Liu Laosi was still on the phone there, and it seemed that he hadn't gotten through, so the fat man went up and slapped Liu Laosi's mobile phone: "Okay, don't call, we know." ”

Liu Laosi had a strange expression on his face: "You people are really, I think it's strange to that Boss Lu, you are even stranger than him." ”

"Do you know where that Boss Lu you said is? He's not been here before. I pushed the fat man away and walked in front of Liu Laosi. It's not impossible to go, but there are some things I still need to figure out.

"Actually, I haven't met Boss Lu either, he has always been in contact with me on the phone."

Liu Laosi let me roughly understand this matter in a few words, he was originally an employee of this company called Wuyang Fishery Company, and he has been working for nearly ten years, and finally got into the position of the boat boss in recent years, but he didn't expect the fishing company to go bankrupt because of debt problems.

The fishing company is quite irregular, and the wages are only paid once every two or three years. As soon as the company went bankrupt, it still owed debts, the trees fell and scattered, and the big boss ran away with the deceived money, and there was still a salary.

Although the salary of more than two years is not much, but there is also a small 300,000 yuan, these employees who have not received the money have to gather together, and more than a dozen people in total, they will occupy the ship under their feet at this time, and it can be regarded as a bankrupt company to pay off the debt.

On the day they got the boat, they imagined that they would do it themselves and might make more money, but as a result, the fishery reform and the dwindling inland sea fishery resources only made a living. Because of the large number of procedures in the open sea, it is very difficult for individuals to handle it, and it is impossible to go to the open sea to fish.

Until an opportunity, they have another "job" where they can earn income, and the pay is quite good, but it has broken the law.

This so-called "work", to put it bluntly, is actually to send some people who cannot go abroad through the proper way to the open sea, and there will be another ship to meet them on the open sea, the risk factor is not high, and there is a six-figure income every time.

Liu Laosi saw the strange expressions on our faces, and hurriedly said: "Don't think about it, I'm principled, and I don't bring anyone who violates the law." ”

I met the fat man and smiled, in fact, we both understand that who is a "good citizen" who does not break the law and discipline will go out in this way, everything is already very clear, this bearded man is a smuggler.

He contacted my brother about two and a half months ago, about the same time as the first expedition entered the ancient city of Metuo.

The elder brother contacted Liu Laosi by phone, there was nothing to say, he directly gave Liu Laosi a nautical mile map coordinates, and asked him to wait here for us to come over, and then take us to that location.

I just look at his appearance to know that he must be given a lot.

"You know where we're going." The fat man was tired from standing here, so he leaned directly on the side of the boat.

Liu Laosi waved his hand and greeted the person next to him, and called out in dialect. The other man on one side ran into the cabin and soon pulled out what looked like an iPad.

Liu Laosi took it and turned on the screen and handed it to us: "This is what Boss Lu said on the phone, you see." ”

The iPad-like thing he was holding in his hand was supposed to be a nautical handbook, and the screen showed a map of a satellite for nautical use, and the operation of the map was similar to most of them, except that the icons on it were professional, and I couldn't make out at all.

The only thing I knew on the map was the latitude and longitude lines of the regular map, and Liu Laosi pointed to a point on the map that had been marked in red, and said, "This is this place." ”

"It's all the fucking sea, what are you doing in such a fucking place?" The fat man reached out and enlarged the red dots on the map, but they were empty. Until it can no longer be enlarged, no signs of islands have been found.

"Shhh...... I said you don't even ask what you're doing. I looked at the position of the red dot that was empty and only had seawater, so I asked Liu Laosi.

Liu Laosi took a sip and said: "You also know that those people are either rich or powerful, don't you ask those things to make trouble for yourself." ”

I snorted coldly to myself, you fucking said that you don't do anything illegal and undisciplined.

The cabin was damp and dark, and the humidity was heavy, and at the bottom of the cabin was the cargo compartment for the fish, and the cabins on the deck were very small for resting, and there were several one-man gas pipes piled up in them, as well as some other debris.

A row of hammocks welded with chains and steel shelves in the cabin is not feasible for sleeping on ships, with the exception of some passenger ships and cruise ships.

Because fishing boats and they are completely different structures, cruise ships are generally wide and short in order to stabilize the hull, while fishing boats are different, and there are many types of boats, and their functions are different.

But the only thing in common is the need to tow fishing nets, which are made slender for a long enough trawl distance. As a result, the hull of the ship is compressed as much as possible, so it is difficult to stabilize on the sea surface, and this is the case with calm, let alone strong winds and waves.

As a result, the necessity of this kind of hammock on the fishing boat is still very great, and when it enters the cabin, it is a strong smell of smoke and the smell of alcohol in the cabin.

A few people were asleep in hammocks, and we didn't see any reaction from him when we came in, and we went down the narrow passage in the middle to the innermost part, and I was surprised by the scene behind a white door.

I feel that the inside of the curtain and the outside of the curtain are completely two worlds, although the inside is still a hammock, but it is much cleaner, and the white sheets are spread like in the hotel.

When the fat man saw it, he laughed: "Hey, this standard is about to catch up with a star-rated hotel." ”

I looked back at the cabin behind me again, and I responded to the fat man: "It's really a star-rated hotel, at least five stars." ”

"You two, don't be shabby with me, this is just to make up for you." Liu Laosi laughed twice.

He cleaned up a little bit for us, told us to rest first, and then we had to wait until it was dark in the evening, and then we went out.

Although the ship was on the shore, it was still rickety, not to mention the cabin, the hammock of the chains creaked, and the head was swollen all the time.

The fat man couldn't bear it anymore after a while, and he lay down in the hammock and sat up, and after a while, he couldn't lie down and pulled me outside.

Passing by the sailor's cabin, the fat man suddenly stopped, groped in his pocket, and pulled out two empty pockets, and then heard it mutter, "No smoke." ”

At this time, a shirtless man was sitting cross-legged in a hammock, the man was full of dark skin, and many scars could be seen, some of which were long knife wounds, like centipedes.

But in general, there are still relatively few knife wounds, most of them are sunken round pits, and there are three shoulders that I can see more clearly.

At that time, I didn't think about so many things, and I thought that it should have been pierced by a piercing weapon, but later I looked at some similar photos, and realized that it was a bullet hole made by a bullet.

The fat man waved his hand and patted the man's shoulder: "Brother, do you have any cigarettes, give me some." ”

The man slowly raised his head, he had very short hair, a high hairline, and some bald sideburns. A terrible scar on his face, from the upper left side of his forehead to the corner of the eye on the bridge of his nose.

The man had almost made the gesture of pulling out the pocket of his pants, but the moment he looked up, he froze there, and his hand still maintained the movement of picking out the pocket.

I thought it was strange in my heart, and when I looked at the fat man, I realized that he was not very normal now. His face was gloomy, not at all what he had been before, and the two men looked at each other face to face.

"You...... Why are you here. The dark-skinned man said in a trembling tone.

The fat man still kept looking at the person in front of him, and his face became more and more weird. There must be something wrong with this state, I guess I can guess that the fat man must know the person in front of him, and there may be some ulterior relationship.

The man sitting cross-legged in the hammock wanted to say something, but only said the word "you", and the fat man was suddenly reincarnated and walked towards the hatch, and at the same time he shouted a "go." ”

I didn't know what he meant, so I hurriedly followed.

"What's wrong with you?" I shouted behind him.

We walked out of the cabin in a few steps, and the fat man didn't look back, and said coldly in front: "Don't go." ”

I don't know why, but suddenly there was a nameless fire in my heart, his grandmother's going is you, and now it's you who is not going, what kind of medicine is sold in this dead fat man's gourd.

"No, why?"

"Hmph...... Why, fat man, I'm not happy, I won't go this time. The fat man said this coldly again.

I was once again in a dilemma, the curiosity that had just been aroused, how could it be said that it would be calmed down, but without the fat man, I couldn't go alone. This boatload of sailors, all of them with fleshy faces, has no kind appearance at all. I'm staying on it by myself, and I'm afraid it's not enough to give them a drink.

Seeing that the fat man was about to cross the side of the ship, suddenly a shout came from the hatch of the cabin behind us.

"It's been five fucking years, you can't get over this hurdle, right, we're all lifelong friends, you don't believe me so much?" Behind him was the scarred man, who stood in the hatch with his upper body bare.

What made me feel strange was that the words he spoke without a single accent were pure Mandarin. I thought the fat man would not pay attention, but when I saw him stop, I turned around and yelled at the man.

"It's fucking because of a fateful relationship, just fucking because I used to trust you so much. But I trust what I see with my eyes even more, and I can see exactly what you did. The fat man had almost broken his voice.