Chapter 282: The Struggle Before Dawn
At this point, the ability to lean against the side of the ship seems to have been lost.
"Yushan girl, the old man is grateful for your care of my master and servant, now let me check your pulse." Sun Miao squatted down as he spoke, wiped a handful of stagnant water from his head, and probed carefully.
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Huzi wiped his wet hair as dry as he could, and took the time to ask, "Brother, what should we do now?" ”
Everyone looked at Zhuo Lei, who smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Actually, this issue doesn't need to be considered. ”
Yes, at present, they are in this underground sea, there is no way to retreat, they are completely cut off from the outside world, or they rush over and keep going to the depths of the sea, or they can only wait for death.
The keelboat set off again.
While discussing some of the details of going to sea, although the water wall formed by the tide will not be encountered again for a while, it is also extremely difficult for this boat to cross those small waves that are about ten meters high.
At the lower end of the waves, the serpentine boat climbs the slope like a classic car with a slippery axle, and finally reaches the top of the wave, the waves have pushed the boat back for dozens of meters, and the cold sea water follows the waves into the boat, drenching everyone.
Only a few dozen meters were rowed forward, and the second wave came again.
One wave after another, surging from the darkness and disappearing into the darkness, leaving no trace, as if it had never appeared, only through the peaks and valleys of the waves, can we experience the hardships.
The serpentine boat drifted with the waves in countless monstrous waves, swallowed up by the waves one moment, and the next moment struggled to pass through the waves, like a seedling struggling to grow from a rock crevice.
Facing the waves one by one, wearing in and out again and again, which tube is crazy in the wind and waves, which tube is covered in injuries.
When it is knocked over by a wave, it will roll over with difficulty, adjust its direction, and continue to move forward after being in the right direction.
At its speed, in this unknown sea, it is almost crawling, but it will not stop, and crawls forward with determination, just because the oars are in the hands of a group of people who refuse to admit defeat, and the rudder is in the hands of those who are not afraid of death.
No matter how strong the wind and waves ahead, they can't stop the determination to move forward.
There is no defeat, only destruction!
At this time, Master Ula, who had not spoken, spoke, and said, "It has been two hours since the last tidal force caused the tidal tide. ”
Zhuo Lei and Muge immediately shouted, "It's only been two hours? ”
And Huzi was puzzled and asked, "How does the master know?" ”
Master Ula replied, "Esoteric cultivators, you can calculate time based on your breath and heartbeat. ”
Underground sea.
After several hours of hard and hard work, the waves in front of him finally got smaller and smaller, and the small ups and downs of two or three meters high could not stop the serpentine boat from moving forward, but everyone's physical strength was almost exhausted.
Ate some of that disgusting man-eating catfish, paddled for a while, and the time of the tide came.
This is the huge gravitational force between the celestial bodies, which affects the entire sea water, and the waves gradually become larger, from the original regular to irregular, and even the potential energy can be felt.
The sea as a whole is like an invisible giant hand that wants to lift it up in its entirety, so that the sea water gradually concentrates towards the center of the ocean.
But only halfway through it, the power suddenly broke off, and the sea fell heavily back into the basin containing it, and the gravity turned into ripples towards the edge of the plate.
The ripples are chasing each other, superimposed on each other, forming waves, and the waves are superimposed on the waves, becoming more and more huge.
Watching the waves from far and near gradually grow, everyone's hearts gradually tightened.
Just like the waves on the flat ground, at first it was just an inconspicuous ripple, and then it merged into waves several meters high, and when you look at it, they merge into waves about ten meters high, although they come from nowhere, they all swell towards the back of the boat regularly.
Under the light of the searchlight, there are walls of water with white flowers, like thousands of troops, surging endlessly.
Zhuo Lei roared in a low voice, "Are you ready?" Here they are! Come on! ”
"Rush over!"
"Rush!"
"Fuck it!"
The people on the small boat, facing the infinite danger, let out an angry roar, everyone had blood in their veins, their necks were thick and their faces were red, and the green tendons on their arms were blooming, and each one roared louder than the other.
With a roar, the frequency of the oars increased faster than ever.
To drill through the wall of water before it thrusts the boat, you have to have enough speed! They had to fight against the raging sea with their insignificant manpower.
Since I have chosen this path of progress that I will never regret, I have never thought that there will be a day when I will stop, no matter how big the wind and waves, I will fight with it to the end.
There was a bang, the water splashed, and the serpentine boat was like a bullet piercing the first water curtain, climbing up the wall of the water wall, and passing through the neck of the wave.
Ignoring the wetness, he adjusted his position slightly, followed the slope behind the water wall, and began to accelerate again, and in the shout, he rushed over to the second water wall.
I don't know how many times I hit it, but the impact made the hand holding the oar numb, and the mouth, nose, ears, and eyes were all water, and even the direction in front of me was a little blurry.
But they didn't stop, as long as there was a wave ahead, they had to hit, and they hit again!
Finally, in front of the searchlight, there was no longer a single white wave.
There was a surging sound behind him, but in front of him, the sea was like a wild horse tossed enough, and it was rare to see quiet.
On the eve of the storm, it was unusually calm, and the people on board had to tense their nerves, staring at the unmistakable sea and the boundless darkness.
The next moment, a sharp whistling sound reached the ears, which, as everyone knows, was due to the roar of the wave.
The small ripples in the barrel turned into monstrous waves when they reached the sea!
The devil sticks out his tongue and licks everything in the abyss, it has an infinitely huge mouth, and nothing can escape.
The waves were rough and came to the boat in an instant, and the black wall of water surrounded the boat in an arc.
There was a loud "boom", and the people in the boat had no time to react, and they were overturned in the sea along with the people and the boat.
The sea was pitch black, and everyone felt like they were falling into the endless abyss of hell.
The huge buoyancy of the boat turned into a foreign object in the belly of the sea, and they were spit out by the dark monster, and even jumped high, exceeding the surface of the sea, and after a while, they fell down hard.
The searchlight flashed, causing the people on board to break out in a cold sweat.
In such a situation, if there is no light, then you really don't even know how to die.
The huge waves crossed by, and the aftermath behind them continued, only for a few minutes, there were superimposed ripples everywhere, and the sea water on the entire sea surface was irregular at the moment, tumbling like boiling water, and there were high and low waves everywhere.
Compared to the keel boat, the waves are tantamount to mountain peaks, movable peaks formed by water, and the boat floats around in the countless peaks and valleys, without the slightest ability to act autonomously, a mountain moves head-on, and the serpentine boat rushes half the way up the hill, and then slides down the slope.
Behind him, another mountain rushed forward, and the two peaks collided, but instead of making an earth-shattering crash, they cleverly merged together to form a huge peak that was more than twice the size of the previous one, and the boat was thrown high to the peak.
The people on board struggled to control it, allowing the boat to slide forward along the massive ridge.
They succeeded, but as they slid forward at an angle of fifty degrees, they were all carried down by the sudden change of direction.
The giant mountain lasted only a moment, and soon broke up into two, one backward and the other pushing the boat forward.
The 50-degree slope seemed to be never-ending, no, the slope was increasing, and soon it became sixty, seventy, eighty, and finally, ninety degrees, almost perpendicular to the sea. The people on the boat had no power to borrow under their feet, and they were suspended from the boat only by safety ropes.
The speed of the ship was much slower than the speed of the mountain, and a huge mountain was approaching in front of it.
This time, the boat was not lucky enough to be thrown to the summit, it was caught in the mountainside, and with a "boom", the belly of the mountain was closed, and the serpentine boat was upside down, and due to its own buoyancy and the gravity of the keel, it soon floated from the belly of the mountain to the surface of the water, and then flipped over.
In the next moment, another mountain peak crept closer, ignoring the dizziness of the people on board.
The serpentine boat travels between the countless mountain peaks, like a toy in the hands of giants, being tossed around mercilessly.
Hit by a huge wave into the bottom of the sea, it rolls several times, and when it comes to the surface, it is pushed to the top of another wave, and then it is swept away.
At this moment, the power of man can no longer fight against nature, and the serpentine boat is just a leaf floating in the waves, spinning directionlessly.
The people on the boat resigned themselves to the fate of the ship, sometimes feeling the free fall at an altitude of more than ten meters, and sometimes diving with bated breath at a depth of several meters.
It didn't take long for the searchlight to flicker twice and go out completely, plunging the boat into absolute darkness.
The people on the boat didn't know where they would be pushed by the waves, whether they were in the water or on the surface, because they were all the same cold, still tied to the boat.
The whole process lasted for an unknown amount of time, and by the time the sea gradually returned to peace, the people on the boat had been tossed and choked enough, and they were all drenched, spitting water from their mouths and noses, and breathing heavily.
Zore turned on his headlamp, and a soft white light lit up in the darkness.
There was at least half a boat of water in the boat, and several people sat in the water, droplets of water running down their hair.
He sat on the bottom of the boat, and the taste of being soaked in the cold water was not pleasant, and he said weakly: "Okay, scoop the water out of the boat first." ”
Sun Miao's master and servant were lying on the side of the boat, his mouth and nose couldn't stop overflowing, and he felt like he couldn't finish spitting up. He was filled with water in both of them, and when he moved slightly, he could feel the rattling in his stomach.
However, it is a miracle that at such an age, it is a miracle that he has survived all the way to now.