43 CHAPTER XLIII
The raft was in a diamond-shaped formation in the water, Mephistopheles was lying on top of the first one, Moller was on the right side of the middle, Rex was fastened to his chest, Vina was on the left, and Chris was held in the middle by a few loops of rope, and the group entered the roaring river. Moller felt like a toy being tossed in the palm of a giant's hand, one moment it flew into the air, the next it fell heavily, and the splashing water hit his body as if he had been smashed by a handful of small stones, and it was already late autumn at this time, and the water temperature was very cold, if it was not for the protection of magic power, I was afraid that it would not be long before the soaked person would freeze.
Fortunately, the string of rafts made by Mephistopheles is indeed effective, and the ropes used to connect each raft are not long or short, so that they will not get entangled with each other when churning in the river, and ensure a certain degree of flexibility, even if they hit the reef in the river, they have a cushioning effect, so that the people above will not be affected too much.
After three hours of drifting in the rushing waters, he finally reached a gentle section of the river, where Moller was paralyzed motionless, feeling that his hand holding the rope had grown with the rope, and his whole body seemed to be falling apart, and his internal organs were burning in protest.
Rex was like a little monkey in the water, pitifully curled up in a ball, Chris was so pale that he had vomited twice just by seeing Moeller, and Vina was completely powerless, half of her body was drenched in water, and if it weren't for the rope wrapped around her wrist, she would have been washed away.
Mephistopheles was the only one in the best condition, though she was also a wolf, but she still had the strength to drag Vina out of the water, and to shorten the ropes that connected the rafts, so that all the rafts were tightly held together and joined together in an iron plate—and at this time the gentle part of the river turned into a great river, but the rafts that were joined together were more stable.
Moller gasped for breath and cast the drying spell he had learned from Chris, saving the chicken-like crowd from their trembling situation. In order to prevent getting sick, each person was filled with a bottle of intermediate restorative medicine.
After adjusting the state, everyone had a feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe, but the atmosphere between them was much closer, and I think it was the experience of living and dying together in the water that played a role.
The water surface of the gentle area of the river is more than 300 meters wide, although there is no suffering from bumps, but the speed of progress is also much slower, Mephistopheles then discussed with Moeller to use the means of the alchemy school to make a magic turbine, there are many ships on the Visby Big 6 have such a device, the basic structure is not complicated, but it is just a shaft connected to four propeller blades, and the axis depicts a magic array that drives the rotation, and it is good to use the magic stone as the energy source. The only thing that was more difficult was that the shaft had to be fixed in a strong place, and the raft they were now riding on was not suitable.
Just as they were considering whether to go to the shore to look for a boat, a small one-sail boat, twelve meters long, suddenly turned out from the inlet ahead, and several people on board were armed with blades, with fierce faces, and red turbans wrapped around their heads.
Mephistopheles' eyes lit up when she saw it, and she said happily, "The person who sent the ship is here!"
Moeller wondered how Mephistopheles was going to grab the boat, but the little sailboat came first, and several people on board shouted, "Who are you?
Mephistopheles replied that he had met the fleeing bandits, and the men laughed and invited them to the ship, saying that it was safe.
More of a deadlift than an invitation, Mephistopheles motioned for everyone not to resist, and everyone boarded the sailboat.
After getting on the boat, the men suddenly turned their faces, two of them tried to smash Rex and Moller's backs with the hilt of their knives from behind, and there was also someone on Vina's side who pulled and pulled and tried to slap her. But Rex and Chris, the two children, were not greeted.
The result was a few screams, Mephistopheles knocked down the weapons of the two men nearby, and knocked them to the ground with a few punches, Moller's magic bullet hit the man behind him in the stomach, causing him to kneel on the ground and unable to speak, and Vina hit the jaw of the man pulling her with her elbow, so hard that Moller felt his teeth ache when he looked at them.
At the end of the sailboat, there was a short middle-aged man with a black beard, and when he saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately knocked the board with the spear gun in his hand, knocking three times, and then heard a sound of water, a huge crocodile came out of the water, two stubby front paws grabbed the side of the ship, and the head of the car ** stared at Moeller and others viciously.
"Haha! stop it all, or let you feed my crocodile!" the stout middle-aged man ordered them with a cruel smile.
A moment later, several men wrapped in red turbans, with blue noses and swollen faces and dejected faces, squatted on the raft on which Moeller had ridden earlier, watching Mephistopheles and the others drive away their sailboat, the short, middle-aged man who had domesticated a demon crocodile was more depressed than the others, as a low-level beast master, he was detained on the ship, chained to the bow of the boat, and commanded his demon crocodile to work as a coolie.
The crocodile, which was originally very vicious, was now battered with a bloody head, its mouth tied with ropes, and its tail tied to the bow of the boat, and it was rowing hard to pull the boat - the freshwater demon crocodile was only a third-order magic beast, and if it hid in the water, it would be a threat, but if it got on the boat, how could it be the opponent of a high-level demon warrior? It happened to be beaten by Mephistopheles, and then decided to let Moeller pull the boat forward before it made a magic turbine.
These people were all water thieves, and their leader controlled the nearby waters, and the ships had to pay a certain amount of worship to get through the guò safely, and this schooner was used to patrol the river to collect offerings. When they were thrown off the ship by Mephistopheles, they shouted that their boss Wells would come to take revenge, and no one dared to anger Wells's majesty in this water, but Mephistopheles turned a deaf ear, and just beat a few people harder and screamed, not daring to be arrogant anymore.
When he arrived at the ship, Moller opened the sealing box and released Patana, although the space of the single sailboat was not large, but it could still accommodate a demon wolf the size of a horse.
He then opened the blank scroll and began to draw the temporary magic array, the zuò magic turbine. Drawing a magic circle on a rocking ship is a test of the painter's skills, but fortunately, Moller has more than ten years of experience in depicting magic circles in a very rudimentary environment, so although the speed is slow, it is still successfully completed.
After an alchemy magic array was activated, a fist-sized incandescent light appeared, and Moller put the sword weapons confiscated from the red turban water thieves into the alchemy magic array, and under the control of spiritual power, the incandescent light was divided into several small clusters, covering these blades, as if coating the metal with a shining film.
The metal covered by this membrane is easily deformed and fused by magic, and as long as the mental power is properly controlled, it can be molded into any desired shape.
Moller wanted a turbine. The part of the spiral blades, the blades of which are slightly twisted and deformed, can be used to do the job, and the axles can be used as the hilt of the sword fused together. After the axle, a Z-shaped shank was attached.
Shaping is the easiest, and carving the magic array is the most important. First of all, there must be a rotating magic array on the wheel shaft, which can drive the blades of the turbine to rotate at high speed, and the Z-shaped long handle must be engraved with a magic array that supplies energy, and the two magic arrays communicate with each other so that the magic turbine can operate normally.
After consulting with Chris and absorbing his opinions, Moller used the "grout method" - that is, using shaping techniques to build a vacuum structure of the magic circle inside the object, and then pouring dissolved metal magic powder into it through several small holes, so as to complete the entire magic circle. This method is a test of one's familiarity with the magic array and the subtle control of mental power, which happens to be Moller's strengths.
After an hour or so, a magic turbine was freshly baked, and Moeller carefully placed an intermediate magic storage stone in the card slot of the long handle, and controlled the secret key to activate the formation, and the turbine suddenly spun rapidly.
The Z-shaped shank was molded by Moller to fit the stern of the sailboat and was easily secured, and Mephistopheles climbed the mast and retracted the sails—the sails that had been powered by the magic turbines had to be removed as an obstacle to increasing drag.
The useless freshwater crocodile and the stout middle-aged man were then let go, and after the turbine started, the whole sailboat suddenly sailed faster than three times the original speed, and a white spray behind the hull of the ship stirred up, leaving two long water marks on the water.
Just as Moeller and his party were happily riding the wind and waves, suddenly a row of spear-like bone spurs suddenly appeared on the river in front of them, and a huge black body rose from the water, higher than the side of a sailing ship, and it looked like a behemoth.
Seeing that it was about to collide, Moeller hurriedly controlled the long handle to turn the direction of the magic turbine, and the hull of the ship drew an arc, which was able to avoid the huge body, but the speed of the whole ship also slowed down, and then hundreds of freshwater demon crocodiles appeared one after another on the river, eyeing the boat and forcing the ship to stop completely.
"Robbed my patrol boat and wanted to run, who gave you such a big guts!" A black-eyed young man wearing only black leather shorts in a red jacket came out of the water behind the freshwater demon crocodiles, standing on the water and yelling at Moeller and the others.
"Wells!" Mephistopheles shouted.
The young man looked at it for a while, laughed and said, "Sure enough, it's you! If I hadn't received the news in advance, I would have let the bite the ship directly!"
With the young man's words, the behemoth that had stopped Moeller's sailboat before looked up from the water, and it turned out to be a large catfish more than twenty meters long, which shook its head at the young man and burrowed into the water.