The Ghost Captain's "heh heh" immediately made the Izumo's captain uneasy. Had those people from DYZ lied to them? Had Japan really gotten its hands on the "heart"?
Even the Ghost Captain gave me a "heh heh"! That had to be a sarcastic laugh of disbelief, right? It had to be!
Just as he was fretting, someone shouted, "Captain! Bad news! Our number one torpedo has been launched!"
"What?!" The captain's heart lurched.
"Izumo! What are you doing? Why did you fire a torpedo at us?! We can't evade..." The crippled frigate's captain cried out over the comms!
Boom! Even inside the bridge, the deafening explosion came through loud and clear.
The Izumo's captain turned toward the Ghost Captain in disbelief, but the skull image had already vanished from the screen.
"Captain! Our sea valves have been opened! The I-Izumo is sinking!" the monitoring officer reported in a panic.
"Is there any way to regain control of the ship?" the captain demanded urgently.
"Well... our connection to the main computer has been physically severed. It was probably the Ghost Knights... unless we break into the computer room. But even if we recover the main computer, a conservative estimate puts the time needed to restore the system at over half an hour!"
The captain: "..."
Pale-faced, he looked around. After a long silence, he said weakly, "All hands... abandon ship!"
After giving his final order, one question continued to haunt the Izumo's captain.
The "heart" that started this whole battle... do we actually have it or not?
On the Izumo's deck, the two brothers watched the nearby frigate slowly sink amid billowing black smoke.
"Tsk, tsk. The boss really knows how to finish someone off!" Lao San marveled.
Lao Da looked around instead, then suddenly frowned. "Yeah! But before we