Escape: I rely on the food exchange system to survive to the extreme

Chapter 40 Floating Corpse
After chatting at night, Mei Qian felt a little sleepy the next day. She had a good sleep in the cabin as the ship rocked.

It's just that the process of waking up is not a good one.

"Ahhhhh! Someone is dead!"

A scream made Mei Qian sit up instantly. She subconsciously turned around and looked around. After confirming that there were many people on board, Mei Qian breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the bow of the ship.

Mei Qian looked at the whole family standing at the bow of the boat and asked, "What's wrong? Is this it?"

Before her family could say anything, Mei Qian's eyes fell directly on the body floating in the river.

These were not just one or two corpses, but just at a glance, Mei Qian could see four or five corpses floating around.

"vomit!"

Mei Qian immediately turned her head and made a retching gesture.

I don't know if it was her mental illusion, but when she saw the floating corpse, she seemed to be able to smell the smell of rotting corpses at the tip of her nose.

"How could this happen? Is it because of a flood?"

Han was still frightened when he saw it, and even pulled Jiang back, who was frightened by the scene and turned pale.

After she finished speaking, Li Baizhou said: "If there is a flood, then the river bank must burst. A boat like ours will definitely be swept away by the bursting flood, instead of still sailing in the river now."

Li Baizhou denied Han's guess. Mei Qian patted her chest. She suppressed the nausea in her heart and couldn't help but come closer and look at the floating corpses on the water. Some were facing underwater, while others had their faces facing upwards. .

Mei Qian took a few more glances at the risk of giving it a nightmare and found that the floating corpse did not exhibit the phenomenon of giantism, and it seemed that it had not been dead for as long as imagined.

Mei Qian originally wanted to look again, but she guessed that Mrs. Mei felt unlucky and used the paddle to push some floating corpses that were close to each other away. Since Mrs. Mei was quite strong, Mei Qian took another look. detail.

The palms of the hands were white and swollen due to blisters, and the skin was shriveled, but there was no obvious blistering change on the back of the hands.

Mei Qian remembered that when she was in school, someone drowned in the school because the child had been missing for several days. At that time, she heard that the police investigating the case had a way to deduce the time of death of the person.

Judging from the current situation, this corpse has not been dead for more than 48 hours.

Originally, what her aunt said had nothing to do with the bursting of the embankment, but it probably had something to do with the heavy rain yesterday morning.

Mei Qian did not tell her this discovery, and turned to look at Li Baizhou. Li Baizhou stood on the bow of the boat and looked at the floating corpses in silence.

Compared with Mei Qian, who went back through time to deduce the cause of these people's deaths, Li Baizhou just stared at some details in the river, and finally said slowly: "It seems like the boat capsized."

"Ok?"

When he said this, Mrs. Mei also looked towards him. Li Baizhou pointed at the floating corpses floating on the river and said, "There are some objects floating around that look like things in boats..."

As soon as he finished speaking, even Mei Shitou shouted: "There! Look over there."

Mei Shitou pointed at a floating "wood" in the distance directly in front of them. After observing carefully for a while, he heard Li Baizhou say: "It seems to be the bottom of the boat. The boat capsized."

After hearing this, Mei Qian waited until their boat moved forward and approached the floating "wood", and then carefully identified it as the bottom of the boat lying upside down on the river.

Mei Qian muttered: "It doesn't look big."

"It's just because it wasn't heavy that yesterday's heavy rain made it easy to roll over. If we hadn't brought the boat close to the shore yesterday and lowered the anchor, even a small boat like this would have had an accident if it braved the rapids."

Mrs. Mei's words made everyone feel happy.

However, Mei Erhu turned to look at the capsized boat and floating corpses behind him, and asked, "Are so many people on this boat?"

Although they did not count the exact number of corpses floating on the river, they had already caught up with the population of Lao Mei's family, but the overturned boat was probably not as big as theirs.

Mrs. Mei heard this and said: "If many people want to take a boat to go south, and the big boat cannot go, there will naturally be a risk of someone hitting the small boat.

Although there are risks in small boats, when there is no choice, it is better than waiting to die.

Moreover, as long as one small boat does this, there will be many small boats following the same example. "

If this kind of small fishing boat came out to fish, there would only be one or two people on each boat, but the floating corpses they saw just now were far more than this number.

"Maybe those floating corpses didn't come from a ship? It's just that we saw one."

Mei Qian also proposed another possibility, but if there were more ships, there would be another situation.

"Does that mean we might see more floating corpses?" As soon as Mei Qian finished speaking, several floating corpses appeared on the water in front of them again.

At this time, even Mei Qian couldn't help but shudder violently.

However, no matter how many of these floating corpses there are, in addition to spiritual attacks, they also bring another physical attack to Mei Qian and the others.

Mei Qian suddenly asked worriedly: "How can we drink this river water?"

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding area instantly became quiet.

Immediately afterwards, a series of curses sounded in Mei Qian's ears. Of course, all the curses were completed by Mrs. Mei alone.

More people in the family were worried, "Oh my God, what can I do?"

To be honest, Mei Qian was also very distressed.

This thing, even if the river is very large and there is a lot of water, the corrosion of these bodies can be "ignored", but you can't stand to see one after a while, right?

This makes the entire family unable to "pretend to be blind" even if they want to.

"Paddle away quickly! Row out of sight!"

In the end, Mrs. Mei made the final decision. As long as they rowed fast, the corpse would not be able to "catch up" with them!
Laughing to death, who hasn’t seen a few corpses in the river?

Mrs. Mei comforted herself and the whole family.

But even so, it was not until dusk that Mei Qian and the others made sure that no corpses could be seen from the front, rear, left, and right of the boat, so they fetched a pot of water, filtered it, and then boiled it.

Even so, when it was everyone's turn to drink, everyone still resisted.

This is more unacceptable than letting them drink dirty water directly.

Mei Qian took the lead in making samples and drank what she cooked. Mrs. Mei even praised her repeatedly and asked for a bowl after Mei Qian.

But as soon as Mrs. Mei took a sip and smacked her lips, her expression suddenly changed, which made Mei Qian's heart skip a beat. She said, "Why does this still smell sour?"

Mrs. Mei was confused, and her words frightened everyone.

In fact, it was Mei Qian who diluted a tube of lemon-flavored nutrient solution and mixed it into the water. Unexpectedly, just one tube was diluted into a large pot, and Mrs. Mei could still taste the slight acidity.

"I was afraid that the water wouldn't taste good, so I squeezed in some wild fruit juice I picked on the shore the day before yesterday."

When Mei Qian was boiling water, she was the only one, and she was very skilled at performing small movements.

"Oh, that's okay. The first sip was a little weird, but the next two sips were fine."

Mrs. Mei would not talk nonsense. After listening to Mei Qian's explanation, she lowered her head and drank a few more sips to make sure that the sour taste was not nauseating, so she simply started boasting.

And just now when she said that the water was a bit sour, Mr. Han, who was sitting across from her, was obviously thinking wildly and almost asked whether the sour taste was that of dead man's water.

"Hey, that's good, I thought..."

"Sister-in-law, drink water."

Thanks to my mother for taking away the opportunity for her eldest uncle to speak.

Mei Qian was not blind just now. As soon as she said there was a smell in the water, the expressions of the others changed.

If such unpleasant words came out of her aunt's mouth, maybe no one would drink the pot of water tonight.

However, Mei Qian did not expect that her aunt, who was always so casual about eating and drinking, would actually hesitate on the water.

It could be seen that her aunt was really frightened by those floating corpses.

“It tastes pretty good.”

What Mei Qian didn't expect was that at this time, the third person drinking milk after hers was Jiang.

Mei Qian looked at Jiang in surprise, but Jiang smiled slightly and commented: "It tastes pretty good~"

　① If the examined corpse is in water, there are still some corpse phenomena that can be speculated that the skin of the hands and feet will be soft and swollen at the time of death, and appear white and shriveled. If it appears on the palms and soles of the feet, the time of death is about 4 hours; if it appears on the On the dorsum of the hands and insteps, the corpse phenomenon of a corrupted giant will appear around 48 hours after death (summer time).

　　
　
(End of this chapter)