Hearing Barker's words, Walter froze.

Then he looked down at his wet clothes, and the white stains of salt on them.

He explained with a strange expression: "When I was on the sea boat, all my clothes were soaked in seawater, and I almost died before returning to my hometown, so I didn't have so many scruples.

After coming back, I just re-used clean water and gave the clothes again, maybe it wasn't cleaned very clean, the erosion of sea water is not so easy to erase.

Old man, you're really ......."

It's really salty and can't worry about it, and it's nosy.

However, Walter did not say this, and his expression was very helpless.

"Let's eat, talk as we eat."

Nie Yuan personally served the broth to everyone as if he didn't notice it, saying that it was still important to dry rice, and how uncomfortable it was to have an empty stomach.

After serving a bowl to everyone, he filled his own portion, and half of the bowl was suffocated in one bite, making a refreshing sound, and then asked curiously:

"Walter, I haven't been to the beach yet, I heard that in the depths of the sea, danger and opportunity coexist, and the sailors who have been adrift all year round can be regarded as adventurers, is it really that exciting?"

Walter laughed, and could see that among the group, he still liked to chat with Nie Yuan the most, and said:

"It's not that exaggerated, and I've only run the merchant ships that are offshore to the sea, not the fishing and hunting ships that hunt sea beasts, and I haven't sailed far into the real depths of the ocean.

I've heard a lot about sailors, but I haven't experienced them myself, and I don't want to experience them at all.

Because of an ocean storm, I was almost buried in the ocean forever, and it is hard to imagine what kind of scene the sailor who really fought with the sea beasts would go through. ”

"Come, I'll give you a little more."

As he spoke, Nie Yuan scooped up another bowl of soup, as well as half a fish, and put it into Walter's bowl.

Throwing the spoon back into the pot, he added, "Tell us your story and let me really know about the sea." ”

Let me get to know you as a person, too.

Like Walter, Nie Yuan did not speak the second half of his sentence.

He naturally sensed Buck's abnormality just now, and it seemed that he had found something, but it didn't break it.

So Walter, if you're really just a sailor who has come from afar, eat more and experience the warmth of strangers.

But if that's not the case, eat a little more, and get ready to go on your way.

Walter smiled: "Actually, there is nothing to say, what I have experienced is far from those legendary sailor stories, but if you want to hear it, then I will tell the story that happened to me." ”

Nie Yuan made a "please" gesture with one hand, indicating that he was willing to hear more about it.

Walter recalled: "It wasn't complicated, and it would be much more difficult for a town like ours, far from the city-state, to make a career than it was elsewhere.

If you want to get ahead, you have to leave your hometown and go to a more prosperous place, and two years ago, my little frank who went out to make a fortune found a way to make money, suitable for all the young people in the town who wanted to work hard.

That is to go to the harbor of Jonas, pass the sailor's interview, and get on the ship to work as a handyman.

Although they are all miscellaneous jobs, as long as they get the opportunity to go to sea, they can make more money than on land.

The generous remuneration attracts a lot of young people who are willing to give it a try.

However, the interview of sailors is very strict, and the pass rate is very low, and with the quality of our young people in the small town, it is basically impossible to work on a fishing and hunting ship that sails far away.

So the group we went with Frank could only choose the target on the offshore trading ship.

After a rigorous interview and training, in the end, I was the only one who was qualified to work on a merchant ship, just like Frank.

The following days, although very boring, but after adjusting to the shaky life, I also began to enter the state, becoming a real low-level sailor, and began to imagine the state when the rich remuneration was in hand. ”

"And then?"

Seeing Walter pause when he said this, Nie Yuan couldn't help asking.

"And then you can see, I'm still very poor, yes, I didn't get paid, but it wasn't the captain who slammed the door, but before my deadline was completed, our cargo ship was caught in an ocean storm."

Walter said this in a very calm tone, and the calmness made people feel strange.

Nie Yuan was puzzled: "Is it the storm that caused the cargo on the ship to be lost, but sailors who go to sea should have official allowances and insurance." ”

Nie Yuan also read this in the newspaper, in order to encourage the trade of merchant ships, the Bain Kingdom would give some allowance to every sailor who went to sea.

Moreover, the captain of a regular trading ship should also have several commercial insurances in his body.

So even if there is a problem with the ship, the sailors should not have received any money.

"Nope."

Walter shook his head and said, "It's not an ordinary ocean storm, and it's not as simple as losing goods. ”

"That's?"

"The ship sank."

Speaking of this, Walter's expression became solemn, his tone became lower, and the color of memory flashed in his eyes:

"I still remember that night, lightning and thunder, dark clouds, the fury of the sea, with monstrous waves, venting its anger, our ship in such a huge wave, like a child's toy, was wantonly tossed and turned, in the boat, we are like lambs to the slaughter, in the face of the great power of nature, only panic, not even qualified to save ourselves."

Nie Yuan seemed to notice Hua Dian, so he asked:

"How did you survive in the midst of such a storm and the ship sank?"

Walter's eyes were burning, he looked at Nie Yuan seriously, and said:

"In the two minutes before the merchant ship was completely overturned, all the sailors thought at the same time to get the lifebuoy and tried to get close to the lifeboat.

But we can't do it, we really can't do it, even if we are usually used to walking in the waves, but the huge waves make the whole boat tilt into an exaggerated arc, and constantly change directions, and so on.

Sometimes, I need to crawl forward on the ground like a climber, but the next second, I find myself like I'm playing a slide, and the uphill slope turns into a downhill slope, sliding outboard the boat.

The quality of the Haiyan was really good, and 'she' was able to hold on to a full two minutes in such stormy seas.

But in the end she sank, and I could even hear the click of her keel in the midst of the roar of the waves.

Turned upside down.

Turbulent waves.

We are completely swallowed by the sea, as if we have fallen into the netherworld. ”