Chapter 617 (1/2)
The sky is covered with dark clouds and the wind on the sea is getting stronger and stronger.
Kikika came out of the cabin and pulled the rope on the mast to put down the sail swelled by the wind.
It's not easy to control a ketch without enough experienced sailors in such a big storm. He had to lower the sail, at least one side.
The ship was picked up by kikikika at sea.
He used to work as a private tour guide on tubuai island. With a simple dialogue that can speak several languages, his business is quite good. Tourists often tip him to drive around the island road or take them to charter a boat.
However, after that magical transient amnesia, everything changed.
He received two groups of strange guests that day, one man and one woman. He had no impression of what they looked like and what happened later.
He only remembered that he took them to tabu taboo, but he was unconscious in the woods next to tabu.
Later, I don't know what happened. The situation in the whole tubuai islands, bath islands and even the Cook Islands suddenly became tense. Warships of many countries began to cruise here. There was a roar of fighter planes flying in the sky from time to time. It was said that the aircraft carriers of two major countries were facing each other in the Pacific Basin in the south.
Fewer and fewer tourists came to tubuai, and his business plummeted.
He is going to do something else for a living, but what else can he do on this island besides traveling and fishing?
Tourism is declining and fishing is hard.
When he was a child, he often went to sea with his father. In addition to the unbearable hard conditions on the ship, he had to face the threat of death at any time. When the storm comes, whether you can survive on the vast sea depends on the face of God awaiki.
Qiqika's second uncle did the best job on the island. His car was eliminated by his second uncle, but his second uncle finally died in the storm. The wealth accumulated through decades of hard fishing was cheaper for the Hawaiian mistress.
Qiqika lived on a barren island in such a confused and hesitant way. Soon after, with the help of her elders, she married a local girl and gave birth to their children a year later.
His savings soon ran out. Even the car given to him by his second uncle was sold, but he was still waiting outside matoura airport, trying to wait for one or two generous tourists to earn some money from their children's milk powder.
Qiqika finally made up her mind to go to sea. It was two bodies dug up in the woods. The place where the body was buried was where he was unconscious.
Although after a long time, the body has rotted out of shape, but the police still found out the identity of two people, a man and a woman, two tourists. Kikika concluded that the two men were one of the two pairs of tourists he received that day.
Instead of suspecting kikikika, the police targeted petru, who once lived at the mouth of the harbor behind the taboo.
Kikika also felt that petru had done it, because the red bearded freak had heard all kinds of strange talk since he came to tubuai. Some say he is a big pirate, some say he is a wanted criminal, and others say he is a terrorist. He has a ketch, which is very similar to those pirate ships in the middle ages. The harbor where he docked was covered with reefs, and even the aborigines of the island dared not stay there too much.
The most important thing is that since the day kiqika was unconscious, the strange man left tubuai and never came back.
The police hung up a reward and asked the islanders for clues. The money was tempting, but kiqika was afraid to get it. He always thinks it's evil. It's no good for him to say it. It's better to pretend he doesn't know. What if red beard comes back for revenge? Although he can't provide any more valuable clues.
He finally decided to go to sea.
Borrowed some money and rented a small fishing boat. Tubuai people usually use such boats to fish in the nearby waters. Although the harvest is not as good as those large fishing boats, it is also enough to meet food and clothing.
Qiqika doesn't want to make such a fuss in the offshore. He wants to go further. On the one hand, he wants to return home with a full load and give a full surprise to the women and children at home; On the other hand, he was also escaping, although he didn't know what he was avoiding, as if he could be safer if he went farther.
Then he saw the dhow, floating like a ghost on the dead sea.