The Little Prince in the Ossuary

# Under Black Water (11)

The settling curved greatly. The obstacle was a separate habitat. Hundreds of small and large vessels centered on a thriving cruise. Even though it is part of the way out, the width of the left and right side is wide enough to disappear into the fog, so it feels like the remaining time is rushed all the way to the right.

Yikes! Winter sees a woman biting a mutant. There was no one to help. Everyone's just running in all directions. But most of them are weakened by hunger. It ran with a desperate face, but there was nothing better than walking. Everywhere I went, it was a dead end.

Everything we could see was a ship, but we've run out of fuel for a long time. It was sold on the market or used for heating Therefore, there is no escape for the pursuers. Without outside help.

Yes, a pointless struggle. In the end, the entire bay will boil to the heat of the core.

[How about a little boat ride? I won't be able to save everyone, but at least a few...]

Radio from the driver's seat. It was a voice that sank in the middle of an emergency.

“Don't stop! ”

Winter screams, as Abigail cries out everywhere. The heavy organ vibrates heavily as you press the button trigger. A three-steel trail approaches from the speedboat underwater, scattering away from the munitions.

Winter then aimed in a new direction. A sharp line pierces two layers of waves. Warning shots that slant into the water. The other two, coming back from the front, bend. While slowing down, the accelerating speedboat breaks through the loose trajectory.

‘We can't afford to lose speed. It's gonna be dangerous. ’

It draws their attention just by moving fast. With the noise of the turbulent engines added, monsters communicating via sound waves and identifying targets would have no more visible targets. Even paddling on a rubber boat can sense them from a hundred meters away.

More and more of them are after the boat.

I'd have thrown him out a long time ago if he was in a straight line. While this side keeps bending away from obstacles, the sea monsters beneath the waves always find the best trail. The instant peak speed was close to 30 knots. That's why they only protrude from the most threatening defenses.

And I'm learning fast.

Whenever you experience heavy machine gun fire, you see the evasive radius continue to shrink. Within two seconds of the exhausted winter hitting an empty barrel and putting 50 full rounds into the reels, three white bubbles, which were squeezed out of bullets, quickly swarmed.

Once we reload, we'll be too close.

Winter, instead of pulling out connected ammunition, pulling out tying grenade pins. Throw it into a power helmet, taking into account the time to ride the Delayed renal canal. Even on the deck that popped up every moment, it was the correct throwing.

Phew! The rotten sea rises tremendously. However, the explosive pressure in the water was concentrated vertically, and the range of the explosion was substantially reduced than in the air.

Nevertheless, the horde of Melville was shocked. It was the thunderclap. For those who are sensitive to sound waves, the sound of grenades exploding was like a flash bang in front of the human eye.

Heave-ho! For a moment, he lost his sense of direction and jumped out of the wrong position. A streamlined body that draws parabolas. That cloudy glow. In a dark field of view, the swollen and deformed limbs were closer to the cephalopods. Winter quickly fires a rifle. Two, two, three!

Kiuiyi woowoowoo

One was hit, but the monster returns to the choir. High and low echoes. It was because the skin protruding from the body, like the neck milk, was actually a deforming organ of the vocal cord. * Splash! He dives back into the water without a fatal wound, and yet moves away perpendicular to the boat's progress. *

Even at this moment, a new wave comes. I could see the fog shifting and the waves approaching every turn. It's growing.

Thanks to the twisted buoyancy balance, we can't go down to the depths.

Winter closed the lid by placing the Link Ammo in the medicine cabin, leaving a gap. Heave-ho! A link of steel protrudes from the exit of the casing as you pull the loading lever twice. The aim was completed even before it finished loading. Bang, bang, bang! Kwakwakwakwakwakwabang! Ten severed feet pierce right in front of their heads. Three of them were barely grazed.

‘Not yet, not yet. ’

The reason why a group of sea monsters are increasingly bold is because they have learned of experiences that are not hit by repeated shootings.

If you actually hit it, they'll notice the dampened power of the submerged machine gun. It's more intimidating than a rifle shot, but it's nothing to be afraid of. As soon as the epiphany spread among the Melville flocks, winter was a loss of control.

So the machine guns should remain fearless to them.

Shoot deliberately, but still close to the point of being hit. It was a trick that failed long before winter.

I had all the potential to learn from the other side.

Bang, bang, bang!

After one flash, the heavy saturation chases after the light. Distance calculated by interval is 1,600 meters at 2 o'clock. It was the sound of a diverse range of military firearms spraying bullets like crazy. Chinese military, or some other country's warship? The only thing I expected was low accuracy. The only way to shoot is to look the monster in the eye. I wonder how accurately the panicked soldiers can shoot.

It will only take a moment. I hope I don't get hit again....

[Dammit! The road is blocked!]

Joanna's cry of anger and frustration. Turns out she's desperately turning the wheel. The right battlefield to die. The speedboat turns sharply. Immediately, the ship sounded almost perpendicular, so the link to the inertia from the barrel of the machine gun danced in the air.

It was the site of a massive chain of stones that was pushed aside. Ships as small as tens of meters and as large as hundreds of meters are colliding with each other and sinking numerous kilometers.

Various hulls drank water and formed a large and small vortex. People who wear shiny life vests, or drift in floating oceans. The number has decreased rapidly. It was because of those who caught their teeth underwater.

Winter, when she had recovered the ammunition, directed her in a large movement.

“Over there! Get to the deck! ”

It was a half-sinking freighter. The deck was half diagonally submerged under the black water, with a way back to the highest speed boat.

[Jesus! I can't believe we're actually doing this!]

Joanna returning the steering wheel while chewing and spitting. First, it is in a direction that is far away. To get the distance needed to accelerate. A speedboat drawn in a large diameter starts racing toward the freighter. The turbulent sound of dual-legged engines pushing the weeing output to its limit. Monsters seem to have approached the hull as it plummets. From the left and right sides of the road.

“Don't you walk away! ”

We have to run like this. Winter throws a grenade and the oppressive fire in the opposite direction. Dozens of shells spilled. Knng! The explosion is imminent. A grenade erupted and the seawater sprayed like rain. But it was a wet deck long ago. Winter wiped off the water and sweat at the same time.

Brace for impact!]

No matter how slanted the deck is, the impact of the moment of ascent cannot be small. The friction between the moss and aluminum steel is fried with ferocious fire. It won't catch fire, but it doesn't matter if it does. I'm going back in the water anyway.

During the violent shaking, the winter heavy machine gun remained steady on target. Target is a handrail at the end of the deck. Must be disconnected before high-speed boat hull touches. Boom, boom, boom! Every time a heavy bullet hits and passes by, the railing snaps. But it couldn't be perfect. A sharp section of the handrail fixing shaft that remains broken. It was the passage of the Sunset of the High Speed Force.

Heave-ho! There's an empty iron ring in the medicine room of the heavy machine gun.

It's too late to reload.

The sound of a scratch on the stomach was high and sharp enough that even the winter was painful.

The sound didn't last long. The razor-sharp cross-section would have been crushed on the hull mass.

However, due to the braking of the chin and when caught, the speedboat turned to the side.

The speedboat climbs up the slope and over the peak to the side, starting to slide at a slower rate, this time on the outer wall of the tilted cargo ship. And then there are the mutants that are chasing it. The old crew of the sinking ship swoops over the railing as if they were not human.

Dook, dook, dook! Winter when a heavy machine gun is delayed to reload and a rifle is fired. Kill only those who are likely to reach it before the speedboat hits the water. Pleasure! Gaaaaaah! A corpse with a hole in its head rolled into a ditch, and some of them were ahead of the boat.

The winter that cleared out the rear aimed the grenade launcher at the coming sea. The sea monsters are circling, expecting the speedboat to come through. Clever things.Maybe they're closer to Orca. Tutu, tutu! Shoots all the grenade launchers. The two feet are small and useless underwater, but the rest are full of high-explosives.

A series of explosions paralyzed the "search" pattern of monsters.

At last, the descent of the iron and iron axes is over. Trekking beneath your feet, the sea's senses.

[Water is coming into the cabin!]

Winter responded immediately to the screams being sent to the receiver.

“Tucker! That's enough in the cabin! You have a console! And Ann! Get out of here! There's monsters all around! Before these things wake up, come on! ”

The water shouldn't be too bad. The basis for Winter's judgment was also Survival Sense. No fatal warning yet. It will be at a correspondable level with an automated multiplier.

While the boat was restoring speed, winter threw additional grenades and exchanged the heavy machine gun barrels. Phew! The scent of an underwater explosion is fading.

Johanna calls for winter.

[Are you sure you want to go after that enemy from now on?!]

As winter watches from a hostile perspective, she realizes what she meant.

“It doesn't matter! Mel... I'll take care of the sea monsters! ”

I almost made a mistake when it was urgent.

The adversary Joanna spoke of was a massive splash of water. The aftermath of a ship of another dimension in its weight class. The cracked arrow collides and collides to stay for a long time. I wonder if a torpedo that tracks this has been developed separately. A ship as big as an aircraft carrier can catch up in a day.

The white waves you see here were traces of more than just an aircraft carrier.

The tide is full of crushed debris. Crazy with enormous power and mass.

In other words, this was like a straight highway.

The problem is the enemy itself. It is not easy to find linear bubbles between rough water currents. Johanna was worried that it would be difficult to recognize Melville's approach.

Winter reloads the grenade launcher. Two grenades left.

Suddenly, I was nervous when I finished loading the grenade. A gray silhouette protrudes out of the water on a flat back. His hand nearly touches the shoulder of winter.

Toda da da da da da da da da! Aim and fire the grenade launcher without even looking at winter, toward the sound of it clashing its teeth. Fight! A short, blunt bomb explodes between the monster's tail legs.

Shhh! Shhh! Shhh!

The screams of multiple windows sink into the water. The nearby currents become darker and darker. It will glow dark and red in bright light. Winter expected an anomaly in his thrust.

Subsequently, further attacks continue. The silent correction only boils sharply when the monster jumps out of the water. You have one second to evade. It was only a few times that I was able to aim for weaknesses that were not filled with water under my skin.

Winter outside the cabin was the priority attack target for those with snow pouring over the water.

Is there any way to defeat them on the deck? ’

Apart from its tough flesh and muscles, Melville outside the water was worse than a ghoul. That's why they don't come from the front either.

When I took him down with my hands, I was worried that my skin would be slippery, and I would be drawn to heavy inertia even if I twisted my knife. Is it best to buy yourself some time? You see the winter, when you turn the foul waters over as you pass by them.

I can still afford it. Until the darkest light.

A giant bridge passes overhead. It was the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Auckland. Even though both sides were cut off a long time ago, you see mutants jumping down the bridge to see how they got up there. Did Grumble throw it? But it did not pose a real threat.

The chances of surviving the fall on a wide deck are slim. I'm lucky if I break my leg. Even an ordinary sailor without a weapon would not be defeated. That's why so many boats are escaping, colliding with a crazy speed.

Many of them were as noticeable as Joanna, so "crisis detection" followed closely. Joanna's evasive maneuvers rely on half the radar and half on winter. It is difficult to calculate the number of times it is close to the collision.

That was the spread of attacks by a group of special variants.

It's nothing to be happy about.

Winter did not slow its guard, despite the unpleasant appearance of relaxation.

The fast answer crosses Treasure Island, where seven rounds of nuclear ammunition were fired, and leads to the prison between the notorious Alcatraz and Angel Island.

Joanna sighs with grief.

[Ahh…… Fort McDowell is down!]

An American military base in Angel Island was on fire. From a historic encampment that closed half a century ago and began to resume after the end began, black smoke rose in clumps.

Intermittent gunfire coming from a dispersed direction meant complete collapse of the base defense line. As winter knew, there was an army of devils stationed on the island. The 10th Mountain Legion. They were preparing to retake the San Francisco metropolitan area.

How long do you think he survived?

The old Immigration Hall at the northern end of the island was also not safe, although it was not hidden from the ridge at this location. Lost submarines in the countries where they were stationed. And the crew.

It was when a speedboat that separated the angel island finally caught up with the rear of the giant freighter.

You hear an enormous explosion from the direction of the freighter.

Artwork Reviews

# Paper books

I've already received the book, but it turns out that by the time the bookstore is delivered, it will be early April. I think we should wait a little longer.

# Q&A

Q. Are you sure this mission will be public? Somehow, it's a nasty secret society.

A. The answer would be spoiler. but if you think about it as the U.S. government, you get the answer. Expect to be featured.

Q. SVJK: Have a good look! The mention of the phone about Melville didn't say you were swimming, so that's how fast you're going. These are the variants that are evolving with these bizarre outbreaks. Are there any more variants that will come after this? And all of a sudden, you get curious about ecosystems. For example, what is the relationship between high-level predators like lions and killer whales and mutants? I think this is also an important variable if it affects the amount of fish we catch.

A. Specialty varieties will continue to emerge. And not all specialized variants are as powerful as Grumble, Trickster and Melville. They're what we call special variants, literally.

No matter how much Melville grows, it doesn't have an impact on how much it catches compared to how much it does. But the catch is actually decreasing. because the risk of marine fisheries has increased.

Q. Blue Crystal: I searched for @, but I can't find the book. Is it published yet?

Yes, as I mentioned above, the bookstore supply is not yet available.

Q. Suzanne: I read your novel and became interested in this genre. When I looked at dystopia in the genre, 1984, I bought and read a wonderful new world, and it was interesting, but it wasn't the genre I was thinking about. Did you have any books that inspired me to write?

A. Nothing like that. When I came across the concept of TOM, I came up with a basic inspiration.

Q. OneChance: I'm always impressed with your thoughtful testimony. The power of the chin is no joke this time! Biting at the hull alloy should be a threat to the ship, but it's still the creature's teeth that scratch the steel.

A. If the hull was made of steel, it would be a herd. The hull material of 47FT MLB is aluminum.

Although it's true that Melville's grip on teeth is a monster.