Chapter 53: The Man-Eating Sea

In his career, this has happened no less than three times, so the first thing he does when he gets on board the ship is to prepare everywhere and place something that can save his life at a critical moment, if he hadn't been a soldier and his heart was strong enough, he might have died at sea.

On one voyage to South America, he remembers the weather was very good, when the crew was working on deck, some were reeling lines, some were killing fish, some were delivering boxes. Suddenly, the fish-killing crew raised their knives and stabbed at their companions opposite, the white knives went in and the red knives came out.

Before his companion realized what was happening, he fell to the ground unconscious. By the time someone reacted and grabbed the knife, the blood was already in front of them, and then there was a "click" and an arm fell on the deck.

He was already the captain of the ship at the time, and after witnessing the whole thing from the cockpit, he quickly locked the door and shouted through the loudspeaker, "Kill him!" because he knew that the man had gone mad.

Outside the cockpit, a man with a knife, chased a group of people and ran from the foredeck to the aft cabin. As a result, when the fishing boats returned home, they were accompanied by three carcasses in the freezer compartment.

In peacetime, fishing for a living is another kind of silent battle. The smell of blood was blowing in the sea breeze, and it was impossible to tell whether it came from the fish or the wounds of the crew. The undercurrents between the reefs are surging, and the hearts of the people are always surging.

There are no women on the distant-water fishing boats, and a group of male animals have been at sea for two years, and sometimes their eyes glow green when they see everyone. When Sun Liancheng was the first mate, every time before going to sea, the most important thing was to buy a whole box of island love action discs through special channels, and then repair the VCD, and put it on a brand new one.

I can't return to China for two years, for everyone, this DVD player is as important as life, and I often see things that everyone hides in the cabin, lying on their small lattice beds, watching the TV hanging on the roof of the cabin, and playing it on a loop for 24 hours. Some of them even close the curtains, some don't pull them at all, and from time to time you will see a crumpled ball of toilet paper, thrown out of the bed in a grand manner, no one will make fun of anyone, everyone is the same.

But every time before cooking, everyone asks the chef to wash his hands, and no one wants to eat a meal made with that stuff. Although the highest requirement for chefs on distant-water fishing boats is one word, "just cooked"!

Every time you arrive at a relay station in another country to refuel, or temporarily stop to replenish supplies, it is the happiest day for everyone, basically the relay station of each route has people who specialize in intermediary services, pull these people into the alley, let them go to the point by themselves, and then watch these people talk to women of different colors with gestures, and then each person has a small dark room, and what to do with their toes will also know.

Sun Liancheng's eyes were lost in the Indian Ocean, that was when he returned, the fleet had already passed the Cape of Good Hope, and after replenishing the supplies, he planned to return all the way without stopping, basically he would be able to come back in three or four months, and everyone was full of hope.

In the early hours of the morning, they encountered a huge school of fish, and catching this group of fish could fill all the fish tanks, and when they returned to China, everyone's pockets would definitely bulge a lot, so they cast the last net, and Sun Liancheng handed over the operation of the fishing boat to the first mate, and personally commanded everyone to lift it.

He smoked a cigarette, and his mood seemed to fluctuate greatly, and when he told everyone this, his voice was obviously trembling, but he still insisted on talking.

That day there was a lot of wind and waves, thousands of tons of fishing boats kept shaking, and the crane creaked, all of which meant that the net was a big harvest, but what he didn't expect was that the accident happened like this.

The main line of the fish pulling operation suddenly collapsed, and the broken steel cable was drawn towards the crowd like a whip, and a crew member standing not far in front of him was directly pulled in half by the steel cable from the abdomen, and hit his right eye without losing his stamina, when his eyes were in front of him, he was squatting on the ground and wailing, and he didn't know whether it was blood or tears flowing between his fingers, and when he pulled his hand, everyone found that his eyes had swollen into a slit.

The doctor who accompanied the ship did not have a good way, and gave him an eye drop and a bottle of antibiotics, which is the only treatment method after the distant-water fishing boat is sick, if there is no danger to his life, the operation ship cannot return to the port, after all, the fuel cost of a round trip is as high as hundreds of thousands, and the loss is unbearable.

After returning to China, Sun Liancheng's right eye was completely invisible, and he went to the hospital to check that the lens of his right eye was seriously damaged, and there was no chance to regain his sight.

But Lao Sun said that his life is already excellent, at least his life is still kept, he has been at sea for ten years, he has seen too many people die due to various accidents, and he has at least received a lot of compensation for being blind in one eye, but he can't get on the ship and go to sea again, it was then that he came out of the central enterprise, traveled around to drive a boat for a private boss, and finally met Yang Yi and them.

Sun Liancheng is not good at words, his narration sounds very plain, but in those bland words, Yang Yi and they feel a kind of thrilling, as well as that thick helplessness, the people living on the boat are like rootless duckweeds, and human life is like grass mustard is their truest portrayal, far higher than the risk of him being a soldier and fighting, so he said that only by stepping on the land of the country can he know how beautiful ordinary life is.

Everyone smoked cigarettes and didn't speak, including Yang Yi, combined with the abnormal wave encountered today, for them who were on the boat for the first time, the impact was undoubtedly huge.

Lao Sun has a deep and deep memory of the abnormal waves, because he encountered it once in the Pacific Ocean, that time their thousand-ton steamer was thrown up dozens of meters like a toy, and then fell heavily to the surface of the sea, if it was not only on the edge of the abnormal wave, it must have been ten deaths, just after that abnormal wave, there were more than 30 people on the deck and the upper cabin, and in the end there were only seven left, he was one of the survivors, and the more than 20 people did not even catch the bones.

Another time was a storm, no less than an abnormal wave. The first mate, who was already in his fifties, led people to grab and reinforce, and was directly slapped on the wall by the flying iron bucket, and it was a blur of flesh and blood at that time, and he couldn't even be saved. For the next 30 days, every day Sun Liancheng would take people to the freezer with food and sit with his corpse for a while.

This iron-clad man said that the last time the first mate saw his child was in junior high school, and he often took photos to tell them how good the relationship was with his baby daughter, and when he returned with the body of the first mate, his daughter had already gone to college, and the first mate had been at sea for more than five years, and the only sustenance was the photo taken by the child when he was in junior high school.

When he heard this, Wu Yonghui and the water monkey cried a lot, they were old and young, one was a father, the other was a son, and they grew up in a seaside fishing village, they all felt deeply about this, and they were very able to understand this mood, people at sea live an extra day is God's reward, not for life, who will pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers.

"This cannibalistic sea!"

Yang Yi felt that his heart was also panicked, he threw the cigarette butt into the sea fiercely, stood on the side of the boat and held on to the railing and scolded, now what he wants most is to make this kind of thing happen less or not happen, because every life is implicated behind his wife, children, mother, and one or several families.

"Today I am talking to you about this, is to let everyone know that the sea is actually very ruthless, in the sea to suffer, but also to endure loneliness, but also to have the determination and courage to face everything, the owner is a good person, I can see that he is more important than making money for the big guys, so everyone should take care of their lives, with all their energy to do a good job, do a good job, and take a good road in the future. ”

Sun Liancheng finally summed up a sentence, it is rare to say a long list of words, although ordinary but extremely philosophical.

"Today, I also make a promise to you, since everyone is willing to follow me, I will bring everyone out happily, and then bring it back safely, and let everyone earn money! Don't dare to say anything else, give me a year, let all of us become millionaires, so that after the people in our mountain villages go out, they can stand up straight and tell others that you can't compare!"

Yang Yi sincerely looked at everyone and made a promise, since he cultivated, this is the first time he has such respect for life, life is more important than everything, and it is his responsibility to let them live well.