Chapter 7: Water in the Backpack

The scorching sun was directly overhead, and the temperature was rising higher and higher. Even the sea breeze that blew carried a burning heat.

Chu Yang and Liu Qing were almost about to be dried up.

Under such circumstances, they simply wouldn't be able to hold out for much longer.

"No way. I absolutely won't drink the water in my body." Even though she was on the verge of collapse, Liu Qing still couldn't accept this solution.

Chu Yang didn't respond to Liu Qing because he was so dehydrated that he didn't even have the energy to speak.

Faintly, Chu Yang seemed to be hallucinating.

"Over there on the beach, I think I saw someone. One person? No, it seems like two." Chu Yang turned his head, trying to look around for any coconut trees, but he didn't find any. Vaguely, it seemed as if he saw two figures lying on the beach.

Chu Yang didn't think he actually saw someone; he thought it was just his hallucination.

"I think I see them too!" Liu Qing followed the direction Chu Yang mentioned and spoke weakly.

"Huh? What?" Hearing Liu Qing's words, Chu Yang was startled.

This didn't seem like a hallucination.

After a moment, Chu Yang stared carefully.

At a distance of about two hundred meters from them on the beach, there indeed seemed to be two figures lying down, and it looked like two girls.

The two girls were motionless on the beach, and it was unclear whether they were dead or alive.

"There are really people!" Chu Yang confirmed to Liu Qing.

Earlier in the day, if they had seen other people on this deserted island, Chu Yang and Liu Qing would have been very happy.

But now, they couldn't be happy at all because they themselves were in a desperate situation. Without water, they wouldn't even be able to survive today.

"Shall we go over and take a look?" Liu Qing gritted her teeth and sat up.

Liu Qing felt the same way as Chu Yang, but she still wanted to go over and see if the two girls were alive.

"Okay!" Chu Yang nodded. Although he was weak, the distance wasn't very far, so it wouldn't hurt to go over and take a look.

Half a minute later, Chu Yang and Liu Qing staggered towards the two figures.

The two hundred meters were neither far nor close, especially for Chu Yang and Liu Qing who were dehydrated.

It took them several minutes to cover the two hundred meters.

Lying on the beach were indeed two girls.

They were about the same age as Chu Yang and Liu Qing, one with long hair and the other with short hair.

The girl with long hair was wearing a white long dress. She had a graceful figure, an oval face, and delicate features. Although her looks were slightly inferior to Liu Qing's, she was definitely also a beauty.

The girl with short hair had heavy traces of thick makeup on her face, but her clothes were extremely revealing. She wore very short shorts and a very short top, with almost everything exposed except for her private parts.

One was conservative, and the other was flamboyant.

Both girls were wet all over, and their bellies were bulging slightly. Chu Yang guessed that they must have just arrived at this beach and were washed ashore by the previous waves.

"Liu Qing, they seem to be from our university. I find them somewhat familiar!" Liu Qing said carefully as she looked at the two girls.

Hearing Liu Qing's words, Chu Yang didn't find it strange.

Half of the people on the ill-fated cruise ship were teachers and students from Jianghai University. Since he could meet Liu Qing, it wasn't surprising to meet them.

"It's her!" The next moment, Chu Yang's eyes lit up when his gaze fell on the girl with short hair, and his face changed slightly.

"You know her?" Liu Qing saw Chu Yang's expression and asked curiously.

Chu Yang first nodded, then shook his head: "Sort of."

Chu Yang's face looked a bit gloomy.

Liu Qing was also very surprised to hear that Chu Yang really knew this girl.

"Huh?" Just as Liu Qing was about to continue asking, she noticed that Chu Yang was actually walking towards the girl with short hair with a gleam in his eyes.

At this moment, Chu Yang looked like a hungry wolf seeing some delicious food.

Liu Qing also noticed Chu Yang's appearance and glared: "What kind of bad thoughts do you have at a time like this?"

Liu Qing thought Chu Yang had some bad thoughts about the girl's flamboyant appearance.

Chu Yang looked back at Liu Qing, smiled wryly helplessly, and now he was dying of thirst; how could he have any bad thoughts?

Besides, even if he really had some bad thoughts, it wouldn't be towards her, and certainly not in front of her.

Chu Yang didn't have the energy to explain to Liu Qing. He squatted down in front of the girl with short hair and took out a backpack from under her.

It was a men's hiking backpack. It probably didn't belong to this girl and might have been washed ashore with the tide.

But now wasn't the time to worry about who the backpack belonged to. It was because Chu Yang saw the things inside the backpack.

The backpack was half-open, with some clothes and some bread and food inside. Additionally, there were two 500-milliliter bottles of mineral water inside.

What Chu Yang needed most at the moment was undoubtedly water.

This was like a lifeline for him.

"There's water!" Liu Qing's eyes lit up when she saw the water in the backpack and quickly ran to Chu Yang's side.

She looked almost the same as Chu Yang's eyes just now, like a hungry wolf seeing food or someone in the darkness seeing light.

"So you were after the water just now..." Liu Qing realized that she had misunderstood Chu Yang when she remembered what had happened earlier.

Her face was somewhat embarrassed.

"Besides water, do you think I had some bad thoughts?" Chu Yang teased Liu Qing while handing her the water.

Now that he saw the water, Chu Yang felt much better. At least they didn't have to resort to the previously mentioned unbearable method.

Liu Qing also stared greedily at the mineral water in the backpack.

Seeing this, Chu Yang took out a bottle of water from the backpack and handed it to Liu Qing: "You drink first!"

As for the other bottle, Chu Yang didn't touch it.

Liu Qing could guess what Chu Yang was thinking. He must have wanted to save the other bottle for emergencies.

In fact, that was indeed the case.

Although they were extremely thirsty now, precisely because of this, Chu Yang had to consider the following time.

Unless it was a last resort or they found a water source, this other bottle of water was their life-saving water.

At this moment, Liu Qing felt a bit moved looking at Chu Yang.

True friendship is revealed in times of hardship. Now Chu Yang's situation was no better than hers, but at this time, he was the first to think about her.

"Gulps..." Unable to hold on any longer in a state of thirst, Liu Qing opened the bottle cap and started drinking heartily without caring about her image.