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68. Isolated Island (1)
The whining of the strong wind.
The shrill sound of something sharp across another hard object.
The patter of a flat paddle against the surface of the water.
The clatter of tiny spray slapping on the stone.
The gurgling sound of small bubbles coming out of the water.
Once again, evolved hearing presents the other side of the world to him.
Open your eyes, the gray sky rolled up with a trace of residual clouds, the open place is the sea, but also gray, as if with a layer of funeral home filter, the air is floating with the smell of wet and cold sea water.
He stood on a rocky coast with an iron hook bent at the front in his right hand and a red bucket in his left hand. There was a shallow layer of water in the bucket, dressed in a green plastic waterproof suit, and his hair was blown in a mess.
Behind him, it seemed to be an island.
So it was as if, because he had never seen such a strange island, it was like a witch's hat, flat on all sides, with only a mountain rising in the middle.
This is?
"Hoshino! What are you doing? "
Looking back, there was a middle-aged man with a big belly and a waterproof suit protruding from the middle, red with white skin and fiddling with an old-fashioned hand pump.
One end of the pump is connected to a puddle with an irregular diameter of five or six meters, with green plants on all sides, like undaria pinnatifida.
The middle-aged man shook the handle rhythmically, the water was pumped from the pit to the other side, and the water rattled.
Ren Yifei was standing in the puddle at the moment, the water was not up to his knee, and with a sharp eye, he saw a stone crab running by, and the whole cat went into the cave under the stone.
It is obvious that this is a shallow pit left by the sea after high tide. Look at the scale of undaria pinnatifida, which has been formed for some time.
There is plenty of food (undaria pinnatifida), there are puddles that will not dry up, and sometimes there are sea food brought by the waves from time to time. There must be a lot of seafood in this pit.
The appearance of the hand-held pump is easy to understand. They are pumping water to the sea.
"strange, why does the sea breeze always feel that something is wrong? it seems that the taste of the sea breeze is more salty and wetter than it remembers." He thought, it seemed to be mixed with something fishy, something a little more fishy.
"Hoshino." The middle-aged man holding the plastic bucket on the other side looked over again, staring at the motionless Ren Yifei, with an unhappy face.
Before he asked more questions, Ren Yifei bent down and began to pull the puddle with an iron hook. The hook scratched at the bottom of the sediment, the surface of the water fainted a mass of mud, let alone the trace of seafood.
"you can't do this. You have to put your hand in and touch it." The middle-aged man instructed him.
Looking at the cotton gloves that were not waterproof in his hand, he held out his hand for two seconds in silence. as soon as he touched the water, he could not help shivering: good ice.
His action washed away the confusion in the eyes of the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man accelerated the speed of pumping: "Today there are strong winds and big waves, which will bring gifts from the sea. Today we must have a bumper harvest."
The middle-aged man said happily while observing the movement of the puddle.
The middle-aged man saw that he didn't grow up by the seaside, but he was familiar with going to the sea.
Ren Yifei hesitated for a moment and didn't reply hastily because he didn't know what kind of character he was or what kind of family he was.
As a result, the middle-aged man didn't need a response at all. "it was the same weather last time," he said to himself. "Last time, he caught a big lobster of more than one jin and sold it for more than 200."
This middle-aged man is a talker, he never stops talking, and he speaks happily all by himself, and there is no chance for Ren Yifei to cut in.
The only thing he had to do was to bend down mechanically to look for seafood, a seemingly light but cumbersome grind that soon exhausted him.
However, Ren Yifei did not show signs of fatigue. The original body had honey-colored skin and his arms were covered with beautiful muscles, so it was obvious that he was not such a person who was not good at working hard.
At least it's athletic.
"Hmm?" Suddenly, the hook in his hand touched something that didn't look like a stone. Ren Yifei tried to hook it out with an iron hook and a black one.
"did you find anything good?" The middle-aged man also looked at it, and when he looked at it, he almost didn't smile. "so this is it?" Throw it away, pack it up and throw it in the dustbin. Hey. More and more of these things have rushed up in the past two months. "
Look at the black leather shoes that have been soaked on the hook. Ren Yifei is going to throw a stone. A small stone crab comes out of it, and a piece of white flesh is grasped on the big pliers.
This little flesh looks very much like a thick, curly, flat hair. Human hair.
The fishy smell of the sea breeze didn't make him vomit, but the flesh made him retch.
The rotten leather shoes were swung to the shore with the stone crabs inside. Ren Yifei turned his back and took a few deep breaths to calm down.
There will be no meaningless details in the copy. What is the hint of this small piece of human flesh and this pair of spoiled leather shoes?
"A lot of this kind of rubbish?" Ren Yifei asked.
The middle-aged man was pumping water, smelled the words and thought for a while: "A lot of clothes, shoes, and bags."
As soon as these messages came out, Ren Yifei didn't even think about it, and then asked, "is there a cruise ship that sank recently?" Otherwise, why would it be such a thing?
"Bah!" The middle-aged man felt unlucky. "how do you know that the wind is getting stronger and stronger? why don't you hurry up and look for it?"
Helplessly, he bowed his head and went on looking.
"whoo-hoo." His voice went from far to near. He looked up and saw that it was a drone and made a circle in the sky.
"what time is it?" When he thought of this, he subconsciously glanced at his left hand, but instead of wearing a watch, his right hand wore a mechanical watch that looked exquisite.
Left-handed?
The metal strap, which varies in length on both sides, has been adjusted, and now it happens to be affixed to the wrist, neither loose nor tight.
When the watch slides up and down, you can see an inconspicuous white circle on the wrist.
It can be seen that this table is a commonly used item.
The dial of the watch reflects a faint blue light, and there are many small scratches on the metal ring on the side, but the surface of the dial is smooth.
It's a high-cost sapphire dial.
Listen to the sound of the mechanical operation of the watch: there is a fine click when the precision gears are connected, and the murmur can hardly be heard except for the gears.
Mr. Hara wears a medium-to-high-end watch all the year round, so his financial situation should be all right.
And look at your hands.
The palms of these hands have delicate skin, and the skin on the back of the hand has no obvious fine lines and is full of collagen.
Under the age of twenty, very young.
There is no cocoon in the mouth of the tiger, no deformation of the nails, no dead skin on the tips of the nails, clean gaps in the nails, and no long-term work.
There is a cocoon on the side of the middle finger of the left hand, holding a pen all the year round.
Learn to learn.
Wear a watch in your right hand, hold a pen in your left hand, and be left-handed.
He is a left-handed student who is under the age of 20 and has good financial conditions.
This student is pumping water to the sea along the coast with a middle-aged man who doesn't know who he is. What are they doing for?
"if only we could get some hot seafood," the middle-aged man pumped. "Big lobster, stone fish, catch a few more, and your tuition fees will be settled."
Tuition?
Why can't you afford to wear a good watch, but you can't even make up for this tuition fee, because you can afford to wear a good watch when your family has just gone bankrupt?
The body was full of contradictions and doubts, but Ren Yifei's face did not move and said, "Yes."
"Why?" The man straightened up and smiled at him. "look at you, you are a good-tempered child, not as inhumane as they say." It's better to be a little bad-tempered. If you go to a big city, even if you go to a big city, you can say something even if you bully her. "
In this regard, Ren Yifei was just silent and did not speak.
Unkind, bad temper? How can you find a bad way?
After the oolong incident of 'Crane Jun', Ren Yifei dared not directly determine the basic personality of the person, and he didn't want to perform the online personality again.
This is no way to make the worst decision, can only be said to go astray, greatly contrary to the original intention of the performance.
In the face of Ren Yifei's indifference, the man was not surprised. He spoke for a while and felt thirsty. He picked up the drinking cup on the reef and poured half a ton of it down.
Turning his eyes to the sea breeze, the weather was gloomy, the shape of the clouds was strange, and the ships on the sea were gradually out of sight.
The sound of the waves and the sound of the wind grew louder and louder, and the wind blew in his face one by one, with a kind of tingling pain. But what made him uncomfortable most was not the wind, but the damp, cold sensation.
It was summer, but his legs were cold and cold.
"Oh, let's get some water first." The man put down the handle of the pump and ran to the shore.
Until the figure of the other party disappeared behind the rock, Ren Yifei stood up, twisted his sore waist and swung his numb and stiff arm.
He took a quick look around. There was no one, not even seabirds, but he still had a sense of observation. By bending down to find the seafood under the stone, Ren Yifei took a quick look at the game cards in the palm of his hand:
[one of the players is a ghost, find it, or live for more than seven days. ]
Identity: player. ]
[role: islanders. ]
[role Task: escape. ]
Key words: isolated island. ]
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It only takes two seconds to stand up again. It's enough. He's seen the message clearly.
The key word is an isolated island, and the role's task is to escape. Does the isolated island refer to the place where he is standing now? Does "leaving" mean leaving the island to start a new job?
These two messages puzzled him.
Just as was thinking, there was a light footstep behind the rock. Ren Yifei immediately reined in and continued to remove the boulders and use iron hooks to find seafood. There are many poisonous things in the sea, such as stony fish with poisonous thorns, which he will not touch easily.
The wind is getting stronger and the sky is getting darker and darker.
The man staggered back from there: "how do you like it?" Did you see anything good in the pool? "
"No." Ren Yifei's voice was drowned in the wind.
The next moment his iron hook got stuck and plunged into something soft and elastic. He subconsciously remembered the piece of flesh with hair.
A piece of fish's head came to the surface, accompanied by the dizzy red liquid, the white fish's eyes stared at him, and the fracture was still bleeding.
It smells fishy.
Facing the sharp fracture of the fish's head, he stayed for a long time.
The fish had just died, and the fish was in front of him, but he didn't know what had killed it. The thick fish at the mouth of the bowl, with no sign of struggle, was directly broken in two, and there was another piece that didn't know where it was.
He took a hard paddle into the water with an iron hook, but there was nothing in it. But he knew there must be something looking at him through the water.
"it's the mackerel." The middle-aged man looked at it. "did you cut it with a hook?" It looks big, but it's a pity. "
Ren Yifei did not explain.
The two men continued to pump water and carry stones, and it took them nearly an hour to scoop out most of the remaining water in the puddle, and the marine debris below was also slowly exposed under the shallow water.
At this time, the wind is stronger, the weather is colder, and the sky is lower.
It takes an hour or even two hours to pump water and only half an hour to catch seafood.
Black snapper, Shi Jiugong, star eel, stone crab, mantis shrimp.
There are a lot of good things in this puddle with a lot of food. although there are many things that Ren Yifei can't recognize, he also knows from the performance of middle-aged men that he should have made a profit.
Move a stone again and pick up a motionless stone crab. Ren Yifei's bucket is half full.
He is a little absent-minded.
The opening of this copy seems to be peaceful, but it seems a little unusual and elusive.
There was another slight prick, like a crustacean claw clutching a stone, and he recognized the direction of the sound and went there.
"Hoshino."
Ren Yifei stopped.
The middle-aged man called him: "almost, let's go." Let's go to the market and sell it, but it won't be easy to sell later. "
He picked up a bucket full of fish, shrimp and crabs and walked to the shore.
"mm-hmm." Without hesitation, Ren Yifei also turned out of the puddle with a bucket, leaving a string of water tracks behind him.
"how far is the market?"
"Oh, it's very close. It takes less than ten minutes. I have a car." The middle-aged man reached out and pointed to the side of the road.
Ren Yifei looked over and saw a scooter, which was transformed into an electric tricycle.
After the rumble of the motor, there was no sign of humans on the coast.
There are still a lot of stagnant water puddles suddenly appear a lot of big bubbles. Gollum, within a few seconds, the water in the puddle was drained.