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The beach, however, was still a long way in the distance Max didn’t want to think about what ot there

With the engines stopped and all of the ship’s equipment silent, Max was surprised to hear the whine of a smallblack bouncing along the water at high speed as it approached the stern on the starboard side

With horror, he recognized one of the Kuyog drones It wasn’t bothering with the ferry It was heading straight for the Oregon

“Juan, you’ve got a drone co!” he yelled into the radio “Starboard side!”

Murph was lightning quick The Gatling gun ca quickly to find the drone With a teeth-rattling buzz, it fired and blew up the Kuyog just before it reached the Oregon

The ers to scream and drop to the deck But the cries of terror didn’tmotors

Max turned to the chilling sight of dozensat them like a swarm of hornets

Though Murph was the best at what he did, he wouldn’t be able to shoot theh, not even the Oregon’s armored hull could withstand that kind of punishment

Then two more ships would join the USS Pearsall on the ocean floor

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While Murph struggled to fight off the Kuyogs, Juan glanced at the fishing boats disappearing one by one behind the Negros Island peninsula Locsin on with a laser when they were distracted attaching the tow lines

Since the attacking drones were shielded from view by the ferry, Max spoke to Murph on a private channel to tell hi the port or starboard side

Murph couldn’t set the Gatling guns to auto systey, so he had to switch back and forth between ca at Both of the gun ca with the view dead ahead Murph destroyed the first five Kuyogs, but he had only seconds to hit each one when it came into view

The sixth one got through

It struck the starboard side of the Oregon right at the waterline Juan felt the ship rock as the explosion reverberated through the hull