Chapter 193 sends a distress signal
"Captain Renβ" Lu Ming exclaimed, wanting to save him. But he was dragged into the communication cabin by Xiao Zhao.
The boat was still rocking, as if it was about to be broken in two by the waves.
Ren Hongyi and Xiao Zhao hid in the communication room, their lives and deaths uncertain.
The ship was about to sink, and they had no rafts. With only the life jacket on his body, I'm afraid he won't last long.
After holding on in horror for about a few minutes, the boat, which was shaking like a flagpole, suddenly plunged headlong into the sea.
Lu Ming and Xiao Zhao screamed in horror and grabbed the railing beside them.
Death was only one step away from them.
After a long and boundless half a minute, the boat miraculously slanted into the sea and did not sink to the bottom of the sea.
It turned out that the stern of the pleasure boat was stuck between two large reefs, the bow of the boat was raised, and the stern was submerged in the water, and it was not moved again by the wind and waves.
It wasn't until a long time later that Lu Ming and Xiao Zhao Fang calmed down from their panic.
By this time, the strongest wind and waves had passed, and after more than an hour of raging, this cumulonimbus cloud had quickly swept over the island and swept towards the vast sea in the distance.
The rain from the aftermath of the tropical storm fell for more than half an hour.
When the rain was a little lighter, Lu Ming opened the hatch and looked in the direction of the stern. But on the surface of a whirlpool foaming sea, where can you still find Ren Hongyi's shadow.
Edmonton drove the life raft away before the storm hit hard.
Ren Hongyi disappeared again in the storm, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
Lu Ming and Xiao Zhao were trapped in the communication room.
Now, the bow of the boat is raised high, and it is more than 20 meters high above the sea. Most of the other sterns were stuck in the deep sea, stuck in the reef.
The communication room is located at the bow of the ship, more than 10 meters above the sea.
If you want to go down to the surface of the sea, you can't help it unless you have a rope.
"Xiao Zhao, look at the antenna!" Lu Ming hurriedly said.
Xiao Zhao checked the communication radio, although it had been ravaged by the storm. But the communication station is still intact. But to their despair, the backup generator was cut off due to a deadly attack on the boat.
The communication radio station that Lu Ming and Xiao Zhao worked so hard to renovate had no power and became a pile of decorations!
"Don't be in a hurry. We can take the radio down and take it to the island. As long as we can get a stable power supply, we can continue to send messages. Lu Ming comforted Xiao Zhao with a frustrated face and said.
Now, they can only wait for rescue on the island.
There was no food or water in the communication room.
After some desperate struggle, Lu Ming felt that his stomach was rumbling with hunger. There was no way, he could only find an iron plate containing tools in the communication room, and stretched out the hatch to catch some rainwater to drink.
When the wind and rain were a little lighter, he went out again to look outside, only to find that the hatch of the communication room was facing away from the island, and he could not see the situation on the island at all.
"I'm young, I can crawl to the other side to send a distress signal!" Xiao Zhao took the initiative to ask.
"Okay, let's go together!" Lu Ming was not worried that Xiao Zhao climbed to the other side of the bow alone, and hurriedly said.
They found some cables in the communication room and tied them together as safety ropes, one end tied around their waist and the other end tied to the iron railing in the communication room.
Then, cautiously, the two of them crawled out of the communication room and began to crawl to the other end of the boat.
The cruise ship is inclined at more than forty-five degrees. A lot of the place has steel walls and glass, so it's not easy to climb.
Liang Shaoyang and Xiao Zhao wasted a lot of effort before climbing to the position of the cab.
The two of them had nothing in their stomachs, and they were soaked and sweaty from exhaustion.
It is impossible to climb around the wheelhouse to the other end of the boat.
The wheelhouse door was easily opened, and the two of them got inside, because from the wheelhouse they could see the other side of the ship.
The two of them walked down the wheelhouse to the other side of the boat, and finally saw the misty island.
Lu Ming knew that it would be difficult to stand on a deck with a smooth slope, so he didn't go out.
Just leaning on the window and looking over the island.
With the bow of the ship cocked, obscuring the view from a large angle, he could not fully see the sea near the island.
"Mr. Lu, there is a passage leading to the cabin below, let's go find something to eat first. Xiao Zhao saw that this was the case, and found that there was a door in the middle of the cab, so he said to Lu Ming.
The condition of the cruise ship is already stable.
I believe that without a bigger storm, it will not be able to shake this hundred-meter-long ship.
None of them could see a swarthy boat parked in the bay of the island due to the obscuration of the bow of the pleasure boat. From the boat, someone was lowering the dinghy and heading towards the island.
Inside a secret camp.
Liang Shaoyang was holding a telescope to carefully observe the cruise ship and the pirate ship on the sea.
"Did you see Brother Lu and them?" Mo Bing asked worriedly.
Liang Shaoyang didn't answer her right away.
He didn't expect that Lu Ming and his party didn't rush back before this storm.
The pirate ship came so fast, like a storm at sea had brought the ship over. This was a big surprise to them. This also means that Lu Ming and several of them were intercepted between the island and the cruise ship.
He and another Babbitt company clerk were the only men in the secret camp, and the dinghy from the big ship was loaded with a dozen armed gangsters.
He didn't want another fight here that happened a month and a half ago on a nameless island. Because they can't still be so lucky to escape the scythe of death's life-harvesting scythe.
Now he pins all his hopes on Lu Ming.
If Lu Ming and Xiao Zhao are able to repair the antenna. Then they can send the message out there.
The island was big enough, and the hiding place was very secretive, so long that they could hide long enough to wait for help to arrive.
But can he really protect the five people behind him from being discovered by the pirates?
The most important thing is that Lu Ming and they are still on the boat.
Liang Shaoyang didn't know if anyone saw Lu Ming when they were traveling.
He had looked around the boat carefully, but he didn't see the lifeboat. With such a big wind and waves, the dinghy was probably washed away by the waves a long time ago.
But that's fine. At least, the pirates wouldn't have thought that there were still people hiding inside that abandoned pleasure boat.
He silently hoped in his heart that Lu Ming and the others could understand his intentions and take shelter on the boat.
On the other side of the beach, several figures were waving at the two dinghys that were speeding by. It was the second mate, Ford and George.
Liang Shaoyang knew that after those pirates landed on the island, the most direct goal was to quickly find them.
Thankfully, there is this secret base. So that they can hide safely.
The food in the base is enough for them to use for a while.
But those pirates will not wait for them to show up, they will ask Chen Qingyuan about their whereabouts, and they will quickly search the island.
It is better to lead them to the mountainous side of the southeast of the island.
"I'll go to the other side of the mountain to create some false signs that they think we're in the mountains. Liang Shaoyang succinctly explained his thoughts.
"Okay, I'll take them here and wait for you!" Mo Bing said firmly.
She didn't ask to go with Liang Shaoyang, because she knew that any of them acting with Liang Shaoyang would only drag him back.
After making a decision. Liang Shaoyang began to prepare.
He pierced some holes in a jacket with a shark-proof knife, and then inserted some vines and branches into the holes and tied them to make a concealed auspicious suit.
He also made a straw hat out of a twig and put it on his head.
That way, he wouldn't be easily spotted by the pirates as he moved through the verdant woods and grasses that had just rained.
Because he believed that on the big ship, there would also be people watching this side of the island with high-powered telescopes. If they notice a suspicious person moving here, they will immediately focus their search on this place.
"Let's hide too. After Liang Shaoyang bent down and left here under the cover of ditches and trees, Mo Bing said to Bai Xiaoyi and the others.
Around the perimeter of the sheltered camp, she set up several wireless observation cameras.
It was one of the pieces of equipment she had brought back from the ship that was still usable.
These footage will collect the surrounding situation and send it to a live recorder in the hidden camp.
As long as the live recorder has power, Mo Bing can monitor the abnormal situation that occurs within a few hundred meters of the surrounding area.
Lu Ming and Xiao Zhao walked in from the small door in the cockpit for a while, and then entered the first half of the cabin of the cruise ship.
It is accurate to say that it is walking, but in fact, it should be said that it is climbing down.
In the corridor where the carpet used to be laid, the carpet had slid low due to the water and was piled up in a damp pile. The corridor turned into a smooth, sloping well. And Lu Ming and Xiao Zhao were like entering a bottomless cave.
Luckily, they found a fire hydrant in the cab and used a canvas hose as a rope to get it down.
When Lu Ming was surviving on a nameless desert island, he used ropes countless times to climb up and down high stone cliffs, catch fish and dig shellfish for a living. So now it's not difficult to climb this steep section.
It was Xiao Zhao, who had never experienced such a situation, and followed behind Lu Ming in fear, grabbing the fire hydrant and going down cautiously.
He knew that if he wasn't careful, he would slide down the corridor. On the other side of the corridor is the deep, cold, biting water.
When they got to the restaurant, they climbed in.
The restaurant is tilted and there is still a deep water in the lower part. The water was flowing from the cracks in the doors and elsewhere to the bottom of the boat. The sound of rushing water made them feel like they were inside a waterfall.
Lu Ming and Xiao Zhao walked through the tables, chairs, and some devices fixed to the floor, and searched for things that could be used.
Because the restaurant had been searched twice by George, they didn't find anything to eat or drink.
"Let's go to the second floor restaurant and have a look. Lu Ming said.
Since the first and second floors below deck were flooded at the time, the victims did not search the dining room and kitchen on both floors.
Lu Ming took Xiao Zhao along the corridor and went there.