Xia Ye squinted her eyes and carefully observed the "wall" not far away.
The moth beasts are not arranged densely, and the distance between each one is about 20 meters wide. Since all moth beasts are on the same plane, the wall has no depth. Xia Ye looked at it for a while, then turned to Yaha and said:
"Can we just rush over?"
Yaha shook his head gently: "No."
"Why?"
"You'll know soon." After saying that, Yaha turned around and gave the order, "Main gun, load a sounding bomb and fire it straight ahead."
The loader loaded, the turret turned, and soon the main gun was firing again. A folded airbag was launched about a kilometer away, then quickly inflated into an airship-shaped airbag.
At the rear of the air bag, a small magic circle lights up, which seems to be some kind of contract that can provide power. Driven by it, the airbag continued to slide forward for about one kilometer, and then——
It suddenly disappeared and never appeared again.
"Left full rudder! Turn the ship's bow and head due south!" Yaha immediately issued the order.
The helmsman quickly turned the helm to the bottom, the bow began to turn, and the Moby Dick drew a full semicircular trajectory in the sea of clouds.
At the same time, at the location where the airbag disappeared, more seven-leaf beasts revealed their existence. Like those to the east, they are also arranged in a thin wall, the rightmost end of which joins the east wall to form a right-angled barrier.
"When they are lined up like this, anything that tries to get through them just disappears, and last time, I saw a whale just disappear."
Although Yaha's voice was still calm, Xia Ye already had a vague feeling of something bad.
The ship quickly completed the U-turn, kept parallel to the east wall, and headed due south. When it was approaching the end of the wall, Yaha again ordered to launch an air bag.
As expected, the airbag disappeared after sliding forward for a while.
Another wall of seven-leafed beasts appeared. The walls in the north, east and south directions are spliced together to form a "concave" shaped barrier.
Yaha had no choice but to give the order again: "Full the right helm and turn to the west."
Ten minutes have passed since the first seven-leafed beast was discovered. Although there was no fighting between the two sides, the atmosphere on the ship gradually became tense.
Everyone found that the situation was not good.
A moment later, Moby Dick fired the sounding airbag forward again. This time, the airbag slid far away without disappearing, indicating that there was no wall composed of seven-leafed beasts in this direction.
But no one was happy about this, because everyone knew very well that in this direction, eight beluga whales were pursuing menacingly.
"Report range and speed of whale pod, Second Mate."
"Less than 20 nautical miles left, speed 200 knots!"
If the two sides were in pursuit, it would take a while for the whales to catch up with the Moby Dick, but now, the two sides were heading towards each other.
Xia Ye did a quick mental calculation and got the answer in just a few seconds - as long as less than 3 minutes passed, the two sides would meet head-on.
And before that...
"The whale pod has launched its whale breath!"
What was supposed to come came indeed.
"Which structural engineers No. 1 to 4 can still enter the 'Synchronized Strengthening'?" Yaha asked loudly.
Before the speaker could reply, Xiu on the side spoke first: "I'll enter... synchronized strengthening..."
"Are you okay?" Yaha asked with a frown.
"No problem, nya~" Xiu said.
Even in this tense moment, she would unconsciously end her sentences with "meow".
"good."
Yaha wasted no time in hesitating and agreed to Xiu's request. Then, she ordered:
"Full right rudder! Head north!"
The ship's bow turned again. Since the appearance of the Seven-Leaf Beast, the Moby Dick has been like a beast trapped in a trap, rushing left and right, but has never been able to find a chance to break out.
Now, Yaha is faced with a choice between two:
Die at the hands of the Seven-leafed Beast, or die at the hands of the White Whale? Or……
Choose neither?
The Moby Dick has completed its turn and is heading straight towards the seven-leaf beast wall to the north.
"How long will it take for the whale's breath to fall?" Yaha suddenly asked.
"Less than a minute."
Yaha frowned and thought for a while, then issued the order: "Reduce the ship's speed to 150 knots!"
"Huh?" The helmsman thought he heard wrongly.
"slow down!"
"yes!"
Xia Ye, who was watching from the sidelines, suddenly understood Yaha's plan:
"Are you waiting for the whale's breath?"
"Yes," Yaha replied.
She was waiting for the whale's breath to fall. The whale's breath was a ranged attack with tracking capabilities. As long as the time was right, the Moby Dick could rush towards the seven-leaf beasts to form a wall with the falling whale's breath.
If you are lucky enough and the whale breath that falls near the ship kills enough seven-leaf beasts, maybe there will be a gap in the wall, and the ship may be able to just slip through the gap...
"The method you are thinking of depends too much on luck." Xia Ye said mercilessly.
"Then what else can we do?! We can only take a gamble now!"
Yaha growled in annoyance.
But then, she heard Xia Ye say:
"Yes, I have."
"……ah?"
She turned her head and saw the girl smiling at her:
"Didn't I promise before? If I encounter big trouble, I will help. After all, you have already said, 'Super invincible and lovely Lord Xia Ye, please help me~', and I can't let you say it in vain .”
"Do you have any other good ideas?!" Yaha was surprised and happy.
But then, she spread her hands on Xia Ye:
"No. I think your plan is good, but it's too unreliable to rely on accidental damage from the whale's breath to kill the seven-leafed beast. If you use naval guns, can you open the gap?"
Yaha shook his head: "No, the efficiency of naval guns in killing moth beasts is too low. If you use penetrating bullets, you can only hit them one at a time. If you use delayed shotguns, you can't kill them."
"I guess so. So, let me help you kill those seven-leaf beasts."
"How to kill?"
"Use the feathers of thunder, as you have seen before. Fly over, let the wings explode into thunder and lightning, and kill them all, and then let the ship rush over before they can make up the gap."
"Then why did you come back?"
"I have insurance."
Xia Ye explained vaguely and stopped looking at Yaha. She raised her hand, took her head off her neck, and threw it to Xiuji.
"Keep my head safe. I'll be right back."
After saying that, she walked quickly outside the cab.
But before he took a few steps, his wrist was grabbed by Yaha. Because she had no head, she was too lazy to look back, so she simply turned her back to Yaha and asked:
"what happened again?"
Yaha hesitated for a moment and said: "Should you...shouldn't you..."
She suddenly didn't know how to express it.
But Xia Ye had already guessed it. Although she has no head, the girl's speech is not affected at all. Her voice is still as pleasant as usual, and her tone of voice has not changed at all:
"Hey, hey, you don't think I'm going to die, do you? For the sake of my best friend and everyone on the ship, I forced myself to smile while crying silently in my heart, and finally sacrificed myself heroically to save everyone. How could this witch do such a stupid thing? Hahahahahahahaha, don’t be too sentimental. This witch still has a lot of cards. A few moth beasts also want to hurt me. How can it be possible? Bye bye, I’ll be right back!”
Xia Ye spoke faster and faster, and by the end it was like a barrage of words. When Yaha was dumbfounded by her bombardment, she twitched hard, pulled his wrist out of Yaha's hand, and ran out of the car in a few steps. room and jumped to the deck.
While her body was still in the air, she crushed the thunder feathers, and a pair of crimson thunder wings appeared behind her waist. Immediately afterwards, the girl turned into a bolt of lightning, flew out of the Debso Tower, and rushed towards the hundreds of seven-leaf beasts blocking the front...
(End of chapter)
