Looking at the harbor not far away and the lighthouse standing on a reef, Pauleicht suddenly panicked.
He turned back and stared at Richard: "Are you sure we didn't go the wrong way?"
A burst of anger surged in Richard's heart! If any blind guy on the ship had raised such a question before, Richard would have jumped up and fixed him.
It is the greatest insult to a captain to suspect him of taking the wrong path at sea!
However, this time, he hesitated. Because the scene he saw outside the window was really different from the haven that still maintained its natural flavor in his memory. So when he spoke, his own confidence seemed not enough: "I, he
...You shouldn’t have gone wrong, right?”
His face was almost embedded in the glass, and he stared at the other side of the harbor, searching carefully for any traces he was familiar with.
"I've been to the pier over there in the summer. It's right here, yes. But what's going on on this side? Why is there suddenly a dike extending into the sea? Is this in front a lighthouse?"
Pauleicht suddenly remembered some mysterious legends.
"Have we unknowingly been enchanted by some magic or broken into some secret realm? It feels like we have only been there for a few days, but in fact several years have passed?"
"No way?"
Richard, who had someone at home, was even more panicked than Pauleicht: "How many years has it been? So what is the situation in my family now?"
He didn't dare to think about it anymore and could only pray silently that he hadn't been isolated for too long.
"No matter what, let's go up and have a look first."
The small gunboat gradually moved towards the port, and the lighthouse in front became taller and taller in the field of vision. Suddenly, a bright light spot lit up on the top of the lighthouse, flashing several times. After a while, it flashed several times again.
"This is some kind of signal! Both flashes are exactly the same!"
Out of some caution, Pauleicht stopped moving forward. He continued to stare at the flashing light and asked Richard without looking back: "What does this signal mean?"
"You ask me? Isn't this your territory? How would I know?"
"These things didn't happen when I left?"
The two of them stared at each other, stunned.
Pauleicht suddenly hesitated to open the door. He was afraid that this was a warning signal of some kind of attack. What if he broke in and was greeted by several rounds of armor-piercing bullets? Do these people still recognize it?
Do you recognize yourself? No, as long as there is no change of people, at least the gunboat will always know him, right?
The shape of the coastline changed, and he was no longer familiar with this environment. He was afraid of hitting the rocks, so he had to walk around the lighthouse at a distance, trying to find a suitable stopping place.
After driving for a short while, Poleicht suddenly noticed the square piece of land in front of him that extended into the bay - he wasn't quite sure what this piece of land was used for - and looked like a building.
Under the ordinary, dusty house, a gray-black thing that looked like the hull of a ship gradually emerged.
He carefully identified the boat that had just been blocked by the platform, and suddenly became excited:
"Look! That boat! We must have made the right move! When we left, the boat had just been laid out..."
At this point, he hesitated.
Richard only understood the fact that he was in the right place at once: "The right place?"
"It must be that, except for my boss, no one would make alchemy equipment so...simple?"
"Simple? You told me this is alchemy equipment? Wait a minute, is this a boat? An alchemy boat? Is it similar to your boat?"
"right."
Richard squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, then tilted his head: "This shape...does your boss not pay much attention to the appearance of the equipment?"
Pauleicht did not answer, showing an expression that was hard to explain.
"Isn't this the ship you asked me to pick up?"
"Probably...right."
Richard raised his hands and covered his eyes in despair.
Now that he had confirmed that he was not in the wrong place, he confidently steered towards the cargo ship. There was no response to the lighthouse's flickering, and it fell silent.
In the blink of an eye, two small shining white dots suddenly appeared from the dock behind the cargo ship. They rushed forward at extremely fast speeds, like flying across the sea!
"What's going on? What is this?"
Although this is my home, this thing doesn't look like it's here to say hello!
Polecht decisively sounded the battle alarm that he had never used since he set sail alone!
"What's going on?"
No matter how much he thought about it, Richard did not think that this harsh and heart-numbing sound was a celebration of returning home.
"If there is any enemy situation, just stand here and don't move!"
"Is it a pirate or..."
"Let's talk later!"
Pauleicht interrupted his inquiry, stared closely at the two boats, and shouted at the loudspeaker array: "Hold on! Full right rudder!"
While he was turning the helm crazily with one hand, he also pushed all the valves at his side to the bottom!
The machinery in the bottom compartment roared, and the overload gear instantly generated a huge power that pushed the small gunboat to 30 knots. The hull accelerated while turning, tilted outward suddenly, and scraped a huge white mark on the sea!
Richard was thrown out unprepared, and he only saw the bulkhead suddenly rushing towards him.
"groove!"
This was his last thought before losing consciousness.
The sharp siren woke up the crew members standing on the deck, pointing at the small light spot and the port!
Immersed in the joyful atmosphere of being about to dock before going home, the crew members who had already relaxed looked at each other in confusion. It took a few seconds for someone to react. He shouted: "Why are you standing there! Battle alarm! Get on the gun emplacement!"
"
He took the lead and ran up to the gun position and began to pull off the oilcloth covering the gun. This action woke up the crew members around them. They ran away, some jumped from the passage to the side of the secondary battery, and some opened the cover.
Jumped off the cabin from the deck and ran towards the ammunition depot.
The crew members who came to receive the cargo ship had heard that it was about to arrive at the shore. They had already gotten up and started to stretch their muscles in preparation for welcoming their new ship. Suddenly, they heard a fierce and harsh whine echoing on the ship.
"What is this sound?"
A crew member raised his head curiously and searched around for the source of the sound.
"Maybe it's a reminder that we're about to dock?"
"Hold on tight! Full right rudder!"
A burst of shouting came again.
"Hold on tight? What do you mean?"
They were jumping in the passage and suddenly found themselves rising into the air and flung towards the bulkhead!
"Oh, what's going on! It hurts me so much!"
They turned into a gourd rolling on the ground and were trying to get up. Suddenly a large group of people rushed out from behind the corner of the cabin, like a ring of fire, one after another from the small space above their heads lying on the ground.
Skip here!
"What are you doing?!"
The startled crew member questioned him, but no one paid him any attention. The attendants ran and shouted:
"Ammunition, bring the cannon ammunition up quickly!"
"The fucking ammunition depot is locked! Come open the door!"
"Charge the missile cannon quickly!"
"After this thing is connected to the main energy-gathering array, it takes a long time to charge!"
A shout came from the open deck cover.
"These two things are so fast!"
Polecht, who tried to aim sideways at the two boats so that the secondary guns could unleash their firepower, discovered that the two boats were much faster and more flexible than him! While he was still speeding up and turning, the two boats
Baidian also adjusted its direction and cut into the course of the small gunboat in a curve. In the blink of an eye, it had already rushed into the firing range of the main gun on the bow!
One to the left and one to the right, they suddenly separated to both sides, drawing a beautiful arc on the sea!
"The main gun can't keep up!! Where's the secondary gun!!"
The gunner on the front main gun roared as he watched the gunner shaking the steering wheel crazily.
The little white dot was already very close to the hull of the ship, and he could even see four black holes on the hull pointed at him!
"The ammunition is coming!"
The crew of the bottom warehouse finally unlocked the bulletproof door of the secondary battery ammunition compartment and sent the secondary battery ammunition to the side string!
The deputy gunner took the ammunition. He had just loaded the ammunition chain and was about to pull the bolt of the gun when a loud, familiar voice sounded on the sea: "Don't fire! I am Leonardo! Close
Insurance! Turn off your alarm!"
The assistant gunner cursed lightly, opened the receiver again and took off the ammunition chain.
"Polet! You are already dead! The reaction was too slow!"
Paulecht breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but immediately became frustrated again.
After repeating the message in the loudspeaker circle, the ship slowed down.
Only then did he have the opportunity and mood to look at the boat carefully.
These are two seemingly light, streamlined boats. There seems to be some strange structure protruding into the water under the hull. There is no turret visible on the deck. Only four thick steel tubes are facing them in the middle of the deck.