dhibooks Chapter 115 6-17
Chapter 115 6-17
"Ha, ha, ha..." Jack gasped for air, while maintaining the kicking movement, turned his head to look at Yu Ling, "Ha, what a pity, I actually forgot to put on my clothes." Life jackets..."
"The life jacket can't help you, Mr. Dawson." Yu Ling shook the water off his face, and the passengers who didn't sink with the Titanic were splashing on the sea at this moment, and he was soon splashed again His face was full of water.Frowning, Yu Ling took out the life jacket in the storage space in a bad mood, and handed it to Jack: "But I just picked one up before, so I'll give it to you."
"Found it?" Jack took the life jacket and asked in surprise while putting it on himself, "Is it in the sea? You are really lucky, Carl."
"Mr. Hockley, thank you." Yu Ling glanced at him with a very cold tone.
Jack rolled his eyes in his heart, thinking that this Mr. Hockley really has a strange temper. If he didn't treat him as a friend, he wouldn't have given him the life jacket, right?
"Yes, honorable Mr. Hockley." Jack smiled helplessly at Yu Ling, "Hurry up, Mr. Hockley, or we will all be frozen to death here."
"Of course I know." Yu Ling raised her eyebrows, ready to let go of Jack's hand and swim outside. It's not good to stay in the crowd all the time, it's too crowded.
However, Jack still held his hand tightly.
The corner of Yu Ling's mouth twitched slightly. Did Mr. Dawson think it would be easier to swim hand in hand?Or do you think of this perverted Hard mode of icy sea survival as playing in a small pool in summer?
'Why did you give him the life jacket! '
Mo's almost roaring voice interrupted Yu Ling's cheerful complaints, and the sharp feeling made Yu Ling frown: "Don't be so excited. '
'You told me not to get so excited? Mo sneered loudly, "Yeah, it's true that the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuchs are in a hurry!"Are you afraid that you will not die? ! '
Does God also know the saying "the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is in a hurry"?
Yu Ling, who didn't have any sense of crisis because of Mo's words, and didn't pay much attention to the other party, still complained silently in his heart.
Of course, he thoughtfully didn't let Mo know what he was thinking.
'No, of course I want to survive. Yu Ling comforted Mo, who seemed to be in a state of mania. It’s not good for his dear law enforcement officer to be irritable. It’s enough to experience the sharp roar before—speaking of which, Mo’s appearance now is very different from when he first met. Yu Ling could hardly remember the indifferent young man in a curly train when they met for the first time. 'I made arrangements, you don't have to worry. '
Perhaps it was because Yu Ling's gesture was too convincing, Mo believed a little bit, and calmed down temporarily: "Okay, then I will wait and see, your "arrangement". '
Mo in front of the mirror looked at the whole person in the mirror who was swimming in the sea water, with strands of wet hair sticking to his face, looking embarrassed, and sneered: "You'd better make arrangements." .”
Jack led Yu Ling to a floating wooden board, which used to be a door, with gorgeous patterns carved on it: "I think I saw something floating... Now we can go up!"
He turned his head and looked at Yu Ling. It took him a while to realize that Yu Ling wasn't wearing a life jacket: "Where's your life jacket?"
"It's on you, Mr. Dawson." Yu Ling yawned. It's already the early morning of the next day, right?Soaking in the Atlantic Ocean is really hard to get sleepy.
"Then you, I mean..." Jack suddenly felt very embarrassed, he looked back at the board again, then pursed his lips and made up his mind, "You go up first, Carl."
Well, Mr. Dawson surprised him again.Yu Ling raised his eyebrows, feeling that since he knew Mr. Dawson—although it was only a short three days, he seemed to be often surprised by certain behaviors of Mr. Dawson.
'You're not going to turn him down, are you? Mo's voice was low, exuding a cold and sticky menacing smell, like a snake crawling slowly over his body.
'……certainly. With the help of Jack—even though he thought he would be fine alone—Yu Ling climbed onto the plank and felt much more comfortable after getting out of the sea. It's so cold in the sea.
"Me too..." Jack stretched his hands and was about to climb up the wooden plank, but the small wooden plank tilted and turned over because it couldn't bear the weight of two grown men.
Yu Ling, who was stuffed into the Atlantic Ocean again, shook his hair violently, but still couldn't help wrinkling his nose.
What a feeling!discuss!Disgusted!up!
"It seems that this board can only bear the weight of one person..." Jack straightened the board, turned to Yu Ling and said, "Go up, I'm wearing a life jacket, it will be better."
Hearing this sentence, Yu Ling looked at Jack with somewhat strange eyes—is this coaxing him like a child?Everyone knows that the important thing now is not to be able to "not sink", but to be able to "float on the surface of the water", so that you don't have to soak in seawater that is a few degrees below zero...
Even if you wear a life jacket to prevent sinking, if you stay submerged in the Atlantic Ocean, you will freeze to death sooner or later, your skin will turn pale, and even thin frost may form on your hair and eyebrows.
If you die like this, the body will be ugly.
'Do not hesitate! Mo Hen roared like iron and steel, "He was going to die, he was going to die here!"Come on up, you just switched places with Rose Bukett! '
Oh yes.
In the original story, Mr. Hockley boarded the lifeboat, and Miss Bucket leaned on this board—maybe not this one, but another board—and managed to get to the lifeboat that came back to find them. Only Mr. Dawson, forever in the Atlantic Ocean.
Yu Ling climbed onto the plank, sat on it and looked at Jack.
Jack's arms were lying on the board, which made him float more easily, and with the life jacket on his body, he basically didn't have to worry about sinking.
but……
Will be frozen to death.
Continue like this.
"It's okay, I've been active!" Sensing Yu Ling's gaze, Jack raised his head and smiled at him, "Let me explain in advance, if I can't hold on later, we will change, you let I'll go up and take a rest, but don't keep occupying this board!"
Although he said so in his mouth, Jack knew in his heart that he would not do this.
Not saying "I can't hold on" to Carl, not saying "Let's switch" to him, not saying "Let me go up and take a break" to him.
"I like you a little bit, Mr. Dawson." Yu Ling looked at Jack for a long time before slowly showing a faint smile.This smile didn't carry much warmth, it was probably a little warmer than "cold", but Jack couldn't help laughing because of this smile.
"I like you a little too, Mr. Hockley." Jack blinked at Yu Ling, the color of his pupils turned into a deep sapphire blue under the cover of night.
"If I die and you live..." Yu Ling reached out and rubbed Jack's wet golden hair, "Can you draw a portrait of me every year?"
"A portrait every year?" Jack opened his eyes wide in surprise, reflected for a long time before nodding, and said with a smile, "The kind that gets older every year? Imagine Hockley 50 years from now based on your current appearance." Sir... Well, this is not easy!"
Although I feel that the situation Yu Ling said is unlikely to happen - because in Jack's view, even if one of Mr. Hockley sitting on the driftwood and himself in the Atlantic Ocean can survive, it will not be yourself.But in any case, this topic still made Jack feel a lot easier. He started chatting with the other party, and tried to make himself speak in a happier tone.
"No, I will always be like this now." Yu Ling frowned subconsciously, "I absolutely don't want the old man..."
This whisper was heard by Jack, and he couldn't help laughing out: "Ha, no problem, I will definitely, definitely... I won't make you look old hahahaha..."
Mr. Hockley like this is quite cute, Mr. Dawson thought to himself while laughing.
Then he found that Yu Ling's expression was very serious, and he didn't look like he was joking at all.
I don't know why Mr. Dawson felt so scared that he stopped laughing, coughed twice, and said seriously: "Ahem, I promise you, I will always paint Mr. Hockley as elegant and charming as he is now. Look... hahahaha Carl, do you really care about this? Pfft, I really didn't expect hahahaha..."
——After being serious for half a minute, he started laughing again.
"I have to draw every year." Yu Ling looked up at the stars in the sky.
"Well, I draw it every year." Jack nodded, and followed Yu Ling to look up to the sky.Although he didn't understand why it was just a topic of jokes, Carl was so serious.
Jack didn't think that what Yu Ling said would happen.
He was mentally prepared to die. In fact, if Karl hadn't gone to the steerage to save him, he would have been drowned.
"Then, if I die and you live..." Jack's voice was low, as if he was muttering to himself, "Can you learn to draw for me? Every year... every year Zhang me?"
"En." Yu Ling responded softly, "Has it always been like this?"
"No, let me grow old little by little!" Jack blinked, not knowing whether he was saying to Yu Ling or himself, "Let me grow old little by little..."
You don't look good when you are old, you will become a fat uncle.Yu Ling raised her eyebrows, and said "hmm" again.
"If you survive..." Jack's voice continued, "Please tell Rose for me that I love her."
"Okay." Yu Ling lowered his head and looked up at the sky for too long, causing his neck to feel sore, "Then I will give you my wedding blessings in advance, Mr. Dawson, I wish you and Miss Bucket a happy marriage for a hundred years."
"..." Jack looked at Yu Ling seriously for a long time. He found that the other party's blessing was so sincere, and he didn't feel any jealousy or jealousy towards him because Rose was once his fiancée and the woman he liked. Other negative emotions, "Me and Rose...if I survive..."
"You should say thank you, Mr. Dawson." Yu Ling smiled, "You know, I don't actually think that social value can determine whether a person should sacrifice for others or let others sacrifice for himself in the face of death."
"Huh?" Maybe it was the coldness of the sea that slowed Jack's thinking, and it took him a while to realize that Yu Ling was referring to the words he said in the third-class cabin before.
"I follow the law of the jungle, natural selection, survival of the fittest." The corners of Yu Ling's lips are still in a relaxed smile, "Survival of the fittest, no one should die and one should live, and those who survive deserve to live Yes, those who do not survive deserve to die."
"Your statement..." Jack couldn't help frowning. Is this statement different from the previous theory of social value?For Jack, they are all about the same, a little too cold.
"But now I feel that some things cannot be considered so absolutely." Yu Ling looked at Jack, his face looked extremely pale under the moonlight, "Those things I saw before the sinking of the Titanic made me change my mind. "
"Whoa, that's great news." Jack exclaimed exaggeratedly, then nodded seriously.
"I hope you can become an excellent painter, Jack." This is the first time Yu Ling called Jack's name instead of "Mr. Dawson". Heart——then hung the beautiful sapphire around Jack's neck, "If you and Rose give birth to a little black-haired boy unfortunately, name him Carl!"
He made a joke at the end. After all, Jack and Rose, one with blond hair and one with red hair, couldn't have a black-haired child anyway.
Then--
"Goodbye, Mr. Dawson." In Mo's angry voice, Yu Ling jumped off the driftwood and let himself sink.
The icy seawater surrounded him once again, even, because of his non-resisting actions, the seawater poured into his body from his mouth and nose, and he had never been closer to death than at this moment.
But even so, he has never been closer to "alive" than now.
What is the meaning of living?
Perhaps, being alive is a process of constant searching.Looking for the answers to various questions, and also looking for all kinds of things above survival, just like the old saying "sacrificing one's life for righteousness".
Death is not terrible.
Even with such a desperate way of death, Yu Ling didn't feel any panic in his heart. In the icy Atlantic Ocean, he seemed to be in a warm embrace.
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"Damn it!" Mo lowered his head, looked at the lines of wishful grass that had receded a lot on his hand, and was so angry that he smashed the mirror in front of him to the ground.The mirror surface was shattered into pieces of residue, but Mo was still not relieved.
"Very good, very good..." He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, his voice was so cold that the hottest fire could be frozen instantly, "I never knew you had such a kind side? Giving up the chance to live to others? Oh, it's really noble... Then, in the next world, I will prepare some small gifts for you, I hope you can still stick to your kindness—"
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As of the end of the main text of this chapter, there are nearly [-] words, and I have written so much without knowing it.There will be some episodes later, I hope you don’t delete favorites so soon [laughs]·
The meaning behind Yu Ling's act of "sacrificing himself for Jack" will be explained clearly in the episode [-]. Please, please don't think that Mr. Yu has the noble sentiment of "sacrificing oneself for others".
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I said before that the second part is coming. At this time, it is in the pre-collection of manuscripts. I have collected 500 chapters. If I finish the supplement early, I may open it earlier. After all, if I haven’t read the original book, I will collapse more. I hope everyone can do it. understand.Then, I hope that [the second part has been published but everyone has completely forgotten it] such a thing will not happen ＿(:з"∠)＿
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I have always said that I have the habit of writing postscripts at the end, but now it is just the end of the main text, so let’s save the long-winded postscripts for the extra episode!
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