Ammunition was distributed to the soldiers, and Weiss descended to the bottom of the ship along with the enemy midshipman who had worked with him as a prisoner of war. The previous forced landing, due to the "gentle" way, the hull was not as damaged and twisted as expected, but the various pipes in the cabin cracked a lot, and there were endless steam leaks in many places......

Weiss had previously pursued the Norman crew with his warriors, but the fleeing Normans locked the hatch to the boiler room, and the midshipman led him around a narrow and difficult maintenance passage.

The two of them came out of the maintenance tunnel and immediately sensed that something was not right here - the temperature was much higher than the previous cabin, and they were wearing autumn and winter clothes, and they immediately felt like they were going to sweat.

"Up front is the boiler room, this door...... Yes! The midshipman tried to see if the door to the boiler room could be opened, and as soon as his hand touched it, he immediately jumped up as if he had been electrocuted.

Weiss's eyes narrowed, but he didn't see anything wrong, and he reached out and slowly approached the hatch, and immediately felt the terrible heat.

"That's what I'm worried about!" He told the Norman midshipman officer, "Presumably the coal poured from the fuel tank was burning." You should have emergency fire extinguishing measures, right? ”

The midshipman gritted his teeth and thought for a while: "There is a water spray emergency control valve, but I don't know if it will work." ”

Weiss couldn't help but give him a roll of the eye: So what are you waiting for?

The young man turned around, walked along the passageway, searched for a while, and finally found what he was talking about—a row of valves, to be exact, a number of valves, and he twisted them open one by one with all his might, and there was no movement at all, but after a while there was a strange noise from the boiler room, and then a large amount of water vapor gushed from the leak that he didn't know where, and he could have stayed here for a free sauna.

The hatch, which had been locked by the Normans before, opened easily from behind, and Weiss motioned for Officer Xi to go out, he hesitated for a moment and said, "In this case of the boiler room, there can't be anyone alive inside." If there are any survivors, it is estimated that they are trapped in the motor nacelle and propulsion compartment in the stern, and those machines are prone to breakdown, and they can't leave people at any time. ”

"Let's go!" Weiss responded.

"You...... Did you really hear a knock before? The midshipman still seemed to be somewhat skeptical of Weiss's claims.

Weiss had just tried to probe the situation in the boiler room, and had already looked at the situation of the whole ship by the way, except for the guerrilla advance fighters and their two captured Normans, there must be people alive on the ship, the number is estimated to be 12-14 people, but these situations, he did not need to explain to his prisoners, so he glared at him: "You think I have a lot of time, so I took you out for a walk?" ”

The midshipman seemed to be speechless, and Weiss didn't have time to pay attention to his careful thoughts, and motioned for him to hurry away.

The two of them returned to the underside of the bridge, entered another passageway, went down one floor, passed through two hatches, and suddenly, there was the sound of metal knocking in the deep darkness ahead.

When the rumors were confirmed, the midshipman became agitated, and he quickly searched left and right, found two flashlights from an emergency kit, and led Weiss into the passage as he tapped the bulkhead with the flashlight—he was tapping rhythmically, as if he were using the Norman army's communication code to send a message to his companions inside, but the sound of the response was still as messy as before. Weiss followed behind, unable to see the midshipman's expression, but the incompatibility of the tapping between the two sides made him vaguely speculate.

After a while, the two of them reached the end of the passage, where the passage and hatch were badly deformed. The midshipman shouted a few times in Norman, and there was a faint shouting inside, but it was clear that the two sides were not only separated by this hatch, and they could not hear each other clearly.

The midshipman tried to slam the hatch open with his slightly thin shoulder, but it didn't seem to be very useful, and when he turned his gaze to Weiss, Weiss found that the longing in his eyes had faded.

Seeing through it, Weiss asked him to pull aside, went up and kicked it himself, and found that he couldn't open this kind of hatch that was stuck due to deformation when he was alone, so he took a few steps back and said to the midshipman: "Can you let them retreat?" This door has to be blown open with something. ”

The midshipman frowned, his face was a little unpleasant, and after a few seconds, he responded, "I'm sorry, sir, I'm afraid I can't do it, they ...... Not Norman soldiers, who can't figure out our contact signals. ”

Weiss immediately asked, "Laborers? Where did it come from? ”

"I don't know." The midshipman subconsciously replied, however, an unnatural expression betrayed him.

Weiss snorted, chasing this kind of thing to force the enemy midshipman to be bored, he pulled out his pistol, and before the midshipman had time to react, he shot three times at the lower part of the hatch at an oblique downward angle - it is said that the bullet broke the door lock very much, Weiss's pistol, even if it fired hundreds of bullets, could not break the hatch in front of him. The gunshots were just a warning to the people inside: the people outside were going to violently tear down the door.

The gunfire rang out suddenly, and the midshipman jumped up in fright as if he had seen a cat and a mouse, and took several steps back in succession.

"You should be okay with these laborers, right?"

With that, Weiss fired three more shots, then immediately withdrew the magazine and reloaded the bullets. In the process, the midshipman tensed his face, gritted his teeth, and nervously figured out the other party's intentions.

After loading the bullets, Weiss put the pistol back in the holster, then walked up and down in front of the hatch, looked up and down, focused on the opening in the upper left corner of the hatch, took a pineapple bullet from the belt, compared the size, turned to the midshipman and said, "How fast are you running?" ”

The trainee officer was a little mad at the constant number of questions, and before he could reply, Weiss shoved the pineapple bullet into the crooked hole in the corner of the door, struck it hard, then pulled off the buckle and ran in the opposite direction.

At this moment, the midshipman's spirit was almost broken, and he ran lifelessly, but was still overtaken by Weiss. When they ran to the top of the stairs and ran up three steps, there was a loud bang behind them, and a current of air ten times more violent than a hurricane rushed over, like an invisible fist smashing into the backs of two people.

The two of them rushed forward and lay down at the entrance of the upper passage.

I'll you...... Stimulate!

"If it can't be blown up this time, the situation will be a bit troublesome." Weissdau.

The midshipman saw the other party open his mouth, but he didn't hear what he was saying, and opened his mouth wide, "Huh? ”

Without saying good things a second time, Weiss got up and patted his head, picked up the guy with his hand, and asked him to follow him back. When I came back to the position I had just been, the twisted hatch had been blown open, and the inside was black and silent.

Weiss motioned to Officer Xi to continue exploring the way ahead, and he had no choice but to go to the hatch and shout in Norman: "Hey! Are you all right? ”

There was a sudden sound of metal knocking inside, startling the midshipman.

Immediately afterward, someone shouted in Norman with a very unauthentic accent: "The door won't open, we're trapped!" Are you going to blow the door open? ”

Listening to the voice, they were also separated behind another hatch - two before it, no wonder they couldn't hear the speech at all.

The midshipman did not answer, but turned his head to look at Weiss.

Weiss stared at him: "Their accent is a bit like that of Fries?" Or Basel? ”

Being stared at by the "God of Killing", the young man suddenly became timid, lowered his head, and muttered: "Ishnir's hired man." ”

To the west of the territory of the Free Commonwealth of the Ulster, and to the east of the territory of the Norman Empire, there are five kingdoms: the Kingdom of Fries, the Kingdom of Basel, the Kingdom of Kempten, the Kingdom of Falaline, and the Confederation of Ishnir Tribes. They are not large in size, all of them add up to less than one-fifth of the Ulster Free Federation, and the population is not large, roughly equivalent to one-third of the Norman Empire. When the roar of the war machine resounded on the planet Orens, only a few countries could stay out of it, and it was even more difficult for the five countries to stand alone in the middle of the Eastern and Western powers—the Kingdom of Fries, as the trigger for the outbreak of this war, will still be remembered thousands of years later; After the Kingdom of Fries, the Kingdom of Basel, the Kingdom of Kempten, and the Kingdom of Falaine also joined the military alliance of the Norman Empire, and each of them sent their own armed forces to follow the Normans in their conquests. The Ishnir Tribal Alliance is the only nominally neutral country, and the most notorious international black market on the planet, where no one cares about international justice and humanitarianism, as long as there is gold and precious stones, intelligence, arms, killers, almost anything can be done.

Weiss let him in with a flashlight, followed him unhurriedly, and asked in a low voice, "Will these Basel people listen to you honestly or beat you up when they come out?" ”

The trainee officer was stunned for a moment, did not turn his head, did not answer, and may have 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping past in his heart.

The hatch in front of me is not as twisted as the one just now, and there is no opening under the door that is suitable for stuffing spinach bullets, and if you detonate the jackball bullets directly outside the door, maybe the power will be a little small, after all, these hatches are heavy steel plates, and they look very solid.

"You are Easterners!" Weiss suddenly said loudly.

Although Weiss also spoke Norman, such a question was obviously not for the Normans to ask. The person inside hesitated for a moment and asked rhetorically, "Who are you?" ”

"I am the commander of the partisan advance detachment of the Free Federal Army of Ulster!" Weiss replied solemnly, "This Norman ship has been taken over by the Federal Army. Before I get you free, I want to ask you, would you like to leave on your own, or join the federal army? ”

This time, the people inside hesitated for a longer time.

"We come from the Eagle tribe of Eastnir, it doesn't matter which side we join, the important thing is to pay us on time."

Hearing this answer, the corners of Weiss's mouth curled slightly, revealing a sly smile.

"Listen, eagles from Eastnir, from now on, I will hire you at double the price until the end of the war, how about it?"

"That's not going to work!" The person inside replied, "We can't accept new employment until the previous employment agreement is terminated, no matter how high the price is, that's our absolute rule." ”

The tribe is really righteous! Weiss looked at the midshipman next to him unhurriedly: "It's simple, we have a Norman officer here, and he can terminate the employment relationship with you on behalf of the Norman army." Besides, how about we can pay you all the wages they owe? ”

This time, the answer was quick: "We can accept such conditions!" ”

Weiss finally asked, "I don't mind if we have a new ship to work with, right?" ”

The answer was very simple: "As long as we can move, of course there is no problem." ”

"Good!" Weiss smiled and nodded at the midshipman, although he was full of smiles, but his expression was clearly saying: Young man, this matter is not worthy of cooperation, look at it yourself!