Chapter 370 This time I was really pissed off

When Xiao Peng ran out of the cabin, Hua Chong happened to run past him with a huge hydraulic pliers.

"Hua Chong! What's going on! What are you doing with a hydraulic pliers?" Xiao Peng shouted.

After hearing what Xiao Peng said, Hua Chong stopped and said, "Boss, I'm going to cut the cable. That damn tugboat is still dragging us towards the shallows!"

Xiao Peng turned around and saw that the tugboat was still trying to move forward. The cable was taut! The boat was tilting at nearly 15 degrees!

"We can't go on like this!" Xiao Peng snatched the hydraulic pliers from Hua Chong's hand and ran to cut the tugboat's cable! This stopped the ship from tilting further. But the tugboat didn't even stop and sped away.

"Damn it!" Xiao Peng cursed angrily as he watched the tugboat go away. It would be strange if someone was behind this!

Walter also ran over and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Xiao Peng was fine: "Boss, are you okay?"

"I'm fine!" Xiao Peng pointed towards the bow: "Cockpit! Find the pilot!"

He ran into the cockpit, only to find the pilot lying on the ground with blood all over his face, his life or death unknown.

"Damn it!" Xiao Peng complained, "You guys are too ruthless, aren't you? You should wait for me to come over before you do anything!"

Chen Cheng said helplessly, "Boss, this is really none of our business. He was just sitting there, but when the ship ran aground, he flew out and hit the bridge headfirst, knocking himself unconscious! This incident has nothing to do with him. I contacted the 'Turkish Strait Reporting System' to report our situation. They'll send someone over to check on us and take away the injured! I've also sent a distress signal via VHF."

Xiao Peng nodded: "Is there anyone injured on the boat?"

"Probably not, Captain. I'm worried about the equipment on our ship!" said Chen Cheng.

After hearing this, Xiao Peng picked up the intercom and said, "Duan Bo, Xiao Zhou, take your men to inspect the equipment on board and report any damage promptly. Hua Chong, take your men and use the lifeboat to investigate the grounding and damage to the hull! Yang Zhibin, dive and investigate the grounded state of the hull on the seabed!"

Fabian and Pascal also hurried to the cockpit at this time: "Xiao, what's going on?"

Xiao Peng said, "We've been set up. There was something fishy about that tugboat that brought us here and stranded us!"

Fabian said angrily, "I'm going to sue them! I'll sue them when I get back! This is murder!"

Pascal said, "Okay, if we want to sue them, we'll have to go back. We're still on their territory. I think the right thing to do is to leave here as soon as possible!"

Fabian thought for a moment and said, "Should we contact Kabaye? He used to be the rescue team leader of the Titan Rescue Company. Contacting people from Titan is more experienced in this kind of work."

Chen Cheng said, "Fabian, don't worry. The captain just asked Hua Chong and Yang Zhibin to assess the damage to the hull. If the hull is not damaged and the grounding is not serious, we can find a few tugboats to tow the ship out."

Fabian said angrily, "Do you think we can find a tugboat here? And it will make us even more stranded?"

Chen Cheng said, "Actually, there's another way: if the ship isn't seriously stranded, we can rely on the power of the tide to help us escape this predicament! I just don't know how long this tide will last!"

Xiao Peng rested his chin on his hand, thinking. Just then, the ship's VHF radio chimed, and a helicopter flew over. It was the Turkish rescue helicopter, and it arrived and left as quickly as it did, not even landing. A man was sent down the zipline to carry the injured pilot away. There was no mention of the Calypsope running aground.

Xiao Peng stamped his feet in anger, but there was nothing he could do. When a country acts like a hooligan, he has no idea what to do! After all, it's a big country. How could they come up with such despicable tactics?

"Boss? What should we do next?" Chen Cheng asked. "Continue to wait for rescue? Or contact the people from Titan?"

Xiao Peng thought for a moment and said, "We still need to save ourselves!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Hua Chong walked in and said, "Boss, the grounding is not serious. But we are quite unlucky. There is an extinct volcano crater right below us, which has now been filled with sea sand from the Bosphorus Strait. We just crashed into the sea sand, so the hull is not damaged. It's just that the tugboat made us sink. The position is not deep and the hull damage is not serious. If the tide rises, we should be able to get out. It seems that the tugboat didn't kill us!"

Xiao Peng suddenly realized: "No wonder those people received our distress signal but said nothing. This is just to make things difficult for us! I wonder what happened to the equipment on the ship."

Just then, Duan Bo came running over. After hearing Xiao Peng's question, he said, "Boss, there's quite a bit of damage on the ship, especially on Old Zhu's side. All the pots and pans were smashed, and many monitors in the offline room and ROV operation room are broken. Some of the computers were smashed too, and we don't know what happened to them. We'll have to replace them when we get back."

After hearing this, Hua Chong said, "If all these losses are to be taken into account, Boss, the 'Calysop' needs to be sent to the shipyard for a thorough overhaul after returning. Although our ship has icebreaking capabilities and is undoubtedly sturdy, it's not a good thing for the drive shaft and propeller to get stuck in the mud. I suggest sending it to our Huaxia Marine Engineering in Greece to handle this. I still believe more in the strength of our domestic marine engineering. Even if you have a good relationship there, it will cost about one million. These Turks have hurt us terribly!"

"But..." Chen Cheng said, "We don't understand the hydrological conditions here, and we don't know when the tide will rise. Furthermore, the ship is stuck in the sea sand, and we don't know if the buoyancy of the rising tide will be enough to free us! We still need to save ourselves."

"Is there any way?" Xiao Peng asked.

Chen Cheng thought for a moment and said, "There's a solution that's not a solution."

"What do you mean?" Xiao Peng asked.

Chen Cheng explained, "Do you know what a sand dredging ship is? They use a water pump to extract the sea sand from under our ship. This will increase our chances of escaping during high tide."

Hua Chong said, "This is a relatively simple matter. The water cannon I used to pour boiling water last time can be modified slightly to be used to pump out sea sand."

Xiao Peng thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "Hua Chong, let me ask you something. If I want to pump sea sand from a distance of 300 meters, is it possible?"

Hua Chong was stunned. "Three hundred meters? That's fine, but it's a bit wasteful! Fifty meters of sea sand from the bottom of our ship is enough."

Xiao Peng said with a gloomy face, "Who said I was going to suck the sea sand from the bottom of our ship? Today, everyone on the ship, I'm going to make you a fortune! This time I'm going to make a big one, the kind that you can retire from after making this! But this time I might get into trouble! These people really pissed me off!"