Chapter 1148: Chapter 1146: Taking Everyone Along for a Trip
What’s more terrifying is that soone seems to have realized that Wang Dadong is lying.
“He’s deceiving us, there’s no island ahead at all, we’ve already swum over thirty miles…” soone said despairingly.
This news was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for everyone who was already at their wits’ end.
“It’s useless, we’re all going to die anyway, why work so hard, it’s better to die comfortably…”
“Are we really going to die…”
Once despair takes root, it’s quite terrifying, and those who originally had hope will be infected by that despair and beco hopeless.
This was what Wang Dadong least wanted to see.
After finding out there was no island ahead, many people were unwilling to swim anymore.
In fact, they simply didn’t have the strength anymore.
“Forget it, save yourself, you can’t save us…” Xiao Qing’s face showed a hint of bitterness. Initially, it was she who asked Wang Dadong to save everyone, but now, she was the one telling Wang Dadong to give up on everyone.
“Thank you for everything you’ve done…” Despair finally broke Xiao Qing.
Wang Dadong stopped. Now he could indeed take Daphne and leave, but if he did, wouldn’t the efforts of the past few hours be in vain?
Since he decided to save these people, it was impossible to give up halfway unless there was no hope left at all.
Wang Dadong was silent for a mont before saying to everyone: “You’re right, I did lie to you, there’s no island ahead. If you want to give up your lives, I won’t stop you, but if you want to survive, listen to .”
Could Wang Dadong really take all of them?
The answer is yes.
“Everyone tie your clothes together and make a rope!” Wang Dadong commanded the group.
Finally, soone understood Wang Dadong’s intention. Was he planning to drag everyone along?
How could that be possible?
“If you want to live, do as he says!” Xiao Qing spoke up.
Having soone to lead, only a fool wouldn’t follow through with such a good thing.
Despite having little strength left, they quickly made the rope.
The rope made from clothes and pants was at least ten to twenty ters long.
Wang Dadong checked it, re-tied the loose knots, and then swam to the front end of the rope.
“Okay, everyone hold on to the rope, those with strength should swim, and those without should rest for now, but don’t think of slacking off. Right now, we’re all grasshoppers tied to the sa string, one person’s laziness might an none of us survive to find the island,” Wang Dadong said with a serious expression.
After speaking, he tied the front end of the rope around his waist and began to swim forcefully.
Dragging dozens of people is definitely not the sa as dragging one person.
If moving one ter previously required consuming one unit of energy, now it would take dozens of units.
The energy consumption skyrocketed by dozens of tis!
A normal person would have long been exhausted. Only soone with Wang Dadong’s Hermit-level cultivation would dare to be this crazy.
But facing the ocean, even Hermit-level cultivation seed insufficient. At most, he could drag them for a few more dozen miles. If he couldn’t find an island, he’d probably have to abandon the others and save only Daphne.
anwhile, a team composed of strong individuals several kiloters away from them was slowly moving forward.
Those who chose to follow them were used as laborers, bodies subrged in seawater, dragging life-jacket-made rafts forward.
“Damn it, don’t even think about slacking, or we won’t hesitate to leave them behind,” the burly n on the raft cursed.
…
Wang Dadong, pulling more than twenty people, moved like chanical arms, swiftly cutting through the water like a tireless machine.
No one in the group slacked off. Those who could swim did so, and those who couldn’t held onto the rope and rested for a while.
As Wang Dadong said, everyone was a grasshopper on the sa string; slacking off could very likely endanger everyone’s lives.
Everyone knew their chance of survival depended entirely on Wang Dadong. The more they contributed, the more strength Wang Dadong would have.
That way, the hope of finding an island increased.
With Wang Dadong leading in the front, their progress was surprisingly faster than at the start.
But this didn’t an there was hope for survival since ahead was still the boundless sea.
The only thing that comforted Wang Dadong was that after these few hours, the sea remained calm; confronting waves would make saving everyone a delusion.
However, things don’t always go as planned. As Wang Dadong was feeling relieved, the wind started to pick up on the sea.
This is the sea; the weather changes rapidly, and you never know what could happen next.
Perhaps a few minutes ago, everything was calm, but minutes later, it’s strong winds and heavy rain.
“Damn it, this is exactly what I feared,” Wang Dadong said solemnly. Turning back to everyone, he said, “Everyone hold onto the rope tightly, do not let go.”
In fact, without Wang Dadong needing to tell them, people were already holding on tightly, knowing that getting swept away by the waves would be certain death.
Now that the waves had started, their progress beca more difficult.
But Wang Dadong couldn’t stop; he had to keep moving forward. If he couldn’t find an island by nightfall, they would be in great trouble!
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