Blackstone Code Chapter 675: Gone again
"Monster?"
A group of sailors who had nothing to do suddenly crowded over. They stood beside Connie and looked at the sea in the distance.
Generally speaking, when people stand on a boat, their eyes cannot penetrate the sea surface, because of the refraction of light and other reasons, people cannot see what is under the sea surface.
But for things above the sea, it will be more conspicuous, which is like a black block with no light reflection on a piece of silver sparkling water.
People saw the thing all at once, and some lads were screaming and guessing what the thing was.
"Maybe a whale..."
"Maybe the sunfish..."
The sailors happily guessed, and Connie also actively joined in, "It may be a submarine..."
The laughter and laughter of the surrounding sailors disappeared in an instant, and everyone was looking at Connie with a "do you know what you're talking about" look, their drooping mouth corners and clenched fists making the Connie realized he had said the wrong thing.
"Hey, I mean..."
Before he could explain anything, a loud explosion sounded, and the armed **** ship was overturned.
The explosion didn't have the sky-high fire like in the movie. All I could see was a huge splash of water suddenly blooming under the waterline. The splash was filled with black smoke, and then the armed **** ship was overturned directly. Head down and feet up start to sink slowly.
The armed men who fell into the water swam frantically to other places. When the ship was silent, a turbulent current would be induced.
Fortunately, the ship capsized, and it took some time to sink, long enough for them to escape the deadly area.
What happened in a short period of time was so amazing that everyone lost the ability to speak.
The Commonwealth is not a nation of "bringing seeds", at least not yet. When faced with this almost war-like situation, the only thing they can do is to run away desperately.
But this is the sea, where can people escape?
With the sound of "pop" falling into the water, people seemed to wake up, and a sailor put down the lifeboat.
According to relevant federal laws, the carrying capacity of lifeboats on sea-going ships must meet twice the nuclear capacity of the ship.
This is a cargo ship with a small number of people, so only one lifeboat is hung on each side of the hull.
Just as Connie ran to the other side of the ship, he turned his eyes and inadvertently saw a swordfish-like thing under the sea quickly ramming towards the freighter...
There was a loud bang, in fact, it was more of a whine when the metal twisted. When the water that almost covered the sky fell, the hull had begun to tilt, and a hole was blown out in the bottom of the boat. The side is full of sirens...
The sailors were knocked to the deck when it exploded, and after a few seconds they got up and jumped into the water holding their noses.
Connie jumped into the water with everyone, followed by the swearing captain and first mate, and almost everyone got on board, except those in the boiler room.
They rowed the lifeboat far away together, watching the freighter capsize little by little, each with a very complicated expression on their faces.
The very embarrassed captain patted the boy next to him on the shoulder, with a smile on his face, "It's not bad news, at least for us."
Everyone's eyes were on him, and he responded to everyone with his eyes, "Look, twice, the first time we encountered a robber, the second time we encountered this..." , he didn't even know how to describe it, "But, we survived."
"That's the best of it, we've faced the worst twice, but now we've survived, and there's nothing more exciting than that, to survive."
"Each one of you is already a 'legendary sailor', you can brag about what you've been through to anyone on any boat, and no one can refute you."
It was really unfortunate, but after the captain said this, everyone felt that they were really lucky.
Connie, who was still dizzy, suddenly asked, "That submarine won't come to attack us, will it?"
The originally harmonious atmosphere dropped to freezing point in an instant, and the captain clenched his fists. Considering that this was not the time to beat people, he forced a smile and said, "According to international conventions, even belligerent countries cannot massacre civilians... "
In the end, these people gathered with the people who escaped from the armed **** ship, and with the help of the simple compass on the neck of the old captain, they rowed hard towards the coast of Ameria.
After more than a day, everyone collapsed, and the appearance of the coastline cheered some already desperate.
Yes, despair, it took only one day to go from surviving excitement to despair.
Behaviourists once did a time when they built two passages, one dark and invisible, and one full of light.
They divided the participants into two pairs, one walked through the invisible passage and the other walked through the light-filled passage.
The length of the two passages is the same, and there is no obstacle. As long as you walk forward, you can walk out of the passage in fifteen minutes.
However, only one of all those who took part in the experiment walked out of the invisible passage, all the others failed, and on the contrary, all those who took the light-filled passage eventually came out.
Visible and invisible can give people extreme feedback, like these sailors floating on the sea.
They rowed the boat hard but could never see the coastline. It didn't take much time from the initial excitement to depression, numbness and even despair. As long as their efforts did not see hope, they would despair.
Not to mention that the lack of fresh water and food can exacerbate people's emotional decline. In fact, it is a great thing that these people have persisted without emotional collapse.
If any of them had been pulled out, alone in a lifeboat, it would have collapsed long ago.
And this just proves the role of collective power.
A few hours later, these people finally landed, and in the hotel at the port, they found someone from the company who came to pick up the goods.
"I thought you guys would come earlier, did you encounter a storm?", with a... faint mockery on the speaker's face, the captain was very embarrassed at this time, first wet by the sea and then It was exposed to the sun, his face was black and red, his neck was even more skinned, and he was in a state of embarrassment, and he didn't look much better than the locals.
So this sentence seems to be asking if the other party is so embarrassed because of the storm, but it is actually just a mockery.
The captain took out his pipe, rudely opened the other party's cigarette case on the coffee table, took out two cigarettes, rolled them and stuffed them in, and also used the other party's lighter.
He looked at the unhappy face of the other party, took two breaths, and slowly spit it out, the whole person seemed to have been sublimated at this moment and completed his new life.
He said lightly, "The ship sank, along with our cargo!"
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11:30, which is the time to fall asleep, Mr. Wardrick, in his pajamas, had just come to a friendly game with his wife and was about to go to bed contentedly when the phone ringing disturbed him.
He and his wife whispered a few words, let her sleep first, and then walked to the study with a dress on.
"What happened?", he put his shoulder against the microphone, and took out a solid color and lit it, he knew it was no joke to disturb his call at this time.
There is an extraordinarily clear line between federal public and private, and they do not want to be disturbed as long as they enter their private time beyond their last working hours.
They don't want to be disturbed, and they don't want to bother others unless they have to.
The phone call at this time doesn't look like a prank, solid-colored smoke particles are rolling in his mouth, nicotine is absorbed through the mucous membrane, and it starts to take effect quickly, he is ready, "Hope it's not a bad thing ."
There was silence on the receiver side for two seconds, and the voice was slightly heavy, "Our ship has sunk." It may be that the description is not very detailed, and the person on the other end of the phone added, "Go to the Ameria area. The ship sank, along with our cargo."
It took ten seconds before Mr. Wardrick responded, "Does anyone else know?"
"The board of directors has held an overnight meeting. If you have time, come to the company. If you don't have time, join this conference call at..."
Mr. Wardrick thought for a while, "I'll come to the company and help me prepare the car."
After hanging up the phone, he sat in the chair without moving, but took a few mouthfuls of solid color, and there was a look of unknown expression on his face, which was undoubtedly Lynch's handwriting.
His evaluation of Lynch is higher. If the military and his friendship have reached the point where they can attack domestic merchant ships, then Lynch's value must be re-evaluated.
Half an hour later, Mr. Wardrick appeared in the meeting hall of the board of directors~IndoMTL.com~ At this time, a lot of people had come, and some of them were suddenly not in Bupen because of the incident, but they also joined the conference call.
After waiting for a while and the last person contacted, the meeting officially began.
"I asked the shipping company just now. If we want to salvage our ship, our cost will be about 10 million." The chairman of the board of directors pressed his temple, he is now very headache.
"As well as other various losses, this time we reimbursed another 20 million, gentlemen, 20 million!"
"In addition to the 16 million we lost before, we lost so much without doing anything. Who can tell me how much we have to lose next?"
His voice wasn't grumpy or loud, but no one dared to ignore it.
Wardrick sat aside with a serious expression, but there was an elusive smile in his eyes, and he had almost won the game.
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①, a slang term like "manly".