After about half an hour, the sailors at the lookout finally cheered: "Captain! There really is a mountain peak twenty miles ahead", and having a mountain peak means having a safe place, whether it is an island or a mainland, it is good news before the storm comes, and this does not excite the sailors.

The wind and rain were getting stronger and stronger, and the raindrops the size of soybeans were almost sweeping over, pushing and kneading the ships on the sea as if they were about to sink to the bottom of the sea in the next moment.

"Send a signal, inform the other ships, we have found a piece of land?"

At this time, there were almost no other ships in sight on the sea, and even the best sailors could only vaguely see some black shadows, not much bigger than leaves, rising and falling helplessly on the wind-swept sea, appearing on the crest of the waves, and disappearing into the sea at the same time.

Time passed minute by minute, every second of persistence was more hope, Zhen Qian could already hear the sound of the huge waves crashing on the ship, the "squeak" sound that was about to break, the bow of the ship was lifted high by the huge waves, and then thrown into the abyss, each blow clung people's hearts together, and the next moment I didn't know if the ship could rise from the bottom of the huge waves.

As the ship got closer and closer in the direction of the dark shadow, the sailors on the lookout reported more and more accurately: "Captain, it's a piece of land, it's really a piece of land, a big piece of land, we have been saved." ”

"Drop the clipper and let the clipper search the left and right sides of the coastline for sheltered bays?"

The speed of the ships began to slow down, not all bays are suitable for mooring ships, if you accidentally dock the fleet in a place with reefs and reefs, even if you don't encounter a storm, the whole fleet will lose a lot, so at this time the ships need to stop not far from the mainland and wait for the results of the search to come back.

Zhen Qian could already see the reef in the distance at this time, even if he didn't understand anything, he could see that this was not a good place to dock boats.

The luck of his own ship was good, he found the coastline at the most dangerous time, and then looked back for the ships behind him, but he didn't see a few, and his heart couldn't help but sink.

"The worst happened!"

Ke Ming said anxiously: "Sir, we can only see four ships around us, and the other ships are gone, so what can we do?" ”

As the first ship to start the first ship has now become a few lonely people, this joke is really big, now the wind and waves are so big, it should be on the edge of the storm, if you turn around and go back, you are looking for death, there is no time to expand the scope of the search, you can only resign yourself to fate.

"Let's find a place to shelter from the storm first! If we can go ashore and light more fires, I hope that the other ships can only see the light of the fire gathering on our side...... ”

Zhen Qian didn't have a good way, Ke Ming resolutely disagreed with the idea that the ship would turn back at this time, such an idea would kill an entire number of people on the ship.

Soon the ships searching the coastline reported a good news, there was a fairly good bay five miles north of this coastline, the area was not large, it should not be a problem to dock a dozen ships, at this time there was no choice, Ke Ming immediately ordered the ships to sail towards the bay.

The bay is indeed not big, not a good haven, the shallow draft of the ship can be docked in front, like Zhen Qian, the thousand stone ship can only stay in the periphery, all the ships are anchored, there are two merchant ship owners who are clever to fix the two ships together with iron chains, so that it seems to be able to resist greater wind and waves, in fact, this method is quite dangerous, if the storm is not big, this method still has a certain effect, if the storm is large to a certain extent, Because there are iron locks between merchant ships, it is easy to cause collisions between merchant ships, and the bigger the storm, the more serious the consequences of the collision.

It's a pity that Zhen Qian and Ke Ming didn't notice this extremely stupid behavior, when the danger came, these shipowners were already scared stupid, this situation is not often encountered, and inexperienced shipowners don't know what kind of emergency measures should be in case of a storm.

Ke Ming didn't have the experience of leading the entire fleet, and Zhen Qian didn't understand it even more, the experience was summed up after the failure, and it was something that mortals couldn't consider.

The bay is still a little small, the storm blows the ships in all directions, the shouts and exclamations are not heard at all in the storm, and the wind in the ears is like the neighing of monsters.

The only thing Zhen Qian can do now is to wait, hoping that the storm will be smaller and smaller, hoping that his ship can only stay as far away from the center of the storm as possible and wait for the storm to pass as soon as possible.

At this time, the waves on the sea are rolling, the waves are crashing against the sky, and the huge waves are rushing towards the shore, wave after wave, wave after wave, wave after wave, and the merchant ships in the bay are like a small boat in the waves, one will be pushed high by the waves, and the other will be pulled into the bottomless abyss by the waves. In the dark night sky, the dense raindrops like soybeans beat the ships mercilessly, the bright lightning in the distance tore through the dark night sky, and the rumbling thunder made people tremble.

It was the first time that Zhen Qian had encountered such a big storm head-on, and the ship swayed around like a toy in a child's hand, plunging into the waves for a while, and blowing as if it was about to take off. The sea seemed to be teasing the fleet, and the huge ships looked fragile under the kneading of the waves, as if they were about to be torn apart by the waves in the next moment.

The raindrops hit Zhen Gan's face like pebbles, Zhen Qian was tied to a thick rope, and the other end of the rope was tied to the main sail, and now Zhen Qian really couldn't do anything, even the two closest ships couldn't be contacted. There was a loud sound all around, the sound of the waves crashing against the boats, the sound of raindrops crashing mercilessly against the ships, the roar of the wind in the bay, and the roar of thunder in the distance.

Zhen Qian's attempt to observe the ships in the storm was shattered, and it was pitch black all around, only a brief flash of lightning could illuminate the entire bay, but in an extreme moment, it immediately fell into the boundless darkness, like a ghost.

Now the whole fleet can only pray in the night, the storm is still raging, and if you listen closely, you can hear the squeak and tear of the ships, as if the ships were about to die at the bottom of the sea, and the next moment everything is calm again, as if nothing had happened, and then the cycle repeats, again and again, and again and again on the verge of breaking people's nerves.

Wang Tianxing was a little excited, I am afraid that I will not be able to see the second time in my life no matter how big the storm is, and he also tied himself to the mast and shouted, roaring and waiting for the storm to come.