Apocalypse in Water - Chapter 122



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Apocalypse in Water 122

Episode 122

I asked Jungwoo, who was holding the key.

“Jungwoo, are you ready?”

“Old story. Captain. Just speak.”

“Then, shall we begin the operation? Bomi, Jinman, stay in your positions and prepare!”

Nurse Jang was already up on the main mast watchtower, preparing to go up.

I went to the stern.

There, as I had instructed, a rough-hewn plank railing was installed on either side of the engine screw.

The Hallasan ship was equipped with two engine screws.

That’s why not only speed increases, but also sudden stops and sharp turns were possible.

“The battle group is approaching firing range.”

The scream of Nurse Kang, who was in charge of observation, was heard.

The Goldtooth Pirates mounted 60mm cannons on their Chamsuri high-speed boats, and used RPGs and Vulcan guns as their main weapons on several battleships.

Hoyoung said that the 60mm field gun and RPG are weapons of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.

The Type 210 100mm naval gun mounted on the barge was also said to be a People’s Liberation Army weapon.

Is this really Lee Su-ho? Is that the butler?

The fact that the Goldtooth Pirates have a lot of People’s Liberation Army weapons means that they have some kind of connection with China.

I heard a rumor that after his dismissal, Lee Su-ho had jumped into a dark path with China.

If the rumors were true, I thought it would be a perfect fit for my career, since I would know the blind spots that the Coast Guard ships couldn’t detect.

We were no match for the pirate group’s weapons.

You can also decide the outcome through a firefight using shells.

But that wasn’t my plan.

“Jungwoo, you know? You have to maintain a shelling range before reaching the operation area. Then run!”

Jungwoo started two engines.

But instead of running the two screws full, he went forward, maintaining an appropriate distance from the shear as I instructed.

For a while, a boring chase unfolded with no change.

Several shells came and went, but because Jeong-woo timed his shots perfectly, they all fell into the sea.

The speedboats, zigzagging and dodging shells, began to head straight for us.

It seemed as if the leaflet had given instructions, thinking that this would not work.

The distance gradually narrowed.

If the Hallasan-ho’s twin engines are fired up, it can shake off the speedboat, but that will make the distance between it and the front end too much.

If the flyers give up the chase, the operation will fail.

What should I do?

Now that it’s come to this, I guess I’ll have to catch those pesky speedboats first.

There was a good way to take them all down at once, but it required getting a bit closer.

At that moment, I heard a ‘swoosh’ sound of the wind cutting through the air.

I noticed that the arrow was flying upwards rather than hitting directly.

The arrow flew at an angle of approximately 65 degrees.

What? Where did Bomi shoot?

As I was thinking that, the arrow reached its peak.

As if what goes up must always come down, the arrow changed direction and began to fall down.

At first it seemed like it was falling slowly, but as gravity took over, it gradually got faster.

At the end, it fell off almost instantly.

The arrow’s landing point, surprisingly, was the speedboat running at the very front.

Among them, the pirate’s head in the cockpit.

The arrow hit deep into the pirate’s head.

The pirate fell and lost his key.

Then the speedboat, which had been running at high speed, lost its balance and began to rock.

It seemed like it was going to turn sideways, but it ended up flipping over.

Just then, another speedboat was coming towards them, and the two collided.

Kwakwang!

Flames shot up along with the explosion.

Bomi looked back at me, sticking out her tongue.

To be honest, he had a look in his eyes that said he didn’t know how to guess, but it was a hit anyway.

As expected, competition is what produces unexpected results.

I raised my hand and gave Bomi a high five.

“Wow! Bomi, it’s a shrine!”

Only then did Bomi change her expression to one of triumph and look back at Jinman.

“Did you see it?”

Jin Man-do must have been impressed, because he didn’t find any fault with it.

“That’s amazing. Just wait. I’ll show you.”

Jinman took the M60 machine gun to the side of the ship.

Then they opened fire on the speedboat.

But the speedboat was lined with iron plates, so all the bullets were deflected.

“This isn’t working. Haha!”

Bomi laughed, but Jinman didn’t stop shooting.

He pulled the trigger persistently toward the speedboat.

Sparks flew off the speedboat’s defensive plating.

The pirates on the boat lowered their heads and retreated toward the stern, fearing that they might be hit by a grenade.

The speedboats, which were about the size of a two to three-ton cargo truck, usually carried five or six people.

Even though it would be faster if there were fewer people, the reason there were so many people on board would probably be to capture the target ship.

This is because the pirates’ goal is not to destroy the enemy like the navy, but to plunder.

As the speedboat’s center of gravity shifted rearward, the bow, already slightly lifted by the high speed, rose upward.

Then the bottom of the ship, without any iron plates, was revealed.

“Oh! Good luck!”

Jinman let out a gasp and focused his fire on the bottom of the ship without missing a beat.

The bottom of the ship was riddled with bullet holes.

The speedboat did not explode, but soon came to a stop.

Jinman looked back at Bomi.

“Did you see it?”

“Well, that’s lucky.”

Despite Bomi and Jinman’s attacks, the speedboats did not zigzag to evade them like last time.

Instead, he increased his speed and chased after me closely.

Perhaps the orders had been given firmly from the platoon command.

Come to think of it, Lee Su-ho was quite trusted by his subordinates.

Even when he was being investigated at the police station, his subordinates not only petitioned him but also came to his defense.

But when you hit rock bottom, you see a person’s true nature, and he was not a trustworthy person.

Bomi fired another arrow at the speedboat that was rushing towards her at full speed.

As before, the arrow shot upwards, but missed the pirate and misfired.

Jinmando fired his machine gun, but the pirates held up their shields and did not back down from the bow.

Instead, the bridge for the player was lowered.

There was a hook at the end of the docking bridge so that it could be hung on the bow of the ship.

In other speedboats, they took out ropes with hooks and started swinging them overhead.

The pirates took out a variety of weapons, including shields, axes, swords, spears, and pistols.

They waited in an orderly manner, having already experienced this type of battle several times.

If the speedboat could catch up just a little more, it seemed possible to throw a grappling hook.

Boom! Boom!

“Wow! Wow!”

The pirates banged their weapons and screamed, either to scare us or to boost our morale.

“What the heck! Those guys! Are they monkeys?”

Bomi shot arrows at the pirates, mocking them.

This time, instead of a curvature, he knocked down the guy who was turning the grappling rope with a direct hit.

The guys immediately counterattacked.

They fired pistols, shotguns, and crudely made harpoons at us.

Weapons were weapons, but shooting from a rocking ship wasn’t all that threatening.

However, Bomi and Jinman’s response fire was slow because they could still get hit by a grenade.

Jungwoo looked back and shouted.

“Captain! Shall we do it now?”

“No. Just a little!”

I raised my hand and signaled for them to wait.

The speedboats approached with increasing speed.

The grappling rope flew towards Hallasan Lake, but missed the bow by a hair.

But if the distance can be narrowed like this, then next time we will definitely succeed.

Okay, this distance will be enough.

We waited a long time to catch all the speedboats.

I shouted at Jeongwoo.

“Drift!”

When Jeongwoo heard my shout, he turned to the right as if he had been waiting for it.

He seemed to be making a right turn for a moment, but then suddenly turned the key sharply to the left.

And at the same time, the right engine was in full rotation, and the left engine was in reverse rotation.

The two opposing screws rotated, creating a huge bubble.

The Hallasan Lake showed cornering at almost right angles, as if a car was drifting.

I, who was at the stern, straightened my body that was being thrown by the centrifugal force and struck the trident forcefully toward the water surface on the port side.

Even without that, the drift of Hallasan Lake had caused huge waves, and when the waves caused by the trident resonated, the waves rose up almost like a wall.

The waves, towering like walls, surged toward the speedboat as if engulfing it.

“iced coffee!”

Screams were heard from the speedboats.

A speedboat the size of a truck would not be able to get over the wall of waves that was nearly 2 meters high, unless it was a speedboat of the Chamsuri class.

But it couldn’t be avoided.

They came too close.

As they hit the wall of waves, the speedboats capsized helplessly.

All the pirates on board fell into the water.

“Wow! It’s not a double-edged sword or a triple-edged sword, it’s a single-edged sword! Brother!”

Jinman gave a thumbs up.

“Jungwoo’s driving skills are outstanding!”

“Okay. My boyfriend drives!”

Bomi also added a word to my compliment.

With this kind of teamwork, we can wipe out the pirates as planned.

I did choose the best sailors.

Jeongwoo felt embarrassed by my compliment.

“It’s thanks to the mobile training the captain gave me.”

【 No. 864 】

We did several training exercises while going down to the Ark Tower.

One of them was the maneuver training on Mt. Halla.

The twin engine required some getting used to since Jungwoo had never driven one before.

Through training, we found that revving the twin engines to full throttle did not double the speed, but rather increased it by about a factor of 1.5.

And I also found out that it has better agility than other ships, with sharp turns, rapid acceleration, and sudden braking.

That’s why I thought that with this level of twin engine power and acceleration, drifting would be possible even in the sea.