Meow Ba

Chapter 235 Rescue Continues, Coconut Crab
"No. 20 is six."

"Irena is a cruel child."

The small stainless steel whiskey bottle was sent to his mouth and he sipped it lightly. Captain Locke with a gray beard called out to the sailors.

As a result, the life buoy with the rope was dropped from the lifeboat Manta Ray and dropped beside the tourists who were struggling to float on the sea.

When the weak tourists grab the life buoy, the sailors will retract the life buoy, salvage the tourists from the sea and send them to the first aid room on the ship.

As a rescue ship, the Manta Ray has complete medical emergency equipment, and in the small cabin, 22 tourists are already lying down.

At the same time, in the lower cabin of the rescue ship, there were four dead bodies swollen with seawater.

"Not Catherine."

"Where the hell will it be?"

Beating hard on the railing of the rescue boat, Lorraine sighed.

Lorraine has not slept for 24 hours since Catherine and Ron were swept away by the undercurrent in Dinosaur Bay.

During these 24 hours, he followed the manta ray back and forth between Dinosaur Bay and Diamond Mountain, rescuing one after another tourists who were swept out of the original place by the undercurrent, but he never saw Catherine or Ron.

Of course, Lorraine would never have imagined that on a certain deserted island, Ron and Catherine had just finished a seafood meal and were basking comfortably in the sun.

"Lorraine, don't lose heart."

"We cannot give up hope."

Standing beside Lorraine, Christina and Molly hugged Lorraine - at this time, they could only support Lorraine with hugs.

On the side, Captain Locke took another sip of whiskey and sighed indistinctly.

He has worked on the rescue ship for more than 20 years, from a strong boy to a gray-haired old man.

Still his many years of experience, the best rescue time for tourists who fell into the water is within 24 hours. If it exceeds [-] hours, the chance of survival will drop significantly.

After all, human endurance is limited. Even with the protection of floating objects, they will slide into the sea due to hypothermia, exhaustion of energy, and natural dehydration of the body.

Not to mention, under the action of the waves, the floater will gradually move away from the island, and finally disappear into the vast sea, becoming a member of the sea food chain.

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The island is very hot during the day, but when night falls, it becomes slightly cooler.

Returning with Catherine from another island that had not been patrolled before, Ron and Catherine also brought back some edible plants: a bunch of bananas, a few lemons—the island is in the tropics, and besides coconuts, there are many tropical fruit trees , Just a simple inspection, Ron and Catherine found several banana trees and a lemon tree.

This made Ron quite happy.

Prevention of scurvy was as necessary on a desert island as it was on a ship—in early European voyages this was known as Poseidon's curse.

The main reason is that there are no fresh vegetables and fruits to eat at sea, resulting in a lack of vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, and eventually he died of internal bleeding and bone lesions.

Lemon, an extremely sour fruit rich in vitamin C and able to be stored for a long time, is the most effective way of ascorbic acid discovered by Europeans, known as the scurvy killer.

In fact, this is why Europeans like to use lemon as a seasoning - it's their tradition.

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Adding some firewood to the bonfire, Ron carried himself like a farmer, and quietly moved towards the exit of the shelter, listening to Catherine's snoring while nodding his head.

He is on vigil.

Taking advantage of the light sleeping habits of cats, even in his sleep, Ron can still catch the surrounding sounds, and Bin wakes up at any time.

Last night, before the shelter was set up, Ron guarded Catherine in the same way.

After all, Ron is just a cat. In addition to climbing trees to pick fruits and teaching Catherine various common sense of survival on a deserted island, Catherine has to do most of the physical work—this little girl who is less than 15 years old is already exhausted.

"Shuhuuuuu~"

"Meow?"

A gust of wind blew by, and suddenly there was a strange rustling sound outside the shelter.Ron's ears froze, and he immediately woke up from his sleep.

Although there were no animals to disturb last night, and no large sleeping creatures were seen during the inspection today, Ron was not sure that there was no danger on this deserted island.

"Shuhuuuuu~"

The strange sound was getting closer and closer, accompanied by some kind of impact sound.

Standing up from the farmer's posture, Ron carefully poked his head out of the shelter, and immediately his eyes flashed emerald green.

In the dark night, Ron found a strange looking guy.

Its body and arthropod carapace have a thick calcified layer, covered with tiny protrusions. At the same time, the arthropods are huge and powerful, and have a pair of huge chelicerae. It is full of power at first glance, and people will never put their fingers on it. reach over.

Hey!It turned out to be coconut crab!

Like the little guy that lives inside the shell of a conch, the coconut crab is a hermit crab.

But they don't need to rely on conch, because their carapace is hard enough.

And the coconut crab is the largest terrestrial crab, it can grow up to more than one meter and weigh more than six kilograms.

They are expert tree climbers, especially vertical coconut trees.

Their huge chelicerae can easily pierce the coconut shell and eat the coconut meat in me-this is the source of their name.

Of course, like most crabs, coconut crabs have mixed feeding habits. Except for coconuts, they eat almost all organic matter, whether it is the leaves and fruits of plants, or rotting animal carcasses, and even their own kind. on the recipe.

However, for Ron and Catherine now, coconut crabs are a rare delicacy-the huge body means they have a lot of meat, and the attack speed of arthropods can't catch up with mammals at all, let alone breastfeeding The best of all animals: the feline family.

"Meow~"

Without hesitation, Ron slapped the coconut crab hard on the carapace.

With a bang, Ron slapped the coconut crab down, but the thick carapace did not shatter, but instead caused a faint shock.

What a thick carapace!
"Click click!"

Attacked by unprecedented creatures, the coconut crab angrily raised its huge claws and pinched them constantly—the isolated environment allowed these large arthropods to replace the ecological position that should have been occupied by medium-sized mammals. Creatures can pose a threat to them.

But today, the unlucky coconut crab, attracted by the aroma of lemon and banana, met Ron.

"Meow!~"

"Boom, boom, boom~"

The claws came out like the wind, and Ron slapped the coconut crab's carapace more than a dozen times in a few seconds. It was heavy and fast, and the coconut crab was dizzy in an instant.

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