strictlysupreme Chapter 656 Run? I'll make you balance a ball on your head!
Chapter 656 Run? I'll make you balance a ball on your head!
"Captain!" Xiao Zhao suddenly interrupted him, pointing to the sea surface less than twenty meters to the right of the bow, "Bubble! Huge bubbles! Like...like a boiling pot!"
Before he could finish speaking, the "Sea Eagle" beneath his feet suddenly experienced a violent and terrifying tremor!
It wasn't an explosion, nor a collision with the reef, but rather as if some enormous, primordial beast was rising violently from beneath the dark, icy seabed with destructive power!
"Boom—crash—!!!"
The sea surface suddenly exploded like a giant boiling pot! Turbid seawater, carrying white foam and pungent oil, surged outwards like an avalanche! Less than ten meters ahead of the minesweeper's port side, a massive, suffocating steel shadow tore through the sea surface and burst forth with unstoppable force!
It's that "deep-sea catfish"! It has clearly gone completely out of control under the pressure of continuous depth charge attacks and oil spills, or it has chosen to surface urgently in a desperate gamble!
"Damn! It's going to surface! Right below us!" Liu Huaqing's mind went blank, and all the blood in his body seemed to rush to his head.
"Hard to left! Reverse at full speed!!" Liu Huaqing's roar was instantly drowned out by the roar of the sea.
Too late! The distance was too close, and the speed was too slow! A 500-ton minesweeper was as fragile as a paper boat in the face of the brute force of a submarine weighing several thousand tons.
Yes, several thousand tons!
Although the exact model of this behemoth is still unclear, the Gato-class conventional submarines commonly used by the United States also have an underwater displacement of 3000 tons.
3000 tons!
Another 3000 tons!
"Bang—creak—!!!"
Steel against steel, rubbing and colliding in the raging sea, produced a heart-wrenching sound!
The entire hull of the "Sea Eagle" was as if it had been slapped hard by an invisible giant hand from the deep sea! The bow suddenly tilted violently upwards and to the right, as if it were about to stand upright!
The keel of the submarine emitted a tooth-grinding groan and a cracking sound! Everything unsecured on the deck—spare cable barrels, toolboxes, even the heavy depth charges already mounted on the launch pads—was instantly tossed into the air like toys, tumbling and crashing into the icy seawater!
The world is spinning!
The world seemed to be violently stirred up by an invisible hand.
The immense impact slammed Liu Huaqing and Xiao Zhao against the ship's side. Xiao Zhao screamed as his head hit the cold metal railing hard, and he immediately lost consciousness.
Fortunately, Old Duan, who had rolled out of the engine room, leaped forward and caught him firmly in his arms.
"Captain!"
“凸(艹皿艹), you are… glug glug…” The surging seawater blocked Lao Duan’s words.
The instant Liu Huaqing was launched, his body unleashed incredible coordination and strength. One of his legs hooked tightly onto the fixing ring at the bottom of the launch pad, and his body swung like a pendulum at the near-vertical, terrifying angle of the hull!
His gaze was drawn as if by a magnet, fixed on the enormous object that was so close at hand.
The massive bow of that thing had already broken through the water, and icy seawater poured down from its hull and deck like a waterfall!
This isn't the "Little Shark-class"! This damn command tower is huge! And unlike the "Little Shark," it doesn't have cannons mounted on top of its command tower! This command tower has a conning tower! And on both sides of this conning tower, what are those things that look like airplane wings?!
The hull is huge! Very huge! And it's clearly teardrop-shaped...
Is this...is this some new thing the Bald Eagle came up with?
Liu Huaqing, who was swaying back and forth in the air, took a close look at the big guy, and his heart sank.
"A new thing? It's so big! Could it be a nuclear core?"
"Fuck you!"
"I don't care if it's new or not!" Liu Huaqing's eyes were bloodshot. Seeing that there was still a depth charge stuck on the launcher, he used all his strength to forcefully pull the firing handle of the depth charge launcher!
There's no time to think! Only the fighting instinct ingrained in their very bones!
Even if I can't make a loud explosion, I'll still throw my weapon out!
At this moment, Liu Huaqing was gambling! At this angle where the hull was upside down, depth charges simply could not be launched into the water normally.
He's betting on something else!
Because the submarine's towering conning tower was now only inches away from Liu Huaqing, who was hanging upside down!
"Clang! Crack!"
A chilling creak and scraping sound came from the mechanical device. The heavy, cylindrical depth charge, propelled by the tilt of the submarine and its own weight, tumbled and fell from the tilted launch pad like a clumsy lump of iron!
"Kara..."
The depth charge, halfway down, was stopped by the railing on the side of the ship, swaying back and forth.
Liu Huaqing swung his body again, yelling, "Get down here, you son of a bitch!"
One kick, two kicks!
The depth charge was teetering on the brink of collapse.
“凸(艹皿艹)！”
"This is the first time I've ever been so disgusted by a shipyard making its railings so tight!"
Liu Huaqing swung his body with all his might once again. This time, he wasn't aiming at the depth charge, but rather at the railing below it.
"Bend over for me!"
"Boom..."
The railing finally bent, and the rolled-up railing trapped Liu Huaqing's right foot. The depth charge also slid down with the force of the impact.
However, as the bomb slid down, it inevitably rolled over Liu Huaqing's immobile foot.
"what……"
Liu Huaqing's eyes were bloodshot, but even so, he still forced himself to look in the direction where the bomb was rolling.
Fortunately, the depth charge, which lived up to expectations, tumbled and made a muffled clanging sound as it crashed straight down on the submarine's sail that had just broken through the water!
"when--!!!"
A crisp, loud metallic clang pierced through the roar of the waves and the groaning of the submarine's hull, reaching Liu Huaqing and the Bald Eagle sailors in the submarine's command tower below who had just opened the hatch and were about to rush out!
The depth charge, perfectly positioned, with its stabilizing fin pointing downwards and its round body pointing upwards, like a drunken bowling ball, actually... actually got stuck straight and perfectly between the two thick radio antenna bases on the top of the submarine's conning tower!
It stood there steadily, its black body reflecting a cold luster under the emergency lights on the top of the submarine.
Oil and seawater dripped from the missile, landing on the heads and faces of several Bald Eagle sailors who had just poked their heads out, staring in disbelief, their faces turning deathly pale.
The whole world went silent.
"Haha! I'll make you balance a ball on your head!"