After speaking, Bill ignored Ian and gave the order to the sailors to stay where they were, so the twelve ships dropped their anchors and stayed where they were, waiting for Raab's voice to disappear.
Ian was also listening carefully, and at the same time lamented the folk wisdom of Captain Bill and the others.
He still remembered that when Luffy and the others recklessly embarked on the great route without knowing anything, when they went down the waterway, they happened to encounter Rab blocking the road, and they were about to hit him at last. No, it was Luffy who fired the bow cannon to stop the ship.
Ian didn't know if the cannon's reaction force was that strong. At that time, he was thinking, does everyone who enters the great route need to shoot like this
However, after coming to this real world of pirates, he realized that he was thinking wrong, not everyone is a daredevil like Luffy and the others. The whale Rab has been watching at Gemini Cape for decades. If every ship crashed into it, Gemini Cape would have been blocked by ship wrecks long ago. Those who want to enter the great route will always have their way.
Rab's cry was vaguely heard in the wind, and I don't know how long it had passed. Suddenly, Ian heard a booming sound, and the distant Inversion Mountain trembled, so Ian knew , Raab it has started banging away.
The fleet waited quietly. Fortunately, it didn't take long for Raab to hit the mountain. When the tremor of the Upside Down Mountain stopped, Bill listened again and found that Raab's cry had indeed disappeared. So he immediately issued an order: "Everyone has! Anchor! Sail!"
Bill, on the other hand, stood on the bow of the ship again, and began to observe the sea with a telescope.
"What are you doing again?" Ian asked behind him.
Bill didn't look back, and explained: "Oh, I'm observing the ocean current. If you want to enter Mount Upside Down, you have to follow the ocean current."
As soon as he finished speaking, Bill had already found the location of the ocean current, so he turned his head and shouted loudly: "Turn the rudder! Go towards two o'clock."
With Ian and his ship leading the way, the rest of the ships behind also began to adjust their course, and the entire fleet began to slowly cut into the ocean current.
Staying on the boat, Ian’s feeling is the most obvious. When the boat enters the ocean current, Ian only feels the speed of the boat suddenly increase, just like the sudden acceleration of a car, and Ian also feels the speed of the boat. However, at this time, all the ships did not open their sails, and they were completely advancing with the ocean current.
"The water flow is so fast!?" Ian had a bad feeling.
When Bill heard what he said, he didn't look back. He continued to hold up the binoculars and look ahead, saying, "Of course, it's very difficult for a ship to adjust its direction at such a current speed. It's time to test us!"
Ian couldn't help licking his dry mouth. He had thought at the beginning that if he couldn't find the fleet, he could follow the example of Ace and drive a small boat to the great route by himself. A little naive.
"Right rudder! 13 degrees!"
"More! Left rudder! 3 degrees!"
"Very good, hold on!"
Bill's orders were conveyed from time to time, and the sailor in charge of the helm strictly followed Bill's orders nervously. Ian knew that Bill was adjusting the course of the ship. It's so big, so it must be aligned with the entrance.
As we get closer to the entrance, the speed of the ocean current becomes more and more turbulent, and the speed of the ship is obviously accelerating. Under such circumstances, turning the rudder in any general direction is courting death, and it is very likely that the rudder wheel will be broken Yes, so Bill's orders are all fine-tuning the course bit by bit.
The figure of Chitu Continent also appeared in the eyes of everyone at this time. It was a majestic mountain range. At a glance, one could not see how high it was, nor how long it was. It was like a horizon line, just lying in front of the ship .
Some sailors on the ship may be going to the great voyage for the first time. Seeing such a huge monster lying in front of them, thinking that if the ship fails to operate, they will be destroyed and buried in the bottom of the sea. These sailors suddenly collapsed. They shouted in panic Saying: "Turn back! Turn back! We'll collide!"
"Ian, tell them to shut up!" Bill said without looking back.
Ian was also decisive, rushed over immediately, and hit everyone hard on the head, knocking these panicked people unconscious to the ground.
Anyone with a little sailing experience knows that panic at this time will not do any good. They are all on the same boat, and they can only trust the captain's decision-making.
It was also at this moment that Ian understood why the captain had such authority on a ship.
It can be seen that Bill is also very nervous, with sweat on his forehead. Although he has traveled to and from the great route more than ten times, he cannot guarantee that he will be so lucky every time.
Outside the ship's side, there are surging waves. The speed of the ship has reached its peak at this moment with the ocean current. Ian looked towards the south sea. He knew that in fact, all the way to the south, he could reach the windless zone of the great route. As long as you pass through the windless belt, you will be the great route. It seems very simple, but no one chooses to take this route. Instead, they choose to take the entrance of the reverse mountain, which shows that the windless belt is even more dangerous.
In the hazy mist, the entrance could already be seen. From Ian's point of view, their ship's course was just right to enter the entrance smoothly, but Bill still didn't relax. Before entering the entrance, any sloppiness was possible. It will cause irreparable consequences, so his orders are still being issued, and the ship's course is constantly being fine-tuned.
Boom! With the sound of water hitting the shore, the ship that Ian and the others were on suddenly tilted its bow, and the whole ship became tilted. Everyone couldn't stand still, and fell down like a gourd. deck.
However, even if it fell like this, it still couldn't stop the sailors on the ship from bursting into cheers!
"Long live Captain Bill!"
"Come in, we got in smoothly!"
The reason why the ship was raised was because they had already entered the waterway and were climbing the mountain along the waterway. Bill was indeed an experienced old captain. His adjustment of the course allowed the ship to enter the waterway accurately. At this moment, He is the hero of the whole ship.
Bill also heaved a sigh of relief, turned his head to look at Ian and said, "Haha, sure enough, God also plans to let me retire smoothly!"
Ian smiled at him, and finally let his heart down.
"What about the ships behind!?" Bill asked loudly.
A sailor at the stern, who was holding up his binoculars to observe the rear, also replied loudly: "No. 2 ship entered... No. 3 ship also entered... No. 4... Not good! The course of No. 4 ship has deviated!"
Following the cries of the sailors, many people ran to the stern with concern, and Ian also ran over. He saw two ships behind, both of which were separated by a certain distance. They were No. 2 ship and No. 3 ship. Ships, they all entered the channel smoothly, but at the entrance position, ship No. 4 can see a clear course deviation!
He snatched the binoculars from a sailor and looked over, and saw that the people on the No. 4 boat were in a mess at this moment. There were several people at the rudder trying to turn the steering wheel, but the current The speed is too fast, and the huge force they bring, no matter how hard they try, the ship still deviates a little bit.
Then all of a sudden the group of sailors who were turning the wheel fell on their side.
"No! Their steering wheel is broken!" A sailor who was also observing screamed.
"They're dead!" Bill couldn't help but regretfully said after hearing this.
In Ian's sight, Ship No. 4 was carried by the current and hit the mountain wall next to the entrance channel at an extremely fast speed. The whole ship disintegrated into countless pieces under the huge impact force. .
The sailors on the ship were thrown into the air and then fell into the sea. After sinking, they never emerged again. Not only people, but also wreckage.
"They were swept away by the ocean current!" Bill took off his captain's cap, put it on his chest as a gesture of silence, and said, "May they rest in peace at the bottom of the sea."
The people in the boat did not speak, even Ian took off their hats to pay tribute.
Before he heard that the great route was dangerous, he didn’t really feel much. After all, he just heard what others said, and he didn’t experience it personally. Now that he witnessed the complete sinking of No. Alright, a ship, one or two hundred people, all died at the bottom of the sea just because of a shipwreck!
After the ocean current hits the mountain wall, it will form a downward rolling ocean current. Under such circumstances, even people with good water skills will not be able to float up. They can only turn into corpses and sink forever under the dark and cold seabed. The shipwreck can be said to be shocking, but Bill and the other people on the ship all have a common expression. It seems that they have seen such a thing more than once or twice
"The fleet suffered losses, what should we do?" Ian asked Bill.
"What else can we do?" Bill shrugged and said, "Everyone who got on the boat was actually prepared to die. One boat was lost, and we still have eleven, so we still have to move on. .”
Now even Ian doesn't know how to say it, sure enough, he still doesn't know much...
Perhaps it was because of the tragedy of the No. 4 ship. The ships behind seemed to be more cautious. They adjusted their course with 120,000 points of energy, and entered the channel one after another without any losses.
The only ship that died was No. 4 ship, and Ian thought tremblingly: "No. 4 ship, what a terrible death! I won't be on such a ship if I kill myself in the future!"
Watching the boats climb the mountain along the waterway, Ian asked Bill: "How high is this mountain? How long will we have to climb?"
"Usually about three minutes!" Bill said with a pipe in his mouth, "Hurry up, when you get to the top of the mountain, you will be able to see the waterways of the other three oceans, Eastern Blue, Western Blue, Northern Blue and Southern Blue. , the ocean currents of these four oceans will all converge at the top of Mount Upside Down."
Can see the waterways of other oceans? Ian was stunned for a moment, and then asked suddenly: "Uncle Bill, in this way, if ships in other oceans happen to turn upside down the mountain along the waterway, wouldn't they collide with each other on the top of the mountain?"
"Such a thing has indeed happened!" Bill said with a smile: "But the chance of that is very small, and it may not happen once in a few years."
"Then what if we do meet?" Ian asked.
"Then we can only see who can survive!" Bill shrugged and said with a smile: "Don't worry, we may not be so unlucky."
However, before the words fell, the watchman on the mast suddenly yelled in panic: "I found other ships! They are from the South China Sea Passage! We...we will collide with them!"
Bearden was dumbfounded immediately, staring blankly at Ian.
Ian also wanted to give himself a slap in the face: "Nimma, call you Crow's Mouth!"