Chapter 293 [Underwater Beast] (II)
Hai Mingzhu commanded his men to start filling the artillery with shells, although they had just witnessed the destruction of the three gunboats by the monsters in an instant, but they had to fight to the death even if they were not firepowered.
There was a low thunder in the air, winter thunder is never a good sign, Luo Hunt's eyes temporarily detached from the monster that followed them, and looked towards the bow of the ship, but saw the wind and clouds surging ahead, and a huge whirlpool was forming between the sea and the sky, and the whirlpool continued to spread downward from above the clouds.
This is a waterspout, also commonly known as a dragon sucking water, which is often only found at sea, and is actually a tornado at sea.
A wry smile appeared on the corner of Luo Lie's lips, it has always been a disaster, he now finally understands why the monster is chasing them and the speed begins to slow down, each creature has its own special spirituality, that is, the perception that is often called, this underwater giant beast must have sensed the waterspout in advance, it should be hesitating.
Although the monster was large, it might not be able to compete with the waterspout, which was constantly drawing seawater from the gray and silver waterspout, and its size was rapidly increasing as it moved. Luo Lie had seen the power of nature more than once, and when he saw the waterspout in front of him, he couldn't help but think of the scene when he and Lan Ximei flew the plane through the saloon roll array.
Although there was only one waterspout in front of it, its scale was unprecedented.
Zhongwang asked, "Are we going left or right?" He thought that he had to avoid this waterspout, otherwise they would have to die.
Luo Lie said without hesitation: "Speed up towards the waterspout." ”
Zhongwang was stunned and said, "What? What did you say?" In fact, he heard it clearly, Luo Lie's order was tantamount to letting them commit suicide.
Luo Lie's original intention was never to let everyone commit suicide, the lesser of two evils, the question in front of them was actually to choose to face the monster or the waterspout, the precedent of the three Japanese gunboats showed that if they chose the monster, they would all be spared.
Waterspouts are a natural phenomenon, because monsters are afraid of waterspouts, so they can only avoid the monsters' attacks by rushing towards waterspouts, although they also have the possibility of waterspouts being lifted into the air, but in comparison, the possibility of survival is greater.
Luo Lie didn't take much time to explain, because everyone quickly realized this truth.
Since ancient Huashan, they can only move forward, and there is no way to retreat.
Instead of slowing down, the Waterspout Pearl began to speed up, and Luo Lie asked everyone to throw all the easily moving heavy objects on the ship into the sea, so as to avoid everything from flying up after entering the waterspout, so as to prevent them from being injured by the heavy objects.
Zhongwang could no longer control the rudder, the Pearl began to lose control, the hull of the ship first rotated, and then the stern slowly lifted up from the water, the whole ship was erected, and everyone exclaimed, they had already fixed themselves firmly on the ship before entering the range of the waterspout, but they immediately realized that everything they had done before was in vain.
The monster stopped chasing, its gray-white eyes staring at the Pearl, which was completely out of control, and in contrast to the huge waterspout, the poor Pearl looked like a helpless leaf.
The Pearl was trembling, gravity was still trying to pull the Pearl back to the surface, but it was still defeated in the local competition with the waterspout, the Pearl was completely out of the sea, was sucked into a huge whirlpool, and the rapid rotation made the Pearl begin to split and disintegrate, as if a pair of invisible hands were dismantling this sturdy pirate ship, and easily dismantling and crushing it.
The masts were broken one by one, the decks cracked, and the fear of death gripped everyone's heart.
If Luo Lie was given another chance to choose, he would still make the same choice, not only because of the weighing of the benefits and disadvantages, but also because he had an unknown reason, that is, the guidance of his inner feelings, he had a hunch that only by moving forward could he have vitality.
Luo Lie and Ye Qinghong hugged each other tightly, before the Pearl entered the waterspout, Luo Lie took the initiative to hug Ye Qinghong, he knew that he should do this, whether it was love or responsibility. If Luo Lie hadn't been by his side, Ye Qinghong would have collapsed under such pressure. She closed her eyes tightly and buried her pretty face in Luo Lie's arms, although she couldn't see anything, but she could also feel that the Pearl had disintegrated, people were like ants, unable to control their own destiny, fortunately Luo Lie was with her.
Luo Lie closed his eyes, and imagined their current situation in his mind, the disintegrated Pearl, all the people on the Pearl were rotating retrograde with the waterspout, and the waterspout was still increasing in size while moving, in addition to them, there were also fish, shrimp, turtles and crabs that were inhaled, and a dark and bizarre rotating world was formed within this huge waterspout.
Zhang Longbow saw a two-meter-long shark on top of his head, the shark opened its mouth wide, but it didn't want to attack, this fierce undersea overlord also spun around because of the extreme rotation, how could it rise up the idea of attacking and hunting when it couldn't do it for self-preservation.
Zhang Longbow realized that he could still keep a clear head in the sharp rotation, and he saw the blind man not far away, the blind man's small eyes were dripping and rolling, and his mouth was wide open, and he was clearly screaming hoarsely, but unfortunately his screams could not even be heard by himself.
It didn't take long for the momentum of the waterspout to wane, and the people inside the waterspout began to centrifuge away, some were thrown into the sea, some were thrown onto the beach, and some were thrown directly on the reef.
Luo Lie and Ye Qinghong were never separated, they fell down together like a parabola, Luo Lie saw the sea below, and chose to separate from Ye Qinghong, so as to avoid their bodies hitting each other when they fell into the water, and threw themselves into the water with the least damage, it should be thirty meters high, Luo Lie roughly estimated that he and Ye Qinghong fell into the icy sea water almost at the same time.
Luo Lie waited until the downward momentum stopped and tried to control his body, and then looked for Ye Qinghong's figure in the seawater, fortunately Ye Qinghong was nearby, she fainted because of the strong impact when she fell into the water, Luo Lie quickly swam towards her, hugged Ye Qinghong from behind and took her to float up.
Zhang Longbow was not as lucky as Luo Lie, he saw the island below, waved his limbs and fell to the island, below was a hard rock, he was at least thirty meters from the ground, Zhang Longbow realized that he was finished, this time he would inevitably fall to pieces, he was a little unwilling, in this way he died on an unknown island, but no matter how unwilling he was, he couldn't compete with fate.
Zhang Longbow's body fell heavily on the rock, he heard the sound of his bones shattering, and he could even feel the sharp pain of his internal organs cracking, but he was not dead, and after a brief pain, he felt that his wound was healing at an alarming rate.
Zhang Longbow's intact right arm touched the broken left arm, and he butted the broken bones together, and he could even hear the sound of the bones healing and growing. Zhang Longbow gave himself a mouth with his backhand, convinced that he was not dreaming, and he did so, reluctantly butting the broken legs together.
In less than a minute, he was able to stand up again, Zhang Changgong moved the joints of his limbs, and he couldn't feel any pain, he knew that it must be the chemical hormone that Luo Hunt injected into him had played a role.
Without thinking too much, Zhang Longbow raised his head to find his companion, he saw the waterspout still in front of him, although the waterspout began to weaken, but it did not disappear completely, because of the weakening of the centripetal force, so the people who were sucked into the upper layer of the waterspout were thrown out first, Zhang Longbow saw that people kept flying out of the waterspout.
He hurriedly ran forward, trying his best to catch the people who fell, those people did not have such a strong self-healing ability as himself, if he fell on the rock, he would definitely not be able to live, although Zhang Longbow tried his best, but his strength was limited after all, and people continued to fall on the rock and die.
The blind man was rushing headfirst to a hard reef, he was so frightened that even his grandmother screamed out, and he was about to hit the reef, but someone kicked him in the ass, and this kick kicked the blind man sideways, and the blind man fell on the beach with a standard dog shit, and the inertia made him slide forward for more than ten meters.
The blind man with a yellow face raised his head and sneezed twice, still not believing that he had crawled back from the ghost gate, pinching his thigh to make sure that he was still alive and not injured, he sat up in shock, checked his surroundings, and then remembered to find who had saved him just now, but he looked around but could not see a single figure.
Luo Lie carried Ye Qinghong to the shore, there were already more than ten corpses on the beach, Zhang Changgong successfully rescued Lu Weilin, and was looking for several other companions. Luo Lie put Ye Qinghong down and did cardiopulmonary resuscitation for her, Ye Qinghong coughed a few times and woke up.
The blind man covered in yellow sand walked over in despair, and when he saw Zhang Longbow, he was so excited that he almost didn't cry, and opened his arms and said, "Old Zhang ......"
Zhang Changgong didn't respond to his hug, just patted his arm and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, have you seen Hai Mingzhu?"
The blind man's face was aggrieved, when did Lao Zhang become a heavy color and light friend, in fact, it is not to blame Zhang Changgong for being heavy and light on friends, after seeing the blind man, Zhang Changgong has been able to determine that several old friends are fine, and now only Hai Mingzhu is missing among the people he cares about.
After Luo Lie and the others recovered a little, they began to help, Ye Qinghong and the blind man helped take care of the injured, and Luo Lie and Lu Weilin began to look for survivors.