Fei just rested for a while, then followed the rescue team to search around for Zhuang Rui, but as the search scope continued to expand, no trace of Zhuang Rui was ever found.

As time passed, Peng Fei became anxious, and his temper became short-tempered, and after several requests to fly the helicopter on the battleship to search for Zhuang Rui were rejected, he almost clashed with the commanding officer.

“What? Still haven’t found it, a dozen of your warships, hundreds of airplanes, in a thirty nautical mile area, you can’t even find a person?”

Ouyang Lei’s face was blue, he didn’t sleep too well yesterday and was woken up by the phone at six o’clock in the morning.

After hearing the news of finding the people of the plane crash, Ouyang Lei had thought that Zhuang Rui was safe, who knew that the next news was to let Ouyang Lei lose all sleep, and had been guarding the phone next to him.

“Chief, all the planes have been sent out, but never see Zhuang Rui’s trail, I …… I suspect ……”

The voice on the other end of the phone was a little hesitant, swallowed and did not say any more.

“Don’t doubt, live to see a man die to see a corpse, this is an order, and, the South Sea Fleet should be about to arrive, you two sides synergize, and then expand the scope of the search, remember, must find the person to me.”

Ouyang Lei rudely interrupted the other party, if he couldn’t find Zhuang Rui, he didn’t know how he should explain to the old master, how should he face his widowed sister-in-law, and Zhuang Rui’s wife who was about to go into labor?

“Yes, promise to complete the task.”

Although the promise on the phone was decisive, but Ouyang Lei’s heart is still very uneasy, after hanging up the phone, Ouyang Lei sat down for a while, stood up and hurriedly walked out of the office.

“Arrange an airplane, I’m going to the South Sea Fleet for a work inspection.”

Some things are like this, change the reason and it will become justified, although everyone knows the purpose of Ouyang Lei’s trip to the South Sea Fleet at this moment, but no one can say anything to accuse.

“Old Xie, what do you think?”

On the deck of the command ship, two naval officers with the rank of Rear Admiral on their shoulders were having a conversation.

“What else can I think? The South Sea Fleet is out, keep looking!”

The one who was called Old Xie was the highest ranked in the visiting team and the deputy commander of the East Sea Fleet, one of the three major fleets, and standing next to him was Shen Hua, the deputy political commissar.

Shen Hua glanced at Commander Xie and said, “It’s been more than twenty hours since the plane crash, and besides, there was a storm in this sea yesterday, so I guess, the missing people should have died, so what’s the point of laboring over it!”

Shen political commissar for this mission, in the heart is a bit unimpressed, as a fleet steward, he is well aware of, fleet out to sea a day of supply consumption, that is extremely shocking.

Now in order to search for an airplane crash on the personnel, not only temporary termination of their mission, actually also the distance from the Indian Ocean the South China Sea Fleet to send out, we must know, that is a national strategic forces.

However, the order was given directly by the military commission, even if they didn’t understand it, they still had to carry it out, and Political Commissar Shen could only whine in front of his old partner.

“Old Shen, don’t talk nonsense, remember the explanation from above, live and let die, expand the search area by another 30 nautical miles.”

Commander Xie interrupted the political commissar’s words, the order was received by him, it was given directly by Vice Commander Ouyang of the General Staff, and in these ten hours, the Vice Commander had made seven or eight phone calls one after another, and his tone had become worse and worse.

After reading yesterday’s weather report of the sea area, and inquiring about a few other survivors, Commander Xie wasn’t very optimistic about the possibility of that person called Zhuang Rui surviving either.

Admirals who had spent half their lives on the sea were no strangers to storms, not to mention people entering them, even these iron-armored battleships could be subverted by storms.

“But ……”

“There’s no need to say anymore, give the order to expand the search area by thirty nautical miles.”

Commander Xie waved to the guards standing in the distance and gave a new order.

A nautical mile is a distance of almost 2 kilometers, expanding the search range by thirty nautical miles is almost sixty kilometers, this is already beyond the range of yesterday’s storm, if it can’t be found again, then Commander Xie is at his wits end.

Zhuang Rui felt like a rag doll now, being mercilessly torn to and fro by the sea, one big wave slapped him almost fainted, if he didn’t see that the coast was so close to him, Zhuang Rui feared that he might not be able to hold on anymore.

Only the last twenty meters, but how Zhuang Rui can not rush to the shore, the gravitational pull of the tide back is too great, Zhuang Rui at the moment and root grass is almost the same, there is no ability to resist.

“Ah!”

Zhuang Rui’s heart was getting more and more uneasy, he felt that the tide seemed to be completely receding, if he couldn’t step on land again, it was very likely that he would be sucked into the depths of the Indian Ocean.

After lifting his head out of the sea and letting out a hiss, Zhuang Rui injected his entire body’s aura into his body, the aura that swarmed into his body made him, in an instant, become energized, and in a single jerk, he plunged into the seawater.

The depth of the seawater here was only three or four meters deep, after Zhuang Rui dived under the water, he stuck his hands dead in the mud of the seabed and crawled towards the shore with difficulty.

A submarine underwater current impacted Zhuang Rui’s body, due to the buoyancy of the seawater and life jacket, making Zhuang Rui’s entire body floated, if not just grabbed out a very small piece of reef, Zhuang Rui at the moment has been sucked into the deep sea.

A minute passed, Zhuang Rui’s hands deadlocked on the reef.

Two minutes passed, the feeling of suffocating air came, but Zhuang Rui could still hold on.

Three minutes passed, Zhuang Rui began to slowly exhale the air in his chest slowly.

Five minutes passed, Zhuang Rui’s face became a little blue, but he felt the suction coming from the seawater, which didn’t seem to be as strong.

Eight minutes passed, Zhuang Rui’s brain was extremely lacking in oxygen, his face was bruised, his body looked like it was going to explode, in order to let himself hold on for a while longer, Zhuang Rui drilled half of his head into the sand at the bottom of the sea.

Twelve minutes passed, ate a mouth of sea sand really can not stand the Zhuang Rui, feet violently stomped on the seabed, the whole body upward scampered out.

“Cough …… cough …… bah, bah ……”

Just drilled out of the sea, Zhuang Rui was busy opening his mouth to breathe air, but did not expect to put the mouth of the sand are almost sucked in, coughing face red, at this time he has not realized that he even feet have been detached from the sea.

“Ah? What’s going on? When was I able to jump so high?”

Zhuang Rui still remembered that when he dived, he was still three or four meters away from the surface of the sea, but now, Zhuang Rui only felt that he jumped out of thin air, and the buoyancy and pressure of the sea water had all disappeared in an instant.

Looking down, Zhuang Rui saw his whole person, all exposed in the air.

It wasn’t until Zhuang Rui fell from the air onto the surface of the sea that he realized that the seawater, which was originally three to four meters deep, was now actually only just missing his calves.

“Damn, I was just in such deep water and almost suffocated to death?”

Zhuang Rui’s oxygen-deprived brain froze for a while before reacting to the fact that he just had to raise his head to be able to breathe in the air, but on the contrary, he was learning the ostrich, burying his head in the sea sand, and almost didn’t give himself a whole lot of death.

“I …… I fucking really stupid ……”

Zhuang Rui gave himself a slap, he really could not forget the fact that he almost suffocated just now.

However, Zhuang Rui didn’t know that he was only a minute or so away from breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest time of holding one’s breath in the water, which was set by Canadian Robert Foster, in 1959.

Can’t help but say that human potential is infinite, as far as Zhuang Rui’s normal level is concerned, it’s usually good to hold on for five minutes.

“I’m on the shore? What’s going on here?”

After being angry with himself, Zhuang Rui realized this problem, but for a moment, Zhuang Rui didn’t think that this was a normal phenomenon after the sea ebbs, of course, this is all the trouble caused by the lack of oxygen in the brain.

Just when Zhuang Rui just wanted to jump up to celebrate his escape from death, suddenly his face changed greatly, because he heard a very strange sound in his ears, which came from behind him.

Zhuang Rui turned around and looked, a wave that was seven or eight meters high was more than ten meters away from him, like a monster opening its mouth, devouring itself.

“Holy shit!”

Zhuang Rui couldn’t care less about celebrating anymore, his legs jumped up as if they were spring loaded and desperately ran towards the shore.

But Zhuang Rui obviously hadn’t been trained for sprinting in the sea, just as he ran out ten or so meters, the huge wave behind him, directly impacted his body flying, like a giant’s big hand, easily threw Zhuang Rui’s body out more than ten meters away.

And that huge wave, also slowly retracted into the sea, not far from the sea is still tossing, seems to be brewing the next wave.

Dizzy Zhuang Rui stood up with blurry eyes, if he didn’t fall on the beach, this hit could have killed him, instinctively Zhuang Rui felt that this place doesn’t seem to be safe either, his whole body wobbled towards the opposite side of the sea water.

“Bang!”

After walking to a place with dense reefs, Zhuang Rui finally couldn’t support himself anymore, his body fell heavily to the ground, and when his forehead touched the ground, it grazed on a reef, and blood immediately emerged.

However, Mr. Zhuang Rui couldn’t feel the pain at this time.

Nearly twenty hours of fighting with the sea, the slackness after the spiritual tension of escaping from death, and the exhaustion of physical strength and aura, made Zhuang Rui no longer able to support himself at this moment, and fell into a drowsy sleep.

This night, Zhuang Rui had many dreams, he dreamt of his childhood when his mother was mending his clothes, he dreamt of the first time he met with Qin Xuan Bing, that heavenly looking face brought him amazement, he also dreamt of the two robbers and the bullets that were shot at him when he was working in the pawnshop!

“Ah!”

Seeming to truly feel the pain, Zhuang Rui cried out in agony and opened his eyes, only to find that at his right hand, a large sea crab had just loosened the pincers that were holding his fingers and ghostly burrowed into the reef.

“I’m alive?”

The dream carried Zhuang Rui as if he had experienced a reincarnation, until after opening his eyes, Zhuang Rui realized that he …… was still alive, and the pain coming from his fingers made him clearly recognize this.

“Ah ah ah! I’m still alive.”

Zhuang Rui jumped up, he couldn’t care to think about why the sky is now bright, and he couldn’t care about the pain on the bottom of his feet without shoes, stepping on the reef, Zhuang Rui now only wanted to vent, for the simple reason that it’s so good to be …… alive.

Without any goal in the beach running wildly, the mouth issued a hiss without any meaning, Zhuang Rui’s body is doing a variety of strange gestures, this if people shoot down, the whole on a modern art.

Until the voice is hoarse, can no longer shout out words, Zhuang Rui only heavy lying down on the beach, looking at the blue sky and white clouds, the mood gradually calmed down.

“When one seems to go ashore, it should be evening ah?”

Zhuang Rui recalled the experience before fainting at this moment, still can’t help but feel palpitations.

Raising his hand to look at the watch with excellent waterproof function, Zhuang Rui realized that he had slept for sixteen or seventeen whole hours, and now it was already noon of the next day.

“Thirsty ……”

After coming to his senses from the abnormal state, Zhuang Rui immediately felt thirsty, and hurriedly took off his life jacket, and counted up the items he had left.

The result made Zhuang Rui a bit disappointed, except for Peng Fei’s knife, only three pieces of compressed cookies were left, and the two breads that he hadn’t been able to part with, because of the rupture of the bag, had already been soaked into batter by the seawater.

In other words, if there was nothing on the island that could be eaten, Zhuang Rui would have to rely on these three pieces of compressed biscuits and wait for the rescuers to arrive.

“There will be blessings after a great disaster, I haven’t seen my son and daughter yet!”

Zhuang Rui consoled himself in the bottom of his heart, then tore open a bag of compressed cookies, after chewing slowly in his mouth, he swallowed it with great difficulty, no drinking water, became the biggest problem for Zhuang Rui.

As if he saw a coconut tree yesterday, Zhuang Rui stood up and began to survey the island, he didn’t know if this was a deserted island or one that had already been developed, but looking at the barrenness of the surroundings, it should be more likely that the former was more likely.

“Eh? It’s fresh water!”

Zhuang Rui suddenly saw that in the recess of a reef beside him, there was a puddle of fresh water, and hurriedly ran over and dipped his finger into a drop and put it in his mouth.

At that instant, Zhuang Rui burst into tears, the most important crisis of survival was sort of solved.