"Are we safe now?"
After two rounds of fierce shelling close at hand, the Jackdaw miraculously did not sink, but stumbled out of the harbor.
The red-haired girl pulled out the splinter stuck in her shoulder and asked.
Zhang Heng couldn't move when the armed ship on the opposite side opened fire, and Annie stood in front of him decisively. Although the two of them were lucky not to be hit by the shell, the splash damage caused by the shell falling on the deck was of great importance to the ship. The personnel are actually the most dangerous, and this part of the damage is basically borne by the red-haired girl.
Not only the wound on the shoulder, Anne's arm, calf, and cheek were all scratched to varying degrees, but the red-haired girl remained silent during this period.
Zhang Heng didn't express his gratitude, and the relationship between the two of them didn't need verbal thanks any more. He said while taking off his clothes for the latter to bandage.
"I don't think so. If they don't have an advantage in firepower, they might just let us go. But now they don't need so many ships to deal with those people on the beach, so they will definitely divide their hands to chase us."
As soon as Zhang Heng finished speaking, the shadows of two armed ships appeared in the gunpowder smoke behind him.
They should have just turned around and pulled some distance away from the Jackdaw, but they quickly sailed out of the gunpowder smoke.
In normal times, Zhang Heng didn't worry about the pursuers behind him. With the performance and firepower of the Jackdaw, even if it was one against two, there was no chance of winning.
But now the state of the Jackdaw is extremely bad. There are insufficient personnel on board, almost no gunners, at least three sails are damaged, and the hull is seriously leaking. Compared with before, the water level has risen by at least three feet. cordon.
In this case, not to mention resisting the pursuers behind him, even whether he can sail to Nassau is another matter.
That's why Dufresne looked so desperate before. Even if the Jackdaw can break through the layers of the navy's blockade, it won't be able to go far at all in its current state.
He couldn't see where the only life left was.
But since Zhang Heng wanted to gamble on this one, of course it was impossible to be unprepared. He temporarily handed over the rudder to Annie, borrowed the latter's dagger, and then came to the front of the mainmast. At that time, he studied under Rothko and worked under the old man for quite a while, so he was no stranger to things like climbing masts.
Although he has hardly done similar work since becoming the captain, his movements are not completely unfamiliar. He bit the dagger with his teeth and climbed to the top of the mainmast as fast as he could. He saw that the top part was scratched where an ancient Celtic name would have been inscribed.
Zhang Heng took the dagger out of his mouth. He had crossed out the name before, but now he carved it out again.
In the original plan, Zhang Heng planned to communicate with the so-called Celtic ancient god after getting the wooden box of the tule tree. This is also the safest way, but now he has no other choice.
Zhang Heng carried a lot of game props, but the only thing that could really help him in this situation was the unidentified shell.
However, nothing special happened after he finished his final stroke. At this time, the distance between the two armed ships and the Jackdaw had been greatly shortened, and the gunners on the ship were also on standby.
There is not much time left for Zhang Heng. He doesn't think that the Celtic ancient god named Betty just left him at this time. In fact, Zhang Heng has always suspected that the opponent's target on the previous ghost ship was not Seth, but him as the captain.
It was only later interrupted by Anne's sudden appearance, and the Celtic ancient god named Betty had to give up Seth, who was alone on the other side, but her goal never changed. In fact, the motive for stealing the three notebooks was not pure, but deliberately exposing Seth to Zhang Heng in order to attract his attention.
But what Zhang Heng didn't understand was why the ancient Celtic god named Betty never came to him after he got the shell.
Zhang Heng quickly reviewed the previous conversation with Seth. He recalled the sudden storm he encountered when he returned to Nassau, and the anger that Seth said was needed to control the storm.
Zhang Heng frowned, perhaps because his parents were not around all the time, he belonged to the group of precocious people, and compared with his peers, his emotions were relatively stable from childhood to adulthood.
There are times of anger, of course, but after realizing that anger can't solve the problem, he rarely feels angry about things anymore.
When Wei Jiangyang got a part-time job as a tutor for the first time and was cheated of money, everyone accompanied him to drink to relieve boredom. Later, he drank too much and said to Zhang Heng, "Zhang Heng, I think the best thing about you is that you always seem to be able to see clearly. This is a cruel world, but you will not be disappointed by it. How do you do it? It's like a bystander...you are good at everything, but sometimes you are too calm, which is a bit boring. "
Zhang Heng also knew that sometimes his san value dropped slowly, but he never thought that this would become his trouble one day.
He looked back at his life and found that there didn't seem to be anything particularly bitter or bitter that made him angry.
It's a little embarrassing now.
Because according to his inference, not only anger is needed to summon a storm, but also only continuous anger can sustain this storm. Like before, Seth's anger came and went quickly, so the storm was also very short.
And if he wants to get rid of the entanglement of the two armed ships behind him, he needs at least a storm that can last for half an hour.
Zhang Heng could only find another way. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
Half a minute later, the bows of the two armed ships were almost approaching the stern of the Jackdaw. At this moment, a thick bolt of lightning pierced the night sky.
The bolt of lightning happened to land on the mast of one of the armed ships. Although there was no one around the mast, the crew members were still sweating from the fright of this scene.
However, this was only the beginning, and then there was thunder and lightning in the sky, and at the same time, the lightning became more and more dense, just like a purple power grid. The armed ship was clearly approaching the Jackdaw, and the captain ordered to fire, but a huge wave hit the ship's side, knocking all the gunners on it to the ground.