Chapter 994 - 930 Dredging
Pusui Town.
The incident occurred at a fish pond not far from the highway exit, covering an area of about one hectare, or 15 mu, approximately 10,000 square meters—roughly the size of a sports field with a 400-meter standard track. A football field, which news reports often like to mention, is about 7140 square meters, roughly 10.7 mu.
The water in the pond had been drained, and sunlight shone on the mud’s surface, baking a thin, crispy crust. But with a light touch, the fragile crust broke apart, revealing the thick, sticky mud underneath.
Yao Wei, wearing a full set of thick leather clothes, jumped into the mud. Before he could speak, he felt himself slowly sinking down, deeper and deeper, as if there was no bottom.
"How deep is the mud?" Yao Wei was not panicking, although his sensation was similar to someone falling into quicksand or getting stuck in a swamp.
On the shore stood a police officer from the Chang Le City Bureau, who truthfully said, "The shallow part is about one meter, the deep part might be over two meters."
"Two meters? Isn’t that over my head?" Yao Wei started to panic a bit.
The police officer on the shore chuckled and said, "It’s okay, I’m holding onto a rope."
"How can it be this deep?" Yao Wei continued to murmur as he sank, "I’ve checked the books; aren’t normal fish ponds only a few tens of centimeters deep?"
"For a normal fish pond, there’s no need for leather clothes," the police officer also laughed and pointed out Yao Wei’s logical mistake.