Phi-Fic Chapter 957
Chapter 957
Zhou Shuwan explores the seabed.
The seabed within a radius of several kilometers in this sea area is flat, and the direction of the ocean current is stable, which can carry away the dead fish in time and will definitely not form a pollution dead corner.
"This place is only three days away from Island No. 1. It's very close to our Island No. 1." The captain's voice echoed in the cockpit. There was a hint of fatigue in his tone, but he couldn't hide his excitement.
When the sea water recedes in the future, they will still need to return to the island to live.
After discussion and weighing the pros and cons, and after repeated deductions from the perspectives of survival resources and climatic conditions, everyone reached a consensus and unanimously agreed to designate this area of sea with calm winds and waves as the new settlement.
After several days of high-intensity exploration, everyone was exhausted. They rested for two hours, replenished some water and smoked dried fish, and then followed the same route back home.
Everyone was familiar with the route, and the return journey was a little easier than the journey there.
It ultimately took them two and a half days to reach the mothership.
The captain reported all their survey data in detail, not even missing the possible undercurrent hazards that Zhou Shuwan mentioned.
Captain Shang's face, which had been tense for many days, showed a long-lost smile.
He slowly glanced at the officers on standby inside the cabin, and his voice, which had been slightly tired, suddenly became sonorous and powerful: "Okay! Notice that all ships will immediately begin inventorying supplies and overhauling equipment. In three days, we will all depart for the new sea area!"
The news spread throughout the fleet as fast as it could, and when the ordinary survivors heard it, the emotions that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly burst out.
Someone leaned against the side of the boat and shouted excitedly, "Finally, we don't have to smell that pungent seafood odor every day!"
Some people high-fived each other, their eyes full of anticipation for a new life.
Cheers soon rang out on the deck, and even the sea breeze seemed to be filled with the scent of joy.
At this time, the fleet had a total of more than 7,000 people and dozens of ships of various sizes.
They had lost a dozen ships in previous ice melts.
Those ships were damaged by the huge ice floes and eventually sank into the dark seabed little by little, carrying with them the supplies that could not be moved in time.
When all the ships lined up and sailed slowly on the sea that had been silent for a long time, the bows broke through the blue waves and the sterns left long water marks. In addition, the supplies neatly stacked on the deck and the equipment that had been repaired made it look quite magnificent from a distance.
The water quality in the new sea area is indeed cleaner, and dead fish are rarely seen.
Yuxuan seemed to be in a much better mood after coming to the new environment.
When the Zhou family visited her, she was still able to talk and laugh, although her health was not good and she had a fever several times in the past few days, and her face still looked sick.
Zhang Jia also heard about Yuxuan's condition and visited her twice.
When I first saw her, the gentle and silent girl in my memory was now skinny and could only move around in a wheelchair. There were many scars on her face.
She was very shocked and it took all her effort to suppress these emotions in her heart.
Her eyes were slightly red, and she finally patted Yuxuan's hand gently, smiling and saying, "We have reunited with the main force, and we will have more opportunities to meet in the future."
Yuxuan held her hand and called out, "Sister Jiajia."
After leaving Yuxuan, she said to Zhou Shuwan, who was silent beside her, "Wanwan, I think we are the happiest among the survivors."
Although she lost her unborn child, she also experienced many misfortunes in her life.
But compared to Yuxuan, she felt that she was much luckier.
Zhou Shuwan smiled bitterly: "Yes, we are lucky enough to be able to live safely until now, and still have family and friends around us."
Zhang Jia looked at the dazzling daylight outside the deck and whispered, "I hope these peaceful days can last a little longer."
After these days of exploration, everyone has realized that in today's ocean, apart from the occasional scattered plankton floating on the sea surface, it is difficult to find any trace of living things.
The sea area where they live now is so calm that there is not a single ripple. It is no exaggeration to call it a "Dead Sea".
But this dead silence did not extinguish the hope in people's hearts.
In the lower cabin of the mother ship, a small "living water environment" has been maintained.
There are two kinds of fish there.
Some of them are hydrothermal fish that the Zhou family brought back from deep-sea hydrothermal vents at the risk of their lives. They can adapt to extreme environments and rely on a special circulation and feeding system to survive from generation to generation in closed cabins.
Half of the hot spring fish that the Zhou family brought back died one after another, but there were still half left. These hot spring fish reproduced very quickly, but the mothership did not have enough space to accommodate so many fish, so only about a hundred hot spring fish were maintained in the supply system, and the rest were sent to the restaurant to be eaten.
The other part is ordinary saltwater fish.
As soon as the anchorage of the new settlement was secured, the mother ship immediately formed a fish farming team and launched the "Sea Fish Farming Program."
They want to artificially create a "small world" in this Dead Sea that can support living things.
When everyone heard the news, their originally uneasy hearts immediately calmed down.
As long as fish can survive in the sea water, they will not be extinct and they will have a constant supply of food to eat.
The members of the fish farming team did not dare to delay and took a small boat to survey the sea area with a radius of ten kilometers around the mother ship every day.
They recorded the water flow speed, tested the salinity of the seawater, and explored the seabed topography. They were busy for two days before they finally selected a suitable area.
The water flow here is gentle, and the facilities will not be destroyed by strong currents. The seabed terrain is also relatively flat, and there are no sharp reefs to hinder operations.
More importantly, the area is about seven or eight hundred meters in radius, which is enough to accommodate the initial breeding circle.
Once the site is chosen, the real challenge begins.
All work must be done in the dark deep sea.
The divers put on pressure-resistant diving suits weighing dozens of kilograms, carried oxygen supply equipment, and dived to the bottom of the sea in a submarine.
They need to operate the robotic arm to first firmly fix one end of a special high-strength and corrosion-resistant rope on the raised rock base on the seabed, and the other end is connected to a buoy with adjustable buoyancy.
Then, according to the pre-planned route, the ropes were pulled into regular rectangles one by one, and then a dense protective net was pieced together between the ropes.
This net is used to prevent fish from escaping and to isolate them from possible collisions with debris on the seabed.
They are raising fish in deep sea areas, so the project will be more complicated.
The divers dare not be careless in the slightest when it comes to the fixing angle of each rope and the joints of each piece of the net.
There was no natural light at all in the dim seabed. Only the submarine's searchlight emitted two pale beams of light, illuminating the work area in front of them.