Chapter 58: Escape
The screech of cannonballs across the air, the splash of water falling into the sea, the fire of warships in the distance...... In the midst of this dense network of firepower, Don Quixote's pirate ship staggered and fled into the distance.
The navy has strong firepower, and its ship's main guns mostly use triple rotating turrets, but with the number of guns on that warship, it is difficult to imagine that it can constitute such a dense attack, so the problem is only one point - the guns on the warship are very fast.
And if you compare it, this kind of speed is the kind of speed that is so fast that you don't have friends. The rate of fire of the navy made Qiubai feel that there was a very obvious generation difference between their artillery technology and the pirates' artillery technology: the pirates could only stuff solid bullets into the barrel from the muzzle, while the navy had successfully lifted the butt of the artillery, and people played with breech guns.
The Navy has mastered the core technology.
But even so, Don Quixote managed to escape out of range of the warship, and Vice Admiral Crane was helpless.
No matter how far and fast the navy's artillery fires, they can't pursue them, and that's where the flaw lies.
Because of Qiubai's last arrow, the cruise ship had capsized just now, and in this case, Vice Admiral Crane could not ignore ordinary civilians, and the navy's first choice was rescue.
By the time they had fished everyone out, the pirate ship had already disappeared without a trace.
If you estimate Doflamingo's speed, it is not impossible for Lieutenant General Tsuru to carry out the operation again after completing the rescue, in fact, she can easily delineate the scope of the pursuit.
Moreover, there is also a "listening and arguing" expert on this warship who can be used as sonar...... Of course, Catwoman who was thrown into the sea by Qiubai could not be drowned so easily, as the "own person" of the navy, she was rescued at the first time.
However, this time luck was still on Doflamingo's side, and a sudden summer storm put all possibilities of Lieutenant General Crane in vain.
The bad weather completely erased Doflamingo's traces and decided the possibility of pursuit, and if he wanted to get any more traces of Doflamingo, Lieutenant General Crane could only wait for the next contact with "Millet Fruit".
"Lieutenant General, what are we going to do next, continue to chase Don Quixote?" In order not to let her voice be drowned out by the sound of the rainstorm, Ann could only howl every word out of her throat.
The injuries she sustained in the previous battle had been properly treated, and she was not seriously injured enough to hinder her movement, which made Ann think that it was not at the end of the day that the pirate brother showed mercy.
The sky was extremely gloomy, the huge warship swayed left and right in the wind and waves, the planks squeaked against each other, most of the cruise ship passengers were crammed into the cabin, and the remaining people who could not carry the cabin tried their best to secure themselves to the deck with safety ropes.
"No, find a nearby port to dock." Vice Admiral Tsuru said as he looked at the huddled figures on the deck.
If it were just a sailor, of course she would have been chasing Don Quixote, but now...... The feeling of the rain hitting her face hurt slightly.
Even if it was in this "unavoidable" situation, Vice Admiral Tsuru decided to abandon Doflamingo and choose to call at the nearest port, but the pirates would not make the same choice...... Their predetermined deadline for activities is far from being reached.
The wind and waves will not make Doflamingo afraid, although Vice Admiral Tsuru will make people restrained, but if he is frightened by the navy and returns to sail, then he will still be a hairy pirate?
Pirate ships with flags with quirky smiling faces and a "circus house" look like they float through the storm.
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In the vast sea, the wind gathers dark clouds, and between the dark clouds and the sea, there is a ...... The news bird is flying proudly.
One moment the wings touch the waves, the next they shoot straight into the dark clouds like arrows...... For this kind of flying creature that travels all over the sea, takes delivering news as its main job, and has a little intelligence, Qiubai has always had a rather "kind" mood, which has nothing to do with whether he is hungry or not, because reserve grain is always reserve grain.
Watching the news bird pass through the air, Qiubai didn't make any extra moves this time...... At this time, he was on the lookout at the top of the mast, and his expression was quite serious.
If you want to ask where the whole ship is shaking the most at this time? Anyway, nothing is more powerful than Qiubai here, and the height of the mast magnifies all the shaking of the hull exponentially.
The large and all-round swing of the ship can produce a serious emetic effect and give people a state of what is commonly known as "seasickness", and now Qiubai is trying to overcome this.
The semi-enclosed lookout could not stop the wind and rain at all, and he held the pointed mast in one hand to keep himself from falling into the sea, and the other hand tightened his raincoat from time to time.
Although in 95 percent of the cases, there will be no special circumstances such as encountering the navy in this kind of weather, for the remaining five percent, Qiubai's eyes are constantly patrolling in the pitiful visibility.
He fastened the hood behind his back to his head, and then the wind blew it up, and then buttoned it up and blown it again...... So Qiubai conceded defeat.
The rubber feather coat will emit a somewhat pungent smell after being washed by the rain, I wonder if the famous straw hat boy in the future is such a smell?
Well, he's thinking too much again.
The storm lasted for about four hours, and Qiubai, who had been in an "important post", also went from being energetic to carrying out reconnaissance missions at the beginning, to being drowsy and almost thrown into the sea.
But finally as evening approached, the storm stopped...... Or it can be said that it "transited" from this sea.
After being put in a dice cup for so long, Qiubai initially wanted to vomit, but he used his subjective initiative to hold back that feeling, but now he wants to vomit and the objective conditions cause him to be unable to vomit at all...... From the cochlea to the cerebellum, Qiubai felt that the entire balance system of his body had been hurt from the bottom of his heart by the storm.
And just as he was crouching in the corner of the lookout and quietly returning to his soul, he suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the mast.
Looking down, it turned out that it was Señol who "swam" up the mast.
"Qiubai, it's exchanged." After climbing the lookout, Saignior said.
Qiubai: "......"
Your sister, when the rain stopped, you told me to come and change shifts? Why did you go early! No, he's just going to stay here...... At least let him recover from that vertigo.
"Dover has something to tell you to do." As a result, Saigor added another sentence.
Well, who made him just a trainee cadre? Qiu Bai could only honestly climb the net rope and lower the mast, and then he jumped down three or four meters from the deck.
Then his feet crooked, and the whole person was slapped on the deck.
He forgot one thing, the old driver of terrestrial creatures couldn't resist seasickness.