Chapter 703: Golden Fire Dragon
"Hell...... How did I miss out on this kind of conspicuous guy? Little Meck clashed twice on the top of her head, and Elu's face pressed tightly against the lenses, and the other end of the telescope reflected the orc's large, deformed eyes. In Meralu's pupils, a female fire dragon with golden scales swam aboard the side of the ship, and every pause flung a fiery breath towards the small hunting group on the top of the boat.
"It's not your fault!" Sha Rumo said in a loud voice. The airship is now trapped on the ground, and there are far more blind spots in the field of vision than in the air, "Monsters with a little wisdom know how to evade the detection tools of hunters, and of course monsters of this level are-"
"Bang!" Before Captain Scorpion's words fell, the hull of the ship trembled violently. Fireballs erupted from the wyvern's throat one after another, landing on the deck and on the side with the sound of the hunting wind. The Earth Queen's breath was more powerful than the gun's guns, and it exploded into clusters of smaller droplets in an instant when it hit the airship. The slime was a mixture of grease and extremely flammable phosphorus, and even the wooden planks on the deck, which had been deliberately fire-treated, inevitably burned.
"Ming Hai! What are our naval guns waiting for? Why don't you fight back? The hull swayed, and the sand fell from the ceiling of the belvedere. The young observer tapped the microphone and asked loudly into the command room, "Didn't you say you were ready to take on the monsters?" ”
"Hunter glory, I'm not talking about such monsters!" The driver managed to stabilize himself back into his seat. Listening to the news of the damage coming from all over the cabin, the young man's head buzzed, as if it had tripled in size, and his temples jumped suddenly.
The Fire Dragon Clan originally had the strength of the three-star top rank, and with the additional half-star bonus of the flying species, it was almost impossible to meet opponents under the Dragon Clan. The strength of the subspecies and rare species is generally stronger than that of the native species, which means that the fierce beasts hanging next to the side of the ship have reached the threshold of the ancient dragon family.
The Union's small hunting ships were not designed to deal with monsters of this class, and neither the strength of the hull nor the firepower of the ship's weapons was far from enough. Even if a single round of shelling hits all, there is no guarantee that the wyvern species that are raging next to the ship will be broken.
Unable to kill or seriously wound under a single round of shelling, the monster's attention will immediately shift from the small people jumping on the deck to the huge airship itself, and the weapons bay will be the first to be the target of its attack. Even the thickest tower on the front of the hunting ship could not stop a few blows, let alone the rows of gun holes that were wide open on the side of the ship.
There were more than a dozen people on duty at the fort and crossbow posts, and if the Queen of the Earth reversed the direction of the attack, the young people were trapped in a small cabin, unable to dodge, and had no way to dodge, only to die in the wrath of the Wyvern. The mechanics and boatmen were all friends with whom Sha Minghai had eaten and lived since he was still in the training camp, and the young pilot choked in his throat, and he couldn't give the order to fire the cannon no matter what.
"Think of a way! The hosts they are still on deck! Mei Ke screamed.
"You're going to tell me what to do?" The driver grabbed the microphone, leaned in front of his face and screamed. The battleship could not make even the slightest evasive maneuver, and the ground space was narrow, and suppressing it with continuous artillery fire would be the first to damage the hunting ship itself. There are many subjects related to hunting ship manipulation in the training camp, but no one has ever taught Sha Minghai how to fight when the monster is close in front of you and the airship cannot be lifted into the air.
"Listen, Ming Hai—" Sha Rumo snatched the microphone from Xiao Mei Ke, "The Little Hunter Group is the owner of this hunting ship, but now you are the one at the helm of the airship." You have what it takes to keep us alive from the siege of two poaching ships, and I'm sure you'll have a way to do it this time! ”
"Shhhh If you can fly......" said the young pilot through gritted teeth. Under the interference of the rare species of female fire dragons, the mechanics led by Shalan had to hide in the cabin, and the maintenance of the auxiliary propeller was forced to be temporarily suspended. The fire on the deck became the climate, and the sound of the crisp peeling was endless. From time to time, burned timber fell from the front window of the command module, and the tail was still dragging red flames and choking smoke.
"Wait any longer, the dragon will burn the ship!" Mei Ke was in a hurry, and the nails on his palms poked out, cutting silver scratches on the mirror. The golden fire dragon was on the side of the ship, and it seemed that it had lost its role on the lookout. His eyes narrowed, and he simply turned and jumped off the observation platform, grabbed the weapon behind his back and ran out, making a gesture to reach the side of his master on the deck.
"Extinguish the fire! Yes, give priority to extinguishing the fire......" Sha Minghai muttered to himself as if he had just woken up from a dream. The young captain fumbled around the podium, and finally found a row of inconspicuous levers in the corner. The driver pushed them one after another, and the slight sound of the bracket turning ran all the way up the bulkhead, and in a few moments it reached the air chamber. An obscure winch sound sounded inside the air chamber, and the hard shells of several cabins "banged" and fell down in no particular order.
The secret door under the air chamber suddenly opened, and strands of golden-brown quicksand fell. Gravel fluttered up and down the deck in an instant. Seven or eight secret doors surged in unison, and in a few moments the entire deck was covered with a thick layer of gravel. The fire oil spat out by the golden fire dragon was covered under the fine sand, and only puffs of white smoke came out of the cracks in the yellow sand, and after a while, even the white smoke was gone, and a sea of fire on the deck quietly dissipated in just a few seconds.
"Ahem...... With such a mechanism, why didn't the kid use it earlier? Nie Xiaoyang struggled to his feet from under the sand, brushing away the sand stuck to the top of his head. The young hunter's face was blackened with ash from the smoke of his breath, and even his eyebrows were charred, and he looked quite embarrassed at the moment.
After repeated breath bombardment, the hunters on the deck were already exhausted, and Xiao Qing'er, who was a little less physically strong, was even closer to the limit. The billowing smoke and the gradually expanding fire ground continued to compress the space for the young people to hide, and if it weren't for the sand rain falling from the sky, it temporarily relieved the urgent need of the little hunting group, and the young people would have been killed in the fire.
Feng Manyun looked up at the cabin inside the secret door, in order to prevent fire, the union airship specially opened an emergency sand silo at the bottom of the air cabin, and at this moment it was already empty: "Eighty percent is disposable, and it can no longer be used." ”
"So what's next?" Xiao Qing'er glanced at the plate on the side wall that was burned red by the breath, "The breath of that fire dragon can even burn steel, so you don't want to hide like this......"
"Are you all okay?" The door to the deck slammed open, and quicksand poured into the cabin. Meralou leaned half of her body out of the deck, her palms shaking in the direction of the group.
"What the hell is going on in the command module?" As soon as Fang saw his companions coming from the cabin, Xiao Yang subconsciously shouted, "We're about to die here, what about the naval artillery support that we said?" ”
"Hold on a little longer! Just a while! Melaru said in an unusually firm tone.
"Don't you see? This guy didn't give us the slightest chance to fight back! The two blades replied, and their eyes did not take their eyes off the golden fire dragon for a moment. The monster didn't seem to understand that the top of the deck was being filled with its own phosphorus fire, but in the blink of an eye, the fire was mostly extinguished for no apparent reason. The Wyvern swirled around the battleship, the tip of its nose squirming slightly, as if trying to figure out what kind of strange powder was spilling from the air tank, "What to hold?" Do you want us to jump ship? ”
"Don't!" Xiaomei shook her head vigorously. The airship has just self-destructed the gangway, and the deck is nearly twenty meters high to the ground, and it is difficult to determine whether it will fall to its death if it jumps off the ship rashly, but at least it is impossible to get up and fight intact, "wait a little longer......
"What are you waiting for?"
Nie Xiaoyang didn't get an answer, because Meralu had already retracted her head into the hatch. In just a dozen seconds, the golden fire dragon had already circled around the airship several times, but with the wisdom of the monster, it was obviously impossible to easily understand the truth of extinguishing the fire with sand. The Queen of the Earth let out an irritable howl, made up her mind not to dwell on the minutiae of the battle, and returned her gaze to the people of the Little Hunting Regiment.
The monster flew a short distance in the air away from the direction of the warship, its wings slicing through two beautiful arcs, and its body turned leisurely and swooped down towards the deck. A whining wind whistled from under the wyvern's ribs, and the hideous head and thorn-strewn winged claws rapidly enlarged in the eyes of the hunters.
The young people subconsciously rolled in different directions to dodge, Xiao Qing'er rolled on the sand, the sand on the ground emitted a scorching smell, wet with sweat, and stained the girl's head and face. The female flute pursed her lips before she got up, but saw that the female fire dragon had already adjusted the trajectory of her swoop in mid-air, and a pair of blue eyes were staring straight at the direction she was.
"Oops...... Qing'er, get out of the way! Shentu Miaoling shouted. The female archer had the heart to rush to the rescue, but the distance between the two was too far. Before the temporary captain could stand firmly, he jumped out with the fish, the fine sand under his feet was slippery and greasy, and he couldn't bear it, and this leap did not run far, and there was still a considerable distance from the girl.
Xiao Yang and Xishu Hunter stopped, and they also sensed the Golden Fire Dragon's attack intent in unison. When Feng Manyun lifted the Tai Dao, he was about to forcibly block it desperately, but the wind pressure under the wings of the flying dragon had already come to the deck first. The white-clothed hunter seemed to have been pushed hard by a large, invisible hand, his arms in front of him, and his body crouched backwards for several meters, dragging two long sand marks on the deck. Nie Xiaoyang was even more blown to the ground by the sudden strong wind, and slipped to the other end of the deck before being blocked by the railing on the side side.
"Boom ——!" On the horizon, a thunderbolt rang out at the right time. The lightning was so powerful that it illuminated the sky of the entire hunting ground as if it were day. The golden scale armor of the Queen of the Earth became more and more dazzling under the arc, and Xiao Qing'er's body was completely shrouded by the wings of the flying dragon species, as if she was under a golden moon, as if she was about to be pierced by the scales on the wing claws in the next second.
"Hunter ship...... There's a hunting ship over there! The light from the thunder and lightning flickered, but the two blades seemed to see something from the light of a moment. Nie Xiaoyang's eyes stared straight at the other side of the hunting ground, and a small black shadow was rushing towards the battleship of the small hunting group at an unbelievable speed.
The things in the air in the distance were bloated and stiff, and they didn't have the agility and freedom of a flying species, but they flew faster than any powerful monster in the young hunter's memory. It was dark and difficult for the hunting ship to identify, but even if it was a friendly ship, it was too late to launch a rescue from that distance. The scale armor on the Wyvern Species is extraordinary, and ordinary crossbows can't shake the Golden Fire Dragon in the slightest. If the incoming ship does not fire in advance, there is a higher chance of injuring the hunters on the deck if the cannon is opened rashly.
"Or ...... Is it too late? The claws hidden under the wings of the giant beast shone out and grabbed at the female flute, who could not move in the strong wind. Feng Manyun reluctantly stood up straight in the wind pressure, gritting his teeth and striding forward, but the distance of a few meters was as insurmountable as a moat.
He looked back reluctantly, as if the unknown airship was the last hope to save his companion.
"Boom ——!" On the horizon, a thunderbolt rang out at the right time. The lightning was so powerful that it illuminated the sky of the entire hunting ground as if it were day. The golden scale armor of the Queen of the Earth became more and more dazzling under the arc, and Xiao Qing'er's body was completely shrouded by the wings of the flying dragon species, as if she was under a golden moon, as if she was about to be pierced by the scales on the wing claws in the next second.
"Hunter ship...... There's a hunting ship over there! The light from the thunder and lightning flickered, but the two blades seemed to see something from the light of a moment. Nie Xiaoyang's eyes stared straight at the other side of the hunting ground, and a small black shadow was rushing towards the battleship of the small hunting group at an unbelievable speed.
The things in the air in the distance were bloated and stiff, and they didn't have the agility and freedom of a flying species, but they flew faster than any powerful monster in the young hunter's memory. It was dark and difficult for the hunting ship to identify, but even if it was a friendly ship, it was too late to launch a rescue from that distance. The scale armor on the Wyvern Species is extraordinary, and ordinary crossbows can't shake the Golden Fire Dragon in the slightest. If the incoming ship does not fire in advance, there is a higher chance of injuring the hunters on the deck if the cannon is opened rashly.
"Or ...... Is it too late? The claws hidden under the wings of the giant beast shone out and grabbed at the female flute, who could not move in the strong wind. Feng Manyun reluctantly stood up straight in the wind pressure, gritting his teeth and striding forward, but the distance of a few meters was as insurmountable as a moat.
He looked back reluctantly, as if the unknown airship was the last hope to save his companion.