This brief moment of peace gave rise to a different kind of emotion in his heart. It was as if he had only enjoyed it when he was still a child. It had been too long, so long that he had forgotten that there were emotions other than madness in his memory. Unfortunately, this period of peace was too short. In the next moment, he narrowly dodged a few ferocious fish heads that were biting at him and smashed into the lake.
A good person doesn't live long, but a calamity lives on for a thousand years. This folk proverb seemed to be referring to Guo Fei. If it were someone else, it would definitely be a calamity with no chance of survival. However, it was different when it came to Guo Fei.
The moment he entered the water, the big fish that Ding Luo had sliced through exhausted its energy at the bottom of the lake and floated weakly to the surface. It was waiting to slowly pass the last moments of its life.
"Pfff …" Guo Fei's body splashed water all over the sky. In the blink of an eye, Guo Fei's body had already sunk nearly halfway into the lake. In the next second, Guo Fei was about to drown when his legs coincidentally clamped onto the slippery, rough, cylindrical body of the fish.
"Ah …" Guo Fei couldn't help but scream. The fish was as thick as a water tank and had a long dorsal fin on its back. Wasn't the tip of the fin a sharp thorn?
The inertia of entering the water caused Guo Fei's thigh to be nailed to three to five long thorns. The sharp thorns pierced through his thigh and nailed him to the back of the big fish.
Guo Fei didn't know that there was something on the fin thorns of the big fish. After his thigh was pierced, he felt an intense pain from the wound on his thigh. It was the kind of burning pain that felt like his thigh was pierced by a red-hot iron drill. In this burning pain, a numbness that felt like an electric current was mixed in. This time, Guo Fei suffered greatly.
Guo Fei was crazy. The emotions that he had just managed to calm down were ignited by this intense pain. His eyes were bloodshot again. He reversed the blade and stabbed into the body of the big fish. The slippery mucous membrane and rough scales of the big fish couldn't stop his blade. The long blade smoothly pierced into the big fish's body. Then, Guo Fei gripped the hilt with both hands and stirred with all his might.
Guo Fei was riding on the big fish, continuously inflicting damage on it. Although the big fish had floated to the surface to wait for death, this didn't mean that it could withstand the pain. Under the pain, the big fish became active again. It twisted and turned vigorously on the surface of the water, splashing waves in all directions.
But Guo Fei was not riding on it, he was nailed to it. No matter how the fish struggled, it could not shake Guo Fei off, and Guo Fei was not in a good condition either. The fish's movements tore open the wound on his thigh, and his blood flowed into the lake like a fountain. Guo Fei did not make a sound in this unbearable pain. He could not think of anything other than twisting the hilt of the knife even harder.
"Bang …" The big fish leaped out of the water with Guo Fei riding on it.
"Bang …" The big fish crashed into the bottom of the water with Guo Fei riding on it.
The big fish struggled on the surface of the lake, and Guo Fei struggled along with it.
The big fish writhed at the bottom of the lake while Guo Fei held his breath and stirred the blade.
Finally, the big fish leaped out of the lake again and swam into the distance …
Guo Fei and the big fish's battle of life and death on the surface of the lake didn't fall into the eyes of the other three people. They didn't have the time to watch a person who was bound to die. They were also struggling between life and death like Guo Fei.
The boat had lost power, and the rifles had run out of bullets. That was fine, but the hull of the boat had been damaged after several collisions. The cold lake water was quickly gushing in through the holes in the hull. By the time the others realized that their feet were submerged, it was already too late. But then again, even if they realized it from the beginning, they couldn't do anything about it.
"Let's fight … Die like a man …"
Ding Luo yelled and tore off his military uniform that was drenched by the fishy fish blood and the cold lake water. With his arms bare, he swung his saber at a fish tail that had just extended out from the side of the boat.
The huge fish tail was originally going to slap the boat, but just as it was halfway out of the water, the three-pointed, double-edged broadsword quickly swung across its tail fin. With a flash of the broadsword and a soft sound, half of the jet-black tail fin was separated from the fish tail and flew into the distance. The big fish couldn't bear the pain and bounced out of the water. It fell horizontally on the surface of the water and caused a huge wave.
"Die … Die … I can't take it anymore …" A team member stood on the side of the swaying boat and stabbed the bayonet into the water again and again, not caring if he stabbed anything in the water.
"Ding Luo … You bastard … I won't let you go even if I become a ghost. You better remember this …"
This was Li Zhi's scolding. Like Ding Luo, he took off his wet clothes and stabbed the head of a fish beside him with his rifle. Li Zhi was scolding Ding Luo for leaving him behind just now. He couldn't remember how others treated him well, but he could remember how others treated him badly even in death.
"Bang …" A huge fish tail emerged from the lake and slammed into the bow of the boat. "Gulp … Gulp …" The bow of the boat finally separated from the body of the boat, and a huge amount of lake water rushed into the body of the boat. At this moment, the three of them knew that their final fate had arrived.
"Fight … Fight … Fight to the death …"
Ding Luo raised his broadsword and shouted. The other two threw away their rifles and sat in the rapidly surging lake water. They were tired, and it was already a miracle that they could last until this point. The boat was about to sink, and they needed to rest.
"Get up … You two idiots, stand up like men and die …"
Ding Luo, who had already gone crazy, cursed the two team members loudly. He was very disdainful of their passive attitude. Unexpectedly, at this moment, the body of the boat shook violently, and the boat without the bow floated on the lake surface. Half of the boat was already in the water, and only the back half was above the water. An unknown source of power miraculously dragged the boat on the lake surface.
The boat left the water just now, and the three of them watched the rolling waves at the place where they had just stopped. The palpitations of surviving a disaster struck their hearts.
At first, the boat moved slowly, but it began to speed up. Finally, before the boat sank to the bottom of the lake, the half of the boat glided on the water surface like a surfboard. Ding Luo also found the source of power. It was the section of fish intestines wrapped around the boat. The thick fish intestines stretched the boat all the way to the distant lake surface.
Seeing the fish intestines, Ding Luo laughed bitterly. They were still going to die in the end. It could only be said that it was the difference between dying earlier and dying later. He knew that the half-dead big fish was dragging the boat, and when the big fish died of exhaustion, it would also be the time they would be buried at the bottom of the lake.
At this moment, the crazy Ding Luo calmed down again. He lay quietly in the cold lake water, looking at the big fish chasing them from behind the boat, waiting, waiting …
Guo Fei would never have thought that he, who was hated by everyone, would inadvertently play the role of a savior. Although this savior was on the verge of fainting, he had no idea where the big fish was swimming. The cold lake water took away his body temperature, and the blood that kept gushing out of his thigh made him weak.
There was no shock, no fear, no thoughts, and no thoughts. Guo Fei was like an old monk who had attained enlightenment as he rode on the back of the big fish that had gone crazy due to pain. Other than the hilt of the knife in his hand, he couldn't feel anything. He didn't even know that the big fish was rushing in a straight line toward the small island in front of him.
"Whoosh …" The big fish crushed the reeds and rushed to the shore. Guo Fei, who was nailed to the big fish, was also brought to the small island. In his half-conscious state, he vaguely saw a fiery red light, and then he lost consciousness.