Chapter 453 New Era (Part 3)
Lan Xang Kingdom.
The Mekong River is quiet in the dead of night.
Due to the continuous decline in the local population, mechanized medium-sized farms have been established here, and many of the people who stayed have become farmers with hundreds of acres of land.
However, farmers are not having an easy time now. Fortunately, the Far East also needs a large amount of tropical fruits and rice, so they are barely able to survive.
Ban Si Da Farm, located near the Mekong River, has 327 acres of rice fields and a pineapple orchard.
Han Nabancida and his family of six manage such a large farm, and he feels very tired even with the help of agricultural machinery to reduce the pressure.
He sat next to the house in the pineapple garden, smoking a pipe: "Huff..."
Suddenly there was a rhythmic knock on the door.
Han Nabancida quickly put down the pipe in his hand and opened the wooden door. Outside was his eldest son Meng Nabancida, followed by his family.
"Dad! These are tourists!" Meng Nabanshida said as he went to pour tea.
Seeing this action, Han Nabancida nodded with confidence, and then said in broken Mandarin: "Come... come! Let's arrange the luggage first..."
His farm has a farm stay project.
Li Bai's family, who came from southern Hunan, were also in a state of distress at this time. After all, the journey was not easy. They had to go through many difficulties. More than half of their more than 100,000 yuan in savings and 13 grams of gold had been spent.
After Li Bai settled his family, he quickly started a discussion with Han Nabancida and his son.
"Boss Meng! How ?"
Meng Nabancida whispered back, "Surface projects are no longer fun, so we are now playing underwater projects."
"Underwater? Is it safe?" Li Bai was a little worried.
Meng Nabancida said confidently: "Don't worry! It's absolutely safe. We will arrange the project tomorrow night."
Li Bai hesitated: "I heard before that there were water activities. Why were they cancelled?"
Meng Nabancida spread his hands and said, "You are late. It was OK half a month ago, but not now. There are infrared searchlights on the river now, and many new lookouts and outposts have been set up."
"What a fuck..." Li Bai cursed.
He was indeed late. Several of his fellow villagers had urged him to go south as soon as possible, but he hesitated. Now, with tourism channels cut off, even business trips were strictly restricted.
Fortunately, the Kingdom of Lan Xang can come here under the name of tourism, and then go west from the Mekong River or the Luang Prabang Mountains on the north side to reach Siam.
However, recently, the Kingdom of Lancang has also tightened exit restrictions.
As the local boss, the Nabancida family had made a lot of money from the "Mekong River One-Day Tour" project, so naturally they would not cooperate obediently.
After all, there are ups and downs.
In fact, it would be easier for Li Bai's family to go to the farm on the other side of the Luang Prabang Mountains, but he was unfamiliar with the area and had to ask the locals for help in leading the way.
But Meng Nabansida had no channels to the Luang Prabang Mountains, so he naturally would not take him there, so he could only go along the Mekong River.
The two discussed for more than an hour, all about tomorrow night's underwater activities and the charging issue.
Meng Nabansida's sister Nima Nabansida made some desserts and midnight snacks for Li Bai's family.
The other side.
Han Nabancida went to the tool warehouse in the rice field to check the tools.
Under the bright lights, one side of the warehouse was filled with diving suits, oxygen cylinders, and a large number of cables.
The most crucial thing is a submersible container oxygen boat, which was the secret equipment used by Han Nabansetta to smuggle contraband to Siam.
After all, a simple personal diving oxygen tank (10 to 12 liters) can only support 40 to 60 minutes at a diving depth of 10 meters.
The width of the Mekong River near Ban Si Da Farm is 1,300 to 1,500 meters, and the water depth is 8 to 15 meters.
For someone without professional training, it would definitely take more than an hour to swim across the water.
What's more, it was the flood season of the Mekong River, and the river was flowing very fast. They could only take a diagonal route and rely on fixed points on the riverbed. The route was about 3,400 meters long.
For safety, Han Nabancida carefully checked all the equipment, including the oxygen cylinders.
It was the second half of the night.
He changed into a diving suit, then jumped into the water from the water channel of the rice fields and swam quickly to the Mekong River.
This is Han Nabancida's habit. Before each operation, he would go into the water once to make sure that the previously placed pouring fixed points are still there.
With the dim underwater flashlight, he saw the first fixing point and passed the high-strength rope through the stainless steel ring at the fixing point.
Then he determined the specific direction based on the shape of the fixed point and swam diagonally to the southwest.
After swimming 50 meters, he saw the second fixed point. He passed another rope through the stainless steel ring, then untied the knot at the first fixed point and continued to move southwest.
The length of the route is 3,400 meters, with a total of 68 fixed points. It took an average of about 3 minutes to reach each fixed point, for a total of 210 minutes. He had to bring four oxygen cylinders to successfully swim to the other side.
After emerging from the water.
He saw some old acquaintances.
"Han! It's you again." A security guard carrying an assault rifle helped the exhausted Han Nabancida up.
“Huff…” Han Nabancida panted and said with a smile, “Five people will come tomorrow night.”
The team leader nodded: "No problem, I will send someone to pick them up when the time comes."
In the lounge of the outpost.
The cook at the station brought Han Nabancida some meals and energy drinks to replenish his energy.
Han Nabancida, who was chewing on a marbled steak, asked curiously, "Tao, why can you always find me coming? There can't be bugs underwater, right?"
"Haha... I can't say." Tao Nabandan smiled and shook his head.
After that, Tao Nabandan took out another box of medicine: "This is an oxygen-enriched patch."
"What is it for?"
"It is attached to the arm before diving. The patch can sense the oxygen content in the vein. Once the body is hypoxic, the patch will automatically activate and inject a high-oxygen compound into the body, which can ensure that there is no need to breathe oxygen for 30 minutes."
"Good stuff." Han Nabancida picked up the energy drink and took a big sip.
"Just 50 tablets, use them sparingly."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome, it's just a matter of mutual benefit." Tao Nabandan shrugged.
The company will naturally strongly support such things that are beneficial to the company.
Han Nabancida even has a house here because the company sees him sending people here often.
If this guy hadn't been reluctant to give up the Lan Cang Kingdom's assets, he would have come here to take advantage of it long ago.
After eating and resting for more than an hour, Han Nabancida took an oxygen tank full of oxygen, got on a pickup truck, and headed to a location upstream.
Because his return route was to swim upstream and then swim diagonally southeast back to the farm.
This kind of diagonal diving can reduce underwater resistance with the help of the direction of the water flow. Otherwise, if you return along the original route, you will be swimming upstream.
After more than three hours, Han Nabancida returned to his farm again.
After explaining some things to his son, he went to bed to gather his energy for tonight's action.
From other places, people trying to work in Homo sapiens companies flocked to Indochina like moths to a flame.
Anyway, there are all kinds of means. Some people succeed, some fail, and some even lose their lives.
