Chapter 534: The Belated Airship
I don't know how long it took for Master Peng to shake his head and get up from the ground. The deck of the warship tilted exaggeratedly, and the old hunter grabbed something in one hand, but it was a bloody fish head. He threw the monster's corpse to the other end of the bulkhead with a snap, and barely stood firm by climbing the bulkhead: "Is everyone okay?" ”
A sparse response sounded in the dark cabin, and a few torches were lit in a few places, and the vision in the corridor was finally clearer: "Three of them fell out......
At that time, the shock and vibration of the dragon ship made the hunters in the cabin shake like dice in a dice cup. Lu Xiu watched as a few of his companions, who had just regained their freedom, flew out through the hole in the ship. The storm dragon people outside the ship have experienced it once, even when the Fengshan dragon has no killing intent, the young man has suffered a lot, and now the ancient dragon species is clearly full of anger, and the consequences of the guy exposed to the wind can be imagined.
"Come and help! These two passed out! Further back in the procession, several cries woke the hunters from their ignorance. In a moment of confusion in the corridor, Ah Yuan struggled through the chaos after the battle and disaster, and handed over the medicine and first-aid supplies on his body to the wounded.
The hole in the cabin was crushed under a sand dune, and the wind in the ship stopped for a moment. Beneath the sand, a small sand fish dragon still relentlessly burrowed into the cabin. The strange fish had just popped up, but it felt a large hand in front of its face, and forcefully lifted the monster's entire body.
"Huh-" Orson grabbed the head and tail of the sand fish dragon with both hands, and the muscles in his chest bulged, tearing the monster in half with a flutter. Sticky fish blood sprayed the half-orc's head all over his body, and he simply licked the blood off his lips and threw the fish carcass into the distance.
As the strongest combat force in the team in the current state, the sand fish dragon that broke in through the hole was mostly stopped by him alone, and the rest only relied on Lu Xiu and Ah Yuan, but they were still unable to catch it. The monster fish burst into the hunters' ranks, causing a lot of trouble for the unarmed adventurers. Fortunately, at this moment, almost all of the big fish that burst into the boat were stunned by the impact of Fang Cai, and the few that were the only ones also twisted their bodies and would not attack again for the time being.
"What just happened?" Lu Xiu's heart palpitated.
"That's what happens when you anger an ancient dragon." Master Peng held up the torch and counted the remaining people, "Sailing at full speed, they used the dragon rifle at the beginning, they want to die with the Fengshan Dragon." ”
"They won't stop until they kill the Fengshan Dragon." Xiaolongren opened a cabin with his memory, and Lu Yingying was climbing on the wooden box in the warehouse. When the boy was in danger, he stuffed the little scribe into a warehouse, so that the girl was lucky enough to avoid the attack of the sand fish dragon and the wind and sand, "Where is the injury?" ”
"I'm fine." The girl had been frightened enough lately, and the slight shock was not even reflected on her face anymore, "What's next?" ”
"I don't know when the dragon boat will restart, I asked Orson to temporarily block the hole with the door panel, but even he can't hold out for long." The helmet passed a ray of coolness towards his temples, which lifted Lu Xiu's spirits and his thoughts became much clearer, "We need to climb to the upper floor as soon as possible, where we will have time to regroup." ”
"We're not going anywhere," said the five-star hunter called Ghost Hand, "and the door to the cargo hold is at the stern, and we'll disembark from there." ”
"You're going to die overboard!" After such turmoil, I didn't expect the directors of the dragon ship to still not give up the initial argument.
"No, we hide in the pit that the sand boat crashed out, and the probability of survival is still very considerable - besides, the point is not our lives, but even if we die, we must not be used as a weapon to kill the Fengshan Dragon." The five-star hunter waved his hand at the three rescuers, "You should follow as well." ”
"I'm sure you three five-star hunters can survive, but there are low-level companions here!" Ah Yuan also retorted, "What should I tell them to do?" ”
The old captain's face showed a look of embarrassment, but he still said firmly: "The Fengshan Dragon must not die, otherwise, not only the ecology of the entire hunting ground for hundreds of kilometers, but also the Lockrak and the headquarters of the Hunters' Guild stationed here will suffer together. ”
As the apex of the food chain and hierarchical order, the ancient dragon species not only maintains the ecological environment of the entire hunting ground, but also the harvest festival several times a year is the main source of income for the desert city. Once the Fengshan Dragon dies, God knows when it will reappear in the eyes of the world. Without the origin of the Fengshan Dragon, Locklac can no longer attract such a large group of hunters, and can no longer afford the logistics of hunters and the development of the city, and the status of the headquarters and the sand city will inevitably plummet.
In short, no matter what Wang Li's hunting group wanted for Fengshan Dragon's life, their actions were a stupid move to kill chickens and take eggs.
"I know, that's why we ask you seniors to take up arms and fight side by side with us......"
"Do you think I don't want to go up to deck? More than a third of our companions have been killed by that group of bastards on deck, and I feel the urge to kill them at every turn! The five-star hunter surnamed Gai hammered his chest with his thick fist, "But little guy, this is not a hunter's game, every decision at this moment as long as the slightest mistake will completely destroy the entire sea of thundering sand." So even if it's just one chance, we won't risk it ourselves......"
"They don't need you!" Without waiting for the five-star hunter to finish speaking, the little scholar closed his eyes tightly and interrupted with the courage to speak.
"What did you say?"
"Sorry for interrupting the seniors, but have you ever thought that those people don't need your power at all?" Lu Yingying bit her lip, "The battle against the Fengshan Dragon has been going on for a while, if they are short of manpower, someone should have come to you with a potion at this moment." ”
"The hunters of the combined team have not been brainwashed, in fact, the only people who can really be confirmed to be affected by the potion are probably only a very small number of people at the top." Ah Yuan distributed all the potions on his body and just returned them, "According to the captains' guesses, I'm afraid there aren't many reserves of that mysterious potion - how did they get on the dragon ship?" ”
"There were only seven people in the lifeboat." At the mention of this stubble, the faces of the three five-star hunters were not very good-looking, "Yes, that small boat can't carry much cargo, and the dragon ship has been moving with the wind since then, and there is no chance of supplies." ”
"Let me see, if they dare to attack on this, I'm afraid there is something else to rely on." The intelligence was supplemented, and Lu Yingying affirmed her thoughts even more, "If the seniors get off the ship, what about this possibility?" ”
Seeing the hesitation in the eyes of the three five-star hunters, the girl hit the railroad while it was hot: "Or do you choose to believe in the enemy more than to believe in the strength of your predecessors?" ”
"Little girl, I will consider your proposal carefully, but I still suggest that you take it back in the last sentence, hunters who don't have a little confidence will be eliminated as early as the first moment they set foot on the path of hunters." Of course, Master Peng would not be affected by such a clumsy agitation method. After being held in the cabin for several days, the old hunter deduced the next variables more than once, but because he was isolated from the outside world, the only news came from Aemon's visit, and the decision-making was inevitably a little extreme. Of course, the little scrivener is no more intelligent than a five-star hunter, but it just happens to provide a new perspective, "What do you think?" ”
"At least here, you're still the captain." The hunter surnamed Gai spread his hands, took a shallow step back, and signaled to hand over the decision-making power, "But we are here to hunt on the dragon boat, and we always have to fight something to make sense." ”
As if echoing the words of the five-star hunter, the dragon striking ship shuddered inexplicably, the tilted deck was slowly straightening, and the sound of brushing against the sand came from the bottom of the ship.
"The ship is about to leave, and we don't have time to hesitate!" Lu Xiu urged.
"Leave the low-ranking hunters to take care of the wounded," the old hunter's voice commanded in a heavenly voice, "bring the rest with weapons, and we'll take the ship back." ”
"Oh!" The sound of excitement came from the rear team, and the hunters had already pried open the door of the arsenal, and the team that decided to fight back did not hide the sound anymore, and for a time the entire bilge was filled with the excited shouts of hunters.
"Don't be noisy!" Gai Dao's fist slammed into the bulkhead and shouted.
"It's the sound of a restraint bullet!" Ghost Hand reflexively raised his head, and several high-pitched crossbow sounds poured from the deck into the hunter's eardrums, "Damn, if they're really as crazy as I thought, at worst, we'll only have ten minutes left." ”
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A restraint bullet is not a ball, but a set of four ballista bolts fixed to the deck. The arrows themselves are not very lethal, but they are slender and extremely penetrating. The arrows carry delicate traps that can poke out several barbs at the moment of impact, and are firmly attached to the monster's body, and the end of the arrow is hung with a tough rope, so as to firmly connect the monster to the dragon ship.
For small monsters, once they are hit by such a crossbow arrow, they can only be dragged to death in the back of the warship. However, at present, the Fengshan Dragon is more than 100 meters on its back alone, and the effect of the restraint bullet has been reversed - those bound by the rope have become the dragon boat itself.
"How long do these things last?" Aemon asked aloud. The dragon struck with most of its sails lowered, and most of the ship's power came from the four thin-looking cables. Even the rope made of tough steel and animal tendons, interspersed with two behemoths, was tense, making a creaking and grinding sound.
"I don't know! Three minutes? "The dragon striking ships in the past were afraid to avoid the Fengshan Dragon, how could anyone lock the warship and the ancient dragon species together? The arrows in the distance were already fixed on the back armor of the Fengshan Dragon, and the bracket at the end of the dragon striking ship was slowly tightening, and the warship was slowly but surely moving closer to the back of the ancient dragon seed.
Even if it was the Fengshan Dragon, a heavy warship suddenly hung on his side, and his speed had to be reduced. Sensing that his swimming movements were getting heavier and heavier, the whale hesitantly stopped, raised his head slightly, and looked to the side.
The monster stopped, but the dragon striking ship continued to crash towards the ancient dragon species under inertia. His eyes were aimed at the four ropes attached to his body, and a sense of restlessness appeared in Fengshan Long's heart. It flicked its wounded tail under the sand, and a blood-colored wave of sand rose into the sky, and the monster took advantage of this force to advance instead of retreating, and turned sideways towards the dragon ship.
"Gong!" Seeing the back of the ancient dragon species pressing head-on with the momentum of reclamation of the mountains, Eamon broke out in a cold sweat. The two-star hunter's forehead squirmed, and he hurriedly ordered the dragon at the stern of the ship.
"Boom!"
"Buzz ——!" The anvil mechanism like a dragon spear was instantly triggered, and a huge gong hammer slammed into the gong erected high above the stern of the ship. The tall gong with a diameter of more than ten meters vibrated in the wind at a frequency visible to the naked eye, but it strangely did not make any sound.
Silent waves of sound echoed through the sandstorm, and the body of the mountain dragon stopped halfway like an electric shock. The dragon's back shuddered abruptly, and its powerful pectoral fins fluttered in two waves of sand. The waves crashed on the side of the dragon boat, rustling the trays.
"It's dangerous......" The sailors seemed to have walked through the ghost gate, and stopped for a few seconds before realizing what they were doing at the moment. If you are hit by the sand thrown by the giant whale, you are in danger of being destroyed, and this blow is real, I am afraid that the dragon ship will not even have the scum left.
"The gong needs to be cooled too!" Aemon's face was unrecognizable in the wind, "How will we survive the rest of the time?" ”
"You asked me to hold on to it!" Sabo waved his hand repeatedly. The dragon ship has lost its last protection, and it is better to hope that the monster will die directly in front of the hunters. The old boatman hammered his head hard, and suddenly raised his head, "Don't you have two more warriors?" ”
"What do you want them to do?" Aemon was puzzled.
"There!" The first mate pointed at the back of the Fengshan Dragon, "Send it to distract it, just a few minutes!" ”
"Only one can be sent!" Wang Li Hunter stretched out a finger, "How long will it take for the dragon lance?" ”
Sabo gritted his teeth and poked his head out from behind the windbreaker, and in a split second, the towel on his shoulder disappeared in the wind. However, he still saw the state of the dragon strike rifle clearly: "Five minutes! - Tell him to take this! The boatman untied a set of cables beside him, and the half-height huge barrel rolled in front of the hunter, "Burst the barrel on the dragon, give it a meal, it will stop for a long time!" Sir? ”
Emmon wasn't looking at Shabo, the eyes of the two-star hunter were facing the air, and in the chaotic sandstorm of Umeng, a shuttle-shaped shadow appeared at some point, and it was flying towards the dragon strike ship at a rapid pace: "Damn, when did that airship fly?" ”
"This isn't the airship of those three hunting groups, it's a new one!" Observer Eru squinted at the unidentified flying object in the air.