Chapter 203: Three South
Everything happened suddenly, although Jiao Ming was not surprised, but he was also busy in his heart, at this time, listening to the little poem in his arms that he could repair the loopholes at the bottom of the warehouse, he didn't know how to react and answer. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"It's better to fix it, it's good to be able to disrupt the enemy's plans. Binglian was not arbitrary, but asked Jiao Ming's opinion. After all, the situation is not critical now, it can't just be that the cabin is leaking and sinking, it is a catastrophe for ordinary people, and it is nothing to this group of magical warriors.
Jiao Ming's eyes fell on Xiao Shi's face, biting the tip of his tongue to regain his composure in pain, thinking about the situation in front of him, Binglian's reason was good, but the question was whether Xiao Shi's would be threatened at all. Binglian easily saw through Jiao Ming's hesitation and said, "If we go down together, we will definitely not let Xiaoshi have an accident." ”
Jiao Ming nodded, hugged Xiaoshi and walked from the middle warehouse to the bottom warehouse with everyone, but found that a sailor was missing, and asked in surprise: "Where is the crew?"
Huang Xia, who went to the deck to investigate the situation, returned and replied: "They all jumped into the sea to escape." ”
Between the questions and answers, everyone has already come to the bottom warehouse, Jiao Ming has no experience in going to sea, I don't know if this behavior is normal, but he can't care about the detailed distinction, just because the situation in the bottom warehouse is too scary, and the sea water gushes out like a spring from the breach. It has only been two or three minutes since the explosion occurred, but half of the sea water has already filled the bottom of the silo.
"Are you sure?" Jiao Ming asked Xiao Shi softly, but before he could answer, he saw that the protruding and jumping splash gradually shrank at a speed that was recognizable to the naked eye, and it shrank faster and faster, and it disappeared in a dozen breaths.
"Alright. Xiao Shi gasped, sweat on her forehead, but showed a smile like an invitation.
"Awesome!" Jiao Ming praised, and added: "I owe you a big meal!"
But before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, Binglian frowned slightly, sniffed, and then said loudly: "Be careful, it's here again! It's poisonous gas!"
The group of magic warriors were nervous at first, and then they relaxed, and they didn't care about the poison gas or anything. But Jiao Ming asked in surprise, "What about Xiaoshi?"
"This poisonous gas is not simple, not only a small poem, I am afraid that all of us will not be able to bear it. Bing Lian's brows became tighter and tighter, and she held her palm with one hand, and her five fingers bent and trembled slightly, as if she was kneading a mass of invisible substance in the palm of her hand. Apparently using a fire-based magic medium to analyze the nature of the toxins in the air.
"Can't resolve the toxicity?" Jiao Ming asked.
"Half a day to study is pretty much the same. ”
Several high-ringed magic warriors looked at each other suspiciously, and then the youngest and frizzy Zimang said, "I don't feel it." ”
"It's just too low. After that, Binglian led everyone up to the deck, and sure enough, she saw bubbles rolling on the sea surface a hundred meters away in the upwind direction, and yellow smoke drifted towards the sailboat with the wind. At the same time, I also saw that the surrounding sea was full of sailors and sailors who were struggling to swim away, but a few people in the upwind direction were more unlucky, and they were already lying on the surface of the sea and did not move.
At this moment, a fat man rushed over crying, knelt down in front of everyone, kowtowed like garlic, and begged everyone to save the ship. Jiao Ming vaguely remembered that this person was the captain, an earth-based magician of the First Ring.
"Tie up the planks and throw them into the sea. Binglian commanded. Zimang acted immediately, and within five seconds, he heard a plop below.
"Why is that?" Jiao Ming asked.
"Lest you be hurt by mistake. ”
At this time, an eight-ring magic warrior bodyguard broke a meter-long wooden pole from the deck fence with his backhand, took a deep breath and charged it to hit that side, although it hit the bubbling place, but due to buoyancy, it could not go deep under the sea surface, and the yellow smoke just shook and continued to fly over.
Jiao Ming stretched out his arm to aim, establishing a spatial passage and extending it to the test, but he heard Binglian exclaim: "Don't!" Then he felt that the qi magic medium was out of control, his head was hit by a sledgehammer, and a sharp pain spread from his brain to his whole body, and the scene in his eyes was first infected with blood, and then he shook from side to side, and at the same time, his upper lip was hot, and the nosebleed flowed into his mouth.
Binglian and Luohua supported Jiao Ming, who fell, and then Binglian hugged Jiao Ming in the form of a knee pillow, and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"
The delicate and soft voice on weekdays, at this time, Jiao Ming heard it rumbling and with its own echo effect, as if countless people were asking these four words in their ears. Quickly covered his ears, the situation was slightly better, but he found that his hands were sticky, and then he realized that he was bleeding from seven orifices.
"I'm fine, I'm alive. Seeing that Binglian and Luohua were about to open their mouths to ask again, Jiao Ming hurriedly added: "Don't talk quietly, let me take it slowly." ”
As soon as the words fell, Jiao Ming was made to have a migraine recurrence by the coughing sound of Xiaoshi next to him, and he smelled a foul smell. The concentration of toxic smoke increased.
Jiao Ming didn't care about the discomfort, turned his aching brain, and proposed: "Try throwing the sword, aim at two meters below the surface of the sea." "The space passage that I just tried was not without results, not only did I find that the smoke breath device was a four-meter diameter flat ball and its depth, but also found that there was no space distortion layer on its surface, that is, it could not protect against arrows.
The six people with the big sword all hesitated slightly, and Binglian said angrily: "Make up for two!"
With three brushes, three swords were thrown out. Binglian became even more angry and shouted, "Stop! What if it's hand-to-hand combat for a while!" The three people who reacted one step slower put down their long swords.
A faint, muffled sound came from a distance, from which it was certain that the sword had hit its target, but it took a few seconds for everyone to make sure that the smoke released had not abated.
"Why don't you swim over and see if you can destroy something underwater?" asked Zimang tentatively.
"It's too dangerous, think about something else. Binglian didn't deny it, the implication was that if there was no other way, she could only take such a risk.
"Does anyone know how to sail?" Jiao Ming asked again, naturally thinking about whether he could dodge it. "Full sails are just that, you don't have to think about the course. Binglian said and motioned to the other two aunts, the eight-ring magic warriors, to fiddle with the sails, and at the same time moved the wooden planks and barrels to drop the deck, giving the scattered fleeing crew a way to live.
But things were not as simple as they thought, and after a few minutes of full sailing, the ship was indeed moving, but it was slow due to the fact that the magic warriors were not skilled in handling the sails and there was still half a warehouse of sea water in the bottom compartment. And the thing that released the smoke actually moved, keeping a safe distance and hanging at the upwind position, and couldn't get rid of it at all. However, both sides were moving, and the concentration did not increase under the spread of the poisonous gas, but it also made Xiaoshi cough and everyone was nauseous.
Jiao Ming covered Xiao Shi's mouth and nose with a wet cloth again, and his cough eased slightly, although he didn't know the composition of the poisonous mist, and he didn't know whether this anti-poison was effective, but even a layer of psychological comfort was good. Everyone did the same, and they all became 'masked thieves'.
"It doesn't seem to stun us. The enemy will not show his face. After a few more minutes, Binglian looked at the distance where the smoke was still billowing and sighed helplessly.
"At this concentration, how long will it take? Maybe the smoke will run out first. Jiao Ming said, but then he secretly cursed himself for the crow's mouth, only to see that two more places next to the place where the smoke was released began to bubble, releasing pale yellow smoke, and within a few tens of seconds, the color became darker, exactly the same as the original one.
"Throw something!" Ice Lotus shouted, and took the lead in throwing the debris off the boat. When everyone was reminded, they immediately understood the intention of accelerating weight loss and followed suit. Jiao Ming naturally didn't look idle, and just wanted to stretch out his hand, but heard Binglian's assignment: "Can you teleport the water at the bottom of the warehouse?"
"That feeling just now is enough for once. ”
"I'll explain it to you when I have time, but trust me, it's okay to cast spells at the bottom of the warehouse for a short distance. ”
The strength of the magic warrior is not a joke, carrying the boulder is still like flying, and it is even easier to carry these incidental goods, and after moving the goods, he is not satisfied, and some messy things that do not affect the main structure, such as the daily necessities of the staircase crew, etc., are dismantled and thrown away. And Jiao Ming also kept using a half-meter-long space channel to drain the seawater at the bottom of the warehouse, and then gradually saw the results of Xiao Shi, a translucent frosted glass-like substance sealed the hole, and the surrounding area was seamlessly connected with the broken and twisted wood, without a trace of seawater seeping in.
After tossing for nearly twenty minutes, the distance between the ship and the poison gas device gradually widened, and the other party's initial bombing behavior was obviously to slow down, but it was miscalculated due to Xiao Shi's earth-based magic, which also showed that the propulsion capacity of this poison gas device was limited, and it could not keep up with the sailing ship moving at full speed.
"Be vigilant, if the enemy does not give up, he will have to take all his might. Binglian shouted loudly to remind everyone, and the sound was so loud that it could be heard from a hundred meters away.
"Are you trying to scare the killer away?" Jiao Ming asked.
"It's better to be so. ”
However, it was clear that the matter would not end so simply, and after the sailboat was completely out of the range of the yellow poisonous smoke, three small sailing speedboats gradually approached, with a total of twelve people on them, all of whom could not see their faces with hoods and faces.
Jiao Ming figured it out, the other party was going to come hard, first ordered Luohua to hide with Xiaoshi, and then found Binglian to ask about his tactical mission.
"Hide and find a way to use Qi to spell the Yin Man. "Binglian sorted out the ammunition backpack and the 'launch base' staff, and said the answer without thinking about it, obviously she had a plan.
"We're going to win, right?"
"Of course, if the other party is very confident, they will rush over and cut people like last time. Binglian said as she raised her staff and aimed it at a small sail speedboat, firing the first big fireball, which was missed.
"Don't shake your hands, you can't hit these 30 meters. Jiao Ming pretended to be relaxed.
"If you don't shake, you won't shake, where is it so easy. Ice Lotus said another big fireball, and the other party raised his shield to meet it, and Ice Lotus immediately detonated the powder bag and exploded on the shield, forming a circle of ripples on the surrounding sea. "In the battle of fire magic, the spell must be cast briefly, not only to avoid the failure of the spell due to the interference of the opponent, but also to avoid losing control of the magic medium and injuring oneself. I don't know the exact skills of a qi magician, but it should be about the same, and your slow appearance is bound to cause trouble. ”
"I don't know what to do for a while. ”
"Then it's okay to hide, anyway, your task today is to see blood, just don't show your ugliness. ”
"Is it okay to have a little confidence in your man?" Jiao Ming stretched out his arm to aim, constantly hinting that this was a game, and then swiped his fingers down with a strange scream, throwing out a pale white spatial crack that emitted a gentle wind whistling sound. It's a pity that the other party is obviously experienced, and he saw through this crude trick at a glance, so he just dodged it. "What, I'm looking for a place to squat, be careful yourself. ”
Recalling the structure of this ship, Jiao Ming turned around and went to a vent in the middle warehouse to hide, where he could just see the feet of the people on the deck, which was simply the best position for a sneak attack. Like every boy, Jiao Ming certainly had the idea of rushing out to open Wushuang and then embrace the beauty, but considering his lame combat effectiveness, intellectually speaking, only now is the best choice. Sometimes don't bother professionals when it's the biggest task for a novice.
However, the expected fierce battle did not happen, or only happened for a few seconds, when the people found the four disabled eight-ring magic warriors, they lost confidence, and left two corpses to jump into the sea with a whistle. Ice Lotus didn't decide to pursue in the end, and it seemed that the water was the opponent's home field, so it was better not to risk it. Jiao Ming, on the other hand, felt a little unfinished, and his heartbeat was like a drum that could not be calmed down for a long time.
"Anticlimactic. When cleaning up the mess, Jiao Ming sighed.
"No injuries, no deaths, a false alarm, no better!" replied Binglian.
The crowd reluctantly steered the boat back the way it came, and there were only a few bodies and debris in the place where the explosion first occurred, and there were no crew members who escaped. Ice Lotus rummaged through the captain's room again, but found nothing like a chart, and I don't know if it had just been thrown away.
"This is the west coast of the continent, and if we sail east, we will surely find land, and as for those crews, if they also flee east, they are likely to meet again. Jiao Ming said. Everyone nodded their heads, and the matter was settled.
Identifying the direction, according to Jiao Ming's plan, sailed eastward, and after about an hour, he found two crew members, and then found more one after another. Half curious and half interrogated, Jiao Ming asked why he abandoned the ship and fled, and the crew's answer was simple: they were afraid of death. Asked in detail, Jiao Ming learned that the attitude of ordinary people in the developed areas of the south towards magicians is similar to that towards the legendary immortals.
Jiao Ming felt apologetic, but helpless. In such a cultural context, verbal apologies are meaningless, as these crew members do not feel that their dignity has been hurt. I had to prepare to negotiate a generous compensation plan with Binglian, so I continued to ask:
"Why east?"
"There is land. ”
"How far?"
"Half a day is enough. ”
Of course, this is good news for everyone, but the bad news is that Captain Fat was not saved until the end.
The ship kept heading east, and soon after seeing the land, there was a staggered sound of wood grinding against the bottom of the boat, apparently hitting the rocks. Xiao Shi struck again, repairing the seepage point, barely keeping the boat on the beach. Jiao Ming carefully observed the situation of Xiaoshi under concern and saw that it was still in good spirits, so he was relieved.