[This is the anti-theft chapter. The main text is basically done. It will be released in about 30 minutes. Come and refresh the chapter after that.]
Lin Sanjiu crouched down. Her heavy footsteps and intermittent breaths accompanied her. She walked past at least a dozen pedal-powered boats. The spear on her back and the bag of Special Items and weapons seemed to be getting heavier. Although they were only a few kilograms, they weighed so much that she felt dizzy and her vision blurred.
With a thud, she fell onto the plastic seat and tried to regulate her breathing.
There was a flat yellow awning on the front of the pedal-powered boat. At least it didn't look like an annoying cartoon animal. Although the boat was a little old, it was still in good condition. It looked like it could support the return trip for ten minutes. However, Lin Sanjiu glanced at it and buried her face in her palms. She exhaled through her fingers.
She didn't know how to tell.
She had stepped on a very dilapidated boat, but it didn't sink even after a few seconds. On the other hand, there were a few brand-new pedal-powered boats that didn't even have a speck of dust on them. However, when she walked past them, there were only ripples and bubbles on the surface of the lake.
How was she supposed to tell?
After Fabian gave his order, only the round-faced man asked, "Why didn't you kill her?". The middle-aged gentleman was also very honest. He only answered calmly, "It's not time yet."
It seemed that it was this sentence that made the few people in his group finally realize what he was planning. They had also thought of everything that Lin Sanjiu could think of. Since the real danger would come at the 29th minute, it was pointless to say anything before that happened. For those who still harbored hope and thought that the Instance Dungeon would end once Lin Sanjiu died, they just needed to hold on for a little longer. For those who had doubts and were preparing to snatch the ships to clear the Instance Dungeon, the most important thing now was to find the four sturdy ships.
Fabian probably had some tracking device on him. Not long after he left Lin Sanjiu's sight, Natasha's cry of surprise rang out from the densely packed pedal-powered boats in the distance. Not long after, Natasha's voice, which she purposely raised but was reluctant, rang clearly in everyone's ears, "I found two things related to boats in the water. One is a broken plastic board. It's green. The other is a broken pedal. It's rusted. Other than that, I swear I didn't see anything else. "
Natasha couldn't tell which part of the boat the plastic board was broken from.
Even though she had two more criteria to filter, she couldn't help feeling a little hopeless. She completely discarded the green pedal-powered boats with broken pedal-powered boats. She didn't want to waste a second on them. However, even after she filtered those two boats, there were still too many pedal-powered boats left.
However, as the six of them shuttled back and forth nonstop, more and more pedal boats sank into the water.
The pedal boats, which were originally as crowded as a graveyard and could not even see the surface of the water clearly, now seemed to have been carelessly knocked out by someone. The lake water continued to pour in, swallowing them up and diluting them. Gradually, the area of the lake between the boats became larger and larger.
"This isn't right!"
About three to four minutes later, Lin Sanjiu heard a voice behind her. The voice was trembling in fear, so Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell who it was.
She hurriedly looked back and found that on the surface of the water dozens of meters away, separated by a few rows of pedal boats, Zao Peng's figure was poking out of a panda boat.
"We can't go on like this!" the woman who looked like the class monitor shouted, "If we go on like this, we will all be trapped!"
Lin Sanjiu could see the silhouettes of other people from afar as the number of ships had decreased by a few dozen. The droopy man called Lee Louis was standing very close to her. From the blue boat on her right, he raised his voice and asked, "What are you talking about?"
"Everyone, stop! Listen to me! Stop now!"
Zao Peng didn't have time to answer him. She screamed at the top of her lungs while waving her hands. Lin Sanjiu looked around. She heard the footsteps in the cabins gradually stop. A few of the boats even swayed a little. She suddenly understood and let out a low breath.
"Haven't you noticed?" Zao Peng's voice was trembling with helplessness and fear. "We've sunk so many of the pedal boats. There are many places on the lake where the boats can no longer connect to each other!"
There was a moment of silence on the lake. Then, a man cursed in a low voice.
If the boats couldn't connect to each other, it meant that they would be trapped in the boats that hadn't sunk yet. Even if they could use the boats to move, they didn't know how far the boats could take them. What if they started to sink in the middle of nowhere...
The water kept pouring into the lake, pushing the water level to more than 1.6 meters. Even if Lin Sanjiu fell into the water, the water would reach her chin. Normally, a human head was at least 20 centimeters long. Lin Sanjiu was 1.78 meters tall, so she could barely prevent the water from going into her nose when she stood in the water.
Only Lin Sanjiu, Phoebian, and the round-faced man could wade through the water to the next boat. Leith, who was only 1.7 meters tall, couldn't breathe once he entered the water. Furthermore, the water level was still rising.
"Wait, wait," cried Natasha in an unsteady voice. "I don't think I can hold on much longer …"
Her boat wasn't the only one that couldn't hold on.
The cold air seeped into Lin Sanjiu's shoes and spread over her feet. She looked down and realized that the boat she was on had tilted a little. Water was slowly seeping in from the bottom of the boat. She sat in the water and searched the cabin. However, she couldn't find any damage. From the outside, the boat didn't seem to have any reason to sink!
When Lin Sanjiu gritted her teeth and jumped into the water from the cabin, the water splashed high into the air. Her vision was instantly obscured by the water. Natasha's cries for help, the creaking of the pedal boat as it swayed and sank, and the shouts of the other members of the group were all drowned out by the waves. She could hear Natasha crying for help, the creaking of the pedal boat as it swayed and sank, and the shouts of the other members of the group.
Splash! Lin Sanjiu popped her head out of the water.
According to the loudspeaker, when the water level reached 1.8 meters, all posthumans who fell into the water would be forced to drown. However, this rule didn't apply unless the water level was higher than the person's height. Therefore, even if she was temporarily submerged, she could still stand up by stepping on the ground. Lin Sanjiu wiped the water off her face and took a few deep breaths. She raised her head and pushed against the water resistance as she walked toward the next boat. At the same time, she looked in Natasha's direction.
That Eastern European girl's face was probably covered in tears. She could clearly hear her sobbing and panting. She was using all her strength to climb to the top of the slowly sinking boat. Fortunately, her boat was also a flat top boat and not a cartoon animal that couldn't even stand properly.
"Yes, you should step on the boat first. The boat is so high," the round-faced man shouted from somewhere, "It doesn't matter if you sink. As long as you don't submerge, you won't die!"
"Isn't there a boat next to you?" Zao Peng also suggested, "After you stabilize yourself in the water, you can try to jump to the boat next to you …"
Lin Sanjiu climbed onto another boat, dripping wet. She could feel her heart pounding against her sternum. She was so frustrated that she almost wanted to scream. She really didn't understand how to clear this pocket dimension. This was a pocket dimension created by posthumans, so it was different from the one that was affected by the flood. How could it kill people everywhere without leaving any clues?
In the midst of her anxiety and exasperation, she heard Natasha cry out, as though through her teeth, "Please, one of you will come and get me, I don't want to fall into the water, I don't want to!"
"This pocket dimension won't allow two of us to sit on the same boat," Phoebe's deep voice suddenly rang out.
Fabian's deep voice suddenly rang out, accompanied by the humming sound of a pedal boat paddling across the water. A swan boat approached the area of the lake where the few of them were gathered. "Did you guys forget what the loudspeaker said? 'Four people survived, so only four boats are intact. 'This is a clear hint. One person, one boat. "
Even Natasha suddenly stopped talking. Everyone was silent for a few seconds. Lin Sanjiu suppressed the chill in her heart and shouted at Zao Peng, "How long has the pocket dimension been going on?"
"Almost 27 minutes!" Zao Peng answered, panting. She didn't seem to realize that she was answering an enemy's question. At that moment, she was paddling toward the other boats. She wasn't the only one. Other than Natasha, who had fallen into the water, everyone else whose boat wasn't sinking was trying their best to get closer to the other boats.
Lin Sanjiu bit her lips so hard that they turned white.
The boat that she had climbed into did not seem to be sinking, but to be on the safe side, she had to get closer to the next boat immediately. However, she didn't dare to do so.
There were only two minutes left before Phoebe started his massacre. Even though he had said that he had already decided to kill Li Yi and Lin Sanjiu, she couldn't ignore the fact that he only had less than a minute to make his move. Otherwise, when the 30th minute was up, everyone would have to pawn their Special Items, and he would lose his advantage. If Lin Sanjiu could increase the distance between them, she didn't believe that he would waste such a precious window to kill her and not let her go. Zao Peng, Li Yisi, and the round-faced man didn't seem to realize this. At that moment, they were attracted by the crowd of pedal boats and were getting closer and closer. If she were Phoebe, she would definitely choose to attack the people who were gathered together. After all, it was much more convenient that way.
As if to prove her guess, the middle-aged gentleman was paddling straight toward the group members.
"Even if it's risky, I have to go in another direction." Lin Sanjiu made up her mind. She immediately sat down, grabbed the steering wheel, and started pedaling. She still had the capital to take a risk because the water level wasn't at its peak yet. She could take a long detour and try to get closer to the other boats that hadn't sunk yet.
The boat under Natasha's feet had already sunk to the point that only half of her body was still above the water. Nobody knew who she was shouting at, "Please! Can you at least ram a boat closer to me? "
Seeing that no one responded to her, she seemed to be a little anxious. Natasha looked back at the middle-aged gentleman who was getting closer and closer. She quickly turned around and waved at a boat not far away, "Hey!"
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