At the moment when the gunfire roared, I turned my head to look at the ghost ship, but all I saw was the smoke-filled hull. The scene on the ship was completely covered by the smoke, except for the flashing green light behind the smoke screen. The only thing I could see clearly was the black dot flying toward our ship with a roaring sound.
"Get down!" I put my arms around Ren Tianqing, forced her down on the deck, and threw myself behind her, protecting her tightly.
As soon as I held my head with both hands, a cannonball came from the air and passed through the light curtain that had not yet closed. It fell to the deck, rising into the sky near us with a loud noise of fire, and broken shrapnel flying across the sky. From behind, Several paladins were thrown into the water.
The Knights' defensive light array failed before it could exert its power.
The ghost ship also approached us within a few dozen meters in an instant.
The main weapon of the ghost ship is medieval artillery. No matter the range, accuracy, or lethality, it cannot be compared with modern artillery. However, once the ghost ship closes the distance, what awaits us is still the result of waiting for death.
Now, we have no other choice but to run away like crazy.
Betty was still standing on the deck of the entire ship: "Be careful to hide, tell the captain to speed up, hurry up..."
As Betty continued to issue orders, the missionary also stood up in disgrace: "Betty, I order you to turn around immediately, rush back, rush to the ghost ship and fight to the death with those devils."
When the weapon range is insufficient, a ship-capture battle is indeed the best way, but the premise is that we can board the opponent's deck.
Although the ghost ship was under fire, no one could guarantee that the green ghost ship was real. If the ghost ship suddenly disappeared after the Paladin stepped on the deck, they would be left with only the buried fish. It’s all about the belly.
Before Betty had time to explain anything to the other party, there was another round of cannon fire on the ghost ship. The sound of the salvo this time was obviously half less than the original, but the sound of the flying cannonballs caused a strange buzzing.
"Iron chain cannonball!" I looked up and saw the rapidly circling cannonball pulled by an iron chain. I was stunned. Is there really such a thing in the world
To put it bluntly, the iron chain cannonball is two iron balls connected by a chain. After the cannonball is fired, the two iron balls will rotate at high speed under the traction of the chain, sweeping in all directions.
It is said that this kind of artillery shells are specially used to destroy the masts of warships or deal with dense formations of infantry. They are invincible when the two armies confront each other.
In the past, I always felt that it was impossible for artillery to accurately fire such shells. Now that I saw it with my own eyes, I couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.
In just a few seconds, an iron chain shell hit the cross on the edge of the deck. The wooden stake, which was as thick as a calf, snapped in two under the impact of the iron cable like a match, sending sawdust flying.
The force of the chain cannonballs did not diminish at all, easily tearing apart the steel armors of the three Paladins and twisting the men into two pieces. The broken corpses were flying with flesh and blood all over the sky, and the chain cannonballs went straight towards them. He flew in the direction of Betty.
"Be careful!" I yelled and suddenly exerted my strength. I jumped up from the ground and rushed a few meters away from the edge of the shell. I grabbed Betty around the waist and threw her to the ground. I didn't have time to dodge the missionary, who suddenly spun around. It was cut into two pieces after crossing the iron chain.
The lower half of the missionary's body was carried away by the iron rope and carried into the sea. The remaining half of the body fell on the boat. The missionary had not yet breathed his last. He grabbed the board of the boat with both hands and struggled desperately and shouted: "Betty, I order you..."
I didn't wait for the other person to finish what he said, so I lay on the ground and kicked him on the temple. The missionary suddenly became silent.
Fortunately, the people on the deck were all hiding from the shells, either lying on the ground or huddled in a corner, so they didn't see me kicking the missionary to death before he had time to die.
Betty, the only one who paid attention to my movements, took the initiative to ignore the abnormality in front of her, rushed into the cabin and kept urging the captain to speed up.
The clueless captain had long since stopped looking at the instruments and pushed the ship's speed to the top again and again.
Although the ghost ship chasing us has stopped firing, its approaching speed has not slowed down at all, and it will not leave behind us.
We didn't know how far we ran, but suddenly, for no reason, I felt a sense of inexplicable horror in my heart, as if I had a premonition of danger coming.
When I looked out the window, I saw a huge shadow floating under our boat.
Under the area of the shadow, even if I was in the cabin, I could still see it extending far beyond the edge of the ship. At first glance, it seemed like a small island suddenly rose up from the bottom of our ship.
"Quickly speed up!" I roared urgently: "Rush out of the shadows."
"Hell, this is already the fastest!" The captain's voice was filled with mad despair.
No matter how fast the captain accelerated, the black shadow always followed the bottom of my boat at a constant speed and slowly floated upward.
It wasn't until the black shadow revealed its rough outline that I saw that it was a huge sea ship.
I don’t know who shouted crazily on the deck: "Titanic, Titanic is under our ship..."
The next moment, an earth-shaking loud noise came from the stern of the ship. The freighter we were on seemed to be lifted halfway from the back to the front by a huge force. After being pushed diagonally a few meters into the sea, it crashed into the water again.
The people in the cabin were caught off guard and fell into a ball. When we reacted, there was another loud noise from the direction of the bow of the ship.
"We hit a rock!" When I stood up suddenly, what I saw was not a rock, but a small island covered with ice and snow, shaped like a glacier. Our ship hit the edge of the island, and the bow of the ship was stuck in the glacier.
The ghost ship that has been chasing us has disappeared. The Titanic, which once emerged from under the ship, has disappeared. If our ship hadn't been stuck in the iceberg, who would have thought that we had just narrowly escaped death under two ghost ships.
"Pack your things and get off the boat! Hurry up..." Betty didn't have time to care about where this place was, and quickly directed the Paladin to move all the equipment and supplies off the boat.
I glanced at the calm sea and said, "We can't get too close to the sea. We have to go up."
Betty glanced at the icebergs on the island: "Camp up behind the mountain and set out scouts to search the entire island."
I didn't expect that Betty would bring out as many as 200 holy knights this time. Including the sailors on the ship, we gathered more than 300 people.
While the accompanying priests were busy comforting the sailors and treating the wounded, we sat down guarding the coffin. I spoke first: "Which of you knows the legend of the sinking of the Titanic?"
Betty said: "I only know that the Titanic sank because it hit an iceberg that broke off from Greenland, causing the biggest maritime disaster at that time. It is said that the iceberg has existed for more than 100,000 years. .”
I nodded slightly and said, "This is a normal statement. What about the legend?"
Ren Tianqing whispered: "I have heard of a legend about the mummy's curse. The legend..."
"At the end of 1890, four young British people came to Egypt. A local smuggler sold them an ancient Egyptian coffin, and in the coffin was the mummy of Princess Amanra. After they bought the coffin, their bad luck followed. is coming."
"Of those four young men, first one left the hotel for no reason and disappeared into the desert. Then one was shot innocently and had to have his arm amputated. The remaining two also fell seriously ill after returning to China and were reduced to begging for a living. situation."
"The mysterious mummy was later transported back to Britain, but everyone who came into contact with the mummy could not escape bad luck. First, the wealthy businessman who bought the mummy and his family died in a car accident."
"Then there was the British Museum, which houses mummies. Four people died mysteriously in a row within a week. In the end, the trouble was so great that the museum guards were ready to resign en masse."
"Even after the mummy was hidden in the basement, the museum director who put it in the basement was taken away."
"At this point, this curse-filled mummy has become famous. A newspaper photographer went deep into the basement and took some photos of the mummy, but a terrifying human face was washed out on one of the photos."
"Later, no one knew what the actual situation was. They only knew that the photojournalist was found dead in his home the next day. The cause of death was suicide by shooting."
"Soon after, the British Museum gave the mummy to a collector, who immediately asked Mrs. Lavatsky, the most famous witch in Europe at the time, to exorcise the mummy. After a complicated exorcism ceremony , Mrs. Lavatsky announced: This mummy has a lot of amazing evil energy, and said that it is impossible to exorcise this mummy, because the devil will always exist in her body, and no one can do anything. Finally, Mrs. Lavatsky gave the collector advice: get rid of it as soon as possible."
"However, at this point, no museum is willing to accept the mummy of Princess Amara, because in the past 10 years, 20 people have suffered misfortune and even lost their lives because of her."
"However, the story did not end here. Soon after, an unbelieving mg archaeologist paid a considerable sum of money to buy Princess Amanra despite her terrible past, and planned to sell her Placed in New York City.”
"In April 1912, the new owner of Princess Amara personally escorted her and transported her onto a giant ship that was a sensation in the shipbuilding world at that time. For the sake of caution, he also placed her near the captain's cabin, hoping that she would be safe. Arrive safely in New York."
"The mummy of Princess Amanra. The last ship she boarded is now known to women and children as the 'Titanic'. The Titanic, known as the unsinkable ship, was buried at the bottom of the sea after hitting an iceberg. The story of the mummy ends here."