145 A lonely boat that drifts with the tide
Above the boundless ocean, dark clouds, lightning and thunder, the birds in the sky have long taken refuge in their nests and shivering, and in the depths of the sea, countless fish tremble and hide in the relatively calm inky blue seabed, for fear of being affected by this storm.
The wind howls and blows monstrous waves on the sea, and the Salvation is drifting on the sea surface with the undulating seawater, like a leaf on the water, alone, can only drift on the sea surface with the current, sometimes falling into the valley, sometimes climbing the highest wave, as if it will turn into the boundless deep sea at any time.
This leaf is not the size of a maple leaf, but only the size of a leaf that has just grown from a wicker bud.
The Salvation, on the other hand, can only be like a lamb to the slaughter, unable to do anything but keep scooping out the sea water in the cabin for a moment, and can only go with the flow and go with the flow.
But it's not like he can't do anything, at least one last thing to do, which is to cut off all the masts.
Orner could only sigh that this voyage was really unlucky, first strayed into a sea covered by thick fog, then encountered the mythical creature depicted in the mermaid, and finally, the mermaid was pushed alive from the edge of the land into a super storm.
This storm is really big, Orner estimates, countless navigators on the sea may not be able to encounter such a powerful storm in their lifetime, from the highest wave and the lowest sea level difference can be proved, only by the naked eye to observe the height of the waves, it is difficult to get accurate data, Orner probably estimates, this drop has been hundreds of meters high.
Every time the Salvation climbed at an angle of more than 30 degrees and glided towards the top of the waves, Orner's heart was pinched tightly, and finally when he gently slid down the water slope, his heart, like the Salvation on the water, was high and low, and the huge centrifugal force made him uncomfortable.
In order to avoid the pursuit of mermaids, I had to sail through the storm hard, but now in retrospect, I am afraid that in such waves, sailing forward is equivalent to asking for a dead end, so long time has passed, the mast has not been broken by the wind, or the ship has not been overturned by the waves, it is already a miracle.
But he didn't dare to continue to gamble, since the threat of the mermaid has been lifted for the time being, then quickly put away the sails, this truth is like playing an umbrella in a storm on land, a small rain umbrella can hide from the rain, a rainstorm umbrella, the umbrella will be destroyed by a strong wind at any time, even if it is not destroyed by a strong wind, if it is not fixed by a strong force, it will be blown away by a strong wind at any time.
But now it seems that the intensity of this storm has reached unimaginable proportions, and even sailing with the tide does not seem to be the best option.
The wind is getting stronger and stronger, the waves are becoming more and more violent, accompanied by the churning sea, the Salvation keeps showing a difficult action on the sea, and even once, the whole hull with the waves, in mid-air came a tilt of nearly 90 degrees, if it was not for the time when it fell back to the water, the hull miraculously turned around, I am afraid that the Salvation had already sunk into the deep sea at this moment.
Cutting the mast is generally a last resort, after all, a rectangular empty box hull is easier to balance in the waves than a sailboat with a few masts on its head, but even if the mast is cut off, it only adds a slight possibility of the ship to lingering, and the ship is usually not far from sinking when the mast is cut.
Besides, even if it can survive this storm, how will a ship without a mast return in the future?
Now the Salvation is helpless, and there is no land nearby, the previous dense fog sea area has a very narrow land, but after drifting on the sea surface for so long, I don't know where it has drifted to, and it is impossible to return the same way, in order to survive, cutting the mast is the last and only option.
I don't know how much time has passed, but Orna only knows that it was already dark, the sky was as black as ink, and the deck was also dark. After all, in the midst of such a storm, there is simply no time and no point to light the lighting tools.
Since the hull of the ship had just been hit by the mermaids not long ago, not to mention the stern, even the sides of the ship had been caught by the mermaids at the moment, and countless holes introduced the sea water into the cabin, and in the storm, such a change was the most desperate.
However, the sailors still did not give up hope of life, and still desperately scooped the water, and even Orna and the magicians joined in scooping the water. Magicians are powerful, but in the face of such a powerful storm, they can only be helpless, at this time, these usually high-ranking magicians are even inferior to these poor sailors.
It's just that, in the process of scooping the water, Orna always felt that in the distant waves, something seemed to have been drilled just now.
He stopped scooping up the water and looked in the direction something had come out.
The sea is so vast that on weekdays, a fish may occasionally jump out of the sea, but in such a powerful storm, it is impossible for any animal in the sea to be willing to stay on the surface.
Orner swore that he must have been right just now, that something must have come out of the huge waves in the distance.
In the darkness of the night, Orner also very much hoped that he had seen it wrong, but it was precisely because of the darkness that he clearly saw that in the depths of the huge waves in the distance, a clear light came into his eyes.
What is that? Could it be a lighthouse? A lighthouse means that there is land, but there can't be land near such a huge wave, right?
Probably a delusion, Orna shook his head as he thought back to the light he had just seen, and continued to look down and scoop up the water up to his ankles.
Soon, however, a sailor shouted at his side: "That'...... There's something over there!
Orna heard the sailor's cry, raised his head, and looked forward along the hole in the gun door, and sure enough, just now, I was not mistaken, in the direction of the front, there was a clear light, yellow and clear, the distance was very far, estimated to be hundreds of meters, this light, he always felt, seemed to be like an eye. What kind of animal has eyes that big? And it glows?
At this moment, a bolt of lightning pierced the sky, and the dazzling light illuminated the entire heaven and earth in an instant, and Orna looked forward fixedly, and the next moment, his pupils suddenly constricted.
Ahead, is a tall figure like a mountain, through the lighting of thunder, you can clearly see the outline of the figure, it is a huge whale, there are countless barbs on the body, its mouth is closed one by one, the sea water is like a surge, pouring in from its mouth, gushing out, with its mouth opening and closing, you can vaguely see, a burst of red fire from the corner of its mouth, illuminating the nearby sea area clearly.
For everyone on the Salvation, in this storm, the constantly tumbling sea, a random wave can overturn the ship and fall into a situation of no return, but this sea with great ups and downs is like a small wave for this whale, which is inconspicuous at all.
When the others saw the whale, they didn't think of anything else for a while, but they were just impressing at its huge body, but Orna recognized it almost at first sight, because this image was so familiar to him, and his father's room was full of portraits.
"It's ...... Leviathan!"