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Chapter 78 Crow's Mouth

After saying that, Bill ignored Ian and conveyed the order to stay in place to the sailors, so the twelve ships threw the anchor down and stayed in place, waiting for Rab's voice to disappear.

Ian was also listening carefully, while sighing at Captain Bill and his folk wisdom.

He still remembered that Luffy and the others set out on the great route without knowing anything. As a result, when they were going down the waterway, they happened to encounter Rabu blocking the road. Finally, they were about to hit it, but Luffy fired the cannon on the bow and stopped the ship.

Ian didn't know if the reaction force of the cannon was so great. At that time, he was wondering whether everyone who entered the great route needed to do this?

However, after coming to this real world of pirates, he realized that he had misunderstood. Not everyone was as rash as Luffy and the others. The whale of Rab had been watching over Twin Points for decades. If every ship had hit it, Twin Points would have been blocked by the wreckage of the ship. Those who wanted to enter the great route would always have their own way.

Rab's screams were faintly in the wind. I don't know how long it took, but Yian suddenly heard a thunderous sound, and the trembling sounds in the distant upside down also came. So Yian knew that Rab had already started to bump.

The fleet was waiting quietly. Fortunately, Rab actually hit the mountain. When the tremor of the upside down stopped, Bill listened again and found that Rab's screams had indeed disappeared. He immediately issued an order: "Everyone has! Start an anchor! Set sail!"

Bill stood at the bow of the ship again, and took a telescope to observe the sea surface.

"What's this doing?" Yian asked behind him.

Bill didn't look back and explained, "Oh, I'm observing the ocean currents. If you want to enter the Overturned Mountain, you must follow the ocean currents."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bill had already found the location of the current, so he turned his head and shouted loudly: "Switch the rudder! Go towards two o'clock."

With Yian and his crew heading, the rest of the ships behind also began to adjust their courses, and the entire fleet began to slowly cut into the ocean currents.

When staying on the boat, Yian felt the most obvious. When the ship entered the ocean current, Yian felt that the ship's speed suddenly accelerated, just like a car suddenly accelerated and felt a sense of pushing back. Yian also felt the power brought by the acceleration of the ship. However, at this time, all the ships did not open their sails and were moving along the ocean current.

"The water flows so fast!" Yian had a bad premonition.

When Bill heard his words, he did not look back. He continued to hold the telescope and looked ahead, saying, "Of course, at such a velocity of water, it is difficult for the ship to adjust its direction as long as it is, and it is time to test us!"

Yian couldn't help but lick his dry mouth. He thought at the beginning that if he couldn't find the fleet, he would learn from that guy Ace and just drove a small boat to the great route by himself. However, now he seemed to think a little naive.

"Right rudder! 13 degrees!"

"There's too much! Left rudder! 3 degrees!"

"Very good, keep it!"

Bill's orders were conveyed from time to time, and the sailors in charge of the helm were nervously and strictly enforcing Bill's orders. Ian knew that Bill was adjusting the course of the ship, and the area of ​​the ocean current was large, but the entrance waterway of the reverse mountain was not that large, so he had to aim at the location of the entrance.

As the inlet approaches, the speed of the ocean currents becomes more and more rapid, and the speed of the ship is significantly faster. In this case, any rudder in the general direction is seeking death, and it is very likely to break the rudder wheel, so Bill's orders are all fine-tuning the course bit by bit.

The figure of the Terracotta Continent also appeared in everyone's eyes. It was a towering mountain range. At first glance, I couldn't see how high it was or how long it was. It was like a horizon, just standing in front of the ship.

Some sailors on the boat may have been on the great route for the first time. Seeing such a huge creature standing in front of them, they thought that if the ship made a mistake in operating the ship, they would destroy the ship and die and bury them at the bottom of the sea. The sailors suddenly collapsed. They shouted in panic: "Look back! Look back! We will bump into it!"

"Yan, shut up!" Bill said without looking back.

Yian also decisively and rushed over immediately, rushing hard on everyone's head, knocking these panicked people unconscious.

Anyone with a little experience in navigation knows that panic at this time will not have any benefits. People on the same boat can only trust the captain's decision.

It was also at this moment that Yian understood why the captain had such authority on a ship.

It can be seen that Bill was also very nervous. Sweat appeared on his forehead. Although he had traveled to the Great Route more than ten times, he could not guarantee that he was so lucky every time.

Outside the boat, there were rapid waves. The speed of the ship reached its peak at this moment with the ocean current. Yian looked towards the southern sea. He knew that he could actually reach the windless zone of the great route by going south. As long as he passed through the windless belt, it would be a great route. It seemed very simple, but no one chose to take such a route. Instead, he chose to go to the entrance of the Denexu Mountain, which shows that the windless belt was even more dangerous.

The entrance could already be seen in the hazy mist. In Yian's view, the course of their ship could enter the entrance smoothly, but Bill still did not relax. Before entering the entrance, any sloppy may cause irreversible consequences, so his orders were still being issued and the ship's course was constantly fine-tuned.

Boom! With the sound of water slamming the coast, the ship Ian and his friends were riding suddenly raised their bows and the entire ship became tilted. Everyone stood unsteadily and fell on the deck like a rolling gourd.

However, even if it fell like this, it still couldn't stop the sailors on the boat from bursting out cheers!

"Long live Captain Bill!"

"Come in, we came in smoothly!"

The reason why the ship was raised was because they had entered the waterway and were climbing the mountain along the waterway. Bill was worthy of being an experienced old captain. His adjustment of the course allowed the ship to enter the waterway accurately. At this moment, he was the hero on the entire ship.

Bill also breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Ian and said, "Haha, sure enough, God is planning to let me retire smoothly!"

Yian smiled at him and finally let down his heart.

"How is the ship behind?" Bill asked loudly.

A sailor at the stern was holding a telescope and observing behind him, and also replied loudly: "It is not good for ship No. 2 to enter ship No. 3 to enter ship No. 4! The course of ship No. 4 has deviated!"

As they observed the sailors' shouts, many people ran to the stern with concern, and Yian also ran over. He saw two ships behind him, both separated by a certain distance from each other, which were ships No. 2 and No. 3. They both entered the channel smoothly, but at the entrance, Ship No. 4 could see a very obvious course deviation!

He snatched the telescope from a sailor's hand and looked over. He saw that the people on the No. 4 ship were already in a mess at this time. Several people were working hard at the rudder, trying to drive the rudder over, but the speed of the ocean current was too fast, and the huge power brought by them. No matter how hard they tried, the ship was still deviating little by little.

Then, the group of sailors who were pulling the wheel suddenly fell to the ground.

"No! Their steering wheel is broken!" a sailor who was also observing screamed.

"They are dead!" Bill couldn't help but feel regretful when he heard this.

In Yian's sight, the No. 4 ship was carried by the water flow and hit the mountain wall next to the entrance channel at an extremely fast speed. The entire ship collapsed into countless fragments under the huge impact force.

The sailors on the ship were thrown into the air and then fell into the sea. After sinking, they never showed up again. Not only people, but also the wreckage of the ship.

"They were swept away by the currents!" Bill took off his captain's cap and put it on his chest to make a silent statement, saying, "May they rest in peace on the bottom of the sea."

No one in the boat spoke, even Yian took off his hats and greeted him.

I heard that the Great Way was dangerous before, but he didn't feel it much. After all, he just heard others say it. He had never experienced it personally. Now he has witnessed the entire ship of Ship 4 with his own eyes. Yian now feels that he is not doing well. One ship, one or two hundred people, was buried at the bottom of the sea because of a shipwreck accident!?

After the ocean current hits the mountain wall, it will form a downward-scrolling current. In this case, even people with good water properties cannot float up and can only turn into corpses and sink forever under the dark and cold seabed. Such a shipwreck can be said to be shocking, but Bill and the others on the ship all have common expressions. It seems that they have seen such a thing more than once or twice?

"What should I do if the fleet is losing?" Ian asked Beal.

"What else can we do?" Bill shrugged, "Everyone who boarded the boat is actually prepared to die. After losing a boat, we still have eleven ships, and we still have to move forward."

Now even Yian doesn't know what to say. Sure enough, I still have less knowledge.

Perhaps it was because of the tragedy of the No. 4 ship, the ships behind seemed to be more careful, and they were very energetic, adjusted their course, and entered the waterway one after another, without any loss.

The only one who died was the No. 4 ship. Yian shivered and thought: "The No. 4 ship is so miserable! He will never take a ship of such a mark if he beats him to death in the future!"

Watching the boat climbing the waterway, Ian asked Bill, “How high is this mountain? How long will we climb?”

"It's usually about three minutes!" Bill said with his pipe in his mouth: "It's almost time. When you're about to reach the top of the mountain, you can see the waterways of the other three oceans, East Blue, West Blue, North Blue and South Blue. The currents of these four oceans will gather together on the top of the Overturned Mountain."

Can you see the waterways of other oceans? Yian was stunned for a moment and suddenly asked: "Uncle Bill, so if there are ships in other oceans that are just upside down the mountain along the waterway, wouldn't they bump into the top of the mountain?"

"This has indeed happened!" Bill said with a smile: "But the chance of that is very small, and it may not be encountered once in a few years."

"What if I really encounter it?" Yian asked.

"Then we can only see who can survive!" Bill shrugged and smiled, "Don't worry, we are not necessarily so unlucky."

However, before the words were finished, the lookout hand on the mast suddenly shouted in panic: "Discover other ships! They are from the South China Sea Channel! We will bump into them!"

Bill was stunned and stared at Yian blankly.
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