Chapter 232: Landing on the Island (5)
Fifteen minutes, very short. But for the entire fleet, it felt too long.
Taiyi sat in the chair with his eyes closed, his expression calm, and he couldn't see what was going on in his heart. Dongfang Haotian was standing beside several first mates, listening to a message from inside the No. 10 battleship, and giving some instructions from time to time. He also guided the fleet to carefully change its formation, and led the 10th to the center of the fleet, relieving the pressure of the 10th in the face of the tsunami to the greatest extent.
Thankfully, when the tsunami occurs, the deep-sea whirlpool underneath will not appear. Otherwise, if both come, then this time it is really a catastrophe.
"Captain, it's starting to get smaller, it's getting smaller!"
About ten minutes later, a first mate shouted in surprise. His words suddenly made the main control room, which was originally a little depressed, suddenly relaxed, and everyone in the main control room looked at the crystal screen.
Sure enough, the turbulent waves stirred up by the tsunami had begun to slowly recede at this time.
"Inform all battleship maintenance divisions in the fleet to prepare for urgent repairs after the tsunami." Taiyi opened his eyes and opened his mouth to give an order. At the same time, I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, knowing that No. 10 was saved.
As Taiyi said, in the Dead Sea, all kinds of disasters caused by the chaos of the various elements of heaven and earth come and go quickly. Tsunamis like this usually only roll up in one wave, and then sweep the entire sea area and then dissipate, not wave after wave like other places.
The tsunami finally stopped, and calm returned to the sea.
Taiyi took people and hurried out of the deck. He looked around, and then the lightning flashed under his feet, and in an instant, he was on the tenth battleship. At this time, the deck of the No. 10 battleship was already densely packed with hundreds of sailors and dozens of maintenance divisions.
Glancing at the battleship, he found that the damage to the No. 10 battleship was much more serious than he had imagined.
In the middle of the battleship, I don't know what heavy object was hit, a huge gap with a diameter of ten meters appeared, and cracks were cracked around it. Fortunately, in order to cope with the enormous pressure of the tsunami, the hull of the battleship was designed to be double-layered. Although the outer deck of No. 10 is now broken, the inner deck has only broken a gap about four or five meters in size, and there are many cracks around it.
Inside the battleship, at this time, there was also almost half a warehouse of water. If it weren't for the magic array burned on the battleship to support it, I'm afraid the battleship would have sunk a long time ago.
"It's good that it's over, if the tsunami lasts another five or six minutes, I'm afraid these cracks will be completely crushed."
Tai Yi let out a long sigh of relief in his heart, and looked up at the deputy captain of the No. 10 battleship who was approaching him. This deputy captain was found by Dongfang Haotian and was the captain of a large passenger ship on the Tongtian River. Although he has never been to sea, he has worked on the Tongtian River for more than thirty years, and he has rich experience and old qualifications.
Walking in front of Taiyi, the nearly sixty-year-old captain bowed his head slightly: "Captain......"
Taiyi waved his hand and interrupted him. Sailing in such a treacherous area, it is inevitable that something will go wrong, and no one can blame it. Tai Yi looked at the old man who lowered his head and closed his eyes, as if he was waiting for too easy to trigger, smiled out loud, and said: "It's nothing, sailing in such a sea area, and it is a tsunami that is rare here in ten years, it really embarrass you." It's nothing, don't take it to heart...... Tell me a little bit about it. ”
"Yes, Captain!" The old captain's shoulders loosened slightly: "The battleship was hit by a reef swept by a tsunami and knocked down the right side and cracked. ”
"Reef?" Taiyi glanced at the old captain and asked suspiciously, "Didn't find out beforehand?" ”
"Found it." The old captain hesitated, but said.
Tai Yi frowned, looked at the old captain puzzled, thought for a while, and said slowly: "If the detector is not damaged." Even in a tsunami, the distance to find the reef should be seven or eight kilometers away. With such a distance, there should be no problem if you want to avoid it in advance...... Then you are ......"
"The farthest!" The old captain lowered his head again.
"Then why didn't you choose to avoid it?" Taiyi's brow furrowed even tighter. He understands tolerating most things that are hard and unavoidable, but low-level mistakes like this ...... Seeing that the old captain bowed his head and didn't speak, Taiyi was angry in his heart, and he was about to say something.
"Ship, captain, you can't blame the vice-captain." An adjutant on the No. 10 battleship suddenly walked up to Tai Yi and said carefully, "No, you can't blame Captain Ge. There's a reason for that. ”
Tai Yi was puzzled, glanced at Captain Ge, and then looked outside at the lieutenant, and asked, "Oh...... What are the reasons? ”
The lieutenant gritted his teeth, took a step forward, and said in a loud voice, "Captain, we could have avoided the reef after we found it. However, Deputy Captain Ge found that if we avoided the reef, then No. 11 behind the battleship would be hit head-on and would be completely shattered. And Deputy Captain Ge judged that it was too late for No. 11 to evade. Therefore, Deputy Captain Ge did not choose to avoid it, but chose to face the reef, and rubbed the reef with the side of the battleship to change its course, which was ......"
Taiyi was slightly stunned, and the anger in his heart slowly calmed down. Blinking, too easy to stare at the adjutant:
"Is that so?"
Seeing that the adjutant gritted his teeth and nodded heavily, Tai Yi didn't say anything, stepped forward and reached out and patted the old captain on the shoulder, bypassing him and walking towards the damaged part of the battleship, leaving only two people standing there quietly.
"Tell me to go down, and when I reach my destination, I will reward all the sailors in the tenth ship with 10,000 gold coins each." Taiyi, who walked more than ten meters away, suddenly stopped: "Captain Ge will be the chief of the first team, and in the future, he will be responsible for commanding and leading the number one to the ten, ten warships." ”
…… It took two whole days to repair the tenth battleship. Taking advantage of this time, the other warships also took a break, and all the destroyed spirit detectors were replaced with new ones......
When everything was more or less the same, the fleet set off again.
After that, as it was too easy to say, although the appearance of the tsunami was extremely ordinary, there was no more tsunami like the previous one, and for the fleet, it was nothing, it was easy to pass, and there were no accidents.
After a week of such a safe journey, the fleet finally got out of the tsunami zone.
"The last leg of the voyage was safe." Taiyi lay lazily on the bow of the boat to work overtime, looked straight at the sky with his eyes, and said: "There will be no strong winds and waves, everyone can spend these days on the deck." ”
Over the past few days, Dongfang Haotian is also a little tired, he also sat beside Taiyi, looked at the calm sea in the distance, and said with emotion: "The Dead Sea is really worthy of its name." This way, if there is no brother, I'm afraid we won't be able to do half a step. ”
Taiyi laughed out loud, and did not respond to Dongfang Haotian. Although I have prepared a lot and heard a lot about the dangers of the Dead Sea, I really stepped into this place, only to find that this place is much more dangerous than I imagined. He is now beginning to wonder if the lucky boy in his previous life was really so lucky? Is it really as he said, drifting all the way to Wolong Island by himself?
There is a big suspicion in this!
Xingtianmad, who had just woken up, walked out of the boat, walked to Taiyi's side with a yawn, and said loudly: "Brother, there is really no danger in the back?" Hey, his grandmother's, it's really not a human life these days. ”
"Either eat or sleep all day, you brothers are pigs, right? I'm embarrassed to say here, do you still want that cheekiness? ”
Bingyue seems to have liked to cook all kinds of food and snacks these days, and at this time, he walked out of the boat with a plate of white snacks made out of some unknown pieces. walked straight to Taiyi's side, sat down naturally, put the snack next to Taiyi, and pushed it with his hand.
Reaching out and grabbing a piece and stuffing it into his mouth, Taiyi chewed it and said, "The voyage below, speaking of danger, is really dangerous." It can be said to be the burial place of various large warships in the death zone. But for us, there was no threat at all, it was safe and peaceful...... Hmm, I did a good job today, it was delicious. ”
After receiving Taiyi's compliment, a happy smile appeared on Bingyue's face. She was in a good mood, and she didn't pay attention to the torture maniac who reached out to steal food.
"Huh?" Dongfang Haotian was puzzled.
It was too easy to do, and he stretched out his hand and pointed to the sea in front of him: "Don't look at the sea so calm now, in fact, in the sea below, there are floating reefs everywhere under the water." ”
"Floating reefs?" Dongfang Haotian was even more puzzled.
"Yes." Tai Yi nodded: "The spirit scanner can sweep out everything within ten miles of the bottom of the sea, not to mention the reef." However, the reefs in this area are different, and many can go up and down. For example, the distance between the reef and the sea surface detected in front of the battleship can be passed safely, but when it does pass above them, these reefs will suddenly rise and crash under the battleship......"
"It's dangerous!"
Dongfang Haotian's face changed. Such a place is indeed extremely dangerous for large warships. The chance of sinking on the reef is extremely large.
It is indeed the burial place of large battleships, graves......
Taiyi smiled again: "But we have the most accurate charts and know where the reef is floating and which is not. So as long as you follow the chart, the most you can do is to go around in a few more circles, and there will be no problems. Play for a few days, and it's gone. ”
Dongfang Haotian nodded in agreement, he had nothing to say to the chart and Taiyi now.
In this way, after the fleet followed the chart for another half a month, a piece of land finally appeared on the horizon......
(To be continued)