|
Lanyu City is a coastal city located in China. 。At six in the morning, Ye Yuan was wide awake, staring blankly out the window. 。He has been in this city for almost five years. He went to university here and stayed after graduation. 。Ye Yuan's university was the best school in Lan Island City, Lan Island Ocean University, majoring in Marine Science. Because of his major, after graduation, finding a job has been difficult. 。Growing up in a fishing village, I'm more comfortable in the water. I also professionally learned scuba diving at school. 。A diving instructor who taught me, introduced me to a job cleaning the underwater amusement park. 。Don't let the job title fool you, but the boss offers a base salary of six thousand dollars a month. 。Six thousand may not be considered a high salary in a big city, but for a recent college graduate, it's quite a lot. Most importantly, accommodation is provided here. 。Looking out at the sea, I was reminded of what my mother had said on the phone last night. 。Ye Yuan's home is on an island over 200 kilometers from Lan Dao City. 。Overfishing in recent years has depleted coastal fishing resources, leaving many young fishermen no longer venturing out to sea but seeking work in large and medium-sized cities. The elderly are left behind in their home villages. 。In this situation, the fishing village where Ye Yuanjia lives was decided to be relocated by the local county government. After the relocation, the island would be auctioned off to society as a whole. 。Ye Mu called Ye Yuan yesterday because of the relocation. 。I want Ye Yuan to go back for a while, after all, he is a college student. 。Older generations still tend to trust intellectuals more. 。Ye Yuan's worry stemmed from this: the relocation had to wait until the fishing ban period. However, there were still over two months before the fishing ban period. Due to the local government's eagerness to finalize the matter, contract signing for pre-relocation started in recent days. Families who could sign the relocation agreement this month would receive a compensation.。It's easy to go back, but what about after signing the agreement? Although there are two months of buffer, housing issues and some other things can't be settled in a few days. 。Because the ocean amusement park he was in was relatively small and didn't have many visitors, cleaning up the underwater trash didn't require too many people. 。Only Ye Yuan and a Zhao Ge who was a few years older than him were in the entire playground. 。Zhao Ge's family is also from Lan Dao Village. Because of his age, his family arranged a marriage for him. Zhao Ge took a week off to go home. 。Currently, it can be said that all the seabeds of the amusement park are cleaned by Ye Yuan alone. Don't think that cleaning up seabed garbage is an easy thing, it's completely different from cleaning up on land. 。So if I also took leave to go home, would the amusement park agree? Many people don't understand what underwater cleaning is like. Underwater cleaning is mainly about retrieving items that tourists accidentally drop into the sea and garbage that tourists throw into the ocean. Of course, it's still quite difficult to achieve precise retrieval. 。For example, last time a tourist accidentally dropped a ring, Ye Yuan and Zhao Ge spent three days searching the area where it fell but couldn't find it. 。Later, the tourists ran out of time and left. As a result, after half a month, Zhao Ge found the ring one kilometer away from where it was dropped and sent it by mail. 。This is just one of many times they have salvaged items. Ye Yuan has been working here for almost ten months, pulling up phones, cameras, DV recorders, selfie sticks – the list goes on and on. 。Since these items cannot be used again after getting wet, not many tourists request to retrieve them. 。Some valuable jewelry still needs to be salvaged, and it's not that everything can be salvaged after all. After all, the seabed is unlike land. 。I don't want to think about it for now, if it comes down to it I won't do it, but I can't let my parents worry either. 。Look, it's almost seven o'clock. Ye Yuan got up, washed up, and went to the worker's canteen at the amusement park for a bit of breakfast. 。I wanted to talk to the manager, but he's not here. I guess I'll have to wait until evening. 。Having arrived at the seaside and changed into a diving suit, yesterday at Area 4, a tourist dropped a diamond bracelet while taking a selfie on a yacht. Today, Ye Yuan is going to clean up marine debris in Area 4 and help the tourist find the bracelet. 。We arrived at the fourth sea area on a speedboat. Wearing our diving equipment, we faced the ocean and plunged straight in. 。Area four is the deepest part of the entire marine amusement park, with a depth of around thirty meters at its deepest point. 。Under the sea, watching the colorful fish swimming around him, Ye Yuan felt much better. Perhaps it was because he grew up in a fishing village, Ye Yuan had a deep affection for the ocean. 。While Ye Yuan was carefully observing the seabed, he noticed a red crab passing by. It was normal to see crabs on the seafloor, but the size of this particular crab caught Ye Yuan's attention. 。The red crab is very different from other crabs, so it's easy to tell apart. Its shell is smooth and has yellow spots, and its two pincers are extended. 。A common red crab is about the size of a human hand, but this one is twice that size. Most importantly, the red crab's claws are holding a round stone bead. 。Ye Yuan slowly approached, using the iron rod in his hand to gently tap the large red crab. He thought the red crab would throw away the stone bead and run, but unexpectedly, the red crab sped up, but the stone bead on its crab claw showed no intention of being thrown away. 。Children who grow up by the sea usually dislike eating red crabs. 。Because it has less crab roe and the meat quality isn't as good, this is also why Ye Yuan didn't prepare to catch it right away. 。But seeing the red crab tightly clutching the stone bead, Ye Yuan's interest was also piqued. He followed behind the red crab, constantly tapping, and finally, the crab couldn't help but loosen its claws. 。Ye Yuan reached out and picked up the stone bead that the red crab had dropped from the seabed. Because the underwater light wasn't good, Ye Yuan didn't take a closer look and directly put the stone bead into the net bag on his waist, continuing his work. 。Three minutes had passed since I submerged under the water. It was time to go up for a break. During this period, Ye Yuan found three cellphones at the bottom of the sea. 。Some metal bottles. 。These metal cans are the packaging for some high-end drinks, and some tourists just throw them into the sea. 。Back on the boat, I took off my oxygen tank and opened the bottled water that was stored on board, gulping it down. 。After resting for a while, he took out the pearls he had found on the seabed. 。The stone bead feels cool and comfortable when held in your hand. 。But just then, a strange feeling of power arose, as if something was being drawn out from within my body. An unprecedented fatigue washed over me, and the next thing I knew, everything went black. 。At the very moment Ye Yuan lost feeling, a cold, mechanical voice rang in his ears: "Host binding successful." |
Like
Hate