"Is this sea beast dangerous?" Xu Mo recovered from the shock and hurriedly asked Tie Lilie.

Although this king squid that flaunted its might on the surface of the sea and even stirred up a small whirlpool surprised Xu Mo, in the heart of the old Captain K, he didn't think that it could pose any threat to the Vasa.

Together with more than 60 guns and personnel and materials on board, the Vasa has a displacement of almost 2,000 tons, which is the most powerful warship of mankind in this era, and can even be called a strategic weapon, it is not surprising that Xu Mo has this idea.

"If we can't drive it away with artillery at a distance, once we let its tentacles wrap around the ship's side, the Vasa will capsize and sink!" However, Tie Lilie's next answer immediately made Xu Mo's eyes widen again.

"The Vasa sank...... Shipwreck? Just this big squid? He told Xu Mo that Tieli was not joking, but the young admiral was still a little incredulous, "The Vasa is a battleship of several thousand tons!" Tie Lilie, are you kidding? ”

"Your Excellency Admiral, do you think I'm joking?" Tie Lili glanced back at Xu Mo solemnly, then raised his head to look at the sails on the ship, and said again, "Judging from the straightness of the sails, the current wind speed is 5-7 meters, and the wind force is about level 4. If this sea beast is interested in us, we can't outrun it. ”

"Hey, that's ...... King Squid?! Just as Xu Mo was dumbfounded, a surprised shout came from beside them.

Xu Mo calmed down, only to find that there was already a large group of people around the bow of the ship, the members of the old K-group, Christina, Wood, Camille, and Emilio were among them, all of whom had just arrived when they heard the alarm bell. The one who uttered the exclamation was Camille, the navigator of this Agotic Chamber of Commerce.

"What are you doing here, why don't you go to your post!" Xu Mo yelled in annoyance.

Seeing the Admiral's anger, the crowd suddenly dispersed like frightened sparrows, but Xu Mo looked at Camille and Emilio, who were about to leave, but his heart moved, and he greeted slowly, "Camille, Emilio, you are guests on the ship, you don't have to go with them, just stay with me!" ”

"Thank you, Admiral!" Camille and Emilio looked at each other in surprise and bowed in thanks. When the ship was in distress, it was obvious that staying with the captain would have a higher safety factor, and Xu Mo was protecting them in disguise.

Camille and Emilio were originally held hostage by the Argotic Chamber of Commerce and stayed on the Vaasa. But after such a long time, in fact, the two have long since lost the initial reluctance. It's the idleness that does every day makes the two a little depressed. After coming out of Amsterdam, both of them were a little idle, and began to offer to help on the ship, thinking of themselves as temporary crew members of the Vaasa.

Xu Mo was also happy to see it, he left these two candidates at that time, and he also had his own considerations. Camille is Lilu's childhood sweetheart, which he has learned in his last world experience. As for Emilio, he found that during the battle, he cooperated with the black-haired young man Fernand, so he speculated that the two should have known each other for a long time and were a pair of friends.

Facts have proved that Xu Mo's speculation is not wrong, Emilio and Fernand are indeed close friends. Leaving Camille and Emilio behind, Lilu and Fernand, who are brilliant and quick-witted, were greatly jealous, and for the safety of their two friends, they did not dare to use other crooked brains. And Camille and Emilio also escaped without permission for the large amount of gold coins that were withheld by the Argotic Chamber of Commerce.

After Camille and Emilio began to help out on the ship, Xu Mo gradually discovered that both of them were excellent navigators. In the last battle, he had already discovered that Emilio was an excellent stormtrooper no less than Christina.

However, compared to Christina, who excels in swordsmanship and excels at heads-up, Emilio, who is physically strong and possesses a strange power like Beamon, is more adept at deck engagement. As long as you put a pair of armor on him and take a big sword or a giant axe, he will be a fierce general.

As for the more introverted Camille, Xu Mo was surprised to find that he was an excellent gunner and helmsman. Although he may not be as knowledgeable as the Tirelie in terms of nautical geography, he is on a par with the Tirelie in terms of being at the helm alone. And what he is best at is gunnery, and the Vasa gunner shows impressive precision in his usual training, and Camille, who occasionally has itchy skills.

"Camille, have you ever seen this kind of king squid before?" Xu Mo smiled and looked at the young navigator.

"Yes, Lord Alfred! I have seen this ferocious creature in the Atlantic. Generally these sea beasts live in the deep sea area at a depth of several thousand meters and rarely come to the surface of the sea. Camille grabbed the side of the ship and looked at the beast on the sea.

"Well, Your Excellency, after Camille said this, I did remember. The sea area we are in now is very close to the Strait of Gibraltar, which is a shallow area, and it is indeed a very strange thing to see the king squid. Tie Lilie's eyes lit up next to him, and he quickly added.

"In fact, the whole Mediterranean has not heard of this king squid, which is generally found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans!" Camille frowned and said, "Looking at the direction of the whirlpool, I'm afraid we need to change course immediately, otherwise we will soon attract the attention of this giant beast!" ”

Xu Mo's eyes flashed, and an extremely uncomfortable feeling surged in his heart, but he couldn't find the source of this feeling.

"Alfred, it's noticed! Ah, it's coming this way! Just as Xu Mo was muttering, Tie Lilie suddenly pointed to the sea and shouted.

Xu Mo was startled, and immediately put down what he was thinking about and looked at the sea again. I saw that the small whirlpool on the surface of the sea began to slowly dissipate, but instead, a huge white line appeared on the surface of the sea, and the sea beast was swimming rapidly towards the Vasa under the surface of the sea.

Looking at the flash velocity of the white line, Xu Mo immediately understood what Tie Lilie said before. In strong wind conditions, the Vaasa can reach speeds of more than 20 knots, equivalent to 40-60 km/h, and the usual cruising speed is generally 8-12 knots.

And the speed of this king squid under the sea surface is at least more than 25 knots, maybe this is not its maximum speed, and it seems that the wind and waves on the sea surface have no effect on it at all.

"Tie Lilie, you are at the helm!" Looking at the white line on the sea, Xu Mo's pupils shrank slightly, and he ordered loudly, "Hong Jian come here, you come and control the bow cannon!" Wood, follow me to the mast! ”

After the last naval battle, Hong Jian was promoted to the rank of alternate officer on the artillery deck. His talent for manipulating the force field has a certain effect on repairing the trajectory of the cannonball, and the precise calculation of the humanoid brain Mary made him make a lot of achievements in the last artillery battle.

"Alfred, please have the deck sailors ready with harpoons and polearms, it's too fast, it's less than 500 yards from the Vasa now, I'm afraid we only have one chance to shell!" Tie Lilie grabbed the rudder, and dense beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, and nervously replenished.

"Your Excellency, why don't we turn the hull of the ship and bombard it with our broadside guns?" Hong Jian quickly cleaned the chamber of the bow gun and asked in a deep voice.

"No, it's too low, it's hard for the broadside guns to adjust the angle of the shelling, and if the shelling fails, let its tentacles grab the sideboard, I'm afraid the Vasa will capsize!" Hearing Hong Jian's suggestion, Tie Lilie and Camille were shocked at the same time and immediately objected.

"Max, get all the Musketeers on deck!" Feeling the nervousness of the two young navigators, Xu Mo had a headache. When he first saw this big squid, he didn't expect that this big guy would pose such a major threat to the Vasa.

"Lord Alfred, let me control the bow cannon!" Camille withdrew her gaze from the sea and said solemnly.

"Big brother, we can hit it, we don't need the help of this onion!" Camille's words caused Mary's dissatisfaction, and she waved her pink fist at Camille angrily, but unfortunately the plot character couldn't see the little girl with a smart brain, which made her work in vain.

Hong Jian, who was next to her, pouted disapprovingly, compared to Camille, he had absolute confidence in his and Mary's shelling combination. You must know that Mary was originally the fire control brain of the stellar particle pulse cannon, which is a technology that surpasses the world of navigation for at least two eras.

"Okay, you control the bow cannon, Hong Jian will be your assistant!" Xu Mo's eyes flashed, he took a deep look at Camille, then nodded, and at the same time gave Hong Jian a look.

Although Xu Mo also had great confidence in the combination of Hong Jian and Mary, for some reason, when he heard Camille's words, he remembered something on the Vestelos for no reason.

At that time, the Vistelos was being closely pursued by the Hell God, but that night, the Admiral of the Vistelos, "North Sea Silver Eagle" Hedram, used a navigation technique that was ahead of its time - a miraculous maneuver, which made the Vistelos change from prey to hunter overnight.

Since then, Xu Mo no longer dared to underestimate these genius navigators of the Sea Power Era, and even indirectly affected the strategy that he now uses the Sea Power Era as a time and space battlefield to face the Temple of Gods. Technology is great, but human beings themselves are capable of creating miracles that cannot be surpassed by technology.

Hong Jian spread his hands helplessly, gave up the gun position to Camille, and silently wiped the shell. Xu Mo's hint just now, he had already seen it, but there was only one chance to shell, and since the regiment commander had already made a decision, he could only obey.

"You continue to prepare for the shelling, I need to observe its trajectory, and then I will come when the artillery is fired!" As if sensing Hong Jian's displeasure, Camille smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

"It's ...... It's huge! After Xu Mo and Wood climbed onto the mast on the bow of the ship, Wood couldn't help but sigh.

Standing on the watchtower of the mast in front, Xu Mo saw the giant beast in the sea clearly by the white morning light on the horizon. Under the clear blue sea, a large squid with a shuttle-like tail and wing-like Mitsubishi fins at the tip is swimming rapidly towards the Vasa.

The king squid swims upside down, with its tail in front and its mouth behind. More than ten giant tentacles with a length of more than 30 meters, one by one, let this giant beast fly backwards like an arrow, and it seems to be a girl in a long skirt swimming back-swimming in the lake, elegant and elegant.