Chapter 18: Shark Schools
The blue water, with a slight wave rolling on it, seemed to be a peaceful scene, but suddenly, there were waves on the sea surface, and the dorsal fins on the sea water were revealed, like a triangular sail-like dorsal fin cutting through the water, and moving rapidly in one direction, the sea water was broken, setting off bursts of snow-white waves, one, two...... Gradually, dozens of gray-black fins were revealed, as fast as arrows off the string, sprinting rapidly on the sea.
Li Kuan stood at the bow of the boat, his eyes slightly closed, at this time he was trying his best to communicate the system that seemed to be omnipresent but not at all perceptible, this was the first time he took the initiative to communicate this mysterious system, maybe in vain, but he still tried again and again, because this time it was about the lives of all the people who went to sea with him. Including himself, he didn't know if there was really a school of sharks, and he didn't know how many sharks there would be, but he didn't dare to bet, because the stakes were too big, if there were really dozens of sharks catching up and even attacking their boats, then they might be able to block it, but they would definitely lose a lot, and they didn't even know which ship would be attacked first, this qiē was unknown, and the unknown was the most terrifying. If he is unlucky, he will lose his life, not to mention that there are so many people who follow him across the ocean like this, and he is responsible for these people who trust him. It's just that he has never thought of actively contacting the system, let alone controlling it, and now he is so anxious that he is sweating profusely.
"What should I do? it! Li Kuan couldn't help but burst into foul mouth, he was now sure that there were schools of sharks around, because his keen eyes could already catch a powerful wave surging in the direction of their sailing. The snow-white spray that appeared at that time was not a normal wave, it must have been caused by the activity of some large fish beneath the sea. Add to that the juvenile shark we caught earlier, and it's the most likely big school of fish in the vicinity. There must be a school of sharks.
"Turn the rudder!" Li Kuan exclaimed, these boats are not made of oars like small sampans, and there is also a rudder to control the direction. The rudder has been invented in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and although it has not yet reached its peak, the warships of the Tang Dynasty all have this kind of convenient and quick turning tools, but the rudder of Li Kuan's dozens of ships is more advanced, because these ships are actually built by the ships of Zheng He in the Ming Dynasty in the later generations. Such ships can actually be built even larger, according to legend, Zheng He's largest ship in the Western Ocean is more than 100 zhang long, and a fleet stretches for dozens of miles above the sea, showing the majesty of the Celestial Empire everywhere. However, the cottage level of the craftsmen who are limited to the current Tang Dynasty has not yet reached the level of penguins in later generations, and all the ships have been reduced a lot.
"The sharks are coming. Relying on your broken system, it's activated! Li Kuan was so anxious that he scolded his mother, the waves that rose and fell, so that Li Kuan could see the shark's dorsal fin that was out of the water, like a triangular sail, and saw twenty or thirty of them at a glance. In other words, the hegemon of this sea is at least a huge school of 30 sharks, and such a shark school may only appear when people are not used to eating shark fins in this era, and such a shark school may never be early after a thousand years. It's just that Li Kuan is now extremely cursed, why don't people eat shark fin? The group of sharks that were approaching at a rapid pace, Li Kuan was now seeing it very really. Big and small, the largest of which was seven or eight meters long, and if such a big fish hit it all at once, no matter which of their boats it was, they would be knocked out of a big hole. Then all the people on the ship will only sink to the bottom of the sea with the ship, and if they fall into the sea, there is only one way to die, and even if they are not drowned, they will be dismembered by the hungry sharks.
"No, I can't. Attack is the best defense! Li Kuan decided not to hope that the ethereal system would give him an answer, and now he was going to start acting. The boat was shaking, and the creaking sound rang in the ears. The waves crashed against the hull of the ship, and the turbulence was so great that the whole ship was turned sideways by the sharp turn, and all the ships that followed behind could only slow down so as not to crash into it, and the whole fleet almost stopped at this moment. Only the ship of Li Kuan, the leader of the leader, was left in circles. Li Kuan quickly ran towards the cabin, the rocking boat did not bring the slightest obstacle to her movement, the whole person was like an ape leaping in the mountains and forests, the muscles on her legs rose and fell under her clothes, tangled together. Bringing him a strong force of action, he quickly arrived at the small cabins reserved on the ship, which was the place where the weapons were to be loaded, Li Kuan was originally going to load these ships with weapons after arriving at the destination, but now it seems that it will not work. This time he went overseas without a source of energy, so he had to cherish every piece of energy, and was ready to rely on artificial weapons to equip this fleet, but now is the time to be at stake, not a pity. So a bed of eight-bull crossbows appeared in these small cabins in Li Kuan's rapid movement, and Li Kuan shouted loudly while running: "Go to the weapon compartment to control the weapons, there are sharks in front of you!" ”
The sailors who were called by Li Kuan's voice also crawled to these weapon cabins, and when they saw these things inside, their eyes widened one by one, no one thought that there would be so many large siege equipment on this ship. This kind of equipment can be described as extremely luxurious, the eight-ox crossbows in a bed are all brand new, the arrows that shine with cold light are like spears with handles, and there are dark black blood grooves at the tip of the spear, such a design seems to be specially made to shoot these large fish in the sea, but they all remember that these things were absolutely not on the ship before, because everything on this ship was brought up by them, and they remember it very well, If you have carried such equipment, it will definitely be fresh in your memory. But none of them said anything at this time, for they also learned from the lookout on the mast that a great school of sharks was indeed swimming in this direction, and none of these fishermen-turned-sailors on the seashore did not know what a school of sharks could be to meet on the sea. So they all silently walked to the winch of the eight-bull crossbow, a few stout sailors consciously pushed the winch, and the less sturdy people installed arrows on the crossbow bed, this time it was a matter of life and death, these sailors who had never operated such a large siege machine actually did a good job when they first made contact.
"It's closer!" The lookout on the outer deck of the cabin shouted loudly, standing on the mast, those gray-black shadows on the sea surface were so obvious, they even saw several huge sharks jumping out of the sea, the huge body in the sunlight is a strong oppressive force, these sharks are all more than five meters long, are the overlords of the ocean, but now there are so many, the lookout stood in the lookout on the mast, his face was pale, this time it seems that he is really dead.
"Aimed...... Cheer me up, this time we must not fail, or we will be in danger! Xue Wanche, who was the first mate on Li Kuan's ship, was shouting loudly at this time.
"No!" The sailors promised loudly, they were now half soldiers, and they didn't dare to slack off on Xue Wanche's orders, and they all took aim with great effort, if they didn't hit the sharks hard this time, these big guys would approach their ships, and then I am afraid that they would only have to meet those ancestors who had already gone to another world. Li Kuan was not idle at this time, he was not using him to control the Eight Bull Crossbow, he was standing on the deck at this time, a gorgeous longbow was slowly pulled away in his hand, and an arrow shining with cold light was on the bowstring in his hand. He was now fully engaged in this sniping attack, and it was at this moment that he noticed that as he was aiming, a pale green line appeared in his sight, which seemed to take on the shape of a parabola. "What is this?" Li Kuan suddenly broke away from his state of preoccupation, and at this moment he found that the line had disappeared all at once.
"This ......" Li Kuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and seemed to have caught something, could it be ...... Then he spread the longbow in his hand once more, the muscles in his arms were knotted, he propped up his coarse cloth shirt, and his eyes were fixed on the direction of the arrow in his hand, and the line appeared again. This time he saw it very clearly, and the lines suddenly appeared in his sight, gradually becoming solid and obvious from faint traces.
A shark was swimming on the sea, teasing the waves on the sea, and suddenly a black light flashed like a white horse passing through a gap, but an arrow suddenly inserted into this shark with a length of more than five meters, and this arrow was so powerful. Only a little tail feather remained, and on the surface of the shark's scales, the rest of the arrows and shafts were all submerged in the shark's body. "Really shot!" Li Kuan's heart suddenly felt excited, he didn't expect to shoot it this time, before the arrow in his hand was shot out, there was still nothing, only the blue water, but he saw a shark swimming towards the area where the green line ended, and immediately estimated it in his heart and then shot the arrow at the predicted time, and the arrow on the bowstring flew out directly like he practiced on weekdays. Li Kuan's keen eyes still caught one point: the trajectory of the arrow was completely consistent with the green line. (To be continued......)