The Qingshui search and rescue ship is one of the twenty search and rescue teams in Sea Area 23, and He Shuiqing is the captain of this search ship.
After the advent of the New World, most of the land surface was covered by the ocean. Places that were originally plateaus have now become plains, places that were once high mountains have now become low mountains, and places that were originally hills have now become On the islands, if the sea level is lower than the hills, they can only sink underwater.
The immortal official from heaven gave the search and rescue team some popular science and said that in today's new world, the sea level is 700 meters higher than in the old world.
"In other words, in the sea area that your East 23rd District Search and Rescue Team is responsible for, you can reach land by diving about 650 meters down."
"This is the former Yanyan City, one of the thirteen cities in the east before Heaven ascended."
"Thirty years ago, when the Heavenly Emperor of Dragon City fought an earth-shattering decisive battle with the evil circulators, most of the city sank into the flood during the decisive battle, and your goal is to search and rescue those who sank with the buildings. Survivors who fell into the water."
"Of course, due to the functional limitations of the human body, there is a close to 100% possibility that by the time you find the survivors, the survivors will have long drowned in those cement houses on the seabed. Therefore, the task assigned to everyone by the Federation is positioning."
"Dive into the water, find the survivors who drowned on the bottom of the sea, record the coordinates, and report them to the federation. It's that simple."
"The cycle time of East 23rd District is seven days. Every Monday at five o'clock in the morning, everything in this sea area will be reset to what it was like at five o'clock in the morning of the previous Monday."
"Before the two time resets, for every positioning information of a survivor found from the sea, you will be able to receive at least two weeks of additional bonuses of basic salary, maybe two hundred, maybe four hundred, maybe eight hundred, this It depends on the survivor’s ability level.”
"Relax, although thirty years have passed, there are still tens of thousands of drowning people in this sea area."
"After all, this was once a huge metropolis."
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The salary of the search and rescue team is based on a basic salary system. One round of salary is paid every week and is paid according to the number of years of service. The starting price is one hundred federal coins. If the search and rescue ship's performance evaluation reaches A in the previous year, the crew of the entire ship will receive a 10% salary increase in the next year.
The Qingshui is such a search and rescue ship that has been in service for twelve years. Captain He Shuiqing and his four crew members all receive a weekly salary of 250 federal dollars. A ship has a total of 1,000 people from the sea every week. The Department receives a basic salary subsidy of 1,250 federal dollars.
After a month, it will be five thousand.
Five people, each with a monthly salary of one thousand. In the entire federation, such salary is not high, and even a little low, but after all, the rescue team is not a layman living on the basic salary. Before each sea area is reset, the rescue team can more or less be found from the sea. Several positioning.
After the sea area is reset, the Maritime Talent Agency will sort out and classify the locations found by the rescue team from the sea one by one at the edge of the cycle, and divide them into four levels ABCD according to the ability of the drowning person.
D-level talents represent ordinary people living in the eastern urban agglomeration in the old world. Each time they obtain the coordinates of an ordinary person, they will be rewarded with 200 federal coins;
C-level talents represent super-qualified people who can initially understand the role of emotional energy. Each super-qualified person will be rewarded with 400 federal coins at the coordinates;
B-level talents represent those who have successfully comprehended emotional energy and begun the first step of cultivating emotional power, which is the spiritual cultivation in the incarnation stage. Those who drown in each incarnation stage will be rewarded with 800 federal coins;
A-level talents represent those supermen who have entered the second step, that is, those who are strong in mental cultivation in the manifestation stage. For the coordinates of the drowning person in mental cultivation in each manifestation period, the Maritime Talent Agency will give a reward subsidy of 1,600 federal coins.
When He Shuiqing was not the captain of the Qingshui, but just an ordinary member of another search and rescue ship named Anxiang, he once asked his then captain this question:
"What if we find the spiritual practice of the Dharma phase in the sea?"
The old captain pointed to the immortal official in the distance and said:
"The immortal official next to me is the third step. Do you think he should jump into the sea?
Wetsuit? "
He Shuiqing can roughly understand what the old captain means. The mental cultivation in the Dharma phase can make the incarnation and the main body merge into one, and undergo a short transformation and fusion. In this case, the water pressure problems and breathing problems below the sea surface can naturally be solved. solve.
But he still felt a little uncomfortable when the old captain choked him in front of everyone, so he continued to be angry during the day and at night, until before going to bed, he finally had an idea and wanted to understand some of the secrets:
"That's not right. In the third step of mental cultivation, you can hold your breath and dive into the water. However, it is a full five to six hundred meters from the surface of the sea to the bottom of the sea. We have to dive for more than ten minutes with professional diving equipment. The mental cultivation in the Dharma phase period How long can it take to transform?"
The old captain took a puff of cigarette, looked at He Shuiqing with a deep look, and then said to the other captain next to him:
"This kid refuses to obey, so I won't take him with him anymore."
So He Shuiqing was kicked off the Anxiang by the old captain Anxiang.
That week, the Anxiang failed to return.
When the sea area was reset, the obituaries of the five people on board the Anxiang had been posted on the wall of the floating platform at the edge of the loop. He Shuiqing went over and took a look. The funeral expenses for each person were 3,200.
Later, He Shuiqing learned from the captain of the Sea Serpent that if the third step of Xinxiu was found drowning on the seabed, the best way is to leave immediately before the other party finds the rescuers, not even the coordinate locator. take.
"The sea area of East 23rd District circulates every seven days. Every year we search and rescue in this sea area means that all survivors drowned fifty-two times underwater."
"Eighteen years of the floating world is nine hundred and thirty-six times, nearly a thousand times."
"If you are in the third step of mental cultivation, each cycle will be reset. When you wake up from the bottom of the sea, you will find that you are trapped in boundless water. The sea water under high pressure pours into your nasal cavity, and then pours back into your nasal cavity. In the abdominal cavity, only by immediately turning on the incarnation of the Dharma phase can you temporarily resist the oppression of the deep sea, but a few minutes of transformation cannot support you to escape from the bottom of the sea and swim back to the surface. Time passes little by little, and your transformation time is getting longer and longer. Master, you are getting closer and closer to death, but there is nothing you can do..."
"what would you do?"
He Shuiqing was silent for a moment and said:
"despair?"
The captain of the Sea Serpent patted He Shuiqing on the shoulder and said:
"The emotional energy level of the third step of mental cultivation will produce a huge energy vortex once despair occurs."
"On the ground, this energy vortex is called an explosion of negative emotions."
"Although there is no memory of each cycle, there are nearly a thousand drowning cycles, nearly a thousand times from drowning to transformation to the inescapable feeling of powerlessness. There will always be one of them when the negative emotions of despair will fill the sky at a certain moment. people’s consciousness.”
"And that's when the emotional whirlpool breaks out on the sea."
So He Shuiqing finally understood why the Maritime Talent Rescue Plan only awarded the highest A-level awards.
Because rescuers engulfed by emotional explosions cannot recover through cyclic reset, death is death.
In the eighteenth year of the Ukiyo, He Shuiqing acquired the Anxiang scrapped ship from the Maritime Talent Agency. After repairing and refitting it, it gave it a new name, Qingshui. Today, it has been twelve years.
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The 30th year of the Floating World, June 15th, Tuesday.
Today is the twelfth year of service of the Qingshui. If calculated based on the service time of the Anxiang, it would be the 26th year.
The wind was calm and there was no cloud in the sky.
Sea Area No. 23 covers most of Yanyan City in the old world, including some office buildings and commercial districts, but more areas are still desolate pits. According to the immortal officials, there used to be the Dragon City in the past. After rising from the ground and flying to heaven, it left a pit.
It doesn't matter how it is formed. He Shuiqing only knows that if there are no pitfalls, he can earn more.
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There were a total of five crew members on the Qingshui including himself, and one captain was He Shuiqing, forty-one years old;
Chief Mate Lao Rongxiu, female, 34 years old, also serves as chief engineer, responsible for controlling and repairing the electromechanical equipment and power equipment in the ship;
Second Officer Wang Kai, male, 35 years old, also serves as chef and is responsible for the food and daily life of the crew;
Third Officer Qiao Ke, male, 29 years old, is also a senior ship's doctor, responsible for treating possible emergencies and wounds;
The remaining one is a senior diver, twenty-six years old, but has been diving for eleven years. When she was fifteen, she pestered her brother to take her out to sea.
Of course, the diver, like the captain, also has the last name He.
At this moment, the five crew members on the Clearwater were standing in a circle on the deck, staring at the sixth person on the deck.
It was a man with hair that was almost foamy like seaweed and weighed down on his head.
The man was lying on the deck, his body twitching slightly, but he was already unconscious.
Finally, He Shuiqing spoke. He looked at the short-haired girl opposite who had just taken off her diving hood:
"He Xiaoyu, tell me again, where was this man rescued?"
"It's more than three hundred meters deep. I saw him flopping in the sea, almost drowning. Is there any problem?"
"What is the problem……"
He Shuiqing sighed,
"Tell me, what does a normal human being do to dive into the deep sea to a depth of 300 meters without wearing diving protective gear?"
