Chapter 112 Chapter 112 Dangers lurking around
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“Hua, hua, hua la la—”
The waves hit the hull, splashing water everywhere. The boat drifting in the wind and snow rose and fell, swaying with the waves, like a thrilling pirate ship in an amusement park, shaking people dizzy.
The seemingly calm sea often hides turbulent waves.
After entering the sea, the boat was never at peace for a moment. Even Gu Mengran, who had long been accustomed to life on the boat, could not stand it anymore. He suddenly began to feel seasick. He closed his eyes and fell asleep. He slept so soundly that he could not tell the difference between day and night.
His mind was clear, but his body was still asleep. Gu Mengran opened his eyes in a daze. Through the deep and thick darkness outside the window, he could vaguely tell that it was the dead of night and he couldn't see his hand in front of him.
The boat was still moving, swaying up and down and left and right against the wind and waves.
The person who was supposed to sleep next to him had not come back yet. Gu Mengran rubbed his swollen and painful temples, dragged his extremely uncomfortable body from the head of the bed to the foot of the bed, and lifted the curtain across the middle of the cabin.
"Are you awake? Are you feeling better? Are you still dizzy?"
He seemed to have been paying attention to the cabin. As soon as the curtain was lifted, there was only a slight sound. Liang Zhao, who was sitting at the bridge, immediately turned around and asked with concern.
When his eyes met Gu Mengran, he frowned and said with dissatisfaction: "Put on some clothes. It's almost minus ten degrees Celsius now. Be careful not to catch a cold."
Gu Mengran said nothing, stared at him blankly for a few seconds, went back to the bedside and put on his thick cotton coat, then slowly got out of bed, and walked towards the control panel with weak steps in the cabin.
Walking to the control panel seemed to have used up all his strength. Gu Mengran was like an invertebrate mollusk. He wrapped his arms around Liang Zhao's neck from behind and lay limply on his back.
"I feel so dizzy. Is the sky spinning? Why am I so dizzy?"
"It's not the sky that's spinning, it's the boat that's rocking." Liang Zhao chuckled, squeezed his hand that was casually placed on his chest, and patiently instructed: "The effect of the medicine should have worn off. Sit down first, eat something to fill your stomach, take a dimenhydrinate tablet, and then go to sleep."
Gu Mengran rubbed Liang Zhao's neck and shook his head, saying, "Still sleeping? I can't sleep. I've been sleeping so hard these past two days that I'm almost sleepy. And you, you've been sailing day and night without even closing your eyes."
"No way."
Noticing that he was feeling a little down, Liang Zhao raised his hand and scratched his chin. "When the wind and waves were not so strong, I also lay down and slept. I am a human, not a machine. How can I stay up for days?"
Gu Mengran lowered his eyes slightly and a long sigh escaped from his lips.
After entering the sea, the pattern of sailing during the day and resting at night is no longer feasible. The sea is too rough and the boat can only maintain balance better if it is in motion. If you leave the boat to rest, a wave will hit you in your sleep and you may never be able to open your eyes again.
The best option now is for two people to take turns driving the boat. Unfortunately, Gu Mengran's health is not good and he suddenly starts to feel seasick, making Liang Zhao like a cat. He can only take a nap when the wind is calm.
Liang Zhao never complained or grumbled, but Gu Mengran felt very distressed.
Gu Mengran moved a small stool and sat next to Liang Zhao. He took out a bottle of water and a custard bread from under the driving console and ate them in small bites without any appetite, trying to fill his stomach.
He really had no appetite and after eating only half a piece of bread, Gu Mengran felt exhausted. His temples were throbbing and he felt a little nauseous.
He tilted his head back and gulped down a few gulps of water to suppress the irritating feeling of nausea. Gu Mengran took out the seasickness medicine from the space, broke off a piece, put it into his mouth, and swallowed it with water.
The unfinished bread disappeared in his palm in an instant. Gu Mengran slapped Liang Zhao on the knee, cleared his throat and said, "I'm ready! You, go to sleep now, I'll drive the boat."
"Is it all right now?" Liang Zhao raised his eyebrows, his mouth corners slightly raised, "What I just took was not medicine, but an elixir, right?"
Gu Mengran raised his chin and said, "Don't worry about it. I'm not dizzy anymore. Get up and go to sleep. Don't take my place."
Liang Zhao's smile deepened. He stretched out his hand to hook Gu Mengran's shoulders and gently pulled him half-into his arms. "Don't make trouble. You should rest well when you are not feeling well. Don't be stubborn."
"My limbs are almost degenerated from lying down, and you are the one who should take a good rest!" Gu Mengran pulled a hand out of his arms, pointed at his tired eyes and said, "Do you want me to get you a mirror to look at your dark circles, look at you--hmm!"
The warm and dry lips blocked the unfinished words.
Liang Zhao leaned over, put his arms around Gu Mengran's waist and kissed him unscrupulously.
Their lips touched lightly and then parted, as if it was just a quick kiss, but the next moment, Liang Zhao took Gu Mengran's hand and touched himself, pried open his lips with the tip of his tongue, and kissed him roughly and forcefully.
After the kiss, Gu Mengran's face turned red and his breathing became disordered.
Liang Zhao, like nothing had happened, rested his forehead against his and licked his lips with satisfaction, "We can't just look at the surface of things. Do we need to feel it? How strong is my energy?"
His palms were burning hot, and blood suddenly rushed to his head. Gu Mengran's face suddenly turned red to the roots behind his ears, and his breathing was rapid and heavy. As if to hide his embarrassment, he hastily pulled his hand back and slapped Liang Zhao's thigh.
"You really are..." Gu Mengran turned his face away, avoiding Liang Zhao's sight, and muttered softly: "It's already this time and you still have the heart to think about these things, aren't you ashamed?"
Liang Zhao smiled calmly, "I can't help it. I have to prove that I have good energy so that you can rest in peace."
While we were chatting and laughing, another wave suddenly came over, splashing water in front of the window and falling back into the sea. The innocent boat that was affected was shaking violently and could not calm down for a long time.
The sudden dizziness shattered that bit of beauty. Gu Mengran tilted his head and leaned on Liang Zhao's shoulder, sighing helplessly, "Even if you have good energy, you have to use it sparingly. The sea is still too scary. It exhausted me in just two or three days. I don't know how long this hell will last. We have to be prepared for a long-term battle."
Liang Zhao no longer had the mood to joke. He reached out and rubbed Gu Mengran's temples, looking solemnly at the dark and eerie water in front of him.
It was still too risky for a small boat to go into the sea. Although the boat was shaking violently, the sea surface was actually calm. The small boat could not withstand even the most insignificant wind and waves. If it encountered even bigger wind and waves...
Gu Mengran leaned on his shoulder without moving, as if he was asleep. Liang Zhao gently stroked the top of his head with his palm. All his worries finally came together in one sentence: "Don't worry, I'm here, I can handle it."
It was impossible to fall asleep. He slept all day and night. Gu Mengran was very energetic at the moment. He was dizzy and didn't dare to control the boat independently, but he also wanted to sit here, even if he didn't say anything or do anything, just to accompany Liang Zhao.
There was only a very dim light at the bow, and three meters away there was thick darkness.
The dark night was like a heavy lead sheet, pressing heavily on the sea surface, and the endless darkness swallowed up the entire sea. The howling sea breeze whistled past, carrying with it the cold and dampness, violently raising layers of waves.
As the wind blew and the waves hit, the boat shook more and more violently, but the medicine seemed to work, and the dizziness that had been bothering Gu Mengran was significantly reduced.
"Hey, I don't think I'm really that dizzy anymore."
Gu Mengran pinched the bridge of his nose and rubbed his temples. After repeated confirmation, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Liang Zhao excitedly, "I'm not kidding, I'm really not dizzy anymore. Now you can sleep peacefully. I..."
"Liang Zhao?"
He kept on talking for a long time, but Liang Zhao seemed not to hear him at all. He stared at the water in front of him without giving any response.
No matter how slow Gu Mengran was, he realized something was wrong and immediately looked up at the sea ahead.
Almost at the same time, the boat suddenly accelerated and made a sharp turn. The seawater brought up by the boat hit the front window, and the vision was blurred by the mist, but the severely tilted boat reminded Gu Mengran that the boat was trying to turn around.
“Boom boom boom—”
The huge sound waves like rolling thunder penetrated the endurance board and hit the eardrum directly. It was not the sound of wind and rain, nor the sound of a small boat...
The front window was blocked by the mist, and Gu Mengran could not see anything clearly. At the moment when the boat turned around, a blurry shadow flashed through the rear window at the stern. A mountain, a mountain that towered into the clouds and could not be seen at a glance.
But this is the sea, where do the mountains come from in the sea?
The accelerator was stepped on to the maximum, and the diesel boat turned around on the spot, like an arrow shot out of a bow. A long silver water trail followed closely behind, and at the same time there was a water wall that was getting bigger and bigger and higher.
The vast ocean is like the 3,000-meter race in a sports meet, which never ends.
"Bang!"
A loud bang echoed on the sea, and a huge wall of water came crashing down like a collapsing building at lightning speed.
Liang Zhao reacted quickly enough and turned around in time to avoid the fatal blow.
He was not hit directly by the water wall, but the water wall collided with the sea surface and instantly turned into countless surging waves, like a flood that broke through the dam, rushing up fiercely and quickly, layer upon layer, with unstoppable force.
“Bang, bang, bang, bang…”
It was as if a huge rock was falling from overhead. The sound of the awning, the hull, and the impact of the waves came from all directions. In just a few seconds, the solid and firm "clang" above the head fell off, and the freezing cold sea water and the sweeping snow and wind instantly poured into the cabin.
It wasn't over yet. Waves, more ferocious than the last, rushed against the boat. They were like invisible hands, tearing, pushing, grabbing the boat and ravaging it repeatedly, bound to capsize it.
The anti-collision tires played a certain balancing effect. The boat rose and fell, swayed from side to side with the waves, and a large amount of seawater seeped into the cabin. At one point, it hovered on the edge of capsizing, but was pulled back without hesitation by the anti-collision tires.
It's just a struggle to survive, capsizing is just a matter of the next wave.
In the chaos, Gu Mengran and Liang Zhao climbed out of the cabin quickly wearing life jackets. In the blink of an eye, a dilapidated fishing boat appeared out of nowhere on the rough sea.
The two of them quickly climbed onto the deck along the escape ladder that had been set up in advance, without even having time to look back—
In no more than two minutes, the warm little home of the past disappeared before our eyes.
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