Chapter 86 Leading the heroes home! She is the guiding light!

Night fell again.

The nights at sea are especially cold.

The temperature dropped sharply.

The sea breeze feels like a knife, cutting painfully on the skin.

The atmosphere on the life raft was somewhat somber.

The two surviving soldiers have woken up.

Their names were Wang Meng and Li Hao, both young men in their early twenties, and soldiers under Qin Lie.

When they woke up and found themselves still alive, and saw Qin Lie and Jiang Wu, their reaction was exactly the same as Qin Lie's back then.

Shocked, bewildered, and incredulous.

After they listened to the details of what happened from Qin Lie, their eyes were filled with nothing but awe and admiration when they looked at Jiang Wu.

In their eyes, this young and beautiful division commander's wife was no ordinary person.

She is Guanyin Bodhisattva, Mazu Goddess, a living deity who came to save them!

"Sister-in-law, thank you! You are like a second parent to us!"

"Sister-in-law, if you ever need anything in the future, just say the word, and I, Wang Meng, will do anything for you, even if it means going through fire and water!"

The two men stood on either side of Jiang Wu, practically ready to kowtow on the spot.

Jiang Wu was both amused and exasperated by their enthusiasm.

She could only wave her hand, telling them not to be so polite.

However, gratitude aside, real problems remain.

Cold and hungry.

Although Jiang Wu had "picked up" a bag of compressed biscuits, it wasn't enough for the four of them to share.

Even worse was the cold.

All four of them were wearing wet clothes, and with the sea breeze blowing on the open sea, their body temperature was rapidly decreasing.

Qin Lie gave the only dry military jacket to Jiang Wu.

He and the two soldiers were only wearing thin, wet clothes, their lips were purple from the cold, and their teeth were chattering uncontrollably.

"No, if this continues, we'll all die of hypothermia," Qin Lie said in a deep voice, frowning.

Hypothermia is one of the greatest enemies of survival at sea.

If a person's body temperature drops too low, they will fall into a coma and then die silently in their sleep.

"How about... we squeeze together?" Wang Meng suggested. "It'll be warmer with more people."

This is currently the only feasible solution.

So, Qin Lie, Wang Meng, and Li Hao, three grown men, squeezed tightly together at one end of the raft.

Jiang Wu sat alone at the other end.

Qin Lie wanted Jiang Wu to come over as well, but Jiang Wu refused.

She was pregnant, so it was inconvenient for her.

Moreover, she wasn't cold.

As a cultivator, this bit of cold was nothing to her.

She looked at the three men shivering from the cold and felt a pang of pity.

She thought for a moment, then her consciousness once again entered the space.

She remembered that she still had a few low-level magic robes that she had crafted in her space.

Although those robes weren't very defensive, they had one unique feature: they could automatically regulate temperature, keeping you warm in winter and cool in summer.

She quickly found three simple black short jackets in the wardrobe in the bamboo house.

But how should we take these three pieces of clothing out in a reasonable way?

You can't just say you "found" it, can you?

On this vast ocean, where would she find so many things to pick up?

Jiang Wu was worrying when the life raft was bumped by something.

Then, another one.

"What is that?"

Qin Lie also sensed it, and he looked warily in the direction from which the sound came.

A black, square, box-like object was drifting by with the waves, bumping against their life raft again and again.

“It’s a supply crate!” Wang Meng, a former soldier, recognized it at a glance.

"It's the kind of waterproof emergency supply box used on our naval vessels!" Qin Lie recognized it as well.

His heart skipped a beat!

Is it the search and rescue team? Have they found us?

He immediately stood up and shouted loudly in his surroundings, "Is anyone there?! We're here!"

However, all that answered him was the howling sea wind and the sound of the waves.

The surroundings remained pitch black, with no ship lights in sight.

“Strange…” Qin Lie frowned.

Where did this supply crate drift from?

"Who cares where it came from! Chief of Staff, quick! Get it out of there! There must be something good in there!" Li Hao said excitedly.

Qin Lie nodded.

Together with Wang Meng, he used the plank to drag the heavy supply box onto the life raft.

The box is made of high-strength engineering plastic and has excellent sealing properties.

Qin Lie used a great deal of effort to pry open the box with a multi-functional military knife that had appeared on the raft at some unknown time (of course, it was also Jiang Wu's "masterpiece").

The box was opened, and all three pairs of eyes widened in surprise.

The boxes were neatly stacked inside—

Several neatly folded, dry black thermal underwear.

Several vacuum-packed packs of beef jerky that look delicious.

Several bottles of well-sealed mineral water.

There was even a small first-aid kit!

"My God..." Wang Meng and Li Hao were both dumbfounded.

Is this...is this a windfall?

It's like everything I wish for comes true!

An expression of disbelief appeared on Qin Lie's face.

However, when his gaze swept over Jiang Wu, who was sitting opposite him with a look of "surprise" and "disappointment," he understood something.

He looked at Jiang Wu with a complex expression, including a hint of doting and helplessness that he himself was unaware of.

His young wife has truly brought one "surprise" after another.

He didn't point it out.

He simply picked up a thermal undershirt and handed it to Wang Meng: "Quick, put this on."

Then, he picked up another item and handed it to Li Hao.

Finally, he picked one up himself.

Wearing dry, warm clothes dispelled all the cold.

All three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

"Chief of Staff, Sister-in-law, you should eat too!" Wang Meng tore open a package of beef jerky and handed it to Qin Lie and Jiang Wu first.

Qin Lie took it, tore off a small piece, and held it to Jiang Wu's lips: "Wife, you eat first. You're pregnant, you need to eat more."

Jiang Wu shook her head: "You guys eat, I'm not hungry."

She has countless spiritual fruits in her space that taste a thousand times better than this, so she doesn't care about this dry and hard beef jerky.

But she knew that if she didn't eat, Qin Lie definitely wouldn't eat either.

She had no choice but to open her mouth and take a small, symbolic bite.

Qin Lie then started eating as well.

With food and clean fresh water, the group's strength was restored considerably.

The atmosphere became more relaxed.

"Chief of Staff, sister-in-law, what kind of reward do you think the army will give us after we survive this ordeal?" Li Hao asked, munching on beef jerky and daydreaming happily.

"A reward?" Wang Meng scoffed. "Being able to get back alive is the biggest reward! What more could you want!"

"That's not necessarily true!" Li Hao retorted. "We survived a category 17 typhoon! That's practically a miracle! The military will definitely commend us! We might even get promoted!"

"Promotion? You wish!"

The two started arguing.

Qin Lie listened, but just smiled and didn't say anything.

His gaze pierced through the darkness, looking towards his distant home.

He doesn't want any rewards or promotions now.

He just wanted to get back as soon as possible.

He just wanted to take his wife back to their little courtyard.

Then, he personally tore that bastard who wanted to kill his whole family to pieces!

Jiang Wu watched the two bickering, then glanced at Qin Lie, whose eyes had turned cold, and sighed inwardly.

She knew that what awaited them upon their return was another war without gunfire.

Without making a sound, she quietly channeled a wisp of spiritual energy into the life raft beneath them.

That wisp of spiritual energy was like an invisible net, enveloping the entire life raft.

The raft, which was originally leaky, became incredibly sturdy.

It also became more stable in the waves.

At the same time, an invisible thrust slowly formed behind the raft.

The life raft's speed more than doubled without anyone noticing.

It is like an unsinkable ark equipped with invisible thrusters, carrying everyone's hopes and steadfastly sailing towards the light.