When he woke up, Wu Yongchang found himself in a huge whaling cabin, with several strangers standing beside him, and a dead-faced Luce was busy rubbing his hands together.

Seeing that his eyes were open, Luce let out a cry of thanksgiving with joy, which provoked the rude-looking people to laugh and burst into tears.

Their escape was quickly explained. It turned out that it was the whaling ship that had overturned the boat, and it had changed course to avoid the wind, and with the large and small sails it had dared to pull up, it was sailing against the side wind, so that it was going almost at right angles to the boat's course.

There were a few sailors on the lookout platform, but when they realized that a collision with the boat was inevitable—the warning they gave was the scream that scared Wu Yongchang to death.

They told Wu Yongchang that at that time, the big ship pressed over the small boat as easily as it pressed over a feather, and the people on board did not feel the slightest obstacle under the boat.

It was only when the fragile boat was sucked into the bottom of the big ship and brushed along the keel that they heard a slight grinding sound from the roar of the wind and the roar of the sea, but that was it.

The captain thought the boat was nothing more than a useless wreck floating down the river. The captain was determined to keep the course going and not to take this little thing to heart.

Luckily, two sailors on the lookout swore that they had seen a man on the boat and that there was a chance of rescuing him.

So there was an argument on board, in which the captain was angry and said, "His duty is not to stare at the eggshells in the water; His ship could not turn its bow for such a senseless situation; If a man is knocked into the water, he deserves it, and it's no one else's fault – he deserves to be drowned and will die,"

Then the first mate intervened, and like all the sailors on board, he was indignant at the captain's ruthless and vile words.

Seeing that everyone was in favor of him, he bluntly told the captain that he thought he wanted to taste the gallows, and that he would now disobey his orders even if he was hanged as soon as he came ashore.

With that, he strode over, pushed aside the pale, silent captain with his elbow, grasped the steering wheel tightly, and gave the order to turn in a firm voice.

The sailors quickly took their positions, and the big ship quickly turned its bow. It took almost five minutes, and it should be said that even if there was someone in the boat just now, there was almost no hope of him surviving now.

But as the reader can see, both Luce and Wu Yongchang were rescued; Salvation seems to have been due to two incredible accidents, which the godly Luce attributed to God's blessing.

While the whaling ship was still making a U-turn, the first mate had lowered the dinghy and jumped into it, accompanied by two sailors who had sworn to see Wu Yongchang at the helm. As soon as they rowed the dinghy away from the leeward side of the big boat, the big boat jerked violently and tilted towards the windward side, and the first mate got up from the seat of the dinghy and shouted at his sailors to reverse the rudder immediately.

He may say something else, just anxiously and constantly shouting: rudder! Inverted rudder! The people on the big ship put the rudder back to its original position as soon as possible; By this time, however, the ship had fallen past the bow and had fully recovered its approaching speed, although all the men on board had been doing their best to halt the sails.

When the big boat rushed towards the dinghy, the first mate reached out and grabbed the main anchor chain despite the danger. Then another violent tilt caused the starboard side of the ship to be almost completely exposed to the water, and his anxiety was revealed.

He saw a man's body pressed against the smooth and shiny bottom of the ship in a most peculiar way, striking the keel violently with the jolt of the ship.

They made several efforts to take advantage of the tilt of the ship's hull several times, and finally rescued him from a desperate situation and sent him to the ship at the risk of sinking the dinghy

It was as if a bolt of the keel was sticking outward and penetrating the copper plate, and it happened to catch him as he slid down the bottom of the boat, and he stuck to the bottom of the boat in that very peculiar way.

The bolt head cut through the neckline of Wu Yongchang's torn clothes, cut the back of his neck, and then slashed between two tendons under his right ear. Even though he looked lifeless, they immediately put him on the bed.

There were no doctors on board. However, the captain gave him meticulous care. It was as if he were a faithful believer in God, as if he were trying to make amends for his previous wicked attitude before his crew.

Although the wind had almost strengthened to the level of a hurricane, the first mate's dinghy rowed out again.

He had only rowed out for a few minutes when he came across some debris of the boat, and then one of the sailors who was with him claimed that he could occasionally hear cries for help clearly from the whirring wind.

This assertion kept the brave sailors searching for more than half an hour, despite the captain's incessant signals for them to return, and despite the fact that a fragile dinghy was in constant danger of being overturned by the wind and waves.

In fact, it's hard to imagine how their dinghy hadn't sunk in the rough seas.