Chapter 45: Departure (1)
After the shelling sounded, Tom and his party had already stepped onto the deck, nervously placing their luggage.
"Hurry up, get the ship out of the harbor first." Tom put his luggage down and began to command, "Yokozuna, you go and push the boat in the back, and the rest of the people will row with me." ”
In a hurry, everyone finally sailed the boat out of the harbor, raised the sails in the sea breeze, and soon left the capital of the seven waters behind.
"It's all my fault!" Looking at the islands behind the boat that were gradually getting smaller in the waves, Tom burst into tears. All this is because of the blueprint of the Hades in his hands, and if it weren't for this powerful weapon that attracted the prying eyes of the world government, the island would not have been destroyed.
Tom regrets it now, and he wishes he hadn't left the City of Seven Waters so that he could be destroyed with the city.
But even so, he would not hand over the drawings to the World Government or destroy them, because this is the ancestral motto handed down by the shipwrights from a blank hundred years.
One of the three great weapons of antiquity, Hades has the power to destroy an island with a single shot, a weapon designed by shipwrights 800 years ago to fight the darkness, but for unknown reasons it has slept somewhere in the world.
Fearing that the sleeping weapon would be awakened one day in the future, the shipwrights kept the blueprints of its design so that future generations could fight against the awakened Hades.
Grief-stricken, Tom watched as the city faded away, and behind him, the rest of the ship stood on deck looking at the island that was about to be destroyed.
However, to everyone's surprise, on the other side of the Seven Waters Capital, a huge white wall suddenly appeared, intercepting all the shells.
"What's that?" Tom exclaimed in surprise, and the others were equally shocked by the wall. Instead, Mihawk clasped his hands to his chest and nodded thoughtfully.
"I knew we wouldn't have to run away this way, my super invincible cannon hasn't finished yet!" Seeing that it seemed that none of the seven waters would be destroyed, Fram screamed.
"Idiot, the only thing the world government is targeting is Mr. Tom, and the destruction of this island is only incidental, we must leave anyway." As soon as Fram spoke, the iceberg habitually slammed back. Unconvinced, Fram decided to use his fists to reason, and the two of them began their daily fight on the deck, never to see a trace of sadness.
"Great, whoever saved that island must be a man of the utmost name." Tom laughed happily, but tears flowed uncontrollably.
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At the dock in front of the shipyard, Klockdahl had just waited for the return of the Otomu owl when the cannon sounded. As soon as the Otonno owl stepped onto the deck, they immediately began to move in the direction away from the capital of the seven waters.
Because their ship was a semi-finished product, they did not even have a mast assembled, and they had to be rowed by the slaves with the oars they had picked up, until the thunder held up the cloud wall and barely left the harbor.
"What's that?" Looking at the wall of clouds, Crocodall asked the same question as Tom, but he didn't care if the island would be destroyed, and he just wanted to leave as soon as possible.
Speaking of which, Klockdahl is actually the most innocent guy. He just wanted to come to the capital of the seven waters to change to a better ship, but because of his unruly temperament, he had a misunderstanding with Tom, and was inexplicably involved in the battle with Hawkeye and CP9. Fortunately, in the end, he successfully subdued a strong subdued subordinate, and also picked up Gabra, Mason and others who had fallen to the ground on the ship, hoping to subdue a few more from it.
"Hurry up and draw for me, then what's there to see." Slapping the next slave stunned as he stared at the huge wall of clouds, Klockdahl turned his head and angrily scolded his men who had slowed down, completely forgetting that it was himself who had just watched the most.
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In the water city, the citizens who eat melons finally woke up after seeing the huge cloud wall appear, and found that the problem seemed to be very serious.
The panic spread rapidly through the crowd, and most of the people were uneasy about the sudden appearance of the cloud wall, but no one paid attention to the sound of the cannons.
At the harbor, Ray is working with all his might to make the wall of clouds thicker, ready for the next wave of impact. In order to completely liberate himself, Ray even put down the warship floating on the clouds.
"Colonel Ray, come on!" Standing behind the prostrate workers, Owen silently cheered for Thunder.
On the sea, the gunners of the ten battleships adjusted their heavy guns and fired at full speed when they waited for an order. Although they were also shocked by Ray's behavior, as gunners, they had only one goal, and that was to smash that wall.
"Lieutenant General Yellow Ape, do you want to start shelling!" A herald ran to the bow of the ship and asked.
"To start shelling, it is necessary to get all the shells out in the shortest possible time." The yellow ape gave a solemn order. Although the five lieutenant generals in command can not deal with mines, they must not release water again in the shelling.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Thousands of heavy guns fired another salvo, and then a chaotic free fire began. The loader quickly loaded the shell into the chamber, while the gunner adjusted the barrel that had been offset in the previous round of fire, and then simply lit the fuse.
Cannonballs streaked across the sky and smashed into the wall of clouds, raining down on the island. The smell of gunsmoke blows to the shore with the sea breeze, and the pungent smell is almost suffocating.
"It's coming!" His pupils shrank, and Ray focused his mind, perceiving every place on the cloud wall that had been hit by a cannonball.
When a wall of clouds is hit by a cannonball, a cloud of mist is created there that sticks to the cannonball, enveloping the entire cannonball. Then, under the control of Ray, this cannonball will be slowed down under the cloud and mist until it comes to a standstill. Moreover, the moisture in the cloud will also extinguish the fuse at the tail of the shell in an instant, making it completely unthreatening.
In fact, there are many ways to make it easier for Ray to deal with these shells, such as creating a giant waterspout or creating a thundercloud. But these methods will either cause damage to the warships on the surface of the sea, or damage to this area of the port. In desperation, Ray had no choice but to choose this method.
After the first salvo, the number of shells touching the wall of clouds per minute began to decrease, which was a disadvantage of free fire, but the advantage was that the shells did not break like a salvo.
As the minutes ticked by, the ground of the harbor was piled up with shells from mines, but the shelling of the naval warships continued to slow down, and the fire continued to pour fire on the island.
Even Thunder gradually gasped under such a physically and mentally draining defense. This is the hardest battle he's had since the last time he sparred with the pheasant.
"It's so much fun!" In the face of the challenge, a smile hung on the corner of Ray's mouth, and sweat slipped from his forehead and fell into the sea.