Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 316 Battle Alert
On the sea, the waves surged, with towering waves as high as mountains, one after another.

With its engines at full power, the Hua Tuo warship cleaved through the waves, its bow sometimes soaring high and sometimes plunging underwater.

Waves crashed over the gunwale onto the deck, creating a spray of water droplets. The windshield wipers outside the portholes rattled frantically, blurring the view between clear and blurry.

The warship swayed left and right with the waves, bobbing up and down. Ouyang felt like he was on a roller coaster, being tossed high into the air and then plummeting down. Suddenly, he understood what it meant to be flying while your soul is chasing after you.

By this time of night, the warships had finally broken through the barriers of wind and waves and reached a relatively calm sea.

The ship continued to rock violently. Normally, Ou Yang would have been driven to the brink of ecstasy by now, but he found the waves to be nothing to worry about.

Zhu Yiming had long since run out of vomit to vomit, and lay listlessly on the bed, looking like a wilted eggplant, not even wanting to move a finger.

Dinner started promptly at 6 p.m.

"Let's go eat!" Ou Yang said.

Zhu Yiming weakly replied, "You eat, I have no appetite, I can't eat!"

"You have to eat even if you can't!" Ou Yang didn't give Zhu Yiming a chance to refuse at all, and dragged him out of bed without saying a word. "Come on, come on, the more you throw up, the more you have to eat!"

"I don't want to eat... Hey, don't pull me..."

Despite Zhu Yiming's repeated refusals, Ou Yang forcibly dragged him into the restaurant.

Perhaps because of the rough sea conditions, dinner was much more plentiful than usual. The tempting aroma made Ou Yang's mouth water, but he was also quite surprised. How could the cooks prepare the meal on time under such rough sea conditions?

Unlike Ou Yang, Zhu Yiming remained sickly and listless.

Jiang Yuwei happened to arrive at the restaurant at that moment and asked curiously, "What's going on?"

"It's nothing, I just threw up." Ou Yang smiled helplessly. "I'm not used to it yet, but I'll get used to it."

Jiang Yuwei rolled her eyes, took out a few pills from her pocket and slapped them into Zhu Yiming's hand: "Here, for seasickness!"

Whether it was a placebo effect or not, Zhu Yiming felt much better immediately after taking the medicine, and his mental state improved significantly after eating something.

This made Ou Yang roll his eyes. He knew this guy was a glutton, but he didn't expect him to be such an extreme glutton. He should have known that eating something would solve the problem.

Judging from this, Zhu Yiming would return to normal after this meal, so Ou Yang stopped paying attention to him and focused on filling his stomach.

As night fell, Ou Yang had just finished eating half of his meal when he suddenly heard a muffled thud like thunder.

At first he didn’t pay attention, but the sailors eating with him stopped what they were doing and started listening intently.

The restaurant gradually quieted down, and the muffled thuds became more pronounced and rhythmic... This was definitely not thunder, but the muffled sound of cannons firing!
Ouyang immediately realized something was wrong. Where was the sound of artillery coming from?

The Hua Tuo was a hospital ship, equipped only with light weapons for self-defense and no naval guns at all!
Everyone had the same question on their minds: What happened?
A moment later, an announcement was made over the ship: "Attention all personnel, no one is allowed to leave the ship, and going up to the deck is strictly prohibited..."

After playing it three times, the broadcast stopped.

The crowd whispered among themselves, but lacking even the most basic information, they couldn't grasp the point at all.

But shortly afterward, news came that continuous flashes were observed in the distance, and radar detected clear trajectories, confirming that warships were firing.

And there was more than one.

Shortly after, more accurate information arrived. Due to the severe weather, a large number of ships from the South America were sailing north under the cover of the wind and waves, intending to take advantage of the chaos to break through the blockade and land in the United States.

To prevent the ships from heading north, the US fleet brazenly opened fire!
But there's no need to worry. The Hua Tuo ship has already identified itself and is still some distance from the blockade line. It can just go around it.

Thus, the Hua Tuo ship changed course and headed east, intending to avoid the battle zone.

At the same time, drones were launched to observe the situation on the battlefield.

Before long, the warship received images from ahead—the dark sea was churning with waves, and hundreds of ships of all sizes were scattered across the surface, struggling to navigate between the waves.

Every ship was packed with people, many of whom were pale and thin with sunken eyes; it was obvious at a glance that they were infected.

Well, if you're not infected, you wouldn't act so recklessly!
It's unclear whether the infected individuals have projected themselves into a Caribbean pirate scenario, but instead of dodging, they're waving their arms in the face of American artillery fire, as if raising a sword to command a charge.

The shelling continued, with high columns of water repeatedly rising from the sea, and ships were hit from time to time, breaking apart amidst violent explosions.

Modern weapons are already extremely accurate, and more and more ships are being destroyed by naval guns. If this continues, it will only be a matter of time before the entire fleet is wiped out.

However, the US underestimated the ferocity of the infected. Some ships saw the red cross painted on the Hua Tuo and tried their best to break through the fire blockade, but did not continue north. Instead, they lingered near the Hua Tuo, using the hospital ship as a shield to resist the US ships' gunfire.

Although the hospital ship is a warship, it does not have strong firepower. If crazy stowaways were to board the ship, the consequences would be unimaginable!

The situation was critical, and there was no time to hesitate. Xu Yi immediately ordered the battle alarm to be sounded, and non-combat personnel were to return to their respective cabins. No one was allowed to leave the cabin without being ordered to do so.

Combat personnel, immediately collect your equipment and head to the deck to prepare for battle!

Upon receiving the order, Ou Yang rushed to the equipment room without hesitation.

The equipment room was already packed with combat personnel, but everyone was orderly despite the chaos. They first collected life jackets and protective gear, and then collected their weapons after putting them on.

Lu Wei was taken aback when he saw Ou Yang: "What brings you here?"

Ou Yang chuckled: "The smuggling boat is full of infected people, so we should definitely go first!"

He gently punched Ou Yang once, and everything was understood without saying a word.

Soon, Ouyang received his sidearm and jogged up to the deck with the team.

Although the waves had subsided considerably, the ship continued to rock, and everyone had to secure themselves with safety ropes.

"Under no circumstances should you untie the safety rope!" Lu Wei emphasized in Ou Yang's ear. "If you fall, no one can save you!"

With high winds and rough seas at night, falling in would be no laughing matter; the life jacket you're wearing is just a comfort.

"Don't worry, I know!" Ouyang replied loudly.

Lu Wei nodded emphatically and shouted commands over the radio: "Group 1, left front; Group 2, right front; Group 3, left rear; Group 4, right rear..."

Everyone was in position in the shortest possible time, gripping their weapons tightly, their eyes fixed on the dark sea through the night vision corrosion.

There weren't many weapons on board; a few machine guns and sniper grenades were already the most powerful firepower on the ship!

(End of this chapter)