The driver, barely breathing, gasped out, “The… the bow… it’s breached…”
Upon hearing this, everyone’s expression changed instantly. Without a word, the night fishing instructor quickly adjusted his own life jacket and hurried to the side of the boat, deftly untying the suspension ropes of the life raft. As everyone stood bewildered, the handsome pianist also set down the injured crew member who had fallen into unconsciousness, and assisted in releasing the life raft.
All aboard were wealthy people who had never laid a finger on manual work, let alone faced such a bloody fire scene. Each was petrified, with trembling hands and feet. One overweight man, watching the night fishing instructor’s frantic efforts, tried to reassure himself, “The bow’s breached, but there’s still fuel, right? We can still make it back, can’t we?… Or else, we can stay on the boat and wait for rescue.” His voice trailed off as he glanced at the pitch-black sea, shivering involuntarily.
Seeing him avoiding reality, the handsome pianist, as he set down the life raft, coldly stated, “If the ship’s hull breach was only caused by grounding, staying on the boat might be safe. But the explosion just now triggered a fire in the cockpit. Once there’s a fuel leak, the ship could explode.”
His words caused everyone present to pale, realizing the severity of the situation. They hurriedly released all the life rafts.
There were three life rafts on the night fishing boat, more than enough for the eight people on board. As the first life raft was lowered into the water, the instructor boarded it first. The handsome pianist, along with another passenger, helped the injured driver onto the raft. But as they tried to get him aboard, the instructor already on the raft suddenly yelled, “Damn it, the life raft is taking on water!”
Everyone couldn’t help but feel a chill in their hearts. They all checked the other two life rafts and discovered that the hull was riddled with several visible holes. Seeing this, the handsome pianist furrowed his brows and still pushed the life raft into the water, murmuring, “Let’s get into the water. Fortunately, this is a tropical area, so there’s no immediate risk of hypothermia.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“Sang-ge, let’s get into the water quickly!”
Si Fangjing urged anxiously, but Ye Sang, trembling all over, hesitated as he looked at the pitch-black sea. At the very moment of his hesitation, the cockpit erupted into an even more violent explosion.
“Hurry up and get into the water! The ship is leaking oil!” The night fishing coach shouted loudly, urging the last three people on the boat while directing those already in the water to swim away from the night fishing boat.
“Sang-ge!”
Si Fangjing shouted again, reaching out to grab Ye Sang. Seeing that he couldn’t move him and glancing at the towering flames behind him, Si Fangjing gritted his teeth, abandoned Ye Sang, and jumped into the sea himself.
Ye Sang watched the blaze behind him, illuminating the once pitch-black sea. Perhaps due to combustible materials, everything inside the cockpit slowly distorted and deformed before Ye Sang’s eyes. The scorching stench of burning and the heat rushed toward him. Unsure if it was an illusion, Ye Sang even felt the ship slowly sinking.
…Either burned alive or drowned… Is this how my life ends…
Ye Sang panicked and felt helpless. The scorching heat from the flames could be felt on his back, but he was even more afraid as he looked at the seemingly bottomless black sea before him.
When he was eight years old, he nearly drowned, and since then, he was afraid of even going near swimming pools. At eight years old, he fell into his aunt’s lotus pond while trying to catch a beautiful golden carp. As he fell into the water, he panicked and struggled, the foul-smelling icy pool water continuously filling his nose and throat, burning like fire. He waved his limbs in the water, trying to grab onto something to pull himself out, but to no use. Slowly, he sank into the water.
The colorful carp surrounded him, watching him struggle in pain with cold eyes. He could even feel his lungs being squeezed and filled with the icy pool water until they burst.
Before losing consciousness, he saw the golden carp that caused him to fall into the water, its huge beautiful tail waving gently across his cheek, its large eyes staring directly at him, as if mocking him — serves you right.
“You afraid of water?”
A deep voice brought Ye Sang back to reality. He looked up to meet a handsome face with slightly furrowed brows. Normally, he would have retorted, but seeing the serious question devoid of teasing or mockery, he weakly nodded.
Seeing this, the handsome pianist furrowed his brows even more and let out a soft sigh.
Before Ye Sang could grasp the meaning behind the sigh, the handsome pianist gave him a firm push, and he was thrown overboard.
Author’s Note:
Little Sang: The Gong doesn’t cherish fragrant jade at all (ʘ言ʘ╬)
Wow isn’t it too much QAQ xiaoye was so afraid of water he considered burning alive but the gong outright sent him down. Patiently waiting online for the gong to turn into a dog soon..
TT_TT awwwh poor Ye Sang,
thanks for the chapters! ❤️😊
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Wooah this looks like such a fun story! Thank you so much for the translation Pickle 🥒
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Sir, as someone who’s taking lessons on how to proceed with passengers that won’t/can’t cooperate in emergency situations, I really wish we could just push them, without lawsuit…. Buuuut since it’s another passenger doing it, it’s totally fine!