Chapter 243

As the control room crew in the loudspeaker received one bad alarm message after another, Lao Zhang's face twisted. He habitually shouted with a walkie talkie: "all those who can move except the wounded and the control room, get the hell out of the bilge for me."

He shouted several times at his throat and found that there was no echo in the walkie talkie. Lao Zhang came back to his senses. He realized that the walkie talkie couldn't work in the fog, and the ship's loudspeaker used wires, so it could still work. He immediately ran to the control room and roared several times.

I asked Ivan and Lao Hei to put our assault boat with food, fresh water, equipment and spare ammunition into the water, and took brother donkey and Jinlihua to the bottom cabin to help, but I knew it was over and there was no way to save it when I looked down the stairs.

A large number of black insects came out of the stomachs of the more than 50 dead people. After drilling into the hull from the deck, they sprayed acid and bit the lines like suicide squads. Break all the wires, oil pipes and so on. Wendeng is a highly modern cargo ship, and many places are directly controlled by computers. However, if the data line is broken, the power also fails, and the automatic drainage, rescue and closed door control systems are all stopped. What's more, the diesel oil flowing out of many oil pipes met with electric sparks, and several places in the bilge were already smoking and on fire.

As the fire became more and more prosperous, the thick smoke made the crew dare not approach at all. They only shouted to look for fire extinguishers everywhere. Due to the failure of the walkie talkie, now the communication basically depends on roaring. There is no unified command and dispatching. Everyone is in a mess. When they go back to find the fire extinguisher, they squeeze on the narrow stairs with those who want to go down with the water pump for drainage. For a time, they are in a mess.

It may be that only the thick smoke and fire are not lively. These deadly insects drill under the floor of the bilge and gather into circles of different sizes one after another. They spray acid from their stomachs one after another, eroding the ground into many large holes. The size of small washbasins is larger than oil barrels. The turbulent sea water immediately sprays high along those holes, In a few seconds, the water level had reached knee height.

Jin Lihua and I stood a little inward at the entrance of the stairs. Each of us took a fire extinguisher, pulled out a military gas mask from his backpack and buckled it on his face. He said to brother donkey, "stay away from the smoke and choke in your lungs. You can choke alive." but he didn't seem to hear it. He looked up at the gray sky and seemed to be thinking about something. The index finger of his right hand kept moving there, It seems that some invisible Arabic numerals and four arithmetic symbols are written in the air.

I turned my head and looked up along his line of sight, but found that there was nothing but fog. I beat him with my hand and said, "why? It's stupid?"

After I met him, brother donkey seemed to have recovered himself and said to me, "twenty minutes."

"What twenty minutes?" I asked in wonder.

"Complete sinking" his face was serious, not like joking.

"How do you know?" I asked him with wide eyes from behind the lens of the gas mask.

"It's calculated according to the tonnage and volume of the ship, the total weight of the cargo and the amount of water entering," he said, drawing a circle on the bow and stern of the ship with his hand, and pointing to the sea water pouring in with a large amount of white foam in the bottom tank.

"He's right." before I questioned the calculation results, Zhang Wenxin, who followed me with a laptop, confirmed: "the calculation results are similar to those of the hull damage control system." after that, he showed me the computer screen in his hand. A red countdown is flashing, and there are still 22 minutes and 40 seconds left.

"Fuck, that's awesome, the legendary cloud computing?" I was a little scared by the data that this guy could calculate by looking at the sky.

"Well, I'm a fog calculator." brother donkey, who has always been very decadent, finally found a place to use himself, and his tone was a little more humorous.

"You two are very poetic. The ship is sinking and you are in the mood to pull the bastard's calf here. What if the assault boat is ready?" Lao hei and Ivan ran back after putting our military assault boat into the water.

At this time, Captain Zhang also read the data provided by his nephew. Although he was unwilling to admit it, the captain was very convinced of the operation results of modern science and technology and ordered to abandon the ship with all kinds of helplessness.

At this critical juncture, the crew acted quickly, put on their life jackets in the order of usual exercises, and put the lifeboats on the Wendeng one by one to the sea.

"Xiaohong, take your son aboard." Lao Zhang pointed to the first prepared lifeboat, said to the red sister with her bag on her back and Yangyang in one hand, and said to her two sons: "Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee, take someone to carry the wounded up first."

"Dad, you first..." before Zhang Wenlong finished his words, he was frightened by Lao Zhang's eyes and swallowed back, taking several people to carry the wounded.

The life-saving equipment on any ocean going ship is highly valued. The number of life boats should be enough for the whole ship. The box above is also equipped with GPS, satellite phone, signal bomb and some rations, fresh water and medicine tools. Often floating on the sea, it is inevitable to sink a ship. If the ship sinks, an insurance company will compensate, and it will be bad if its life is gone, so no one will joke about its life.

Under the command of Lao Zhang, all the crew were in a panic, and everything was in order, that is, no one let the leaders go first, nor did there be a big fight in the rescue boat. More than 40 people took four lifeboats, and the five of US jumped onto our own assault boat along the rope.

"Row fast" Lao Zhang shouted to his men like a dragon boat race with the momentum of the boatman. Because they wanted to avoid the vortex of the sunken ship, everyone picked up the oars and rowed desperately. Zhang Wenlong and Zhang Wenhu are on the second lifeboat. Zhang Wenxin and those in the control room are on the third boat. Lao Zhang and some older crew are at the back.

There is a small propulsion motor on our assault boat, so it can be used as a temporary tugboat at the moment. The donkey took out the mountaineering rope coiled together from his backpack, shook it off and threw one end to the people on the first lifeboat. After they tied it at the bow, we first dragged the boat of sister Hong and several wounded people far away, and then let go of the rope to pick up the rest of the boats.

In the process of tossing back and forth, the "Wendeng" has tilted seriously, a large number of containers on the deck turned into the sea, followed by the hull began to break, and the sports cars used to hide drugs also scattered into the water. Finally, they broke into two pieces, and slowly sank in the gray mist with bubbles.

Some older crew members watched the triangular bow gradually disappear on the water. They were like an unyielding fighter shouting to the sky. They couldn't help crying. Lao Zhang also wiped his eyes and shouted, "it's all old men. Just cry and live."

Lao Zhang scolded a few words in a very angry voice. The crew stabilized their mood, shouted and began to row to the island in the fog.

It was about four or five kilometers from the place where we fell into the water to the island. We began to move towards the island. The more we moved forward, the more we found that the island was actually bigger than we thought. Moreover, the wind and waves around the island are high, the undercurrent is surging, and there are many reefs. One and a half meters high waves beat on the reefs of the island, making a huge sound.

Because of the big waves, all the sailors on the ship rowed desperately with their oars. Just as we were fighting with the waves, Lao Hei's sneaky eyes found a new threat. He only heard him shout, "prepare shark repellent quickly. There are sharks."

Lao Zhang has divers on his ship to deal with some underwater propulsion device failures. He also carries civilian shark repellent with him. We also bring the latest A-2 military version, which is the extract of dead sharks after decay, mixed with some other things. It is said that sharks hate this smell.

When the sea snake showed us the effect, he specially ran to an aquarium park. After a drop of this thing went down, more than a dozen sharks quickly turned around and swam to other places. Even if we throw fish into the water, we can't attract them, so that other tourists think sharks are ill.

The diver on the same boat as Zhang Wenxin first tied his shark repellent bottle with a rope and put it into the water. There are small holes on the bottle, and the contents will slowly spread into the water, so that it can be used for a long time. However, after the yellow bottle was thrown into the water, the diver fiercely gestured at us and shouted to tell us why his shark repellent didn't work.

"Shansai goods, look at me." Lao Hei confidently put what he brought down from the bow. Who knows that the sharks are still circling around and have no intention to leave.

"Fuck, what's the plane?" I shouted.

"These sharks are not quite right. They seem a little special..." Ivan stared at the water with small eyes under his brown eyebrows, looking for the right word. Jinlihua coldly picked up the word Ivan wanted to say: "Crazy"

Listen to them and take a closer look. It's true. Generally speaking, before attacking, sharks will carefully observe and judge the strength of the target, whether they are injured, etc. These sharks look as if they are about to open their posture and bite. They are like a group of madmen. Do the sharks here, like the black worms that sank the Wendeng, form a team to attack? But when you look closely, they don't look like they are fighting their own battles. From time to time, they collide with each other twice as a warning.

As the shark repellents were confirmed to be invalid and there were more and more of them, I fiercely mentioned them in my throat and thought, "it's really a fucking house leak, continuous rain, broken ship and headwind. God doesn't play again. I won't stop."

Around many sharks, their dorsal fins protrude out of the water like small triangular flags. Some can see the shape of sharks after swimming close. Tiger sharks, hammerhead sharks and bull sharks are available. Among all sharks, the most aggressive ones basically appeared. I even saw a few strong great white sharks wandering around.