Volume II, Chapter 19: Abruptness
Under Liu Xiao's guidance, the Jun Jue approached its destination.
It looks close, but it doesn't feel like the boat is getting close at all.
Soon, Linge issued a warning, and the waves returned behind him.
Liu Xiao turned around in time and saw that the sea water began to rise, like a hill, higher and higher, closer and closer.
In the end, the Jun Jue was once again lifted by the waves, and fell down again.
Bang!
The Jun Jue smashed on the sea, splashing everywhere.
This time, Liu Xiao was on guard, squatted down, and stabilized her body without falling.
And the thyme on the side stepped on her shadow with one foot backwards, and she didn't move, as if she was connected with Jun Jue.
Liu Xiao stood up and heard her reminder: "There may be follow-ups, but it won't be so strong." ”
Nodding to indicate that she understood, Liu Xiao looked back into the mist.
"Can you see the impact caused by anything?"
"It's too far away to see."
"Far?"
Thyme frowned.
After another few moments, the island in the fog finally grew a little bigger.
The next moment, the island appeared close, and then the Jun Jue directly crashed into it.
With a bang, the Jun Jue rushed into the reef, and there was a squeak of breakage.
It didn't take Liu Xiao to speak, Thyme noticed the abnormality, how could an island that was not visible a moment ago suddenly appear close?
"Yu Xiaolou!" Thyme shouted.
Yu Xiaolou had already reacted the moment the Jun Jue hit the rock, and came to a deep place somewhere in the cabin and opened the floor, revealing a fast passage.
He jumped down with thyme's voice.
With a thud, it fell directly to the bottom, where a large amount of sea water had entered, and there were two human-thick water columns gushing in front of it.
He waded through the water and struggled to get closer, and when he got closer, he took a deep breath and plunged into the water.
Underwater, he grabbed the boat and crawled to the broken place, but the current was too strong, and he had nowhere to be under the water, and as soon as he approached, he was swept away by the turbulent water.
The water level continued to rise, and soon it was waist-high.
Yu Xiaolou stood up and took a breath, turned over and felt for a long-handled iron hook, and poked it towards the damage from a distance.
After hooking, he pulled hard, and when he was sure that it was firm, he tightened his hands and slowly pulled himself over, and then took another deep breath and dived into the water.
The water was so strong that he couldn't open his eyes, so he ran his hand along the iron hook.
The swift sea washed over his fingers, preventing him from getting closer, but he still touched the end of the hook, and next to it was broken.
The sharp notch turned inward, and the iron hook hooked into a gap.
Now, the power is activated!
Repair!
The warped edge trembled and slowly fell, and even the tremendous pressure of the sea could not stop it.
The torn gap began to heal, and Yu Xiaolou pushed the iron hook at the last moment and took it out.
The gap heals completely, and the water column disappears.
The water has slowed down, but it is now at the throat.
Once again, he changed his breath and dived into the water, swimming towards the last broken point.
On the deck, Thyme waited for Linge's report, but in the end, Linge failed to give a useful result.
The island appeared so suddenly that all the instruments on board did not react, and the sonar did not give any warning until it hit the island.
"Has Yu Xiaolou been repaired?"
"The water is still rising, but it's slowing down, and it should be fast."
Thyme climbed up the fence and looked twice at the foggy island, before deciding not to leave the ship and retreat to the cabin.
She ordered Linge to turn off all the ship's electrical systems and remain silent, while everyone else went to the wheelhouse.
It's best to stay together in this situation, and it's easier to see around.
"Noon, you go to the bottom to help."
Noon ran out in response, the cabin echoing with his unique loud footsteps.
Thyme gave the order quickly, and everything was going in order.
Liu Xiao followed Thyme to the cab for the first time, and Hua Wuchou also came here with Jiang Zhuzhi.
He didn't know what so many switches do, but he was amazed that three people could drive a ship that big.
Linge turned off all lights and most of the systems, leaving only the propulsion system and a pointer that shook and slowly ascended.
Suddenly, the pointer is fixed in a certain position and does not move.
"It's fixed, the water level is no longer rising."
"Power off." Thyme's voice came.
Linge turned off the power of the entire ship, the propulsion system lost power and stopped turning, and the surroundings fell silent.
After a while, Yu Xiaolou and Wu Qing, who were soaked all over, also walked in.
Thyme didn't look back, stood on the stool and stared out through the window in front of her, and said, "Dry and change your clothes." He Chu, you come. ”
Liu Xiao once again opened her divine vision, looked at the island up close, and described the scene one by one.
After saying a few words, he suddenly reacted and asked for paper, and started to draw.
The divine vision can only see outlines, so he only draws outlines.
From the location of the Junjue, it is a group of reefs, less than 100 meters away to the island.
The island is rocky and overgrown with lush vegetation, and behind the vegetation is a dense forest.
Through the indiscernible and complex outlines, Liu Xiao spent some effort to draw a tree in the dense forest.
The distance was too far, and it was all distraction, so he wasn't sure if he was drawing correctly.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Lin Ge took a look, he said: "The shuttle forest is a kind of cold-tolerant and drought-tolerant tree, which often appears in patches, and should not appear on a humid island. ”
"Are you sure?" Thyme asked.
"Sure." Lin Ge pointed to the trunk of the tree, "This pattern is too unique, and it is rare for cold-tolerant and drought-tolerant plants to grow so big, and they appear in groups, it is completely certain." ”
Thyme stretched and sat down directly on the stool at her feet: "It seems that someone is targeting us." ”
Liu Xiao said: "It may be for everyone. ”
This place is already close to the destination, and Thyme has said that she is late, plus the Royal Navy of the God Kingdom has had an accident a long time ago, which means that someone has already arrived here.
Then it is normal for them to ambush here and solve the opponent in advance.
The only doubt is how the island came to be, and why he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.
Liu Xiao looked puzzled.
As long as there are traces of divinity, you should be able to find out that you have been staring at the sea just now, but you have ignored the traces in the near distance?
Or maybe the other party also has a doctor, and there is a way to erase the traces?
He thought about it and felt that he didn't have enough experience, so he shared his thoughts and communicated with everyone.
In the end, it is possible that the use of divinity will leave a footprint, and as it really is, it can be erased.
But only those who specialize in this profession can do it perfectly.
However, there are so many possibilities in the otherworldly world that no one can say for sure what the reason is until the evidence is confirmed.
At this time, the best way for Liu Xiao is actually to follow the command of thyme.
All the crew members on the Junjue, regardless of their actual age or experience, are older than themselves and more than themselves, and it is the best choice to listen to their opinions before there is a good way.
The surroundings gradually quieted down, except for thyme dangling her feet and her fingers lightly tapping.
A slight clatter was heard.
Liu Xiao was still staring at the outside world, and now that the fog had not cleared, only he had the ability to see the distance clearly and detect the danger in advance.
After a long time, Thyme suddenly stopped moving her fingers and asked, "Hua Wuchou, what do you think?" ”
Hua Wuchou, as the deputy captain, can completely take the captain's place if necessary, and it is normal for Thyme to ask his opinion at this time.
Hua Wuchou pushed his glasses and said, "Wait." ”
Thyme said: "I'm asking what you think, not asking you to say what I think." ”
Hua Wuchou said: "Send someone out to have a look, it's not a way to wait." ”
"Who to send?" Thyme asked again.
The two sang and harmonized, and they didn't know what to do.
However, Hua Wuchou hadn't answered at this moment, and Wu Qing interrupted the conversation between the two: "I'll go." ”
"You're aiming too big." Thyme didn't think about it, so she rejected him.
Liu Xiao stared at the island, listening to their conversation in her ears, and felt that something was wrong, could she want Jiang Zhuzhi to go out?
Thyme's voice continued: "Originally, any of us could go, there was no difference, but now there is one person here who is more suitable, more suitable than everyone else." ”
After that, he turned his head to look at Jiang Zhuzhi: "She is not tall, she is still an ordinary person, I think she will surprise the other party." ”
"Nope." Liu Xiao vetoed Thyme's idea, "She is an ordinary person and has no ability to protect herself." ”
Thyme spread out her small hand: "What are you afraid of, her sweetheart will protect her." ”
Liu Xiao retracted his gaze and looked over, he didn't close the doctor's field of vision, just looked over directly.
His pure golden swirling pupils slowly rotated, giving him a trace of weird temperament, as if he could see through people at a glance.
He saw the divinity in thyme, and he also saw the strange state of divinity.
Her divinity seems to be divided into many parts, unable to blend with each other, colliding with each other, and contradicting each other.
At the same time, in the dim shadow behind her, there was a person hidden.
Xiao Guo'er, the little fruit who can't see her figure at any time.
"What is the basis of Captain Baili's idea, to be sure that her sweetheart is here, or simply to send her to death?"
Thyme stared, and the corners of her eyes caught people's hearts, with a little sense of bewitchment.
"Do you think I'm a small-bellied person, and I'm going to take revenge on her at this time?"
"Isn't it, otherwise why would an ordinary person be asked to investigate unknown dangers?"
Liu Xiao narrowed her eyes and said lightly.
Unexpectedly, this was exchanged for a sneer from Thyme, and she turned around and stood up on the stool again, making herself a cut taller than Liu Xiao.
She pointed at Liu Xiao and said angrily: "He Chu, I'm very angry now, you'd better take back your words." ”
Liu Xiao shook her head: "I'm sorry, Captain Baili, all my words have been carefully thought out and will never be taken back." ”
Baili Xiang gritted his teeth, chopped his feet and said, "If I want to kill her, can she live until now?" We don't know where the enemy is, we don't know what the enemy is capable of, and we have to go out and act as bait.
"In this case, I want to ensure that we are the strongest in combat, there can be no discount, she is the best choice."
Liu Xiao shook her head: "No, she's not, she's just a choice you won't take to heart, and you won't be able to bear it if it's someone else." ”
Thyme closed her mouth tightly and didn't squeak, as if she acquiesced, but she clenched her hands into fists and stared at Liu Xiao.