BXBX NOVEL Chapter 207
The only red cloth from before had been washed away by the heavy rain.
Seeing nothing else usable, he quickly took off his green military coat and began waving it.
"Hey, friend! Over here, look over here!"
"I\'m here!"
He shouted excitedly.
From a distance, Yun Xiaoxiao spotted him.
She scanned the drilling platform and found a relatively large open space.
She immediately guided the helicopter down.
Seeing the aircraft actually descending, the man couldn\'t contain his joy.
He quickly put his military coat back on, grabbed the rusty railing, and ran upstairs.
Panting, he arrived at the main platform just as the helicopter was slowly touching down.
The powerful wind from the rotors nearly knocked him off balance.
He hurriedly steadied himself, his body hunched over in a rather comical pose.
Soon, the helicopter came to a complete stop.
He rushed over eagerly.
As the cabin door opened, he grinned and waved his hand in greeting.
"Hey, friend, you..."
Before he could finish the word, he froze.
Because...
He saw Yun Xiaoxiao calmly jump down from inside.
He stood on his tiptoes and looked at the helicopter from every angle - up, down, left, right - but couldn\'t see anyone else.
This completely shocked him.
"Kid, did you fly this helicopter?"
He asked in disbelief.
Yun Xiaoxiao shrugged, "Who else? Do you see anyone else?"
The man dumbly shook his head.
"Holy crap, you really did fly it yourself!"
Coming to his senses, the man slapped his thigh, unable to hide his amazement.
"You\'re incredible! How old are you? And you can fly a helicopter!"
The man couldn\'t stop expressing his astonishment.
But Yun Xiaoxiao looked him up and down and asked puzzled, "Are you the manliest man on the sea?"
The man immediately scratched the back of his head, somewhat embarrassed.
"Hehe, that\'s me."
Yun Xiaoxiao\'s mouth twitched.
The manliest?
This skinny guy? What\'s manly about him?
Seeing Yun Xiaoxiao\'s dubious expression, the man became even more embarrassed and gave a silly laugh.
"I didn\'t think anyone would come, so I just said whatever, but I didn\'t expect..."
That someone would actually come.
Being caught in such an obvious lie was indeed a bit awkward.
Yun Xiaoxiao: .......
Perhaps this was the gap between online and reality...
She didn\'t dwell on this issue and instead asked, "Are you an employee at this oil well?"
The man nodded, "Yes, kid. I\'m Zhang Qiang, a mechanical engineer at this offshore oil field."
"Is everyone else gone?"
"They sure are. You have no idea how bad the situation was."
Once he started talking, Zhang Qiang couldn\'t stop.
Regardless of whether Yun Xiaoxiao wanted to hear it or not, he recounted everything that had happened.
The gist was that after the virus outbreak, it spread from person to person, and soon the drilling platform was overrun with zombies.
Some lucky ones, those near the ships, managed to escape by boat.
Some semi-lucky ones got on boats, but there were people who transformed on board, and those ships quickly became zombie ships.
Those who remained on the drilling platform were the extremely unlucky ones.
They couldn\'t escape, but they couldn\'t stay either.
To escape meant jumping into the ocean.
Even if they didn\'t encounter sharks, facing the hordes of zombies that had already fallen into the sea was no joke.
The moment you jumped in, a zombie might take a bite, and that would be the end of you.
But staying on the platform meant being surrounded by zombies everywhere, which was basically a death sentence too.
"So how did you survive?" Yun Xiaoxiao asked curiously.
After hearing his story, she thought it seemed impossible to survive in such dangerous circumstances.
"Me? I was down there doing repairs at the time."
Zhang Qiang pointed to another tall iron frame that had fallen into the sea.
"I was standing on that narrow ledge, hugging that big cylinder.
It\'s underneath the platform, and to get down there, you have to climb down slowly using those small metal plates.
But zombies can\'t operate like that.
At the time, one zombie spotted me and tried to eat me, lunging at me.
Due to the angle, it missed me and fell into the water instead.
I thought that might be a good way to deal with the zombies.
So, I deliberately made noise to attract them.
And without fail, all those zombies fell into the sea.
I stayed there for four whole days.
During that time, I didn\'t have a drop of water or a grain of rice.
I survived purely on fresh air and strong willpower.
On the afternoon of the fourth day, when I was sure no more zombies would come no matter how much noise I made, I finally climbed back up."
Yun Xiaoxiao raised an eyebrow.
This guy was quite clever.
"I\'ve been alone all this time.
If it weren\'t for the radio station where I could still hear information from other bases, I would have thought I was the only person left in the world.
You\'re the first living person I\'ve seen in all these months.
You have no idea how excited I am."
Zhang Qiang looked at Yun Xiaoxiao eagerly.
But then he became puzzled.
"By the way, kid, why did you come here alone in a helicopter?"
"Aren\'t you extracting oil here?"
"Yes, so, you came for the oil?" Zhang Qiang was somewhat surprised.
Yun Xiaoxiao raised her eyebrows slightly, "You guessed right, so where\'s the oil?"
Zhang Qiang became even more confused, "What does a kid like you want with oil?"
"To use it, of course. Is that so hard to understand?" Yun Xiaoxiao was a bit exasperated.
Zhang Qiang: ......
I know it\'s for use, but a kid flying alone in a helicopter to the middle of the ocean looking for oil - that itself is strange, isn\'t it?
Though he thought this, Zhang Qiang still obediently pointed to the large storage tanks not far away.
Aliali: 6754d302bd5e46c308a67379"Those tanks contain the oil we\'ve extracted so far.
When we accumulate enough, oil tankers come to transport it to the mainland.
Besides these storage tanks, most of the oil is actually transported directly to the mainland\'s oil factories through underwater pipelines."
Zhang Qiang explained everything in detail.
As he spoke, he led Yun Xiaoxiao toward the storage tanks.
Throughout the entire time, he never treated Yun Xiaoxiao like an ordinary child.
After all, what ordinary child could fly a helicopter by themselves?
What ordinary child would come to sea looking for oil?
So, Zhang Qiang answered whatever Yun Xiaoxiao asked, and he answered very seriously.
After all, his chances of getting off this platform depended on this kid.