The two boats moved steadily across the endless stretch of murky water.
The lack of obstacles made it feel like they were out to sea.
The earlier battle had not slowed them down one bit, if anything, it had made them more focused.
They had realized that anything could be hiding in the seemingly calm and harmless stretch of water.
Now, no one treated the flood as a temporary inconvenience that would disappear with time or a lucky source of ready food.
This was a battlefield, and beneath it, some dangerous things had made it their habitat.
Leng Pan sat in the leading boat quietly, her focus completely on the small metal disk in her palm.
Lu Zhen sat beside her and acted like a safety belt.
He held onto her as if he was afraid that a small jolt would throw her overboard into the dirty water.
"Slow down." They had been moving for twenty minutes when she suddenly instructed Assistant Yao, who insisted on being the helmsman.
