Arriving at the pier, Xu Wenjie took the lead and walked toward his family's fishing boat, a sixteen-meter-long vessel.
Once aboard, Xu Wenjie told everyone to first empty their pockets of anything that couldn't get wet and place them in a small iron box. Seeing that everything was safely stored away, Xu Wenjie went to top off the engine's fuel tank. Then he took out the boat's key—which was a hand crank—aligned it with the engine socket, inserted it, and began to crank it rapidly.
"Rumble..."
Chapter 83