The night was vast and heavy, and the freighter sailed alone on the sea, leaving a white ripple on the boundless black satin.

There were a few lights swaying on the deck of the ship, except for some sailors who carried goods, no one moved around, there was a snoring sound all around, most of the American soldiers resting on the deck were already asleep, and in a container with an open front door in the middle of the deck, Lin Fan and his group of seven people were waiting intently, waiting for the appearance of the adjutant of the freighter.

Lin Fan looked at the thin crescent moon in the western part of the night sky, thinking that it should be the second half of the night now, and it might not be far from dawn. Finally, at this time, a man wearing a dark rainproof suit appeared at the mouth of the container, the man pulled down his rain hat, revealed a rather heroic East Asian face, and said in a low voice: "Are you all ready?" ”

"Brother Chen, we're ready! It's waiting for you! First mate Li Gang stepped forward and replied, the person who appeared in front of Lin Fan and them was Adjutant Chen.

"Okay, let's get dressed and we'll leave right away." Adjutant Chen took out a duffel bag, which contained dark rainproof clothes with fluorescent stripes.

Lin Fan and the others chose a suitable rainproof suit to put on, and the antelope who was still lying on the ground was weak and had to rely on the help of Wu Lingling and Ji Yutong to put on the rainproof clothing, and Adjutant Chen couldn't help but ask when he saw her situation: "What's wrong with this little girl?" ”

First mate Li Gang replied: "She was injured before, so she is a little weak now. ”

"She seems to have a little difficulty even walking, why didn't you tell me just now?" Adjutant Chen asked again.

"She has some symptoms of fever and collapse, but we can take care of her, and it shouldn't affect her later actions." First mate Li Gang replied.

"I'm afraid it will affect ......"

"Adjutant Chen, if we want to go, we must go together, we won't leave anyone behind!" Lin Fan shouted.

"yes, we can't leave Antelope alone!" Next to Wu Lingling, they also shouted.

"All right, but you can't carry her over like that, we're going to leave pretending to be sailors counting the cargo." Adjutant Chen said to Xue Panru and Chen Bo, who were about to lift the stretcher.

"Then I'll carry her, you see." Lin Fan said.

Adjutant Chen nodded and didn't say anything more, so Lin Fan wanted to go over to carry the antelope on the stretcher, and then Chen Bo next to him patted his chest and said, "Lin Fan let me come, I have a lot of strength!" ”

"Uh...... All right. Seeing Chen Bo say this, Lin Fan had no choice but to stop halfway.

After Chen Bo finished speaking, he was about to carry the antelope on the stretcher, but the antelope shook his head, and Chen Bo said inexplicably: "Alas? How do you pull the antelope?"

The antelope asked Wu Lingling to come over and whispered a few words to her, and then Wu Lingling smiled and said, "Chen Bo, get out of the way, Lin Fan, come and carry the antelope!" ”

"Huh? Why? I'm obviously better than Lin Fan~"

"Idiot, you're dying! Lin Fan, come here!"

Lin Fan then came to the stretcher, and in order not to touch the antelope's injured back, he knelt on the ground so that Ji Yutong and Wu Lingling could put the antelope up.

"Be careful."

"Don't worry, Daqingsheng, we also care about the antelope~" Wu Lingling did not forget to quip.

Lin Fan didn't know how to respond, he felt a little hot on his face, and then the soft body of the antelope leaned on his back, the broken hair fell on the back of his neck, and a fragrance came immediately, Lin Fan couldn't tell whether it was the fragrance of the antelope or the smell of her. He didn't make much effort to carry the antelope, thinking to himself that the antelope was thin and lightweight, and it should be no problem to carry her for a while, and then the antelope's voice came from Lin Fan's ear: "Thank you, Lin Fanjun." ”

"Uh, you're welcome." Lin Fan replied a little embarrassed, he suddenly remembered that he had been in such a similar situation with Li Jia before.

"Antelope, you surround this, it's windy at night." Ji Yutong handed the West Village Antelope a gray and white scarf, which was Ji Yutong's own.

"Thank you, Yutong-chan." Antelope smiled.

"Hmm" Ji Yutong nodded.

"Okay, then let's get dressed and let's go! Don't talk on the way down, listen to me! Adjutant Chen admonished.

So everyone followed Adjutant Chen out of the container area, the howling sea breeze swept over the deck with mist, there was basically no one on the deck, Adjutant Chen pointed to the opposite corner of the deck where the lights were most concentrated, and said: "Our people are counting the goods over there, and we are going to go there now." The group nodded their heads to show that it was clear, so Adjutant Chen led the way, and everyone followed him through the aisle on the side of the ship to the other end of the deck, where they met two American soldiers on the night patrol, but they only glanced at them and did not stop long.

After walking around the deck for most of the time, Lin Fan and the others finally came to the most densely lit area on the deck, where the sailors of the freighter were busy counting the goods in the warehouse, and there were a few American soldiers supervising on the side, these soldiers saw Lin Fan and his party did not care, and probably thought that they were sailors here, Adjutant Chen took everyone through the cargo counting area, came to a staircase, and said, "Let's go down from here." ”

The staircase leads to the lower deck, which is also the cargo loading area, where a bunch of containers are piled up, but the boxes are smaller than those on the deck, and may contain important cargo. Adjutant Chen led them to a red container, where a man in a dark rain jacket was already waiting for them.

"Captain, I've brought everyone here." Adjutant Chen said to the man, this person was none other than Captain Jia of this freighter.

"Everyone's going well, right?"

"Well, all the best!" Adjutant Chen made an "OK" gesture.

"Captain Jia, is this the container you said we were hiding in?" First Officer Li pointed to the red container next to him.

"Yes, my plan is for you to hide in here and take you away when you leave tomorrow morning."

"Will people stay in here because of the lack of oxygen and get stuffy?" Chen Bo asked, and Xue Panru on the side continued: "Yes, is there any food and drink in it?" We don't know how long we're going to be in there. ”

Captain Jia said with a smile: "Don't worry, this container is specially made, there is a ventilation device inside, dry food and water are also ready, you have no problem hiding inside~ Without further ado, I'll open the door and let everyone in!" ”

After Captain Jia finished speaking, he came to the door of the container, operated on the digital secret lock on it, and then there was a sound of the door lock being unlocked, he pushed open the container door, and hurriedly motioned for Lin Fan and them to enter.

The first mate Li Gang went first, he made sure that there was no problem before letting everyone come in one by one, Lin Fan carried the antelope on his back and followed Xue Panru into the box, after he came in, he found that it was indeed as Captain Jia said, like a small room, there were lights in it, on both sides were two benches connected to the box, and there were two storage cabinets in the corner, which seemed to contain a lot of supplies.

Lin Fan put the antelope on the bench so that she could continue to rest, but found that the antelope's cheeks were a little red, and he hurriedly asked, "Antelope, are you uncomfortable?" ”

Antelope shook his head violently, and whispered a piece of Japanese that Lin Fan didn't understand, and at this time everyone had already come in, Captain Jia said to everyone at the door: "First wronged everyone to stay here, there is food, water and basic medicine in the corner cabinet, and clothes and blankets on the other side, you can use them if you need them." Let's start moving, everyone must be quiet, don't panic and don't make too much noise. ”

"Leave it to you, captain, that we can take care of ourselves." First mate Li Gang replied.

"Okay, goodbye everyone on shore!" After the captain finished speaking, he closed the door with a "bang".

"First mate, they're in such a hurry~!" Xue Panru said.

"Chubby, don't think nonsense, okay, let's check all the supplies here, maybe we can use them later." As soon as the first mate Li finished speaking, he began to look through the contents of the corner cabinet, and everyone found that there were edible products such as drinking water, canned lunch, compressed biscuits, sugar, and vitamin tablets, as well as basic medicines such as anti-inflammatory drugs, sedatives, alcohol, iodine wine, and bandages, as well as life jackets, blankets, hardware tools, and ropes. Lin Fan thought that the antelope was very red just now, so he found her anti-inflammatory medicine and water, and the antelope waved his hand and said, "No, no need Lin Fanjun, I don't need to take medicine." ”

"But your face ......"

"I really don't need it~!"

"Uh, okay." Lin Fan looked at her face at this time, and it seemed that it was indeed a lot normal.

After everyone checked the supplies, the first mate said: "It's still early before dawn, they shouldn't transfer us so quickly, let's rest for a while, the space here is limited, we boys sleep on the ground, girls sleep on benches, everyone takes off their rainproof clothes, cover them with blankets and sleep more comfortably." ”

So everyone listened to the instructions of the first mate, took off their rainproof clothes and put them at the end of the room, each picked up a blanket and began to rest in the room. Lin Fan and the first mate, Xue Panru, and Chen Bo were lying on the ground, the West Village Antelope was lying on one side of the bench, and Ji Yutong and Wu Lingling were sitting back to back on the other side, although the space was a little cramped, it was also comfortable.

After a while, Lin Fan, who had not yet fallen asleep, suddenly heard three sounds of "da, da, da", as if someone was knocking on a box outside, and then their "room" began to move slowly, Lin Fan sat up, and the first mate, Ji Yutong, Wu Lingling and Chen Bo also woke up.

"Are they starting to transfer us?" Chen Bo asked.

"It looks like it should be, don't worry." The first mate replied.

Lin Fan felt that the "room" was slowly shifting, they seemed to be first going in one direction and then to the other side, and then rising a little more, and then he suddenly felt that the soles of his feet were empty, the room seemed to fall from the sky, and the whole person was in a state of weightlessness.

"Oh, Mom!!" Xue Panru woke up screaming in his sleep, and everyone's hearts were also in their throats, this state of weightlessness only lasted for a few seconds, and then the whole room shook violently, and then the sense of weightlessness immediately weakened, but Lin Fan could still feel that they were falling.

"Oh my God! What are they doing!? Chen Bo and Wu Lingling shouted.

"Don't panic, everyone! Don't bark! "First mate Li Gang tried to stabilize everyone's mood.

"I feel like we're moving all the way down." Lin Fan said.

"Yes, yes! I feel it too. Xue Panru nodded vigorously.

At this time, Ji Yutong, who got up from the bench, said in a calm tone: "I think, we should have fallen into the sea." ”

"What?!Falling overboard?!" The crowd exclaimed.

"Sister Yutong, how do you judge that we fell into the sea?!" First mate Li Gang said nervously.

"The weightlessness just now proves that we are in free fall, and the sudden slowdown of gravitational acceleration after that violent shaking means that we are out of free fall, and we are still falling after this, but there is not so high on this boat that we can keep falling, so this proves that we are falling into the sea." Ji Yutong explained.

"W-Won't they, didn't they say they were going to save us? Why do you want to sink us into the sea!? There was horror in the first mate's voice.

"I don't know, but if we keep sinking like this, we're going to go to a place where the deep water is so intense, and then the water pressure alone can squash all of us here!"

Everyone gasped after hearing this, "Woo woo, have we gone through so much that we died in this place like this?" Wu Lingling cried. Wow~I don't want it~! Xue Panru on the side also cried, and everyone thought of the worst outcome.

"Wait! Don't cry, everyone, it seems like we're sinking slowly! Lin Fan felt this subtle change, Ji Yutong closed his eyes and felt it for a while, and then nodded: "Well, it's true." ”

Everyone also closed their eyes to feel the changes in the whole space, and the sinking speed was indeed slowing down, and after a while, the whole space stabilized, as if suspended in water.

"We stopped, what's going on?" The first mate said with a puzzled expression.

“…… It may be that we reach a water layer with a higher salinity and become more buoyant. Ji Yutong didn't look so sure. Maybe we didn't fall into the sea? Just now we just scared ourselves! Xue Panru thought of this, and immediately recovered from his broken emotions.

"We fell into the sea, and that should be right." Ji Yutong said.

"The fat man has a point! Yutong: What you said may not be right. Chen Bo retorted.

But no one was sure what their situation was, and everyone fell silent.

This state seemed to have stabilized, and everyone sat down again to rest when they saw that nothing had happened, each thinking about various possibilities with anxiety. The box suddenly began to shake, and there was a rumbling sound outside.

"What's the matter!?" Xue Panru shouted.

Everyone pricked up their ears to listen to the movement outside, the rumbling sound became louder and louder, as if something was approaching them, and after a while, there was a series of terrible metal collision sounds outside the box, everyone's hearts tightened, and Wu Lingling hugged Chen Bo's arm, "Oh, mom! What kind of thing is this? It won't be a sea monster again! Xue Panru began to cry.

"Don't scream, Chubby! Calm down! The first mate persuaded.

Lin Fan felt that the corner of his clothes was being dragged by someone, and when he looked back, he saw that it was the antelope on the chair, she had been quiet before, but her expression looked a little worried at this moment, "Don't worry, we are all here." Lin Fan comforted her.

Antelope looked at Lin Fan and nodded lightly.

Then everyone felt that the box began to move, as if it was being lifted up, and after moving for a short time, the box stopped, and then there was a harsh noise outside, and everyone's panic was made even more disturbed by the noise, but the sound only lasted for a while, and then the surroundings fell silent again.

At this time, the password lock at the door suddenly sounded the sound of the key, everyone looked at the door nervously, the secret lock lit up the green indicator light, and then the door of the box clattered open, and everyone saw five soldiers wearing navy blue military uniforms and Chinese flags on their chests appeared outside the door, and one of the soldiers standing in the middle of them Lin Fan felt very familiar, he was tall and thin, looked about thirty or forty years old, with a rectangular face, an eagle nose and thin lips, and a pair of slender and deep eyes, which looked cold and insightful.

The man found Lin Fan among the crowd, only to see him immediately take out a peaked cap from his trouser pocket, and then greeted Lin Fan: "Lin Fan, do you remember me?" ”

The way he put on his hat made Lin Fan suddenly have an epiphany, isn't this person the inspector of the National Security Bureau who used drugs to make him amnesiac a few months ago - Deng Jinbo!?