Chapter 287 Buoyancy
After the mutated whale dived into the sea, Qin An and Little Ru still wanted to fight one last time.
So they tried hard to swim back to Dongding Island, because that was the nearest land they knew.
However, the waves on the sea did not want them to continue to live.
After swimming for more than ten minutes, the sea breeze became strong and the waves became turbulent!
All the beauty of this sea had turned fierce, wanting to slaughter all life that did not belong to it but came from the outside world.
Qin An held Little Ru firmly in his arms, and then the two of them were swept by the waves. Sometimes they sank to the bottom of the sea, and sometimes they were thrown out of the sea.
If it was an ordinary person, they would probably have died a long time ago.
Qin An and Little Ru were not ordinary people. They both possessed strong muscular strength, allowing them to fight for a thread of life in the sea of rage.
This time, it was different from the one that had just escaped from Bluesea City.
At that time they had a wooden boat that allowed them to float most of the time on the surface of the sea.
This time, they had nothing, so most of the time, they were pushed into the sea by the waves.
Just like this, they had been tortured by the sea. When the sun shifted from the east to the west, they had been soaking in the sea for almost nine hours!
The seawater in January was very cold. Even if someone with Qin An's physique soaked for a long time, they would still feel numb.
Then Little Ru's condition was even worse. She had already begun to tremble, and she was also dizzy. She drank a lot of seawater.
When dusk arrived, the sea finally became calm. At this moment, Qin An did not know where they were washed away. There was no land in sight, it was all sea.
The setting sun in the west was still very beautiful, but Qin An was no longer in the mood to appreciate it.
His body floated in the seawater, and then he held Xiao Ru up so that her head was also on the seawater. His voice was somewhat hoarse as he shouted, "Xiao Ru! Little Demon! Are you dead or not?"
Little Ru had always closed her eyes. When Qin An's roar sounded in her ears again and again, she finally woke up a little from her dizziness. Then, she coughed hard and spat out a few mouthfuls of salty seawater from her mouth.
Seeing that Little Ru had reacted, Qin An was pleasantly surprised and pushed her body higher. Then, he knocked her on the back and made her spit out more seawater.
Xiao Ru took a long breath after a flip and said weakly, "Has the rain stopped?"
Qin An really didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It seemed that Little Ru had already fainted from the waves!
She actually thought that she was in the rain!
He was not in the mood to tease Little Ru, because Qin An was also very tired. He hugged Little Ru tighter and said, "Yes! The rain stopped, but we were drowned by the rain!"
Little Ru slowly opened his eyes and found that Qin An's face was very close, and his face was full of water droplets.
Although the sea breeze had disappeared and the waves weren't surging, the seawater was still rhythmic. They followed the rhythm of the sea and floated in the seawater. Qin An no longer had much strength to swim. He could only use his feet to step on the water to maintain the best tilt angle of his body, so that the two of them wouldn't be overflowed by the seawater.
Xiao Ru smiled faintly. She was actually not dead yet? She looked at Qin An and said, "It's still the first day of the new year! Happy New Year!"
Qin An finally laughed. He didn't expect Little Ru to say such a thing to him.
It turned out that when death could not be avoided, people could face it very calmly!
Looking at Little Ru's blooming smile, Qin An suddenly realized that he liked her smile.
Her smile was pure and charming.
Seeing that Qin An was looking at her, Little Ru wasn't shy this time. She also looked at Qin An and said, "Are we really going to die?"
Qin An nodded and said, "Yeah, we don't have any wooden boats this time. We can only float like this. I think we'll be exhausted soon! I've already experienced the storm! I didn't even die when I met the Reaper Girl back then, but now I'm going to die by your hands! You're awesome!"
Little Ru was stunned for a moment and repeated, "Who is the Reaper girl?"
She did not understand what Qin An meant at all, and Qin An was referring to Liu Xia of course.
Hearing Little Ru's question, Qin An did not open his mouth to explain, because he did not have the strength to talk about Liu Xia, it was a long story.
The seawater was cold, but Little Ru felt that it wasn't cold because of Qin An.
From the point of view of the heart, when a woman is hugged by a strong man, she feels warm.
From a physiological point of view, Qin An was a man, while Little Ru was a woman. Men were masculine and women were feminine, so under the same environment, men's body temperature was slightly higher than women's. In this way, Little Ru could absorb the heat emitted from Qin An's body. Although the heat was very thin, it could be magnified infinitely in the icy seawater.
Little Ru was hugged by Qin An. She was only half as long as Qin An, so in the seawater, Little Ru's little feet would occasionally sweep past Qin An's little brothers.
Even so, Little Ru did not feel embarrassed at all. Last night, she had the closest contact with that somewhat ferocious fellow.
Qin An wasn't used to it at first, but it didn't matter anymore. He didn't know if he could continue to live, but why would he care about so many things?
The two continued to embrace each other and float in the sea. As time passed, they no longer had the strength to speak. Floating in the sea was also a very strenuous task.
Little Ru had always been hugged by Qin An. In fact, she had expended much less energy than Qin An, but her physical strength was still inferior to Qin An's.
Therefore, she was more tired than Qin An.
However, her mental state was very good. Everything she experienced now was like a dream.
She willfully handed herself over to a man who was trying his best to protect her!
He didn't even know that there was a relationship between them! He didn't even have the slightest bit of love for her!
Even so, he still protected her in the face of danger. Although her weight was not heavy, if he let her go, he could save more effort, right?
Thinking of this, Little Ru felt that he was extremely lucky. Meeting such a man in the apocalypse was not easy.
If he died just like that, Little Ru would feel that his life was perfect, at least close to perfection.
Time continued to pa. S.s, and the wind blew again on the calm sea.
When the wind came, the waves followed.
The two of them were once again swept up and down by the waves.
Xiao Ru closed her eyes. She calmed her heart and waited for death to arrive!
It took about four to five hours for the wind and waves to return to calm. At this moment, Little Ru had already fainted, and Qin An had already lost all his strength. He could hardly control his body to continue floating above the sea surface! Struggling in the wind and waves was simply too exhausting! Qin An believed that even those swimmers who could cross the Straits on TV in the past would not be able to stay in the sea for more than ten hours and still have the slightest bit of strength.
Looks like this is it! There is no escape from death.
Qin An wanted to give up because he was already too tired.
At this moment, Qin An discovered that there was something reflecting light several hundred meters away from him!
What could it be?
With a trace of curiosity, Qin An once again aroused his will to survive. He activated the last potential in his body and swam with one hand, using the breaststroke to swim towards the shining place.
When he swam there, he discovered that it was actually a small wooden board! The edge of the board was wrapped in a metal frame. This should be the decoration of a certain ship, right? Or a picture frame?
Qin An could not understand what it was used for, but he knew that this wooden board was his life-saving straw!
She first placed Xiao Ru on the wooden board, and then Qin An himself climbed up. However, the two of them couldn't support the weight of the wooden boards, so they immediately flipped over and let them fall into the sea again.
Qin An struggled to pull Little Ru back into his embrace in the sea, then swam to the side of the wooden board and tried several times. Qin An was completely disappointed!
This wooden plank was not enough to bear the weight of the two of them.
There was nothing Qin An could do but hold Little Ru and continue to float in the sea with his hands on the wooden board.
After another four to five hours, Qin An's body became heavier and heavier. He felt as if there was a big hand pulling him down from the sea.
At this time, he was too weak. He was immersed in the seawater for a long time, causing his body to dehydrate greatly. The symptom of dehydration was that his extracellular fluid was severely reduced! Plasma volume, cardiac output, maximum oxygen uptake, muscle strength and glycogen content decreased significantly.
This made it impossible for him to control his body to continue floating on the sea, and this feeling of powerlessness made him unconsciously want to grab onto the last straw, which meant that his body would press down on the wooden board with all its might!
If that was the case, the wooden plank would still not be able to withstand the weight from him and Little Ru.
In the end, Qin An knew that he was already in a state of inevitable death! Perhaps if he let go of Little Ru now, he could still hold on to the wooden plank for a while, but was this necessary? When he lost consciousness and was unable to hold the wooden board with his hand, he still died in the end!
Qin An tried his best to push Little Ru onto the wooden board. Then, he took off the white shirt she had been wearing and tore a few rags. Then, he tied one end of the rag around Little Ru's wrist and the other end to the metal frame protruding from the edge of the wooden board.
This was the last thing he could do for Xiao Ru, and also the only choice he could make right now.
He wasn't very noble, and if he had a choice, he would probably hesitate whether to let himself stay on the board or let Little Ru.
Fortunately, he had no choice! Then it would be equivalent to choosing nobility!
Qin An's heart was very sad. He suddenly remembered a foreign movie he had seen many years ago. It seemed to be called the Titanic. When he saw it at that time, he did not feel touching. He even felt that it was a little fake.
And now, he was actually facing a similar situation. What a dog's blood bridge!
Qin An laughed at himself in his heart, then looked at Little Ru who was unconscious on the wooden board. This little demon's face was very pale at this moment!
A small wave passed and Qin An's body suddenly sank. He hurriedly reached out to grab the wooden board, but when his hand landed on the wooden board, the wooden board quickly tilted and was about to flip over. Qin An hurriedly released his hand!
Damn buoyancy!
Without the support of the wooden board, Qin An's weak body began to descend under the rhythm of the sea and the slight waves. In the end, he was unable to continue struggling and slowly sank into the dark sea water!
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