Volume 5: "I Am the Legend" (Part I) Chapter 52: Death Is the End of the Beginning (Part I)

Second Lieutenant Sierhart nodded at Alberta: "Good...... Thank you! When the lieutenant had finished speaking, he took out his grenade and prepared it to be placed in the gap that led to the basement. Then, he immediately picked up his gun and prepared to charge into the basement!

But at this moment, Alberta suddenly felt many people around him, and through the connection of molecular bonds, he felt that in the basement, at least a dozen rebel soldiers! He said to the ensign, "Stop! ”

The second lieutenant was stunned, and Alberta asked the second lieutenant: "The grenade hasn't gone off yet, has it?" ”

The second lieutenant nodded: "Yes......"

Alberta said, "Then don't ring the ...... for a while I...... I think there's someone in the basement opposite! There are many enemies...... "Actually, there are a lot of enemies in the basement, and Alberta doesn't feel it, but he really feels it." But he was afraid of the second lieutenant's doubts, so he said: "I analyze it from experience...... There should be a lot of enemies in the basement......"

The second lieutenant said suspiciously, "So...... We should rush out! Alberta snapped, "No! We can't beat them...... Rush out and die! This seems to be AUGSHEN's tip to Alberta...... Alberta felt the reminder from AUGSHEN.

The second lieutenant said slowly, "How should that be?" If we don't rush out, will we still be trapped here! ”

Alberta let out a long sigh, then he breathed hard, and he said sharply, "I'll look out from here, at least I'm more experienced than you in reconnaissance and espionage." ”

After Alberta finished speaking, he looked into the gap between the basement and the earth...... In an instant! Alberta seems to watch as the walls suddenly disappear! When he turned around, he saw that the second lieutenant had disappeared......

He was shocked! He shouted backwards, "Ensign? But no one responded...... Alberta ran backwards quickly, only to find that there always seemed to be a barrier blocking his path...... And there is a force that is always pushing him forward!

When he came back to his senses, he saw that he had entered the basement from the earth...... He saw a light in front of the basement. There seems to be only one way, and there is nothing around to go......

Alberta took a step forward, and in an instant he was in the light!

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In the afterglow of the sunset, the light of the flash point shrouded the sea, and the mast of the sail of the distant sail slowly rose from the horizon, and the streamer of the sunset shone on the port of Epalai. Ships coming in and out, constantly sailing from port to port, prosperous and full of novelty.

The last rays of sunset take away the sun's radiance, and the haze and night fog descend to take away the last rays of the remaining dots here in the last rays of the sunset...... The light of the Great Lighthouse took over from the daylight and began to illuminate the ships that guided the passage in an orderly manner as they entered the thriving port called Epalai......

Alberta slowly woke up and found him on the beach...... He blinked and looked around. He was on the beach in the port of Epalai. He was dressed in civilian clothes. He looked at his costume, which had changed. I changed from the costume of an Imperial officer to a casual dress!

He looked around in shock...... There was silence in the port of Epalai, and the buildings around it were not the appearance of the Empire, but the appearance of the port of Epalai before the ironclad ship attacked! Alberta got up from the beach in shock, he walked back and forth on the beach, and then jumped again! He felt like he was in the middle of an Okoshen illusion. But as he walked back and forth, he realized that he was not in the illusion of Okoshen!

He looked around suspiciously, the scenery here was not right! The view here is from before the Imperial Ironclad attacked the port of Epalai...... That is...... The Imperial Ironclad has not yet attacked the port of Epalai!

He looked at the view on the beach because he used to be a fisherman, so he knew full well that it was night on the beach. He felt like he was about to collapse...... He...... Traveled through time! It's a point in time before the Empire attacked the port of Epalai! And, he discovered something important: he was no longer able to use the ability of Auquosine's molecular bonds! He couldn't hear anything, and he couldn't see the future......

At this time, he saw a person coming towards him, and he took a closer look, and the person who was walking towards him was his father! Of course, he realized that if he had crossed the course of time, then by then, his father had not yet died......

He was so excited that he ran up quickly. He greeted his father, who said to his fisherman, "Daddy! ”

The fisherman was stunned for a moment, and he suddenly said, "Who is your father!" Is there something wrong with you? ”

Alberta was stunned for a moment, then said, "You...... You are my father! Moreover...... You made a bet with a fishing net for me, didn't you? ”

His father, the fisherman, said to Alberta, "Stay where it's cool!" Something is wrong! ”

Alberta watched dumbfounded, as his father walked past him...... He grabbed the fisherman and asked him, "What day is it?" ”

The fisherman yelled at him: "Today is September 13, 902 A.D.!" What's wrong with you! Get away from me! ”

Alberta asked again: "The night of September 13, 902 A.D., right?" ”

The fisherman pushed him away: "Something's wrong! People who can't even remember the days! Get out of me! ”

After the fisherman is gone...... Alberta sat on the ground in shock...... He thought slowly, "No...... Today is the day when the ironclads attack the port of Epalai...... But...... Why didn't the ironclad attack? It stands to reason that at noon on September 13, 902 A.D., the ironclad ship attacked! ”

That's when Alberta was thinking! There was a loud bang, and the port was on fire in an instant!

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There was a loud bang! The sound almost caused the entire port to collapse...... By the light of the fire, Alberta saw a battleship cast of pure iron, outside the harbor...... Angry rage spews into the harbor!

The people of the port are almost all running in panic and panic! A giant battleship about 120 meters long and taller than a ten-story building spews fury from outside the harbor into the harbor!

And if a cannon falls on the flat ground in the harbor, a huge crater with a diameter of 10 meters and a depth of about 3 meters will immediately form a cannon shot! And the radius of the surrounding killing area reaches 300 meters!

The people in the harbor looked at this huge steel giant ship in despair, no one could have imagined that in this world, there would be someone who could cast a warship out of pure iron! People always have a fear of the unknown: warships, even the most powerful cruisers, are made of wood and wrapped in iron. Guns on both sides of the ship! But this huge steel ship, it's completely different!

There are always those who are bold and do not fear fear! There are some people, they hold binoculars, and they see this steel giant ship of unknown forces! It aimed its side guns at the harbor, and in the bow of its ship was another gun with "several" large barrels! There is a slightly smaller gun on the side of the ship, and a large cannon on the stern that is the same as the bow!

Even this giant ship! Its mast is particularly thick! Above the mast, there is a large watchtower, and above the watchtower, there is a medium-sized battle mast with four guns! Above is a small battle mast with four guns of smaller calibers! Larger guns fire an average of one shell a minute, while smaller guns fire one shell in half a minute or less!

Even if someone were hiding behind a building with four or five floors or even higher, the inhabitants of the harbor would have nowhere to flee as long as the cannon fired...... No matter how strong a building is, it takes less than five minutes for a huge cannon shell to destroy a towering building...... The entire port is already in flames......

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Just when the harbor was under artillery attack, on this giant ship!

The commander of the Imperial ironclad battleship, as the fire controller of the cruiser "Mission Goddess", just now took the elevator from the cockpit of the bridge to the battle mast through the mast elevator, and he constantly received orders from the bridge captain through the telephone connecting the telephone lines of the whole ship!

The command from the bridge came from the phone: "Range! Two thousand meters away, the enemy's harbor shore-based fortress artillery! ”

The commander of the Imperial Ironclad Battleship, Major, stood straight, and he roared angrily: "Prepare the Goniometer Sextant!" ”

The voice of the commander of the Imperial ironclad battleship echoed in the battle mast room, and the adjutant of the major and the crew in the fighting room repeated the words of the major: "The goniometer sextant is ready!" ”

The light of the three soldiers illuminated the port of Epalai, which belonged to the free state of Capetian merchants, with the help of a strong searchlight...... The soldier who operated the goniometer sextant, with the help of the light of a strong searchlight, measured the length of the base of the cannon on the opposite shore base fortress, and the angle from the length of the base to the height, so as to calculate the angle of the gun's fire!

After the crew measured the range, they reported in unison: "The angle of artillery firing, 291 degrees and 31 minutes!" ”

The major reported to the bridge by phone: "Angle of artillery fire!" 291 degrees 31 minutes! ”

In the huge bridge, the captain of the Imperial ironclad battleship looked at the port of Epalai on the opposite side with cold eyes, and he gave an order with a calm and almost personal color: "The bow of the ship is twined with 305 mm main guns to reload and prepare!" ”

"Bow of the ship! Triple gun reloading ready! "The herald kept repeating Captain Giorgina's orders! The crew in the bow main gun room heard Captain Georgina's order through the talk loudspeaker, and the gun commander gave an order: "The bow main gun!" Ready to reload! ”

His voice was hoarse, and in the hot main gun room, one of the shells was hooked up through a huge hook and hoisting device operated by several people, and the shells were hoisted into the artillery loading chute like a crane, and then several soldiers controlled the chute to load the huge 305 shells about one person high into the artillery loading room!

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