Chapter 7 Century Star
At midnight, serpentine lightning illuminates the river surface, and the Century Star cruise ship trembled in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
It is autumn, the season when the rainfall in the Three Gorges region is the most common, and there is a storm that occurs once in a decade, with the wind catching up with level 10. Tonight, all ships are docked to shelter from the wind. There is nothing else on the water except the Century Star that drifts with the flow.
A few days ago, the Century Star was just an ordinary 4,000-ton viewing cruise ship, but until a few days ago, the account of the cruise tourism company suddenly received a large amount of money, and the remitter asked to buy the ownership of the Century Star. Faced with such a powerful money offensive, the old boss naturally did not hesitate at all and quickly completed the handover procedures of the Century Star.
Then in just six hours, a 100-person engineering team flew from the UK on the Oroin family's special plane. As soon as they landed, they rushed to the dock where the Century Star was parked and began to fully modify the cruise ship.
According to the requirements of the investment boss, the cruise ship will be converted into a surface ship with destroyer-level firepower and armor, so as to cope with the accidents and emergencies in the Yangtze River waters a few days later. The flank armor of the ship is still easy to solve, but the firepower configuration required by the boss is a big problem. After all, this is Jiuzhou in China, so you can't have a 130mm main gun that has swung the market at the front of a cruise ship, right?
Fortunately, the Oroin family has great magical powers and somewhere to get a carrier-based anti-submarine torpedo launcher and a supporting fire control radar system. After several days of modification and construction, the displacement of this Century Star soared to 6,500 tons.
At this point, this Century Star transformed into a perfect transformation from a cruise ship to a destroyer.
Price is the captain of this "destroyer". He sat in the position of the commander of the bridge with a cigar in his arms, holding a cigar in his arms, watching the waves and rain pouring on the front window. The people responsible for sailing the Century Star were temporarily drawn from the Royal Navy. Many of them were sailors serving on the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, and were the elite among the elites in the navy.
"It has actually exceeded the tenth level of wind and waves. This haunting weather. If this ship had not been converted into the standard of destroyers by those madmen, we should have been soaked in the cold river water waiting for the helicopter to rescue him." Price spitted out a cigar smoke ring and stared at the undulating dark water surface outside the front window.
"Sir, ask, who is the young man and woman who appeared on the bridge just now?" The sailor in charge of checking the weapon system raised his face full of doubts. In his perception, this was definitely a top-secret military operation in other countries. However, how could a young man and woman with a college student be allowed to board the ship on such a destroyer loaded with torpedoes and anti-submarine rockets?
"Don't ask me, I don't know if I ask." Price glanced at the young sailor, "but I know that the protagonist of the show tonight will definitely not be us."
The ship communications officer sent a report to Price. He immediately realized the importance of the report and immediately stood up and left the bridge to head to the deck.
To avoid the powerful searchlights attracting unnecessary attention, the Century Star has been sailing in the dark, and Price found the Chang brothers and sisters and Miss Hathaway on the deck of the heavy rain.
The Yangtze River was formed in ancient times and was the mother river of Jiuzhou in China and one of the important lifelines. More than a decade ago, floods and disasters occurred here. Mr. Chang couldn't bear to suffer from the disaster here, so he used a magic sword to suppress his luck and successfully resolve the crisis.
Now, time flies, Jiuzhou's science and technology and industrial level have developed rapidly. A super dam for flood control and water storage has been built in the Yangtze River Basin, so there is no need for a magic sword to suppress it.
Now, it is the time when things return to their original owners.
Chang Hao politely declined the diving suit prepared by Hathaway for him. The Yangtze River has the deepest depth of only 100. The monks in the Foundation Building Realm can withstand the pressure and cold of a 100-meter-deep water depth. As for the oxygen required for breathing, they can use the turtle breathing technique learned from grandpa to deal with it.
What he needs to worry about is not the deep water and the cold, but the monsters in the water. It is the dark moon and windy night, with the most yin energy, and only he knows the dangers.
Chang Ge has always supported the decisions he made with his brother unconditionally. She was holding a laptop with a rainproof compartment. At this time, she had fully mastered the sonar and anti-submarine systems of the Century Star destroyer, and the underwater detectors had been put into the water. Everything was working normally, and she was always ignoring every move in the water.
Chang Hao was pressed against the sign sensor on his chest, and data such as heartbeat pulse and breathing frequency were visually displayed on the screen. He pressed his index finger against the waterproof headphones that were tightly stuffed in his ears, and compared a ok gesture to Chang Ge.
Although Hathaway was not dark on the Eastern Immortal Art, she also keenly noticed that there was something more terrifying under the Yangtze River than ****. She was about to persuade him, and Price came over in the rain. "Miss Hathaway, because this ship has no stealth coating, the surface radar of the Yangtze River Navigation Administration still locked our position. They just informed us on radio that the scale of rainfall and wind level of the storm will continue to grow in the second half of the night. For safety reasons, they will send rescue helicopters to make us obey the arrangement unconditionally."
Price's tone was full of helplessness, "You should have heard of the work attitude of the people of Kyushu. Miss Hathaway. It is famous for being meticulous and implementing it to the end. According to time, the rescue helicopter will reach this area of water in half an hour."
Hathaway frowned delicately. In such bad weather, even the Oloin family, with amazing energy, could not interfere with the Navigation Administration's rescue plan in a short time. Just in case, this Century Star did have air defense artillery installed on it, but she could never do that kind of crazy thing.
The wind and rain could not invade Chang Hao a foot. He did not hesitate at all, grinned at everyone behind him, and then jumped into the dark water surface.
The water was stormy, but under the water was unexpectedly calm. What Chang Hao saw in front of him was the darkness that could not be seen with his hand. A bright ball suddenly rose in his pupils, like a jumping golden flame, allowing him to see through the endless darkness.
My grandfather told me more than once that the huge Jiuzhou has evolved over the years, and there are many monsters and spirits in invisible places. Most of them dormant when they enter the human race without plaguing rivers, but if they invade their territory without authorization, their end will generally not be very good.
These monsters have a general name, which is monsters.
And this Yangtze River that gave birth to humans can be called the nest of monsters.
Chang Hao identified a certain direction, put his spiritual consciousness to the extreme, and tried his best to avoid disturbing those powerful beings. The principle of the initial spiritual consciousness is similar to that of sonar, and the spiritual consciousness rebounded several times along the uneven riverbed, allowing Chang Hao to "see" further.
He took a deep breath, and the spiritual shield spread out on the surface of his body instantly burst out with powerful propulsion, advancing towards the deeper part of the darkness like an arrow from the string.
A few minutes later, the color of pure gold in Chang Hao's eyes suddenly jumped sharply.
In his eyes, a long sword standing alone at the bottom of the water was already in sight!
The sword emitted a burst of blue light, with the tip facing downwards, and the sword body was surprisingly thin, only narrow but only two fingers wide. The light on the sword seemed to have some kind of spirituality, like breathing, or like calling Chang Hao to go over and pull it up.
Chang Hao was breathing rapidly. He had seen this sword when he was very young. Unexpectedly, his grandfather used this sword to suppress his luck back then. No wonder he never saw it again.
The surging water noise came from the depths of the darkness. It was obvious that some powerful creatures living in the depths of the Yangtze River had already noticed his existence and were approaching him quickly.
Suddenly, a roar that seemed to be a low roar ignored the distance and passed through layers of water curtains. The powerful biological current directly disturbed the underwater magnetic field. Chang Hao could already use his naked eyes to observe a pair of big red lanterns strangely appearing in the dark water!
That is the blood-red eyes of the monster hook snake!
Chang Hao gushed his spiritual power and pulled the magic sword from the riverbed with him!
The light of the sword body surged, dispelling the darkness, so he could see clearly around him.
The densely packed ferocious monsters like snakes and fishes have surrounded him.
"This welcome ceremony is really a big battle." Chang Hao's mouth was bitter, and he still held the sword in his hand tightly.
Chapter completed!