Chapter 233: A Difficult Crossing - Vortex Sea Area
It's a dangerous journey and a gamble-like adventure.
But after rushing into the whirlpool sea, Tianming could not turn back.
Crossing this sea area, Tianming's plan is to rush out of this sea area at high speed in five days, but things are not as simple as imagined.
The current environment of the whirlpool sea is too complex, not only with huge waves up to thirty or fifty meters high, but also countless huge whirlpools.
These whirlpools, like a pot of boiling porridge, are constantly stirred, and it is the edge of this pot that is walked in the morning, like walking on a narrow embankment, but at any moment it may slide into a huge puddle.
In addition, the current on the sea surface is also extremely complicated, these currents are flowing, even high-speed flow, if you go downstream, it goes fast, if you encounter a countercurrent, the boat can't move forward at all, sometimes it is directly washed back by the current, you can only turn around and go.
In the process, not only did I encounter several thrilling dangers, but in the daytime, in the process of difficult travel, I could only walk less than 200 kilometers.
At night, it is a nightmare of dawn.
He couldn't see anything on the sea clearly, he couldn't see the big whirlpool in the distance, even if there was a searchlight on the top of the ship island, the sodium yellow pillar of light could shoot far away, but the narrow field of vision could only allow Tianming to see the sea conditions 500 meters ahead and 50 meters nearby, under the stormy waves, the hull of the ship shook violently, and he had to find a Blue Star sailor with far better eyesight than the earthlings to come over and ask him to help guide the way.
"Which way to go?"
"Over there." Tianming turned the boat to the left.
"Which way to go?"
"This way." Tianming turned the boat to the right.
Under the guidance of this sailor, in the dark night, the fleet struggled all night, very tired, and wanted to sleep, but the morning could not rest, and once he was tired and tired, the whole fleet could fall into the endless abyss.
Thundered! A huge whirlpool appeared right in front of the fleet.
The whirlpool is huge. It is at least ten kilometers in diameter, and under the continuous accumulation of energy from the surrounding waves, it is like a deadly abyss, and the deep part is bottomed out.
This whirlpool happened to be in the blind spot of the field of vision, and Tianming, who didn't notice it, drove the Lidong and slid straight forward.
"No!"
At the critical moment, Tianming first made the ship turn around, and then quickly increased the power of the engine, raised the speed, and got rid of the huge suction power of this whirlpool.
The Ridong quickly burst out of this whirlpool. But the next few ships, under the pull of the rope, also slid into this whirlpool, and the Lidong was dragged upside down by those ships and slid back into the whirlpool.
"Nope! Come out! ”
There was no way, in order to get out of this whirlpool, Tianming had to follow the vortex, increase the speed of the ship, and obtain a large enough centrifugal speed. Escape from this hellish place.
The Lidong's engines were running at full capacity, and the long flames of the eight engines illuminated a large area of the sea, and below the surface, two propellers shook the water at high speed. Stirring up a large wave of waves, under the action of these two huge forces, the Lidong pulled the four ships behind it, and continued to accelerate. When it reached the middle of the whirlpool, it followed the vortex and exceeded 30 knots. This did not continue to slide, and stabilized.
"What's that?"
Tianming saw that at the bottom of the whirlpool, there was a blue band of light, which also shook along the vortex at high speed, and when he saw the specific appearance of the band of light, he immediately exclaimed.
"Blue light eel?"
This is a submarine electric eel, the body length of the electric eel is nearly 1,000 meters, the whole body is blue, there are brown stripes on the surface of the body, and the head and tail keep emitting electric light, which is extremely shocking.
Perhaps feeling that he couldn't break free from this whirlpool, the giant electric eel shook twice in despair, and then released all the current in his body, and a silver snake power grid appeared at the bottom of the whirlpool, and the powerful high-voltage current made Tianming, who was thousands of meters away, tremble a lot, and the silver steel armor he wore was not made of insulating materials.
Eventually, the electric eel was torn to countless pieces by the whirlpool.
"Give it to me!" Tianming roared angrily, increased the output of his divine sense, and operated the rune crystal on the bow of the ship, so that the speed of the fleet continued to increase.
Under the fierce pull of the Lidong, the five ships finally got out of this huge whirlpool and ran to a slightly safer sea area.
But a bad scene appeared, just jumped out of the whirlpool, a whalebone boat behind made a "snap" sound, and the hull seemed to break.
Sandwiched between the Youxia and the Zhiqiu, the Nuan Chun has been subjected to the constant impact of the two ships, and when it just jumped out of the whirlpool, the hull of the ship was out of the water, and under the action of gravity, there were Xia and Zhiqiu, and at the same time it hit the Nuan Chun hard, and the hull of the Nuan Chun immediately broke and began to leak.
In the process of leaking, the Nuan Chun continued to withstand the impact of the two ships, and the crack in the guide was getting bigger and bigger, and the Nuan Chun was about to die.
"Get to the two boats next to you, quick!"
The three whalebone ships were tied together with ropes, and after Tianming's transfer order was issued, the crew on the Nuan Chun quickly transferred to the Youxia and Zhiqiu next to them, and immediately screamed and panicked.
"Someone fell into the sea!"
In the process of personnel transfer, there are constantly Blue Star people who have been thrown into the sea and swallowed by huge waves because they have not grasped it steadily, but Tianming has no way to save these people, he still has to manipulate the Lidong, there is no way to be distracted, not to mention that it is still at night.
The cracks in the hull of the Nuan Chun are getting bigger and bigger, the water is flooding more and more, the hull is starting to sink, and the weight is also increasing, and it has even affected the speed of the entire fleet.
Helplessly, Tianming used the dimensional chop to cut the Nuan Chun into hundreds of pieces and let it drift away, with the help of hundreds of sailors, Youxia and Zhiqiu were tied together, and the number of ships in the fleet changed from 5 to 4.
……
"The night was too long."
Early the next morning, his mental strength was already overdrawn, and Tianming, who was exhausted, handed over the Lidong to Elder Maiga's control, and went back to the Silver Steel Dome to rest for a while.
Elder Maiga can also control the rune crystals on the bow of the Lidong, but his spiritual power is far less high than Tianming, he can only control 50 rune crystals at a time, and at most he can do some steering operations, and the time he can operate is not long, only a short 4 hours, these 4 hours are Tianming's precious rest time.
After four hours of rest, although dizzy and splitting. The brain cells also strongly demanded a little more rest, but Tianming still stepped up his work, began to purify fresh water, decompose hydrogen and oxygen fuel, and then replaced the Elder Maijia Zun Lidong who was already crumbling in the bow of the ship, his mental power had been overdrawn to the limit.
……
Seven days later, the fleet broke out of the whirlpool, but the number of ships was reduced to two.
After being pushed to the top by a high wave, the Zhiqiu clicked, and the hull of the ship was broken in two.
Thousands of people fell overboard. But fortunately, the accident occurred during the day, and Tianming immediately put all the crew members into the ability space and rescued more than 600 people who fell on the sea.
Because they were all wearing life jackets, they were very conspicuous on the sea, and after Tianming rescued most of the people, only more than 400 people were lost.
The whale bones that make up the main frame of the whale ship are indeed very hard and strong, but they are too rigid and easy to break, and they are constantly destroyed by the waves. Even if the durability of the whalebone ship is very high, it will not be able to withstand the continuous attack of the waves, and it will collapse sooner or later.
Resilience is the key to resisting the waves.
As an ark. The Ridong is a 'living' ship, it has a certain ability to repair itself, and when the interior is strained and broken, the living cells will tissue repair these parts. This curbs the momentum of increasing damage, and has a certain ability to 'regenerate'.
That's why people are begging to board the ark when the end comes.
It's hard to stand alone. The lone Yuxia could not float steadily on the surface of the sea, and a single wave could overturn the 200-meter-long ship.
"Goodbye, Warm Spring, Zhiqiu, Youxia, I didn't expect that you will sink in this sea one after another less than a month after you built it, but please rest assured, I will definitely rebuild you and make you bigger and stronger! Your descendants will inherit your name and continue to gallop on this sea! ”
When he abandoned the last whalebone ship, the 'Youxia', Tianming secretly swore in his heart.
More than 10,000 people on board the three whalebone ships, including only 3 Blue Star Pigs (2 died of seasickness), were transferred to the ability space by Tianming, eating, drinking, and sleeping, all in the ability space. It occupies more than 20,000 cubic meters of special energy space, except for a gap that is often open for them to ventilate and look at the scenery, these more than 10,000 people, Tianming does not plan to arrange for them to live on the ship.
Food is also beginning to face the problem of shortage, because there are too many whale jerky abandoned before, and now in the ability warehouse, there are only about 1,000 boxes of dried whales left, each box is 100 catties, 100,000 catties, only enough for 10,000 people to eat for 10 days.
There is not much food on the Lidong either, only more than 800 boxes of dried fish left, which is only enough for more than 4,000 people on the Lidong to eat for 20 days, and if a little is given to the people in the ability warehouse, the food is estimated to only last for 15 days.
Tianming had to issue an order: in order to save food, the supply of dried fish was halved.
Starvation is something that Blue Star people often face, and the Blue Star people who follow Tianming don't seem to have faced the problem of food shortage in their memory, and many people have gained a lot of weight during that time. Now that there is not enough food, they also expressed their understanding, and an old man said: "The master is fighting with the angry sea god, we should share his pressure, reduce his worries, from now on, drink more water, sleep more, eat less fish and meat, even if it is starvation to death, we must get through this difficult time." ”
Everyone nodded one after another, and even those lively and active Blue Star people Ding Jia were restrained by Mi Ma from running around anymore, and lay on the ground to sleep sensibly.
After abandoning the three whalebone ships and greatly reducing their weight, the Ridong only had to drag the Naboh behind it forward.
Nabo is very tenacious, even if there is a lot of water in the cabin, but it still survives all the way, Tianming originally planned to abandon the ship as well, and take the people on board into the ability space, so that the Lidong can travel lightly, and he can control zhì more handy.
There were more than 800 people on the Nabo, and there were a lot of things, but there was really no room for more space. The space for storing fuel should not be less than 20,000 cubic meters.
In addition, if the Ridong pulls a ship forward, it will slightly increase the stability of the ship and increase the safety, so I did not give up on the Nabo for the time being.
After the Lidong, whose burden had been greatly reduced, broke out of the whirlpool at a speed of more than 25 knots, the sea conditions did not improve, but became more dangerous.
Under the action of gravitational tides, a large amount of sea water near the equator was thrown over, and these seawater spread from south to north, forming high waves.
…… (To be continued......)