Armillary Boots @ Chapter 33 Struggling in distress

Author: polarisa

No matter how big the wind and waves are, there are times when the rain passes and the sky is fine.

The sky has not yet dawned, and the wind and waves have gradually subsided. The captain collapsed on the floor of the helm tower exhausted, and the two sailors, who did not know whether they were alive or dead, hung their heads on the ropes that bound them. Hua Lun, who also had a blue nose and swollen face, felt the world around him through the pattern on the roof of the cabin.

Perhaps this kind of thing is not a small experience, except for the people on the ship who fell all over the place, the Dashun did not suffer serious damage. People struggled to get out of the cabins, tidying up the messy galleys, cargo holds, and the captain's helm and deck. The captain was carried to a cot in the helm tower to rest, and the two sail-controlling sailors, who were only exhausted, were also carried to the cabin to rest.

Everything seems to be quiet again.

However, good fortune won't last long.

With a bang, the hull of the ship was suddenly slammed and shook violently from side to side. Warren was watching, not noticing a second boat on the surface, changing direction, going up and down, and finally finding that a black behemoth had just hit the hull on the left side.

This guy had just finished impacting, and he was quietly floating around and observing. After discovering that the ship shook violently, there was no movement, and it hit the hull again, and the hull shook violently again. The captain struggled to poke his head out, and then Moonlight finally discovered the truth, and shouted hoarsely: "Lord Fangwei, Lord Fangwei, it's a giant ballista, it's a giant ballista!"

The giant ballista, the smallest of which was the size of the Da Shun, was thirty meters long and four meters wide, with a sharp body and extremely fast speed, rushing over from a distance to attack its prey, like a huge flying crossbow shot out. The giant ballista whale is about 50 meters long and races large hunting vessels. Even if a large hunting ship encounters it, it is necessary to spread all its sails and flee quickly.

This ballista whale may have just been tormented by the waves and now needs to vent. In general, ballista whales rarely attack ships on their own initiative. The ballista's destructive power was far greater than the storm just now, and it was always attacking from the left, and if it was allowed to attack like this, it wouldn't be long before the Dashun was overturned or the ship's planks were broken.

Sun Jin had already gone up to the deck and noticed the huge ballista whale. But he was not a professional hunter after all, and he didn't know how to deal with it, so he grabbed the cable on the bollard on the deck and crouched there without saying a word. In fact, even when the hunter saw such a huge sea beast, he could only choose to flee, which made Sun Jin, who had just gone to sea a few times, deal with it. The captain probably thought of such an outcome, and hoarsely summoned the sailors to come out and control the sails and find a way to escape.

However, the ballista continued to pound the ship's plank tirelessly, not intending to give them time, and slowly and with difficulty climbed to the deck to think of a way to deal with it.

Warren knew he had to do something, but he didn't know if it would work. First, he used his divine sense to perceive the movement around the cabin, carefully came to the deck through the shadows, tightly grabbed the ship's cables, silently took out the alien soldiers from the bag, threw them into the shadows, quickly controlled them with his divine sense, and flew far away to the side of the giant crossbow whale's body, * longitudinally pierced from one side to the soft place on the outside of the whale's eye, and quickly flew up and down into the shadows to stand by.

Warren noticed that the moment the alien soldier hit the whale, a ship nail shone with a dark light, and it seemed that an arrow of light shot into its **. The ballista whale must have been suffering from severe pain, and it was already frantically uncontrollable, jumping up and down on the surface of the water and struggling, and the crests of the waves hit the hull again and again. The sailors had climbed to the deck, hoisted the sails once more, and slowly moved away from the ballista, though it was not known why it had stopped attacking.

Soon, the hull of the ship stopped moving again.

Sun Jin was originally desperately urging the captain on the side to quickly control the Dashun and leave this water. However, he quickly sensed from his divine sense that there were ubiquitous sea beasts roaming around the hull. Everything can only wait for dawn. Fortunately, except for the crazy ballista whale, no other sea beast was willing to take the initiative to attack the Dashun.

When the ballista stopped attacking, Warren carefully withdrew the alien soldier with the help of the shadows, and quietly returned to his cabin, and no one seemed to notice his every move. The guards mostly stood on the deck, occasionally releasing their divine senses to sense the movements of the surrounding sea beasts, so as to avoid being attacked again unconsciously.

The night of terror finally dissipated in the morning light.

Soon after the guards went up to deck, the captain arranged for the sailors to take turns to rest. At this moment, seeing that it was gradually dawning, and also sensing that the sea beasts around him were also scattering, Sun Jin commanded the captain, with his back to the direction where the red sun was about to jump out, and slowly sailed towards the inland sea.

It was getting dark, and the guards were still cruising around the deck. Boatmen who had nothing to do came out to clean up the deck and repair the wreckage. Last night's violent turbulence broke the hatch and hatch cover bolts, and they needed to be fixed in a way.

Suddenly, someone found that there seemed to be a huge sea beast corpse floating on the sea in the distance, which seemed to be the giant ballista whale!

Sun Jin poked out his divine sense and perceived it from afar, it was indeed the sea beast, and it was indeed dead. Sun Jin looked at the captain and waved his hand, "Let's go, let's go collect the corpse!" Amid the cheers of the sailors and boatmen, the Dashun turned around and sailed towards the corpse of the sea beast.

As the Da Shun slowly approached, Warren discovered that there was a small black *meat* hole on the side of the whale. Reaching out to his divine sense, this small hole almost penetrated the head of the giant ballista, what a terrifying attack! Hua Lun thought, this may be the attack power of the aura, very similar to the attack effect of the legendary purple jade shell water arrow: rapid entry, instant burning, and instant extinguishing. The cetaceans had lost a trace of vitality, and the ballista whales had been dead for a long time, because there was no blood spilled and no other sea beasts to bite.

The boatmen struggled to open its massive mouth, fastening the ropes to the teeth, tying the jaws, tying them to the stern of the boat, and dragging them towards the inland sea. Even if they don't have anything to gain this time, they can return with a full load with this giant crossbow whale. What's more, this giant ballista whale is their individual collective harvest, not just the cargo harvested by Qingyunfang.

The boatmen and sailors had even figured out how to enjoy the huge pie that fell from the sky. However, they were soon attracted by the new harvest on the sea, and this time each of them became very rich. There are various kinds of seaweed floating on the surface of the sea, and occasionally the corpse of a sea beast will be entangled in it, some large and some small. The fishermen happily poked out the rods and pulled them back from the sea one by one.

The carcasses of these sea beasts, some of which showed lacerations on the surface, were the marks left by the teeth of another sea beast. Some of them were injured by impacts, and I am afraid that they were carried up by the waves, hit the reef, and dragged down by the seaweed. Soon, they felt sad that the rabbit had died again, and several hatches and planks of the transport ship were floating, and there was a corpse of a boatman next to it.

The power of nature is worthy of awe, and no one here dares to rise up to challenge it.