Chapter 99 Chapter 99 The Building is About to Collapse
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"Open the door, open it now!"
Xiaodong had also recovered. He had been hit on the forehead with a club and was dizzy and disoriented just now. Now he walked along the deck to the outside of the cab. He no longer felt dizzy and his legs didn't hurt anymore. He smashed the door aggressively with a machete in his hand.
The special steel door cannot be broken open with a machete. After smashing and chopping it, it only left a few subtle marks on the door.
He was stupid to begin with, and after being hit with a stick, he seemed to be completely dumbfounded. Zhou Jing looked at his incompetent and furious cousin, and waved his hand helplessly at him, "Brother Xiaodong, the door can't be broken open, we have to break the glass."
"Oh, okay." Xiaodong scratched his head and followed Zhou Jing's steps closely.
Walking along the open deck, the bow is an inverted U-shape. Apart from a special steel door leading to the cockpit, the only opening is the clear and bright glass on the windshield.
The villagers who arrived in a hurry did not rush to take action. They stood on the open deck in the rain, looking out the window with serious expressions, looking at the high-tech cab inside and their hated enemy - Dong Hongbo.
Just across the window is the brain of Yongyue.
Dong Hongbo and his three crew members were concentrating on breaking out of the encirclement, with their attention focused on the control panel and the water ahead, and they didn't notice the villagers coming at them from the side.
"Bang--"
A loud bang sounded from the side. The four people in the cab trembled all over and turned their heads to look over.
The tempered laminated glass shattered and was covered with dense spider webs, but it did not fall off like ordinary glass. Although it was cracked, it was still firmly fixed to the windshield by the interlayer, like a piece of artistic snowflake glass.
The glass covered with spider webs blocked the view and it was impossible to see who was standing outside. But it was still glass after all. Dong Hongbo narrowed his eyes and saw more than ten figures.
"Captain, it's the villagers. They are the ones who are coming to kill us!"
The panicked voice of the observer came, and Dong Hongbo raised his eyebrows, staring out the window with sinister eyes, and said without turning his head: "I'm not blind, I don't need you to remind me."
As if afraid that they couldn't see it, he smashed one side of the glass. More than a dozen villagers moved to the side at the same time, stood in front of the other intact side of the glass, and raised their knives, axes and sticks.
This provocative move did not make Dong Hongbo feel any fear. Instead, the resentful gazes made his scalp tingle, as if they were going to rush in and skin him alive and dismember him in the next second.
After just a few seconds of staring at each other, a chill ran up his spine and goose bumps instantly covered his arms. Dong Hongbo began to panic and a crack appeared on his calm face.
"Bang! Bang! Bang—"
Knives, axes, sticks and clubs fell again, and the smooth and transparent glass was instantly covered with cracks.
The horrifying sound of smashing and smashing filled his eardrums. Dong Hongbo could no longer keep his balance and kicked hard on the back of the captain's chair. He said with gritted teeth, "Move! Move and shake them off! Don't hesitate. If you can't think of a way, just hit them. Are you waiting for them to come in and skin us alive?"
The first mate holding the rudder looked embarrassed: "But——"
"Don't say but! Is there any other choice? Damn it, take a gamble!"
Tempered laminated glass is extremely difficult to break. A group of people smashed it for several minutes before they could barely make a few holes in the glass.
The interlayer glue cannot be opened no matter what, and a hole must be made first.
Among the pile of knives, axes, sticks, only the axe is slightly useful, but there is only one. If I keep smashing down like this, it will take at least half an hour to get into the cab.
The longer the time went, the more variables there were. Just when everyone was at a loss, Gu Mengran walked over the crowd with a black pointed hammer and smashed the glass with all his strength.
Choosing the right tools will make the work more efficient. With a small pointed hammer, a hole can be instantly created in the tempered laminated glass that could not be broken by a knife or an axe. The debris will fly everywhere with a loud bang.
It was much more convenient to have a hole. Axes and tools were used to expand the edge of the hole. Everyone took turns to work. After a while, the fist-sized hole gradually became as big as a head.
A small hole carried so much hope. The exhausted villagers suddenly became energized and sped up the drilling, full of energy.
Just as everyone was working hard and immersed in the joy of success, suddenly, another loud noise came from the front. The cruise ship, which had been stable for a long time, seemed to be reconnected to the power supply. The hull trembled violently and tilted sharply to the right.
Unlike the previous shaking, Yongyue seemed to simply tilt to the right, and the deck under his feet turned into a 20-degree slope in seconds.
The rain continued to wash away the surface, making the deck slippery and people unable to stand on it. The villagers grabbed the window frames and tried their best to steady themselves, but their bodies slid uncontrollably to the right, and they retreated to the guardrail one after another.
Fortunately, the guardrail on the cab side had not been tampered with. A group of people held on to the guardrail tightly, looks of horror on their faces.
Is it coming again? Is it starting again?
The shadow brought by the "roller coaster" not long ago has not yet dissipated, and the "pendulum" seems to have pressed the start button again.
“Bang—”
There was another loud noise, and the ship shook violently.
The fear in the villagers' eyes grew stronger and stronger, while Gu Mengran and Liang Zhao grabbed the railing and turned around with difficulty, looking towards the water with worry on their faces.
Those who work on ships know that when an ordinary cargo ship tilts 15-20 degrees, the situation is already quite dangerous. This angle is called the capsizing angle. If it cannot be adjusted back in time, the Yongyue will capsize and sink.
Gu Mengran's heart was in his throat. He didn't care about the life or death of the Yongyue, but the Fengyi and Hengrongsheng in the same waters...
The turbid water waves surged. Gu Mengran lay on the guardrail and looked at the water surface through the hazy mist. He immediately saw the Fengyi blocking the right side of the Yongyue.
Grandpa and Zheng Yiji were obviously aware of the danger. The propeller submerged in the water spun rapidly, and the Fengyi retreated at an extremely fast speed, moving out of the coverage of the Yongyue little by little.
The Wind Wing disappeared from sight, and Gu Mengran's heart sank back into his stomach. But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, a speedboat suddenly drove out from the direction where the Wind Wing disappeared, dragging a trail of white water, and headed towards the bow of the cruise ship without hesitation.
What is this doing? What role can a speedboat play in front of a cruise ship?
With their doubts still unresolved, the severely tilted Yongyue gradually regained its stability. The villagers hurried to dig a new hole, but Gu Mengran did not participate. He walked towards the bow deck of the Yongyue with a lot of questions in his mind.
With an ominous premonition inexplicably welling up in his heart, Gu Mengran hurried to the bow deck, stretched his neck to look down, and was frozen in place as if he was struck by lightning falling from the sky.
Heng Rongsheng... Heng Rongsheng collapsed.
Heng Rongsheng capsized severely. In less than ten minutes, half of the ship was submerged in the water and it was completely overturned. Even the immortals could not save it.
Fortunately, the cabin door opened, and when the speedboat approached, a man wearing an orange life vest quickly climbed out.
Gu Mengran was originally still waiting for others to come out, but as soon as Xu Xinghe climbed out, he immediately boarded the speedboat. Only then did he realize that it was quite dangerous for Heng Rongsheng to take the lead, and Xu Xingran and Xu Yuan might not be on the boat.
Let the ship sink, as long as no one is hurt.
Gu Mengran was worried and lay on the guardrail to watch for a long time. Only when the speedboat restarted did he prepare to go back to help. At this moment, the speeding speedboat seemed to notice his presence and stopped suddenly on the side of Yongyue.
Xu Xinghe, who had just boarded the speedboat, leaned half of his body out of the boat, cupped his hands like a trumpet, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Gu Mengran! Run, run!"
"You go first, we'll be there in a while!" Gu Mengran responded to him.
Even their own boat had sunk, yet they still cared about him. Gu Mengran couldn't help but feel warm in his heart. But before he could feel warm for two seconds, Xu Xinghe's voice sounded again, bringing fatal bad news: "Don't wait any longer, run quickly, there's a fuel leak!"
After saying that, the speedboat hurried away, leaving Gu Mengran dumbfounded.
Fuel leak? In Hengrongsheng's oil tank...
That’s thousands of tons of diesel!
Damn it! Gu Mengran cursed inwardly, without having time to feel bad for the fuel. He ran all the way back to the right windshield of the deck and hurriedly explained the situation to the villagers.
Hearing the massive fuel leak, the villagers panicked for a moment, but after a brief hesitation, they continued to use knives and axes to expand the cave entrance, with no intention of leaving.
The hole was already big enough that a smaller person could fit right in. Victory was within their reach, but they were unwilling to give up. Moreover, even if they wanted to run, they could probably run faster if they took the boat.
It would be impolite to persuade him again. Gu Mengran and Liang Zhao looked at each other tacitly, picked up their tools and joined the team.
The bigger the hole, the fragile the glass. After another two or three minutes, someone reached out and pulled, and half of the glass fell off the window frame with a clang, and all of it hit the ground.
The building was about to collapse. The sound seemed to remind Dong Hongbo that he didn't want the boat or the people anymore. Before the villagers broke in, he opened the door to the cabin, put on the grease, and ran away decisively.
As soon as the captain ran away, the morale was instantly emptied. The crew members who were focused on breaking out could no longer sit still. They no longer cared about the Yongyue which was still moving, and they all dropped their tasks and ran away.
In a flash, Zhou Jing leaned against the window frame and jumped flexibly, and in less than two seconds he successfully entered the cab. Without letting others follow him in, he leaned over to pick up the machete that had fallen to the ground, and took the opportunity to open the hatch next to the villager.
As the door opened, a group of people rushed into the cab aggressively.
With anger and hatred overwhelming his mind, Zhou Jing completely forgot about the moving Yongyue and the wounds caused by the glass fragments. He raised his weapon and shouted, "Chase them! Chase them! Catch them!"
"Kill them and avenge Uncle Liu!"
"Quick, catch up!"
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