At this moment, Lu Yuan was navigating the ship, humming a little tune, and occasionally checking the nautical chart to prevent himself from veering off course. Meanwhile, the sonar detector in front was constantly circling and sending signals back the information it detected.
After a major earthquake, the seabed becomes extremely complex. Occasionally, floating ice or rocks accumulate on the seabed, forming reefs. If you don't keep a close eye on them, you might crash into one, creating a large hole in the bottom of the ship. By then, it will be too late to regret it.
Lu Yuan stared intently at the sonar detector and the nautical chart, his mind already racing towards the underground fortress. He wondered what the underground tunnels looked like, whether they were just simple caves like the ones they had dug on the combined island, or perhaps like air-raid shelters with interconnected passageways.
After sailing for three consecutive days, the behemoth would drag the ship for hundreds of kilometers each day before stopping to use gasoline to propel it.
Lu Yuan, Zhou Tong, and Xi Wen took turns piloting the boat each day. Since one person's experience is limited, they took turns, which made it less tiring.
The distance was gradually closing, but the sea seemed endless. Every day, facing the vast ocean, Lu Yuan couldn't help but feel like he was standing still. Occasionally, he would see some ships, which would excite him for a while. He hadn't seen any strangers for a long time now.
That day, Lu Yuan rested in the cabin for a few hours but couldn't fall asleep. Xiao Shan was sitting next to him with a nightlight on, looking at a novel she had written down a few years ago. She was incredibly bored. As was her old habit, she preferred to watch family dramas or urban romance soap operas.
However, Lu Yuan had already watched all the TV series he had downloaded, and there was nothing worth watching anymore. So she could only read a novel with great interest and seemed to have discovered some interesting things in it.
Lu Yuan prefers to play video games in his spare time. Although he doesn't know how many times he has completed the game, he always enjoys passing the time by playing games.
He was playing Contra, a game he had completed countless times. Looking at the familiar levels and bosses, he lightly moved his fingers on the keyboard and quickly finished the game. Seeing the completion mark displayed on the screen, Lu Yuan slowly moved the mouse.
"Sigh, playing games too much gets boring! It would be great if there were online multiplayer!" Lu Yuan actually wanted to set up a LAN to play games.
However, their current power supply is simply insufficient to support so many computers, as the excess power is also needed to power the lights in various cabins and some small electrical appliances, leaving little power available to keep the computers running.
Furthermore, the ship's electricity usage is currently restricted, with only five hours of power available each day. The rest of the time, the power is used to supply power to the batteries located in the ship's hull. After all, if such a ship encounters any problems, the batteries will come in handy.
Suddenly the ship lurched, and Lu Yuan, who had just stood up, almost fell. Fortunately, the cabin was quite narrow, and Lu Yuan gently held onto the wall to steady himself. Xiao Shan also put down the book she was holding and looked out of the cabin door with a puzzled expression.
"Why does it feel like the ship has stopped?" Xiao Shan got up from the bed and looked out the window. The sea was still rolling up and down, but the feeling under her feet had definitely stopped.
Lu Yuan also peered out the window and seemed to sense that the ship had indeed stopped. He then opened the cabin door, and a blast of cold air rushed in, making Lu Yuan quickly tighten his clothes.
Several people were already standing on the deck. Lu's father and Xiaoshan, along with Xiwen who was on duty, stood on the ship's railing and looked into the distance.
"What happened? Why has the boat stopped?"
Lu Yuan walked forward as he went.
Xiwen turned his head to look at Lu Yuan, then pointed into the distance.
There seems to be some trouble ahead!
Lu Yuan quickly walked over and stood on the deck, looking ahead. He saw several ships anchored on the distant sea, bobbing up and down on the surface, as if they had been abandoned there.
"Wow, so many boats? Have they reached the shore?"
Xiwen shook his head: "No, there are still more than 300 kilometers to go. When I looked ahead with my binoculars just now, I saw a few ships ahead and didn't pay much attention to them. I didn't expect that the further we went, the more ships there were. There are probably dozens of ships ahead, which is more than all the ships we have encountered along the way. I felt that something might have happened, so I stopped the ship!"
Lu Yuan's mind was slightly in turmoil. They were almost there, and yet this strange thing had happened.
So he stroked his chin and pondered for a moment: "Let's go, lower the small boat and check the situation! Don't move the boat yet. If there's any problem, get back quickly. The small boat is fast, there won't be any issues!"
Xiwen nodded, then quickly lowered the small boat hanging on the side of the boat. With a clang, the sound of iron chains rang out, and the small boat landed on the sea.
Lu Yuan climbed the ladder and slowly descended into the cabin. His grandmother and mother heard the commotion outside and became anxious when they saw Lu Yuan go back down to the sea.
"Xiao Yuan, what happened? Why did you get into the small boat?"
"It's nothing. There was a little trouble up ahead. I went to check and I'll be right back. Mom, please take good care of Grandma and Grandpa, and don't come along!"
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