Chapter 278: Diverting the Tiger from the Mountain
"Thirty-five degrees to the left of the rudder! Speed, five knots!"
As the ship passed some way, the boy spoke again.
With a little skill, he has the confidence to be able to handle high speeds.
"Thirty-five degrees to the left of the rudder! Speed, five knots!"
"Thirty-five degrees to the left rudder! speed...... Uh, help me!"
At this time, the young man was staring at the whirlpool that was getting closer and closer in front of the bow of the ship, and before he could turn back, he immediately shouted loudly: "Stop the ship!"
The ship began to slow down, and it was estimated that Kankan would be able to stop in front of the whirlpool, and only then did the boy have the time to look back at the deck behind him.
On the side of the ship, a group of crew members gathered around early, holding knives and forks, not knowing what they were poking and chopping, only to hear them shouting "Come and help", "Break it", "Cut can't move", "Hold him quickly", "This guy has too much strength", "I can't hold on" and so on.
The crowd was too crowded to see what was going on, and the boy stood in the distance, and all he could see was a long tongue extending from the crowd to a vaguely outlined human figure hidden in the shadows of the bottom of the ship.
With a cold snort, the young man immediately made a decision, pulled out his broadsword, infused the power of the knight and threw it with all his strength.
Only a whoosh was heard, followed by another pop, and after cutting off the long tongue without hindrance, the broadsword that had just been taken off was nailed to the hull of the ship in the next second.
"Wow!"
A scream like a frog's cry sounded, and at the same time, the figure suddenly retracted its long tongue, dragged out a stream of dark green blood, and in an instant fled to the boy's feet, threw itself into the whirlpool, and then disappeared.
The boy squinted as he watched the whirlpool of blood and liquor sucking frantically, and immediately turned back to the deck, put down the barrel in his hand, and walked towards the crowd.
When the crew saw the young man coming, they consciously moved out of the way, which made him see the scene inside.
It was a crew member who was leaning against the fence on the side of the ship, gasping for breath in shock. On this man's chest, there was still a huge lump of tongue on it, and the mucus on the tip of the tongue splashed all over him, so that now he was like he was in a cocoon, unable to move. In this severed tongue and his body, countless knives and forks were glued, and no matter how hard the people around him tried, they couldn't pull them off.
The boy frowned and reached out to the crew to the side.
"Fetch my sword. ”
The crew hurriedly responded, and together with several people, tied ropes to themselves and hoisted them to the side of the hull, and with great strength, they pulled out the broadsword that was deep in it, and before they could catch their breath, they just hoisted it back to the deck, and trotted to send the sword over.
The process was not unpleasant, not much slower than the boy expected to go down to get the sword himself, but when the crew returned with the sword, the young man was already gloomy.
Without him, just a few seconds after the crew tied themselves to the rope, the person bound by the slime had been crushed into a blur of flesh by the sudden contraction of the slime, and he didn't even have time to scream.
This mucus, after a period of separation, will quickly collapse into a piece like a spring that has expanded to the extreme, and the strength is so great that even these restrained knives and forks are strangled and deformed.
The changes were so rapid that the boy who originally planned to use the broadsword to borrow the power of the knight to see if he could pick up the slime changed his mind and poured the knight's power into these knives and forks, but it was too late.
The young man's heart was alarmed for a while.
"Return!
He shouted, and everyone around him was splashed with blood, and everyone who was stunned suddenly came back to their senses and hurriedly rushed back to their respective posts.
"Left full rudder! speed, one section!"
The boy drank as he picked up a barrel again and returned to the front of the plank, this time with the barrel in one hand and a sword in the other, and was engrossed in the direction of the ship's travel.
I was really right before, but the creature was even more cunning than I thought, and it was clear that it was almost hanging in the air, and it seemed that it was the best target to attack, but it avoided it.
So in order to avoid a frontal confrontation and take a more secure flank attack, I would rather abandon the bow of the ship, which is the easiest target to attack.
Thinking of this, the young man shouted again.
"Be vigilant!
The best outcome is to scare it away, however, fear is only fear, this creature is more than one, fear is only fear, and it is only a temptation.
A young man with profound combat experience has a very keen premonition in this regard, and at this moment, he only hopes that he is thinking too much this time.
"Right full rudder! Speed, one section! After aligning the direction of the beacon, the rudder position is corrected! Speed, change to five sections!"
Maritime terms, a few days ago, the boy only watched and learned a general one, and the instructions issued at this moment were not very professional, but fortunately, they were concise and understandable. At such a juncture, the crew had no objections, so the hull of the ship turned steadily, and accelerated towards the bright colors that loomed in the distance, symbolizing hope.
After a section of waterway and a few more whirlpools, the beacon barrel was already in sight, not far away.
The sound of the wind and waves over there also reached the ears of everyone.
The crew was so excited that it was hard to control themselves, and they couldn't help but paddle harder.
Amidst the roar of the paddles, the young man's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
Waving, he called the first mate to the bow of the ship.
"How fast is it?"
"Returning to my lordship, it is still maintained at the fifth section. ”
"Five knots, according to the speed at which the wooden oars are shaking, shouldn't it be seven knots, or even eight knots? Besides, I've already lost a lot of weight along the way, why am I still so slow?"
As soon as the boy reminded him, the first mate woke up suddenly, and then realized the strangeness of the current situation.
"So what to do?"
The first mate was always guarding the edge of the plank, or rather, the young man who was so afraid that he couldn't leave the young man, heard the words anxiously, and listened to the conversation between the two, and he also reacted.
The boy looked back at the left and right sides of the ship, and there was nothing but the hole carved out by the broadsword earlier.
"So, the bottom of the boat?"
As soon as he thought about this, a loud bang accompanied by a violent tremor came from the bottom of the ship, and the hull of the ship tilted.
Everyone staggered under their feet, their faces changed drastically, and even the young man was extremely ugly at the moment.
"Stop the boat!"
At the sound of the order, he threw away the barrel in his hand, turned back to the deck, stepped up the stairs downward, and walked to the bottom of the ship, the young man following closely behind.
The first mate on the side hesitated again and again, and finally chose to stay on the deck.
Just as he saw the two of them disappear from his field of vision, a scream came from his ears.
The first mate was startled and looked around, but saw one long tongue after another leaping from the bottom of the ship onto the side of the ship, absorbing the sailors who were guarding the side of the ship around him. These sailors had no power to resist in the face of the sudden long tongue, and under the drag of the huge force, even if they desperately poked their tongues and clung to the fence, they did not hold out for a few more seconds.
Between breaths, all those who were absorbed by the long tongue and struggled in vain, without exception, threw themselves into the water one after another, and there was no sound again. There were very few people left on deck.
"Quick! Hide in the cabin!"
The first mate raised his arms and shouted, and at this time, the people who reacted quickly had already begun to run from the stairs on the deck to the hull.
However, as soon as the first mate finished speaking, the screams of the men at the bottom of the boat and the screams of the women in the cabin rang out one after another. The terrible sound did not stop, and the screams of the forerunners followed closely from inside the hull.
The first mate's eyes widened.
Attacking up and down, there is no way out.
Realizing this, he couldn't help laughing miserably, and the next second, he let a long tongue pull him to the bottom of the boat.
At the same time, the young man who heard the screams from all around, his face turned pale, and he stepped up to follow the young man's pace.
"Hit the mark...... Is it cunning enough to turn the tiger away from the mountain!" said the young man, like picking up a little chicken, and without saying a word, he dragged the young man up, and then his pace quickened, and at a speed far beyond the running speed of ordinary people, he walked between the passages of the hull, "This ship, this fleet, is finished. We don't need to go to the bottom of the boat, let's go on a different route and find an escape boat!"
"Hmm. ”
The young man, who was almost breathless by his collar, answered with difficulty.
After a while, a young man who walked around the corner suddenly stopped.
He let go of his hand and let go of the young man, whose face was already flushed.
The young man, who had already begun to roll his eyes, had a chance to catch his breath and knelt on the ground while rubbing his neck while coughing in pain.
"Mr. Dickens, it's good that you loosened your hand early, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten to the escape boat ......"
The young man choked in his throat as soon as he said something, and when he raised his head, he looked at the scene in front of him, his mouth opened and closed, and he couldn't make a sound.
"Help, save me......"
It was a large, slimy hand with purple skin and webbed between the toes, coming out of the door of the cabin on the side of the passage, holding a woman's head.
The woman, just like the young man just now, was caught up in the air, and when she saw the young man, she was so frightened that she was so frightened that she couldn't help but show a pleading look.
The young woman knew, he subconsciously stretched out his hand, but before he could make a sound, suddenly, the giant hand pinched, and the woman's head instantly burst and scattered like a watermelon on the ground, and red and white things splashed all over the wall. The mangled body fell to the ground, and there was nothing but a large pool of blood left in the giant hand.
The young man's hand froze in mid-air.
"From now on, don't leave me for a moment!"
The boy raised his broadsword and struck a knightly move.
On the other side, with a rattling sound, the owner of the giant hand broke through the door, this is a humanoid creature several times larger than the figure the boy had seen before, like a wall blocking the direction of the boy's progress.
"Wow!"
The humanoid creature squealed lazily, leisurely stretched out its tongue to moisten its eyes, and by the way, when it withdrew its tongue, it licked the red and white things on the wall, and showed a look of enjoyment under the careful taste.
The young man's expression was grim.
"Did you hear that?!"
The young man threw a cold war.
"Listen, I hear!"