Chapter 371
"It's so deep, not to mention the possibility of ferocious fish like sharks down there. We might suffocate to death from lack of oxygen before we even get down!"
Following the leader's rebuttal, the other sailors also started to make a fuss, "Yeah, going down there means death."
"It's a blessing to have escaped death. Maybe ten of us would go down and none of us would come back up. You don't take our lives seriously!"
"Then why should we go down? Since we're all going to die, just beat us to death!"
The captain listened to the noise and fired two shots into the air.
The huge noise instantly shocked everyone present. Everyone looked at him in horror, their faces pale.
Seeing that everyone was shocked, the captain waved to the people behind him.
A tall man behind him immediately threw out a handful of hoses.
"See this hose?"
"It's over a hundred meters long. The front end is connected to our diesel compressor, which will continuously supply oxygen downwards. All you have to do is hold onto a hose and quickly spread the net for us."
"Although the risk is a bit high, what in this world is risk-free? Even eating or drinking water can cause choking."
"What's more, our compensation is not low. Before you set out to sea, we have already paid 1,000 yuan to your family. If you can return alive, you can get another 1,000 yuan!"
"Even if something happens to you, we will hand over this money to your family, so you better think carefully, do you want to go down, or die now!"
Having said that, the captain no longer hesitated and pulled the trigger at one of the people who stood out.
With a bang, the bullet hit the other person's eyebrows. As the deceased fell to the ground with a bang, panic screams were heard at the scene.
They were all the most honest and poor fishermen, and had never seen such a scene before. Most of them hugged their heads, curled up their bodies, and shivered on the deck.
"Down, or die!"
"Uncle Dasheng, let's fight him~"
A young man stood up, his face full of anger, and was about to step forward with his fists clenched.
But before he could do anything, a gun was put to his head!
Xu Dasheng pulled the young man behind him and said, "Boss, let's get off! Let's get off!"
The young man wanted to say something, but Xu Dasheng's iron-like hand tightly grasped his arm. He looked at Xu Dasheng's face and finally said nothing.
When he came out, his father repeatedly told him to listen to Uncle Dasheng!
Under the captain's intimidation, the sailors walked to the deck next to them, picked up the hoses on the ground that were slightly larger than the infusion tubes, and put them in their mouths.
The tall younger brother behind the captain was impatiently explaining to everyone how to use it.
"This soft tube will continuously supply you with oxygen. You're veterans now, so you know how to use it. Remember to hold it in your mouth. If you accidentally let it go, we won't be able to find you. We'll have to wait for you to float up, and you won't even have a chance to float up!"
"Also, don't crowd in too many people when you go down. If you get tangled up by running around, the hoses will get tangled and the oxygen won't get down. In that kind of water, there's no time to wait for you to find the knot."
"Remember, once you get down there, move quickly and deploy our net as quickly as possible. The sooner we get it done, the sooner you can get back up..."
All the sailors were assigned a hose and stood in a group listening to the tall man's explanation.
After these words, all the sailors were driven into the sea like dumplings.
A huge fishing net weighing hundreds of pounds was thrown into the sea.
There were several guns on the boat pointed at everyone, and they had no way out in this vast sea.
A man in his thirties or forties, thinking of his children and his elderly mother at home, gritted his teeth and yelled, "Brothers, let's fight!"
After saying that, he bit the hose, turned around and chased after the sinking fishing net.
Seeing this, the others also looked as if they were ready to die. They bit the hose and dived down.
They are all experienced sailors. When they were recruited, many people signed up because of the temptation of high salaries. They all went through layers of assessment before signing the contract.
After about ten meters in the water, with everyone's concerted efforts, the big net was slowly pulled apart.
Everyone remembered what the tall guy had just said: don't mix them together, otherwise they will die if the hose gets tangled.
Everyone subconsciously pulled a corner of the fishing net and retreated to the side.
The deeper we go, the greater the pressure in the water. Everyone grits their teeth and their facial features twist in pain.
Xu Dasheng led the young man down slowly, 20 meters, 25 meters, 30 meters, 35 meters...
Just when everyone was about to despair, they reached the bottom, a full fifty meters. At this moment, everyone's eyes were bulging, and everyone felt like their temples were about to explode, and their whole bodies were aching like needles.
But no one hesitated at all. Everyone endured the great pain and quickly fixed the fishing net on the rocks nearby.
At this depth, every second you spend on the seabed could cost you your life.
Large amounts of nitrogen are rapidly entering our bodies.
A large number of plastic bottles floated to the surface at the top of the fishing net, forming a fish trap of huge caliber.
The captain and others on the sea looked at the neatly arranged rows of bottles and grinned with joy.
"These scoundrels have some skills!"
Underwater, a nearly one-kilometer-long cordon slowly unfolded under the pull of the fishing boat, forming a huge circle outside the fishing trap.
The sailors who had just set up the fishing nets swam quickly to the outside of the circle and began to slap the ground to drive away the fish, creating a large number of bubbles and sounds. The fish in the sea felt the drive and began to swim into the trap in large numbers.
Some sailors' bodies had reached their limit and they fainted in the water. Some sailors suddenly felt that the hoses in their mouths were no longer supplying oxygen, so they swam upwards in panic, but began to sink before they even emerged from the water.
The feint-to-the-east, attack-the-west operation took four or five minutes to complete, by which time eighty percent of the fish in the area had already entered the fishing net.
Looking at the partners who were decreasing one by one around them, no one dared to slack off. Everyone endured the great pain and took the last step, driving the prey to the center. As long as this step was completed, their lives would be saved.
Otherwise, the diesel compressor and oxygen supply will be stopped, and no one will be able to go up.
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