under the vortex

Chapter 43 Doubt

The time a person holds his breath in water is related to the lung capacity of the human body. Generally, the time a person holds his breath in water is only about one to two minutes. If he holds his breath for too long, it will cause hypoxia and cause damage to the human body.So Baimashan and Lu Maowang dived to each side for a minute or two, and then emerged from the water to breathe.

"Did you find anything?" Hu Xiang, who was standing at the top of the stairs, called out to them.

Lu Maowang wiped off the water from his face: "It's too dark, I can only touch it, and I don't know where there are so many iron frames underneath, I almost scratched my hand just now."

"Brother Bai, where are you?"

"I found two cans." Baimashan said and swam towards Hu Sisi. He just dived down to the bottom as much as possible. As soon as his feet stepped on the board, he felt that there were several cans. He reached out his hands in the dark and found two cans of compressed biscuits that had been washed onto the boat by the current.

"Beautiful!" Hu Sixiang bent down and took the two cans from Baimashan, turned around and put them on the side of the stairs on the upper floor.

"Brother Bai, you're the best." Sun Jiaojiao didn't leave. She was called here to help fish for things, and she only needed to pick up the things they caught. Wouldn't it be better than carrying luggage?

Before Lu Maowang went into the water, he claimed to be good at water. Now Baima Mountain, which is older than him, has caught things. He didn't catch anything, so he plunged hard and went down again.

Baimashan speculated that the places where these cans fell to the ground should not be far away, so he asked Sun Jiaojiao to hand him the fish, turned around and dived again.

Coming out of the water for the second time, Lu Maowang picked up two boxes of luncheon meat. Just as he was about to show off, he saw Baima Mountain emerging from the water with heavy fish in his hand. He copied seven or eight cans of things at once .

Sun Jiaojiao was so excited that she reached out to take the fish dumplings from Baima Mountain, and took out a bunch of luncheon meat and compressed biscuits: "With these, I can last for a few more days."

The two continued to dive again. Baimashan knew that fresh water was the most lacking on board at this time, so he was looking for bottled water this time.Holding his breath, he groped slowly at the bottom of the boat. Although the water flow inside the boat was not as turbulent as outside the boat, it still had a certain speed. He struggled forward in the dark water flow little by little, relying on the sense of touch of his hands and feet to judge What is the object that I touched, and it didn't float up again until I couldn't hold it anymore.

In the process of going up and down repeatedly, Lu Maowang was the first to find the bucket.He tied the lifeline in his hand to the waist of the drum with great difficulty, and he did it all by blind feeling.

When he was almost tied, he floated to the surface and gave the other end of the rope to Hu Sisi, and asked him and Sun Jiaojiao to pull hard on it, while he and Baimashan also helped push in the water.

It was only with such four people working hard together that they dragged up a bucket of ten liters of pure water.

With the experience for the first time, two more boxes were picked up one after another.

Anna said that there were eight buckets of water on the boat before, but four buckets were dropped yesterday and night during the barbecue, so there should be four buckets in the storage room, but now three buckets have been picked up, which means there is still one bucket left.

Lu Maowang didn't use skillful energy just now, he used all his strength, and he was out of breath now.

Although Baima Mountain was also tired, it was better than Lu Maowang, so Lu Maowang was asked to go up for a rest first, and then he dived down to find it.

After many dives just now, he already has a little understanding of the situation below, which can save him some time. After all, there are too many dives, and the time for him to hold his breath is getting shorter and shorter.

Even though it was pitch black all around, Baima Mountain quickly dived to the deepest point.He slowly groped towards a corner that he hadn't been to before, when he suddenly bumped into a big round guy under his feet.

He was overjoyed, and when he squatted down to tie the bucket, he bumped into a shelf next to him, and in the next second, something heavy hit him on the head, and he dodged subconsciously, and his arm was scratched by a sharp edge Open, the pain in his head and hands made him unable to stand up all at once, he couldn't hold his breath, and the water choked into his nasal cavity. The uncomfortable feeling of suffocation made him want to float up, but the dizziness and pain made him unable to use his strength. He was able to pull on the lifeline on his waist, allowing Hu Sisi to pull him up.

At this time, Lu Maowang on the shore was chatting with Sun Jiaojiao, Hu Sisi beside him didn't talk to him, he was only thinking about how to divide the food and water, and he didn't pay attention to the rope at all.

After he finished ordering these things, he realized that Baima Mountain hadn't come up yet.

Hu Sisi touched Lu Maowang who was still talking vigorously: "Brother Bai has been down for too long, so nothing will happen?"

Lu Maowang came to his senses and hurried to pull the rope. When the three men pulled Baima Mountain up, Baima Mountain was already out of breath.

Hu Sixiang was terrified: "I, I really didn't feel him pulling the rope."

"Don't talk nonsense, unbutton his clothes." Lu Maowang hurriedly pressed his chest and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

He grew up by the sea, so he still knows this life-saving skill.

The movement here also made everyone who was carrying luggage rush over. Jia Wenjun will also perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and take turns pressing Baimashan's chest with Lu Maowang.

After more than ten minutes of relaying like this, Baimashan finally spit out a mouthful of water and recovered.

Jia Wenjun let out a breath, and fell to the ground in exhaustion.

"There's a lot of blood on his arm." Sun Jiaojiao saw that the sleeves of Baimashan's shirt were cut, and the wound inside looked quite deep.

"Hurry up and send him to the room." Lu Maowang said, and asked Hu Sisi and Mr. Wang to help each other, and sent Baima Mountain to the room where Gong Dalong was lying.

Maybe it was too tired, Baimashan fell asleep again.

Two wounded and lethargic patients, one with a hand injury and one with a foot injury, were lying on both sides of the bed.

Lu Maowang and the others continued to fish for things, and the rest of the people went to move things separately. Jia Wenjun came over with a medical kit to disinfect and bandage Baimashan's arm.

She seems to have become a ship's doctor now, and she is asked to deal with the aftermath of anyone who is injured.

Jia Wenjun carefully unbuttoned the sleeves of Baima Mountain. At this time, most of the people on the boat were wearing short sleeves, but Baima Mountain was still wearing long-sleeved trousers when going down the water. Considering his usual stable personality, it is normal for him to be like this.

She wrapped the bloody sleeves on Baimashan's arm one by one, rinsed him with precious mineral water, and applied anti-inflammatory drugs. She lifted his arm with one hand, and was about to bandage it with the gauze in the other, when suddenly Looking at the inner side of his arm, there are actually four scratches from women's fingernails, which seem to be left after being scratched hard. Judging from the condition of the skin, it should have happened very recently.

After Baimashan got on the boat, if he didn't quarrel with others, how could there be a woman's scratches on his hands?

Jia Wenjun's mind suddenly remembered Zhao Di's "Help" in the haze, her heart sank suddenly, and her hands shook.

This wound is extremely secretive, if she hadn't opened his sleeve to bandage him, she wouldn't have seen it at all.He has to wear such tight clothes when he goes into the water, is it just to cover up something?
The more Jia Wenjun thought about it, the more frightened he became. Looking at the man who had passed out on the bed, a chill rose in his heart.

(End of this chapter)