Chapter 254 Cooperation
"Big sister, that ship seems to be starting to turn around and rush towards us!"
The pirates on the lookout shouted.
Huo Ying naturally saw this scene, and the distance between the two ships began to approach, and the original black shadow became clearer and clearer.
Why did the sailboat that had been chased by him for so long suddenly come to him? Is it because he felt that he could not escape, and decided to fight to the death?
As for the fact that there is a sea monster attacking the sailing ship, Huo Ying has not thought about it, but the number of sea monsters in the sea is not very large, if the luck is really bad, then a sailboat should not be able to last long under the attack of the sea monster.
"Charge, ready for battle!"
Huo Ying roared, and the golden long sword hanging from his waist was pulled out.
This golden sword is considered a ritual weapon, mainly a symbol of nobility, and after being obtained by pirates, it became a symbol of power.
The other pirates shouted, brandishing their sailor knives in their hands.
This knife is slightly shorter than a regular sword, and is a chopping weapon, and it is curved to increase the power of the chop.
Most pirates have very low martial arts, and they can gain an advantage in close combat with a knife compared to a skill-based sword.
Others were holding a boarding axe, a rudimentary axe that was particularly effective for throwing or for cutting rigging and netting while boarding.
There are also people who use harpoons, after all, they live at sea, and they are used to using harpoons for fishing, and they are very easy to use as weapons.
Bows and arrows, rubber bows, and the like are also necessary, and each person carries one or more daggers with them.
In such a small space on the ship, the dagger was an ideal weapon for use in a surprise attack.
As for the attack weapons on the ship, it was even more rudimentary, with only bed crossbows with ropes.
However, the production process of the Great Fury is not something that ordinary pirates can master, the bed crossbow on the ship is just an imitation version, and the ordinary crossbow is larger, the filling is troublesome, the power is relatively weak, and most importantly, it will be scrapped after not being used a few times.
Therefore, when pirates plundered merchant ships, they would directly use the pirate ship with iron armor and a ramming post on the bow of the pirate ship to ram into the merchant ship, and then the pirates on the ship would connect the two ships with harpoons with ropes, and either lay wooden planks on top of them or swing them to the deck of the opposing ship with reins.
It's worth mentioning, or needless to say, that pirate ships are powered by human paddles, which was the most common in the days when there were no turbines.
Even the sails of the Bloody Bones were more of an ornament, after all, the tailwind was a matter of complete luck.
The pirates waited majestically and proudly for the two ships to meet.
At this time, the situation of Chu Jing and the four of them was not good, for some reason, this sea monster had a grudge against the blood bones, and they chased after it relentlessly.
That is, the hull of the Bloody Bone is hard and more flexible, and it is completely on its own to dodge, so it is not so quickly sunk by the sea monster.
However, how could a ship compete with a powerful sea monster, and the Bloody Bones would be in danger of sinking sooner or later.
"Lian, please. ”
Chu Jing looked at Lian.
"Hmm. Lian nodded, took out the alchemy materials and thunder stones, and followed the direction of Chu Jing's fingers, and shot a powerful palm thunderbolt into the sea.
Seawater is also a conductor, and it still has a bonus to lightning damage.
After the palm laser shot into the sea, there was a calm, and then a lot of bubbles bubbled out.
"It worked, it hurt it. Xu Qian shouted, holding a bow and arrow in her hand, but she felt very depressed that the sea monster under the sea was not a threat.
"Go on. ”
Chu Jing also condensed a small thunderball, this was not the thunder and lightning environment of Thunder Island, Chu Jing had to condense a small power thunderball, which was much worse than the thunder in his palm.
Suddenly, a huge creature came out of the sea, looking dozens of meters long, with two fangs that soared into the sky, which was very terrifying, and in addition to the long tail in the back, there were two undegraded legs in front of him.
The giant sea monster flew over the Bloody Bones and fell into the water, crashing into the massive waves that bummered through the waves.
Xu Qian stared blankly at the position of the sea monster falling into the water, she was so surprised that she couldn't keep her mouth shut, she muttered: "Are we facing such a thing? It's even more terrifying than a dragon, if it smashes into our ship......
Speaking of this, she couldn't believe that this huge sea monster could crush the entire ship and everything on it with one turnover.
It's horrible, the sea is horrible.
Chu Jing was also very shocked, but he had thought that it would be a big man before, after all, the whale was also very large, and in such a vast sea, the size of the sea monster was naturally not small.
It's not much better than the hydra I've ever seen.
But well......
"Don't worry, this sea monster is just big, and the fact that palm thunder can damage it proves that it is still relatively fragile. ”
Chu Jing comforted.
Lian nodded and said: "The sea monster is far inferior to the dragon, the dragon scale's defense ability is extremely strong, and it is difficult to break through the defense with even the full force of the Sword Master, and the defense ability of this sea monster is far from enough, even your armor-piercing arrow should be able to shoot it, even if it is big, it is just a beast to be slaughtered." ”
Of course, there are many jokes in this remark, such a big sea monster, the fatal points on its body are hidden under thick fat, if you want to kill it, you have to pass through several meters of muscle tissue, and even if the heart and other important organs, if you are hit by an arrow, it probably doesn't necessarily feel pain.
"Here you go again, are you ready for the palm thunder?" Chu Jing's face was serious.
"That's it. ”
Chu Jing Thunder Ball was thrown out first, and Lian's second palm thunder shot out in the same direction.
The blue glow spreads out beneath the surface of the sea, which is very beautiful, but also very dangerous.
"It worked. Chu Jing said excitedly, "After being hit, it will retreat, and we still have a chance." ”
At this time, the people on the pirate ship in the distance naturally saw the scene of the giant sea monster flying out of the sea, which frightened the pirates.
They are not afraid of the sky and the earth, they are afraid of storms, they are afraid of the navy, they are afraid of the masters of merchant ships, and the most feared thing is the sea monster.
Because pirates often have to take sea routes other than shipping routes, there are far more encounters with sea monsters than merchant ships, and there is often news that the once prosperous pirate groups have suddenly disappeared.
Naturally, they didn't change their faces to enjoy Qingfu, but in the unknown sea, they encountered unknown sea monsters, and all of them were buried in the belly of the sea monsters.
Huo Ying had seen sea monsters, it was when she was young, and she was lucky, she met not one, but two, two sea monsters that were fighting, splashing monstrous waves, and the ferocity was obvious.
At that time, Huo Haihu found two sea monsters in time and avoided them in time.
However, that scene, Huo Ying still remembers vividly, from then on, wherever the sea area has not been walked, Huo Ying will send a small boat to test first, and then move forward.
This time, they were really unlucky, or Chu Jing was too unlucky, and they actually encountered a giant sea monster, isn't this going to affect the rhythm of the pirates.
"Damn, they actually leaned over to us, they want us to help them attract the pressure of the sea monsters?
Huo Ying ordered loudly, Sea Tiger Island is the nearest island, as long as it goes up to land, this sea monster will have nothing to do with them.
As for the people on that sailboat, let them all die, such a big sea monster, with this small sailboat, they don't need to do it at all, they will die.
However, the Pirate Ship is not as nimble as the Bloody Bone, and requires a small circle to make it.
The pirates were busy turning the rudder, lowering the sails, and paddling vigorously, and they didn't dare to risk something as deathly as confronting a sea monster.
However, several ships that were already approaching at full speed were even closer in a short distance.
At this time, Huo Ying saw the true face of the Blood Bones, which ...... This is also a pirate ship?!
Blood bones are a very obvious sign, however, there are many monsters of the overseas giant type, but a huge skeleton can't scare others, and the pirate flag is the source of terror.
"I didn't expect to meet my peers, and yes, except for the pirate ship, who would dare to venture in unfamiliar waters, it's really unfortunate. ”
Huo Ying muttered, very anxious in her heart, if she got too close to that pirate sailboat, then it was very likely that she would be used as the main target of the sea monster, after all, her pirate ship was much bigger than that ship, and there were two other pirate ships next to it, the target was too big.
Perhaps it was too uncomfortable to be attacked by the palm thunder in the sea, and the giant sea monster actually floated up, like a crocodile, revealing its back and half of its head.
The huge body looks like a small island.
"Sea monster, look at the arrows!"
Xu Qian saw that the sea monster finally floated up, and immediately shot out an armor-piercing arrow, and the huge body didn't need to aim at all, it would definitely be hit.
The armor-piercing arrow was fired, the size of a hair's hair compared to the giant sea monster.
"Whew!"
Armor-piercing arrows are embedded in the sea monster's nose, if that's its nose at all.
The sea monster didn't seem to feel it at all, its body shook, and some rocks shook out of the sea monster, flew into the sky, and landed on the Blood Bone.
...... Even if it shook its head vigorously, the huge fangs were enough to knock the Bloodbone over.
The boulder fell, and Xu Qian and Bai Lan hurriedly dodged.
Chu Jing shouted loudly: "Xu Qian, Bai Lan, quickly enter the cabin and use the cannon to deal with it." ”
Bows and arrows only tickle the sea monster, and a more powerful cannon may be able to inflict damage on the sea monster.
Xu Qian and Bai Lan immediately reacted, they stayed on the deck and couldn't help, so they hurriedly ran into the cabin, one filled gunpowder, the other aimed, the lead was ignited, and a solid bullet was launched.
"Bang!"
The solid bullet hit the sea monster, and it was bounced off by the thick fat of the sea monster, and if the armor-piercing arrow was a tickle, the solid bullet was not even a tickle.
"Why is this happening?!!How can we fight the Kraken?"
Xu Qian was desperate, and the powerful cannon was bounced off by the sea monster.
Chu Jing also saw such a scene, and hurriedly transmitted a voice to the Blood Bones: "Are there any other types of shells?"
"Yes, the innermost ones in the storage compartment are flowering bombs, because the operation is more complicated, and the effect is not as good as solid bullets, so they have not been used. ”
Chu Jing hurriedly shouted loudly on the deck: "The innermost hollow cannonball in the storage tank, first put gunpowder into it, then put the cannonball into the breech, fill the shell with gunpowder on the outside, and then seal the muzzle with wax, first ignite the cannonball lead from the muzzle, and then quickly ignite the gun upper lead." ”
"Uh, what will Chu Jing say again?" Xu Qian looked at Bai Lan suspiciously.
"I see. ”
Bai Lan hurriedly ran towards the storage compartment in the ship, because the Blood Bones were not very large, they had walked around the Blood Bones before, and they were quite familiar with the structure in the cabin.
Xu Qian also hurriedly followed.
Coming to the storage cabin, there were a lot of cannonballs stored here, but there was nothing else, because the things that belonged to the pirates before were thrown into the sea by Chu Jing.
Shells were the only ones left.
I didn't pay attention to it before, and it wasn't until now that Bai Lan and Xu Qian found that some of the shells were not solid, leaving a round hole, and there was wax next to it, it turned out that this was an ordinary hollow shell.
"How do I use this, is it useful?" Xu Qian was still puzzled.
"Believe in Chu Jing. Bai Lan picked up a few hollow shells and ran towards the position of the artillery.
Xu Qian also picked up the cannonball, and now there is no other choice.
At this time, Lian had already prepared the third palm thunder, but he didn't use it, because the sea monster surfaced, and Chu Jing said that it was better to use cannonballs.
The Palm Ray can be saved for use when the Kraken is diving beneath the surface of the sea to force it up.
The effect of the first cannonball was very bad, but Lian was very interested in the hollow cannonball that Chu Jing said, and she didn't know that there was still this thing on the ship.
In fact, Chu Jing didn't know before, after all, the operation difficulty of hollow shells is quite worse than that of solid shells.
Fortunately, Xu Qian and Bai Lan did a good job, and a flowering bomb was fired through the cannon.
It hit the head of the sea monster and exploded with a "bang".
The effect of the explosion was not bad, directly blowing up the skin of the sea monster, and the flesh and blood of the skin of one square meter were blurred.
This effect is nothing for a giant sea monster tens of meters long, but the effect is already very good.
"Howl!" the sea monster shuddered, apparently reacting to the pain.
"yes, we might be able to get through it. Xu Qian was extremely excited.
Bai Lan poured cold water on her, "This kind of shell is too troublesome, and the interval will be very long." ”
This problem cannot be solved, which is why this shell is not commonly used, and the possibility of self-detonation is also very high, which is very unsafe.
"It's okay, as long as we can get back to that island, we'll be safe. ”
Different from Xu Qian's optimism, Huo Ying had a headache at this time, not only because she found that the pirate ship actually had very advanced weapons, which could even cause damage to the giant sea monster, if they really had to go head-to-head, they would probably find it difficult to get close to each other's ship, and they would be sunk by the other party.
Moreover, they are not far from the Blood Bones, not far from the Kraken, and will soon be involved in this battle of life and death.
For the first time, Huo Ying felt that his beloved ship was so slow, and he had escaped the pursuit of the navies of various countries countless times, why was it so slow to turn around now.
The threat of the sea monster is too great, even if Huo Ying hears the screams of the sea monster with weapons on the ship, he still doesn't expect anything from the red pirate ship, just hopes that they will sink quickly, and then the sea monster will obediently leave.
Unfortunately, this idea was quickly shattered.
"Haha, they've been chasing us for so long, and now they want to leave, isn't it too simple. ”
Chu Jing suddenly laughed, the Blood Bones happened to meet from the place where the other party's ship turned, and now even if they wanted to leave, it depended on whether the sea monster was willing or not.
At this time, the sea monster fell behind the Blood Bone, and after eating a flowering cannon, it felt pain, and its ferocity became even greater.
The sea monster's body shook, as if the whole sea was shaken by it.
The waves howl as much as they do when a storm comes.
Huo Ying's three pirate ships also shook violently.
Chu Jing looked at the heroic female swordsman standing at the bow of the largest pirate ship, not looking like a pirate, but like a serious noblewoman who paid attention to her manners.
The gold longsword also completely sets off her temperament.
Chu Jing shouted at her, "Hey, why have you been chasing us for so long?" ”
Huo Ying also saw the situation on the Bloody Bones ship at this time, only to see that there were only two men and a woman on the deck, and a row of iron cylinders stretched out of the cabin, one of which stood on two girls, and the iron cylinder was still emitting white smoke, it seems that the things that exploded before have a lot to do with the iron cylinder, maybe this is a new weapon.
Are these just a few people on this pirate ship, or are there only four people in charge of the battle, or are there three women and one man?
Huo Ying didn't answer, she was thinking silently in her heart.
The sea monster is already close at hand, and it is difficult to escape, but it can't be solved by looking at this sea monster lotus in a small boat, does it mean that this is just a very large, but very weak sea monster, just like those particularly big fish, but it is in vain.
She also took an interest in the skeletal sailboat, which she might be able to capture given its powerful weapons and small numbers.
"Who are you, why are you here, you should also know our rules, each has its own territory, you can't cross the line. ”
Huo Ying asked loudly.
Chu Jing replied: "We sailed on the sea and lost our direction, so we came to this island by chance, please don't be surprised, now the sea monster is important, and the private matter between us will be talked about later." ”
Huo Ying looked like the other pirates, silenced them, and then replied: "Okay, with this sea monster here, none of us can escape, I see that the weapons on your ship can cause serious damage to the sea monster, and you lack people to use it, it is better to let my crew board your ship and deal with the sea monster together." ”