Delta: Who are you saying has suffered a loss of strength?

Chapter 243 Water Monster

On the platform in the middle, Xiao Bai and Lao Zhou held their guns, looking back at Han Che and the other two, while keeping an eye on the cave entrance they were coming from and the high slope where they were observing.

It was very quiet around, with only the sound of water splashing against the edge of the platform.

Han Che, Cai Chengfu, and Qi Shao slowly moved towards the platform in the water.

Han Che and Cai Chengfu were both tired, and their pace slowed down considerably.

The three of them swam slowly to the center of the water. They were still halfway to the platform. Just a little more and they would be there.

Han Che suddenly felt Qi Shao's body trembling, and he thought that Qi Shao was exhausted.

Having been in the water for so long, feeling both nervous and scared, his energy was quickly depleting. So he reassured her, trying to keep his voice relaxed, "Hang in there, we're almost there. It's not as scary as it seems, right?"

Qi Shao didn't answer. His lips were trembling, his upper and lower lips were touching, and his teeth were chattering.

He opened and closed his mouth several times before making a sound, which was very faint and mostly drowned out by the sound of water. "There's...there's something..."

Han Che didn't hear him clearly, only thinking that he was talking to himself or complaining that he was tired.

"There's something underwater..." Qi Shao repeated, his face now even more pale, his eyes filled with panic.

Han Che frowned. What could possibly be in this water? He knew his own prison best; there wasn't even a large fish in it. It must be that Young Master Qi was hallucinating from being too scared.

Fear makes the brain conjure up things that don't exist. He was about to say, "It's okay, you're just too nervous," but he swallowed the words back.

At this moment, Qi Shao gripped his hand even tighter, his fingernails digging into Han Che's arm through his clothes.

Qi Shao's body trembled uncontrollably, and he began to press his arms down, trying to lift himself more out of the water so that his body could be further away from the surface.

Because Qi Shao was standing upright in the water, with most of his body submerged below the surface, while Han Che and Cai Chengfu were lying face down in the water, their bodies close to the surface, and they were in shallower water than Qi Shao.

Qi Shao stretched his foot deeper, touching something even deeper underwater. It's possible his foot hit some kind of trash or seaweed floating on the surface.

However, in order to support Qi Shao, he couldn't put his head into the water to check.

The sunlight spread a golden light across the water's surface, but visibility underwater was extremely poor; he couldn't see anything clearly. He tried looking down, but could only see a blurry, dark expanse beneath the surface.

Helpless, he could only use his killing intent perception to eliminate the danger.

After Han Che closed his eyes and actively used his killing intent perception to search around, he found nothing. It must have been an illusion after all.

Cai Chengfu turned to look at Han Che, who shook his head to indicate that there was no problem. Xiao Bai and Lao Zhou on the platform were also in the same position as before, and no abnormalities were found.

Only Qi Shao felt something brush against his foot underwater, and a shadow swept past them underwater.

He could feel the water flowing over the back of his feet, pushing his body to the side and scaring him half to death.

The edge of the platform was right in front of them; a few more strokes and they would be there. The three gritted their teeth and continued to slowly approach the central platform.

Finally, they arrived. Xiao Bai and Lao Zhou put down their guns, squatted down, reached out, grabbed Qi Shao's arm, and pulled him onto the platform.

Cai Chengfu and Han Che followed closely behind, supporting themselves on the edge, leaving the water, and their knees touched the platform first as they flipped onto it.

As soon as they got ashore, Qi Shao lay on the platform coughing and gagging. Han Che and Cai Chengfu had also exhausted a lot of energy and were resting while panting heavily.

Qi Shao coughed and gasped for breath, "There's something underwater!"

"There really is something...it's not a hallucination! It's huge!"

Qi Shao was pale and still in shock.

Xiao Bai shook his head at Lao Zhou, then turned to Han Che, "We didn't see anything on the surface. You mean there's something underwater?"

Han Che shook his head as well, "I didn't see any either, maybe some seaweed or something..."

"No! It's huge!" Qi Shao looked up, his eyes filled with horror. "That shadow is huge! It's definitely not seaweed!"

Han Che and the others exchanged glances and shook their heads.

Only Qi Shao was still repeating, "Water ghost! Water monster! Water monkey! It must be some kind of unknown monster!"

Han Che scratched his head helplessly. How could he not know about these things on his own turf?

Just as Han Che was about to explain, Xiao Bai's warning voice came from the side. Xiao Bai suddenly warned, "Someone's coming! From the direction we came from, towards the cave entrance!"

The group looked over at the same time and sure enough, they saw two figures at the cave entrance. Their faces were obscured by the backlight, but their outlines were visible. "Other players?" Han Che had excellent eyesight and recognized them.

"What should we do? Should we call?" Xiaobai asked.

"Let's take the zipline to the evacuation point platform first. Don't waste time arguing with them and delay our evacuation."

The others readily agreed, and one by one they boarded the zipline and slid down to the evacuation point platform.

Qi Shao used the zipline that Cai Chengfu helped him with, while Cai Chengfu himself covered the rear.

When the five people reached the evacuation platform, there was not much time left before they had to evacuate. Looking back, the two people who had been at the cave entrance had already gone into the water and were swimming towards the middle platform.

"Should we bring them over to evacuate with us?" Old Zhou asked.

"I'm afraid they're up to no good," Han Che said.

"Judging from their attitude, it's easy for the five of us to keep an eye on those two. They're probably just lone wolves, so there's no need to go too far..." Cai Chengfu analyzed, but Han Che could see that he was clearly pulling a grenade from his waist and holding it in his hand.

"Keep an eye on them." That was all Xiaobai said, without adding anything further.

Just as the two men were about to reach the central platform, Qi Shao, who was staring intently at the water, suddenly widened his eyes in shock and screamed as he pointed towards the water.

"Lake monster! Lake monster is coming!"

Everyone was immediately drawn to his voice and looked in the direction he was pointing.

A dark black spot on the water's surface grew larger and larger behind the two people.

Until that shadow came and almost lifted up a small patch of water behind it.

Only then did everyone finally believe that what Qi Shao said was true, and there really was something in the water!

A series of long bubbles burst from the water's surface, and a column of water shot into the sky from the shadows, splashing water everywhere.

The two wandering warriors panicked, their faces turning pale as they screamed repeatedly. But the next moment, when they were struck by the water jet, their limbs were broken, they coughed up blood, and died on the spot.

The person swimming ahead, whose upper body had already clung to the edge of the platform, was struck by a jet of water that slammed down through the air, piercing his body and splitting him in two at the waist.

Instantly, large amounts of blood stained the surrounding seawater red.

And so, amidst the final, bloody scene of blood raining down, Xiaobai and his companions left Tide Prison in stunned disbelief.