Awakening

Chapter 179 Drift

 

“You mean to say, the ship cannot start?” One of the students uncontrollably exclaimed aloud.

Lei Yin lightly said: “Yes, this ship use electric signals to start, but since the dashboard on the bridge is wet from the rain, not only the engine cannot start, even the radio is also short-circuited. In other words, right now, not only we cannot move, we also cannot ask for help from outside world.”

His words made everyone’s hearts inside the cabin sank.

“Is there no other way to do it?” Another student asked hurriedly. [Go read on the right site]

“There is, I heard that by switching the circuit mode, the engine can be manually started. But I do not know how to do it. If anyone of you also did not understand, then the only other way is to wait until the Captain wake up.” Lei Yin’s knowledge of electronic was already a few decades old and was not suitable for this day and age. Moreover, the former owner of this body was an electronic idiot.

Unconsciously, everyone looked at the middle-aged man lying unconscious on the bench.

“Even if the ship does not start, it does not matter. As long as we wait, someone should come to rescue us.” Said a guy who pretended to take things less seriously.

Hearing his words, the other also felt as if things were not that terrible, and could not help but relax a lot.

“What you said is right, but only if we have enough food and fresh water to support us while we wait for the rescue to arrive, or else, we would starve or die of thirst first. In addition, we also need to be sure we would not encounter that storm again.” Lei Yin’s words made everyone’s heart tightened up again. Everyone present has profound impression toward that previous storm.

That guy was unwilling to be persuaded, and at once retorted: “You are just speculating, we will probably encounter a search and rescue helicopter in a moment.”

Lei Yin took one look at his eyes, and then said: “If we don’t? I just looked at the cabin and cannot find something to eat. Now we don’t know how far away this ship being drifted away from its course by the storm, and if in two or three days no one come to save us, then all of us will die of hunger here. Can you guarantee that within two days someone will come to save us?”

That guy was suddenly speechless.

“Then do you have another way?” Another male student asked.

“Just recently, I saw a few birds flying in the sky, which mean we should not be too far away from a land. My idea is to put all people into two groups, and then row the boat on both sides until the land is found.”

“What did you say? You want us to row the boat to find a land? Do you think we are still in the Columbus era?” One of the students burst out laughing.

Lei Yin looked at him coldly, and after a while said: “Do you think this is funny? Frankly speaking, dying is not my habit, it is fine if you don’t agree with this programme, even if it is only me who would go to take the lifeboat out to do this thing. If there’s a helicopter coming to rescue here, then please tell the Pilot the way to my position.”

The boy who first asked Lei Yin a question then said: “I think this proposal is feasible. Instead of just waiting for the rescue, it is better to think of a way to save ourselves while waiting for the rescue.”

After thinking about it for a moment, the others also thought that this proposal was much better than just blindly waiting for the rescue, so finally most people agreed to this suggestion.

Since the proposal was introduced by Lei Yin, all the students agreed that he would be the one who performed the groupings.

Lei Yin did not refuse, he arranged for the men and women to mix and divided them into two groups, to ensure that both groups maintained an average physical strength. Due to the lack of oars, he asked the students to disassembled the cabinet or the benches and used them as oars.

Although some people were reluctant to follow the plan, under the pressure of everyone’s eyes, they finally unwillingly followed suit. Fortunately, this ship was a small-medium passenger ship and there was nothing heavy inside. Therefore, the plan was not too laborious. But because most people have no experience in rowing a boat, not only their contribution were just average, the rowing rhythm was also wrong, making the hull, every now and then, turned in circles.

Seeing this, Lei Yin had to teach them the correct posture and rhythm. Not until his mouth started to parch did these students finally rowed the boat forward slowly, rather than in circles.

The entire passenger on the ship were more than forty people. After rowing for nearly four hours, these students who were tired and hot, and never did a hard job began to complain more and more.

“I quit. What’s not good about honestly waiting for the rescue? Why do we have to suffer like this?” The first student who opposed this plan loudly shouted and stopped paddling.

In his lead, several students also followed suit to stop paddling.

“I do not want to paddle anymore, let us just wait for the rescue.”

“That’s right, I’m really tired.”

“I think a helicopter will soon come to rescue us. Let’s just wait here for that.”

“I am thirsty, I want something to drink.”

“Didn’t you just drink? Now there’s only one bucket of water remain, just endure it.”

Because there was a specially designed cargo hold filled with drinking water in the ship, for a moment people did not lack fresh water. But because the weather was too hot and the people were many, the drinking water was consumed pretty quickly.

Watching more and more people complaining and stopped paddling, the student who supported this plan asked Lei Yin: “Student Masashi, what now?”

Lei Yin looked at those students who complained, and sneered: “There is a saying that said ‘refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality.’ Wait until they begin to fear and they will naturally continue to paddle.

“Will this be okay?”

“It might be. Hopefully, they still have the strength to continue rowing,” Lei Yin said dismissively.

He has thought of taking Amy on a lifeboat and went forward to find a land, but until it was the last moment, he did not want to do it. Because this was a sea and not a lake. If they encountered big waves, their small lifeboat could have been easily overturned.

But he did not hold out much hope for these people, if by tomorrow afternoon the situation remained unchanged, he will take the chance to try his plan.

He went to the cabin and saw Amy was sitting with the elderly US couple with her in the middle.

Throughout the entire ship, in addition to the unconscious Captain, the only one who did not need to row was Amy as well as the elderly couple.

Hearing the familiar footsteps, she immediately turned toward the cabin door and, sure enough, saw that the one who came in was exactly Lei Yin.

“Lei.” Amy excitedly jumped out of the chair and immediately ran to him.

Somehow, seeing her happy smiling face, Lei Yin’s mood improved a lot.

After bending over to pick her up, he said: “Has the Captain uncle wake up yet?”

The little girl shook her head.

Not wanting to worry her, he looked at her face and said: “Don’t worry, we will certainly come back safely, I promise.”

Amy seriously nodded, and then hugged his neck and said: “As long as Lei is by my side, Amy fear nothing.”