"Nothing..."
"Nothing..."
"Still nothing..."
"Damn it!"
Frustrated, Lin Chen slammed the rock in his hand onto the water's surface.
PLOP—
A few drops of icy water splashed onto his face, but they couldn't extinguish the resentful fire burning within him.
"As the old saying goes, man can conquer nature. Just you wait."
"Once I get my Basic Diving Mastery, you'll get what's coming to you!"
He pointed his index finger at the reef-filled sea before him, then turned and walked away.
The seawater that had been boiling on the rocky shore for half an hour had now mostly evaporated.
He spent over ten minutes pouring off the pale-yellow wastewater from the surface, then scraped all the salt crystals that had formed on the bamboo tube's inner walls onto a banana leaf.
For three whole hours, he repeated these steps over and over.
Finally.
