bookrebus Chapter 741
Chapter 741
"Another thunderstorm!" There was a hint of fear in Zhong Tiyun's voice. She held the window frame tightly with both hands and her face was pale.
The new round of thunderstorm disasters came without any warning, as if a huge hole was torn in the sky in an instant.
In the pitch-black night, purple-blue lightning flashed down madly along the sea surface like the sharp claws of a giant python.
Every time a lightning flashed across the sea, it burned a silver-white trail, as if the sea itself was burning.
The roar of thunder, with its sharp sound like metal tearing, shook the steel deck of the mothership, as if it would collapse at any time.
The heavy rain poured down, almost drowning the whole world.
The rain seemed to be pouring down from the sky, mixed with the salty sea breeze and hitting the window hard, making everything outside blurred.
The lightning was no longer a few scattered flashes, but beams of electric light, like spears thrown by gods, hitting the sea surface mercilessly.
The entire eternal night sky seemed to be torn into pieces, like a rag soaked in ink, pressing tightly against the dome of the mothership, making it suffocate.
Even more terrifying is the roar of the sea.
On the distant sea level, strings of lightning exploded one after another, and each flash of light illuminated the surging and boiling black waves. The sea water ignited by the lightning briefly rose with blue phosphorescent fire, and was extinguished by even more violent rain in the next second.
There are also places where the sea surface is like a boiling pot. Where lightning continuously bombards, the sea water is ionized into a rotating vortex of light. The rumbling thunder is connected into one, shaking the mother ship, as if it will be smashed into the seabed by the giant hammer of the thunderstorm in the eternal night in the next second.
The only thing to be thankful for is that the mine protection work of the mother ship had been completed ahead of schedule.
A tall lightning rod stood at the highest point of the deck, and huge lightning struck the lightning rod.
Although the mothership shook violently several times, the lightning was successfully diverted into the sea and the hull was safe and sound.
As soon as the thunderstorm came, Zhou Shuwan put all the items in the dormitory into the space, acting quickly and decisively.
The Zhou family quickly used ropes to secure themselves to the emergency handles on the wall to minimize the shaking of the mother ship when waves hit.
The huge thunder almost shattered his eardrums. As the mothership shook violently, Qi Mingyu held the emergency handle tightly with one hand and held Zhou Shuwan firmly with the other arm to help her stabilize her body.
The wounds on his head and shoulder blades had not yet healed completely. The violent shock made his face even paler, his lips tightly pursed, and fine cold sweat seeped out of his forehead.
"How do you feel?" Zhou Shuwan turned his head to look at him and shouted loudly, his voice almost inaudible over the thunder.
But Qi Mingyu still keenly caught her concern.
"Hold on!" he growled.
Although his physical discomfort made it almost impossible for him to breathe, he still protected Zhou Shuwan steadily without any hesitation.
Mu Mu, Zhou Jianghai and Zhong Tiyun on the opposite side also held the handles tightly and pressed themselves against the wall to try to reduce the impact of the shaking.
Mu Mu's veins bulged on the back of his hands. He protected his mother with one hand and grabbed the emergency handle with the other.
He stared out the window, his eyes filled with uneasiness and tension.
Crack—another huge beam of lightning struck down and actually directly hit the cabin part of the mothership.
The windows of the thirteenth and fourteenth floors instantly caught fire, and the hull was set on fire by lightning.
Because of the lightning strike, Zhou Shuwan and his friends' windows were directly shattered.
Mu Mu was right next to the window, his arm was cut by the broken glass and blood was pouring out.
Zhong Tiyun, who was next to him, also had two cuts on her hands.
But now they have no time to care about these wounds.
Smoke poured out of the broken windows.
Through the window, one could hear the terrified shouts of people above: "Fire! Fire! Put out the fire!"
Zhou Shuwan's heart sank. The mothership was their only safe haven at the moment. If the fire could not be extinguished in time, the consequences would be disastrous.
Mu Mu was closest to the window. He leaned his head over slightly and saw that a raging fire was indeed burning in the cabin diagonally above him.
The torrential rain poured down like crazy, but the fire showed no signs of abating. Instead, it swayed even more violently in the wind and rain.
"The fire is hard to put out! Even heavy rain can't put it out!" Mu Mu shouted hoarsely.
After the window was broken, the thunderstorm outside became even more deafening.
Zhou Shuwan immediately took out a quilt from the space, shook it hard, and took out water to soak the quilt completely.
Then he asked Zhou Jianghai and Mu Mu to block the windows with wet quilts to prevent the smoke from spreading inside.
Mu Mu didn't care about his bleeding arm, and he and his father used the wet and heavy quilt to block the gaps in the broken window.
Everyone tried their best and raced against time.
"There are firefighting equipment on the mother ship! We are not short of water! It just happened too fast and people don't have time to put out the fire! Wait a little longer! Wait a little longer!" Zhou Shuwan comforted his family while staring at the flames outside the window through the gap.
Sure enough, a few minutes later, Mu Mu saw a lot of noise diagonally above him, and the navy rushed over with fire-fighting equipment.
The sailors were running in the heavy rain, their figures appearing particularly tall in the light of lightning.
Their movements were quick and orderly, and they were obviously accustomed to carrying out missions in such extreme weather.
The fire burned for more than ten minutes and was finally extinguished thanks to the efforts of the navy.
The white flame stove in the Zhou family dormitory had long been blown out by the cold wind, the glass windows were broken, and the temperature inside dropped sharply.
It was difficult to wear air-conditioned clothing with sophisticated instruments inside in this environment. Zhou Shuwan directly took out down jackets from the space and distributed them to his family: "Put them on quickly, don't get cold."
He helped Qi Mingyu put on his down jacket and zipped it up, and his body finally felt a little warm.
The thunderstorm lasted for about an hour before it finally subsided.
Compared to the last time, the time was shorter and the waves were not as big, so the mothership was not taken to another distant area.
According to statistics, this thunderstorm disaster killed three people and injured more than a dozen people.
Half of the casualties occurred in burning dormitories.