Chapter 6 The First Bucket of Silver (2)

  In the water, after about twenty seconds of sinking, Luo Lin's feet touched the bottom and stepped on the soft sea sand.

  This is indeed a shallow water area, about twenty meters deep. The surrounding light is somewhat dim, but the seawater is very clear, so you can barely see things clearly.

  In a vast expanse of grayish-blue seawater, there were seaweed, coral, rocks, and schools of fish swimming around them, gathering and dispersing.

  In this chaotic environment, there are some wreckage of ships scattered around, and there are also individual cargo boxes sealed with tape, these cargo boxes are the things to be salvaged.

  Luolin could still see the silhouettes of others, as time was limited due to lack of air, they were busily working in an orderly manner at the bottom of the sea, rushing to put the rope loops on the cargo boxes and then hang the hooks on the rope loops. After finishing all this, they would use a predetermined signal to pull the rope heavily, the sailors on the boat felt it and started to lift up, the cargo boxes began to float up.

  After the box is pulled up, the rope will sink again, and the fishermen will hang the rope on a new cargo box, repeating the cycle.

  Although the underwater environment was very complicated, Gertz's work efficiency remained high. Roline saw them quickly wrapping the rope around the cargo box, one after another, at a speed almost twice as fast as his own.

  But Luo Lin also had his own advantages, that was he didn't need to change the air, every seven or eight minutes, the fish people had to come out of the water to change the air, but he didn't need to, he was always underwater packing boxes, so although his speed was slow, the total amount of cargo boxes he pulled out was not less than that of other fish people, and even more one or two.

  He could feel others constantly casting glances at him, astonished by his long breath-holding time, heh.

  Luolin stayed underwater for nearly half an hour and would occasionally float up to the surface to take a breath.

  But others take at least five or six minutes to fully recover after changing air, while he can dive again with just one breath, stunning everyone.

  Standing at the ship's side, Rast couldn't help but exclaim: "Truly, you can't judge a person by appearance! I bet this is the best fisherman I've ever seen in my life - he's practically a fish himself! He could become rich just from salvaging goods from sunken ships!"

  "Who says it's not? Maybe her mother got pregnant not because of her father, but because she took a bath in the sea and was favored by the sea god, hehehe." The first mate also laughed. This action went unexpectedly smoothly, and his mood was very good.

  Underwater, this was Roline's third dive, he was preparing to find his sixth box, six cargo boxes, six silver coins, and fourteen more would clear the high-interest debt, his mood was excellent.

  Thanks to the hard work of everyone, the easily found cargo boxes in the shallow water area have almost been cleared out. As a result, people had no choice but to search for those harder-to-retrieve cargo boxes, such as those stuck on coral trees or entangled with seaweed, or even those that fell into rock crevices. As long as there was any possibility of retrieval, the fish people would not give up, because one cargo box meant one silver coin, which was a pretty good income for dockworkers who relied on their physical labor.

  Luo Lin saw a cargo box under a coral tree, which was very hidden and the box was stuck. If he swam in, he would easily get stuck by the coral and seaweed entwined on the coral... On the seabed, once this happens, it's almost equivalent to a death sentence.

  For other merfolk, this crate was far too perilous and fell within the range of being abandoned, but Roline only hesitated for a moment before swimming towards this hard-won cargo box.

  As he swam halfway, a figure in the water suddenly started waving its hands. Judging from the shape, it was a guy named Danny. He waved his hands and quickly floated up, as if wanting to say something.

  The other four fishmen saw his action and also started to float up, one of them even gave up the treasure chest that was within reach.

  But Rowland had swum into the coral thicket and was busy clearing the seaweed that entwined the chest, unaware of this change.

  On the water's surface, all five merfolk had already floated up. As soon as they emerged from the water, Danny said: "Quickly get on the boat, my calf was cut by a rock blade and it's bleeding quite a bit..."

  Several merfolk, upon hearing this, did not dare to linger and immediately climbed up the rope of the Davy without hesitation. Sharks in the sea are extremely sensitive to blood, even if only a single drop of blood enters the seawater, ocean killers from several kilometers away will come to sniff out the scent, at this time staying in the water is simply too long-lived.

  Soon all five of them climbed onto the deck. Geitz's voice rang out: "Where is Rorin? Why hasn't he come up?"

  "...He seems to still be in the water." Danny looked at the rope on the side of the boat.

  "Damn it!" Geitz cursed and said to the first mate: "Koven, let your sailors pull up the rope, it's very dangerous in the water now!

  He hoped this action would cause Rorin at the bottom of the water to float up to the surface instead of continuing to search for the box underwater.

  "Got it." The first mate nodded, and the sailors on the side had already started to turn the winch, the rope was quickly wound up by the wooden cylinder.

  "The rope is very heavy, it seems like it's tied to a trunk!"

  "He's also looking for boxes in the water!"

  "Oh God, what a tragedy!"

  "We have to go down and remind him!"

  "Or are you going? I'm not taking that risk, my family is counting on me."

  A group of people were discussing something in a flurry, but they remained standing on the deck without moving.

  At the bottom of the sea, Luo Lin watched as the box was pulled up and followed it. Along the way, he kept pushing the box to adjust its buoyant direction so that it wouldn't get stuck in the coral.

  When he swam out of the coral reef, he was surprised to find that there wasn't a single person on the sea floor... The fish people had collectively disappeared.

  "What's going on? Do we have to go together to change the air?" Luo Lin felt a bit uneasy.

  Just then, he suddenly saw the fish around him fleeing in all directions, and immediately after that, a huge creature rushed in. With its grey-blue skin and knife-like teeth... it was a shark!

  "Damn it, no wonder they want to float up!" Luo Lin was shocked in his heart. If his small arms and legs were rolled around in the shark's mouth for a circle, would he still be alive?

  Fortunately, the shark seemed to be focused on the school of fish and didn't even glance at him, which allowed Roland to breathe a slight sigh of relief. He pulled out the dagger from his leg strap and gripped it in his hand while desperately paddling upwards.

  As he watched the water surface getting closer and closer, Luo Lin's luck ran out at this moment. He saw another huge black shadow appear, also a shark.

  The shark surprisingly didn't charge towards the school of fish, it apparently thought the meat on Roland's body was more delicious, and directly charged towards him.

  "... Luo Lin had nothing to say, apart from using his last bit of strength to speed up and float to the surface of the water, he couldn't do anything else."

  "May the Three Pure Ones and the Supreme Emperor protect me, protect me from this calamity!" Luo Lin muttered to himself in his heart. He felt that his hands and feet were about to cramp up, but the speed at which he was swimming was slow enough to be despairing. The shark was approaching him at an astonishing speed.

  Experienced sailors on the deck of the Davy first spotted the arrival of sharks.

  "Look, shark fin, the shark has really come."

  "Rolin is still in the water, won't he drown?"

  "He's only been in the water for ten minutes, how could he possibly drown with his swimming skills? Oh, look, it's Luo Lin, he's coming out! Quick, throw him a rope, throw a rope, pull him up quickly!"

  "Ah, too late! He's at least twenty meters away from us!"

  "Oh my god!"

  A chaotic noise came from the deck and into the captain's quarters, where Davy was reading a book. She frowned slightly, closed her eyes to sense it, then looked shocked as if she already knew what had happened outside. She stood up and rushed towards the deck.

  On the water's surface, Luo Lin saw a light blue shark fin rapidly approaching him on the water's surface, while beneath the water was an enormous black shadow.

  He was still more than twenty meters away from the Davy, and there was no time to grab the ropes hanging down on both sides of the boat when the shark bit him.

  In other words, now he has only two endings, either being bitten to death by the shark and becoming its abdominal meal, or killing it!

  Luolin panicked for less than half a second before making a decision. Even if he would be bitten to death, he wouldn't die like a coward with his back bitten, but instead wanted to have a fierce fight with this guy and leave several blood holes on his body.

  So thinking, Luo Lin immediately gave up going to Davy's number and instead dived back into the sea.

  His action left all the sailors on deck bewildered.

  "What is this kid trying to do?"

  "Why didn't he swim back?"

  "This little guy is either crazy or a hero, he seems to be ready to take on the sharks!" The first mate's sharp eyes spotted the dagger in Rolen's hand and guessed his intention.

  Underwater, Luo Lin saw a shark less than five meters away from him, and information about sharks kept flowing through his mind.

  "Spiny Dogfish"

  Grade 5

  Physical quality: excellent

  Attack skills: Bloody Bite, Tough Skin

  Evaluation: In the sea, it is a natural-born killer. Its skin is smooth and tough, able to withstand ordinary sword slashes.

  A five-star elite shark, Luo Lin's heart was chilled to the bone. His iron dagger couldn't even pierce through the opponent's fish skin, in other words, he had no way of breaking through... Wait a minute, he still had an attack-boosting scroll!