The Throne Under the Starry Sky Chapter 18: Song of Sand Waterfall (Part 2)

It is not sand that permeates the air, but dust that is much finer than the grains of sand. The slender dust like flour is suspended in the air. With each breath, filling the nostrils and mouth, Jonah immediately understood The origin of the sand fog, the waterfall of sand with a drop of 700 yards, every second, tens of thousands of tons of heavy yellow sand fall to the bottom of the valley, and the fine particles in the sand are raised high by the huge impact, forming a cloud of sky. Although the northeasterly wind is very strong, the muddy clouds and fog in the sky are not scattered like sand and fog frozen in the air.

"Lower the full sail." Hannah's voice came, and the visibility dropped quickly. From where Jonah was, she could no longer see her.

"Understood,...Master Captain." Danny replied puffingly, but without any delay in his hands, he swiftly swung between the sails and lowered one by one, "Bactria The gust of wind" rapidly drops until it loses all its propulsive power, and only slowly creeps in the dim fog by chirping,

"Ahem..." Danny came to Jonah, coughed a few times, and complained: "Damn the sand mist, it was not so large in previous years. We are still 2 to 3 miles away from the big sand waterfall. The distance is."

The astrologer apprentice opened his eyes with difficulty, "It makes sense to judge the **** through the sand fog, Danny, if there are data from previous years to compare, I should be able to calculate the average **** this year, and if I can add the wait With high topographic maps and wind data, it is also possible to find the gentlest slopes. Hannah is right. If even a layman like me can understand, these should be the basic skills of navigators."

"I am not a **** navigator, I am a sailor, at most I am a mainsailer and a spinnaker. Apart from using a telescope, I have not received a day’s training in surveying and mapping. There are only two on this ship. Personally, do I have to do all the work except steering the helm." The Stewart man shouted innocently, and then choked with a cough.

Jonah felt that he had said something wrong, and didn't know how to comfort him. Suddenly, there was a regular tremor under his feet. This time the amplitude was relatively large, which made him shake his whole body.

"No, Hannah." Danny raised his head abruptly, his face turned pale: "Chapping is sending out a signal of fear again, the second time, this is not in previous years, right."

"Never." Hannah replied in a calm voice,

Danny unfastened the belt of his robe silently, tied himself to the railing of the ship, and fastened the buckle. Jonah couldn’t help but learn from him to untie his belt, trapping his waist firmly on the main mast, and hit Dead knot,

For a while, no one spoke, and the three-masted sailing boat slowly drove in the sandy fog. The surroundings were as dim as a cloudy dusk. The visibility was less than ten yards. Strangely, the strong northeast wind blowing all the way seemed to disappear suddenly. Now, the tip of Jonah's hair didn't tremble at all. A low and low wind sounded in the front. It must be the rolling quicksand of the big sand waterfall. When I think of the 700-yard high abyss, I can't see somewhere in front. , The next moment he might fall off the cliff, Jonah felt all his muscles tense, his bladder was compressed, and there was a strong feeling of wanting to urinate. He grabbed the cable on the main mast with his fingers and twisted his legs tightly.

"Want to pee, right?" Danny glanced at him.

The astrologer apprentice lowered his head in shame. After he woke up from the hangover, he had not had time to go to the toilet.

"Me too." Danny said frankly almost shamelessly,

The unknown horror is the most horrible kind of horror. The feeling of falling is one of the psychological factors that make people feel horrible. Jonah gritted his teeth tightly, knowing that it is impossible to see anything in the thick fog. , Still work hard to look ahead, try to give myself a little psychological comfort,

Time passed very slowly, he felt that he had waited too long, and the quicksand was not too loud, it kept rushing forward,

The third tremor spread across the ship's body like ripples, and Jonah deeply felt the fear of sandworms chirping through the deck. "Third time..." Danny patted the side of the ship, "Chuck, do you remember? When my dad was still alive, one year the **** of the big sand waterfall was very gentle. The entire quicksand was nearly 5,000 yards long. We drove through the northeast wind with full sails, and the speed was so fast that we almost flew, Hannah, that’s Which year came from."

"The year before my father died." My sister replied,

Suddenly the sound of quicksand disappeared, and there was a weird silence around, Jona looked around at a loss, and the knuckles of the rope were white because of excessive force.

"It's started." Danny said,

The deck tilted, and the astrologer apprentice felt that the center of gravity changed sharply, and the blood began to flow back to the head. The "Bactria's blast" first raised the bow slightly, and then fell into the quicksand waterfall at an extremely steep angle. It began to dive down, and there was a deafening roar around, thousands of tons of yellow sand rolled down, the whole world was wrapped in sand and dust, only the violent shaking of the deck showed that the sailing boat was in the torrent of sand waves,

Jonah's feet floated off the ground. He grabbed the rope in horror. The prow of the main **** Luta pointed to the void, and the front became downward. Although it was still a faint fog of sand, every organ in his body was there. Tell the owner: He started to fall,

"Sure enough, this slope...puff." The male Stewart said only half a sentence, because an unfixed tub flew up and patted his face, almost smashing the bridge of his nose.

All the objects on the deck were suspended, the ropes that fixed them were tightened, even the heavy iron anchors were raised in the air, the steel anchor chains creaked, from the frequency of the dust on the face, about Na could feel their speed rapidly accelerating, his back was pressed hard against the main mast by a sense of acceleration, the copper rivets were stuck in the muscles, but the astrologer apprentice did not feel the pain, and the fear had overcome any other feelings, of course, just Even the headache of a hangover was completely conquered,

A wooden basin and a few red beads drifted slowly past Jonah’s eyes. It was a nosebleed from Danny’s nostrils. "Hannah, the **** is over 100%." ​​Wiped a nosebleed, Danny roared, "How fast will the end speed be? Do you want to raise the sail to slow down?"

"You are crazy, the raising of the sail will change the angle of force of the chirping, if we are blown off the surface of the quicksand, we will fall down." Hanna immediately rejected her brother's proposal,

"But if the speed is higher than the sandworm's endurance...she will die." Danny shouted,

There was silence for a few seconds, "I hope my father can lend us good luck." Hannah said,

"Luta is on..." Danny closed his eyes and prayed, crystal clear red drops of water continued to float from his nostrils,

Jona opened his mouth wide and wanted to scream, but his voice seemed to be blocked by dust everywhere, and there was no sound at all. The three-masted sailboat was getting faster and faster, and the shaking of the hull intensified." The blast of Bactria" groaned distorted everywhere, and the places that were simply reinforced creaked. A copper nail collapsed and flew out, spinning and falling into the dust. It was instantly engulfed by quicksand, and the apprentice astrologer posted his whole body on the master. On the mast, I feel like I’m being squashed little by little,

With a drop of 700 yards and a **** of more than 120%, with a simple calculation, Jonah can figure out how long it takes for the sailboat to reach the bottom of the valley, and how fast the final speed will reach, but at this moment he has no way to think. The brain seems to be squeezed out of the skull, and consciousness becomes blank,

Enough is enough, it's almost time to reach the ground, he can't help thinking, but the long sand waterfall seems to have no end. Whenever he thinks that the speed has reached the limit, the feeling of body ischemia reminds him to accelerate It's not over yet,

The violently swaying three-masted sailboat resembles fallen leaves in a hurricane. It may slam into fragments at any time, and then be submerged by yellow sand. Every screw is shaking and struggling to get off the deck. Suddenly the bow of the ship is loud and loud. There was a cracking sound, "Be careful." In Danny's exclamation, Hannah, who tied her hands on the wheel rudder, twisted her body to avoid it. The front mast split into two halves, and it penetrated the main mast’s rope net like a bullet and flew behind him.

When the thing flew in front of him, Jonah saw the head of the **** of fertility Luta with his mouth open, as if making a silent protest, "The new head of the ship, a full 65 silver coins, although he has not paid yet, But the debt has increased again, my God..." Danny’s screams sounded,

The doom of the Stewart family has not yet come to an end. A few seconds later, the fore mast that was hit violently crackled with the crackling of the wood fiber, then it was folded in half from the center, and it collapsed with countless sails. Na watched the black shadow magnify in front of her eyes, but there was no way to avoid it.

"Boom." Half of the mast rubbed his left arm and hit the deck hard, knocking a large piece of wooden shipboard to pieces, then bounced, spinning with the wind, fibers that hadn't been completely broken at the crack The beam creaked tightly, snapped and snapped, and finally broke the last trace of involvement. The broken mast immediately flew into the air, but the messy ropes were entangled, and the main mast was strained, turning half of the front mast like a kite. Just hold in the air,

"Hannah, are you okay." Danny shouted,

"It doesn't matter to me." In the sand and fog, I saw the contemporary Patriarch of Stewart holding his forehead. It should have been slightly injured, but Hannah looked back and immediately shouted: "Cut the rope, or the main mast will also Can’t hold it anymore."

Jonah raised his head with all his strength and saw that the mainmast was bent like a long bow again, and the iron sheets were cracked in the place where he had just repaired last time. He wanted to leave this dangerous place, and then found himself tied up. Too tight, there is no way to break free; and when falling at high speed, untie the rope is tantamount to suicide,

"Danny." Hannah saw Jonah's condition and immediately called to her brother. Danny gritted his teeth and drew his dagger to cut off his belt. His body immediately floated, his feet swaying in the hurricane. "Wait, I'll go right away." He inserted the dagger into the deck, stabilized his body hard, and tried to approach the main mast,

"It's too late." Hannah watched as the mast bends beyond the limit. After a while, the main mast will be completely broken like the front mast, and the entangled sail cables will be stunned with the stunned cargo friend. Uprooted and fell into the quicksand together, she bit her lip tightly and did a move that no one wanted,

"Catch it, please..."

Thirteen red crystals shed light in the sand and mist. Jonah saw the ivory white magic pistol zooming in before her eyes. Hannah threw out the "Summer White Cherry", her most treasured weapon. To someone she is not familiar with yet,,, a goods she will be familiar with in the future,