Chapter 468 Yancheng Cargo Ship
The gasoline pumped from the small boat of Yuan Bing and others was enough to support Xia Xiaoman and others to sail back to Fucheng.
With sufficient fuel, Xia Xiaoman divided the crew into two teams, one team was responsible for sailing during the day, and the other was responsible for sailing at night.
Xia Country is now in a state of perpetual daylight. Even at night, the light is very bright and will not affect vision.
Zhang Can's life was in danger and he needed to be sent back to the floating city as soon as possible. Although sailing 24 hours a day was tiring, no one complained.
On the way back, Xia Xiaoman and his friends saw some wreckage of water transportation, including the wreckage of a ship and fragments of a speedboat.
If Xia Xiaoman came across a relatively intact shipwreck, he would mark the location, and after sending Zhang Can back, he would tell Yu Jie the location and send someone to pull the ship back. If he came across some debris, he would have someone use a net to salvage it.
These fragments can also be recycled into other items. In line with the principle of thrift and diligence, these fragments should not be wasted.
As we were about to return to the floating city, the wind and rain gradually subsided. In addition, the temperature seemed to have dropped a bit.
Xia Xiaoman looked up at the sun hiding in the thick clouds. The sun was already setting, and was currently hanging in the sky at about 3 p.m. At the speed at which the sun was setting, it would completely sink into the water in at most three months.
"Xiaoman! Look over there, why are there so many ships? Looking at the direction they are sailing, it seems they are going to the floating city." Sun Qing handed the telescope to Xia Xiaoman and pointed in a direction.
Xia Xiaoman took the telescope and looked in the direction that Sun Qing pointed. Sure enough, she saw more than a dozen ships sailing towards the floating city, and they were all cargo ships. Could it be that Yu Jie had reached a cooperation with other underground cities as she said?
With a lot of questions in mind, Xia Xiaoman and the others returned to the floating city. Before reaching the underground city, Xia Xiaoman saw many ships parked above the underground city from a distance. There were cargo ships that had just come from Yancheng, ships from Xinggang City, a brand new ship with their floating city logo, and several speedboats and kayaks.
The underground city was bustling with activity. Xia Xiaoman took a telescope and looked carefully. He found that in addition to many ships, there were also many people floating in the water. Looking at the things in the hands of those floating people, it seemed that they were building something.
When the ship approached, Xia Xiaoman could clearly see several steel frames extending from the bottom of the water near the underground city, and those people floating on the water were trying to adjust the position of the steel frames.
"What are they doing? Building an elevator?" Wang Shijin said, staring at the water.
Sun Qing said, "It looks like they are building an elevator. But the speed is too fast! We have only been out for over a month and the elevator frame has already reached the water surface."
"They should have started building it not long after we left, otherwise the framework wouldn't have been completed so quickly. But where did they get the materials from? And that new ship feels much more upscale than ours." Wang Shijin looked at the new ship with the floating city logo with envy.
The new ship was twice as big as their old one, and there was an airtight observation room built on the cabin with a transparent material. If they encountered an accident while sailing, they could run directly from the cabin to the observation room to see the situation outside without having to put on an oxygen mask.
I don't know what material the transparent thing is made of. It looks like plastic from a distance. But plastic is not strong. The authorities shouldn't use plastic to build an observation room, right?
After reaching the top of the underground city, Xia Xiaoman arranged for someone to send Zhang Can into the underground city first, and then found Lu Lanshan who was negotiating with the visitors from Yancheng, told him about the situation of Yuan Bing and others, and asked Lu Lanshan to find a few people to lock up Yuan Bing and others and interrogate them about the address of the mine and the situation in Sand City.
"There are ships damaged by tornadoes in these places, some large and some small. If they can be repaired, they can be towed back. If they can't be repaired, they can be dismantled and recycled for spare parts."
As Xia Xiaoman spoke, he opened the route map of this outing and pointed out to Lu Lanshan the places marked with ship wreckage.
These damaged ships are treasures in the eyes of many people. Xia Xiaoman was worried that if the ship was delayed for too long, it would be towed away by others, so he told Lu Lanshan about it first and asked him to arrange people to tow the ship as soon as possible to prevent others from getting there first.
Lu Lanshan also knew the importance of these ships, and immediately contacted Yu Jie to request two teams to go to the location marked by Xia Xiaoman to tow the ships.
Xia Xiaoman originally wanted to ask Lu Lanshan why Yancheng sent a cargo ship to their place, but seeing that Lu Lanshan was very busy, she temporarily gave up the idea of asking and planned to ask Yu Jie when she returned to the underground city.
After the materials on the ship were moved, the ship confiscator came to check the ship. Seeing rows of sunken round holes under the ship, he frowned and said, "This ship needs to be repaired. These holes are quite deep. If they are not repaired, it may leak if it is hit again."
Those rows of round pits are the marks left by the sawfish's fangs hitting the surface.
When Xia Xiaoman saw these round pits, he felt a little scared. If they had acted slower, they might have been caught in the sawfish's stomach.
"How long will it take to repair it?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
The staff member said, "Now that we have all the materials, I will arrange for more people to help you repair it. It will be done in three days at the earliest and five days at the slowest."
Xia Xiaoman nodded, "Thank you for your help."
After inspecting the ship, Xia Xiaoman took Maodan back to the underground city. After entering the underground city, Xia Xiaoman went to the laboratory to visit Fu Baiwei as usual.
As soon as she entered the laboratory, she saw from the observation window that Fu Baiwei was tied to the operating table. Several people in white coats were standing beside her, and one of them was cutting Fu Baiwei's hand with a scalpel.
Xia Xiaoman's face turned cold instantly, and she strode to the door and tried to break in. Just as she was about to open the door, a woman in a nurse's uniform rushed over to stop her, "What are you doing? There's an operation going on inside, you can't go in!"
Xia Xiaoman said coldly: "What kind of surgery was performed inside? Who allowed you to perform surgery on Bai Wei?"
The nurse stared at Xia Xiaoman for a while and asked tentatively, "Are you Fu Baiwei's friend?"
Xia Xiaoman didn't answer her, she pushed the nurse away and tried to break in. The nurse said quickly: "Fu Baiwei agreed to do this operation!"
Xia Xiaoman retracted her foot after hearing this. "What did you say? Fu Baiwei agreed to the surgery?"
The nurse nodded. "Miss Fu ate a lot of random things while wandering outside, and many parts of her body mutated. The doctors can't help her change some of the mutated parts back. But some parts may be able to return to normal after surgery."
"The webbed feet on Ms. Fu's hands and feet can be removed through surgery. After the removal, her hands and feet will look no different from those of normal people."
"We told Miss Fu about the treatment plan, and only after she agreed did we arrange the surgery for her."
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