Both ships looked utterly miserable after that solid collision.
The yacht had taken such a beating that every last surviving pane of glass had shattered. A huge section of the side that had been struck had caved in. It was obvious without even looking that water was leaking in through several places. This masterpiece of maritime design had been thoroughly wrecked.
The ship opposite was clearly made of wood. By all common sense, a collision like that should have been like an egg hitting a rock, enough to make it fall apart on the spot. Yet everyone was stunned to see that its damage was actually a little lighter than the yacht's.
Huge cracks had appeared along one side, but the ship had somehow kept its structure intact! It was simply unbelievable!
Was there really wood that tough in the world?!
But the Sea Wolf was actually in much worse shape than it looked.
In his pursuit of maximum speed, Nie Yun's brutal modifications had been far too crude. He had ignored the ship's limits and recklessly strengthened the Sea Wolf's power system.
As a result, the extra power from those add-ons placed a load on the hull far beyond what an ordinary wooden sailing ship could withstand.
To put it bluntly, an ordinary ship would have fallen apart long ago under such savage acceleration.
Most of the Sea Wolf's main structure had been reinforced by the Mechanical Insects, but even so, the ship's interior was now groaning under the strain with a series of creaks.
After that violent collision, several main beams inside the hull had snapped. If it had been an ordinary ship, it would have been fit for the scrap heap by now!
But with Nie Yun and his Mechanical Insects, things were naturally different.
The Sea Wolf stood two or three meters taller than the yacht. Now that the two ships were pressed tightly together, the people on the yacht couldn't see what was happening on the Sea Wolf's deck.
What made everyone's skin crawl was that the ship opposite had no lights at all, and even after such a violent collision, not a single human voice could be heard. It was as silent as a ghost ship!
Fortunately, the silence didn't last long. A voice suddenly rang out from the other ship, cold and seemingly filled with endless fury.
"Prepare the cannons!"
At that moment, the An Nam mercenaries who didn't understand Chinese felt a little relieved. Thank goodness, there were people on that ship!
But everyone who understood what those words meant turned pale.
"N-no way!" Captain Wei murmured unconsciously, his face white.
He could tell, of course. This wasn't just a medieval sailing ship—it was a warship!
As everyone stared in disbelief, dozens of gunports on the opposite ship swung open. Cannons glinting with silver light were rolled into position in perfect unison, their pitch-black muzzles aimed straight at them.
"What the fuck!"
"Oh, God!"
"Take cover! Get down!"
The deck erupted into chaos, but it was already too late.
"Fire!!"
At that roar, the twenty-five cannons on one side of the Sea Wolf thundered in alternating volleys!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
If there had been any other ships at sea, they would have witnessed a remarkable sight: the cannons along one side of a sailing battleship firing in alternating volleys. With every flash of light, the upper deck of the yacht opposite was swallowed by cannon fire and engulfed in flames.
A point-blank brawl between warships wouldn't have been unusual in a medieval naval battle. But the fact that one side was a modern yacht made the scene bizarre beyond belief.
Worried about hitting Chu Xiaoxiao inside, Nie Yun had deliberately avoided the yacht's central section, focusing his fire on the deck and its surroundings.
The mercenaries' speedboat moored alongside, however, wasn't so lucky. Nie Yun gave it special attention. At such close range, there was no need to worry about accuracy. Dozens of shells struck it, and after a series of deafening booms, it was barely recognizable, burning fiercely.
Some of the mercenaries bravely fought back, but their submachine-gun bullets bounced off the opposing ship's hull with a series of metallic clangs. Apart from a rocket-propelled grenade that hit one of the gunports, blowing a huge hole and overturning a cannon, the mercenaries realized they were completely helpless against the Sea Wolf.
"Ghost ship! It has to be a ghost ship!" one mercenary cried, dropping his weapon and turning to run.
Even battle-hardened soldiers could be driven to the brink of madness by such inexplicable events that defied everything they knew.
The one-sided slaughter continued for three full volleys. Apart from a few quick-thinking mercenaries who jumped into the sea or hid inside the yacht, almost all of them died under the cannon fire.
This time, the god of luck didn't smile on Captain Wei. He was hit by an airburst shell and fell onto the deck, his body mangled and covered in blood.
He struggled to open his eyes. Manager Wu's corpse lay not far away, staring at him with unseeing eyes.
"This... this is... karma!" Captain Wei shed his final tear of regret and drew his last breath.
The cannon fire stopped. Flames burned all over the yacht and the mercenaries' speedboat, lighting up the surrounding sea.
"Xiaolang Suicide Squad! Wipe out the survivors! Go!"
At Nie Yun's command, dozens of Xiaolang Robots came hopping down from the Sea Wolf, landing on the yacht.
But the Xiaolangs no longer wore their usual goofy expressions. Instead, they looked... uh... on the verge of tears?!
The moment they landed, the Xiaolangs ran about in a panic, their tearful faces fixed in place.
Well, it was hard to blame them for panicking. Each Xiaolang had a round shell strapped to its back, almost as big as itself!
A mercenary was hiding behind a fallen metal frame. Still shaken, he looked at the wreckage and bodies scattered around him, then gripped his AK tightly and peered out from a crouch.
"Hm?!" The first thing he saw was a toy robot, only about twenty centimeters tall, running toward him on short legs, tears in its eyes.
"Uh..." The absurd, unexpected sight left his mind blank for a moment.
Then the next instant, the robot pattered over and threw itself into the mercenary's arms like a lost child who had found its family, gripping his tactical vest tightly.
The robot looked up at him, its tearful face full of fear and helplessness. For a moment, even the hard-hearted mercenary felt an urge to protect it.
Uh... if not for the bomb strapped to its back, whose fuse was burning.
"Holy crap!" (In An Namese.)
"Boom!" After the explosion, the world fell silent...
The same scene played out all over the yacht. No matter how well a mercenary hid, the Xiaolang Suicide Squad would find him and launch a suicide charge.
"Ah! What a sin!" Nie Yun watched it all from the Sea Wolf and couldn't help sighing.
Xiaolang: "..." (Could you be any more shameless!)
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