Chapter 450: Mermaids Don't Be Cannon Fodder 27
When they were forced to abandon the Okaeanos, destroy it personally, and evacuate as quickly as possible, many crew members were actually reluctant to give up. If they were given another seven days, they would have been able to repair the ship completely, but now they have lost all their efforts.
Now that they were retreating on a medium-sized ship, everyone was in a state of unease and fear. Before the departure of nearly a thousand of them, now there are less than a hundred left, the arrogant and majestic His Royal Highness Tethys was wounded, moody temperament is becoming more and more gloomy, the first mate and several deputies on the ship, now life and death are uncertain, they do not even dare to ask.
After Tethys lost his temper, the storm became more and more violent, and the ship swayed more violently on the sea, and he listened to the sound of the storm raging outside, and his brow furrowed: "How is the situation outside?" β
Hearing Tethys' inquiry, the person who had been waiting at the door of the cabin moved a few steps forward and bowed down and said, "Your Highness Tethys, the storm is increasing, but our ship can still withstand it, and this storm should be able to survive smoothly." β
Accustomed to surviving even tsunamis, the Orcaanos was as smooth as old when it encountered storms, and sitting on this ship that was shaking in the wind and rain, Tethys was in a state of distress and said with a somewhat bad attitude: "Order someone to guard the cabin, and after the rain stops, check the hull of the ship, and don't hinder the navigation." The next sailing route, wait for my instructions. β
The subordinate responded respectfully, but he was beating a drum in his heart, guessing how His Royal Highness Tethys would arrange the next sailing route. In their current situation, it will be very difficult to return to the ship smoothly.
Food, directions, fresh water. When you're on the Okaeanos, you have it all, and there's no need to worry about it. Fortunately, their population is correspondingly smaller. The subordinate comforted himself that His Highness Tethys would not take them to a dead end no matter what.
But if it was true, as he watched the wind and rain outside through the window of the cabin, he remembered his companions who had not returned after getting off the ship.
Although they did not dare to ask His Highness Tetis, from the faces of those who returned, they had a sense of foreboding. Those who didn't come back, could they really be alive on Gaia Island?
In the deep sea. Gu Xiaoxiao, Lodia, Randy, and Rand swam quickly, bringing up four white turbulence. After spending nearly a month on Gaia Island, entering the sea is as free and enjoyable as returning to the mother's body.
Gu Xiaoxiao is okay, she subconsciously has more attachment to the land, and the three of them are happy like children. It's almost synchronized swimming. The long hair fluttering like seaweed in the sea is beautiful, mysterious and seductive.
A storm was blowing on the sea, and they traveled at a depth of about 200 meters to avoid the rapids carried by the strong winds.
Seventeen or eighteen nautical miles is not too far for the mermaids. At depths of 200 meters, the water is much darker than in shallow waters, and fish and other organisms are larger.
Gu Xiaoxiao rubbed shoulders with those huge creatures. I can feel the friendly signal released by the other party, I have to say. The mermaids are naturally affinity.
For humans, the sea world is dark and closed, full of fear, but for mermaids, the sea is a colorful place, the corals, vegetation, fish, shellfish in the sea have bright colors, those colorful fish, swimming in groups, like large clouds in the sky.
"I see it."
Randy was the first to speak, and Gu Xiaoxiao also saw that not far ahead, the behemoth-like Okaeanos was twisting and sinking in the water, setting off a whirlpool version of the rapids at the bottom of the sea.
There is still a distance of nearly dozens of meters from the bottom of the sea, the upper body of the ship touched the dark island in the sea, the front end was seriously damaged, the tall ten-story building ship collapsed, almost broken into two, the protruding edges and corners of the dark island, the hull hit out of many small holes, which is also the main reason for the "spiral effect" of the Okaeanos and the distortion and destruction.
Seeing the unruly Okaeanos that was almost destroyed, Gu Xiaoxiao was almost sure that he was definitely doing it on purpose.
Reefs in the sea are as terrible as dark islands, and ships avoid these places when they are in normal motion, so as not to be touched and cause damage to the hull. Tertius drove the ship, which had not been repaired, to the bottom of the reef and cut off the mast in order to completely scrap the Okaeanos.
"Wait a while, wait until the wind and waves have completely stopped, and then check the situation in the boat."
Gu Xiaoxiao suppressed her anger and stopped Luo Deya from stepping forward, now that the ship continued to sink, if they got too close, it was easy to be swept in.
Although he has not personally experienced a shipwreck accident, judging from Gu Xiaoxiao's knowledge of physics, it is a very dangerous thing to enter the shipwreck domain at this time.
Rand straightened up, and his tail swept unhappily through the water: "Tethys is so hateful, he slips faster than a rabbit, what a shrunken turtle!" β
The first half of the sentence was learned by Rand and the Gaia people, and he learned a lot of slang and saw a lot of interesting animals on the island. The fluffy rabbit was the most timid animal he had ever seen, more sensitive than some fish at the bottom of the sea.
"It's hateful, we were going to catch him!" Lodea flicked her tail heavily, she had a fiery temperament, she had been kept as a pet by Tethys for so many days, and she was hunted down and killed on the island, and of course she hated him to the core.
Randy waited quietly for the turmoil ahead to subside, her eyes slightly sad, Tethys ruined the Ocaanos and left, but she always felt that it was not over yet.
Tetis's temperament is detrimental, and after suffering such a big loss, will he really stop there. They have been wandering for so long, and the people must be concerned about their safety, whether their thrilling experience will bring disaster to the mermaids.
If Tethys wasn't the prince of Cerro, Randy wouldn't be so worried, and he wouldn't be afraid if humans didn't have the means to reach the deep sea.
However, with the power of the Mermaid Soul Orb, Tetis can enter the water unimpeded, and if he sails back to the country of Cerro, and then concocts the same method, leading more people who can go to the depths of the sea to find the merfolk clan, how will they deal with it?
When the ship sank, there was a loud muffled sound in the water, and Randy silently prayed to the god of the sea. She had thought too much about everything she had made to wish, and cursed Tethys and his party to get lost at sea and never hurt the merfolk.
Gu Xiaoxiao thought the deepest and farthest among several people. Because she knows part of the plot and knows how bad Tetis's luck is.
The emergence of a sea adventure king is made up of countless legendary stories, and the mermaid clan is just one of the many merit medals of Tethys, and his ability to embark on the path of profiting from mermaid trafficking is inseparable from the various adventures he encounters in the sea.
What cheats is Tethys's later experience. Most of what Gu Xiaoxiao knew was a passing pass, and it was difficult to be detailed enough to stop it in advance. Although Tethys now has a lot less helpers, and there is no backing from the supposedly unsinkable Okaeanos. But his adventures will not all disappear because of this.
Gu Xiaoxiao was worried, and had no intention of talking to Lodia and them, waiting for the ship to completely sink to the bottom of the sea and no longer make a sound. Then he said to the three of them, "Let's go." Later, we will have three floors for each person, and after the inspection, we will go to check the rest of the places and take out the useful supplies in the ship. β
The trio readily agreed, and they swam to the wrecked Ocaanos.
Gu Xiaoxiao swam to the most severely damaged place, and did not forget to remind Lodia that they should pay attention to safety.
Up close, the hull was ruined, and the hull deck was littered with holes. Some of the ship's floors hung on the steep part of the island, and the whole ship seemed to have been tortured by naughty children. Dropped it on the ground.
Gu Xiaoxiao was a little worried, the Okaeanos had become a whole thing, and the spare ship in the cabin was really usable. She brought Lodia and them here, not only to collect the remnants of the ship, but also to get a boat for the Gaia.
This time on Gaia Island, they received a lot of help from the enthusiastic Gaia people, and they suffered many injuries to the tribal warriors in the process of fighting Tethys and others. Gu Xiaoxiao could feel how eager everyone was to have a ship that could sail far away.
Before arriving, Gu Xiaoxiao was still holding on to the luck that the Okaanos might be repaired, but after the end, seeing the damaged hull in such eyes, she could only retreat and focus on the spare ship.
Tethys and his subordinates took away the spare ships with the largest displacement, and in addition to the one that Anthony had driven away before, there were several ships with good displacement on board.
Gu Xiaoxiao looked at it layer by layer, the seawater poured into the cabin, those exquisite murals and carpets were soaked in the seawater, the color was very strange, the small objects in the ship were floating everywhere, the tables and chairs were crooked, and the house was in chaos, and the temperament of a luxury cruise ship disappeared.
She searched room by room, and there was no one in the ship, so it seemed that Tethys had lost too many people, and had taken all the rest with no one. When he walked to the room where the mermaid had been imprisoned before, Gu Xiaoxiao found that the huge aquarium had already been damaged by the violent twisting, and a large hole had been smashed into the glass wall.
From escaping from the cage to surviving in a desperate situation, and then to defending to attack, Gu Xiaoxiao looked back and found that her mission seemed to be very thrilling.
There were some bread, potatoes and wine scattered in the boat, this should be that Tethys's people left too hastily to take it away, Gu Xiaoxiao collected the wine bottle that was sealed well.
A wine that can be strong and unbroken after a violent upheaval is very commemorative and can be brought to the people of Gaia to try.
After checking the three floors that were the most seriously damaged, Gu Xiaoxiao swam out of the window and swam to the cabin, where the spare boats and lifeboats were located, and she wanted to see if the remaining boats were working.
After arriving at the lower cabin, Gu Xiaoxiao found that this was probably the least damaged place on the Okaeanos, the bottom of the ship sunk in the soft sand, and the small fish were shuttling through this strange new island.
Gu Xiaoxiao swam into the lower cabin from the crack, swam inside, and found that the spare ships in the cabin, except for two that were damaged by the impact because they were too close to the hull. The remaining two larger spare boats, as well as several small lifeboats, were not significantly damaged.
This was much better than Gu Xiaoxiao expected, and she was pleasantly surprised to check up and down the ships, although each ship did not have a large displacement and a limited carrying capacity. But the Gaia people can use these ships to imitate and transform more large ships.
After staying on Gaia Island for nearly a thousand years, many seafaring and shipbuilding techniques have been discontinued, in order to repay them, Gu Xiaoxiao plans to give these ships to Gaia people, and at the same time teach them some nautical knowledge.
"Tatasi, what are you doing here, do you have any supplies here?"
"Will there be supplies in the lower cabin?"
Randy and Rand's voices came one after another, Gu Xiaoxiao got out of the boat, stretched out his hand and pointed around: "I want to give these boats that have not been damaged to the Gaia people, and then Anthony, what do you think?" β
Lodia, who was belated, just heard Gu Xiaoxiao's words, and said without thinking: "No problem, Anthony and Gaia are our friends, these ships will only slowly decay when they sink to the bottom of the sea, but how can we salvage the ships?" β
Lodia's question, which was also that of Randy and Rand, Gu Xiaoxiao floated up again, pointed to the cables stacked in the corner of the cabin and said, "We can use cables to tie these boats." β
"Oh no, Tatasi, you're so naΓ―ve, we can't drag any ship up." Rand exaggeratedly said as he swam to the side of one of the boats, making an effort to hold on to the ship's railing and move upstream.
Gu Xiaoxiao held the cable in one hand, slowly pulled it away in the water, smiled mysteriously at the three of them, and said incomprehensibly: "Although we don't have the strength, we can ask our friends for help, don't worry." β
Luo Deya's head moved up with Gu Xiaoxiao, and asked suspiciously, "Friend?" Do you mean to go back to the clan and gather everyone to salvage the shipwreck? I'm afraid, they won't be willing to go so far and do things that deal with humans. β
Randy and Rand thought silently, and also felt that Tatasi's idea didn't seem to be right, their experience, they were afraid that they couldn't hide the elders of the clan to worry them, how dare they take the initiative to mention it, let everyone come all the way to pull the boat.
Seeing that the three of them wanted to be crooked, Gu Xiaoxiao belched and waved her hand: "You are all wrong, I mean, we can ask the blue whale and the sperm whale for help, for them, it is a very simple matter to drag these small boats to the sea." β
Her words made the eyes of the three of Lodia light up instantly, and they all showed admiration, how could they not expect that they could do this.
Randy gave a thumbs up and praised from the bottom of his heart: "Tatasi, you are so smart, we didn't expect that you could use other powers. β
"It's over, I'm also on an idea, we'll split up later, you are responsible for tying the cable, and I'll bring in blue whales and sperm whales to help." (To be continued.) )
PS:(γ₯ Μ3 Μ)γ₯,I finished writing an hour earlier today.,Because Lingzi read the wrong time.,Ask for a monthly pass for praise.