Chapter 18: The First Night X Saves People X Shells
At midnight, the bridge of the battleship inn on Battleship Island.
Kuka Pickup pushed the door in: "The boss couple is ready to leave!" ”
Hanzo put down his binoculars and stared at the airship on the platform and said, "Tell the monitoring team not to stop it, and let the maintenance team prepare to take over the warship in full." Immediately began to study how the warship could get out of the stranding zone. ”
A few minutes later, the airship slowly rose and departed. The boss and his wife stood by the porthole and watched the candidates on the deck, busy with their work step by step.
"They already knew, old man."
"Yes, the quality of the candidates in this session is very good. Let's hope they survive the weather changes......"
In the warship's communication room, the blaster was debugging and repairing the radio, and a strange rustling sound came from the headphones. After listening for a while, Burstcuer turned to the microphone and shouted, "There is a disorder on the radio, and it is estimated that there is a weather change. Stay safe, everyone. ”
At the same time, the island's seabirds are rampaging in terror like headless flies.
'Bang', a seabird crashed into the glass of the bridge.
"The seabirds are scared, and there's a weird sound over there." Xiaojie pointed to the sea level outside the window and said.
"Tell everyone to withdraw to the bridge immediately. The log says that the warship is still able to survive the first mutation. Hanzo immediately gave the order.
"Look! What's that!" Leoleo exclaimed, pointing to the sea level.
Everyone followed Leoleo's fingers, and the sea level in the distance glowed with an eerie red light. Slowly, the red light twisted in the air, forming a scarlet 'mushroom'. The wind gradually became stronger, and the waves hit the stranded ship, and even some of the wood chips that had long been decayed were blown by the waves, and soon turned into a pile of broken wood, becoming accomplices of the waves, hitting the former "difficult brothers".
Soon the candidates were concentrated on the bridge.
"Are you all here?" Hanzo asked, looking at the waterspout visible at sea level.
Kurapika counted the number of people and said to Hanzo, "Greta hasn't arrived yet, he went to the distant island to collect supplies......"
"Hopefully he'll be able to come back......"
"There's a runabout over there, it should be Greta." Gen pointed to the churning sea outside. A dinghy could be seen spinning in the waves.
Without hesitation, Xiaojie rushed out of the bridge, jumped into the sea, and dived to swim towards the dinghy.
"Little Jie......!" Leoleo shouted anxiously, turned around and rushed out, put down the lifeboat on the warship, and jumped onto the boat with Hanzo to pick up Xiaojie. At this time, two more people jumped on the lifeboat, it was Gou Si and Bao Deluo, two martial artists, and the two picked up the oars without saying a word and rowed hard.
"Burst the library! Will the searchlight on it still work? Yuan asked, pointing to the two searchlights on the roof of the bridge.
"There's no testing, I'll go up and take a look now......" Burst Kuer is about to go out.
"Wait!" The source prevented the Exploding Cuer from reassigning the task: "You go to the power room to make sure the power system works, especially the power on the bridge. Searchlight I'll go up with Hisoka!"
“…… Good! Be careful!" Compared to the strength of Hisoka and Yuan, Burst Kuer turned to the power room without much thought.
"Hisoka, let's go up!" Yuan greeted Siso, and jumped from the trestle to the searchlight on the top of the bridge, and Sisoka followed closely behind, and fixed the two of them with 'free and retractable love'.
Waterspouts are speeding towards the archipelago from afar. The wind speed is getting faster and faster. Standing on the top of the bridge, my ears were full of the sound of the howling wind, and I couldn't hear any other sound at all. Gen examined a kind of searchlight and communicated with Hisoka in words: "What about my side, but yours?" ”
Hisoka also responded with a pronunciation: "The filament is broken on my side." ”
"Tear down my side, my side of the filament is good." Yuan rechecked the filament of his searchlight, made sure it was okay, removed it and handed it over.
A gust of wind blew, and Hisoka didn't catch the filament, and the filament was blown away by the wind. Yuan instantly leaped out, grabbed the filament, and his body fell down. The source curls up in the air and activates 'Strong' to prevent damage from the collision. But soon Gen found himself stopping falling, and it was Hisoka who grabbed the antenna in one hand and cast 'Free-Stretching Love' in the other, and got into Gen's ankle.
Climbing back to the searchlight along the wall of the ship, Yuan put the filament in Hisoka's hand, handed over a hand grip, and exchanged words in the words: "Thank you!" Holding your hand and eating it can increase your mental power. We're going to have to stay on this for a while. ”
"Got it!" Hisoka responded.
Soon the searchlight was repaired. The source went down to the bridge to inform the power room that it was energized, and the searchlight suddenly turned on, and a beam of light shone on the sea.
Greta and Jay had also been picked up into the lifeboat by this time. But everyone has been circling around the dark and tumbling sea, and they have basically lost their sense of direction, and only Xiaojie and Hanzo can vaguely distinguish the direction of the warship. The beam of the searchlight pointed the way to the crowd in time. The six of them rowed desperately the oars in their hands, but to no avail.
'Bang!' Something hit the bottom of the lifeboat. Before everyone could react, there was another sound of 'bang~bang~bang' at the bottom of the boat. The lifeboat began to move slowly towards the warship as if it was being held up by something.
"It's fish! Lots of fish, they are swimming with our boat!" Xiao Jie's eyes are the best, and he can vaguely see that the boat is a huge school of fish: "But the strange thing is that they all have a round thing on their heads......"
"Leave that alone! Xiaojie, we also paddled hard. Leoleo yelled against the wind.
The six of them rowed desperately towards the warship as they were told......
When the six people were picked up on the ship, the waterspout also moved to the offshore waters, and the sea breeze was even more raging, and the outside of the cabin seemed to be the end of the world. Closing the hatch with difficulty, Hanzo took a moment to catch his breath before continuing to perform his duties as captain: "Everyone is here this time." ”
"Don't worry, 26 people are a lot." Kurapika replied, counting the number of people.
Hanzo thought about it for a while, and arranged it in an orderly manner: "Now you can't get out outside, let's just move inside the ship, the power maintenance team has to work hard to ensure that the power of the warship before the second mutation can be operated." The supply team waited for the storm to pass and began to collect supplies. Others helped to check for hidden dangers in the warship's hull. ”
The lights in the cabin were dim, and the hull creaked and creaked. In one of the cabins, Yuan found hundreds of wooden boxes that were neatly arranged under the cover of army green canvas. Inside the wooden box were 380mm shells.
"Finally found it!" Gen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, these shells were an important tool for the warship to get out of the stranding zone. After all, there is a section of the warship that is embedded in the reef, and it is not easy for even the three telepathic people, including himself, Sisoka, and Ilumi, to get rid of it by relying on manpower alone. If Xiaojie's kind of enhanced monster is enough, you can give it a try.
Yuan found the microphone and shouted inside: "The main gun shell has been found in Area C, it is better to save it." Send a few people to receive it at once!"
After a while, Hanzo's voice came from the microphone: "The message has been received, I will send a few people to receive it." ”
Five or six minutes later, Shi Ba came with two candidates.
Yuan greeted everyone and pointed to the shell box: "This is a high-explosive shell, and that is an armor-piercing shell." I've sorted it according to the logo on the box. Let's fix the box and we're good to go. I also found a conveyor belt behind the cabin, which was supposed to lead to the turret. Squay, you're an expert in firearms. Are you familiar with the turret? I think we're probably going to need these shells. ”
"Okay, you fix the box, I'll go and take a look." The cool two commanders gave a military salute and turned to check the conveyor belt.
"This way...... The main thing is that the high-explosive bomb needs to be fixed, and I don't want to be a dirt airship. "The source and the other two candidates work together to fix the shell.
After a while, Shi Bao returned: "That is the one that leads to the turret." I checked and found that the No. 1 and No. 2 guns were fine, and the No. 3 guns had corroded parts. Gotta see if there are any replacement parts. There is also a bit of a problem with the shell conveyor. But if you have parts, you can get it done in about two or three hours. ”
"I'll look around for a while, and I think the spare parts should be in the nearby cabin. Let's fix the No. 3 cannon first, and if the teleporter can't be repaired, I'll leave the transportation of the shells to me. Gen put down the rope in his hand and replied, "I still need to inform Hanzo so that he can coordinate it." ”
Gen reported the situation to Hanzo through a microphone and came up with the idea of shelling the reef with artillery. Hanzo made sure that the power maintenance team was okay, and sent Pence and Ryu over to help Gen repair the main gun and teleporter.
It was a night of storm outside, and all the candidates in the warship were preparing to start the warship in an orderly manner.