After listening to the words of the summer night, Yaha fell silent.

She looked at the beluga whale in the distance with a complicated expression, she knew that Summer Night's conjecture was probably correct, but it was always a little difficult to accept psychologically.

She thought that beluga whale meant the pinnacle or end of her life, but she didn't expect that it only represented the beginning of a truth.

After a long while, Yaha finally spoke: "If we can bring this message to Debussota, we will indeed become heroes to all whalers...... But only if we can go back alive and hunt this beluga whale. Otherwise, we're just dead people, or crazy people talking nonsense. ”

"So, Captain Yaha......" asked Summer Night, "what is your decision?" ”

"Keep hunting. The whale is about 100 nautical miles away from us, which means we have about 30 minutes, and if it goes well, we can kill it before the pod arrives. ”

After Yaha finished speaking, he immediately issued an order to the gunner: "Gunner, I allow you to open your own fire at the right time." ”

"Roger!"

The Moby Dick was less than 5 nautical miles away from the beluga whale, and Yaha had temporarily suspended the order to fire its own guns because Xia Ye and Tang Li went to confirm the situation of the whale group. Now, the hunt has finally begun.

A few seconds later, the main cannon roared, and the folding harpoon quickly unfolded after firing the barrel, turning into a terrifying weapon nearly 10 meters long, and on its tail, a dark blue line was attached, and the harpoon crossed a slightly curved trajectory with the tail line, extending the beluga whale in front of it. Eventually, it hit the back next to the bony wing junction, and with a crunch of bells, the harpoon was bounced into the air and fell into a sea of clouds on the side.

Bounced.

The gunner immediately disconnected the whaling cannon from the harpoon's magical power, and the glowing blue line vanished; The loader shoved a new harpoon into the chamber, and about 10 seconds later, the whaling gun opened fire again.

This time it hit, the harpoon pierced through the seam between the two bony wings and pierced into the body of the beluga whale, golden blood flowed down the roots of the wings, and the whale roared, and its huge body swung violently, trying to shake off the harpoon.

But before that, the towing shuttle at the tail of the harpoon had already been activated, and it had a tail line condensed by magic power, which spun rapidly around the pillar-like spar, and in the blink of an eye, the tail line was wound around the root of the spar dozens of times.

"Hit the target!" The gunner shouted.

"Good. Helmsman, start thrust reverser! Chief Engineer, go to 'Synchronous Strengthening', and be optimistic about the state of the thrusters, so that they can be turned off as late as possible! ”

"Yes!"

"Okay."

The helmsman releases the safety and pulls down the lever, which represents thrust reversing. At the end of the cylindrical thruster, the thrust reverser plate slowly opens, directing the blast gas flow that originally erupted to the rear diagonally forward.

The Moby Dick began to slow down rapidly, and with a violent shudder of the ship's hull, the tail line connecting the beluga whale and the whaling ship stretched into a straight line.

Today, the beluga whale is towing the whaling ship forward.

The magical tail line formed by the "Nexus of Kaliya" contract has an unbelievable strength, and although it is only the thickness of a finger, it can withstand thousands of tons of power. The whaling ship began a tug-of-war with the whales, and despite the "simultaneous reinforcement", the sturdy hull still "creaked" non-stop.

The whale's speed also slowed down, and although it was desperately paddling its eight bony wings, on the other side, the two thrusters with thrust reversers also continued to roar, exerting the exact opposite force of the whale.

"Report target speed, second mate."

"160 knots."

"One more harpoon, gunner. I'm afraid a tail line can't pull this whale. ”

"Yes."

Soon, another blue cable of light flew towards the target and hit accurately, and now the Moby Dick was like a carriage, dragged forward by a crazy horse through two reins.

"The speed of the ship has dropped to 140 knots, and we are losing altitude!" The helmsman reported.

"It's okay, the whales will pull us." Yaha stared at the huge whale that was swinging from side to side in front of him, and shouted, "First mate, can we start the ceremony?" ”

"It's still too fast for me to catch it." The first mate replied through a microphone.

"Chief Engineer, how long will the thrusters last?"

"How long will the thrusters last?"

"One, a small meeting."

"Then we'll wait a little longer."

As the speed decreased, the height of the Moby Dick began to decrease, and now the whale had to contend not only with thrusters with thrust reversers, but also against the weight of the whaling ship itself. Its tail was dragged down, but its head was held high, like a slender man in pain.

It never fired whale breath because it needed it to be facing the whaling ship head-on, which meant a later reunion with the whales.

There was a sudden, rhythmic vibration at the stern of the ship, which Yaha knew was a precursor to the impending shutdown of the thrusters.

"Report our speed, helmsman." She said.

"120 knots."

"How long will the thrusters last, Chief Engineer?"

"Ten." The other party replied.

After a second, Xiu's voice came again: "Nine." ”

"Eight ......"

"Okay, I got it."

Yaha ended the call with the chief engineer and shouted to the first mate, "First mate, you must begin the ceremony!" ”

"Okay."

"Also, get the crew ready to prop up the airbags, and we'll be going out soon."

"Understood."

The first mate, carrying a saw knife in her hand, finally made her way to the foredeck, standing in the center of the circle, surrounded by white wing bones, and the girl took off her round-rimmed glasses and threw them to a crew member next to her.

"Keep it for me." She said, and then recited the witch's text:

“C-n-f-s-n”

Because of the resonance of the circle, her chanting could be heard even in the cab. Summer Night knew what it meant to be "confused", but she didn't understand why the first mate was using the "confusion" contract at this time.

But she soon understood—

After turning on "Confusion", the first mate began a new recitation, this time also in the witch script, but the content was no longer the name of a contract.

"W-k-n-n, W-k-n-n......" (Wake up, wake up...... ）

"S-p-l-R-ss-P-l-ch-r-X......" (The Buried King of Bones...... ）

The first mate's voice was small at first, but became more and more high-pitched as it was chanted.

"I am in the name of the 'Bone King' and the deed......"

"I sacrifice my cup, my bones, and my flesh and blood......"

On the white wing bones in the circle, a trace of blood-red light began to flow.

"I command you to wake up and become my ...... body"

"For My Name Is ......"

"Nexis—"

While uttering the last syllable, the first mate raised the knife in his hand, aimed the blade at his chest, and—

Inserted mercilessly!

Blood.

Bright red blood gushed out, instantly staining the white sailor's suit red.

A large amount of blood flowed down the girl's body and flowed into the magic circle under her feet, as if oil had been poured into the fire, and the red light in the magic circle suddenly turned blazing.

The maiden named "Nexis" did not feel pain, because she had confused "pain" and "pleasure" with each other, and she smiled as she twisted the blade of the knife so that more and more blood gushed out of her body.

The red light on the circle became more and more intense, and in the blink of an eye, it had become as thick as blood. The blood light gradually submerged the girl's figure, and a crazy and cold aura spread across the deck.

When the summer night made it completely impossible to see the first mate, the light suddenly disappeared. At the same time, there were also the maidens in the circle, and what remained on the foredeck was only a pile of ashes that had turned into gray-white powder.

Summer Night suddenly remembered one thing before going to sea-

At that time, she, Yaha, and Chrissy were visiting the Möby Dick in renovation.

There, she saw the massive bony arms that the witches had used as a crane.

She asked Ahab what the contract was, and Jaha replied that it was the "arm of the servant of the Bone King."

At that time, she was thinking, since there is an "Arm of the Servant of the Bone King", is there a "Servant of the Bone King"? Further, will there still be a "bone king"?

Now, she finally knows that her guess was correct-

There is indeed a "bone king".

She's seen it.

The beluga whale in front of him suddenly stopped swimming.

Because, an incomparably huge white bone arm suddenly stretched out from the sea of clouds and pinched one of its wings.

Immediately after, a skull with blood-colored flames burning in its eye sockets slowly lifted up in front of the whale.

(End of chapter)