Chapter 52 Losing control
"I have just found evidence from the monitoring room that is suspected of being a man-made bioterrorism attack, and have temporarily locked in a suspect. I hope you can continue to believe in me. Only I can save this ship!"
Gu Ji put his head in his hands, squatted on the ground, turned on his cell phone, and finally shouted.
But Tamura Katsunobu still refused to trust him: "I'm sorry, your suspicion can only be lifted after the investigation results come out."
Seeing this, the two policemen slowly came forward. One of them took out the handcuffs from behind his waist and walked behind Gu Ji.
He glanced at the policeman behind him:
"Please believe me, from yesterday to now, have I done anything to endanger the cruise ship?"
The policeman was stunned for a moment, and seemed to think that what Gu Ji said was reasonable, but he did not dare to disobey the orders from his superiors. After thinking about it, he put the handcuffs on.
Just when the handcuffs were fastened around his left wrist.
The entire bottom of the cruise ship suddenly made a heart-wrenching "squeaking" sound. In just a moment, the cruise ship twisted and accelerated to the right at an extremely fast speed like a car taking a sharp turn at high speed!
Two staff members in the corridor fell to the ground on the spot.
The two policemen and Gu Ji were also thrown against the wall on the left by the huge centrifugal force.
"ah--!"
"Help!"
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Inside the ship, various crackling sounds of falling, crashing of tables and chairs, and the screams of the crowd were mixed together, like a violent symphony.
"Zizi... This is the engine room. The windlass equipment is sending out a danger alarm. Please answer the cab. What happened? Bang! Please go back to the cab..."
Suddenly, the intercom on Gu Ji transmitted the urgent call of the engine room engineer.
But the cruise ship was turning faster and faster, and even the engineer was hit by something without knowing it, and the sound stopped.
Something happened in the cab!
Gu Ji felt a thump in his heart. If this spin continues, the entire ship will soon lose control. Don't forget, the total tonnage of this Platinum Star cruise ship is a full 116,000. Once it gets out of control and rolls over, it will be difficult for gods to save it. , more than 3,000 people on the entire ship will be drowned by the sea water!
"Fuck, the key target that leaked the virus has not been found yet!"
He gritted his teeth and quickly locked his eyes on the policeman who was pinned in the corner beside him. He slapped the ground with his left hand, rolled his body with the help of inertia, and suddenly jumped on the policeman.
Before he could react, the policeman felt the cold muzzle of a gun pressed against the occipital bone at the back of his head.
"What are you going to do!!"
The other police officer stared wide-eyed and wanted to aim his gun, but the cruise ship was shaking too much, making it difficult to aim. If he shot rashly, he would probably hit his colleague.
"I just want to go to the wheelhouse to save the cruise ship and throw the gun over, otherwise I can't guarantee whether it will go off!"
Gu Ji's tone was cold and he glanced at the Sig Sauer P230 in his hand, which was full of threats.
Since it is too soft, it can only be hard.
The policeman was also afraid that he would suddenly attack, so he could only give in and throw the gun away. He wanted to be smart and threw the gun in front of his colleagues, but due to the inertia of the ship, he accidentally hit him and rolled towards Gu Ji. .
Almost at the same time as the gun barrel rolled towards him, Gu Ji kicked the policeman away, picked it up on the ground like lightning, turned around, propped up his legs, pressed his right arm against the wall, and used the inertia to escape along the wall.
"Stop! Stop!"
"Attention, everyone on the ship! Jiang Na is suspected of a terrorist attack. She was arrested for assaulting a police officer and stole two pistols. She is extremely dangerous. She is currently escaping from the deck corridor of the third-floor control room along the bow..."
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During the escape, the walkie-talkie soon sounded a warning from the two police officers.
But Gu Ji didn't care. After turning into the fire escape, he pinned one of the pistols behind his waist, removed the magazine of the other pistol, put it into his pocket, skillfully pulled back the bolt, and ejected the loaded bullet, and then He threw the empty gun into the fire hydrant box.
Fortunately, he had memorized the firefighting structure diagram of the cruise ship in advance.
It only took less than four minutes for Gu Ji to arrive near the cab.
Unexpectedly, someone moved faster than him. Judging from the blue scarf around the other person's neck, he should be the sailor in charge of deck lookout.
The sailor was trying to open the door when he suddenly saw Gu Ji. Thinking of the police warning on the walkie-talkie, he immediately panicked.
"Don't be afraid, I have no choice but to save the ship first!"
Gu Ji spread his hands to indicate that he was not a threat.
Perhaps the last part of the sentence had an effect. The sailor continued to twist the key. When he opened the door, he accidentally fell in and met a Japanese man on the ground who was covered in blood: "Ah——!"
He subconsciously screamed, "First Mate... First Mate, he..."
It turned out that the first mate suddenly became ill and passed out.
The entire Platinum Star cruise ship's cab is equipped with a total of four senior crew members, namely the captain, first mate, second mate, and third mate. Among them, Captain Neil and the second mate are infected with the virus and are being treated in the treatment area, while the third mate is mainly Responsible for life-saving and fire-fighting equipment on cruise ships, and rarely on duty in the cab on weekdays.
"Don't be stunned, get up and help! In the engine room, this is Jiang Na. The first officer has collapsed due to illness. Stop the auxiliary aircraft immediately. The third officer hears the order and rushes to the cab immediately! Hurry!"
Gu Ji held on to the railing of the console with one hand and grabbed the walkie-talkie with the other and yelled.
Originally, he chose [Special Driving Mastery] just in case, but he never thought that he would actually use it at a critical moment.
"Stop the auxiliary aircraft! Quick!"
Looking at the densely packed buttons and joysticks on the console, Gu Ji was a little confused for a moment.
The special equipment that comes with the imprint are just some basic start-up and shut-down operations. He himself has no foundation in ship driving and cannot truly control a large luxury cruise ship.
But don’t forget, Gu Ji has studied accident and disaster emergency response, which contains various classic accident cases, including cruise ship disasters!
The mastery of high-speed driving reaction judgment is a real talent bonus. Together with Gu Ji's central nervous system of 14.1, he can quickly lock the movement trajectory of the ship's hull on the navigation screen.
The screen showed that the cruise ship was drawing a fan-shaped arc on the sea at an extremely fast speed, as if it was about to walk out of a semicircle.
Gu Ji glanced at the steering wheel of the cruise ship. It was normal, so...
It's the windlass!
He remembered the "windlass alarm" mentioned by the engineer, and an idea instantly came to his mind: "It should be that the windlass malfunctioned, or the anchor was mishandled. The anchor head hooked on the reef on the seabed, which forced the ship to turn to the left. The engine room will start immediately. Use the right side thruster of the ship to reduce the power speed of the main engine, sailor...sailor!"
"Ah! Here!"
After shouting twice, the sailor finally came to his senses.
"When I tell you to pull up the windlass, pull up the anchor immediately!"
"good!"
There was silence for a long time in the engine room, and finally the engineer shouted: "Stop the auxiliary engine! Start the right propeller! Reduce the speed by 8 knots!"
everything's ready.
Gu Ji came to the bridge, held the rudder, took a breath, and slowly turned the rudder to the left with both hands: "Now! Pull in the anchor!"