Chapter 489: Speculation
"Seal the breach!"
"Hurry!"
"The breach is too large!"
"The lower engine room has already been flooded!"
"The second-level turbine room is flooded!"
One report after another came through the radio, making the warship captain standing inside the cabin look increasingly grim.
The officers around him were even more panic-stricken.
"Stay calm. We haven't reached the most dangerous point yet!"
"We still have allied ships on both sides of us. We can—"
The captain tried to rally the sagging morale.
But before he could finish, two explosions rang out—
Boom! Boom!
Thick smoke billowed into the sky beneath the setting sun, while raging flames took on a blood-red hue.
The two allied ships in which the captain had placed such high hopes had already been completely swallowed by flames.
Wails.
Screams of agony.
Mixed with the explosions, they gradually faded away.
The captain's face turned deathly pale in an instant.
His parted lips trembled without stopping.
Only after a full three or four seconds did he shakily utter a single sentence.
"Abandon ship!"
After saying that, the captain seemed to have all his strength drained away. He only avoided collapsing to the floor because his adjutant supported him.
He could not understand why a situation that had been overwhelmingly favorable to him one moment had been completely reversed the next.
For no apparent reason, the image of that figure striding across the sea surfaced in his mind again.
"Deathbird?"
The captain muttered the name under his breath.
Without a doubt, he would never forget it for the rest of his life.
But Qin Ran would not remember an opponent like this at all.
There had been no intervention from the Mystery Side, nor were there any enemies of the same level worth noting. They were merely