"Tell me about your brother. There's no need to rush back now, "Night must have fallen."

Nie Lan will inevitably be unlucky when she goes back at this time.

All kinds of sea beasts, all kinds of plankton large and small, all kinds of strange fish, all pose a threat to human life.

"When dawn, let's go back together," Nie Lan understood what Shu Xingbei meant, she still insisted, and said in a firm tone.

Shu Xingbei is noncommittal. Of course, if they could survive, who would say no? He's not stupid.

"My brother used to be a material collector for the Jishi Organization. The purpose of the organization is to give life to the poor living on the sea. After the Jishi organization finds the ruins underground, they study the objects and find out what humans used to look like and how they lived. In the organization, food is also produced and seawater is purified, but these are not sold, but directly distributed to the poor," Nie Lan said, showing a yearning expression.

Shu Xingbei did not interject. He waited for Nie Lan to continue.

Again, the previous question, since her brother is a member of the Jishi Organization, why did he become a bounty hunter and finally die because of it.

Nie Lan didn't say it directly, she stood there, looking at Shu Xingbei with dark eyes.

"I'm proud of my brother. With people like my brother, poor people can live. Just ask, if the houseboat can't afford to pay the monthly rent, spea

What kind of measures will the people in the company take? ”

Shu Xingbei avoided her gaze, and his expression suddenly became indifferent.

"Sold as a slave, and said that you were voluntary," Shu Xingbei had seen so much of such a tragic thing, and he was almost numb.

"Do you have family?" Nie Lan asked.

"There used to be. Later, they all died," Shu Xingbei replied lightly.

My father fell ill and died two years ago. The mother died earlier.

15-year-old Shu Xingbei had to dive to salvage items.

Too young, spea

The company does not give diving equipment. Shu Xingbei's career as a bounty hunter began as a lone traveler.

Fortunately, he survived and rented a houseboat where he could stay.

Apathy is also contagious, and Nie Lan loses the urge to continue.

She clearly felt that she had touched the most painful depths of Shu Xingbei, and her heart was also bitten by the pain of the past.

"Let's go look and see what else is in the hospital," Nie Lan said, stepping up the stairs again.

Shu Xingbei followed.

Nie Lan had just cleaned his wound and wrapped it in gauze bandages, and he felt better. The originally drowsy brain cleared up a little.

Upstairs there are patient rooms on the ground floor. As one door after another opened, all that was inside was a bed.

When they reached a room in the far corner of the top floor, they saw a rectangular box inside.

The box is sealed with a transparent cover on the outside.

"This is a coffin?" Shu Xingbei suddenly thought of something, and his eyes lit up.

"No, it's a transparent sterile hood, it's for critically ill patients to lie down," Nie Lan explained. She knows a lot.

It must have been her brother who told her again. Shu Xingbei didn't say anything more, and pointed to the hood, "You lie in." ”

"Me?" Nie Lan was stunned for a moment, and then she reacted. She straddled on, and lay inside.

Before Shu Xingbei could say anything, Nie Lan beckoned to him from inside, "The two of us are lying inside, big enough." ”

Shu Xingbei hesitated. Can you rely on this?

A layer of rust red appeared on Nie Lan's dark face, but her gaze was still firm, not twisted at all.

"Wait, wait until dawn and try again," whether this cover can support two people to float up, Shu Xingbei has no bottom in his heart. However, people lie inside, connect the oxygen, and then cover the cover, which is both waterproof and quite safe. As long as you are lucky, do not encounter adverse currents, and go up alive, it is still possible.

Nie Lan crawled out of it again, she looked at Shu Xingbei, and tried to squeeze out a smile, "Now we can all go back." ”

Shu Xingbei shook his head gloomily.

They lie in it, and they go up like this, and then they get nothing on this trip.

His idea was to let Nie Lan go up with an oxygen tank.

He continued to stay here.

When his injuries healed a little, he slowly floated up.

"It's going to be the New Year. In the past, during the Chinese New Year, the family would pull some red seaweed and hang it on the bow of the boat, "Shu Xingbei thought about the days when his parents lived with him, and his mood became more and more depressed.

"My family used to be too," Nie Lan nodded, "Later, my father couldn't salvage anything, so he tried every means to contact the Jishi Organization to call my brother back." But who knows where to find it. It's a mysterious organization. My brother came back later, but before that, my father had sold himself to SPEA

The company was a slave. ”

"The poor people's days are the same," Shu Xingbei pointed to the hood, "you go in and sleep for a while." I'll wake you up when I'm counting that it's dawn. ”

Nie Lan looked at him, answered in a low voice, and got into the cover again.

Shu Xingbei sat on the stool next to him and turned off the headlamp with him.

The headlamp was only five hours long, and he had to save a little.

After all, Nie Lan had no diving experience, and today really scared her a lot. She lay down in the hood, and after a while, she fell asleep.

Shu Xingbei sat and reclined on a table.

"Brother, brother," Nie Lan suddenly called.

Shu Xingbei was startled and woke up.

Nie Lan stopped screaming again, and she let out a slight snoring sound.

It turned out to be a dream talk.

In the dark, Shu Xingbei smiled.

Before he could fall asleep again, Nie Lan started talking in her dreams again, still shouting "brother, brother", but this time, there was an extra "Brother Shu" in her voice.

Shu Xingbei's heart trembled. He had a complete idea in this moment.

As soon as it was dawn, he asked Nie Lan to go up with a jar of helium.

No matter what she said, he insisted on it. He also fell asleep in a daze.

When he woke up again, it was already dawn.

Shu Xingbei turned on his headlamp and was about to carry a tank of oxygen, but he didn't expect that he had only taken two steps before he felt pulled up.

As soon as he turned around, he didn't know when Nie Lan tied the straw on her body to the breathing trachea on Shu Xingbei's body.

Shu Xingbei was about to untie the straw, but Nie Lan had already woken up.

"Shu, Xingbei, let's go up together."

"You can't run for nothing," Shu Xingbei shook his head.

"I knew you were going to sneak me out," Nie Lan said in a pleading tone, "Let's go up together, big deal, just bring a tank of oxygen." ”

Shu Xingbei smiled bitterly and said, "Only one can? The two of us lay inside, and we couldn't take a single jar with us. "It is impossible for the sealing cover to carry the weight of two people and one tank of gas.

"Try, give it a try," Nie Lan insisted.

Shu Xingbei carried a can of gas and put it in the sealed cover. Then, he stepped inside, and the hood immediately tilted.

"It's too heavy," Shu Xingbei shook his head.

"Shu Xingbei, let's go up together. As long as we live, there is hope. It's a big deal, wait a while, and we'll do it again," Nie Lan continued.

Shu Xingbei looked at the sealing cover, then at the gas tank, and then, he thought of an idea. He found some hoses, tied them together with Nie Lan's breathing tube, and hung the canister under the sealed cover.

When he lay back in, the hood was unmisplaced.

"It's successful," Nie Lan smiled happily, "Brother Shu, you're so smart." ”

Shu Xingbei was lying beside Nie Lan, and he could clearly feel Nie Lan's breathing.

At that moment, his heart was as soft as a puddle of water.

The seal successfully sent the two of them to the surface. After Shu Xingbei and Nie Lan left the cover one after another, Shu Xingbei couldn't wait to look at the cover, and his heart suddenly cooled.

The straw that tied the tank floated there, and it was clearly bitten off by some creature on the bottom of the sea.

The can of gas is gone.

Shu Xingbei and Nie Lan pulled the cover body to the surface, and there was really nothing below.

"We're alive, that's enough. Also, the seal can also be valued, and it should be able to exchange a lot of gas, food, and water," Nie Lan comforted him.

spea

The company's valuation was quickly given. The sealed cover is worth 1,000 milliliters of water and five bags of food, which is the remuneration received by Shu Xingbei.

To make matters worse, Shu Xingbei's back wound not only showed no signs of improvement, but also began to bleed pus.

Shu Xingbei lay down in the houseboat, he began to have a fever and talk nonsense.

Nie Lan took care of him.

The water was gradually drunk by Shu Xingbei.

The rent for the houseboat is also coming up. Shu Xingbei is sometimes sober, sometimes confused.

Shu Xingbei, who was sober, looked at Nie Lan, "You go quickly, I don't want to bother you." ”

"You didn't bother me. My life is given by you," Nie Lan shook her head stubbornly, "Brother Shu, don't be afraid, the company has approved my application, and the doctor will be here soon." ”

"Doctor?" Shu Xingbei was taken aback, "You, where did you get paid?" ”

"I saved it before," Nie Lan smiled slightly, "When you're all right, let's go to the Jishi Organization and let the poor people have a way to live, okay?" ”

"Okay," Shu Xingbei shook her hand, "I'll definitely get better." However, we couldn't find that organization. Also, will the organization necessarily accept us? ”

"Don't be afraid. Just have a referee. My brother was our recommender, and he left a sign for me. With the sign, we can join," Nie Lan said, taking out a sign and handing it to Shu Xingbei.

Shu Xingbei got it in his hands. The brand is round, I don't know what material it is, and it is very thick in my hand. There is a big word "light" in the middle of the sign.

There must be light, yes, it is necessary to have light, Shu Xingbei pursed his lips and smiled. He held the sign tightly in his hand.

A few days later, Shu Xingbei was woken up by the doctor who changed his dressing.

"You are?" He asked blankly.

"I'm a doctor sent by the company," the doctor replied unhappily. The smell in the houseboat is not good, and the smell on Shu Xingbei's body is even worse.

If it weren't for the reward, he wouldn't have come at all.

"What about Nie Lan in my house, in the house?" Shu Xingbei is in a hurry.

The doctor looked at him, "You must have sold yourself into slavery." ”

"Impossible," Shu Xingbei stood up suddenly.

"Believe it or not," the doctor gave him a pitiful look, "do you get paid to hire a doctor?" If not, what do you have that is worth asking me to come? ”