Chapter 631: Bets
"Here we go again!" In the control room, Leah exclaimed, "This big guy doesn't seem to be passing by, but coming at us." There will be a collision in 10 seconds!"
"Ora, evade it!" Zero said urgently: "Attention other personnel, the peripheral weapon platform is on standby, ready to attack!"
"Yes!"
The internal announcement of the Destiny immediately rang out: "Peripheral weapon platform on standby, please enter the relevant personnel to prepare for battle." The rest of the personnel remain in the cabin, please hold themselves in place, there will be a violent jolt to follow. Repeat"
When he heard this broadcast, Kaede was holding up the mutant shark, Haiwei next to him was smiling evilly, and Yeliu was staring at the ice sculpture with fierce eyes. After hearing the broadcast, they were a little surprised, and followed the fate in a hurry, even if the three of them were all skilled, they almost lost their balance for a while.
From above, I saw only the other side of the sea. There were rolling waves rushing in, and in the orbit of this torrent, the Destiny swung to the left at a breakneck speed. In the middle of nowhere, let the waves rush past the side of his left boat. The dark shadow under the sea became thicker and thicker, and Kaiton, who was on the side of the ship, saw a giant beast leaping out of the sea!
It looks like a giant lizard, but it's a little different from a real lizard. On the big head that looked like a lizard, there was a pair of strange huge pupils, the pupils were yellow, like one eyeball, but there were countless small pupils densely distributed inside, each pupil could look in a certain direction independently, Cayton on the deck of the ship couldn't help but feel a chill when he saw this unusual eyeball.
The large head is dark green skin, but the part that extends to the neck forms a prismatic crown of flesh. The two sides of the crown are forked, and a dense tuft of whiskers grows from behind the crown. The whiskers are short and thick, and from a distance they look like the buds of some kind of flower, covered with raised balls of flesh. From the root of the flesh, a blue energy glow continued to rise, and then dispersed into these meat balls, so that the meat balls lit up like light bulbs.
Next, there are a pair of forelimbs like shovels, short and thick, which should be the sharp weapon of the beast's attack. On its back, it has a shark-like dorsal fin, and the surface of the dorsal fin is distributed with a dense row of short yellow spines, and I don't know what it does. The hind limbs were a pair of frog feet, the soles of which were large and flattened, and the feet were three times as long as the forelimbs when they were extended!
Zuihou is an elongated tail that splits into three ends like a fork. As the lizard-like beast leaped out of the sea, its long tail swept in a graceful arc in midair. Then he flicked it, but it slapped on the sea near the Destiny, and directly slapped a huge wave, hitting the Destiny and floating out.
Cayton clung to the railing of the ship's side so that he would not be swept away by the waves. I saw that the sea water had receded, but there were more strange-looking deviant fish on the deck. At this moment, the sound of a hydraulic press was heard below the deck, and Cayton put his head out of the railing to see that the peripheral weapon platforms on both sides of the ship were open one by one. The ship's sideboards on either side of the Destiny serve as a buffer between the Destiny and the outside world, as well as storage compartments for peripheral weapons platforms. The weapon platform is independent of the Destiny's operating system, and has its own independent power system, with a row of rapid-fire heavy guns located below the ship's side on either side, each of which requires manual operation. Now heavy gunners, dressed in protective suits behind the battery, are ready to attack.
When the beast submerged again, they received an order from Leah on their communicator: "At 9 o'clock, 30 meters underwater, shoot!"
Leah is using her mind scans to capture the movements of the behemoth, she is like a living radar on the Destiny, and the activities of the behemoth in the sea cannot escape her monitoring. Under her instructions, all the heavy guns on the left side of the ship opened fire together, and in the roaring tongue of fire, one after another heavy artillery shells blasted into the water, and the strong impetus pulled out the water column in the water, shooting straight at the body of the giant beast in the sea.
The beast roared in the sea, and its body turned, its forelimbs pressed close to its sides, and its hind limbs kicked hard, and it immediately pierced the edge of the sea like a torpedo.
"In 3 seconds, the target is about to go to sea!"
"Anti-armor missile preparation!"
The missile launch compartments located in the left side of the ship were opened one by one, and the missiles were loaded. When a huge wave exploded in the air, the monitor lizard swooped out of the sea and flipped over the Destiny.
"Missile launch!"
Whoosh, a dozen or so anti-armor missiles dragged flames out of the magazine, pulled out an arc-shaped trail of smoke on the sea surface and soared into the sky, and then exploded orange fireballs on the back of the monitor lizard like a series of cannons! The flames and shock waves of the explosion swept in all directions above, blooming one after another rings of fire visible to the naked eye. The monitor lizard roared into the sea, and with a sweep of its long tail, another wave slammed into the starboard side of the Destiny. The Destiny was lifted by the towering waves and almost lost its balance. Fortunately, the waves pressed down to keep the Destiny from capsizing.
The waves were rolling, but the monitor lizard was gone. In the control room, Leah's face suddenly turned pale and said, "It's just below us, it's rising rapidly! There will be a collision in 3 seconds!"
Zero immediately grabbed Leah tightly, and at that moment, the Destiny trembled violently. The lights in the control room flickered and screamed. And all the operators have secured themselves to their seats with seat belts so that they are not thrown up by the force of the impact from below. However, looking down from the sky, the figure of a monitor lizard floated on the surface of the sea where the Destiny was located, and the big guy carried the Destiny on his back and rushed forward. The Destiny was immobile on its back, and the monitor lizard was so fast that it was like a giant torpedo breaking through the waves in the sea.
Just in front of the big monster, a lonely island appeared. If the monitor lizard doesn't change direction, it will crash into the island along with the Destiny. While everyone in the control room was helpless, the monitor lizard suddenly sank to the bottom of the sea, and the Destiny continued to swoop straight towards the island under the effect of inertia.
"Right full rudder!Prepare for side impact!"
"Buffer system activated!"
"Anti-collision system activated!"
In the control room, the operators nervously carried out a series of defensive measures. Under their control, the steel wings of the Destiny first spewed blue flames to the right, pushing the hull to turn straight into a rampage. Then a number of buffer parachutes popped out from under the left deck, expanding into the wind, holding the sea breeze to form a buffer, and with the four steel wings of the Destiny spraying blue flames in opposite directions, finally slowing down the speed of the ship.
At the same time, air cushions pop up under the hull on the right side. The air cushion instantly inflated, creating a buffer when Destiny hit the beach, greatly reducing the direct impact of Destiny and the ground. But even so, the Destiny plowed tens of meters on the beach, and finally the left side of the ship was raised high, and it was almost over the highest point before it fell with a bang.
The hull of the ship shook suddenly, but it finally stabilized, and the people on board breathed a sigh of relief. When Zero came to the side deck of the ship, he just saw the giant beast jumping up on the sea in the distance, and he couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. There was a shouting in the cabin, and Kaede ran out of the boat, followed by Haiwei with a wicked smile. She held the mutant shark in her hand, the ice cube in front of the shark's big head had fallen off, and the mutant shark opened its mouth wide, and was held in Haiwei's hand and chased after Kaede's ass and bit violently.
Kaede jumped onto the beach and yelled at Haiwei, "Dead girl, give me back the shark!"
Haiwei grimaced and shouted into the cabin, "Yeliu, let's roast it and eat it." ”
Yeru walked out, nodding her head expressionlessly. Feng roared: "You have a little common sense, okay, this thing is full of radiation, and you are not afraid of stomach pain if you eat it!"
"What's the matter, just take a sunbath. ”
"Are you an idiot?
When the two were arguing on the beach, people came out of the cabin one after another. Leah walked up to Zero, shook her head, and said, "These people are really energetic. ”
"They were like nothing when it was so bumpy just now, and I still remember that when I first went to sea, I would be dizzy every day. Zero smiled, looking at the Destiny stranded on the beach, he said, "Let's rest here today, I won't be able to leave for a while." ”
So the soldiers on the boat jumped on the beach, they divided into groups and began to work. Some are responsible for erecting marching tents, while others are conducting security checks on the surrounding area, but Gangdo is working with Billy to assess and repair the Destiny. Overall, the damage to the Destiny was not severe, except for a generator on the side of the ship, which was damaged by severe friction with the beach when it ran aground. As for the hull part, the friction surface is dented and damaged, but it can be relaunched into the sea with simple repairs.
According to Billy's estimates, it will be possible to set sail again tomorrow morning at the latest. It's just that the Destiny is now stranded, and on an isolated island with no lifting equipment, it is not an easy problem to get this big creature back into the sea again. To that end, Billy and the staff have begun to work on the program.
For these things, Zero and they are basically laymen, so they are also the most idle, so Zero called Kaede and Cayton to go around the island, wanting to hunt some prey and come back to improve their food like last time. But the island was not large, and there was no large game to eat on the island, but they found a lake of clean water, and there were fat freshwater fish swimming in the lake. In this way, hunting turned into fishing, and Kaede returned to the boat with his own extra-large fishing rod. In the evening, the three of them returned to the beach with several large fish.
Although these freshwater fish have also undergone local anomalies, they live in the freshwater lakes on the island, and they do not carry severe radiation like those in the sea. Kaede went to Billy to borrow a device to do a test, and found that the radiation levels on these fish were within a safe range, so they made a fire to grill the fish, which was the first seafood they had eaten since going out to sea.
Later, he found that there was not enough fish to eat, so he ran back to the lake in his own clothes, and one of them caught a lot of big fish, and Zuihou even got a piece of barbecue meat for each of the soldiers on the boat. In one night, at least a third of the fish in the lake were gone.
After eating and drinking, and having nothing to do, everyone went back to sleep in their tents. Sleeping on the beach and listening to the sound of the waves crashing on the shore, they soon fell asleep. Zero had fallen asleep with Leah in his arms, but suddenly, a very special feeling suddenly appeared in his heart. It's like seeing an old friend you've seen for many years, but where is the old friend on this island?
He gently emerged from his tent, the campfire on the beach long since extinguished, and only the glow of energy that flowed through the shell of the Destiny from time to time dotted the night. Although the light is dim, it is still difficult to zero. Zero's right eye had automatically switched to infrared vision, so he could clearly see a giant beast silently emerging from the distant seashore, climbing onto the beach and heading straight for the woods not far away. And the giant beast was the big guy who suddenly attacked Destiny during the day. On the crown of the monitor lizard's flesh, there stood a figure. That familiar feeling comes from this figure.
Zero thought about it, and left the beach silently like a ghost, and swept towards the forest where the beast had submerged.
At some point in the woods, there was a fire, and a tall figure was reflected on a raised boulder. But when Zero bypassed a cedar tree, he came to the lake where he fetched fish during the day. There was a fire burning on the edge of the lake, and the owner of the figure was preparing the fish to be roasted. The shadow reflected by the firelight was very tall and imposing, but in reality, the owner of this shadow was a short man who was less than one and a half meters.
But he is not a human, but a humanoid life. They have faces similar to those of human men, but behind their heads are fluttering whiskers, and each of these special "hairs" seems to be an independent individual, and none of their fluttering movements are repeated! The body is covered with fine purple scales, and there is a yellow crystal eye on the shoulder socket, chest, and knee part.
The dwarf was holding a trident with a large fish on it and roasting it on the fire. Behind him was the monitor lizard, and now the big creature was lying on the ground very meekly, and even Zero came. The monitor lizard only rolled up one eye to look at him, and then closed it again. Only occasionally the long fork-like tail would plunge into the lake, then roll up a fat fish and throw it into its mouth, and then eat it slowly.
Zero's gaze fell on the dwarf, who had apparently spotted Zero, but he was engrossed in staring at the grilled fish on the fire, and said, "These fish in the lake taste good, but I've genetically modified them several times to make their flesh elastic." Especially when it is cooked and eaten, it tastes better. If it weren't for the sake of Hamomis, I wouldn't have let you taste these delicacies. But I regret it now, you guys ate half of it at once, you must know that their breeding cycle is not short."
Broken thoughts, the dwarf lifted the golden roasted fish on the halberd and pointed at Zero and said, "More?"
"Thanks, I'm full. Zero patted his stomach and sat down by the fire, and said, "So, you asked the big guy behind you to invite us to the island?
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Zero would definitely not believe that the Lord of the North Seas, who was one of the Seven True Kings and was a 100% combat-oriented type, was actually a dwarf. However, in terms of the classification of the strength and weakness of creatures in the new era, body shape is not the focus, energy is the key to determining strength and weakness. If anyone looks down on Belafar, or despises him, because of his stature, then this person will definitely regret it very much.
"Ha, you said little green. Well, the way it invites is a bit rough, but you're not shooting it with a gun. If it weren't for my repeated insistence that you are guests, your strange boat would not be stranded on the beach now, but in Midori's belly. Belafar put the grilled fish to his nose and sniffed it, then threw it to the monitor lizard behind him, but he himself did not eat it.
Zero disagreed with what he had just said, and he said lightly, "That's not necessarily. ”
Belafar shook the trident with his hand, and a burst of blue light flowed on the surface of the halberd's body, and the grease and other materials on the halberd were immediately swept clean. He glanced at Zero and said nonchalantly: "I know that you are not simple, there are two ninth-order guys on that ship besides you, and there are several other seventh- and eighth-order guys." As for you, let Hammelis be willing to make a choice, and you will not be weak. But boy, this is the ocean, and you have to learn to be in awe. ”
"Okay, then I'll take it back. Zero changed his words and said, "Originally, I was still thinking about how to contact you when I arrived at the Abyss Gate. I didn't expect you"
"Deliver it yourself?" Belafar hugged his trident and said with a smile, "Come on, boy, if it were anyone else, I would have asked these lovely fellows to take you to the sea to visit." I came to meet you because of you. Tomorrow I'll ask Midori to put your boat back into the sea, and then I'll roll you back wherever you came from!"
Zero Yizheng said, "However, Hamelmis asked me to come to you. He said you"
"He's an old friend of me, yes. Belafar interrupted Zero: "Hamermis is indeed worthy of our respect, because he made his choice before us. But I don't realize it, I have to stand up and help you. Listen up, boy. You know I'm hiding in the Abyssal Gate, because the chaotic magnetic field there will disturb my mother's perception of me and keep the damn knight from me. ”
"Boy, if you had come a month earlier, maybe I'd have played with you. It's a pity you're late, and a lot has happened in this time!"
"What's the matter?" asked Zero.
Belafar's expression suddenly became very lonely: "In just this month, the aura of two true kings disappeared forever. The conquering king Siloas has been conquered by others, and the knights chosen by Prosius have come to the western continent. Now the only true kings left are me and the Black Plague Herbach, this is a war that must be lost, so why do you want me to put all your bets on you?"
"Just because you are the choice of Hamermis, the inheritor of the will of the planet?"