"Oh my god! I haven't worked for a long time, and then I worked for more than two hours straight. It's really tiring. My back is about to give out!"
Having finally found some free time, Bai Yu rubbed her back with a pained expression.
"Mr. Bai, aren't you an athlete? People always say athletes are in great physical condition, so how come your back can't take it?"
"Brother Chen, although I am a long-distance runner, I always keep my back straight, whether it is a competition or training. But now, for two and a half hours, my back has not been straight. I have been working with my back bent the whole time!"
Do you think I can handle this for long? My back is killing me, even the slightest movement is painful!
"That's true. It's really uncomfortable to bend over for a long time. Mr. Bai, will this affect your later competitions? Why don't you stay in the bridge with the captain and the others for the next few days?"
"It's okay, it's not a big problem, I'll get used to it."
Bai Yu's current situation is that she hasn't worked for a long time, and suddenly she has to do a lot of work, so her back is a little sore.
He'll get much better once he gets used to it. As for Chen Ge's concern about the impact on the game, that's not too important.
Bai Yu is going to Hawaii to participate in a track and field competition, which is a preliminary round. This competition uses a points system, so whether he wins the championship or not is not a big deal. As long as he gets enough points to enter the finals, that will be enough.
After a short rest, Bai Yu stood up from the deck again, picked up the seafood basket, and continued working.
After a busy night until past midnight, the dinner bell rang on the deck. Bai Yu immediately put down his tools and called to Wang Hai, who was standing next to him, that they should go eat.
"Ah Hai, let's go have lunch! Brother Chen, we're going to eat first, you guys keep busy, we'll come back to relieve you later."
"You guys go ahead, you don't need to come back to relieve us after you finish eating. You can go about your business, we have people here to relieve you."
"Okay then, I'll go back to the crew quarters to edit the video later."
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he led Wang Hai towards the cabin and then to the restaurant to prepare for dinner.
Lunch was quite plentiful; putting everything else aside, there were several more dishes than usual.
In the past, they would only have five or six dishes for lunch, but today they added an extra meal, bringing the total to eight dishes and a soup.
The extra dishes included braised stingray, spicy South China Sea prawns, and a shrimp ball and vegetable soup.
A whole stingray weighing over 100 pounds was definitely too much for the people on the boat to finish in one meal. Moreover, they weren't just eating one dish, so the braised stingray at noon only used a quarter of the stingray.
Bai Yu and Wang Hai lined up with their trays to get their food. Just as it was about to be their turn, the emergency alarm on the fishing boat suddenly went off.
'Waaaaa~'
Bai Yu listened to the voice beside him with a puzzled expression. He looked at Uncle Zhang in the kitchen and asked:
"Uncle, what's going on? Why is there an alarm going off?"
Although Bai Yu had been out to sea on the Yuxue fishing boat several times, this was the first time he had heard an alarm sound on the ship, but he had no idea what was going on.
"I'm not entirely sure either, but for a captain to sound the alarm, it must be something serious. It could be a storm, a sudden change in the weather, or an encounter with another country's ship."
"But Xiaoyu, don't worry. We're in the South China Sea now, this is our territory. No matter how big the problem is, it's nothing in our country. Don't worry."
Despite the alarm sounding, Uncle Zhang calmly ate his lunch, completely ignoring it.
Not only Uncle Zhang, but even the crew members dining in the restaurant were quite calm. Apart from speeding up their meals a little, there were no other changes.
After all, they only heard the alarm, not the captain's announcement. If the captain had started making announcements, that would have been a real emergency. Right now, they were just telling the crew to be more aware of their surroundings and to be wary of collisions.
Seeing that everyone around him was very calm, Bai Yu also calmed down and continued to choose the dishes he wanted to eat.
For example, when making soup, scoop out a few more shrimp balls, or when braising stingray, pick out a few more pieces of the skirt meat.
The manta ray's skirt, just like the turtle's skirt, is soft and rich in collagen.
Bai Yu had just finished getting his food when his walkie-talkie rang, and his uncle's voice came through.
"Xiao Yu, is Xiao Yu here? Please answer if you hear me."
Is his uncle looking for him?
"Uncle, I'm here. Do you want me to get you some food? Or is there something else?"
"Get me a lunch and bring it to the captain's cabin. Also, bring your own lunch with you, and Wang Hai too. You two come to the captain's cabin now."
Hearing his uncle's voice coming through the walkie-talkie, Bai Yu didn't quite understand why his uncle had asked him to bring lunch to the captain's cabin.
But that doesn't matter. He's Bai Yu's maternal uncle and also the captain of the Yu Xue. He'll just do whatever the captain says. What, would his maternal uncle harm him?
Bai Yu then picked up his bowl of shrimp ball and vegetable soup and downed it in one gulp. After that, he and Wang Hai went to queue up for food.
The captain's cabin wasn't just for my uncle; there was also the third mate in his shift, and if they were to bring food, they would bring enough for two people.
Soon, Bai Yu and Wang Hai, each carrying two lunches, headed towards the captain's cabin. All the crew members they encountered along the way made way for the two brothers until they reached the door of the captain's cabin.
"Uncle, Brother Huang, open the door! I've brought you food!"
As Bai Yu shouted, the door to the captain's cabin opened from the inside, and it was Brother Huang who opened the door for him.
This Brother Huang is also an old acquaintance of Bai Yu. He was one of the first crew members of the Yu Xue fishing boat. He used to be the team leader among the crew members working on the deck. Now he has become the third mate on the Yu Xue. He will be promoted to second mate next year if he passes the exam.
This man is one of my uncle's trusted men, a crew member he brought from his former company. My uncle trained him like a captain.
Why do you treat Brother Huang so well?
Huang Ge is related to Bai Yu's aunt, and he is also related to his cousin Liu Tianyu.
"Uncle, Brother Huang, what's going on? I see all the high-pressure water cannons on the boat are turned on. What happened?"
As soon as Bai Yu entered the wheelhouse, he saw that both high-pressure water cannons at the bow of the boat were turned on.
Moreover, it wasn't just their fishing boat that turned on the water cannon; the other three fishing boats, Yuxue, also turned on their high-pressure water cannons, creating a water curtain in front of their bows.
The dense water curtain made it difficult for Bai Yu to see what was happening ahead, which is why he asked his uncle and brother Huang for help.
"What else could it be? The Filipino monkeys we chased away are back. And this time it's not just one of their fishing boats; they've brought quite a few, more than ten fishing boats."
These guys are provoking us, but they don't have many offensive capabilities on their ship. Besides shouting into the radio, all they can do is suppress us with their water screen.
Based on what Brother Huang said, it's possible that the fishing boat they drove away was reluctant to leave the shrimp swarms there, so they went back and called over many more fishing boats.
There were ten fishing boats in total: one large, six medium-sized, and three small.
According to the other party's original plan, they thought that Bai Yu and his group only had one fishing boat. They believed that the fishing boats they brought were enough to surround Bai Yu and his group, and even to conduct a beach landing on the Yu Xue.
But when they arrived, they were stunned to see that the number of fishing boats had increased from one to four, and that all of them were large fishing boats.
Four large boats equipped with dual high-pressure water cannons were not something their fishing boats, which had no means of attack, could handle, but they were unwilling to make a wasted trip.
After all, the fuel consumed on these trips costs money. They came back to drive Bai Yu and the others away so they could catch shrimp and make money themselves.
If they could, they would even like to seize Bai Yu and his fishing boat and tow it back to the Philippines.
It's a pity that they can't beat Bai Yu and the others now.
"Holy crap, are these Filipino monkeys really this arrogant? They dare to block our ship in our territory. Are they drunk?"
"Uncle, what do we do now? Should we call Uncle Wang and the others over, or call the Coast Guard and have the authorities deal with them?"
Bai Yu, a passionate young man, clearly has a bad impression of the people of the Monkey Kingdom, as evidenced by his donations to the Southeast and Eastern Fleets. He's the type who's ready to fight at the slightest provocation.
That's why we can't buy heavy firepower, otherwise he would definitely equip his fishing boats with good stuff and wipe them out!
"There's no need to call Lao Wang and the others. Let's leave this to the Coast Guard. Luckily, one of their patrol ships is not far from here and will be there soon."
"Our current priority is to keep these ships occupied and prevent them from escaping. At least we can't let them all get away. We absolutely must leave a few behind today!"
"Get them! Get them! Brother Huang, I'm going to eat first. You take the water gun and give them a good thrashing. I'll switch with you after I finish eating!"
"No rush, take your time eating. I'll play with them for a while first."
Bai Yu then sat down in the captain's cabin and started eating. He finished a whole plate of lunch, which must have weighed a pound or two, in just a few minutes.
Then he took the rudder of the fishing boat from his uncle, and Wang Hai took the control panel of the high-pressure water gun. The two took turns working on the Philippine monkey's boat.
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