Just as the tribesman had said, even giant waves couldn't keep the ark, with its immense buoyancy, trapped in the water for too long.

This period of time only lasted a few minutes, but those few minutes felt like an eternity to everyone.

Everyone eagerly awaited the ark to rise to the surface again. After about five minutes, the ark once again leaped onto the water.

Everyone immediately felt the inertia disappear, and the feeling of being on an airplane returned.

The most important thing now is to temporarily repair that hole, and we can't just fix it from the inside; we have to plug it up from the outside with something larger than the hole.

I picked up the broken planks from the ground and ran towards the hole.

There are still a lot of rock vines wrapped around the hull. If we stack some planks and wed them between the rock vines, the planks will be firmly attached to the hull by the water pressure when the boat sinks into the water next time.

Just as I ran to the hole, what I saw through it was a suffocating sight.

"Get down! Everyone, get down now!"

I screamed in terror like a madman. Through the hole, I could see the outside world. What came into my view was a giant rock protruding from the water, more than ten meters high!

The instant I shouted, a chilling creaking sound came from the starboard side of the ship. The sound was extremely piercing, somewhat like the noise of a knife scraping against smooth glass, but amplified dozens of times.

A giant wave crashed in, and the starboard side of the ark struck the boulder directly.

As the ship shook violently, our bodies involuntarily tilted and fell to the right. Our bodies, already numb from the fall, could no longer feel any pain.

A huge crack more than ten meters long appeared before our eyes, and we could even clearly see the still blazing sun shining in the sky.

But now our situation is even more intense. A huge wave crashed in, and a large amount of seawater rushed in through the crack that was more than ten meters long.

The torrent of water that crashed down on them immediately filled dozens of rooms on the starboard side of the ship with seawater.

The tribesmen and Haru were mixed together, swirling in the head-deep water like dust being washed away, and I was not spared from the onslaught of the giant wave.

Because it came so suddenly, we didn't even have a chance to prepare, and could only let the current slap us around in the cabin.

However, the gap has widened, and the incoming water flow isn't as powerful as before. But it still feels like the burning sensation on your back when you dive from a height of three or four meters and hit the water.

At this point, because the ark was tilted to the right and scraped against the rock, the ark quickly passed by and the ark immediately righted itself due to the weight of its bottom.

Instantly, the water in this area spread evenly throughout the entire cabin.

However, our ship has a large capacity, so this little bit of water is nothing, but the food on the lower deck will suffer.

The grain separators are not completely sealed; water can still seep through these gaps to the bottom layer.

There's no time to worry about those things right now; our luck seems to be running out. We've now entered treacherous waters filled with towering boulders!

"Creak!"

That was the rock vine's outer shell colliding with the towering rocks under the crashing of the giant waves. The rock vine, as thick as an arm, snapped in an instant with a piercing cracking sound.

Our ark was like a poultry being thrown into a molting machine. The rocks were relentlessly peeling away the protective vines, revealing shocking cracks before our eyes.

Sometimes, when a wave comes in, the water doesn't even need to flow to the next level. It goes directly in through the hole on the port side of the ship and comes out through the hole on the starboard side.

During this time, many tribesmen and Haru were swept directly through the hole into the raging waves by the giant waves.

No one knows their fate, and no one dares to even think about it. Under such extreme conditions, the chance of survival is zero.

For more than 20 years, it seems that we have experienced all the fears that we had not experienced in the past 20 years.

We've lost count of how many people have fallen into the water; the giant waves are the most efficient harvesters, each one claiming dozens or even hundreds of lives.

The children who had been crying incessantly at the beginning have now stopped crying, as they are now stunned by the hellish scene before them.

We have fought countless wars with Haru, but none have been as brutal as this war of nature.

The population accumulated over more than 20 years has been reduced by at least half in just one day.

However, while these densely packed boulders caused us enormous losses, they also blocked even larger waves from crashing in.

As we ventured deeper into the rock formations, the power of those giant waves gradually diminished, and their impact became smaller and smaller.

In the end, our ark only tilted and rocked violently; those giant waves tens of meters high were no longer visible.

As the ark sailed deeper into the waters of the giant rocks, even the force of impacts became much smaller, and sometimes minor bumps and knocks no longer had a severe impact on the ark.

We were exhausted and collapsed on the wet floor of the cabin, but we still dared not let go, gripping onto anything that could hold us firmly to the ground.

After an unknown amount of time, perhaps the cold wind roused everyone from their numbness. Some of the tribesmen began to rise, staring blankly at the chaotic state of the cabin before them, their eyes vacant.

In some inconspicuous corners of the cabin, there were some bioluminescent lamps flashing, emitting a faint blue light.

The false honey fungi that rely on nutrients to maintain their brightness have now been filled with a lot of seawater. The salt content of the seawater has a fairly significant killing effect on these fungi.

I took a tactical flashlight out of my backpack, turned it on, and searched the cabin using the flashlight beam.

Finally, in an inconspicuous corner, I found Susu curled up tightly, hugging Qianqian. Seeing her still heaving body, my heart, which had been hanging in suspense for a moment, finally settled down.

"Susu, things should be alright for now. As long as we get through these few days, we'll be safe."

After thinking for a moment, I continued to ask,

"Where are Dante and the others? Aren't they with you?"

Su Su hugged Qian Qian tighter, her eyes had become incredibly dim, and her voice had become weak and feeble.

"I don't know, we got separated in the chaos. I don't know... I don't know..."

Seeing Su Su's somewhat dazed state, my heart ached for no reason.

This disaster was too devastating for us. Even though I had designed the ark as perfectly as possible, it still couldn't withstand the forces of nature.