第十五章：小嗝嗝出发寻找宝石(6)

Jewel in three hours, or the witch will kill everybody.’ ‘But I’m not sure the Jewel is out here,’ said Camicazi, in the basket. ‘Try telling the witch that,’ said Hiccup. ‘So, do we attack?’ said the basket after a while. ‘I’ve got two drawn swords in here and a dagger between my teeth.’ ‘That may not be enough,’ admitted Hiccup, looking at the hundreds of following sand-yachts, the thicket of swords, the rocket-launchers, the Warriors with their killer eyes all trained on him, the Northbows stretched to breaking-point. ‘What’s the plan, then?’ asked Camicazi. Hiccup sighed. The truth was, at that particular moment he was all out of Plans. The enormous wilderness of the sands-with- no- Jewel-in-them stretching in front of him, and the army of heavily armed people bristling with the worst in weaponry that the human mind could dream up, all edging threateningly up behind him, were slightly sapping his creativity. He had that feeling of dread, again, sitting in his stomach like cold porridge. ‘I’m not sure,’ muttered Hiccup. ‘Knowing that