Chapter 740: Saved
As everyone stood on the side of the ship, they felt that the sinking speed had almost stopped. But after a long time, I found that the sinking speed did not stop completely, but was greatly slowed down.
At the same time, everyone also saw that the large ship that everyone was on was rapidly sinking towards the silt-like seabed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Many people wept in fright, and the sailors wept bitterly, as if they were regretting their stupid decision. Lin Song looked around in silence with a dark face, and then said to Princess Irene: "Your Royal Highness Princess, don't worry, we still have a good chance to survive." ”
Princess Erin was much calmer than Lin Song thought, she nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'm not afraid at all." ”
Little by little, about an hour later, the ship fell silent. Although everyone is well aware that large ships are now much more dangerous than lifeboats. But in the vast sea, there is an instinctive sense of dependence on the big ship in people's hearts, and when the big ship disappears completely, everyone is a little empty, and despair gradually spreads among the crowd.
But now everyone can do nothing but try to be quiet, just like people who have fallen into a swamp, and want to buy more time through quiet, slow down their sinking, and give themselves more chances to survive.
Time passed slowly, and it seemed that it was night, and tonight, the sky was full of dark clouds, and there was no moonlight to be seen. Lin Song asked Liam to find a way to turn on all the lights.
Now the lighting has almost no real effect, and even if there are ships passing by, they will never dare to come close to the rescue. But the light at this time can give people the last trace of sustenance psychologically, otherwise Lin Song is really afraid that someone will commit suicide out of despair at night.
Seeing that it was the second half of the night, everyone was extremely nervous before, and now they were all a little sleepy, Lin Song said: "You don't have to wait any longer, go to sleep, the rest is left to fate." ”
Extreme sleepiness caused several people to fall into light sleep, but even so, they only slept for ten minutes before opening their eyes, and no one could really sleep peacefully at such a time.
Everyone was afraid that when they fell asleep, they would be awakened by a cry of despair, and then look at the surrounding white silt-like seabed, drowning in silt in despair.
However, perhaps it was the tempering of the heavens, and in the end the three lifeboats persevered, and a few hours later, when a glimmer of dawn appeared on the sea level in the east, a sailor who had fallen asleep shouted in surprise: "Water! It's water! The water is back! ”
Lin Song looked under the side of the ship, and was also pleasantly surprised to find that above the silt-like seabed, a thin layer of seawater, about ten centimeters deep, had appeared.
Although these seawater are only a dozen centimeters, it already means that the low tide has ended, and the sea water is gradually returning, and it is returning to this sea cemetery with the buoyancy that everyone has been longing for for a long time! They've survived the most perilous of times!
Everyone was pleasantly surprised, and in about an hour or so, the sea water was almost on the side of the ship, and Lin Song reacted: "Cut it!" Chop down all the surrounding plates and pipes. When the sea comes back, these things will become cumbersome. ”
The sailors reacted and hurriedly separated the lifeboat from the two 'flying wings' on the side of the boat, and soon the lifeboat floated in a flash.
"Don't worry, wait for half an hour or so, and we'll set off when the bottom of the surrounding sea is all covered by seawater!" Lin Song said.
In fact, after only more than twenty minutes, the speed of the rising tide of the sea water accelerated a lot, and the surrounding seabed was completely submerged by the seawater. Get out of this place! ”
Soon, everyone rowed frantically, and the three lifeboats quickly left the sea cemetery, and when everyone looked back, they felt as if they had just woken up from a nightmare.
Princess Irene, who was originally indifferent, suddenly cried out and hugged Lin Song at once: "Lin! Thank you, we persevered! We really persevered! I'm really worried that we won't be able to hold on! ”
Lin Song smiled bitterly: "Your Royal Highness Princess, don't be in a hurry to be happy now. We're not here to relax. Now that there are no big boats, we have lost power and can only rely on manual rowing. You know, we're hundreds of kilometers from our neighboring island. Look at the weather ahead, although there is a morning sun in the east, but the dark clouds are nearby, and I wonder if there will be a storm soon. ”
Liam also said after taking a look: "That's right, we are not at ease now, everyone hurry back to the main channel, and strive to find the big ship as soon as possible, and then it can be regarded as real salvation." ”
Having just escaped death from the sea cemetery, everyone's morale is very high, and everyone is rowing hard to paddle the oars. The captain also seems to want to atone for his sins, and he himself is at the front with a navigation device to lead the way.
In the evening of the next day, a ship finally appeared on the sea level, and the captain immediately fired a signal flare for help, and the ship quickly approached this way.
When the ship approached, everyone realized that it was a small gunboat, and the soldiers on it were wearing the uniforms of the Pokadot Navy, and when they approached the boat, the people on board asked anxiously, "Are you the survivors of the NA5001 ship?" ”
The so-called NA5001 is the number of the ship that everyone was on before, and the captain shouted: "It's us!" Her Royal Highness Princess Irene is on board! Save us! ”
The gunboat immediately stopped, lowered the rope ladder, and everyone climbed up along the rope ladder, and stood on the deck, where one of the major captains of the gunboat bowed to Princess Irene and said, 'Your Highness, we have received news. Radar has detected that your boat has entered the range of the sea cemetery, and we have come to the rescue. God bless you safe and sound.
But why did you enter the sea graveyard, it is supposed that your crew should be experienced sailors......
The captain bowed his head and was about to confess his crimes. I heard Princess Irene say, "There is a problem with our navigation equipment, and they can't do anything about it." Thankfully, I've made it back safely, thanks to the crew's cooperation. ”
Hearing the princess say this, Lin Song saw that the captain's tears fell all at once.