Chapter 65: The Snakes (2)
The possibility of encountering a hook snake at any time in front of it made the nerves of all the crew members tense.
After the shipping stops, they may be the only boat on the hundreds of kilometers of river, and there is no doubt that they will inevitably become the target of the hook. The ship's gunners had arrived at their gun positions early to wait for orders, but the sonar system had not yet shown that a huge creature was moving towards them.
The "Twelve ......" divers put the last half of the eggshell in the cage and let the crew on the car drag it to the bed with a winch, there was almost no obvious difference from the eggshell they saw in Yunmengze last time, and it was certain that the twelve eggs were all hooked snakes.
The captain informed command of the result, and the speedboat retrieved the diver back to the boat and moved on.
Huang Dou's expression was slightly excited, but Sun Yang was not excited at all.
"Who the hell could it be?" He said softly. Lu Xiaoling held his hand and shook her head at him gently, signaling him not to be so troubled.
She hadn't seen the damage caused by the snake last time, so the meaning behind the twelve eggshells wasn't as clear as Sun Yang knew, Sun Yang sighed softly and smiled at her reluctantly.
"Could it really be someone from the Ten Thousand Beasts Villa?" Sun Yang asked Huang Dou. "What's the point of them doing that?"
He couldn't understand it.
The last time something like this happened could be said to be a revenge on the Special Case Administration, of course, in the cognition of Long Qingting and others, there was also a sniping of important personnel in the distant mountains that took in Sun Yang. But Sun Yang knew very well that the so-called sniping did not exist at all, and it was Huang Dou and no one else who killed Tu Jia and Bei Jiu and captured their demon pill.
But such a magic circle and such a huge number of snake hooking eggs could not be something that could be taken out casually for a sect that was desperately trying to hide itself. If they had such powerful resources that could be used to squander them like this, then their strength should have reached a certain point, and there was no reason why Long Qingting hadn't even heard their names before.
If they simply wanted to cause destruction and panic, there was absolutely no need for an attack of this magnitude. According to Sun Yang's idea, such a thing comes once every half a month, and two or three hook snakes are used each time. In the thousands of kilometers of main and tributary waters of the Yangtze River basin, it is enough to cause consequences that are difficult to hide, whether it is the Special Cases Administration Bureau or the distant mountains represented by Long Qingting.
But what they did this time seemed to be desperate to make a big deal about it, which made Sun Yang feel extremely unreasonable.
"Whether it's their people or not, it's a reality that there are a large number of hook snakes now, and those things will be considered by Director Long, we just need to do our part."
Huang Dou's words were not wrong, but Sun Yang had no way to be as calm as he said.
The second attack was not long in coming, and it was precisely the gunboat that had been pursued from the entrance of the city, and they had only had time to report the attack before they lost contact. Some observation posts reported seeing fires erupting in the center of the fog and hearing explosions and the roars of giant beasts along the river, but due to the dense fog, no results were observed.
Everyone knows that they should have sacrificed.
This made the pressure on Sun Yang's speedboat increase all of a sudden.
Of course, the crew had no way to understand that Huang Dou had the power to kill these behemoths in one fell swoop, and their mood became pessimistic.
The news of the third attack came more than 10 minutes later, it was a riverside town nearly 200 kilometers away from them, although the residents on both sides of the Yangtze River had been mobilized to leave the dangerous area, but the riverbank of the 800 Highway involved nearly 200 million people's living and living places, and even two provincial capitals and more than a dozen large cities.
The Special Cases Administration was only able to know that an attack had taken place in that place, but the exact damage and the number of hooked snakes were unknown.
Then came the fourth, the fifth......
There were more and more attacks, although there was also news that the Jiang defense troops had injured or killed the hook snake with artillery fire, and there was also good news that Long Qingting had killed four hook snakes at one time, but for most people, such good news had no way to make up for the huge casualties.
Sun Yang's mood also fell as more and more bad news grew.
"On the bright side, we have inspected more than 100 kilometers of the river and only found one circle." Huang Dou said.
At this moment, Sun Yang suddenly felt that a ghost pawn two hundred meters in front of him began to circle wildly, and the sonar officer also shouted: "Suspicious object found!" Directions to the right front! Distance...... Three hundred meters! ”
"Fire!" The captain immediately ordered.
The 37mm high-level dual-purpose gun on the speedboat immediately strafed in the direction of the target, and the painful roar of the monster could be heard in the distance in the thick fog, which made the captain and crew excited, but at this moment, the sonar system showed two other targets, and Sun Yang also received a warning from the ghost pawn.
"Machine gun!" The captain maneuvered the speedboat to the left to evade, but the speed of the hook snake far exceeded the speed of the machine, and the only gun on board could not deal with three targets at once, and some of the crew set up machine guns and fired hopelessly into the fog.
Everyone in the cockpit watched the three objects that were coming at high speed on the sonar display, grabbed the fixed objects around them and prepared for a fierce collision, except for Sun Yang and Lu Xiaoling, no one noticed that Huang Dou quietly walked out at this time.
The neighing of the hooked snakes suddenly came very close to starboard, and to the surprise of the people, they did not hit the hull, but the blood sprayed on the deck like a torrent, and a huge spiky tail swept through the stern, hooked a crew member, and dragged him out. The speedboat tried to get rid of them, but the river suddenly churned, and the waves seemed to drown the speedboat, as if something was stirring the river, forming a huge undercurrent that made it completely out of control.
People screamed loudly. Several crew members were swept straight into the water by the huge waves.
But only a few minutes later, the waves suddenly subsided without warning, and the roar of the hooking snake stopped.
Huang Dou landed lightly on the deck with one crew member in one hand, and before anyone could react, he disappeared into the fog once more, and then brought back two crew members again.
The speedboat stopped, the three massive objects on the sonar were no longer moving, and they no longer heard the roar of the monster. The captain roared out of the cockpit, trying to figure out what was going on, only to see his men looking at Huang Dou in amazement, and some even knelt down on their knees.
"Over there." Huang Dou said.
They cautiously drove the boat in the direction he pointed, and soon a large and friendless shadow appeared in front of the speedboat, followed by the other two.
The crew exclaimed, they were all obviously dead, but the visible length of the floating part alone was more than forty meters, and it was much larger than their speedboat.
One of the hooked snakes had obvious signs of artillery damage, but apparently, it was not its fatal wound.
The eyes of people looking at Huang Dou and Sun Yang are completely different.
"Report back to headquarters and let them arrange personnel to dispose of the body, and we move on." Huang Dou said.
"Yes!" The captain replied in awe.