Chapter 1987 - 1870: Beset on All Sides (Part 6)

Capítulo 1987: Chapter 1870: Beset on All Sides (Part 6)

The Dragon Gate Warriors also drank this wine, followed the Sect Leader, and smashed the enamel bowls into fragments.

Fragments covered the ground.

“Alright, Dragon Three and Dragon Six, clean up these fragments,” Song Xiaodong nodded with his head down, waved his hand, and then entered the cabin.

The Dragon Gate Warriors burst into laughter.

“What’s so funny? Clean up the ground!” Dragon Three and Dragon Six instructed other Dragon Gate Warriors, and several people cleaned up the deck together.

Song Xiaodong went to flatter Xu Duoduo.

“Coach Xu, today might be the last sea voyage, so we’ll be counting on you.” Xu Duoduo was resting in the cabin.

“Remember what you said, you promised to send me back alive!” Xu Duoduo looked at Song Xiaodong with bright eyes.

“Don’t worry, Yumi Ono has already informed the Japan Ministry of Defense. If something goes wrong with the ship, they’ll definitely organize a rescue. You’re such a good swimmer, there won’t be any problems.” Song Xiaodong reassured Xu Duoduo, if one could even call it reassurance.

“It seems you’re prepared for the shipwreck, aren’t you?” Xu Duoduo glanced up and down at Song Xiaodong.

“Yes, no matter what they’re salvaging, I won’t let them succeed.”

“Alright, as usual, I’ll steer the ship, and you keep me alive.” Xu Duoduo squeezed out a smile and reached out to shake hands with Song Xiaodong.

“Alright, it’s a deal!” Song Xiaodong also smiled and reached out his hand.

Song Xiaodong went on to flatter Yumi Ono: “Miss Ono, we’ll rely on you for the underwater survey!”

“Don’t worry, I won’t let you spend all this money for nothing.”

Upon reaching Demon’s Corner, they found two ships already waiting there, a salvage ship and a light cruiser.

Dark Night Sect hired a military force from somewhere, including mercenaries, a light cruiser, and a submarine, with weapons and equipment far superior to what the Dragon Gate had, making Song Xiaodong feel a bit embarrassed.

“Salvage ship!” Lin Feng shouted.

“It seems they’ve already identified which one it is!” Song Xiaodong felt a bit tense too.

“Let’s harass the salvage ship and stop it from working!”

The light cruiser, seeing Yumi Ono’s ship approaching, quickly moved at a high speed, clearly having learned from the last time when Xu Duoduo had fooled them.

The light cruiser brushed past the front of Yumi Ono’s ship, leaving a trail of spray.

“Torpedoes!” A whole array of six torpedoes spread out in a radial pattern, covering a large area of water.

The person in the pilot cabin was immediately replaced, with Yumi Ono in charge of operations and Xu Duoduo as the co-pilot giving commands.

“Full right rudder!” Yumi Ono’s ship quickly turned, avoiding the six torpedoes, the closest one less than twenty meters from the stern, leaving everyone on deck in a cold sweat.

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The light cruiser, seeing its first attempt fail, turned 180 degrees, releasing another six torpedoes from the opposite side, intersecting with the previous ones and covering the path of Yumi Ono’s ship, which was about to face the torpedoes head-on.

As the saying goes, it’s better to handle well than to attack well.

Xu Duoduo remained calm and quickly shouted, “Full right rudder!”

Yumi Ono’s ship continued its full right rudder, drawing a circle on the sea’s narrow passage between the two rows of torpedoes, perfectly avoiding them.

“Beautiful!” Xu Duoduo and Yumi Ono high-fived.

The light cruiser’s torpedo loading was slow, so taking this opportunity, Xu Duoduo commanded, “Quick, charge forward to hit it!”

Yumi Ono’s ship moved at full speed, but the light cruiser was very fast and couldn’t be caught. So Xu Duoduo said, “If it runs, that’s fine, let’s harass the salvage ship!”

Yumi Ono’s ship continued forward, and in the blink of an eye, Dark Night Sect’s salvage ship entered firing range.

“Fire! Hit their salvage equipment!” Song Xiaodong commanded.

The Dragon Gate Warriors opened fire in unison, tongues of fire quickly covering the large salvage ship. The mercenaries on the salvage ship’s deck began to fight back, but soon realized that Song Xiaodong’s side wasn’t targeting people; they were targeting equipment.

“Damn it! This is really infuriating!” the salvage ship’s commander cursed as he watched the salvage rigs and buoys being riddled with bullets.

Realizing the situation, the light cruiser had no choice but to come back and protect the salvage ship, with both ships firing and suppressing Song Xiaodong’s side of the deck.

“Quick run! The torpedoes are almost reloaded!” Song Xiaodong shouted at the top of his lungs to the pilot cabin.

“Full left rudder!” Yumi Ono turned the ship to the left, moving to the salvage ship’s left side, while the light cruiser stayed on the right side, with the salvage ship in between, making it unsafe to release torpedoes.

“Prepare for boarding!” Song Xiaodong shouted again. The salvage ship and Yumi Ono’s ship paralleled each other, and the crew on both sides started exchanging gunfire, with casualties on both sides.

The light cruiser’s maneuverability was fast, quickly shifting to Yumi Ono’s side of the ship.

“Get moving!” Xu Duoduo commanded. Yumi Ono controlled the ship to move slowly forward, presenting their stern to the salvage ship and light cruiser.

“No, we need to take out the light cruiser!” Xu Duoduo shouted.

“I’ll figure something out! Cover me with fire!” Song Xiaodong picked up his rifle, took a prone shooting position, aimed at the light cruiser’s pilot cabin, and fired with a “bang!” The light cruiser’s driver’s forehead was blown, and the pilot cabin’s glass got a bullet hole.

The light cruiser quickly replaced the co-pilot to steer, and as Song Xiaodong was about to aim again, the light cruiser made a turn, exposing its belly and releasing another row of six torpedoes.

The distance was too close; turning around would definitely cause the hull to meet the torpedoes. It was a mistake to maneuver with the light cruiser around the salvage ship; they should have stayed clear and avoided close contact where there was no time or space to evade.

So unfortunate.

Song Xiaodong stood at the stern, watching the torpedoes gradually approach. Xu Duoduo also watched the electronic screen in the pilot cabin as six dots rapidly approached their ship. Yumi Ono was too scared to react, staring blankly at the flashing dots on the screen, her mouth agape.

“Go straight, go straight!” Song Xiaodong shouted at the pilot cabin. Xu Duoduo immediately understood Song Xiaodong’s intention, gently adjusted the ship’s attitude, and sped forward. The rate at which the torpedoes and Yumi Ono’s ship closed in slowed down somewhat.

But they were still getting closer.

The gaps between the six torpedoes were widening, soon to exceed the ship’s width, as Xu Duoduo carefully adjusted the ship’s course, keeping parallel with the two closest torpedoes. The torpedoes barely scraped past the ship’s sides, sandwiching Yumi Ono’s ship in the middle. The Dragon Gate Warriors peered over the ship’s sides, seeing the torpedoes brush past and move ahead of Yumi Ono’s ship.