In that instant, Lu Zhe's mind went completely blank!
If you say that you can still remain calm at this moment, then you clearly do not understand the sheer terror of this whirlpool!
Once you are captured by its power, and you have no reliable counter-force to pull against, is there still a chance to escape?
It's too difficult.
In the next two minutes, maybe only one minute remains!
You will spin around in large circles.
At this time, if your boat was a speedboat, or a fishing vessel, going full speed against the direction of the whirlpool, there might be a chance to break free.
When all you have is a tiny bamboo raft, and two rough oars that simply can't provide enough power for the raft, what can you do?
If you fail to escape, next, your spinning will accelerate, getting closer and closer to the center of the whirlpool!
Finally, you can only watch helplessly as you and your boat get sucked into the whirlpool, taking a ride on the magical power of love as you spin like a top, plunging with your boat to the bottom of the sea, sucked into an unknown place.
Perhaps with my strong constitution and swimming skill I might survive, but Jiang Yao would surely perish in this catastrophe.
Lu Zhe tried his best to calm himself down. He suddenly pointed his hand forward:
"Keep paddling, that way!"
That was not against the direction of the whirlpool, but straight ahead, following the tangent line of the large rotating circle.
Jiang Yao understood - Lu Zhe wanted to use centrifugal force to break free of the whirlpool.
Lu Zhe added 20 more potential points to his strength stat. The two of them kept paddling with great effort, but soon, the most worrying thing happened.
Lu Zhe had used too much strength - the oar broke!
There was no other choice; the simple oars made in a rush clearly couldn't withstand such heavy loads. And Jiang Yao's oar was also badly damaged.
Jiang Yao knew Lu Zhe was much stronger than her. She quickly handed her oar to Lu Zhe.
Lu Zhe took the oar, but did not keep paddling. Instead, he sat down.
Was he giving up?
No! He looked somewhat disheveled, but his eyes were exceptionally calm.
At this moment, his brain was spinning rapidly as he considered their last chance of escape!
He understood that simply paddling was useless. To survive they had to think of another method:
Consider - what causes whirlpools?
First: There is a powerful swirling force in the water, dragging the surrounding seawater to spin along with it.
Like stirring water in a bowl with a spoon!
But could such a force exist naturally?
No!
Second:
It's caused by differences in gravity, with water flowing to a low point. If there's a hole underneath, it would create this kind of situation.
Like a pool filled with water - once the drain plug is pulled, the water flows down in a swirling vortex.
But that's not the case here either.
We're in the tropics now, not far from the equator. The Coriolis effect should be minimal. Even if a whirlpool formed it should be very small!
The one in front of us now is dozens of times bigger than the Naruto whirlpool!
Third:
Two currents converge and interact,
spinning like the Taiji diagram, forming a whirlpool at the point where they meet!
And when we passed through that archway, the sudden temperature change indicates two ocean currents with different temperatures colliding here.
Lu Zhe realized -
"So that's why!"
"Little Zhe, we're going to die..." said Jiang Yao, her voice tinged with crying.
The bamboo raft was getting closer and closer to the center, only 20-30 meters left. The speed of the raft grew faster and faster.
"Yao Yao, throw away the life preserver!"
"Why...?" She asked why, but had already started doing as Lu Zhe said.
Lu Zhe didn't answer her. Instead he swiftly put on the backpack, tightening the straps over his shoulders. Then he held Jiang Yao tightly.
"When I say jump, we'll jump into the water together and dive as deep as we can! Before hitting the water, try to exhale all the air from your lungs!"
Jiang Yao didn't understand why Lu Zhe wanted to do this, she just nodded.
Suddenly, she wasn't afraid anymore!
Embracing her beloved as they died - it was also very romantic!
"Wait until we get close..."
"Okay..."
The bamboo raft edged nearer and nearer to the whirlpool!
Five meters left!
Lu Zhe shouted "Jump!"
The two of them plunged into the water!
A huge pressure assaulted them. Jiang Yao only felt she was about to faint any second. That awful sensation was indescribable.
At this moment, she would have given twenty years of her lifespan for a single breath of fresh air!
Just then, Lu Zhe brought his mouth to hers, exhaling a breath into her like a deep kiss.
Her chest immediately felt much more comfortable.
She instinctively held Lu Zhe tightly.
Should they float up?
But Lu Zhe had said to keep diving deeper.
They were just about to be sucked into the whirlpool's center, when suddenly an intense current of water rushed at them!
That current propelled the two of them far away.
Jiang Yao didn't dare open her eyes or lift her head. Underwater, they exchanged the meager air in their mouths.
After training together for two months, an indescribable tacit understanding had developed between them.
After over ten seconds they broke the surface, coughing. To their surprise, they were already very far from the whirlpool!
Jiang Yao coughed a few times then asked: "Wha...What happened?"
"The currents converge and meet at the whirlpool, then combine and blend together, flowing out in other directions. We're now in the outflow where the blended currents surge forth."
"What do we do?"
Lu Zhe looked around: "I remember there's a small island around here. Let's head to land first before figuring things out!"
"Okay!"
Jiang Yao also looked all around, but where was any island?
Other than the increasingly distant volcanic island, the other three directions were endless, vast ocean!
"We're going to die!"
"Don't lose hope. Relax your body and conserve strength. Watch our surroundings carefully - if an island appears, we need strength left to swim there!"
"Okay!" Jiang Yao responded, but seeing the volcanic island recede farther and farther, her heart still swelled with despair.
Lu Zhe thought of something.
"Our view is too low with just our heads above water. Here, stand on me, then use buoyancy to jump up higher and look around!"
"We never practiced a pose like that before!"
"Let's call it new territory, like with those fancy swimming strokes!"
"Alright, I'll try!"
The first time, Jiang Yao lost her balance and splashed right back into the water.
The second try, her foot slipped and she failed again.
"Don't rush Yao Yao. Think of it as challenging a new difficulty level!"
Jiang Yao nodded.
The third time, stepping on Lu Zhe's shoulders, she leapt upwards with all her might. Then she saw it - just 400-500 meters ahead, she truly spotted a small island!
Jiang Yao cried out joyfully, "It's over there!"
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
