blackstone code

Chapter 676 gone again

"monster?"

A group of sailors who had nothing to do suddenly crowded over. They stood beside Connie and looked at the sea in the distance.

Generally speaking, when people stand on a boat, their eyes cannot penetrate the sea surface, because people cannot see things under the sea surface because of the refraction of light and other reasons.

But for things above the sea surface, it will be more conspicuous. It's like a black block without light reflection on the surface of a piece of silvery water.

People saw that thing at once, and some young men still yelled and guessed what it was.

"Maybe a whale..."

"Maybe sunfish..."

The sailors happily guessed, and Connie also actively joined in, "It may be a submarine..."

The laughter and laughter of the sailors around disappeared in an instant, and everyone was looking at Connie with a look of "do you know what you are talking about?" The arcs of the corners of their mouths and clenched fists made Connie realize Until I said the wrong thing.

"Hey, I mean..."

Before he could explain anything, there was a violent explosion, and the armed escort ship was overturned.

The explosion didn't have the sky-high flames like in the movie, only a huge splash suddenly bloomed under the waterline, and there was black smoke in the splash, and then the armed escort ship was thrown to the side, head down and feet down The one facing upward begins to sink slowly.

Those armed men who fell into the water frantically swam to other places. While the ship was silent, it would induce a turbulent current. If they were unlucky, they would be dragged to the bottom of the sea by this suction.

Fortunately, the ship capsized, and it would take some time to sink, enough for them to escape the deadly area.

What happened in such a short time was so amazing that everyone lost the ability to speak.

The federal people are not a "bringing" nation, at least not so "bringing ①" for now. When faced with such a situation that is almost like a war, the only thing they can do is to run away desperately.

But this is the sea, where can people escape to?

With the sound of falling into the water, people seemed to wake up, and a sailor lowered the lifeboat.

According to relevant federal laws and regulations, the carrying capacity of the lifeboat of a sea-going ship must meet twice the number of people the ship can carry.

This is a freighter with a small number of people on board, so only one lifeboat is hung on each side of the hull.

Just as Connie was running to the other side of the ship, he turned his head and accidentally saw something that looked like a swordfish crashing towards the freighter under the sea surface...

There was a loud bang, but it was actually more of the whine of metal twisting. The hull of the ship had already begun to tilt when the water splashes that almost covered the sky fell, and a hole was blown out of the bottom of the ship. Sea water poured in quickly, and ears were full of Siren……

The sailors were all knocked down on the deck by the explosion, and after waiting for a few seconds, they got up one after another, held their noses and jumped into the water.

Connie jumped into the water with everyone, followed by the cursing captain and first mate, and almost everyone boarded the boat, except those in the boiler room.

They rowed the lifeboat far away together, watching the freighter capsize little by little, everyone had a complicated expression on their faces.

The very embarrassed captain patted the shoulder of the young man beside him, with a smile on his face, "This is not bad news, at least for us."

All eyes were on him, and he responded to everyone with his eyes, "Look, twice, the first time we encountered robbers, and the second time we encountered this kind of...", he said I don't know how to describe it, "But, we survived."

"That's the best of it, we've faced the worst twice, but now we've survived, there's nothing more exciting than that, a narrow escape."

"Every one of you is already a 'legendary sailor', you can brag to anyone on any ship what you have experienced, and no one can refute you."

It was really unlucky at first, but after what the captain said, everyone felt that they were really lucky.

Still dizzy, Connie suddenly asked, "That submarine won't come to attack us, will it?"

The originally harmonious atmosphere dropped to freezing point in an instant. The captain clenched his fists. Considering that this is not the time to beat people, he forcefully said with a smile, "According to international conventions, even belligerent countries cannot massacre civilians..."

In the end, these people gathered together with those who escaped from the armed escort ship, and with the help of the simple compass on the old captain's neck, they rowed towards the coast of Amelia.

After more than a day, everyone was exhausted, and the appearance of the coastline cheered up some already hopeless people.

Yes, despair, from surviving ecstasy to despair in just one day.

Behavioral scientists once did a time when they built two passages, one was pitch black and nothing could be seen, and the other was filled with light.

They divided the people who participated in the experiment into two pairs, one walked through the dark passage, and the other walked through the bright passage.

The length of the two passages is the same, without any obstacles, as long as you walk forward, you can walk out of the passage in only 15 minutes.

However, among all the people who participated in the experiment, only one person walked out of the invisible passage, and all the others failed. On the contrary, all the people who walked through the bright passage finally came out.

Seeing and not being able to give people two extreme feedbacks, just like these sailors floating on the sea.

They rowed hard but could never see the coastline. It didn’t take long for them to go from excitement at the beginning to depression, numbness and even despair. As long as their efforts could not see hope, they would despair.

Not to mention that the lack of fresh water and food will exacerbate people's emotional decline. In fact, it is a remarkable thing that these people can persist until now without emotional breakdown.

If any one of them had been drawn out, the lifeboat alone would have collapsed long ago.

And this just proves the role of collective power.

A few hours later, these people finally landed, and in the hotel at the port, they found the person from the company who had come to pick up the goods.

"I thought you would come earlier, did you encounter a storm?" The speaker had a...slight sarcasm on his face, the captain was very embarrassed at the moment, first wet by the sea and then exposed to the sun, His face was black and red, and his neck was covered with skin. He was in a mess, and he didn't look much better than the locals.

So this sentence seems to be asking if the other party is in such a mess because of a storm, but it is actually just a sarcasm.

The captain took out his pipe, unceremoniously opened the other party's cigarette case on the tea table, took out two cigarettes, rolled them into shreds and stuffed them in, and used the other party's lighter.

He looked at the other party's unhappy face, sucked in two mouthfuls, and then let it out slowly, as if his whole body had been sublimated at this moment and completed a new life.

He said lightly, "The ship sank, along with our cargo!"

……

At 11:30, it was time to fall asleep. Mr. Wardrick, in pajamas, had just played a friendly match with his wife and was about to go to sleep contentedly when the phone rang.

He and his wife whispered a few words, let her sleep first, and then walked to the study with a piece of clothing on.

"What happened?" He put his shoulder on the microphone while taking out a solid color and lit it. He knew that it was definitely not a joke to disturb his phone at this time.

There is a particularly clear boundary between public and private in the Federation. As long as they exceed the last working time and enter private time, they don't want to be disturbed.

They don't want to be disturbed, and they don't want to actively disturb others unless they have to.

The phone call at this time didn't look like a prank, the solid-colored smoke particles rolled in his mouth, the nicotine was absorbed through the mucous membrane, and it started to take effect quickly, and he was ready, "I hope it's not a bad thing."

There was silence on the receiver for two seconds, and the voice was slightly heavy, "Our ship sank." Maybe the description was not detailed enough, but the person on the other end of the phone added, "The ship headed for the Amelia region, sank. Yes, together with our goods."

After about ten seconds, Mr. Wardrick realized, "Does anyone else know?"

"The board of directors has held a meeting overnight. If you have time, come to the company. If you don't have time, join this conference call. The number is..."

Mr. Wardrick thought for a while, "I'll come to the company and help me prepare the car."

After he hung up the phone, he sat on the chair without moving, but took a few puffs of pure color, with a look of unknown expression on his face, there was no doubt that it was Lynch's handwriting.

He has a higher opinion of Lynch. If the friendship between the military and him has reached the point where he can attack the country's merchant ships, then the value of Lynch must be re-evaluated.

Half an hour later, Mr. Wardrick appeared in the meeting hall of the board of directors dressed in leather shoes. At this time, many people had already come, and some of them were not in Bu Pain suddenly because of the incident, but they also joined the conference call.

After waiting for a while, the last person also got in touch, and the meeting officially started.

"I asked the shipping company just now. If we want to salvage our ship, our cost will be about 1000 million." The chairman of the board of directors pressed his temple, he is very headache now.

"There are various other losses. This time we reimbursed another 2000 million, gentlemen, 2000 million!"

"Including the 600 million we lost before, we lost so much without doing anything. Who can tell me how much we will lose next?"

His voice was neither irritable nor loud, but no one dared to ignore it.

Wardrick sat on the side with a serious expression, but his eyes were filled with an elusive smile. He had almost won this game.
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①, a slang term similar to "manly".

(End of this chapter)