After listening to Xia Ye's words, Yaha fell silent.
She looked at the white whale in the distance with a complicated expression. She knew that Xia Ye's guess was probably correct, but it was always difficult to accept it psychologically.
She originally thought that the white whale represented the pinnacle or the end of life, but she did not expect that it only represented the starting point of a truth.
After a while, Yaha finally spoke: "If we can bring this information to Debsotta, we will indeed become the heroes of all whalers... But the premise is that we can go back alive and hunt. Kill the white whale. Otherwise, we're just dead people, or crazy people talking nonsense."
"So, Captain Yaha..." Xia Ye asked, "What is your decision?"
"Keep hunting. The whale is still about 100 nautical miles away from us, which means we have about 30 minutes. If everything goes well, we can kill it before the whales arrive."
After Yaha finished speaking, he immediately issued an order to the gunner: "Gunner, I allow you to fire on your own at the appropriate time."
"receive!"
The Moby Dick was less than 5 nautical miles away from the white whale. Previously, because Xia Ye and Tang Li went to confirm the situation of the whale group, Yaha temporarily suspended the order to fire on its own. Now, the hunt finally begins.
A few seconds later, the main gun roared, and the folding harpoon quickly unfolded after being shot out of the barrel, turning into a terrifying weapon nearly 10 meters long. On its tail, there was a faint blue line connected to it, the harpoon. Draw a slightly curved trajectory with the tail line, extending the beluga in front. Finally, it hit the back next to the bone-fin connection point. With a crisp sound, the harpoon bounced into the air and fell into the sea of clouds on the side.
Ricocheted.
The gunner immediately disconnected the magical connection between the whaling cannon and the harpoon, and the line of faint blue light disappeared; the loader pushed a new harpoon shell into the barrel, and about 10 seconds later, the whaling gun The cannon fired again.
This time it hit the target. The harpoon penetrated the seam between the two bone wings and penetrated into the body of the beluga. Golden blood flowed out along the base of the wings. The whale roared and its huge body swung violently. , trying to get rid of the harpoon.
But before that, the traction shuttle at the tail of the harpoon had been started. It carried the tail line formed by magic and quickly rotated around the pillar-like wing spar. In the blink of an eye, the tail line was wrapped dozens of times around the root of the wing spar. .
"Hit the target!" the gunner shouted.
"Very good. Helmsman, start reverse thrust! Chief engineer, enter 'synchronized enhancement', and also check the status of the thrusters and let them shut down as late as possible!"
"yes!"
"good."
The helmsman released the safety and pulled the lever representing reverse thrust. At the rear of the cylindrical propeller, the reverse thrust plate slowly opened, directing the explosive gas flow originally ejected rearward diagonally forward.
The Moby Dick began to slow down rapidly, and with a violent shake of the hull, the tail line connecting the beluga and the whaler stretched into a straight line.
Today, beluga whales are towing whaling ships.
The magic tail formed by the "Kalia's Binding" contract has extraordinary strength. Although it is only as thin as a finger, it can withstand tens of thousands of tons of force. The whaling ship began a tug-of-war with the whales. Even though it had entered "synchronous strengthening", the solid hull was still "creeping".
The speed of the whale also slowed down. Although it was desperately paddling its eight bony wings, on the other side, the two thrusters that turned on the reverse thrust continued to roar, exerting a completely opposite force to the whale.
"Report target speed, second officer."
"160 knots."
"Fire another harpoon round, gunner. I'm afraid a tail line won't hold the whale back."
"yes."
Soon, another blue light cable flew towards the target and hit accurately. The Moby-Dick was now like a carriage, being dragged forward by a crazy horse through two reins.
"The ship's speed has dropped to 140 knots, and we are losing altitude!" the helmsman reported.
"It doesn't matter, the whale will pull us." Yaha stared at the huge whale swinging left and right in front of him and shouted: "First mate, can we start the ceremony?"
"It's still too fast for me to catch it," the first mate replied through the microphone.
"Chief Engineer, how long can the propeller last?"
"How long can the thrusters last?"
"One, a small meeting."
"Then we'll wait a little longer."
As its speed slowed, so did the Moby Dick's altitude, and the whale now had to contend not only with the reverse thrusters, but also with the weight of the whaling ship itself. Its tail was dragged down, but its head was raised high, like a painful tracker.
It never fired the whale breath, because the whale breath required it to face the whale ship head-on, and that meant rendezvous with the whale group later.
There was a sudden rhythmic violent vibration at the stern of the ship, and Yaha knew that it was a sign that the propeller was about to stall.
"Report our speed, helmsman," she said.
"120 knots."
"How long can the thrusters last, Chief Engineer?"
"Ten." The other party replied.
After a second, Xiu's voice came again: "Nine."
"eight……"
"Okay, I know."
Yaha ended the call with the chief engineer and shouted to the first officer, "First officer, you have to start the ceremony!"
"OK."
"Also, get the crew ready to deploy the airbags and we'll be out soon."
"clear."
The first mate, holding a saw blade in his hand, finally walked onto the front deck. She stood in the center of the circular formation, surrounded by white wing bones. The girl took off her round glasses and threw them to a crew member next to her. .
"Keep it safe for me." She said, and then recited the witch's words:
"Cnfsn"
Due to the resonance of the circle, her chanting could be heard even in the cab. Xia Ye knew that it meant "confusion", but she didn't understand why the first mate wanted to use the "confusion" contract at this time.
But she soon understood——
After turning on "Confusion", the first mate started a new recitation. This time it was also a witch's text, but the content was no longer the name of a certain contract.
"Wknn, Wknn..." (Wake up, wake up...)
"SplR-ss-Pl-ch-rX..." (The Buried King of Bones...)
The first mate's voice was quiet at first, but became louder and louder as he chanted.
"I make the contract in the name of the 'Bone King'..."
"I offer my cup, my bones, my flesh and blood as a sacrifice..."
A trace of blood-red light began to flow out from the white wing bones in the magic circle.
"I order you to wake up and become my body..."
"Because my name is..."
"Nexus——"
While uttering the last syllable, the first mate raised the knife in his hand, pointed the blade at his chest, and then——
He penetrated me without mercy!
Blood.
Bright red blood spurted out, instantly dyeing the white sailor suit red.
A large amount of blood flowed down the girl's body and into the magic circle at her feet. It was like pouring oil into a fire, and the red light in the magic circle suddenly became blazing.
The girl named "Nexus" did not feel pain because she had confused "pain" and "pleasure" with each other. She smiled and twisted the blade, causing more and more blood to spurt out of her body.
The red light on the magic circle became stronger and stronger, and in the blink of an eye, it became as thick as blood. The blood light gradually submerged the girl's figure, and a crazy and cold aura spread on the deck.
When Xia Ye couldn't see the first mate at all, the light suddenly disappeared. Also disappearing at the same time was the girl in the magic circle. What was left on the front deck were piles of ashes that had turned into gray-white powder.
Xia Ye suddenly remembered something that happened before going to sea——
At that time, she, Yaha, and Chris were visiting the Moby-Dick that was being renovated.
There, she saw a huge skeletal arm that the witches were using as a crane.
She asked Yahab what the contract was, and Yahab replied that it was the "Servant Arm of the Bone King."
At that time, she was thinking, since there is the "arm of the bone king's servant", does it mean that there is also the "servant of the bone king"? Going one step further, will there be a "Bone King"?
Now, she finally knew that her guess was correct——
There really is a "Bone King".
She has seen it.
The beluga in front suddenly stopped swimming.
Because, an extremely huge white bone arm suddenly stretched out from the sea of clouds and pinched one of its wings.
Immediately afterwards, a skull with bloody flames burning in its eye sockets slowly raised in front of the whale.
(End of chapter)
