Chapter 43: Race against time
"Sister Foxfire, the flare is up!" Demolition shoots at the soft-bodied creatures crawling towards him as he shouts at the foxfire that stands in his way.
"Nighthawk, start the engine, be quick." The fox shouted without looking back, and continued to attack the soft-bodied creatures that pounced.
Before long, the Nighthawk One engine began to roar, and the blasters and razors shot out all the bullets in the gun.
"Blaster, Razor, you two go up first, me and Blade Palace." Foxfire glanced at the blade beside him, motioning for him to come forward.
"If you go faster, these guys will get crazier when they see the energy point." Foxfire said to the blade on the side.
"Ming... Got it. Blade replied, speeding up his attack.
The soft-bodied creatures were as expected by the fox fire, and as they watched the blue flames ejected from the engine, they immediately became frantic, and their bodies squirmed at a noticeable speed.
Fox Fire and Blade slashed through the soft-bodied creatures that surrounded them, and Nighthawk One finally slowly lifted into the air.
Nighthawk One hovered above the two men's heads, and Razor threw a soft ladder down.
"You go up first." Foxfire pushed the blade and told him to climb up quickly.
"But......" Blade hesitated.
"No, but, once these guys stick to it, the destructive power is extremely great, don't hesitate, go quickly! I took care of myself! Foxfire shouted at Blade with a somewhat commanding tone.
"The rest is our business." After the blade went up, the fox fire clenched the short knife, and the flame energy on the knife immediately skyrocketed a few points.
Foxfire glanced at the distance between Nighthawk One and the soft biota, and she wanted to destroy all the soft creatures surrounding her with a single blow, and then use the vacuum period they replenished to climb into the fighter plane and escape.
"Come on, you legless slugs." Foxfire stood still, waiting for the molluscs to gather.
The wriggling mollusk creature was pressed in black, like ants pouring out of a broken anthill.
A smile appeared at the corner of Fox Fire's mouth, and she moved, her eyes extremely fierce. She leapt into the air with a knife in her backhand, and began to spin her body in the air. The flames that enveloped the blade swirled and exploded again, like a flaming chainsaw falling down on the soft-bodied biota that gathered below.
The huge force of the blade of the "bang" knife slammed straight to the ground, flames shot out, and all the soft creatures that surrounded it turned into residues, and those that were a little farther away were also blasted out by the force of the impact.
With a successful blow, Foxfire hurriedly retreated, climbing the ladder with both hands and making a take-off gesture towards Nighthawk.
Nighthawk received the signal and immediately increased the thrust of its engine, flying in the direction of the flare.
As Nighthawk 1 gets closer to the flare launch area, the whaling ship's silhouette becomes clearer.
"Captain, they're in trouble." Razor stood on the side of the engine room and pointed to the three Ning Yu who were fighting with the molluscs on the deck.
"I'll go down and help them first, Nighthawk, and park the fighters on the back deck, and don't let these guys get close." After the fox fire finished the order, he jumped directly from the suspension ladder.
The flame knife power fell from the sky, shattering the soft creatures that pressed up, and black blood spurted out from the bodies of those creatures, and the three of them were covered in the rain that splashed directly.
"Can't you say hello when you come down?" Ning Yu said as he cleaned up the minced flesh of the soft creatures scattered on his body.
"I thought you'd get out of the way." Fox Fire looked at the three people covered in stains and smiled a little awkwardly.
"Seriously, those guys aren't ready to stop yet." Ning Yu pointed to the soft creatures that continued to surge behind the fox fire.
"Then let them die a little more completely." The fox fire turned around and rushed murderously towards the molluscs that had just climbed onto the deck.
As the rest of the Firefly Team joined, the tide of battle gradually turned around until noon, when the molluscs that had climbed onto the hull were finally cleared.
While there are still a few soft-bodied creatures crawling towards the whaling ship in the distance, it will take a while to get there at their speeds.
Taking advantage of the mollusc's movement, everyone immediately split up to check whether the whaling ship was still ready to sail.
Half an hour later, everything was checked, and all the facilities of the whaling ship were quite complete, the fuel was sufficient, the various wiring connections in the cabin were in good condition, and the self-loaded generator could be put into use normally.
Ning Yu checked the hull one last time, found no remnants of soft creatures, and gestured towards the wheelhouse.
As the sound of "boom, boom" sounded, smoke began to rise from the huge chimney of the whaling ship.
Behind the hull sounded the sound of an anchor crossing the sea, and the ocean-going whaling ship heading for the far north set sail.
At this time, the dense fog slowly dispersed, and the sunlight gradually broke through the clouds.
"Captain, something is wrong, you see how all those creatures are all together." After a few months of getting along, Chen Lingfeng also regarded himself as a member of the firefly team, and also called Ning Yu with the word captain.
Ning Yu looked in the direction of Chen Lingfeng's finger, the group of soft-bodied creatures had crawled to the shore at this time, and they were gathering together, gathering more and more, gathering more and more, and gradually they began to merge with each other and became a giant soft-bodied creature.
"Immediately increase the thrust, we must leave the port immediately!" Ning Yu sensed the purpose of the mutation of the soft creatures, and they wanted to gather as a whole to increase their strength and drag the whaling ship.
The mollusks assembled and catapulted from the shore, and although the whaling ship had adjusted its thrust to its maximum capacity, it had not completely left the harbor.
The giant mollusc strapped to the anchor chain, which had not yet been fully retracted, and the chain instantly straightened, and the huge force almost caused the hull to roll over.
The giant molluscs are beginning to shrink, the whaling ship's engines have turned up their power output to their maximum power, but they still can't compete with the tremendous force attached to the anchor chains, and the ship is being pulled back to the shore little by little, and the engines are in a critical state and are in danger of being scrapped at any time.
"Abandon the anchor, there is no other way." Fox Fire patted Ning Yu's back, and the two of them immediately walked to the position where the iron chain that pulled the hull of the ship.
"Is it possible to sail such a long distance without an anchor?" Ning Yu stood at the edge of the deck and looked at the taut chains.
"Then you can only take one step at a time, it's better than capsizing before you set sail." Fox Fire smiled, and the aura of flames began to condense on the short knife.
"Whew" Ning Yu took a deep breath and stepped on the iron chain, the long sword condensed the frost and cold qi, and froze a section of iron chain more than one meter long by slashing.
The fox fire then stepped onto the chain, and the scorching blade slashed towards the place where the chain froze.
The chain broke in two, and the giant molluscs on the shore suddenly lost their focus and were carried into the sea by the heavy anchor. By the time it climbed ashore again, the whaling ship was far away from the harbor.
Foxfire and Ning Yu stood on the side of the ship, the sea breeze blowing their hair. In the distance, there is already a clear sky, a blue sea and blue sky, a rare beauty in this last days.
But in the distance, like this giant ship that has lost its anchor, the unknown awaits everyone.