Chapter 198: Night Voyage
As the sun sets, the last rays of the setting sun slowly dissipate across the land, plunging the city into night.
Under the bright moonlight, Zhang Longchu, who had completed a day's intensive training and ushered in a two-day weekend holiday, dragged his heavy steps and walked out of the gate of the Seoul Military Training Institute.
After crossing the road, the closer he got to the residential area, the more he was surrounded by noisy and noisy shouts, and the distance of less than 1,000 meters seemed to pass through two completely different worlds.
Among them, the area near the Seoul Military Training Institute, which belongs to a military unit and has entered a state of martial law, has been kept clean and quiet because of the addition of patrols and sentries with loaded guns and prohibiting unrelated personnel from approaching;
Other neighborhoods a step away from the college have long been surrounded by refugees, not to mention the leisure squares of the community, the green gardens on the streets, and even the sidewalks are full of gray-green tents issued by the state.
The so-called modern national quality, traditional etiquette, righteousness, honesty and shame and other things are not worth mentioning at all in the face of the increasingly severe reality of life.
With the exception of a handful of amazing refugees with strong moral values, all the others gradually exposed their innate evil nature, becoming rude, selfish, and mean, as if they had to put their own suffering on others, that is, the citizens of Seoul who seemed to still have a house to live in, a car to drive, and a comfortable place to live.
Under these circumstances, the citizens of Seoul are becoming more and more antagonistic and antagonistic against these refugees, who are messing up their lives and paying less and less attention to public health, holding up signs in protest and making noise, and looking at them more and more unkindly.
Therefore, after finishing training, he took a shower, changed into clean and neat sportswear, and at first glance, Zhang Longchu, who was not sleeping in the open air, walked the streets, and naturally was inexplicably hostile to some refugees.
And feeling those shallow hateful gazes around him, his body itched like long hair, hesitated, stopped, and untied the metal bracelet on his wrist.
Suddenly, an abundant force was released from Zhang Longchu's muscles and bones, which instantly dispelled the tiredness of his body, and the improvement of the essence of life also made him turn a blind eye to the hostility of the refugees around him.
"It seems that Jin So-eun's words really make some sense," once again carefully savoring the various changes in his physiology and psychology due to the loss of his extraordinary power, Zhang Longchu thought silently, "After the transcendent awakens, he will indeed unconsciously rely more and more on his supernatural power to solve problems...", and returned home.
A few minutes later, he stepped across his strange backpack and came out into the street again, where he saw An Min'er approaching with a bag full of frozen food.
The two of them have met a few times during this time, and they are familiar with each other, but the relationship is still not as harmonious as when they first met because of the previous misunderstanding.
When their eyes met, An Min'er stopped and said, "Zhang, have you seen the notice stuffed in the crack of the door, the community is going to hold an owners' meeting at night, and each family is required to send a representative to participate." ”
"That's it," Hearing this, Zhang Longchu said casually: "But I have other things, I may not be able to participate, you help me say to those owners' committee members...", before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by An Min'er dissatisfied: "Again, you didn't attend the owners' meeting last weekend, and you didn't show up when everyone went to the district hall to protest later..."
But her complaint didn't stop Zhang Longchu's pace in the slightest, and she saw Zhang Longchu waving his hand like a deaf person, but instead sped up his pace, blended into the flow of people, and disappeared in an instant.
Then time passed, and before I knew it, the moonlight slowly rose and traveled to the center of the sky.
At this time, on the highway connecting the suburbs of Seoul and Incheon, Jang finally got rid of the crowded and dirty city and continued to move towards the sea.
When he finally stepped on the soft sand, a dark cloud in the sky suddenly covered the entire rising full moon, and then the originally gentle sea breeze became more and more cold, twisting the originally calm sea surface and creating countless waves.
"The weather forecast is accurate, and sure enough, the wind is rising..."Against the hurricane, looking at the red clouds rolling in the direction of Incheon from a distance, Zhang Longchu muttered to himself, opened the strange backpack on his shoulder with his backhand, took out an ancient wooden ship model and threw it in the water.
Then, as his mind turned, the sea in front of him continued to 'clump, clatter, clatter...', and after a few seconds, a wooden boat about 10 meters high, 30 meters long, 7 or 8 meters wide, emerged from the bottom of the sea.
Compared with the size of modern seafaring steel ships, this ship is a small ship at best, but in the era of wooden ships, it was an incredible behemoth.
It looked antique but had no sails, and was driven like a modern steamship by a propeller made of black metal at the stern, not powered by the internal combustion engine, of course, but by the hundreds of big men who stepped on the pulleys in the cabins below deck.
In addition, the bow and side of the wooden ship were engraved with intricate runes and secret spells, and when the wind blew, all the spell strokes on the entire hull appeared in a shallow light, slowly flowing, and breaking it in two without waiting for the wind and waves to approach.
Standing on the beach and looking up at this magical scene, Zhang Longchu thought silently, "A primordial battleship has consumed all the elemental energy points I have accumulated in the past month, I hope it can be worth it." He jumped onto the wooden boat.
Then he looked around and saw that there was nothing but a few ballistas, rudders, and gunners and crew kneeling on the deck, and he couldn't help but think in his heart, "It's primitive...", but his mouth commanded loudly: "Do you see the fire clouds in the sky, sail in that direction." ”
Zhang Longchu's words fluttered in the wind and reached the ears of the crew, and they heard a bearded and short, middle-aged man at the head of them say respectfully, "Obey the order." Standing up, the order was passed down continuously, and after a while, the whole crew of the ship was busy performing their duties, driving the wooden boat to ride the wind and waves, and speed away in the direction where the red cloud was.
After a while, the sea breeze gradually became more and more cold, and suddenly, a blinding lightning bolt pierced the night sky, instantly reflecting the entire ocean as if it were day.
Then, with the thunder of 'boom...', the electric light dissipated, and the raindrops the size of beans fell from the clouds, and the 'crackling...' became more and more urgent, and in just a few seconds, it formed a downpour.
Rained in this way, it looked like a dead leaf, and everyone on the deck of the wooden ship that was floating and sinking in the sea turned into the appearance of a chicken in the soup, and the sailor leader who was at the helm suddenly let go of a hand, drew a spell in the air, and said with words in his mouth: "Xuan Ming has the skill, go through the rain...", and pointed at the rune engraved on the side of the ship in front of him.
In an instant, a film like a soap bubble appeared on the deck of the wooden ship, slowly rising through everyone's bodies, and finally turned into an invisible transparent shield suspended above the ship, blocking out the torrential rain.
Zhang Longchu has seen similar scenes many times in the world of strange things, but for the first time in the real world, he looked up at the scattered water droplets gathering into a stream of water and rolling into the sea, he still couldn't help but think: "Different types of civilizations really have different mysteries, it seems that such a backward warship can better restrain the storm at sea than the modern ships on the earth, it is incredible..."
While Zhang Longchu was thinking wildly, the helmsman of the wooden ship suddenly let out a high-pitched shout, "Gunner, the ballistas are all on the bow..."
Shocked by this shout, Zhang Longchu shook his head and shook off his distractions, walked quickly to the helmsman and asked succinctly, "What's wrong?" ”
"Divine Lord, there's a big ship floating on the sea, and it doesn't look good." The helmsman replied respectfully, and while the two were talking, the twenty gunners on the deck, in pairs, pushed the ballista cart into the bow of the ship.
Looking around left and right, he looked at ten adult arms thick, more than two meters long, engraved with complicated runes all around, and the giant crossbow arrows that were ready to fire surrounded him tightly, Zhang Longchu, who had witnessed the power of this giant arrow countless times in the world of strange things, and was familiar with its unsafe characteristics, felt a tingling in his scalp.
He opened his mouth, and was about to say something, when he suddenly found a large ship with a dark blue color, which looked like a centipede magnified by tens or even millions of times, was sinking and floating in the sea and rushing straight towards him.
Because the color of the wooden boat is similar to the waves, if you don't observe carefully in the storm, it is simply invisible, so Zhang Longchu couldn't help but swallow what he wanted to say, and praised the helmsman who found the enemy's trace one step earlier than himself and said: "Your eyesight is so good, you can actually see..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw the helmsman who was staring at the blue giant ship in the distance roared violently, "Shake off. Position, fire the ballista! ”
Hearing the order, the gunners on the deck adjusted the angle of the ballista slightly sharply according to the azimuth angle provided by the helmsman, pressed the trigger and shot the huge crossbow arrows in the chute together.
Those huge arrows pierced the sky, traveled hundreds of meters, and without exception hit the strange-looking blue ships in the distance, and some erupted into scorching fire, turning countless raindrops into rising steam;
Some of them caused the surrounding air to cool rapidly, freezing the hull of the large ship and the large sea surface;
Some of them pierced the hull of the ship without any anomaly or sound after hitting the blue boat, and penetrated into the hull.
And at the same time that the giant crossbow that pierced the hull hit, a deafening 'whoop...' terrible howl suddenly appeared, and it came into Zhang Longchu's ears with the howling sea breeze.
At the same time, the big blue ship that had been drilling in the waves suddenly rolled up, sometimes diving into the deep sea;
From time to time, like some sea snake, it straightens up on the surface of the water, until it finally loses its kinetic energy completely and floats on the ocean with the current. (To be continued.) )