It was a gigantic skeleton.

It was much taller than a whale, and when it stood up, the clouds were just below its waist. Summer Night didn't know how it was suspended in mid-air, but compared to the "Bone King" itself, this question didn't matter at all.

Originally, skeletons weren't very scary, but once zoomed in to this extent, they were daunting enough.

Maybe it's a phobia of giants, right?

The whale also chirped in horror, its kindred was the overlord of the Aether Sea, it had never seen a creature bigger than itself, but now such an enemy suddenly appeared before its eyes, grabbing its bony wings like a bird.

Looking at the struggling whale, the "Bone King" opened its jawbone, it seemed to laugh, but no sound came out, and Summer Night even wondered if it could really make a sound with only bones.

While "laughing" at the whale, it stretched out its other hand and grabbed the whale's other bony wing.

But at this moment, an incandescent flash suddenly lit up on the whale's back.

In the next second, thousands of beams of light shot out from its back at the same time—it was the beluga whale's breath, denser and brighter than that of a juvenile whale, and its color turned pure white like its body.

Due to the close distance, the whale breath hit the "Bone King" in the ascending stage, and the dense beam of light was like a downpour, washing the giant skeleton that was caught off guard, and the power was huge in the beam blooming one after another on the white skeleton. After the whale's breath, small fragments of white bones fell from the huge skeleton like snowflakes.

The skull's mouth grew larger, the blood-colored flames in its eye sockets suddenly became fiery, its "mockery" turned into a "roar" (though it was silent), and its free left hand no longer tried to grasp the whale's wings, but clenched into a fist and hammered down heavily on the whale's head.

Boom ——!!!

There was a loud bang like a thunderclap.

The shockwave exploded around the whale's head, sweeping the surrounding sea of clouds into a circular hollow. The beluga whale's head hung down unnaturally, and its body stopped swinging, and just when Summer Night thought it had been knocked unconscious by a punch, an extremely thick pillar of light suddenly appeared from the whale's head!

"Woo——————"

Accompanied by a high-pitched whale call, the beluga whale raised its head. The pillar of light gushing out from the head was like a sharp sword, slashing through the body of the "Bone King" from the bottom to the top, and at the same time slashed through the sea of clouds behind it, a wide crack stretched straight into the distance, and the boundless clouds were cut in half like a piece of cloth.

Immediately afterward, the right hand of the "Bone King" slipped off its body, and the wings of the beluga whale were freed from its restraints. But this time the whale didn't try to run away again, and it spun its massive body, ready to turn its head at the trailing Moby Dick.

Jahab immediately understood what it was going to do.

"Haven't the thrusters been restarted yet?!" She yelled.

As soon as the words fell, there was a roar from the stern. Then, the voice of the chief engineer also came from the microphone:

"Alright."

"Main gun, masking shell fire!" Jahab then gave the order.

The chamber had already been loaded with masking shells in advance, and the gunners who received the order immediately opened fire, and with a cannon sound, the white projectiles flew along the high-throw trajectory to about a kilometer in front of the whaling ship and exploded in mid-air with a "bang".

A thick white smoke curtain poured down like a curtain, obscuring the view between the beluga whale and the whaling ship. Yaha followed and shouted, "Go forward four, right full rudder!" Horizontal rudder angle minus -15! ”

The Moby Dick began to steer slowly, the ground thrusters that had just been restarted could not enter ramjet propulsion mode even with maximum power, and the turbofan driven by whale oil rotated at full speed, propelling the heavy hull slowly towards the lower right.

Just a few seconds later, a blade-like pillar of light sliced through the white smoke screen. From the wheelhouse, it looked like it was about to hit the bridge head-on, but in the end it only swept past the middle and rear of the whaling ship.

The "hiss" of the metal being burned and melted from behind the hull lasted for a while. As soon as the pillar of light went out, Yaha yelled at the microphone:

"Report casualties and hull damage!"

More than ten seconds later, the reply came: "No fatalities." The aft deck was broken, and half of the secondary gun shield was melted down! But it should not affect firing. ”

"How's the chief engineer doing?" Yaha asked again.

After another ten or so seconds, the voice of the chief engineer came: "Minor injury." ”

In the aft engine room, the chief engineer who was in a state of "synchronous strengthening" was half-kneeling on the ground, his expression as calm as ever. A huge wound had been torn open from her shoulder to her back, and the blood was pouring down, and although the crew pressed the hemostatic cotton firmly against her wound, it did not do much.

"The chief engineer's injury should not be light." Yaha muttered to herself, but she couldn't care so much about the crisis.

"Left full rudder! Back to the hull! The main cannon is reloaded with another masking projectile and fired at my command! ”

On a quiet summer night, he turned to the cat on his shoulder and said, "Go see the chief engineer, and if you can cure her, treat her." ”

Xiu meowed, turned into a black shadow, and ran out of the cab quickly.

"What was that attack just now? How often? Taking advantage of the fact that Yaha had no orders to give for the time being, Summer Night hurriedly asked her.

"It came from the head of the beluga whale, it was supposed to be a deflagrating aether stream, I called it the 'aether torrent', and it could be launched in less than half a minute." Yaha quickly explained.

After a pause, she added, "My last ship was destroyed by the Aether Torrent. ”

Summer Night nodded silently.

At this moment, the roar at the stern suddenly became high-pitched, and the thruster finally entered ram mode. The Moby Dick's speed increased sharply, and soon broke through the smoke screen, and the beluga whale and the "bone king" appeared in front of them again.

The two sides are at a stalemate.

The "Bone King" bites his severed arm into his mouth, while his other hand is clutching the whale's tail so that it cannot turn around or escape. Unable to break free, the beluga whale could only shoot out round after round of whale breath in anger, and the white bone fragments kept falling, but the skeleton was so big that those tiny beams of light could not inflict fatal damage on it.

"Full speed ahead for that whale! We have to get close to it as soon as possible. ”

As soon as Yaha's words fell, another round of whale breath erupted, but this time the target was not the "Bone King", but the Moby Dick!

Thousands of beams of light rose into the sky and fell towards the whaling ship in a dense manner, Yaha did not give the order to evade, in order to shorten the distance with the white whale as soon as possible, the Moby Dick rushed straight forward like an angry beast, facing the blazing beams.

Whale breath hit the deck, on the gun shield, on the bridge like a high explosive, and the whale breath of the adult whale was much more powerful than the juvenile whale, and each hit left an extra pit in the hull.

Suddenly, the translucent "magnetic field lines" that the summer night found over the entire hull of the ship disappeared.

Then she saw another new whale breath hit the starboard side, this time a blazing beam of light easily pierced the deck, and a dull explosion came from the bottom of the cabin.

A report came from the microphone: "Chief engineer seriously injured!" 'Sync Enhancement' can no longer be maintained! ”

Yaha clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and gave the order: "Let Structural Engineers 1 and 2 enter the 'Synchronous Enhancement' state!" The main gun, fire the masking shell! Helmsman, left full rudder evasion! ”

But as soon as the order was issued, Xia Ye saw that on the head of the whaling ship, a huge cavity suddenly opened, and in the depths of the cavity, the incandescent light that was so bright that it was impossible to look directly was rapidly condensing.

(End of chapter)