Chapter 2: The Tempest (2)
It is not a comfortable thing to wake up from a deep sleep, especially when the external environment is not comfortable, and a deep sleep is the best protection.
When all the senses have recovered rapidly from the ignorance of sleep, the violent turbulence of the environment becomes a great torment, and the unusually sensitive nerves of the awakening intensify this pain.
The protagonist first felt that his body was light, and his head and back slammed against the wall, although it didn't hurt, but the huge impact made the internal organs seem to have been hit, and a nausea feeling in the stomach flooded the throat and mouth, and the sourness quickly enveloped the whole body.
Immediately afterward, the whole ship is like a roller coaster, sometimes rushing to the top of the mountain, sometimes falling to the bottom. And the protagonist, like a kitten that strayed into a spinning washing machine, was thrown around without resistance.
He tried to stretch his limbs, trying to grab something to stop, but to no avail.
Not only his own body, but everything around him was also shaken, and the stacked grass seeds had turned into butterflies flying in the sky at this time, catching up with the protagonist who was also flying from time to time and smashing on his body.
There were other debris flying, mysterious balls, clay pots, ant silk catkins, everything flew up, as if this was not a walnut ship, but the interior of the space station, and the concept of gravity had been lost.
A clay pot also flies up, almost hitting the protagonist's foot, but luckily he retracts it when he sees the opportunity. The clay pots slammed into each other with a dull sound, but fortunately the pots were thick enough to break even after such a blow. But the lid of the clay pot was thrown off, and the honeydew inside splattered out and scattered everywhere. The protagonist hates sticky honeydew on his body, but he can't care about it at this time, the world is spinning everywhere, and he is still too busy to take care of himself.
The other ants were also thrown everywhere, opening their mouths wide in panic and wailing silently.
The Celestial Immortal may be a careful envoy who staggered, but somehow got through the hole in the diaphragm, came to the protagonist, and then was immediately hit by a mysterious ball and took off.
As she flies past the protagonist, the protagonist hooks her with her right foreleg and drags her over. At this point, the protagonist has hooked on a broken walnut membrane on the wall and fixed himself.
The protagonist touches the tentacles of the immortals, which are full of fear and panic, and the ants who are accustomed to the stability of the earth, leave the land for the first time and appreciate the power of nature on a drifting ship, and fear and panic are inevitable.
The protagonist comforts the immortals, but there is nothing he can do but wait for the storm to pass. I hope it's just a thunderstorm, violent but short-lived, and if it lasts longer, I'm afraid the ants in the boat will go crazy!
If a human being were in such a turbulent environment, it would not take a few minutes for bile to vomit out. But the physiological structure of the ants is obviously different, and the protagonist doesn't have much discomfort to vomit except for feeling that he is being shaken dizzy, which makes the protagonist feel a sense of comfort, he doesn't want to spray a bunch of vomit from himself or other ants when he is covered in sticky honeydew.
I don't know how long it took, but it seemed as long as it had been since then, and it was as short as just a sleep, and the bumps finally began to abate. Although the protagonist's own body still goes up and down with the ship, the amplitude of the shaking is weakening and the frequency is decreasing, which makes the protagonist finally see hope.
By this time, the cabin was in a mess, and the goods that had been neatly placed were scattered everywhere and covered with honeydew. Even the protagonist's own body is covered in honeydew, slimy, like jumping into honey, which makes him uncomfortable and almost crazy.
When the ship finally stabilizes enough to walk, the protagonist licks the honeydew off his body, rubs it clean on a cloud of silk, and then inspects the cabin.
Celestial Immortals also calm down and follow the protagonist to the other half of the cabin to appease the panicked Praetorian Guards.
Although the bumps are very violent, the ants' petite size, slight weight and sturdy outer carapace make the vast majority of ants uninjured, and a small number only hurt vulnerable parts such as arthropods or antennae, which can be recovered after a while.
They are more mentally intimidated, and after the ship gradually stabilizes and the protagonist himself appeases them, everyone gradually calms down.
Seeing that the storm seems to have passed, the protagonist asks Tensen to take everyone to clean up the inside of the cabin and go to the hatch by himself, ready to see the situation outside.
Taking a deep breath, the protagonist unravels the antsilk at the hatch and opens the door.
A cold, moist breath mixed with mist soothes the remaining slimy feeling on the protagonist's body, just like getting under the shower head in time after being covered with slimy dirt.
The wind outside seemed to have stopped, but the raindrops had not completely disappeared, and the dripping raindrops hit the surface of the lake, causing countless ripples and influencing each other, forming countless fleeting circles of water waves on the surface of the water, stirring up countless hemispherical blisters of short life.
Fortunately, there is an umbrella-shaped shelter structure on the hatch of the ship, and the protagonist leans out half of his body without worrying about being hit directly by raindrops.
His hind limbs were still in the cabin, holding on to the four walls, holding himself in place. And the upper body is looking around.
Fortunately, as far as the eye can see, the protagonist sees that the fleet has withstood the test, and no walnut ships have been destroyed or blown away in the storm, and the connection structure of the activities between the ships is generally intact, and the few damaged parts can be repaired.
The loss that can be seen at the moment is that some of the large cargo that was originally fixed outside the cabin by ropes has been lost, and the protagonist has a large stone-bladed guillotine tied to the outside of the ship, but now it is gone, and only a few broken ant silk ropes are left floating alone in the kite.
There is no way to do this, in order to load more passengers in the cabin, some large cargo had to be bundled in the open air, and now we can only accept the loss. Fortunately, the value of the goods placed outside is not very large, and it is easy to remake it when it arrives in the new home. As for the precious bronze objects, they were placed in the cabin.
The protagonist looks at the water surface worriedly, and at this time the rain and fog are so dense that he can't see the distance or the shore clearly. The protagonist doesn't know where the fleet has been blown by this storm.
Although judging by the timing, the storm did not last long, and the occasional leak of skylight under dark clouds in the distance showed that the sun had not yet set.
But at present, the fleet is fast under the combined action of strong winds and waves, and the protagonist is worried that he has unknowingly deviated from the course and even missed the mouth of the stream that leads to the swamp!