On the endless Imperial East China Sea, the surging waves kept splashing white waves, but the entire sea surface showed a dark color.
There is a saying that describes this very well: clear water means shallow water, blue water means deep water, and dark water means deep water.
But in this vast abyss-like ocean, two cruisers more than 100 meters long, numbered No. 256 and No. 257, were flying the flag of the Imperial Navy and riding the wind and waves along a fixed patrol route.
at this time.
Inside the cabin of cruiser No. 256.
"Good morning, guys, did you find anything?"
Rear Admiral Mormont, who served as the captain, held a cup of freshly brewed coffee in his hand. With a refreshing feeling and the fragrance of coffee just after washing up, he opened the iron door of the combat command center with a smile on his face and faced the people sitting in front of their respective screens.
The technical soldiers said hello.
"Everything is normal, Captain."
Colonel Nadine, who served as the deputy captain, quickly reported.
"Really, that's right. I heard that the entrance to the alien invaders is in the snow-capped mountains. How could there be any warships sailing in?" Captain Mormont said cheerfully.
But at this moment, the radar commander next to him suddenly looked at the radar screen and reminded: "Report, there is a suspected human signal five nautical miles ahead!"
Five nautical miles is also the maximum limit for their ship-borne detection radar to distinguish humans. Any further away can only detect large ships or large dangerous species.
"A human?"
Major General Mormont, who had just taken a sip of hot coffee, raised his head and glanced at Colonel Nadine, both seeing deep doubts in the other's eyes.
Their current location is more than a hundred nautical miles away from the mainland of the empire. How could anyone show up?
"They must be the victims." Colonel Nadine guessed.
"possible."
Major General Mormont nodded.
These days, there are not many adventurers or bold fishermen who go to the depths of the East China Sea to hunt, and this behavior usually has two results.
1. If you successfully catch dangerous species in the ocean or catch a large amount of fish, you can make a big fortune when you go back.
Second, it directly becomes a dessert for dangerous marine species.
"Then save it."
Major General Mormont thought for a while and issued the order. Being able to appear in the East China Sea meant that he was either an Imperial person or a god or human being.
In the past, if they found out it was the latter after being rescued, they would most likely kick him back into the sea.
But recently, in order to fight against that alien world government, the empire is discussing alliances with gods and island countries, so saving a god and human now will most likely be regarded as meritorious service.
For a cruiser with a speed of thirty knots, a mere five nautical miles does not take long at all.
"Let's go out and see this unlucky and lucky guy~"
Major General Mormont joked to Colonel Nadine, then walked out of the combat command center and went to the cockpit with a good view, where he could view the sea situation through a monocular telescope.
Well, this is very strange.
Such a modern cruiser does not even have a professional marine binoculars, but this is the current state of the empire's technological level.
In fact, these warships also have detection radars and ship-borne missiles.
It can be said that they are all things that came about after the fashionable doctor from the Ministry of Science came out twelve years ago.
That's why most of the cities in the Ming Empire are obviously low-rise mud houses and stone buildings, without even a smooth cement road, and the reason why the navy's warships and equipment are so modern.
Therefore, the name of Dr. Fashion is very famous in the kingdom of Alchemy, where alchemy is developed, as well as in the advanced civilization of gods and island countries.
He is definitely a national treasure-level genius scientist. The key is that he is only thirty years old this year!
"Um?"
Just as Major General Mormont walked into the cockpit with Colonel Nadine behind him, he found that the place was already completely silent. Everyone was holding a monocular in front of their right eyes and stood there with their mouths open from ear to ear.
Gazing out the window at the vast sea.
Even when the captain and deputy captain came in, no one noticed.
"What's wrong with you?"
As Major General Mormont asked, these people responded one after another, and then they exclaimed with shock.
"There's a strange man there, Captain!"
"Yes, yes, it's a man riding a bicycle!"
"And the visual inspection is very tall. I wonder if I saw it wrong!"
Major General Mormont listened to a few words and finally grasped a few key points, but how could there be people riding bicycles on the sea?
"quiet!"
Then he waved vigorously to signal them to quiet down, then took the monocular telescope from one of them and walked to the window to look over, as did Colonel Nadine behind him.
soon.
The two of them saw in their narrow circular vision a long-legged man with a head full of black curly hair, really riding a bicycle on the rough sea!
Now the two captains and deputy captains were dumbfounded.
"What now, Major General?"
Colonel Nadine was at a loss, but Major General Mormont, who was asked, didn't know what to do for a moment. The man didn't seem to be a victim, but his leisurely temperament was more like a traveler.
"Why don't you send a small boat over to ask?"
Major General Mormont said hesitantly.
In this situation, he really didn't expect it to be an enemy attack, because the opponent's posture was very natural, just riding a bicycle leisurely on the sea.
This may be the ability of some kind of imperial weapon or ministerial weapon
But before the messenger behind him could step out of the cockpit, the entire No. 256 missile cruiser began to freeze from the bottom of the ship, and then spread at an extremely fast speed, completely freezing the inside and outside in an instant.
Major General Mormont and others in the cockpit did not even have time to react, and they may not even realize when they died. The messenger still maintained his posture of holding the hatch.
Everything happened too suddenly and strangely.
The man in the distance seemed not to have seen what was going on here, and was still riding his bike on the sea at a steady speed.
But if you look closely at the bottom of the bike.
You can see that there was originally only one ice road, but a second road branched off in the middle and pointed directly at Cruiser No. 256.
However, this also alerted the cruiser No. 257 following behind.
【Whoosh!】
Because this was obviously an attack, they immediately pressed the button of the anti-ship missile, and suddenly a missile sprayed violent fireworks and flew towards Kuzan's position.
At the same time, the machine gun at the front of the cruiser also began to rotate.
the other side.
Because the distance was quite close, the missile had already flown to a distance of only 600 meters from Kuzan in a few seconds, and the height was about 300 meters above the sea.
【Da da da da da】
The machine gun at the back had also started to rotate, and began to fire at a rate of five thousand rounds per second, pouring out a rain of firepower, and a large number of shell casings continued to fall.
However, whether it was anti-ship missiles or those machine gun bullets with tens of thousands of bullets, the moment they came into contact with a sweeping wave of air, they were frozen in mid-air and turned into ice cubes falling into the big waves.
at the same time.
I saw an ice spear more than two meters long appearing above Kuzan's head at some unknown time. In the blink of an eye, it exceeded the speed of sound propagation and pierced the deck of cruiser No. 257 like a white thunderbolt.
In an instant, the cruiser and the sea surface with a radius of about ten meters turned into a huge sea ice sculpture.
And that man.
Just riding a bicycle and whistling, he slowly left the scene, leaving only a gentle word floating gently in the sea breeze.