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"Taotao?" Zhou Ning stood next to Tao Sai and spoke in a barely audible voice, "Are there bad guys on the boat?"
Through Tao Sai's series of actions, she could guess most of it.
"Yes, we can't be discovered." Tao Sai assured her, still using binoculars to closely monitor every move on the opposite ship.
After observing for a few minutes, Tao Sai found that there was no one on the deck of the Level 4 shelter ship. They were probably all in the cabin. The radar of the early warning system was not turned on, and even the lights were turned on very little. Tao Sai estimated that the power supply on the Level 4 shelter ship could not keep up.
Although it was a Level 4 shelter ship, it was still just a shell. All the internal equipment and facilities had to be assembled by the player, a considerable undertaking. Furthermore, Tao Sai found no wind or solar power generation devices on the hull. After all, to be able to upgrade it to Level 4 in such a short time and complete the ship's infrastructure was truly exceptional.
This stretch of waterway, far from the urban area, was dark. Coincidentally, the starlight and moonlight in the night sky were obscured by thick clouds, making the river pitch-black. The darkness provided cover for the Deep Sea Fish. Even so, Tao Sai didn't dare relax even a bit, until he quietly approached and brushed past. At the shortest distance, Tao Sai's heart was in his throat.
Zhou Ning sensed Tao Sai's emotions and became nervous as well. His hands gripping the steering wheel unconsciously clenched, and his face twisted slightly.
Tao Sai had been mulling over how to respond if discovered. A Class IV refuge ship's attack system included rocket launchers and the more powerful electro-optical cannons. If the Deep Sea Fish were to fire at full force, the ship, lacking any defensive systems, would undoubtedly suffer heavy damage. If they attempted to escape, the power of the two ships wouldn't be comparable.
In fact, no matter how she deduced, there was only one ending for the Deep Sea Fish.
She herself might be able to escape with her own skills and attribute points, but who among the dozen or so people on the boat could survive?
For the next ten minutes, Tao Sai was completely numb, staring at every move of the Level 4 shelter ship and the direction of the gun muzzle until a safe distance was created between the two.
"Tuantuan, start the engine and go full speed ahead!" Tao Sai shouted.
"Good!" Zhou Ning gave feedback immediately, increasing the horsepower to the maximum, the engine rumbled, and the "Deep Sea Fish" rushed through the waves.
However, all the lights on the ship remained off, and there was no night navigation searchlight to illuminate the waterway ahead. This was a considerable challenge for Zhou Ning, especially as the ship was still sailing at top speed. Tao Sai took command with a night vision telescope.
For the next few hours, the two men worked in perfect harmony, sailing at high speed all the way to the estuary until the sky gradually brightened and the water became vast and boundless.
Tao Sai emerged from the cockpit, using the [Gravity Adaptation] skill to float to a higher altitude. She scanned the river behind her through a telescope, confirming that no Level 4 refuge ship was approaching. She breathed a sigh of relief, finally feeling completely out of danger.
After pulling an all-nighter, they were already drowsy and sleepy. Just then, Zhou Weixing arrived to relieve the cockpit. She and Zhou Ning hurried back to the captain's cabin to catch up on some sleep. Even without the aid of [Deep Sleep], they still slept soundly.
They slept until noon, and Li Yinzhu knocked on the door of the captain's room and asked them to come downstairs for dinner.
The two men got up one after another. Tao Sai stretched his body and looked at the vast sea in front of him through the wide-angle glass of the cockpit.
At this time, Zhou Weixing was concentrating on observing the sea ahead while glancing at the electronic nautical chart next to him from time to time.
"How is it, Uncle Zhou?" Tao Sai asked.
"It feels better than being in the river, it's great!" Zhou Weixing said the truth and turned around to give her a thumbs up.
The waves were very rough and the boat was difficult to operate. I don't know if it was a psychological effect or something else, but even the steering wheel was tightened a bit. However, this gave me a better sense of control. This is the fun of driving a big ship, which cannot be given by driving a car.
From the cockpit down to the deck, everyone emerged from the rest cabin and gathered in the large, empty central hold to watch a movie. Li Yinzhu had chosen the film. She opened her daughter's laptop and found many of her favorite art films among the vast array of disks.
But in the end she chose a doomsday movie. She thought she could learn some survival skills from the movie, which would be very helpful now.
After the movie started, it attracted almost everyone on the ship to sit together and watch, including the orthopedic medical staff who had been worried.
Living in the apocalypse and watching apocalyptic movies gives you a special feeling, and it's easy to empathize with the protagonist.
The difference is that no matter what type of disaster movie it is, there must be a relatively positive ending. But this time, they experienced the natural disaster firsthand, and everything was unknown.
Tao Sai and Zhou Ning arrived at the large empty warehouse one after the other. As soon as they sat down, Zhou Ning's stomach suddenly turned upside down and she quickly ran to the bathroom aft to vomit. Tao Sai chased her and saw immediately that she was seasick. The winds and waves were strong on the sea, and the boat's hull heaved much more violently than on the Yangtze River. Seasickness was normal, and one could get used to it.
Tao Sai had been prepared for this. She dug out some seasickness medicine from the medicine pile in the utility room and fed it to Zhou Ning according to the instructions. After Zhou Ning vomited, he took the medicine and drank a large glass of water, and finally recovered.
"It's time for dinner." Li Yinzhu came out of the kitchen carrying a plate of food.
The large round table had been set up long ago. This table was brought by Tao Sai from his grandfather's house. It was nearly ten years old and he couldn't bear to throw it away. This large round table was foldable, which saved a lot of space when folded up. When unfolded, it could seat more than a dozen people at the same time.
Li Yinzhu placed the two plates of shredded green peppers and potatoes on the table and returned to the kitchen to get more food. Zhou Ning followed to help, and An Nan and the other two also followed to serve rice and grab chopsticks. During these few days of spending time together, the three of them had gradually become familiar with the Zhou family and their relationship had become harmonious. The orthopedic specialists also stood up, paused the movie, and set up the chairs and benches.
The dishes were served one by one, including shredded potatoes with green peppers, stir-fried bacon with Erjingtiao, seaweed egg drop soup, and a plate of Cantonese-style sausages, which were fragrant and looked great.
Everyone sat together and started eating.
Each dish filled two plates, which was sufficient, but the ingredients were a bit limited. This was mainly because the food purchased was mainly ready-made products that could be stored for a long time, and the fresh ingredients were only a few that could be kept for a while, including potatoes, bacon, sausage, erjingtiao, and eggs.
In order to make the dishes look more diverse, Grandma Zhou and Aunt Li used all the ingredients.
There is no gas stove on the boat, and it is actually difficult to control the heat when cooking with an induction cooker, but these dishes were cooked quite well, which shows the cooking skills.
"Grandma Zhou, Aunt Li, your cooking is so delicious!" An Nan couldn't help but give a thumbs up. Take the shredded potatoes for example, they are crispy, tasty, and wrapped in the aroma of chili peppers. They taste very fragrant and go well with rice.
An Nan, a hard-working eater, cleared the rice from her bowl in a few mouthfuls, then took a spoon to scoop up the soup and took a big sip. "The soup is delicious too!"
"I totally agree. It should crush our hospital cafeteria." Yin Wenren was thin and usually had an anorexia, but he ate extraordinarily much today.
Guo Xiaoming pointed at her favorite piece of stir-fried bacon with erjingtiao. Although she was hissing from the spiciness, she still wanted to talk. "If I ordered takeout, this dish would cost at least 40 yuan, and there is very little bacon."
Except for the previous meal of scallion oil noodles, everyone was too busy and basically ate bread, biscuits and instant noodles for every meal. This was the first meal everyone had on the boat, and they all came to a surprisingly unanimous conclusion: Grandma Zhou and Li Yinzhu were really good at cooking.
"Of course not. My grandmother used to run a small restaurant, and my mother studies food at home every day." Zhou Ning said proudly, holding his grandmother in one hand and Li Yinzhu in the other.
Tao Sai thought silently, it would be great if all the vegetables grew. With Li Yinzhu and Grandma Zhou on the boat, he would be so happy.
However, it is not realistic to grow vegetables in a short period of time. It is best to get some fresh ingredients in Donghai City. By the way, you also need to get a refrigerator and freezer to further extend the shelf life of the ingredients.
They would arrive in Donghai City early tomorrow morning. There were still quite a few supplies that needed to be replenished in Donghai City. After dinner, Tao Sai quickly made a list:
1. Get more generators and batteries. The power on board is barely enough right now, but we'll need to add more people and develop our refugee ships, so it wouldn't hurt to have more energy in reserve.
2. Installing cabinets and countertops in an open kitchen. Currently, Grandma Zhou and Aunt Li have built a simple countertop out of cardboard boxes. The height isn't right, and there's no sink or anything else, making it very inconvenient. It would be best to custom-make the countertop and cabinets, along with a range hood and sterilizer. Installing an integrated stove is also an option, so they can keep a few LPG tanks handy.
3. Fill the water tank with fresh water.
4. Several large refrigerators.
Aunt Li has not used up the 1 million yuan she saved for online shopping, and she still has more than 200,000 yuan left. This money should be enough to complete the items on the list.
After finishing his meal, Tao Sai got up and climbed into the cockpit to replace Zhou Satellite.
As she turned the steering wheel at the control panel, she suddenly remembered something. Their encounter with the Level 4 refuge ship last night was thrilling, and even now, she was still terrified when she thought about it. But there was another possibility. Maybe the Level 4 refuge ship was really going to rescue someone, and she had been overthinking it all along. It might have already rescued the player.
With this feeling, Tao Sai turned on the [Interaction] function and entered the world channel.
When the chat history was scrolled to the latest version, two lines of announcements suddenly appeared. Different from the conversation font, the announcement was marked with a different font and color. The time showed that the announcement was published nearly ten hours ago.
The moment Tao Sai saw the two lines of red words clearly, his heart stopped.
[Player [Zhang Zhe] has been killed and his information has been erased.]
[The player system carrier [Nautilus] has been disassembled.]
Before Tao Sai could recover from his shock, someone spoke on the world channel at this very moment.
[Only Love Song Wuyi (Lv4)]: So boring, is there anyone who wants to chat? :)
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