Giggling, clucking, clucking, clucking—
A scalp-numbing loud noise came from the bottom of the ship. Thanks to Yaha's command, the entire ship did not hit the solid spar head-on. In that case, the whale's wings may be broken, but the whaling ship will also be completely stopped and become a target for the other two whales.
The Moby Dick's bottom scraped against the wing spar, and the solid hull broke dozens of "branches" protruding from the wing spar. The whaling ship and the whale are like two knights riding opposite each other. The chance to take action is only the moment when they cross each other, and then they separate from each other.
In this round of fighting, Moby Dick obviously had the upper hand.
Even Yaha's face slowly opened into a smile, and she was about to issue her next order...
boom--! !
A loud noise suddenly came from the stern of the ship. At the same time, the bow of the ship, which was turning upward to the right, suddenly veered uncontrollably to the left.
Before Yaha could ask a question, the chief engineer's voice came from the microphone: "Stop the engine on the left!"
Four words, indicating that the situation is serious.
The condition of the propeller could not be seen from the cab, so Yaha could only ask: "What's the reason?!"
A few seconds later, the voice of another engine room crew member came: "It's a wing bone! A section of the wing bone is stuck in the left propeller!"
"XXX!!" Yaha scolded Xia Ye for not understanding the foul language.
"Right rudder 15, return the direction to the straight direction! Horizontal rudder depression angle 10, push the bow down!"
The helmsman quickly complied. After the left propeller stopped, the speed of the Moby Dick slowed down significantly. Speed means buoyancy. After the whaler slid by inertia for a certain distance, it began to lose altitude uncontrollably.
"Report speed, helmsman."
"150 knots."
When the speed of the Debsota is below 170 knots, the air bags must be deployed to maintain sufficient buoyancy, but once this is done, it means completely giving up maneuverability.
In front of the other two whales who were still unharmed, this was like drinking poison to quench their thirst.
Before Yaha had time to think of a solution, the first officer's report came: "The No. 1 structural engineer can no longer maintain 'synchronized reinforcement'."
"Change to No. 3 or 4." She said without hesitation.
Xia Ye looked towards the forward deck and found that the structural engineer on the left side of the turret had fallen to the ground and was curling up in pain.
"Synchronized strengthening" can indeed strengthen the ship and the structural engineer to a degree far beyond normal, but there is a limit to the damage that can be absorbed in this state. Once a certain threshold is exceeded, the "synchronous reinforcement" state can no longer be maintained, and the structural engineer will also suffer tremendous pain the moment the threshold is breached.
Therefore, Yaha tried his best to avoid the attack of the whale's breath. Originally, the two structural engineers would not be breached the threshold, but the collision with the wing spar and the thruster stopping due to being stuck by the wing bone were unexpected. situation, the hull also suffered greater damage.
Immediately, a crew member rushed to the front deck and carried the No. 1 structural engineer back to the cabin, while the No. 2 crew member also left the deck with the support of another crew member. Structural engineers No. 3 and No. 4 quickly replenished their vacated positions, preparing to re-establish a "synchronous reinforcement" state with the whaler.
At this moment, the crew's voice came from the microphone: "The chief engineer has left the barrier!"
"What? What is she going to do?!"
"She said, she said 'I, pull it out'..." the crew member stammered.
Yaha was stunned for a moment, then suddenly reacted and shouted hurriedly: "Structure Engineers No. 3 and 4 stopped entering 'synchronous reinforcement'!"
Her voice was transmitted below through the microphone, and the structural engineers No. 3 and 4 who were about to recite the witch text suddenly stopped.
"Go and see for yourself what's going on at the stern of the ship." She then said to the crew beside her.
The crew member nodded and was about to leave, but was suddenly stopped by Xia Ye.
"I'll let my cat be," she said to Yaha.
Yaha nodded without hesitation: "Okay."
Xia Ye whispered a few instructions to the black cat hanging on her shoulder. Xiuji nodded and ran out of the cab at an extremely fast speed. It only took the cat a few seconds to run to the stern of the ship. Through the shared vision, Xia Ye immediately saw the situation here.
The first thing that caught his sight were translucent lines that resembled magnetic induction lines. Xia Ye immediately understood why Yaha wanted to stop the simultaneous strengthening of Structure Engineers 3 and 4 - because someone else had already entered first." "Synchronized reinforcement" status.
Xiuji's vision moved to the outside of the ship, and now he could finally see the propeller hanging at the stern of the ship. Xia Ye was shocked to find that the chief engineer, wearing black and white stockings, was hugging the cylindrical propeller!
The "magnetic induction lines" extend from her body. She is also a structural engineer, and now she has obviously entered a "synchronous strengthening" state.
"Did your cat see it?" Yaha asked anxiously.
"I saw it..." Xia Ye was still a little unbelievable, "The chief engineer... is lying on the stalled thruster, and has entered the 'synchronized enhancement' state... What is she trying to do?"
"She wants to restart the left thruster..." Yaha said. "Second mate, tell me the distance between the whaling ship and the three whales."
"550 meters, 1.9 kilometers, 2.2 kilometers."
"We have reached the distance where whale breath can be fired." Yaha murmured. After thinking for a few seconds, he issued a new order: "Full port rudder, turn the ship sideways! The main and secondary guns are ready to fire to the port side!"
With only one propeller left, the Mobydick began to turn again. The normally working right propeller continued to provide a left-turning moment to the hull. At this time, coupled with the rudder effect of the left full rudder, the hull quickly turned sideways. , facing three whales on the port side.
People in the cab can now see them through the side windows. Except for the seriously injured whale, which was motionless, the other two were struggling to turn. After they passed by the Moby-Dick, they were facing away from the whaler. To guide the whale's breath and prepare to hit the target, the target must be within the field of view of the Matrix Eye.
While everyone was staring at the whale, Xia Ye looked at the chief engineer through Xiuji's vision. Although today's whaling ships can travel at "only" 150 knots, the resulting winds are strong enough to blow a man off the propeller.
But the chief engineer seemed to have a way of "sucking" to the propeller. Although her black and white hair had been blown almost horizontally, her body actually slowly got up.
Due to the high temperature of nearly a thousand degrees Celsius in the propeller casing, her stockings and sailor suit were burned with large and small holes, but she herself was unscathed. Although her skin was a little red as if it was heated, she did not have any injuries. Burn marks.
The girl hunched over, braving the strong wind, and moved bit by bit to the edge of the propeller's air inlet. Through Xiuji's field of vision, Xia Ye had already seen that a white bone as thick as a bowl was inserted into the engine from the air inlet. Only a half-meter-long section was left outside. That must be the wing the crew mentioned. Bones - those "tiny" branches extending from the spar.
She couldn't help but be curious about how the chief engineer planned to troubleshoot this fault.
Since he is the chief engineer, maybe he has signed a contract such as "directional blasting"? It should be possible to use this ability to blast the wing bones into tiny pieces without damaging the internal structure of the thruster...
Just as Xia Ye was guessing this, she saw the chief engineer kneeling down, grabbing the exposed wing bone with both hands, and then began to pull it out with force...
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