Chapter 67: Counterattacking (Medium) Galaxy
"Can we be heard by the whole ship?" Xinghe asked, the ship was so large that the Moro people must have left a device that could transmit sound to the whole ship during the design process, which was used to deal with some special situations.
The captain glanced at him, then shouted in one direction, "Hans, you take the helm!", and a demon crew member sitting in the corner of the cockpit copied data on a piece of gauge trotted over and took the rudder from the captain, leaving the captain with a "Follow me." He was the first to step out of the cockpit.
The three of them followed him closely, the giant beast was gone, and the sea looked calm, but the captain only glanced at the sea and asserted, "It's playing with its prey, and this evil taste is the same as it was back then." β
Xinghe couldn't help but look at him twice, the captain knew more about the giant beast than Xinghe expected, but the expression on his face made Xinghe give up asking him for details.
The captain took the key out of his pocket and opened a secret box on the outer wall of the cockpit, and took out an obsidian with intricate patterns carved into it, which Xinghe recognized as a magical artifact known as the Sound Transmission Stone, which he had seen outside the window of a magical goods store in the capital, but the lines on it were obviously much more complicated.
"Whatever you have to say, it's better to hurry, I don't guarantee that the rest of the stone is still working. The captain threw the stone at the galaxy and returned to the cockpit without looking back.
A cold touch came from the surface of the stone, and the fist-sized stone weighed more than Xinghe expected, Xinghe put it in his hand, and then stuffed the stone into Rong Ruo's hand.
"Shall I tell me?" asked Rong Ruo, holding the stone in one hand and pointing to her nose with the other.
Xinghe nodded, "These words are most appropriate for your identity, please." β
Rong Ruo had a reluctant expression, but she still clenched the stone helplessly, and muttered at the same time, "I'm going to write a review again..."
She raised the stone to her mouth, cleared her throat, and the same voice came from the brass horn placed around the boat, Rong Ruo glared at Xinghe, and then said to the sound transmission stone: " All those who hear the voice, please note, I am Valhalla junior agent Hegu Rongruo, I am standing on the deck outside the cockpit to speak, as you can see, our ship is being attacked by a giant beast of unknown origin, the rescue team of the capital and the Elven River will arrive soon, please do not panic, but before that we intend to launch a counterattack against the giant beast to buy more time for the arrival of rescue, for this I appeal to all the capable spellcasters on this ship, I need your help, we will wait outside the cockpitγ β
"That's fine. "After Rong Ruo finished speaking, threw the stone back to Xinghe.
"Xinghe, will anyone come?" asked Anton.
"There should be, there are a lot of demons on this ship, and no matter what, you can get a little bit together. Xinghe said with some uncertainty, in fact, he was not very sure, but when Rong Ruo spoke just now, some of the passengers on the deck did look at this side a few times.
Although there are crew members maintaining order, but the deck still looks chaotic, Xinghe saw that no one came in the direction of the cockpit for a while, so he went back to the cockpit with Anton and Rongruo first, Hans was still at the helm in the cabin, and the captain was lying on the chart to write and draw, when Xinghe came in, he raised his head and glanced at the three of them, his face was gloomy.
He looked angry, Xinghe decided not to touch his brow, and he didn't have time to keep an eye on Xinghe, a Moro crew member jumped down from the small platform he had prepared for him, ran to the captain's side, and said to him, "Captain, the speed of drainage cannot keep up with the speed of flooding, and the order must be given to abandon ship!"
The captain pushed the Moro man away, walked over to the meter himself, and when he saw the data on it, he angrily blew it down, shattering the surface of the glass, and almost popping out of his teeth with these words, "Abandon ship!"
"Abandon ship!" After receiving the captain's order, the words were quickly spread, and the captain walked to the rudder, patted Hans on the shoulder, and said to him: "Hans, you go out and direct the evacuation, leave it to me here." β
Hans still looked a little young, only twenty or thirty years old, and after hearing the captain's words, he was obviously hesitant, "But the captain ......"
"It's an order!" said the captain, who stared at him for a moment, then raised his hand to salute the captain, and trotted out of the cockpit, and after he left, the captain put his hand on the rudder, as if he were caressing his fallen lover.
"Let's go, everybody!" he looked straight ahead, his tone still unmistakable, and the crew in the cockpit glanced at each other a few times, and walked out one by one, until in the end, only the three of Xinghe and the first mate of Moro remained in the cockpit.
The three of Xinghe didn't leave because Xinghe felt that there was no hope of abandoning the ship like this, the giant beast was still swimming at the bottom of the sea, even if he took a life raft, there was no hope of leaving alive, and he was still thinking about attacking the giant beast.
The captain glanced at them and said in a cold tone, "Go too, no one will come." β
"How do you know?" Xinghe asked rhetorically.
"If I could survive, I would not be willing to give my life for the untouchables. The captain said flatly.
Xinghe finally thought of this place that he had overlooked, there might be spellcasters on this ship, but they were all demon spirits, if they had the ability to inflict damage on the giant beasts, then they would naturally be more certain to escape from this disaster, in this case, how could they be expected to give their lives for the other races of passengers on the ship?
Xinghe, who figured this out, felt very frustrated, and he said weakly, "Let's go." β
"But......" Rong Ruo didn't seem to accept this answer.
He's right. Xinghe shrugged, "No one will come to help, it's that I'm thinking too much." β
He walked out of the cockpit in a dejected manner, and behind him, the captain took out a pipe from his pocket, and the first mate silently lit the fire for him, and the captain took a puff of his cigarette and said, "Zach, you can go too." β
"No, sir, I want to stay. A thick voice came out of Zack's throat.
The captain took another drag on his cigarette, "Let's go, take care of Hans for me, and besides, help Miss Hecob and her friend arrange a few seats in the lifeboat, if you can." β
Zach was silent for a moment, doing the same thing as Hans, saluting the captain and leaving the cockpit with the three men.
"Please come here, Miss Hegu. Zach used his sturdy body to open a way between the crowd on the deck, the order to abandon the ship made the passengers even more panicked, the deck was a mess, especially the boarding place, it was completely crowded, everyone was desperately squeezing into the small lifeboat, a three-meter-long lifeboat was stuffed like a sardine can, often the lifeboat was not in place, someone climbed on it, in the face of dozens of times the number of passengers themselves, the role of the crew to maintain order was too meager.
Although the crew in charge of boarding the boat shouted for the women and children to go first, the effect was really limited, and everyone discovered the cruel reality that the number of lifeboats was far less than the number of passengers, because there were many people who did not have the life jackets alone.
Zach led them to a boarding gate, and it was Hans who was in charge of it, "Hans, do you have any seats here?" β
Hans glanced at the three Xinghe who were following Zack, then at the local lifeboat that was already stuffed to the brim, and pointed to the other boarding port and said, "You go and see Shreip's side, he might still be able to stuff it." β
But Galaxy didn't have the energy to continue listening to what they were arranged, because he saw the giant beast emerge from the sea again.