It is said that when a person is on the verge of death, they can see their entire life.
The moment those jumbled memories uncontrollably flooded her mind, Ruan Chen slapped herself hard.
Imagine scattering eight-year-old Fu Jianzhi and twelve-year-old Ruan Chen, or twenty-two-year-old Fu Jianzhi and twenty-six-year-old Ruan Chen, together in the vast expanse of time and space.
She didn't want to die, so she didn't want to watch life unfold.
Ruan Chen knew that although her strength was greater than that of the average person due to years of training, she was better at using the opponent's force against them rather than resorting to brute force.
Trying to smash a window or ram a car door with your bare hands is the most foolish idea imaginable.
In the dozen or so seconds it took for the car to plunge into the sea, a delicate yet fragile stun gun, pepper spray that Ruan Wenlou had given her that had expired for almost half a year, two different types of data cables, and a bag of gummies were poured out of her backpack.
There were also two supplementary textbooks and a stationery bag with the zipper not properly closed.
The only thing that seemed barely usable was the compass.
The car plunged into the sea, and Ruan Chen desperately waved his compass, aiming at the weakest point of the car window.
The compass quickly deformed, cutting her hand and drawing blood, which then dissipated into the seawater.
The seawater irritated her wound, making it feel both sore and painful.
With the final blow, the compass shattered completely in Ruan Chen's hands, leaving only a few white marks on the glass.
The phone fell from the seat. The reason Ruan Chen hadn't sent out a distress signal was because the signal was intentionally blocked at the parking spot.
Now, perhaps because it had been swept into the sea and was no longer in the signal jamming range, the phone screen lit up and vibrated in the water; it was a call from Xu Xiaolan.
Ruan Chen glanced at it but didn't pick it up.
Even if she could pick up her phone and answer it before the seawater filled the entire car, telling Xu Xiaolan her location, it would be too late for them to save her.
The seawater quickly rose to her chest, and she was having trouble breathing. Ruan Chen gritted her teeth and forced herself to calm down.
Based on the rising water speed, the car will be completely submerged in one minute. Ruan Chen has practiced diving and his record for diving without an oxygen tank is five minutes, so the total is six minutes.
She had six minutes to save herself.
The seawater rose to her neck level, and a black leather rope floated up, carrying a moon-white pendant that swayed in front of Ruan Chen's eyes.
The pendant that Su Ze left her, made of some unknown material.
Ruan Chen removed the leather cord, held the pendant between her fingertips, and smashed it hard against the glass!
The first impact made her hand ache, but the glass remained completely still.
The second time, it was the same. Ruan Chen felt like his palm bones were about to shatter, but the pendant was indeed hard enough that a crack appeared in the glass.
On the third tap, Ruan Chen heard the bones in her hand holding the pendant making a squeaking and deforming sound, but the glass didn't change this time.
Ruan Chen was running out of strength, and her hands were in so much pain.
I feel so hopeless.
Ruan Chen had not felt "despair" for many years.
She gave a bitter smile, realizing she had been far too arrogant.
She hadn't experienced any major setbacks over the years, and everything had gone smoothly. Even Ruan Zhengde had to avoid her sharp edge.
She was too arrogant. She was smug because she saw through the group's scheme, thinking that resolving the matter would be a piece of cake.
Even if those people wanted to threaten her personal safety, she could escape with her own skills.
Tonight, Cheng Lu insisted on going with her, but Ruan Chen was worried about alerting her, and besides, Xu Xiaolan and the others were there, so she sent Cheng Lu to investigate other things.
Looking back now, if only I hadn't been so arrogant and conceited...
Ultimately, she was just born with mental strength that surpassed that of most people in the world. Over the years, she had heard too many people praise her as a "rare genius with no equal," and she really thought that everything in the world should give way to her.
Even if she is completely clean, so what? In this deadly place, she is just an ordinary person. Can she expect to conjure a window-breaking hammer out of thin air with her mental power?
As Ruan Chen thought this, she subconsciously opened her mental network, aimlessly touching everything around her. This was the source of her confidence and self-assurance, but also the most useless thing she had at the moment.
She suddenly felt the pendant in her palm vibrate slightly.
The vibration felt mechanical.
Then Ruan Chen sensed another mental network.
She subconsciously connected, and then a mechanical voice rang in her mind, "Welcome to my world, esteemed swordsman, I am Seven Star Dragon Abyss."
Ruan Chen's mind went blank for a moment; she thought she was having a ridiculous dream before she died.
Of course she knew about Seven Star Dragon Abyss, one of the Ten Famous Swords.
She just couldn't quite understand why something that should have been under strict guard at the Martial Arts Research Institute had been hanging on her chest like an ordinary pendant for several years.
Does Su Ze know?
Was he doing it intentionally, or was he unaware of it?
"Swordholder, your mental network is detected to be extremely unstable. The intelligence core determines that you are in a high-risk state. Please describe your situation and I will handle it for you."
Ruan Chen noticed the significant difference between Seven Star Dragon Abyss and Chi Xiao almost immediately—Chi Xiao's tone was like that of a mature and composed older sister next door, with rich emotions in her voice.
The Seven Star Dragon Abyss is too rigid and inflexible.
But Ruan Chen didn't think about it carefully. She instinctively took complete control of the Seven Star Dragon Abyss, her mind racing.
She needs a window breaker.
Seven Star Dragon Abyss remained unmoved.
Ruan Chen: Uncle, do you know you got your hands on counterfeit goods?
Within the mental network, the mechanical voice repeated itself without any emotion, "Please state your situation, swordsman."
Ruan Chen: "Our mental networks are interconnected, can't you see for yourself?"
Seven Star Dragon Abyss: "Please state your situation."
Ruan Chen: Not only is he a fake, but he's also an idiot.
"I'm in the car, the car is in the sea, and I'm about to drown, understand?"
Ruan Chen's words were concise and to the point.
Then the mechanical voice gave her instructions.
Ruan Chen pressed the silver pendant firmly against the glass. The pendant then vibrated at an extremely high frequency, and seconds later, the glass shattered into pieces!
Ruan Chen: The principle of resonance can be used in this way?
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