Chapter 260: A Long Day
Early the next morning, the replenishment work had been successfully completed, the weather was fine, and the fleet announced that it was again. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info Mo Yan still followed Xu Fu to board the Pu Jia. When the big ship slowly continued to move towards the sea, Xu Fu, who was standing on the deck and holding on to the railing, suddenly said to himself, "Today will probably be a very long day." ”
When Mo Yan heard him say this, he didn't speak, but when the ships turned their rudders and headed southeast, his eyes turned, and he seemed to see a white figure standing on the bow of a building ship at the front, reflecting on the blue background of the sea, looking clean and elegant.
Xu Fu said before that the commander of this fleet was Meng Jiang, but in fact, he was fooling Mo Yan. Meng Jiang is at most an inspector, who came to assist and witness the Eastern Tour instead of the emperor, how could she, who had not participated in the Eastern Tour last year, know where the so-called Immortal Mountain that Xu Fu had approached was in the vast sea?
Therefore, although Meng Jiang was on the head boat, the person who commanded the course on the boat was a guide of Xu Fu's extremely confidant, his eldest disciple, a young man who was proficient in astronomy and geography and good at divination and stargazing, named Lu Wang.
And Xu Fu himself took the boat in the rear, not because he was deliberately squeezed, but he deduced that for the sake of safety, an official should also be arranged in the second half, and if there is any accident, it can be echoed from the end, after all, in addition to the wind and waves on this sea, there is also a powerful threat, that is, pirates! The rear ships were attacked by pirates without a commander, and even the ships carried people and things all the time happened from time to time.
So he and his attachés naturally ran to this Pujia. Leaving Meng Jiang's side, if he wants to make some small moves, it will become a lot easier.
Of course, Mo Yan saw through his little tricks, and I believe that the intelligent Meng Jiang also knows it. At present, both of them are holding the mind of inquiry, wanting to see what kind of drama Xu Fu will perform for them, and also for the most authoritative emperor in history - Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng.
Mo Yan also had a hunch that no matter what this "long day" was, it would probably be a day that would go down in history.
But seeing that most of the day had passed, the fleet was just moving smoothly, and nothing happened. Mo Yan first stood on the deck, then returned to the command room and sat by the window, while Xu Fu had been quietly flipping through the books, and his attendants had come from time to time to arrange some tea for the two of them. This scene is really too peaceful, and it doesn't look like anything big is going to happen at all. Is this what is called a "long day"? Is it the kind of "long" that feels like time is passing slowly because you don't know what's going to happen?
Waiting for this kind of thing may be maddening for some people, but for Mo Yan, it is a habit. Over the years, he has been able to easily focus on the present, for the future, there are predictions, but there is no expectation, let alone fear, because the future is nothing more than the present.
The sun was moving behind the ship again, drawing closer to the horizon, and another day was about to pass. At this time, the fleet is completely in the middle of this vast ocean, and there is no longer a shadow of land to be seen in all directions, and it will be at sea tonight, such a state really makes people can't help but miss the land, at least, they can be very sure where they are.
Eventually, it was completely dark, but soon the outside became bright again, and a full moon replaced the sun and rose into the air, painting everything in heaven and earth with a touch of quiet moonlight.
Mo Yan, who was sitting by the window, was admiring the moonlight, and suddenly felt a wisp of wind on his face, different from the warm air flow under the sun before, this gust of wind was full of a biting coolness, mixed with a disgusting fishy smell.
Here it comes! Mo Yan's heart sank, and his intuition told him that the time to come was finally coming!
At the same time, Xu Fu had already raised his head and rushed out of the door without saying a word. Mo Yan also stood up and walked quickly to the deck.
Sure enough, the wind rose, and the canvas above the head began to rattle, and the horn shook with it.
"What's that?" The boatmen who rushed to the upper and lower decks shouted when they noticed the movement.
Mo Yan looked in the direction they were pointing, just in the direction they were heading, far away, as if a white line appeared in the line of sight, just below the rising moon, under the light of the moon, the white line seemed to be constantly widening, becoming clearer and clearer.
"Big waves, big waves!" Finally, amid the increasingly noisy sound of the wind and the shaking of the sails, Mo Yan recognized the cries of some people.
Xu Fu immediately turned his head and shouted into the cabin: "It's a big wave, give the order quickly, all the ships are on alert!" One line, on the chain! ”
Then, the ship began to be chaotic, many people were running around, shouting, dragging all kinds of things, and the environment became even more noisy, except for Mo Yan still standing on the top deck, frowning and staring intently at the expanding white waves in the distance.
The so-called one-line array is to adjust the fleet of ships that originally traveled in the front and back order into a side-by-side formation, and at the same time, several iron chains are shot at the neighboring ships with heavy crossbows to connect the ships. In this way, when a big wave hits, each ship can form a stable support for each other.
But it's easy to say, in the current dark and chaotic situation, it is not an overnight thing to do, it seems that after a long time, it seems that the last six ships are barely chained together, and the six ships in front have not yet been connected, and the monstrous waves of white flowers are already in front of us, and it seems that it is too late!
When Mo Yan followed the fishermen out to sea, he also heard them say that this kind of big waves, especially at night in the open sea, the more good the moonlight, the more likely it is to encounter this kind of big waves silently. If you hadn't found it during the lookout, it would have been hard to notice at first! Even if it is discovered, because this wave will hit straight like a wall, there is a high chance that the boat will capsize on the spot, so it is called "ghost head wave" by fishermen!
Now Mo Yan has seen with his own eyes what the "ghost head wave" is, as the wave approaches, it can already be clearly seen that it is two or three times as tall as the hull, moving extremely fast, but there is not much noise, like a net pressed by the sky, suddenly this fleet of twelve large ships is set off incomparably small!
"Hold on!" The moment the waves hit, Mo Yan heard Xu Fu beside him shouting.
Suddenly, the wind disappeared, the feeling of shaking disappeared, and everything around him seemed to disappear, Mo Yan could clearly feel that his body was thrown into the air all of a sudden, the heavens and the earth were upside down, twisting in all directions, and in an instant, it seemed to have entered nothingness!
But soon, everything reappeared, and in a very tragic form! There was water and debris on their heads, on their bodies, on the boat, everywhere, and their ears were filled with the sound of wind and waves, the noise of the ship's hull, and the mournful shouts of the people, but no one could spare it to do something, and everyone only felt that the space around them was shaking violently, and they could not care about anything except to hold on to what was fixed at hand as much as possible!
The whole world is in chaos, and the only thing that is calm is the bright moon above his head, like a big eye, indifferently watching the sky change. (To be continued.) )