Chapter 100 Chapter 100 Accident
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They came in a swarm, and ran into the passage like a swarm, without stopping for a moment.
The Yongyue could not be ignored while it was moving, so the others chased after it. Gu Mengran and Liang Zhao could only rush to the control panel, try to operate the unfamiliar instruments, and take over the unfamiliar ship.
There is a big difference between a cruise ship and a cargo ship. There are many instruments and buttons on the control panel. Gu Mengran and Liang Zhao were in a panic and sweating anxiously. It took them five minutes to successfully start the propeller reverse thrust and slow down the Yongyue.
In just five minutes, the villagers successfully captured Dong Hongbo and three crew members. The villagers, who had been holding grudges for a long time, ignored them, closed the door, pushed Dong Hongbo to the ground, and ran away.
"Take our supplies and capture our people? I think you can't tell the difference between the big and small kings!" Xiaodong made a fatal move and punched Dong Hongbo hard on the nose.
Blood gushed out of his nose, and Dong Hongbo was unable to even utter a scream. Fists rained down again, hitting his face and chest mercilessly...
"This punch is for Jun, go to hell, bastard!"
"How many of us have you killed? You really deserve to die!"
"You beast, worse than pigs and dogs!"
The sounds of cursing, fists hitting, and screaming were endless.
Gu Mengran felt itchy after hearing this and originally wanted to go over and kick him a few more times, but before he could even stand up, the anti-collision system suddenly sounded an alarm.
[——Beep, beep, beep, collision warning, collision warning! ]
The buttocks that had just been raised fell back down. Gu Mengran quickly glanced at the radar, picked up the high-frequency caller on the control panel, and tuned the high frequency to the public channel: "Decheng, Decheng, Yongyue calling! I am Gu Mengran, I have successfully taken over the Yongyue and am reversing the ship. Please get out of the way immediately, get out of the way immediately!"
Heng Rongsheng capsized, Fengyi withdrew, and only Decheng still clung resolutely behind.
As if he had been paying attention to the public channel, as soon as Gu Mengran finished speaking, a high-frequency response came: "Decheng received! Yongyue, please pay attention, there is a large amount of fuel leaking ahead, please evacuate the current waters as soon as possible!"
"Understood!" Gu Mengran cut off the high frequency, glanced at the fast-moving red dot on the radar, and decisively raised his chin towards Liang Zhao who was holding the rudder, "Wait until they retreat a little more, then we can prepare to speed up."
Without waiting for Liang Zhao's response, Gu Mengran put down the pager, turned around and said to the villagers who were fighting, "Don't kill him. Call him later. Let me ask a question first."
It truly demonstrated what it meant to be so angry that one's eyes went red with anger. The villagers, who were filled with resentment, turned a deaf ear and more than a dozen people surrounded Dong Hongbo, beating him up with punches and kicks, each one harder than the last.
Worried that he would kill the man, Gu Mengran slammed the table helplessly and shouted at the top of his voice: "I said - stop hitting him, stop hitting him for now!"
This shout was somewhat effective. Sister Fang kicked Dong Hongbo in the chest again and gradually calmed down. She waved to everyone, "Calm down, everyone, calm down. Get the man up first."
After he finished speaking, the villagers stopped what they were doing. Xiaodong and Zhou Jing, one on each side, held Dong Hongbo's arms and lifted the man, who was like a pile of mud, from the ground.
Dong Hongbo's clothes were disheveled, his hair was messy, and he looked like a homeless person on the street. He was in an unprecedented state of embarrassment. He couldn't stand up, so he knelt on the ground and gasped for breath, but Xiaodong refused to let him go, and grabbed his hair to force him to look up and face Gu Mengran.
Thinking that Xiaodong was going to attack again, Dong Hongbo was terrified. He covered his bruised face and begged again and again: "I, I don't dare to do it again, let me go, please let me go."
The enemy was right in front of him, but Gu Mengran didn't rush to finish him off. He looked at that hateful face and asked in a gentle voice, "Captain Dong, tell me, where is the key?"
"What key?"
Before Dong Hongbo could speak, Xiaodong took over the conversation.
He was not the only one who was curious. Many curious eyes fell on him. Gu Mengran patiently explained, "Generally, large ships have three guns, which are kept by the captain, chief engineer, and first mate respectively."
"The chief engineer's key can only open the engine room and engine room related rooms; the first mate's key can only open the deck related rooms. In fact, only the captain's key is the real key, which can open every room on the ship, including starting the cruise ship."
"So that's how it is." Sister Fang nodded thoughtfully, then raised her foot and kicked Dong Hongbo hard on the back, "Hand it over, hand over the □□!"
Dong Hongbo was kicked again without any preparation and grimaced in pain.
He opened his mouth, and the blood in his mouth flowed down the corners of his mouth. He slowly moved his bloody hand away, revealing half of his face, and looked at Gu Mengran innocently, "I don't know what you are talking about, I-"
"Don't play dumb here! My patience is limited. Where is the weapon of the Yongyue? Hand it over immediately." Gu Mengran clenched his fists and tried his best to control himself so as not to punch him immediately.
As if he knew he had no chance of survival, Dong Hongbo refused to speak.
The others were not idle either and immediately started searching his body.
But unfortunately, after all the hard work, the key was not found on him.
Patience gradually ran out. Zhou Jing gritted his teeth, snatched a dagger from the hand of a nearby villager, and waved his hand, "Use the knife to cut him! Just leave him a breath, and see who is harder, his mouth or our knife!"
After that, the villagers surrounded him, their sharp blades flashing coldly.
Knowing that it was just a threat, the villagers drew their weapons, but no one took action.
Just as they were approaching with weapons in hand, Dong Hongbo, who had been motionless and had completely given up resistance, suddenly raised his head and attacked the young girl closest to him with his right hand hanging by his side.
"careful!"
"Ah, my knife!"
His target was not the girl, but the folding knife in her hand.
In an instant, Dong Hongbo grasped the sharp blade with his bare hands.
Blood was dripping down, but he seemed not to feel any pain. He took the folding knife away from the girl while she was relaxed, and put it against his throat with his backhand.
"Come on, just come on!"
Dong Hongbo raised the corner of his mouth, as if he had gone crazy, grinning with bloody gums showing, and pulled out a weird and creepy smile, "Anyway, I will die in your hands, I might as well end my life and let you get nothing! Without my key, the Yongyue will be a piece of scrap metal once it stalls. Let's see how long you can hold on."
"you--"
Xiaodong was so angry and annoyed that his back teeth were almost broken.
The tip of the knife pierced the skin, and bright red blood slowly gushed out. Gu Mengran took a deep breath, gave Xiaodong a look without leaving a trace, and then turned his head to look at Dong Hongbo, and said in a gentle tone: "Captain Dong, are you willing? Are you willing to end your life with a knife? Are you willing to die for such a small matter?"
Without waiting for Dong Hongbo to answer, Gu Mengran smiled and continued, "Actually, there's no need to do this. There's no deep hatred between us. To put it bluntly, it's just that you want the village's supplies, and we just want your boat."
"There will always be some casualties when there is friction between the two sides. We were just angry just now. Now we have fought and scolded each other, and our anger has almost subsided. I think it would be better if Captain Dong gave us the key, and I would have someone prepare a diesel boat and a small amount of food, and let you and your crew leave."
This is too tempting...
Dong Hongbo raised his eyebrows and looked at Gu Mengran, and his tightly furrowed brows slowly relaxed.
The winner is the king and the loser is the villain. If he loses, there is no way he can get the cruise ship back.
A diesel boat and a small amount of food are already a mercy. If the other party keeps his word, it is not a bad thing.
"captain!"
Dong Hongbo hadn't made up his mind yet. The first mate, who was huddled in the corner and shivering, looked at him eagerly and begged him: "As long as the mountains are green, there will be no worry about lack of firewood. If we are alive, we can still make a comeback. At worst, we can start from scratch. But if we die, everything will be gone."
"You're right. Saving lives is the most important thing!" Dong Hongbo raised his eyes and raised his chin towards Gu Mengran decisively. "The diesel boat is too slow. Ask someone to take out the things in the emergency safety cabinet at the back."
"And," Dong Hongbo glanced at the villagers who were eager to try and said coldly, "You are blocking my air, get out of the way!"
"Giving you face is——"
"Xiaodong!"
Sister Fang put away the knife and moved back a few steps. The villagers followed suit and retreated to the side in unison.
Zhou Jing received Gu Mengran's signal and quickly walked to the emergency safety cabinet in the cab, and took out an inflatable raft, life jackets, and escape ladder from the cabinet one after another.
Dong Hongbo had too many requests. He asked the cruise ship to slow down, had people turn on the air pumps of the dinghy and life jackets in advance, and had Zhou Jing fix the escape ladder on the open deck. Finally, he sent a crew member to confirm before he was willing to show his sincerity.
His sincerity was very simple and crude. He said a string of codes and asked Gu Mengran to send someone to the captain's room to get it.
Go get the key directly? That's impossible! The villagers didn't dare to act rashly.
Sure enough, five minutes later, Sister Fang and a young man brought back a small safe.
A lot of time had already been wasted, so Gu Mengran stopped beating around the bush. After the two of them placed the safe in front of Dong Hongbo, he raised his chin and said directly, "Please go in, Captain Dong."
"What?" Dong Hongbo glanced down at the safe, and a sneer escaped from his lips. "Little friend, are you going to let me open the safe, take out the key, and then let us leave?"
"What else?" Gu Mengran asked him back.
Dong Hongbo's eyes darkened. "Impossible! If I give you the key now, will you let us go? There is no room for negotiation. You let us get off the boat first. After we get off the boat, I will tell you the password to the safe."
"If you don't believe me, I naturally won't believe you either. What if you don't tell me after we get off the boat?" Gu Mengran was calm and reasoned with him seriously.
Dong Hongbo made a "tsk" sound and started to curse: "Are you stupid? The safe is in your hands, why don't you find a cutting machine to cut it? Can a living person be suffocated to death?"
Xiaodong was about to say that this made sense, but then he changed his mind and said, "Oh, that's not right. What if you lied to us and the key wasn't in there at all?"
Gu Mengran spread his hands and said, "Look, he can think of it all."
The smile froze on his face. Dong Hongbo raised his eyes and looked at Gu Mengran. There was a hint of viciousness in his eyes. "Little brother, everyone has down times. As the saying goes, forgive others when you can."
"I understand." Gu Mengran nodded solemnly, "Don't worry, Captain. I am a trustworthy person."
In an instant, Dong Hongbo seemed to have aged a few years.
He looked at Gu Mengran suspiciously, shook his head helplessly, and finally compromised: "Okay, let your people step back a little, I will open it myself. After opening it, I will get the key first, and then give it to you after I go to the deck."
Without further ado, the villagers dispersed, and the noisy cab suddenly became quiet. Under the gaze of dozens of eyes, Dong Hongbo held a knife to his neck with one hand and turned the digital dial with the other.
“Ka-ka-ka…”
The subtle sound of the digital rotating disk was infinitely amplified, and everyone held their breath at the same time. With a crisp "click", the safe door opened, and Dong Hongbo slowly reached his hand in.
But as everyone was looking on expectantly, something unexpected happened.
Dong Hongbo, who had a helpless look on his face just now, changed his expression instantly. He suddenly pulled his hand out of the safe, clutching a long round metal object, stood up when no one was paying attention, and ran away.
He moved very quickly. When the door was locked, he went out through the window, leaned against the window frame and jumped out, then stepped cleanly onto the open deck.
By the time everyone reacted and quickly caught up with him, he had already grabbed the guardrail and stood on the edge of the open deck, holding the long round metal object in his hand high up, glaring at everyone fiercely: "Don't come over here! If you come over again, we'll all die together!"
"Is it a key? I can't see it clearly."
"Not really. What is that?"
"I don't know. It's pitch black."
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The villagers who didn't know the situation stood by the window and looked at each other, not daring to approach rashly.
The cruise ship was idling. Gu Mengran and Liang Zhao gained a brief freedom and hurried to the open deck.
As if he was waiting for Gu Mengran deliberately, as soon as he came out, Dong Hongbo immediately grinned and looked at Gu Mengran provocatively, shaking his hand raised in the air, "Little brother, they don't know what this is. You know a lot, do you know it?"
To be honest, Gu Mengran didn't recognize the black matte metal object, but before coming out of the cab, Gu Mengran and Sister Fang rummaged through the safe and found the □□ they had been longing for and a box of expensive-looking cigars.
The answer is self-evident when it comes to what can threaten them when placed together with cigars. Gu Mengran had seen Gu Decheng smoking cigars before. He would not light them directly with an ordinary lighter, but with a special one - a cigar spray gun.
To put it simply, it is fire, a lighter with a stronger flame that is not easy to extinguish.
"Why, you don't know him either?"
Seeing that Gu Mengran had not responded for a long time, Dong Hongbo made an impatient "tsk" sound, then raised his hand and gently twisted the top of the black metal, and a ball of blue flame instantly jumped out.
There was still rain in the sky, and the blue flame burned fiercely, showing no sign of extinguishing. It was not until Dong Hongbo turned the knob again that the creepy flame was extinguished.
Gu Mengran's wandering eyes trembled. Like the villagers on the deck, he did not dare to act rashly. He even restrained his breathing, and his expression became visibly tense.
Dong Hongbo was very satisfied with their reaction. He raised his lips and smiled smugly. He looked at Gu Mengran and said, "I know that a key cannot save my life. Young man, you are very smart and good at hiding your emotions, but the young man next to you..."
He cast an inquiring gaze on Liang Zhao, "He seems to have not yet learned how to hide his emotions. The way he looks at me is so scary, it's simply creepy."
"Are you possessed by a spirit of drama? You love to act so much?" Xiaodong hurried to the battlefield, pointed the steel pipe in his hand at Dong Hongbo, and scolded him: "Didn't you hear that the fuel was leaking? You are still playing with a broken lighter. If the fuel on the water is ignited, we will all die here today!"
He said it so confidently that Dong Hongbo was stunned for a moment. He looked at Xiaodong in disbelief, "Are you really stupid? I used a lighter just because I knew there was a fuel leak. Bah, a cigar spray gun, you country bumpkin who doesn't know anything about football."
Not wanting to argue with Xiaodong any more, Dong Hongbo rolled his eyes in annoyance and raised his eyebrows at Gu Mengran. "I won't waste any more words. Either you let us go, or we all die here together today. Or do you want to take a gamble and see if my cigar spray gun can ignite the water surface?"
Not far ahead, Heng Rongsheng, which had flipped over in the water, had completely disappeared. The only trace she left behind was the dense raindrops that fell into the water, and the ripples were covered with a layer of shiny oil beads.
Thousands of tons of fuel, who knows how much has leaked, who dares to take a chance?
Anyway, Gu Mengran doesn’t dare.
After a moment's silence, Gu Mengran raised his eyes to meet Dong Hongbo's gaze and said seriously, "Captain Dong, that ship is not an ordinary bulk carrier. It is an oil tanker, fully loaded with 3,000 tons of oil. What is floating on the water now is a large amount of No. 0 diesel, which has a very low ignition point. If you spray it with the gun, indeed, we will all die here, and there is no possibility for you to escape."
Dong Hongbo's hand holding the spray gun trembled slightly, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, but he quickly suppressed that barely perceptible emotion, stiffened his neck and stared at Gu Mengran, gritting his teeth and said, "So what? What's the difference between falling into your hands and dying? It's just right, I can still get a group of people to take the blame."
"Okay," Gu Mengran shrugged, "You guessed right. I really didn't intend to let you go at the beginning. You killed so many of us and you want to just walk away? It's just a daydream."
"But I really don't dare to gamble. If you die, then die. We still want to live well."
Gu Mengran sighed and rubbed his brows helplessly, "You win. The raft, life jackets and food are all prepared for you, and the escape ladder is also set up. Go ahead, I promise no one will stop you."
He had clearly gotten the result he wanted, but Dong Hongbo's mouth twitched and a snort of laughter escaped from his throat, "Don't treat me like a fool. You can let me go just like that?"
"Come on, little brother," Dong Hongbo hooked his finger at Gu Mengran without hesitation, and then pointed to the escape ladder under his feet, "I can see that you are a man who values friendship and loyalty. Since you care so much about your companions, I believe you are willing to escort me for them, right?"
Gu Mengran frowned, "Let me go with you? Take me as a hostage?"
"Hey, don't say such harsh words." Dong Hongbo grinned and said, "I just asked you to accompany me for a while. After confirming that it is safe, I will naturally let you go--"
The voice stopped abruptly. When Gu Mengran held his breath to think about countermeasures, Liang Zhao, whose face became increasingly unsightly, suddenly moved. He took a step forward and decisively put his hand on Dong Hongbo's shoulder, aiming at the cigar spray gun in his hand.
Dong Hongbo reacted quickly as well. The guardrail behind him blocked his way and he had no way to retreat. Before Liang Zhao could grab his hand, he heard a "bang" sound and blue flames erupted. He leaned half of his body out of the guardrail and tried to throw the flamethrower into the water.
Knowing that he valued his life, Liang Zhao didn't fall for his threats at all. He pressed Dong Hongbo against the guardrail, pinched the back of his neck with one hand to prevent him from breaking free, and twisted his arm with the other hand with all his strength, twisting it in the opposite direction of the joint, as if he wanted to directly remove his arm that was hanging in the air.
The sound of broken bones and Dong Hongbo's screams echoed on the deck. The others came back to their senses from the shock and rushed forward to help.
But at this moment, an accident happened.
The sudden severe pain made Dong Hongbo struggle violently. His upper body was held down by someone, unable to move. In panic, he kicked and kicked wildly, but he slipped on the rain-drenched deck and lost his balance in an instant. With a burning cigar spray gun in his hand and Liang Zhao who was suppressing him with all his strength, he climbed over the guardrail and plunged into the water.
The incident happened suddenly, but Liang Zhao had time to react. He was able to withdraw in time and let Dong Hongbo fall down alone. But before he fell off the deck, he grabbed the spray gun from Dong Hongbo.
Without time to turn off the spray gun or save himself, he resolutely raised his arm and threw the spray gun onto the deck. The spray gun flew into the air, and the next second, Liang Zhao fell down with Dong Hongbo.
It was difficult to exert force in mid-air, and the spray gun that flew back just passed over the deck. Zhou Jing was closest to it at this time. If he moved faster and squatted down, he could catch it smoothly.
But he was stunned, because at this moment, on the other side of the deck, two people were staggering towards him, carrying Zhou Zhiqi, who was covered in blood and had already lost his breath.
The opportunity was fleeting. When Zhou Jing came to his senses in despair and tried to reach out to grab the spray gun, the cigar spray gun with blue flames fell straight back.
It happened so fast, everything happened so fast.
The two entangled figures disappeared from sight in an instant, and the cigar spray gun hit the water again. Gu Mengran's pupils suddenly shrank. Without any hesitation, he climbed over the guardrail and jumped.
"Liang Zhao! Gu Mengran!"
"The spray gun has fallen and is about to catch fire. Quick, run!"
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