44: Black fog descends

"Brother Mo, what should we do? They're using this method to ram us!"

Gu Nianqiu clutched Lin Mo's arm even tighter, her small face pale, her voice choked with a sob.

The self-destruction of that a-class sailing ship was too shocking; a living person was sent to their death by their own captain, used as a cannonball. Such cruelty was beyond her comprehension.

Gu Zhixia was also extremely worried, her knuckles white as she gripped her long spear.

"If three more ships ram us like this, our shields will be shattered."

Her voice was cold, but her eyes flickered with clear unease.

Lin Mo gently patted Gu Nianqiu's head, his voice still steady.

"It's fine. We'll wear them down first."

His gaze passed through the porthole, looking at the distant fleet that had already fallen into a panic.

"They're losing so many ships, but we haven't lost anything."

Gu Nianqiu's eyes instantly filled with admiration.

"Brother Mo is so amazing!"

Gu Zhixia also admired the man's calmness and calculation ability from the bottom of her heart.

In such extreme circumstances, he could still maintain his rationality and make the optimal judgment.

In the Longxiang Fleet's squad channel, a deathly silence of terror was spreading.

Long Yuan's voice rang out coldly.

"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, when do the flowers grow?"

His tone carried a twisted mockery, as if he wasn't choosing a death list, but playing an interesting game.

"January! February! March!"

Each number was like a countdown to death, making all the captains' hearts pound wildly.

"July!"

A dead silence.

"Haiyue!"

Long Yuan's voice was undeniably ruthless.

A desperate scream came from the communication channel.

"No! Don't! My ship!"

Haiyue's captain, Chen Haiyue, his voice trembling violently, his tearful plea echoed in the channel.

"Long Yuan! You lunatic! I won't listen to you!"

The next second, Chen Haiyue felt his control over the ship being stripped away.

That mental lock chain clamped onto Haiyue's control system like an iron vice.

"You pawns, do you really think you're people?"

Long Yuan's laughter was filled with a morbid pleasure.

Chen Haiyue desperately discovered that the ship was beginning to turn uncontrollably. He frantically manipulated the helm, but it was useless.

"I'm getting off the ship! I don't want the ship anymore!"

Chen Haiyue frantically rushed to the deck, plunging into the icy sea. The waves instantly swallowed him.

Haiyue lost its captain, but under Long Yuan's mental control, its engines let out a final roar, heading straight for the Natural Selection.

Lin Mo looked at the warship rushing over, his eyes turning cold.

"Another one. Hold on tight, we're flying up to dodge!"

Lin Mo abruptly pushed the control stick, and the Natural Selection's anti-gravity engines spewed dazzling light. The entire ship instantly lifted off the sea, pulling upwards!

Rumble—

Haiyue almost grazed the bottom of the Natural Selection before exploding into countless fragments.

However, the explosion range was too wide, and the terrifying shockwave and countless metal fragments still heavily struck the Natural Selection's shield.

SYSTEM PROMPT: Encountered self-destruct collision aftershock, shield value -30000, remaining durability 104984/200000.

The Natural Selection shook violently in the air.

Gu Nianqiu screamed, clutching Lin Mo's arm tightly.

Gu Zhixia's face turned pale.

"Just a little aftershock knocked off thirty thousand of our shield!"

Lin Mo gritted his teeth, steadied the ship, but his eyes became even sharper.

He had roughly figured out the distance and timing of the opponent's detonation.

The other captains of the Longxiang Fleet, seeing this scene, felt their fear reach its peak.

"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, when do the flowers grow?"

Long Yuan's voice rang out again, with a demonic pleasure. This time, everyone was trembling.

"December!"

"ship name!"

Wang Polang, the captain of the ship name, let out a desperate wail, imitating Chen Haiyue by abandoning ship to save himself.

The mental lock chain descended again, and ship name broke formation, rushing over like a sharp arrow.

"Brother Mo!" Gu Nianqiu called out nervously.

"This time, let him sacrifice for nothing!" Lin Mo's lips curled into a cold sneer.

This time, instead of simply flying upwards, he controlled the Natural Selection to suddenly dive forward amidst everyone's exclamations, actually charging towards ship name!

"Is he crazy?!" Long Yuan's pupils suddenly contracted when he saw this scene.

Just as the two ships were less than fifty meters apart and about to collide, Long Yuan subconsciously moved to detonate. But at that moment, Lin Mo suddenly pulled the control stick all the way back!

The Natural Selection, like a nimble falcon, instantly pulled up vertically at an incredible angle, the roar of its overloaded engines echoing through the sky!

ship name whistled past directly beneath it, then, under Long Yuan's stunned detonation command, exploded into a huge fireball on the empty sea.

"Beautiful!" Gu Zhixia couldn't help but cheer.

Long Yuan gritted his teeth in anger, slamming his fist hard on the control panel.

"Bastard!"

But he quickly calmed down again, a cruel smile appearing on his face: "Let's see how many more times your energy can support this kind of acrobatics! Continue!" He believed that such high-intensity maneuvering by the opponent would surely result in astronomical power consumption, and they wouldn't last much longer.

The fourth ship was selected and began its charge.

"Damn it, we can't drag this out any longer!"

Lin Mo's face became extremely grim. Although they had dodged two fatal collisions, the energy consumption for flying was indeed enormous, and it could only last for a maximum of 10 more minutes.

"I'm not playing with them anymore. We'll run first and settle the score with them later!"

He prepared to fly up directly and activate Full Speed Ahead mode to escape.

But just then, the entire ship suddenly emitted a piercing alarm.

Beep beep beep beep—

Red warning lights flashed frantically, and all control screens began to show static interference.

SYSTEM PROMPT: Encountered super strong magnetic field interference, radar function failed, control system fault, emergency system starting.

Lin Mo's face instantly changed.

"What's going on?"

The flight module's charging progress bar stopped moving, and all electronic devices were flickering violently.

At the same time, the Longxiang Fleet experienced the same situation. All warship radar screens turned to static, and communication systems emitted piercing static.

"What's going on? Do they have this kind of electromagnetic attack?"

Long Yuan obviously thought this was Lin Mo's doing. He slapped the malfunctioning control panel in front of him, his eyes flashing with anger.

"Trying to paralyze us with electromagnetic weapons? Too naive!"

But the next second, his words stopped abruptly.

A strange black mist rapidly approached from the edge of the horizon.

It wasn't ordinary mist, but a pure darkness that seemed to devour light.

Wherever the black mist passed, the sea became still, and even the sound of waves disappeared.

"Oh no, it's the black mist!"

Lin Mo instantly realized the seriousness of the problem. He frantically manipulated the restarting system, trying to activate the flight module.

But the system was still in the slow process of restarting, with various modules showing "offline" status.

"Damn it!"

He could only watch helplessly as the black mist approached at an incredible speed.

Gu Zhixia gripped her long spear, her voice trembling.

"What is that thing?"

Gu Nianqiu hid in Lin Mo's arms, her small face pale, her body shaking like a falling leaf in the autumn wind.

"Brother Mo, I'm so scared..."

The black mist was very fast, and in a blink of an eye, it was less than a hundred meters behind the Natural Selection. The Longxiang Fleet had already been mostly swallowed.