Chapter 999: Terror on the High Seas
The waves came, fierce and surging, each driving the one ahead of it forward. Rank upon rank of white-crested water charged in, roaring with the fury of thunder, rushing like ten thousand galloping horses.
The sea howled and the wind roared, raising towering waves that surged forward in endless ranks, crashing toward reefs, islands, the steamship, and everything that barred their advance. Even when the waves shattered against the leviathan of a steamship, their broken spray still flew forward, splashing against the ship and hammering its windows like bullets with sharp, ringing pings.
Across the boundless azure ocean, waves rolled in one after another, striking the steamship with roars that seemed to rend heaven and earth and throwing up snow-white foam. The tide was like an army on the charge, clamoring and shouting as it hurled itself desperately onto the beach. Its leading waves rose dozens of meters high and swept in at once, the frenzied surge filled with chilling terror and unfathomable mystery.
Yet no matter how savage those waves became, they could not overturn the steamship.
Amid the furious ocean, the steamship seemed to possess a needle that anchored the sea itself, planting its roots in the water. However fierce the wind and rain, however savage the waves, nothing could shake it.
And all this was not entirely due to the strength of this revolutionary steamship. More importantly, it was because Yang Ming stood watch aboard it.
Inside the captain's cabin, the naval soldiers, including the captain himself, all gazed at the handsome young man in their midst with the reverence they might show a god. Their eyes held three parts fervor and four parts worship. Had they not restrained themselves out of regard for their positions, or for fear of