Xie Tianlang made no attempt to hide his love, but this love was ruthlessly crushed by the completely transformed whale Fugui with a single slap of its tail.
"Behave yourself and stop babbling! Hold on tight! Daddy's about to chase the ship, let me show you the real speed of your whale daddy, waaaaah!"
After it finished whimpering, the black and white killer whale, which was a full nine meters long, suddenly accelerated. It vigorously swung its tail and pectoral fins, and its gracefully curved body rose and fell in the increasingly large waves.
The splashing waves, hitting the orca's smooth skin like beautiful pearls, not only did not slow him down, but also brought a sense of heroic spirit as he rode the waves.
Xie Tianlang rode on the back of Jing Fugui, gripping his dorsal fin tightly with both hands. The cool waves splashed on his face, making his expression increasingly excited and joyful.
He's flown fighter jets, robbed yachts, done extreme skydiving, and hunted down criminals at sea—but none of his past experiences have given him the thrill and enjoyment he's experiencing now.
Even at this moment, Xie Tianlang thought that if he could ride an orca and race wildly through the sea again, he wouldn't mind jumping into the sea dozens of times.
Although he knew that the possibility was extremely small.
Whale Fugui, leading Xie Tianlang, chased after the giant ship with boundless enthusiasm amidst the stormy seas. Not even a single wave could deter the valiant whale. But the people on the giant ship were filled with sorrow and desolation.
The rescued company commander looked remorseful. As a soldier, how could he let two civilians sacrifice themselves to save him?! This was his dereliction of duty!
The young soldier who was rescued by the company commander felt even more distressed and guilty. The root of all this was that he hadn't stood firm on his last step when boarding the boat. If he had been a little more steady and his legs had been a little stronger, none of this would have happened.
The best outcome was right in front of him, but he ruined it himself. As a result, two lives were lost, and this incident may become a hurdle he will never be able to let go of for the rest of his life.
"...Is there really no way to save them? Both of them are excellent swimmers and can hold their breath for a long time!" The unwilling Sichuan-Tibetan man still asked. "They're both people who found the special materials synthesis machine!"
But this simple, honest man did not get the answer he wanted.
"There's no way to save them. Not to mention there's a massive tsunami coming right behind us, we can't stop the ship to go and rescue them."
Even if we manage to stop the ship and get into the lifeboats to search for people, it's dark and the waves are rough now, so it'll be very difficult to find them."
Another officer on the giant ship looked out at the sea and the wind and rain and spoke slowly, a hint of unspoken regret lingering in his resolute eyes—
What he didn't mention was the sheer force of falling from a giant ship tens of meters high at such a rapid pace; the impact alone would be unbearable, not to mention the possibility of being unlucky enough to crash directly into something hard...
In short, those two heroes who saved people are most likely not going to survive.
The officer sighed, then slowly took off his hat in preparation for a moment of silence.
As the others on the ship silently prepared to bow their heads or remove their hats in mourning, they suddenly saw a thin but extremely bright light rapidly moving toward them on the sea surface diagonally behind their giant ship!
The light flickered at different frequencies and durations. At first, no one realized what the light was, but soon someone almost screamed:
"Morse code! It's Morse code!"
"Rope? Rope! The rope! He's telling us to let the rope down!!!"
"My God, those two are still alive! How did they do that! They're still alive!"
The moment they understood the meaning of the light, everyone on the giant ship cheered excitedly. The somber atmosphere vanished instantly, and everyone began to offer their opinions on how to save people!
"Where's the rope? I have a rope in my backpack!! But my rope isn't long enough, does anyone have another rope?! Quick, quick, tie our ropes together to save people!"
"Lifebuoy! Should we throw one down? Those two might be struggling in the water right now! Quick, throw them a lifebuoy!"
"...A lifebuoy isn't necessary; all we need is a rope that's long and sturdy enough... Ah, why wasn't it me who jumped into the sea to save someone before?"
The last to speak was a young man who carried a small telescope with him. He was originally anxious to see what help the two heroes, who he imagined were swimming very hard, needed. However, the scene that entered his telescope almost made him so jealous!
For a fleeting moment, he even thought that jumping into the sea to save someone wasn't out of the question—if the reward was the chance to ride an orca across the ocean.
"What nonsense are you spouting?! Jumping into the sea isn't something you can just do casually! What the hell did you see?! Holy crap!"
His older companion snatched the binoculars from his hand, and then, by the light on the sea, saw the incredibly fierce and beautiful orca, Fugui, riding the waves, and Xie Langren, beaming with pride and showing off his dozen or so teeth, on the orca's back.
"!!!"
Oh my god! How can that guy ride an orca?!
Ah! Why wasn't it him who jumped into the sea to save people?!
The unusual behavior of the two people left the onlookers and soldiers puzzled, their confusion mixed with an uncontrollable curiosity.
What did these two people see? Why did their expressions suddenly change from admiring the hero to wishing they were the hero?
Until a scout soldier with binoculars reported what he had seen:
"Captain, we have spotted an adult orca carrying one person and chasing our ship! The orca is incredibly fast and will reach the optimal point for throwing the rope in three minutes!"
Then everyone on the ship who had been listening intently to the report gasped in unison.
At that moment, regardless of age, gender, or whether they were ordinary people or disciplined soldiers, everyone felt the same way as the young man with the binoculars.
A strange citric acid smell permeated the entire ship.
Then, a teenager spoke for everyone:
"Dad! I really want to ride an orca too! Do you think the orca will save me if I jump off now?"
Then the brat received a slap from his father, a slap as loving as a mountain.
Even the officers on the ship couldn't help but smile at this moment.
"Quickly throw a rope to save the person!"
He quickly issued the order.
A sturdy long rope was quickly thrown from the edge of the giant ship, awaiting the hero's triumphant return.
At this moment, Xie Tianlang reached out and patted Jing Fugui's dorsal fin: "I can grab the rope and get up in a bit, what about you?"
With so many people watching, even if it's dark, windy, and turbulent, and there are telescopes watching him, he can't transform from a whale into a human in full view of everyone.
The clever whale Fugui had already come up with a way to get out of it: "Just say that one orca can't carry two people. After you get on, the orca will come to pick me up, and then you can have them keep the rope down. When no one is looking, I'll just grab the rope and go up."
Anyway, the wind and waves were huge and the sky was extremely dark at that time. As long as he dived into the sea and came up with the rope, no one would see him transform.
"Remember to ask them to make the rope longer so I can grab it directly from the sea."
This reason is a bit bizarre, but it's the only one we can use for now. Anyway, it's already amazing that an orca suddenly appeared in the sea to save people, so it doesn't seem unreasonable for the orca to be a little eccentric and unwilling to let two people ride together.
Xie Tianlang nodded, then paused and said, "Don't be afraid. If anything unexpected happens, I'll come down to find you."
Orca Fugui spit a breath directly at Xie Tianlang: "Shut up, you unlucky idiot! Daddy won't have any accidents, sob sob! Get up there, sob sob!"
With those last words, the orca Fugui flipped over and threw Xie Tianlang aside. Xie Tianlang laughed and used the momentum to leap towards the side of the boat, grabbing the rope ladder that was violently swaying in the waves and wind with incredible precision.
As he grabbed the rope, his booted feet were already firmly planted on the alloy deck of the giant ship, and then, like a nimble cheetah, he climbed onto the ship at an incredible speed.
He was greeted with cheers and hugs, but soon someone asked Gou Fugui with a look of panic.
"Bro! You're back. Where's the long-haired guy?"
Xie Tianlang took the large towel handed to him by the soldier and wiped his head, a reassuring yet proud smile on his face: "That orca has a bad temper; it won't take two people at a time. He's next."
Everyone was relieved.
However, some people were worried that the orca wouldn't have the strength to chase the giant ship twice, so none of them wanted to go inside the ship and just waited. Instead, they all crowded around the railing of the ship, craning their necks to look down.
Unfortunately, it was late at night, and the wind, rain, and waves were getting bigger. Even though they stretched their necks until they hurt, they could only see darkness below.
The wealthy beauty didn't turn on the light on her watch, so even though the guy with the binoculars almost went blind looking through his binoculars, he still couldn't find her.
Black and white orcas are the kings of stealth and pursuit in the dark ocean.
After persisting for more than ten minutes, some people lost patience and went back to their cabins, while others, the more anxious they became and the less they could see, were also guided back to their cabins by the soldiers on the giant ship.
At this moment, only Xie Tianlang, the Eighth Company commander, and the young soldier who insisted on waiting for their savior remained by the railing of the ship where the life ladder was placed. With the three of them there, the officers and soldiers on the ship could go about their more important tasks.
At this point, the waves at sea were so large that they were terrifying to behold. Ordinary ships would probably have already succumbed to the turbulence or even capsized in such conditions.
Although the specially designed giant ship was also rising and falling with the big waves, it was still relatively stable overall.
But being stable now doesn't mean it will always be stable in the future.
According to the ship's satellite radar calculations, in 40 minutes, at 4:10 a.m., the main wave of the Guizhou tsunami, which had been closely following them and had nearly capsized twice while they were dodging danger, would catch up with them.
While the preceding waves of the previous two tsunamis were also powerful and difficult to deal with, they were not as terrifying as the main wave of this tsunami.
That was a wave of death powerful enough to destroy and submerge everything that stood in its way.
Such massive waves are beyond the capabilities of any ordinary cruise ship, aircraft carrier, or warship. Therefore, within this critical forty minutes, all the soldiers and crew members on board this specially designed giant ship had to inspect every critical point of the vessel as quickly as possible.
Then, when the giant wave came, the ship activated its extreme survival mode—fully enclosing the entire ship, turning the semi-circular ship into a completely closed clam shell.
This is the "doomsday ark" that Washington state officials, researchers, and mechanics painstakingly built amidst the torrential rain and the ocean's apocalypse.
Although the specially designed giant ship they are currently on is only the initial test vessel, it has all the necessary functions. Soon it will be time to test whether this giant ship can withstand the giant waves and carry hope.
There was no way out for anyone.
Only by weathering this giant wave will humanity have a sliver of confidence and hope for survival when facing the stormy oceans that will soon sweep across the world.
At 3:50 a.m., after swimming in the sea for another 20 minutes, Whale Fugui finally lost the strength and interest to fight the waves. He dived to a depth of three meters and found the excessively long lifeline ladder, grabbing it tightly.
As he reached out and grabbed the rope, Xie Tianlang, who was by the railing of the giant ship, suddenly opened his eyes. He began to exert force with his hands, which had been gripping the rope ladder tightly, and in a very short time, he pulled the rope ladder up a large distance.
His actions instantly excited the company commander and the young soldier next to him. The young soldier looked at Xie Tianlang and, after receiving a nod from him, quickly helped pull the rope ladder.
With the combined efforts of the three, the wealthy and beautiful woman, who had returned to human form, was pulled up before she could even climb two steps.
After he came up, the young soldier was so excited that his eyes turned red and he was about to give him a bear hug, but Xie Tianlang, who was next to him, accurately beat him to it and pulled him into his arms, and covered Fugui'er from head to toe with a dry bath towel.
“He must be very weak after being out in the rain for so long, so I’m taking him to the capsule to rest.”
As Xie Tianlang spoke, he wrung out Gou Fugui's long, loose, and soaking wet hair with a towel, then looked at the very happy and excited company commander and the young soldier, and a rare, genuine smile appeared on his face:
"He's up here, so you can all rest assured and don't need to blame yourselves."
The company commander and the young soldier returned a sincere smile upon hearing this; they truly felt at ease at that moment.
However, as he left, the company commander still saluted Gou Fugui: "Thank you both for saving my life. I may never be able to repay you in the future, but I hope you both live well."
The young soldier beside him saluted and nodded excitedly, still feeling a bit guilty: "It was my fault for not doing this properly. I was supposed to be protecting the people, but instead..."
He was interrupted halfway through his sentence by the wealthy beauty. The long-haired youth, with a towel covering his head, turned to look at the young soldier with a very serious expression:
“You have nothing to blame yourself for, and you did nothing wrong. While ordinary people only need to carry their own luggage and take care of their own families, you and your comrades are still rescuing many unrelated people. This is already more noble and courageous than the vast majority of people.”
"Although soldiers naturally bear more responsibility than ordinary people, soldiers are also human beings."
The lights from the giant ship were reflected in the phoenix eyes of the long-haired youth, too brightly:
"There is no reason why only you should sacrifice for the people."
“You yourselves are important too.”
"So, not only do we need to live well, but I also hope that you, all those who are brave and fearless in the face of disaster, can live well."
I hope this world doesn't die.
Hopefully, after the disaster, there will be a new beginning.
The young soldier's eyes turned red after hearing Gou Fugui's words. He didn't know what to say, so he could only blink and nod vigorously, answering very seriously along with his company commander.
"We will try our best to live well."
The long-haired youth chuckled softly.
Then Xie Tianlang, who was standing next to him, simply picked him up and carried him into the cabin.
The wealthy beauty's gentleness instantly turned into rage: "Are you crazy?! You're pressing against my stomach!!"
Xie Langren clicked his tongue, pulled the person down, turned them around, and put them in his arms, turning it into a standard princess carry.
The wealthy beauty: "..."
For a moment, I couldn't tell whether this position was more uncomfortable or the previous one was more painful.
At this moment, alarms sounded throughout the giant ship warning of an impending massive tsunami. Everyone had to be moved from the spacious main hall to specially designed capsule cabins.
The capsule cabin is made of highly shock-resistant plastic air membrane, and looks like a large, rectangular inflatable capsule. It can protect people sleeping inside the capsule from injury due to the violent rocking and rolling of the ship.
Xie Tianlang led Gou Fugui to the door of the large capsule cabin bedroom. The densely packed capsule cabins, with almost no gaps between them, were even more crowded than a high school dormitory with sixteen people. This almost triggered the rich and beautiful man's trypophobia. But no matter how unwilling he was, Xie Tianlang still shoved him into a capsule cabin in the third row, sixth column of the first row.
The wealthy beauty still wanted to struggle a little:
"Don't you think these rows of capsules look a lot like a morgue? I think I can just go sit in the lobby."
Then, Xie Langren ruthlessly pushed him onto the corpse platform, pressing his head down.
"Wake up, you can't turn into a balloon. Even a pufferfish would deflate under such a huge jolt."
A wealthy and beautiful woman glares at a wolf.
The werewolf remained calm and collected: "Let's take a nap. When we wake up, we'll be back in Qingchuan."
If you can fall asleep.
But in reality, no one could sleep during this massive tsunami.
At 4:10 a.m., the piercing buzzing of an emergency alarm sounded throughout the entire giant ship.
The ship's internal loudspeaker broadcast the final message:
[Please prepare yourselves, the entire ship is now sealed. A giant wave is approaching.]
Gou Fugui lay inside the transparent inflatable capsule, his eyes open, looking upwards.
Above is another person's body, whose hands are clasped together as if in prayer.
He twitched the corner of his mouth, looked to his right, and saw Xie Tianlang's sharp yet bright eyes.
Before he could look away, a tremendous sound came through the steel deck of the ship, like the roar of a demonic beast!
What follows is violent shaking, uncontrollable dizziness, and a feeling of weightlessness.
When the feeling of weightlessness reaches its peak, what follows is the inversion of heaven and earth.
Gou Fugui suddenly closed his eyes.
He knew that this was the end of the world, and that the giant waves had overturned them.
The end of the world is announced.
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