Chapter 473 Entering Bisong Ridge
After the lesson, Lu Zhiqiang and his friends learned their lesson and worked honestly every day. Under the guidance of Chen Peiqiong, they were able to cook a decent meal.
The logistics work is no easier than standing guard outside at night. You have to prepare four meals a day. There are 50 meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and a midnight snack, which needs to be prepared according to the number of people on guard that day.
In addition, they are also responsible for the hygiene of the cabin and the clothes of the crew. At the end of the day, except for sleeping, they have almost no free time.
But compared to the crew members standing guard outside, the logistics are much safer. If there is nothing to do, they basically don't have to leave the cabin. Even if they encounter danger, they don't have to follow the crew into battle.
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While sailing along the way, when they were about to reach Jincheng, Xia Xiaoman chose to take a detour to avoid being discovered by those sawfishes.
Not far from Jincheng, Zhou Qiuyang, who was checking the surroundings in the observation room, found two ships approaching them at high speed. He took out his telescope and looked at them. His face suddenly changed. He immediately picked up the intercom in the observation room and connected to the cockpit and shouted, "Speed up and drive forward. Someone has lured the sawfish here!"
When the people in the cockpit heard the word "sawfish", they immediately increased the speed and asked someone to lower the sail.
Xia Xiaoman saw someone lowering the sail and went over to ask, "Why did you lower the sail?"
"Zhou Qiuyang said someone has lured the sawfish here, so let's speed up the boat."
Xia Xiaoman frowned when he heard this, and ran to the stern to inform Wang Shijin to pull up Qin Shuyan, who had gone into the water to explore the way.
In the water, Qin Shuyan felt the rope around her waist tighten, and realized that something was wrong with the water surface. She immediately relaxed her body and swam up in the direction the rope was pulled up. After a while, Qin Shuyan was pulled onto the boat, and the boat also increased its speed and sped forward.
Seeing that the two ships were about to approach, Xia Xiaoman turned on the loudspeaker to warn them that if they came any closer, he would immediately open fire.
The two ships didn't know whether they didn't believe that they had shells on board, but they still approached them. Seeing that the other party had crossed the border, Xia Xiaoman opened fire without hesitation.
After being hit by the shells, the two ships sailed in another direction. The sawfish followed the two ships closely and disappeared in a short while. Seeing the sawfish leave, Xia Xiaoman and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
The rest of the journey went smoothly and Xia Xiaoman and his team arrived at Bisongling safely.
But reaching Bisongling is only the first step. Next comes the real adventure.
When they were approaching Bisongling, Xia Xiaoman and his crew encountered many low rocky mountains. They carefully rowed the boat for a long time before they successfully crossed these rocky mountains.
After entering Bisongling, they not only had to face low rocky mountains but also many protruding hills. If they were not careful, the boat would be scratched.
There were many long and thin insects swimming in the waters of Bisongling. Xia Xiaoman and his colleagues were not sure whether these insects would be harmful to the human body, so they did not dare to send anyone into the water to explore the way. This meant that every time they moved forward one meter, they had to use an underwater searchlight to observe the road ahead.
The waters of Bisongling were extremely turbid, and it was difficult to see the road ahead clearly from the images taken by the searchlight.
Xia Xiaoman and his companions drove forward for a while by feeling, and mist rose from the water. Now they were really blind, and could not see anything, only a vast expanse of white before their eyes.
Sun Qing looked at Xia Xiaoman, "Do you want to continue forward?"
Xia Xiaoman looked at the time and shook his head, saying, "Let's sail here today, drop anchor, and wait until tomorrow morning to see if the fog has cleared."
If you sail in such dense fog, you may hit the mountain if you are not careful. For safety reasons, wait for the fog to clear.
Surrounded by thick fog, Xia Xiaoman felt a little uneasy. She looked down at Maodan, who looked normal and didn't react much.
The next morning, the fog had cleared a little, and at least the road ahead could be seen clearly. Xia Xiaoman asked people to start the boat quickly to make up for the missed trip yesterday.
After about four hours of sailing, Xiao Zheyu, who was driving the boat, left the cabin and found Xia Xiaoman. "Sister Xiaoman, come and take a look. Is this where we docked yesterday?"
Xia Xiaoman frowned and looked around. It was indeed the place where they docked the boat yesterday. The fish bones they had caught yesterday were still hanging on the vines above the water.
"Are we going to drive straight ahead today?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
Xiao Zheyu nodded and said, "Yes, I just drove straight ahead along this waterway without changing directions."
Xia Xiaoman took out a telescope and looked around, then pointed in a direction and said, "Go over there later and keep your eyes on that mountain. No matter what's on the water ahead, as long as the boat can get through, don't change direction."
Xiao Zheyu nodded in response, then returned to the cockpit to continue driving the boat.
A few hours later, Xiao Zheyu stared at the water and fell into deep doubt. "Sister Xiaoman, are we trapped in a maze? Why do I always end up here no matter how I walk?"
Xia Xiaoman's face darkened. Since there was no way to leave based on the reference points on the ground, then he could leave based on the reference points in the sky. "Keep sailing, follow the direction of the sun!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Qing's voice sounded from behind, "Huh? What is this?"
Xia Xiaoman turned around and asked, "What is that?"
Sun Qing was about to answer Xia Xiaoman when she saw insects crawling densely under the boat. She screamed, "Fuck! Leeches! So many leeches!"
Xia Xiaoman walked over quickly and looked under the boat. The white bottom of the boat was covered with dense brown-red leeches, some of which had already climbed onto the guardrail.
Xia Xiaoman quickly took out a glass bottle and a pair of chopsticks, picked up two leeches and threw them into the glass bottle. "Take these two leeches to Luo Menglin to have a look. If they are useful, find a way to catch them. If they are useless, have someone sprinkle salt on the guardrail to get these leeches down."
Sun Qing responded and entered the cabin with the glass bottle containing leeches.
A few minutes later, Sun Qing trotted out and said, "I don't know whether these leeches are useful or not, but they are very dangerous."
"Luo Menglin threw a small crucian carp into the glass bottle, and the two leeches immediately burrowed under the scales of the crucian carp. After a while, the crucian carp died. Luo Menglin cut the crucian carp open with a knife, but not a drop of blood came out because the leeches had sucked it all clean."
Upon hearing this, Xia Xiaoman took out two large bags of sea salt from the space and said, "Sprinkle the salt on the guardrail. Leeches are afraid of salt, and they can't come up after sprinkling salt on them."
As Xia Xiaoman spoke, he opened the bag, grabbed a handful of salt and sprinkled it on the guardrail.
A few minutes later, two leeches crawled up from the bottom of the boat, ignoring the sea salt on the guardrail, and crawled towards Xia Xiaoman at an extremely fast speed...
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