Chapter 172: It Turned Out to Be It!
Ruoshui's face changed, and when he looked closely, he saw that the waves were surging diagonally in one direction in a strange rhythm. However, since I hadn't paid attention to the direction of the waves before, I couldn't tell how the waves were different from the ones just now.
Huahua said: "When I first saw Baoshan, I inadvertently looked at the seawater, and at that time the waves were still surging in the direction of the bow of the boat, and I was thinking that looking at the direction of the waves would definitely affect the speed of our boat." At that time, our direction was also going straight to Baoshan, and from the point of view of the reference, our sailing direction did not change, but you see, big brother, now the direction of the waves has suddenly changed. ”
"Even if there is a change, I think it is normal, the sea is inherently fickle, not to mention that this is still in the game." Ruoshui thought about it and replied to her, but she muttered in her heart.
"I don't know if the changes in the waves are normal, but big brother, don't you think the speed of the boat is too fast now, faster than the last time we dodged the mermaids, but Xiao Long Xuxue said that he had already driven the boat to the maximum speed that time."
Ruoshui closed his eyes and felt it carefully, and sure enough, he found that something was wrong, just like Huahua said, the speed of this boat was indeed faster than the last time he avoided the mermaid. But in such a dangerous situation last time, it was absolutely impossible for Xiao Long to deliberately slow down the speed of the ship, so the only reasonable explanation is that the speed of the ship is indeed speeding up for unknown reasons.
Huahua should be one of the few people on the boat who still maintain their sanity and are very sober, so they can feel the change in the speed of the ship, to be honest, most of the people on the ship still think that the current speed of the ship is slow, who can notice that the speed of the ship is now beyond the maximum speed of the giant boat that pierces the waves a lot.
But hearing her say this, Ruoshui immediately realized that this was definitely not a normal phenomenon, and he looked at Huahua, and the little girl's eyes also had a faint trace of worry.
"Well, I'll go over and have a look first, you tell the boss, be careful, let him stop the boat first."
Huahua nodded, turned around to find Xiao Long Desire, Ruoshui jumped over, and got on the big bed in the sky.
Lao Wu and Peaches looked at him with disdain when they saw Ruoshui jumping up and down, and said in unison: "Cut, jumping up and down, like a monkey." ”
Ruoshui looked solemn and said, "Old sister, you are here to help us keep an eye on it, Lao Wu, you come with me." ”
It's nothing more than that, and Peaches are stunned, Lao Wuwu Ruoshui's face is wrong, knowing that something must be wrong, first renting the ink painting bed to Peaches for temporary use, and then nodding towards Ruoshui, the two of them each unfolded their sword light and flew towards the sky.
The people on the boat saw Ruoshui and Wu Shui flying to Baoshan first, and immediately talked about it, and a few people who were anxious thought that the two masters who helped were going to snatch the treasure, and they were about to fly up immediately, but Xiao Long Xuxue had already walked out of the cabin at this time, and stopped everyone with a frown. "Everyone be careful, just now Ruoshui told me that there is probably a problem with this sea area, so the two of them went to check it out, let's stop the boat, wait here for a while, it's all here, everyone better be careful."
The people on the boat, except for Xiao Xiaoran and Hua Hua, are all people from Sihaitang, although they see that Baoshan is in front of them, they have to stop the boat and wait, which makes these people feel a little unhappy, but the boss spoke, naturally he didn't dare to say anything, but although everyone didn't say it on the surface, they watched Ruoshui and the two fly towards Baoshan, and their hearts were really itchy, so it was inevitable that they would be a little angry about their own hall master's decision, "Even if there is any problem, be careful and vigilant, why stop and not leave!" ”
Not to mention the thoughts of everyone on the boat, Ruoshui and Lao Wu's two sword lights went hand in hand, flying straight forward, and the more they flew, the more ugly their faces became. After flying for a ride, Lao Wu suddenly said: "It's a little strange, such a large sea area, there is not even a single fish, and the sea is not alarmed, we have sailed in the open sea for more than ten days, but we have never seen such a calm sea." ”
"Yes, there are no birds in the forest, there must be ambushes, there is no monster in such a large sea, it must be abnormal." And when Lao Wu said this, Ruoshui found a strange place again, "And there is also a problem with this sea, when I just bowed down by the string of the boat to look at the sea, I found that the waves were quite large, and they rushed towards the front with a strange rhythm, and it was definitely not the calm appearance of the current waves." ”
"Shall we go to the sea and have a look?" Lao Wu made a suggestion, but Ruoshui pointed to Baoshan, who was already not far away from the two of them, and said, "Wait a minute, look at the five-colored gas at the foot of the mountain, do you feel a little familiar?" ”
"Didn't you read it just now, I guess it was a very powerful spell, do you think you're familiar with it? Maybe I've seen it in the promotional anime I watched before. ”
"No, I always feel like I've seen it around me, and you've definitely seen it, it's familiar, but I just can't remember it."
Lao Wu listened to Ruoshui's words, and looked at it carefully, "Well, it's indeed a little familiar, it does look like I've seen it there, but I can't remember it, and I always feel that although I've seen similar things in my impression, it doesn't seem to be so many."
"Not so much!" Lao Wu's words flashed through Ruoshui's mind like lightning, and he suddenly understood why he felt that the five-colored gas was familiar, it turned out to be a difference in quantity, blinding his eyes and thinking.
"It's not good, I'm afraid something big will happen." As soon as Shui Shui understood what that five-colored gas was, his heart almost immediately burst into his throat, "Old Wu, stop and don't fly, you hurry back to find Xiao Long Xuxue, let him quickly turn the bow of the boat and go around this sea area, quick!" "At this time, although it is fast to send a message back, but the temptation of Baoshan is too great, if you suddenly decide not to go, Xiao Long Yuxue and the others will definitely ask the reason, but it will delay the effort even more, it is better to directly let it go back and inform it. There is Lao Wu, no matter whether he believes in Ruoshui or not, and what other players think, he will always do what Lao Wu said first.
"What about you?"
"I'll go down to the sea to take a look, you go back quickly, you can't delay any longer, the ship is in danger if you stay here for a second longer!" Ruoshui urged.
Seeing that Ruoshui was so anxious that even the tone of his voice changed, he knew that there must be a hundred thousand urgent things, so he didn't ask at the moment, and immediately turned around and rushed to the boat, and Ruoshui turned his sword light and rushed down into the sea.
Sure enough, as I thought, the closer to the sea, the louder the sound of the waves, but on the surface, the sea is still calm, only some whitish white waves, it is impossible to make such a big wave sound!
When Ruoshui's flying sword almost descended to the surface of the sea to fly horizontally, the seemingly calm sea, suddenly from nothing, a huge wave miraculously appeared, and the sea scenery when he just flew high in the sky is completely different, if the water knows that his estimation is not bad, this calm sea is actually conjured by a special kind of mana, not a special angle very close to the sea surface, and the original appearance of the sea cannot be seen at all.
When Ruoshui maintained this altitude and turned his gaze from the waves at his feet to the front, his heart immediately sank to the soles of his feet.
From his distance and angle, the mountain or island that was always shining with dazzling light and evoking imagination had disappeared, and was replaced by a huge whirlpool that appeared out of thin air on the surface of the sea. I saw that the waves on the surrounding sea surface were like wild horses, rushing towards the center of the vortex in a circle from left to right, forming a huge circular funnel with a radius of tens of miles on the boundless sea level, and driving more seawater closer to the center, and finally, pouring down at the place of the black hole in the center. Looking at the momentum, it should be a huge thunderous sound, but I don't know why, not far from the whirlpool, Ruoshui can't hear this terrifying sound at all.
The most bizarre thing is that the rolling of a large amount of sea water even caused a change in the air, and a huge black tornado rose from the center of the sea vortex all the way up into the sky, straight into the clouds, and the end of the tornado was not visible at all.
It turned out that this was the true face of Baoshan, Ruoshui watched the five-colored gas faintly rising in the center of the vortex gradually dissipate in the air, and couldn't help but feel a little bitter in his mouth, and sure enough, just like he thought, this is a mirage!
These colorful-looking gases are exactly the same as the mirage emitted from Ruoshui's previous Misty Knife! No wonder everyone can't see that Baoshan is actually a towering seaspout, it turns out that there is a mirage in this area!
Legend has it that a mirage is a giant monster that can breathe mirage, create illusions on the sea, confuse the world, and devour ships. As for what kind of monster this mirage is, no one has really seen it, some sources say that the mirage is one of the nine sons of the dragon, and some sources say that the mirage is something like a big clam or a big mussel. But no matter what kind of thing it is, in the game of Daodao, Mirage must be a terrifying monster - a monster that can appear in the open sea and make such a big formation is not something that players at this stage can deal with.
Judging from the location where the mirage appeared, this mirage must be lurking in the whirlpool, constantly emitting mirage, disguising the huge whirlpool and seaspout into a treasure mountain, in order to hunt greedy players or NPCs. With this mirage and its mirage, it is no wonder that the sea appears so calm on the surface that the people on board simply do not see the great whirlpool that is almost close at hand; No wonder there isn't even a single sea fish nearby; No wonder the speed of the boat picks up, and the waves have that strange change; No wonder there is no sign of the mountain on the charts
If Ruoshui and Huahua didn't notice anything wrong just now, so they stopped the boat and came out to investigate, and everyone let the greedy guide to continue to move towards the so-called Baoshan, they didn't need to really drive the boat to the edge of the whirlpool, as long as they got closer to the whirlpool, they would definitely be caught by the huge attraction of the whirlpool, and even if the players had the ability to escape separately, the giant boat would definitely be destroyed in the whirlpool. And since the guy in the center of the vortex has laid this trap, he will definitely not allow everyone to escape, if that guy decides not to let go of the food that is in his mouth, then not only will the ship be destroyed, but everyone will have to die in this hellish place.
Ruoshui was frightened into a cold sweat by this discovery, and he couldn't care about looking at it anymore, so he hurriedly rushed back as fast as he could, while praying in his heart: "God bless, Sanqing blesses greatly, don't run out of that mirage, please!" ”
I don't know if God and Sanqing Da heard Ruoshui's prayer, anyway, Ruoshui flew out not far away, and his heart sank, "Why didn't the boat not only go back, but also seemed to be closer to the center of the vortex?" ”
Ruoshui, who pushed the speed of the flying sword to the maximum and fell back to the ship almost like a streamer, did not waste any time, and directly shouted at Xiao Long Yuxue, who was standing on the deck: "Why don't you turn back, damn, hurry up, there is danger ahead!" Due to his emotion, Ruoshui's tone was quite impulsive, and he didn't take into account the boss's face at all, so he directly used the language of commands.
Xiao Long Xuxue smiled bitterly, and before he could reply, the rest of the Sihaitang stopped doing it, except for Xue Wuqing, almost everyone glared at Ruoshui angrily. Just now, Ruoshui made Xiao Long want snow, and preventing everyone from going to Baoshan had already made the people's resentment boiling, and now he shouted unabashedly, which made everyone feel extremely disgusted with this self-righteous and indiscriminate dictator. Seeing this, Lao Wu hurriedly explained: "It's not that the boss doesn't look back, in fact, as soon as we left, the boss stopped the boat, but the boat didn't listen to the call itself, and continued to rush towards Baoshan." Later, when I came back and said that the boss wanted to turn around and drive back, he found that the boat could not turn at all, and we were in a hurry. ”
Damn, it seems that it is still too close, the ship has been attracted by the whirlpool, and also, in addition to the whirlpool and the seaspout, the attraction of the two is combined, and it is reasonable that there will be such a situation. Ruoshui saw that the situation was urgent, and he didn't care about anything else, so he quickly told what he had discovered.
Although most of the people still had half-believing expressions on their faces, the faces of Xiao Long Desire Snow and Wu Long and Wu Zhi immediately changed, and Xiao Long Desire Snow rushed into the control room in the cabin like a pounce of food, to make another effort, nothing more than that, they soared into the sky, wanting to go to the front to see what was going on.
"You are looking for death, you can make such a big formation, that mirage has survived at least two catastrophes, I don't care if you go to death alone, don't turn around and lure that guy out again, do you want to kill everyone?" Ruoshui hurriedly chased after him, grabbed Lao Wu, and stopped him from doing stupid things.
Lao Wu only then reacted, now is not the time to satisfy his curiosity, if he runs over to find out, it is very likely to attract the attention of the mirage, at this moment, it is better not to alarm this sea monster, or not to alarm.
At this time, Peaches, who didn't hear what Ruoshui said, suddenly flew down from the sky and said with a nervous face: "Listen, why did you suddenly hear such a loud sound of waves!" ”
Everyone fell silent when they heard this, and sure enough, there was a sudden sound of huge waves on the sea, and there was a faint sound of a whirlwind blowing. Everyone only broke through the black storm a few days ago, and they couldn't be more sensitive to the sound of wind and waves, and everyone can be sure that this sound is definitely not an illusion or something else, but a real sound of wind and waves.
It seems that the disguised effect of this mirage has gradually become unable to hide the growing sound of whirlpools and seaspouts. Originally, the people who were still wondering if Ruoshui deliberately made up this story in order to monopolize Baoshan were already a little convinced that what Ruoshui said was true, and their faces turned pale one by one, and they looked out on the side of the boat as Ruoshui said.
Because this angle is relatively close to the surface of the sea, and the distance from the center of the vortex is getting closer and closer, everyone gradually has to see that something is wrong, through the cover of the mirage, the waves on the sea surface have gradually become a huge arc, and the wind and waves are strong, by no means as many miles of waves as everyone saw when standing on the bow of the ship just now.
At this time, Xiao Long Xuxue ran out of the cabin, his face had turned from white to blue, "I tried, but I still can't turn around, the waves are too big, the speed is too fast, and the rudder can't move!" ”
"It's over!" This thought flashed in everyone's hearts at the same time, and they were suddenly devastated, but then everyone thought that even if the ship couldn't move, the player was alive, and the mirage didn't seem to notice everyone, so he could escape with Edgeworth, so they were all relieved for the time being.
Xiao Long Xuxue didn't think so in his heart, seeing that he was about to arrive at Heiyu Island, but such a thing happened, which made him regret that he almost hit the wall with his head, even if everyone could escape this difficulty, there was no foothold on the vast sea, and it was simply impossible to complete the task of bypassing this sea area and going to Heiyu Island, which still had more than a day's voyage.
"Let's hurry up, if it's too late, I'm afraid that guy will notice us." Ruoshui knew Xiao Long's mood of wanting snow, but he couldn't help but remind the boss that if he really alarmed the mirage in the whirlpool, even if everyone could escape with the sword, in this dangerous sea, the final result could only be all played. In that case, what difference is there between staying on a ship and waiting for the ship to be destroyed?
Xiao Long Xuxue weighed it in his heart for a long time, and finally decided to give up the task first, so that everyone could escape, at this time, Peaches suddenly said: "I have a way, I don't have to lose the boat, but also escape from this whirlpool." However, I don't know if you are willing to take the risk. ”