Lucky Met the Reef

Once on a raft, Lu Zhe discovered several little girls all crying their eyes out!

What's the matter?

Did they also know that the passengers had all been buried at the bottom of the sea?

"Why are you crying?"

Ning Shu wiped away some tears angrily, "Lu Zhe! Lu Zhe! You're really something, actually staying underwater for ten whole minutes!"

So it turned out he had been underwater at 50 meters depth for a full ten minutes!

Lu Zhe wiped his face and tried to appear as relaxed as possible: "They say the world record is 22 minutes! I still need to keep at it!"

"And you nearly scared us to death!"

"I thought you'd never come back up!"

Tang Xiaoguo hugged Lu Zhe and bawled.

Lu Zhe felt a warmth in his heart and stroked Tang Xiaoguo's head: "Don't cry, Xiaoguo..."

"Lu Zhe! Don't ever be so reckless again next time, you should know, we're all counting on you!"

Ning Shu sniffed again, looking at Lu Zhe very sincerely.

Lu Zhe knew how much weight he carried in these girls' hearts now.

He had been underwater so long, they really had been terrified!

"Alright, I promise from now on not to do anything so dangerous again, seeing you all cry like this! Besides, with four such beautiful maidens waiting for me, how could I bear to die!"

"Hmph, now you know!"

"Mm, so did you see anything down there?"

Lu Zhe took out a plastic tube, remote control and dinner knife: "I just found these! Can sharpen the knife into a weapon, don't know yet what use the tube and remote control are."

Jiang Yao took them and looked them over: "Heavens, you really went inside the plane?"

Lu Zhe nodded.

"Then the other passengers..."

Speaking of the other passengers, Lu Zhe's expression became solemn and tranquil, and he shook his head!

The girls' faces also showed grief!

It was still Ning Shu who let out a long sigh: "It seems we really are the lucky ones!"

"Mm!"

Jiang Yao suddenly thought of something: "Oh right, since the plane crashed here, then the rescue team should find this place pretty quick based on the black box signal right?"

Lu Zhe shook his head: "The black box has a locator, but there's interfering magnetic fields here that could block its signal, otherwise the rescue would've found this place already!"

"I see..."

And just then, the plane's electrical system finally couldn't withstand the corrosion of the seawater, and all the lights abruptly went out!

The plane's silhouette vanished into the deep sea depths, without a trace!

If their raft had just passed by now, they absolutely wouldn't have discovered this plane sitting on the seabed!

In an instant!

They lost their point of reference again!

This made the girls even more anxious.

But luckily this situation didn't last long, Lu Zhe's stone anchor started working!

The raft suddenly tipped violently to one side, the rope instantly pulled taut!

The next moment, the raft swayed violently as it was jerked!

Lu Zhe was overjoyed inside, this must be a collision with a hidden reef, he hurried to steady the caldron of embers!

"Not good, hit a reef!"

"Don't talk nonsense, isn't this a good thing? Everyone hang on tight!"

But Ning Shu still fell into the water with a splash!

"Splash!" she fell into the sea, and Lu Zhe was just about to go save her when he saw she had actually stood up!

"What's going on here..."

"The water here...very shallow..."

Lu Zhe quickly reminded: "Class monitor, stand right there and don't move!"

Ning Shu said nervously: "Even if you tell me to move I wouldn't dare!"

Lu Zhe observed that the water only came up to Ning Shu's ankles, and some glowing little fish swam around her!

This meant the hidden reef underwater was only about 15-20 cm from the surface!

He was overjoyed inside, carefully jumping down from the raft!

Feeling the uneven ground beneath his feet, with protruding coral and slippery seaweed!

A coral reef!

It really was a coral reef!

What a pity it didn't break the surface!

But this was already great!

Lu Zhe first steadied the raft, then took a harpoon and went aboard.

Ning Shu asked: "Lu Zhe, so what exactly is going on here!"

"We hit the jackpot, this is a coral reef, we can secure the raft here!"

"Too great, we really found one!"

"And it's so shallow here, don't need to risk diving..."

"Come stand here a bit, on the raft you'll shake up all the leftovers from last night!"

"You guys wait here first! Let me check the surroundings for danger first!"

After securing the raft, Lu Zhe held a bundle of kindling in his left hand and a harpoon in his right, carefully probing ahead with his footsteps!

Beneath his feet he could see the glowing algae and little fish, and beautiful sea slugs!

These little creatures swam around his feet, totally unafraid of humans!

There were also flatfish concealed on the seabed, that would suddenly swim out several meters then stop motionless again!

After walking more than 10 meters, it abruptly got deeper in front, so he pulled out a stick and stuck it into the coral reef!

Probing left and right, it was also only a few meters, so he stuck in a stick to mark the spot!

It seemed this hidden reef wasn't very big, only about 100 square meters near the surface.

But for them this was already enough!

"You can all come down and move around a bit, just be sure to wear sandals or slippers, don't scrape your feet on the rocks!" The activity area is within the markers I put down!"

"Oh, deja vu of arriving at a scenic spot!"

"Got it, tour guide Lu!"

The girls all changed into found slippers and stepped into the water!

The cool seawater washing over their calves and feet felt indescribably comfortable!

"We'll have to spend the night here tonight! At dawn when we see the volcanic island, we can set off."

Tang Xiaoguo and Lin Qianqian played in the water a bit, picked up some scallops and seashells, while Ning Shu and Jiang Yao further secured the raft, then sat on its edge to rest!

And at this time, Lu Zhe's foot touched something, and another important message appeared in his mind!

"Ding! Important resource discovered: flounder!"

Next, he noticed not far ahead a fish the size of a large shoe pad flap its fins twice then swim forward a few meters!

Then beside it another was startled and swam two meters!

So these were flounder!

Lu Zhe was secretly delighted!

It looked like he could eat some decent fish tonight!

Lu Zhe silently crept through the water and thrust the harpoon precisely at one flounder!

But this fish was too agile, twisting its body to dodge!

He tried two more times but still couldn't spear it!

It looked like he had to get serious!

He took out 3 potential points and added them to the Agility trait, now Lu Zhe had a total of 15 points in Agility!

He also took out 5 potential points and added them to the Precision trait, bringing Precision up to 15 points too!

Instantly, his reflexes, explosive power, nimbleness all significantly improved!

His eyes and hands also became more steady!

Creeping over silently again, throwing the harpoon once more, accurately spearing a flounder!

"Yes, got one!"

Behind him came the girls' cheers and applause!

"Shh, quiet down, don't scare the other fish away!"

"Oh..."

Lu Zhe vaguely recalled reading in childhood encyclopedias that flounder secrete a kind of white toxin to avoid being eaten by sharks!

He wondered if that was true!

If the fog cleared tomorrow and they went towards the volcanic island, they'd likely pass through shark territory, getting some could come in handy!

With a mind to try it out, he got an empty bottle, aimed the flounder's vent at its mouth, and squeezed forcefully. Sure enough a stream of white, irritant, pungent mucus gushed out!

The fumes stung Lu Zhe's eyes painfully!

Ding! Obtained shark repellent, +1 potential point!