Chapter 2: The Smoke of Death on the Sea
Three shrill whistles sounded in succession, and several flags were quickly sounded for the lead warship.
Under the supervision of the colonels of the troop carriers, the sailors on the troop carriers cooperated with each other to pick up buckets of sand, while others took a bucket of water and mixed it on the deck in a certain proportion.
Somewhat enlightened.
"The sand should be mixed with water to prevent blood from wetting the deck and causing falls and slips. ”
"As expected, a fierce battle is about to break out. ”
This was evidenced by the assembly of sailors from various gun emplacements, and the strange atmosphere caused panic and riots among the army landlubbers.
After all, the troop carriers were full of dense army troops, and the casualties of being hit would definitely be very large, and the army would not be able to swim when they fell off the boat, and the corpses would be cold and ...... when they came up after the battle.
The Shire on the lookout did not see any sign of the enemy ship, but did know that someone or something had detected the approach of the enemy ship by unknown means.
Thinking of that eerie incense, which is not accessible to ordinary people, the ship should be like that by what to discover the enemy and inform to prepare for battle.
Thankfully, I climbed the lookout .......
Sure enough, after the fleet sailed for half an hour, several black smoke rose from the northwest, and Charlen froze.
"The ship appeared as a whole instead of the mast first, but the eye could not see it, this world should be a planetary body dozens of times larger than the earth. ”
This took a toll on Charles's cognition, and his hands turned pale.
After an hour of tension, the two sides were only a nautical mile away, and the composition of the rebel fleet in the North McCann colony was almost discernible.
Four ironwood mixed warships and five ironwood warships converted from pirate or armed merchant ships, as well as countless ocean-going assault boats.
He couldn't see the faces of the people on the ocean assault boats, but Charles could imagine the eyes of the invaders and oppressors with hatred.
Against the backdrop of the weather in the Sea of Death, the huge army was pushed like a black tide, and a tsunami-like momentum swept up...... It is hard to imagine how the colonial army could have such perseverance to assemble a huge navy.
After a silent wait, the orders of the generals of both sides were issued almost simultaneously, the flags were waved, the bullet positions were adjusted, and countless shells bombarded the opposing fleet with the latest breech guns of 230mm caliber, and the deafening roar of the long line of military fleet columns rang out.
Orange flames erupted from the muzzle of the gun, and with a majestic trembling grate, a salvo after volley was launched.
The second salvo of the North McCann fleet formed a straddle fire, hitting a troop carrier near the Shire's location, and the explosion of the shells detonated the battleship's arsenal and blew up the warship.
Orange flames reflected the twisted blackened steel plates.
Flesh and blood are so fragile in the face of steel! In the endless barrage of steel, scorching warheads smashed densely into the warship array, scraping round after round of minced flesh!
The wreckage of broken iron planks and shells flew everywhere, stirring up a mist of blood and severed limbs, and the flesh and blood exploded.
A piece of broken iron from a cannonball directly lifted the skull of the lookout next to him, scraping him off the top of the mast!
Charles froze in place like thunder, a sense of collapse and cold sweat pouring down.
Just brushed shoulders with death!
The hit ships exploded like fireworks, turning large swathes of the sea into a sea of red flames, and the soldiers who were not strong could not help but vomit.
Waves of hot air lashed against his hair, and fire and smoke filled everywhere.
A shell directly scraped half of the mast! The mast was slightly tilted.
Fear and panic spread through the crowd, and countless landlubbers who fell into the water struggled to survive in the water.
The explosion of the ship caused the icy sea to surge, and the icy cold of the sea brought despair to the drowning people.
On the surface of the ship are charred and broken corpses, and soldiers with broken legs are wailing (there are severed limb shots in the Battle of Yeonpyeong Island and the Battle of Yamato in the films).
A drowning soldier is like a fallen leaf in a storm, unable to control his sinking fate.
The drowning man wavs his arms, floats and floats, and the end of his life is always terrifying.
Death is equally fair to anyone, whether a soldier or an officer.
A strange chant was heard, and a faint blue light whistled into the sky, and with a loud bang, the sky above Charles' fleet was swallowed up by darkness in an instant, and dense dark clouds covered the sky.
The blazing white lightning is dancing wildly and rushing straight down!
The raging winds, the raging waves, the bow of the ship rolled up and fell violently, and the keel made an overwhelming cracking sound.......
The flying shells scraped the mast again, the sawdust flew everywhere, and the violent explosion caused the mast to tilt at an accelerated rate!
Charles's face turned pale, and his body trembled as he clenched the armrest.
"Extraordinary!"
The boat is jolting violently!
The army followed the instructions of the manual and clung to the railing frantically, bustling.
The colonel instructed the crew to put away the top sails, stop the paddle wheel, and cursed the carelessness of the main navy and the magical strength of the opponent.
There was an officer who understood the matter and held the amulet around his neck, his frightened face with uncertain panic, and the boundless darkness devoured all life.
The rain is coming!
"Damn power!"
The sea breeze and torrential rain brought a drowning suffocating feeling, and his vision was blurred, and he reached out to wipe his blurred eyes.
The mast fell! Charles quickly grabbed the mast, and the raging waves scraped away the arm that held the mast in an instant.
Human beings are so powerless in the face of wind and waves!
Charles watched dimly as the Sea Raven was torn apart by the sea, its charred corpse, its cracked keels, and the black surging sea that its eyes could catch its last glimpse of.
The ocean swallows everything, the sharp pain of the sea squeezing the eardrums, the suffocating sensation of the sea gushing, the consciousness is intermittent, sinking, sinking again.
Maybe it's the endless road, or maybe it's the fate of the world.
A sneering face appeared, but no one could see him, and the black cone in his pocket touched the same source of power that rolled up in the undercurrent of the sea.
The strange patterns on the cone gradually lit up one after another, arranging the mysterious matrix runes, which were the order blocks, linking the roots.
A purple door suddenly appeared in the deep and dead sea, and the abruptly missing sea water stirred up a whirlpool of small sizes.
......
Flagship of the North McCann fleet.
A tide warlock looked through the soles of his feet into the depths of the sea.
"Someone opened the abyss, and I saw the door. ”
"I don't know if he passed by here unintentionally. ”
"We can't just retreat because we don't know how strong we are. ”
"So what do we do......?"
Several warlocks glanced at each other, "God descended", "That's it".
Heavy rain and lightning are still the theme of the sea.
......
Location: Underworld.
Time is disorderly.
The weather is timeless.
In the cold and dead silence of the dead world, the deep diver Tutuya was transported here...... , despair and depression bring endless madness, and the source of life of the professional level is bound and separated.
The strange medium distorts the spirit, suppresses the source, and the deep diver tries to mobilize the power of the deep sea to pry the surroundings, but it can bring him only despair.
The sense of stagnation gradually spread to Tutuya's mind and will, and strange forces were constantly withdrawing from its life.
Tutuya turned to black ash with resentment, leaving behind only a piece of blue and constantly dyed with purple-black crystals, silently recounting the feat of entering the underworld.
......
Charles slowly awoke, and there was only a deep dead silence and an eerie murmur.
"Where is this?"
"A chaotic and disorderly world. ”
There was only darkness here, and the strange medium forced him to merge with the eerie space of dead silence.
The dead darkness quickly swallowed up any visible light, and there was a howl in the distance, bringing the mind to madness and uncontrollability.
His body was being corrupted, his flesh was dying, his soul was crumbling.
"No, I can't die. ”
Grabbing the black vertebrae that was entrenched on his body, a desperate face was concave in the darkness, and an irresistible suction suddenly came, a needle-like stinging and burning sensation, which suddenly shattered the spirit.
Consciousness is swept into a purple-black cone and fused with its pattern, and the black cone melts at the forehead, turning into a black ring that disappears.
The sight began to clear, but his vision was still dark, and he was in control of his body again!
Staggering over to the ground, he staggered a few steps with only his skeleton left, catching a glimpse of the blue-black gem in the ashes, the only source of light in the darkness.
Curiously holding it in his hand, the blue-black gem surged like liquid, burrowed into the bone of the hand, quickly disappeared, and the skeleton climbed up with strange patterns.
......
The gem blended into the lines, making the body with only the skeleton gradually plump, the flesh and blood were strangely reorganized, and the purple-black light spots lit up.
In the darkness, the vision gradually cleared, and the reconstituted flesh was full of purple-black flesh buds.
......
The newly formed cold body no longer had a sense of conformity, as if throwing his soul into an unrelated body, a wave of obscurity and estrangement.
Charles had read the novel after all.
"Is estrangement the inability of the will to harness power?"
It felt good to be alive, but he didn't like it.
A sense of strength came to his body, and for the first time in his life, Charles felt empowered, and he slowly adapted to his body.
Pressing his fingers to his chest and drawing a circle, he made a gesture of praying to the stranger, and in the darkness, he closed his eyes, with joy and sorrow.
"I have an unknown power, but I am missing my body. ”