Chapter 60 Fog

Following King Chuang to the port, a gleaming golden warship was slowly moving out from the dock in the morning light. The huge hull is really exaggerated, and the Eternal is obviously shorter on the side.

"Is this a new ship?"

"Yes."

"I don't remember there were any plans for this ship?"

King Chuang said: "This was decided a few days ago. I didn't tell you because I couldn't contact you. Both Ying and Hongyue agreed."

I nodded and said: "It's not a question of who agrees. You are all guild leaders. You don't need to ask me to decide this matter. I'm just curious, why did you build such a large warship? Do you have the data parameters?"

"Yes." King Chuang fumbled around for a long time and pulled out a book of information and handed it to me. "The total length is 737.9 meters, the width is 139.1 meters, the draft is 23.7 meters, the ship's side is 16.1 meters out of the water, and the full load displacement is 237,000 tons. It is equipped with 6 groups of 24 powerful underwater thrusters. Most of the entire ship is made of graphite steel, with gold plating on the outside. The layer is used for magic resistance and rust prevention. The armor thickness is 739 mm in ordinary parts of the hull, and 819 mm in important parts such as ammunition depot, turret, engine room, and command tower. The main armament is 5 5-unit turrets. Before use Three behind two layout. The turret uses a 5 mm caliber Shenwu cannon with a firing range of 130 kilometers. In addition to the main gun, there is also a main magic light cannon and 0 miniature close-range defense magic light cannons. There are also another one on the ship. There are nearly a thousand artillery pieces of various sizes, and 32 magic crystal cannons are also installed. A 1 cm porous asbestos layer is installed inside all cabins, sealed with fine hardwood, and covered with leather and sponge for sound insulation. In addition, , we have used all the technologies you bought from the seabed, especially the crystal resonance system, which is better than radio. We have tested it and it can be used normally within 00 kilometers, and there is no noise at all. In the future, we will also use it at sea We can keep in touch. By the way, because the current propulsion technology is very complete, and there are observation glasses imported from Germany and the crystal communication technology you bought, so we removed the mast and left only a flagpole, which looks more concise. Some."

"Well, yes. The performance is great, but why do you think of building such a big warship?"

"In fact, this was not our idea, but General Wu's proposal."

"General Wu said that?"

"Yes, that's what General Wu meant. He said that in the past, the strength of maritime force depended entirely on the size of the battleship. The larger the battleship, the stronger its firepower, and the more useful it was. Later, with the development of aircraft technology and missiles, Large warships are gradually no longer suitable for modern battlefields. However, there are no actual missiles in this game, and the Japanese 'suicide' missiles are actually of no practical value. As for aircraft, although they can be replaced by flying beasts, they lack sufficient destructive power. What's worse is that the current power of anti-aircraft weapons is too powerful for those flying beasts, so the effect of air strikes is not obvious. Under this premise, maritime hegemony still needs to be maintained by giant ships and super cannons. Therefore, we accept military generals. The advice was to get as big a guy as we could."

"What's this big guy's name? Have you got a name yet?"

"We have prepared two names, one is called Tyrant and the other is called Hurricane. Can you choose one?"

"Isn't there a Hurricane?"

"It was sunk by the Japanese last time, don't you remember?"

"I'm not impressed! I think it's better to call this the Tyrant. Build another one like the sunken Hurricane to avoid chaos."

"That's no problem. Anyway, both names are ready-made. I can just find someone to weld them to the hull. If there is no problem, I will gather the fleet."

I nodded. "You go ahead and I'll take a look around here."

After King Chuang left, the port gradually became lively. On the one hand, everyone started to come online gradually, and on the other hand, King Chuang gathered everyone here. The whistles of the civil war ships in the harbor rang out, and the warships in the dock also came out one after another. I saw a lot of new ships in the fleet, and there were quite a few newly launched warships during this period. There is also an Eternal-class ship named Thor, which replaced the sunken Victory.

Hundreds of warships sailed out of the port one after another, and the sea outside Essinger was full of warships. The navy NPCs in the alliance are also embarking on the ships one after another, and some are still loading supplies for the unanchored warships. Such a huge fleet is not something ordinary people can afford. Every time they go on an expedition, the supply costs are exorbitant. Fortunately, we have been fighting to support war, and we can barely bear it.

When I got to the bridge of the Tyrant, most of the surrounding warships had already left the inner harbor. The Tyrant was too big and was still busy turning around. After finally getting this big guy out of the port, the surrounding warships have been waiting for a long time. It seems that ships in the future cannot be bigger, otherwise it will be a problem to leave the port.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the huge fleet headed by the Tyrant left Essinger in a mighty manner and sailed towards the location marked by the intelligence. Unexpectedly, Red Moon happened to be online at the port, and of course it set off with us. In addition, several dragon players such as Lin Yue and Sun Yan also followed, saying they wanted to see the guild's naval strength.

The location given in the information sent by Atlantis is in the Pacific Ocean. The possibility that a fleet as large as ours will pass through the Sea of ​​Japan without encountering Japanese warships is basically zero. However, we are not afraid of encountering Japanese warships. Anyway, we are now When the army is strong and the horse is strong, whoever you encounter is unlucky.

In order to cross the storm zone, I specially got a piece of Biling's skeleton and put it on the Tyrant. As a result, it was really calm when crossing the isolation zone. The sea was as calm as a lake, and there was no strong typhoon like the last time I encountered it. We need to be careful on the journey after leaving the storm zone. The Japanese fleet's range of activities has been extended to the outside of the storm zone. From now on, we may encounter the Japanese fleet at any time.

After sailing quietly for a while, the communication crystal suddenly rang. "The Conch is calling the Tyrant, please answer." The Conch is a fast detection boat only twelve meters long. It is equipped with a very large observation platform and several thrusters, and is specially responsible for the lead reconnaissance of the fleet. Anyway, this kind of small boat is fast. If it encounters a problem, it will turn around and run away. No one can catch it.

The player in charge of the communication crystal pressed the crystal and began to respond: "This is the Tyrant. What's going on?"

"We found a strange 'mysterious' fog band ahead."

"What's weird about the fog?"

"We're upwind now, but the fog is coming towards us. I don't think normal fog can move against the wind."

"How big is the fog area?"

"I don't know. The observation range is full of fog. A thick layer on the entire sea surface is about 0 meters high, pressing down like a wall."

"Don't go in yet, you will come back soon." I took the crystal and ordered.

"Understood, evacuate immediately. Communication ended."

We sailed for a few more minutes, and the reconnaissance boat rushed back from directly in front. Even if it circled in front of the enemy several times at this speed, no one could hit it. The speedboat entered the ship through the large entrance behind the Tyrant and berthed. After a while, the observers on the ship arrived at our bridge.

"President."

"Where is the fog you see?"

The girl walked up to the chart and said, "Here."

A large group of us gathered around to look at the chart. In fact, only Hongyue, myself, and King Chuang could understand it. Those dragon players were just joining in the fun. Hongyue said: "It's not that far away from us!"

I shouted to the observation room above my head: "Did you see anything?"

A voice came from above: "There seems to be a shadow. It's probably the heavy fog."

King Chuang looked at me and asked, "Should we go around it?"

Before I could speak, Hongyue said first: "We don't know how big this fog is. It may be too late to get around it!"

I finally said: "Instruct all ships to close their formation and get as close as possible. Small ships can recover all they can. In addition, reduce the ship's speed to three-quarters of the standard speed."

The huge fleet gradually began to move closer together, and the small boats were gradually put away. By the time we finished our preparations the fog was visible to the naked eye. It was really like what the observation ship reported. It was as big as a wall and scary. The continuous fog is so thick that you can't see anything inside. This feeling is not good at all.

King Chuang looked at the fog wall and said, "This is definitely not a weather phenomenon."

"Nonsense. There is no fog that can move forward against the wind. What's more, the fog that Bi Ling can't dispel, how can it be a simple weather phenomenon?" I raised my head and shouted again: "We and that fog How far is it?"

"Three kilometers."

"Instruct all ships to slow down another quarter."

"Yes, each ship will slow down by a quarter."

Seeing the heavy fog pressing in like a wall, many players ran to the window to look at the situation outside. Nong Wu quickly swallowed up the battleships one after another like a monster, and the weird atmosphere made people breathless.

"Every ship reports the situation."

"Everything is normal on the Eternal."

"Everything is fine with the Flash."

"Everything is fine on the Thor."

"Everything is fine on the Anchovy."

"..."

It seemed that there was nothing wrong with the fog itself, and all the warships entered the fog normally. As long as we keep heading, there should be no problem. This fog cannot cover the entire Pacific Ocean, and we can always get out.

I was thinking good things and then came the bad news. "President, if something happens, come over and take a look."

The person who called me was the navigator. We all gathered around and found that the compass, the sea direction sign, was spinning crazily. King Chuang was the first to shout: "What is going on?"

The player next to him said: "Don't panic, the player's map has a north arrow function."

As a result, another player shouted: "No! The compass on my personal map is jumping randomly!"

"This is a big problem!" Hongyue looked at the dense fog around her and said, "We are lost! The observation hand above? Can you see anything?"

"It's all fog, my vision is completely blocked, I can't see anything!"

"Can't we turn around now?" a dragon player asked.

Chuang Wang explained: "Without a compass, we can't determine the steering angle. If we don't turn around, we might still be able to get out. If we turn around, we will really get lost!"

Well……! The Eternity on our left suddenly blew its whistle, and the melodious and loud whistle immediately attracted everyone's attention. All of us turned our eyes over there, wanting to see what Eternity was doing. However, from here we can only see a general appearance of the Eternal, which is vague and not very clear.

"What is that?" A player suddenly pointed to the left front of the battleship. Everyone looked along and could only see a faint outline, as if something was approaching.

"***, it's a ship!" King Chuang jumped to the helmsman's position and pushed the helmsman aside. "Full right rudder, propeller at full speed. Sound the whistle. Signal the battleship behind to stop emergency."

Almost at the same time that Chuang Wang finished shouting, there was a huge impact sound from our left side. The Eternity shook violently, and the shadow in front was hit and suddenly flew sideways. It was obviously no match for the Eternity. However, the Eternal was suddenly hit and stopped, and the battleship behind it could not stop. There was another roar, and a battleship hit the side and rear of the Eternal. The Eternal was hit and suddenly jumped forward, hitting the ship in front again.

The sudden appearance of the ship could no longer withstand the second impact, and broke into two pieces with a huge metal twisting sound. The Eternal's sharp ramming angle designed for combat cut the poor ship into two pieces. Before we had time to worry about what happened to the Eternal, the whistle sounded again from the front left. The ship that suddenly appeared just now is not a separate ship, it is part of a fleet. Hearing the whistle and crashing sound here, the other party also sounded the whistle. Unfortunately, it seems to be a little late. The black shadow has already appeared in front of us. At this speed, we will definitely cut that guy in half.

Chuang Wang fiercely pressed the steering wheel and turned it to the left. "The entire aircraft is in emergency reverse, turn on the side thrust engine, and use full left rudder."

The Tyrant suddenly changed from full right rudder to full left rudder, creating a huge wave on the sea. The other party also cleverly accelerated forward, hoping to cooperate with us to avoid the impact. There was a loud noise and the Tyrant shook slightly. With an unpleasant sound of metal friction, the Tyrant scraped against the stern of the opponent's ship and let it pass, but what was worse was that there was more than one ship on the other side. We dodged the first one but failed to dodge the one behind. With a bang, an unknown ship was hit by us and flew up. The huge force forced the bow of the ship into the hull. The Tyrant also shook violently, but there seemed to be no major reaction. After all, we are too big.

The next few minutes were followed by a series of crashes and whistles. It sounded like at least hundreds of ships had collided with each other. There is no way to issue orders in the crystal communication. The communication channel is in chaos and you can't hear who is saying anything.

I shouted at the communication crystal: "Quiet, everyone." The communication frequency suddenly became quiet. I continued: "Each ship will report the situation in order."

"The middle part of the port side of the Ever Given was dented, three people were injured in the fall, and there were no other losses. The report is complete."

"The bow of the Flash was deformed and the stern rudder was damaged. One crew member fell and was injured, but there were no other injuries. Report completed."

"The loading crane on the left rear side of the Thor was deformed. One crew member was seriously injured and one fell into the water. Salvage is in progress. Report completed."

"..."

After all the reports were completed, Chuang Wang also reported: "Three people on this ship were injured by falling, and one person was hit on the head by a falling wrench. The hull was not damaged."

I hissed. "Fortunately, our battleships are strong enough!" He looked at the crowd of battleships outside and said, "Who did we hit?"

Hongyue pointed to the logo on a metal fragment hanging on the railing outside the bridge. "I think it's the Korean fleet! That seems to be their logo."

"The Korean fleet? Why did they come to the South Pacific? King Chuang stayed in command, while Hongyue and I went outside to take a look."

I took Hong Yue and a large group of dragon players down to the deck. There was a ship with half its bow rushing onto our deck. There were many people running around up there, looking very panicked. They have no communication system, and it is inconvenient to contact them in the event of an accident. They have no unified command, so they are in chaos. I walked over and asked Phantom to translate for me. "Are you Korean players?"

The other party saw us very nervous and looked on guard. "Who are you?"

"We are the Chinese fleet."

"Huh!" the guy breathed out. "I was scared to death. I thought I was Japanese!"

"I said, which guild do you belong to?"

"From the Tianji Alliance."

"What? Are you from Park Yin's guild?" This world is so small, we can meet here!

"Do you know our president? She is also in the fleet, but I don't know where she is now. The fleet is in chaos!"

"It doesn't matter, I can find her."

Run back to the bridge and use the communication crystal to ask each ship to search for nearby warships. If anyone finds Park Yin, report it. Soon there was a report that they had found it. It turned out that Park Yin had collided with one of our destroyers from behind. I asked for the approximate location, spread my wings and flew over. It was really clear now that the battleships below were all crowded together to form a small steel island, and the scene was chaotic. The Korean fleet suddenly "cut in" from our left side. The first one to hit was the Eternal, and then both sides huddled together and bumped into each other. Although I have ordered an emergency stop, the battleship cannot just stop. The inertia of the battleship weighing 10,000 tons was extremely strong, and it easily cut the Korean's thin armored battleship into pieces. At that time, the Korean warships were relatively forward, and our warships basically hit the opponent's side with their bows, so the damage was not serious.

After finally finding the reporting ship, the entire bow of the destroyer was 'inserted' into the Korean warship in front. It seemed that the collision was serious. I landed at the point of impact, and sure enough I found Park Eun. The little girl's head was wrapped in a bandage, and it looked like she was seriously injured.

"Park Yin?"

"Ziri? It's you!" Pu Yin looked at me in surprise. "Don't tell me this is your fleet."

"Unfortunately that's the case!"

"Oh my god!" Park Yin sat down on the ground. "Half of my fleet has been reimbursed by you, how are you going to compensate me?"

"Isn't it? Are you relying on me for this? How can I see in such a heavy fog? You suddenly appear on our route. What should I do? If I hadn't started slowing down a long time ago, you would all be scattered. Got it!"

"It's almost as if they're gone now!"

I looked at the impact cut and said, "Fortunately, it's not unsalvageable. Use pontoons to prop up the boat. As long as we can get it back to the port, it can still be repaired."

"Then what's the repair cost?"

"Didn't I tell you? This was an accident. I didn't hit you on purpose. Besides, your battleship also hit me! There was a battleship in front of you and it climbed onto the front deck of my flagship. Who am I looking for? go?"

"5555~My fleet! I was originally planning to compete with the Japanese, but now you have to cancel it!"

"I'm also here to fight the Japanese. Otherwise, do you think I'm boring and bringing more than 200 warships to the Pacific for sightseeing?"

The middle-aged man who looked like a gangster behind Park Yin came up and said: "Miss, the top priority now is to fix the battleships first, and then separate the battleships on both sides. It is very dangerous to connect them together like this!"

"Yes, this needs to be dealt with first."

I immediately said enthusiastically: "If the anti-sinking buoys are not enough, I can support you."

"Of course you want support, it's all your fault!" Park Yin glanced at his flagship, "Take me to your flagship, right? It's so 'chaotic' here, I'm afraid we won't be able to separate for a while!"

"Oh well!"

Park Yin explained the matter to the middle-aged man, and then followed me back to the Tyrant. After seeing my new ship, she couldn't help but fuss for a while, but she quickly recovered. "Sister Hongyue is here too?"

"Isn't this Park Yin? Isn't this your fleet?"

"It's my fleet, but now you have turned it into a wounded soldier!"

"That's unfortunate!"

I interrupted their conversation and said, "Park Yin, how did you get here?"

"Forget it! We somehow got into this fog at noon yesterday and kept going in circles. I don't know if it was because the area was too big or something, but we couldn't get out. Everything that could indicate the direction was in chaos. 'Jump, the heavy fog has even covered the sun and stars. I can't even see the stars pointing in the direction! What about you?"

"It has only been ten minutes since we came in, but you suddenly showed up and had a close encounter with us!"

"Can you blame me? You don't turn on the lights or blow the horn, how do I know there's something!"

"Aren't you also running around in the dark?"

"We have been here for a long time, so it is normal to let down our guard. You guys relaxed your guard after only ten minutes. This is not what you should be doing."

"Forget it, there's no result in this argument, let's talk about what to do?"

Park Yin said: "We have tried all the ways we can think of, and none of them work!"

"Did you call for help?"

"I screamed, but it was useless! We encountered fog in the Tsushima Strait yesterday, but you said this is the South Pacific. It can be seen that this foggy area can move us, where will we move now? I don’t even know where to find us if we call for people to come?”

"Then have you considered leaving separately?"

"I tried it, but it didn't work! Seven of the separate battleships disappeared, and the others collided together! The people on the missing ships all died inexplicably and came back to the city and resurrected. I asked them but they didn't know anything."

"I have so many warships, won't they all be handed over here?"

"If you have no way to leave, you have no choice but to 'commit yourself' and go back! Of course, you can't take even one ship with you!"

"That's not possible! My battleship is very expensive. It's better to rebuild it! Besides, there is no time. I have to complete a mission right away!"

A dragon player suddenly said: "How about we drop anchor and try?"

"ah?"

"Yes, anchor down. Anyway, the fog is moving. If we don't move, it will move away on its own and we will get out."

Chuang Wang said: "It's useless. This is the deep sea area of ​​​​the South Pacific. Our anchor chain cannot reach the bottom of the sea."

"Wait, I have an idea." I told them. "No need to drop anchor, I'll just go down."

"Ah? Are you going down?"

"My demon pet Aina is a mermaid. Although she has no sense of direction on the water, she knows the topography of the seabed and can find the direction along the seafloor."

"Then how do you take us away?"

I said: "I'll take a rope down, tie one end to a float, and tie the other end to my waist. I'll move underwater, and you just follow the float. If you leave the fogging range, just pull the rope a few times and I'll do it." knew."

"This is a good idea." Chuang Wang and others agreed.

A report suddenly came from the observation room above: "President, a black shadow was spotted ahead, suspected to be a battleship!"

"Hurry up!"

There was chaos on the boat. I rushed to the loudspeaker and shouted over the public address: "Don't come over, there's another fleet here!"

The sirens on both sides sounded almost at the same time, but everyone knew they couldn't escape. The warships on our side are all huddled together and no one can move. The warships over there are very fast and there is no way to avoid them. As the black shadow became clearer and clearer, we all saw clearly that they were some battleships, obviously another fleet.

Inevitably, there was a rumbling crash again, the Tyrant trembled violently, and there was a sound of metal twisting outside, and the scene became increasingly chaotic. A large warship actually collided with the South Korean warship that was about to sink. It suddenly jumped up and a guy rushed to the front deck of the Tyrant and lay across it. The warships behind collided one after another, and no one was spared. They all piled together. However, the unlucky one in this collision was the Korean fleet. Our warship was not directly hit but was shaken by the transmission, and the damage was almost zero.

Park Yin couldn't help but started swearing. He grabbed my phone and shouted: "Who bumped into me again? The one without eyes?"

I snatched the intercom back and switched to the internal channel: "Go and see whose fleet it is?"

After a while, there was a response: "President. The other party claims to be the offshore fleet of the American Lake Guild."

"Tell them our location and let their president meet with us."

"knew."

A few minutes later we met the other president on the deck, and he was surprised to see us. Park Yin didn't know English, so I had to translate it, since Phantom can speak any language anyway.

"Are you Chinese?" the other party asked.

I replied: "I am Chinese and she is Korean. Our fleets just collided ten minutes ago, and we were discussing the aftermath and you collided again!"

The other party smiled awkwardly: "We can't see you either. We started to slow down when we heard your whistle, but the distance is too close and we can't get out of the way!"

"There is no need to discuss the reasons. Anyway, they have already collided together. The problem now is to separate as soon as possible. Who knows if there is a fleet heading towards us."

King Chuang said: "I have ordered the warships outside to blow their whistles every short period of time. Judging from the volume of the whistles, no one will hit them again. It is absolutely too late to slow down after hearing the sound, unless the opponent is advancing at full speed. .”

"So... I'm sorry, what's your name?" Suddenly I realized that I hadn't asked the other person's name yet.

"John." He held out his hand.

"My name is Zi Ri, this is King Chuang, this is Hong Yue, and her name is Pu Yin."

"Hello."

"I think we should get rid of all the warships quickly. Those that are not stuck should leave first so that we can save those ships that are stuck with each other."

King Chuang pointed to the ship lying sideways on our deck: "What should we do about this?"

I said to the dragon players behind me: "Excuse me, we can't move these big guys."

Sun Yan came up and said, "Leave it to us. You can't sail a boat, but you still have the strength. Come on, everyone, move this thing away."