Back at Bailong Port, the ship repair continued.
The "Old Antique" vessel was too old, rusty and decrepit. It wasn't cost-effective to do a major overhaul, and it seemed a pity to dismantle it for scrap steel, so we could only make do with patching it up.
If maintaining the Dunship and 001 was a technical job, then maintaining the "Old Antique" was entirely a matter of physical work.
First, we had to lift the balast stones from below the deck one by one, but the river was not like the shore. Where could we stack the two thousand tons of stones once they were lifted?
For this purpose, Han Yu specially drove the 001 to the Bin Qi River in the northern part of Linghai City. She had already coordinated with Vice Director Li, who was in charge of firefighting at the Linghai Police Bureau, and Director Zheng of the Linghai Fire Department to inspect the possibility of using 001 to assist with firefighting on water.
