Chapter 17 ghost blood ship
Boatswain Ruan Hei gave full left rudder to avoid the disastrous consequences of the collision of the two ships, the two ships a wrong bow, almost the ship bang bang, the distance between them is less than a meter, the degree of danger with the “ghost tick head” like, all of us on board the boat in the heart of the hand pinched sweat, in case of a leakage of the boat crash, we have to follow the “Trident” to the bottom of the sea as an exhibit of the wreckage graveyard. “Trident” to the bottom of the sea as a shipwreck cemetery exhibits.
Fortunately, Ruan Hei turned the rudder fast enough, the two ships did not scrape together, said late, then fast, blink of an eye, have each crossed the sea, the white ghost-like old sailing ship, under the action of the current quickly drilled into the fog, disappeared, as it appeared as suddenly, straight as a trace of a ghost of the sea that flits from one time to the next.
Thick fog of the sea is still a silence, due to all this happened very unexpectedly and suddenly, all the people until the boat disappeared in the sea fog, only slowly back to God, forehead have been out of a layer of white hair sweat, who do not know that the boat is from where to come out of, a kind of indescribable bewilderment and fear spread all over the body.
The people who always run the boat, which can say something strange on the sea above the story, ghost ship water ghosts of these legends especially, but also said that most of them are hearsay, very few have witnessed the experience of the helm Ruan Hei has never encountered this kind of directly facing the horror of the phantom ship, fishermen and egg people are most afraid of is to encounter ghosts in the sea, and that is by no means a good sign, encountered the winds and waves, may be able to cope with, but he is not after all But after all, he is not the gold censor, involving things in the netherworld, how can not be alarmed, even if he is brave enough, at this time his legs and stomach has become soft, if not pressed on the steering wheel to support the body, almost collapsed on the ground.
Not only Ruan Hei body like sieve chaff, even I feel alarmed, because in the two ships wrongly sailed through the moment, the distance between them is too close, even if the sea has fog, all around is a blanket, but within the range of vision after all, there are still so 20 meters of visibility, not to mention that the two ships have been scraping the closest to the same time, and even then the three-masted schooner on the cable to wear out the traces of the place, but also can be seen in two places, I was open-minded! I saw that the ship deck and hatch, are speckled with blood marks, blood color has dried black, and white hull formed a strong contrast, daunting, I do not know whether the ship’s seamen’s blood, but the ship and where have they gone? There were no bodies left, only blood stains all over the ship.
I put this situation to the rest of the people said, it is not only I saw, fat man, Shirley Yang, including Ruan Hei’s two disciples Gu Cai and Duo Ling, everyone found this situation, it seems that it is not my eyes, and just now can even smell the heavy smell of blood coming from the ship, fat man idea said: “ghost, must be a ghost ship, I see us! I think we should hurry down to the cabin to prepare for the Water God cannon, if we run into it again, we will knock it out, so that the ghosts will not be able to break the pants and legs to delay our plan to collect eggs.”
I thought that if there really is a ghost ship, the cannonball may not be useful, I turned my head to look at Shirley Yang, want to hear what she said, what kind of ship is it?
Shirley Yang helplessly shrugged her shoulders, “I’m the same as you guys, I have a lot of questions I want to ask, but I don’t even know how to ask them right now, but I have a hunch, if that old style three-masted ship is really aiming at us, sooner or later, it will reappear again, and right now, the visibility on the sea is too low, which is not good for us.”
We only discussed a few words, and had not yet decided whether we should retreat to advance, or attack instead of defend? When we saw the mast lights flashing in the fog, the three-masted ship that had just passed us by, silently, once again sailed head-on from the direction of our bows, all of us looked at each other and hurriedly asked Ruan Hei to turn the bow of the ship to avoid it.
If the first encounter with the three-masted ship a few minutes ago, to be able to quickly avoid the most critical juncture, first of all because of the fat man’s sharp eyes to find fast, coupled with Shirley Yang quickly reminded Ruan Hei, the captain of the ship did not even have to be surprised, by subconsciously turning the rudder to avoid, but who would have thought that in such a short period of time, that the white ghostly ghost ship, and drilled out of the sea fog from the front, if not a ghost ship! If it is not a ghost ship, what is it?
The crowd in this common sense is difficult to explain the bizarre manifestation of the front dumbfounded, this time and not so lucky last time, the white old sailing ship, like the sea fog condensed from the ghosts, in the fog flitting, said to come, said to no, no, half a sign in advance, the captain of the ship Ruan Hei, although his hands in a frenzy of full power to pull the rudder, but only to avoid a direct collision, the two ship’s side of the ship but scraped together, three-masted ship on both sides are hung fishing nets with white floats on the net, and the Trident had rubber lifeboats tied with ropes on the side, and were suddenly entangled in a difficult mess.
The two boats rubbed in one place, making the ship a violent rocking, we lost balance, on the deck toppled, Kuchai unsteady center of gravity, fell to the ground, almost rolled into the sea, scared him wow, Shirley Yang pulled a cable and threw it to the Kuchai, so that he held on to it.
The sea willow ship “Trident” has copper plate armor, avoided the direct collision, not only intact, and because of the draft line under the ship is equipped with a water-splitting thorns, anti-three-masted ship’s side of the scrape out of a mouth, seawater from the hole in the hull of the wildly poured into the three-masted ship, our three-masted ship because of the difficulty of separating from it entangled together, and immediately by the The white ghost ship, which had begun to sink as a result of the injection of seawater, tilted the ship sideways.
The magnitude of the ship tilting sideways was not great for a while, but the hull of that three-masted ship was huge, for a long time, it might have to be dragged into the sea by it, Fatty saw the situation, he wanted to use the fish chopper to chop off the lifeboat ropes tied to the side of the ship, this was the way to lose the pawns and save the car, I hastened to stop his move: “Build a springboard, chop the fishing nets to go!”
In case of a ship accident, in the vast ocean, I’m afraid that only the lifeboat, to bring the sea wolves fighting for their lives in the sea to retain a line of life, not to the point of no choice, the lifeboat can not be abandoned, the three-masted ship’s nets hooked to the lifeboat, even if our ship is not about to be sinking three-masted ship with the turn over, but also cause damage to the hull or equipment, the situation can not be more considerations, have to We stepped on the diving board and went to the opposite ship to cut those nets.
At this moment, Ruan Hei, the captain of the ship, did not dare to speed up, “Trident” can only follow the other side of the circling around on the surface of the sea, Fatty and I set up a springboard as fast as possible, Gu Cai and Duo Ling just held down the springboard, Shirley Yang jumped from the jumping board, agilely leaped onto the three-masted ship, and used the fish chopping knife to chop the fishing nets.
Fatty also wanted to pass from the diving board, but in the balance beam is even more narrow board, and with the two boat undulation swaying, a step in the air will fall into the sea, afraid of heights or timid people, simply can not go over, he does not care about other things, but the natural fear of heights, not yet on the diving board in the heart of the first half of the timid.
I pulled the fat man aside, and rushed over from the diving board, while calling out to him: “You don’t go over there, throw the cable over there, and meet us on this side, and cut the nets and we have to retreat back immediately.” As he spoke, he took advantage of a small gap in the swaying of the diving board, and flew across to the three-masted ship.
Although the springboard is narrow and wobbly, I was in the army when almost every day to practice impact on a variety of obstacles tactical movement training, the log bridge is afraid of no less than a few thousand times, but that is, after all, the facilities of military training, from the sea water heaving between the two ships over, not the face of the bottom of the feet of a person, I do not dare to look at the feet of half an eye, only palm width of the jumping board is too dizzying, it is possible to have a little bit of fear, will be losing their footing! I dared not look halfway down at my feet, but the palm-width springboard was too dizzying, and I was likely to lose my footing if I felt the slightest fear.
I feel a little cramp in my legs and stomach after the past, I can not help but envy Shirley Yang’s courage, but perhaps the navy’s training methods and focus with the army is different, think of this heart does not feel much shame, copied up the fish chopping serrated knife, aiming at the nets even cut with cuts.
I have never seen a ghost ship, but I have heard all the rumors involving ghost ships, can be roughly divided into two categories of ghost ships, the first is the people on the ship are dead or missing, the reason is strange, thought the human understanding of the sea is really too limited, some people say that there are sea ghosts in the sea or the sharks that have become essence, can be seduced by the sailors with the sound of color in the water, the people on the ship once they are attracted to them, they would be Can not help but jump into the sea to give away their lives, some people say that is because some things in the sea can not be eaten, there is a kind of fish to eat will be to the phantasmagoria, making the crew jumped into the sea to commit suicide, so the sea will appear unmanned empty ship, people used to call this kind of ship “ghost ship”.
There is another class of “ghost ship”, this kind of ghost ship is mostly missing for many years of ships, and even some missing for hundreds of years, but suddenly appeared in the sea was found, there is no any crew member’s body on board, the ship’s facilities are still running very normal, as just out of the sea soon like, who also do not know in it missing! No one knows where it disappeared in the hundreds of years drifted to.
Because people can not explain those mysterious phenomena, so the birth of the “ghost” of the ship of a class of bizarre legends, but these legends seem to be unable to correct the strange things we ran into, the second time I ran into the ship, I have wondered if the fog there are a lot of such a three-masted white ship? But I can still remember a few small features of the ship, from the position of the mast light can be confirmed, this is indeed the same ship.
The three-masted white ship behemoth, tangible presence in front of, a knife cut up on the boat can leave a knife mark on the bang, and this boat is indeed the smell of blood, the most strange thing is that the hull of this style of ancient, without any modern ship features, but the three-masted ship on the side of the boat does not look worn out, and in some places is even very new.