Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 264 Explosion and Wind on the Seabed

After praying that Gagran wouldn't show up, Adele glanced around the restaurant.

In order to prevent similar incidents from happening, the tables and chairs in the restaurant were fixed in place, but the food on the table suffered heavy damage. The surface of the golden fried fish on both sides was covered with a layer of dust and hung on the windowsill, branches and leaves of ornamental plants, and the edge of the table.

"We are still eight nautical miles from the center of the vortex. It will take another twenty minutes to reach our destination."

Adele clapped her hands, attracting everyone's attention. "Clean up the restaurant first. If you want to eat, go to the kitchen and get a bacon sandwich later. But you are not allowed to drink anything other than light beer. Next, I require you to be on standby at your respective posts at all times, especially the guys in the engine room and gun positions. Be ready to support me at any time. Do you understand?"

The sailors nodded in agreement and hurriedly tidied up the ship's affairs while the observation ports were all tangled up with silk threads and they could not do anything else.

Over the next ten minutes, everyone quickly packed up their things and each received a sandwich with bacon, fish fillet and some wilted vegetable leaves, and finished their breakfast.

Afterwards, the sailors took their positions and secured themselves in place with straps to prevent unnecessary damage from the ship's shaking.

"The current speed has reached 47 knots, nearly twice the normal operating speed. The driving speed of the ironclad ship itself is already on par with the flow rate of the water."

Adele looked at the speedometer and said worriedly, "If the water flow speed inside the vortex exceeds thirty knots, even the Honeysuckle Queen will find it difficult to get out of it."

This was the data Wendy calculated last night. As the member on the entire ship who knew the performance of the "Honeysuckle Queen" best, she was obligated to make similar reminders to the captain.

As soon as Adele finished speaking, she heard Catalina's voice on the upper deck of the ironclad ship.

The White Saint used her power to directly transmit the sound into everyone's brain, notifying everyone to get ready. This notification method does not require time to speak, but directly transmits thoughts, and can usually be used to transmit a large amount of information.

However, she only said one sentence, and the shock contained in it could be felt by even the most insensitive person.

“…We’re going to fall.”

Just as Adele was wondering about the meaning of this line that shouldn't appear at sea, the familiar feeling of weightlessness appeared again, only stronger and more unexpected than before.

Adele flew up again and crashed into the other side of the cabin. Although there were latches on the cabinet doors, the porcelain tableware inside was still not spared and was smashed to pieces on the cabinet doors. The messy collision sounded like a rainstorm.

The entire ship turned around in the downward vortex, the sea water pressed against the surface of the ironclad, and the portholes made a teeth-grinding creaking sound. Strangely, although the pressure of the sea water was real, the sinking speed of the "Honeysuckle Queen" did not slow down, and it sank rapidly in the sea water in a manner close to free fall.

If this continued, the portholes would probably break due to the pressure, causing all the people on board to drown on the seabed. But before that, this most advanced ironclad ship in Loen would be directly crushed by trillions of tons of seawater around it, and everyone inside would be turned into a thin sheet of iron.

Adele thought that she would think about a lot of things in this situation, enough for her to recall the past days. However, she found that her thinking did not become fast, which caused her brain to crash for a while, and she just mechanically dodged the falling daily necessities.

However, after a full twenty seconds of her perceived time had passed, the porthole still did not break.

The surrounding water flow became smooth, no longer exerting pressure on the hull, causing the boat to rush straight to the bottom of the sea like a falling meteor. The smooth water flowed over the surface of the boat, forming a wind-like sound in Adele's ears - this was the sound of the wind on the bottom of the sea that she had never heard before.

Adele turned on her spiritual vision and found that there were no longer thin white lines around the hull. However, her vision in the real world was still pitch black. They had fallen into the lightless deep sea.

Those white lines grew out from the spiritual world, from the sea water, and from the steel hull. They were blocking the front, towing on both sides, or dragging from the rear. In short, it could be seen that their owners were doing everything they could to try to slow down the falling momentum of the "Honeysuckle Queen".

The steel bow was like a giant axe at the high speed of free fall, easily cutting through the thin lines blocking the way. However, those white lines were like the ocean, endless. When one was cut, ten were immediately connected behind it, which actually slowed down the momentum of the fall.

At the same time, Adele noticed that Tracy beside her was also whispering something, and a dark light emanated from her hands, gradually covering the entire ironclad ship. Adele recognized that it was the "slowing curse" among the witch's black magic.

In actual combat, the effect of this curse is no match for the silk thread controlled by the witch, so almost no witch would use it; but under this specific condition, this magic once again has its place.

Although it will also bring some corrosion effects to the cursed object, in this case, it is better to consider how to survive first, and then consider the issues of maintenance and upkeep...

The witches with lower sequences followed suit. This black magic was not difficult to learn, and Geglan was a witch who was good at black magic, and most of the witches under her knew how to use it.

Thanks to everyone's efforts, although the cabin planks in some places had begun to rust, the falling speed of the "Honeysuckle Queen" finally returned to normal levels.

Adele wanted to take a look outside the cabin, and suddenly she saw a faint fluorescence, like the light emitted by some mineral spontaneous combustion. The sea water had disappeared at some point, and they were falling into a hole.

Then, Catalina's voice sounded again, but compared to the panic last time, she was much calmer this time.

"We are about to land, beware of collision!"

As soon as Catalina finished her words, the Honeysuckle Queen fell out of the underground cave, and then hit the "water surface" below the cave like a stone, causing large "splashes" of water.

In the dark cave, the water surface was pitch black, emitting a pungent smell, and refracted a colorful halo under the faint light emitted by the fluorescent plants above.

Then, a sudden explosion erupted violently, blowing off the unstable whaling crane on the deck of the "Honeysuckle Queen" and shattering the glass that could not bear the weight.

(End of this chapter)