old dream

Chapter 155 Underwater Lifeline

Even a freighter with a displacement of nearly [-] tons still shakes like a flat boat in the ocean.

The hull was squeezed and ravaged by the water body, making heavy creaking sounds from time to time.Six people including Colin, Ricardo and Kanado stood at the stern of the boat.If you look in the direction of Stade from here, you can clearly see the continuous lights.

And behind Ke Lin, there is a dark ocean like an abyss.

They lowered the boarding dinghy from the fishing boat before boarding the freighter.Several people took several large bags and ropes with them.The rope was strong and strong, and the bags contained large chunks of salt, which finally weighed more than 400 kilograms, almost sinking the boat under several people.

And as the boat was hoisted by the crew of the cargo ship, these things were brought to the cargo ship.

As the crew left, Ricardo and others rushed into the cargo hold and released nearly a hundred barrels of whiskey.There are more than [-] boxes of original goods of higher quality here, and they have also moved out of more than [-] boxes.

"Hurry up, hurry up." Ricardo urged in a low voice, and several people unconsciously accelerated their movements. After an hour and a half, they moved a part of the cargo to the deck.

Then several people used ropes to connect these goods one by one, and tied hundreds of kilograms of salt bags to them.

There were also some ballast weights on the ship. According to the counterweight that Ke Lin had calculated in advance, several people moved out 4.2 tons of them, put them into sacks, and tied them to various positions on the ropes.

As a result, at this moment, a light came from the distant sea.Less than two hours later, another coast patrol boat passed by.

Because a fleet of the alliance is temporarily repairing in Stade, the number of patrol ships has expanded to dozens of times.

"Get down!" Colin hurriedly said, and upon hearing his order, several of them lay down on the wet deck together.

The beams of light from the xenon searchlights passed over their heads immediately, illuminating the spread goods.But the other side didn't seem to notice anything unusual.Ten minutes later, the lights went away.Colin looked up from the deck to confirm, his heart still trembling slightly.

If the patrol boat had passed a few minutes later, something might have happened.

Then he stood up first, and stuck some thin wood pieces into the gaps in the iron hoop of the barrel one by one. They were all tracking devices.

"Are you really going to push all these goods into the sea?"

Then Ricardo also got up from the deck, but until now, he was still a little puzzled:

"What if they all drift to the southern land?"

"No," said Colin, "they'll go ashore tomorrow."

After confirming that the ropes were securely tied, several people began to operate the crane, and dozens of wine barrels and wine boxes connected in series were slowly sank into the pitch-black sea.These few minutes are the most dangerous, but fortunately, the patrol boat has passed by not long ago.

Ricardo looked at the pitch-black sea, and there was nothing there, because the heavy objects were suspended, the wine barrels didn't even sink into the sea surface.

Tonight they dumped a full 25 tons of whiskey, expecting it to float ashore on its own.This sort of thing can indeed happen in shallow water a few hundred meters from shore.But the ocean is unpredictable, not to mention the distance from here to the coast is already a full six kilometers.

Only a lunatic would have such an idea, even if it was Colin's decision, Ricardo always felt that he was in vain with tens of thousands of Auri.Something had swallowed this shipment whole, and they were never to be seen again.

But in Ke Lin's consciousness at this time, this sea area is by no means pitch black.

More than [-] tracking marks have been spread all over it, like countless stars illuminating the trajectory of the water flow.

Every day, a large number of tracking marks enter the offshore from the river. Because of density changes, most of these hardwood chips float up to the shallow layer and outline the direction of countless water currents.

As of today, that is, as of October NO.17, Ke Lin has performed fourteen rounds of this daily practice.Tens of thousands of long lines drawn by more than a thousand brushstrokes in fourteen days roughly outline the direction of the nearby water flow.

Until the night before, Colin discovered a large-scale onshore current.It is only about one kilometer wide, but it stretches out to the sea for more than ten kilometers.

After another day of observation, Colin was somewhat certain that it was stable for now.

This powerful inshore current is strong enough to send the floats into shallow water, after which breaking waves wash the cargo ashore.A large number of tracking marks were washed back because of this onshore current and ran aground on the shore.

Of course, the sea current is volatile, and the risk of cargo loss still exists.That's why Ke Lin installed dozens of tracking devices in each wine barrel as a guarantee.

However, because of the terrifying profit difference of dozens of times, as long as the loss rate can be controlled below 50.00%, Ke Lin is completely acceptable.

Several people shone the lights down the side of the ship, and the sea was calm.

Just like the 25 tons of cargo, it has disappeared out of thin air.

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In the afternoon of the next day, the six of them left the rocky coast in a small boat and stopped 30 meters offshore.

No one was talking or joking, they were all watching the nearby water intently.Just when everyone felt disappointed and wanted to smile wryly, Colin opened his eyes.

"Over there," said Colin, pointing to a calm patch of water.A few people rowed the small boat suspiciously, and then there was a muffled bang from the bottom of the boat, as if it had hit something.

Ricardo reached out his hand under the water surface, and touched a strong rope.Just at this moment, most of the salt in those cloth bags melted, no longer enough to resist the buoyancy of the wooden barrels. With the sound of splashing water, several wine barrels that needed to be hugged by people turned out of the water.

Then a whole piece of flotsam was brought out, almost enclosing their dinghy.

"My God!"

"Look there are more over there!"

"Damn, it's really all floating back!"

The few people except Ke Lin couldn't help being dumbfounded. They clearly tied the ropes and put the goods into the water, but at this moment they couldn't understand what happened between last night and today.

Confirming that the idea can be realized, Colin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.Finding objects, in Kayu, is just a witchcraft for the poor to find coins.But combined with some ways of thinking from previous lives, it has almost infinite extensibility.

The problem of dry supply has been solved forever.

A few friends couldn't help their surging emotions, and together they uttered weird monkey-like screams on the boat.Colin was infected by their emotions and couldn't help smiling.Yeah, that's nearly 25 tons of whiskey.And as long as they are willing, these moonshine will be able to be imported endlessly into Stade, and even other regions of the alliance.

After everyone's excitement calmed down, Colin stood up on the boat and said to these partners who grew up on the street together:
"Do you remember the process of last night? I will tell you where to drop and pick up the goods in the future. You will be busy tonight and tomorrow night. After that, you will go to sea every three days."

"I can pay each of you five hundred Ori for each trip to sea." Colin said:

"Why do I have to pay such a high price, and I can only entrust this job to you, because you are the only people I can fully trust. And in the next two to three months, this route will be Our lifeline."

I don't know if it was because of the high price of 500 Ori each time, or because of what Ke Lin said was extremely serious, someone couldn't help swallowing secretly.

"But you have to think carefully before accepting the money." Colin said, "Because if I find out who leaked the news about this lifeline. Whether it is intentional or not, I feel that he has betrayed me."

"Then, I won't take into account any relationship in these years." Colin took a deep breath and said:
"We are the people who are most familiar with each other, but I will personally execute him in front of each of you."

The sea was foggy, and occasionally a small flock of seagulls flew by.Colin's words were slow, but they reached everyone's ears clearly.

The boat swayed with the waves, and everyone fell silent for a while, looking at each other's faces.

"You can trust us, Colin."

After a long time, someone laughed and said:
"Even if you don't believe in our friendship, you should believe that we would never want to lose such an income."

His words broke the stalemate and made it easy for most people.Afterwards, the remaining few people told Ke Lin that they would never leak the news.

Because of the waves, both the boat and the barrels were constantly drifting towards the shore.Several people hooked the rope to the stern of the boat, rowed the oars and began to choose a place to dock.

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When they saw those wine barrels floating up, Ricardo and Canado were not as surprised as others, and they also smiled together afterwards, but they were not as uncontrollably ecstatic as others.

The other partners hadn't experienced the night at the warehouse casino, and didn't know that there were supernatural beings in the world, so those people only thought that Colin had created another miracle, and accepted it without thinking too much.

Only the two of them knew that this miracle should be the result of witchcraft again.Human beings should not rely too much on witchcraft.

Although Ricardo didn't say it clearly, he also knew that Colin was stepping into the extraordinary step by step.But for Kanado, this is the first time he has discovered that Colin is practicing witchcraft.

Several people dragged the wine barrels ashore, and then loaded them into the prepared carriage.After that, these carriages will travel several times between the dealerships, and then send the goods into the city.

Colin took out a leather bag from a carriage, and inside were bundles of heavy Ori.He called everyone and paid each partner a reward.

When Kanado took a thick stack of Ori from Colin, he hesitated for a moment.Always inclined to silence, he couldn't help but say something now:
"I will go to sea with them, and I will abide by the agreement and keep the secret for you." Kanado said:
"In the future, I will still help you, but if you still have work similar to last night, don't call me again."

The man as calm as an iron tower raised his head and said:
"Because I don't want to have anything more to do with this kind of thing."

This kind of thing refers to something related to the extraordinary.

During Ricardo's two years in prison, it was Kanado who helped him deal with many things.In Colin's mind, he is as reliable as Ricardo.

Colin originally planned to let him also participate in the core of his affairs, and earn more Ori together.Unfortunately, he didn't want to.

Colin thought for a while, nodded and patted his thick shoulder:

"I understand."

　The clues left in the previous chapter cannot be broken out of thin air, so try to compress it as much as possible.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)