Chapter 103: Temporary Peace

So, without paying attention, I was just pulled by Huigener, when suddenly a soul with a strong and clear will rushed towards me, forcing its way into my spirit platform without warning. In that moment, my mind went blank, and I only felt a sense of arrogance and defiance. Then this force shook my soul deeply, and then quickly faded away.

This shock was not enough to cause any harm to my soul, but it was enough to make me sluggish for several seconds. When I regained consciousness, I was temporarily deaf. I saw people around me saying something to me, but I couldn’t hear them. But the loss of one sense meant that other senses would be more sensitive. In that moment, I didn’t know that I felt a piercing gaze sweep across my body, making my whole body involuntarily shiver.

The next moment, I found the source of the gaze, and it turned out to be from the big fish in the river. At that moment, it didn’t feel like a fish at all, but a creature of unknown kind, looking down at me with a provoking gaze, warning me…

The feeling at that moment was so real that I actually felt a sense of fear from the bottom of my soul in the face of such a gaze, but my willpower would not allow me to give in. I frowned tightly, not showing the slightest sign of backing down, but it was very hard to hold on.

This stare lasted for a second, until I heard Ru Yue calling out to me, “Brother San, Brother San…” and I suddenly came to my senses.

My ears were still ringing, but the overwhelming oppression had disappeared. Before I could even breathe, Hui Gen’er shouted, “Brother, why is this fish dead?”

I looked down and saw that the big fish that had just struck the Penglai was slowly turning over its belly. How could it have died?

“What kind of feeling was it?” With the buzzing in my ears, Johnny’s voice suddenly sounded in my ear.

I took the towel that Ru Yue handed me and, while wiping my hair, I said with a wry smile, “Just now, just now, I felt like it was also using its roar on me.”

This is the truth. It felt like the roar I had just unleashed on the fish was completely returned to me. This was an extremely funny thing. Looking at the water droplets dripping from my hair, I added, “And, I looked into its eyes, and at that time… I… I felt that this fish was not a fish, but very human, and had a feeling of not knowing what kind of creature it was. Even before that, I didn’t know what was going on with the last burst of that fish.”

Johnny’s expression became very ugly. He touched the elegant mustache on his lip and finally whispered, “It’s from Patel’s control. It’s him.”

Patel? I heard this name from Johnny for the first time, but I felt an inexplicable stirring in my heart, of course accompanied by a sense of danger and fear. I don’t know if Johnny’s face mirrored mine, or if it was my own feeling, but I intuitively felt that this Patel was probably the most difficult enemy to face this time.

I didn’t say anything, and Johnny wiped his face and said, “Let’s go up to the deck and talk about it, and take a look at the situation on the Volma.”

So, we returned to the deck. On the deck, the most obvious thing was the corpse of the snake. It was completely dead and lying on the deck. Next to it was Tao Bai, who looked a little tired, leaning against the railing. He obviously had not recovered yet.

I looked at the corpse of the water snake, which should be a python, although not as exaggerated as the giant anaconda, but also a thick long worm 7 or 8 meters long, which makes one marvel at Tao Bai’s strength.

“Tired, aren’t you? Actually, I really wanted to help you just now, but you were entangled with that big snake, and the big snake was struggling so hard and moving so fast that I had no way to help you kill the big snake without hurting you.” Seeing the exhausted Tao Bai, Lushan squatted down and said gently, habitually touching Tao Bai’s hair.

Tao Bai was still very shy, not at all like the warrior who had just killed a large snake. He lowered his head and whispered, “Brother Lushan, I don’t need anyone’s help, I can do it myself.”

Lushan smiled slightly, then stopped his hand on Tao Bai’s shoulder and stared at the corpse of the snake without saying a word.

Over there, Huigen was already telling me in a tone of amazement about the battle between Tao Bai and the snake. It felt like it was incredibly intense, and Tao Bai seized every opportunity to attack the snake fiercely. In a situation where no one else could get involved, he actually killed the snake.

“I was going to wait until Tao Bai had beaten the snake to a pulp, then use the spear to finish it off. But then Cheng Yuan got so scared that Tao Bai didn’t give me the chance.” Cheng Zhen seemed to be complaining, but in fact he was giving Tao Bai a thumbs up.

“You’re amazing, Tao Bai.” I also praised Tao Bai.

But our praise made Tao Bai even more embarrassed, and he lowered his head and didn’t know how to respond.

“Let’s go check on Wal-Mart.” I didn’t want the boy to continue to be embarrassed, so I turned and came to the front of my brother, looking at Wal-Mart’s situation.

Volma was still conscious at the moment, but his face was very pale, and he had no strength to speak. The pants on his leg had been cut open by Brother Chengxin, and there was a row of thrilling fine teeth marks on his thigh, and this leg was much paler than his whole body.

I knelt down and asked Brother Chengxin, “How is it? Can Volma’s leg be saved? Is there any damage to the muscles and bones?”

Cheng Xin Ge looked at me and said, “Thankfully, it wasn’t a shark that bit off Wal-Ma’s leg. Otherwise, with the shark’s incredible biting power and those long, sharp rows of teeth, Wal-Ma’s leg would have been bitten off at that time.”

This made me think of the teeth of that big fish. They were dense and sharp, like a dense forest of sharp teeth, not big and long sharp teeth, otherwise even if it wasn’t a shark, it could have bitten off Walma’s leg.

“But the big fish dragged Wal-Mart for so long. How did Wal-Mart get injured or hurt?” I still asked with concern.

“There must have been some strain, but it wasn’t as bad as you think… After all, Walma’s leg was in the water, and there wasn’t much of a height difference between the fish and itself, and the fish was also moving at the speed of the boat, there wasn’t a static environment for it to pull Walma’s leg with all its strength, so how could it tear Walma’s leg off with the force of pulling? Don’t think of the human body as too fragile. If the bones and muscles can be torn so easily, the body’s toughness would be too poor, right? What’s more, Volma is a cultivator, so his body is stronger and more resilient than ordinary people. Think about it: five horses tearing a body apart. The horses would have to run in five different directions to achieve this effect. If you tied a person’s leg with a rope and then made the horses run in one direction, even at high speed, it would be difficult for the person’s leg to be pulled off. Besides, you rescued Walma in time, but it was only two or three minutes, and Huigen was holding onto Walma’s back, which also offset some of the force… In short, everything is not as bad as you think. No matter how a fish mutates, its skeletal structure is destined to have less amazing biting power, let alone pulling power. Don’t forget the buoyancy of water. The fish didn’t dive down, but Walma must have been in a lot of pain at the time.” Chengxin brother was talking a lot while treating the wound on Walma.

I said helplessly, “I was just asking casually, why are you talking so much?”

“I was just trying to reassure you. Volma’s leg still has a good chance of being saved. The biggest concern is excessive blood loss, followed by the fear that the wound is so small and it’s summer, so it’s easy to get infected. The last thing is the problem of strain, and the ligaments must have been injured. The luckiest thing about this kid is that the fish didn’t have long teeth and didn’t bite into his leg artery, otherwise even the gods couldn’t save him.” Cheng Xin’s tone wasn’t very serious, and it made me feel relaxed.

Even Volma, who was lying on the deck, looked much better.

I patted Walma on the shoulder and said to him, “Get well soon.”

And Walma weakly responded to me with a “thank you.”

A fierce battle has finally come to a temporary end, and the Penglai, at a certain speed, has also temporarily escaped the harassment of these ferocious creatures. We have gained temporary peace, but what we didn’t expect was that as soon as we entered this place, we would face such a fierce scene. Or we were taken by surprise by these ferocious creatures in those few minutes. Otherwise, how could we have been so embarrassed?

Johnny was standing at the bow of the ship, observing something, while Singh was controlling the Penglai at full speed.

I walked up to Johnny and said, “Johnny, do you want to tell me what happened to Patel?”