Chapter 283: 183. The Earth genius who makes aliens lose their luster
“Principal Yuan is defeated!”
“The Ninth Elder of the Divine Plant Cult is rapidly approaching us!”
“He’s after me, I’ll draw him away!”
Upon sighting the hunchbacked masked person, Lin Zichen immediately spoke to the few people beside him.
Without staying for even a second longer, he leapt up and dove into the bottomless sea below, disappearing from sight.
On land, him being only an Ordinary Ninth Rank creature, there was no chance of escaping from the hunchbacked masked man, whose Biological Level was of the Rare Level.
Only in the water, there was a chance to create a miracle escape by relying on the “Biometric Attribute: Water’s Blessing.”
The few people who were still in the tree saw Lin Zichen suddenly dive into the water and disappear, and for a moment, they were unable to react.
It wasn’t until Lu Tianrong also saw a hunchbacked figure rapidly approaching from the distance that he was the first to come to his senses and shouted:
“Everyone follow me and leave, run in the opposite direction from Lin Zichen!”
No sooner had he finished shouting than he realized the hunchbacked figure in the distance had suddenly changed direction.
No longer was the figure rapidly approaching the giant tree they were on, but instead, it took a wide turn and started chasing rapidly toward the right side.
Following the hunchbacked figure’s direction of travel, he saw a figure that surprised him.
It was Lin Zichen!
Lin Zichen, who had just dived into the sea less than 10 seconds ago!
Lu Tianrong was dumbfounded by the scene in front of him.
How could he have swum hundreds of meters in less than 10 seconds?
And it wasn’t underwater swimming, but freestyle swimming on the surface of the water.
Even he, a Senior Sixth Order, could not achieve such a speed in freestyle swimming.
More accurately, he could not even reach half that speed.
Faced with this, Lu Tianrong was full of doubt about what he was seeing and couldn’t make sense of it.
Lin Zichen was just an Ordinary-level Creature, how could he swim so fast in the water?
Could it be that he had fused with an Exotic Beast Gene related to water?
But that didn’t make sense. Lin Zichen was following the Pureblood Human Path and couldn’t fuse with Exotic Beast Genes.
So what was going on?!
Lu Tianrong was completely at a loss and began to suspect he was hallucinating.
“Instructor, why haven’t we left yet?”
Seeing Lu Tianrong shouting about leaving but then freezing on the tree himself, Li Moyu was very puzzled.
Hearing Li Moyu’s voice, Lu Tianrong snapped back to reality and said:
“Let’s get out of here, quick.”
With that, he took the lead and dove straight into the sea below, swimming freestyle away in the direction opposite Lin Zichen.
Seeing this, Li Moyu and the others followed suit and jumped in.
“Qinghan, what are you dazed about up there, jump down!”
Seeing Shen Qinghan still standing in the tree, Ma Xiwei shouted at her, puzzled.
At this moment, Shen Qinghan was gazing in the direction where Lin Zichen was, her face full of concern.
Her vision was not strong; she couldn’t see Lin Zichen’s figure.
But through the ripples of the water, she could accurately sense Lin Zichen’s position.
“It’s all because I’m useless…”
“If I had enough strength, I wouldn’t have to rely on Xiao Chen taking risks to draw danger away from me every time we face it…”
“It’s all my fault, all because I’m useless…”
Gazing in the direction of Lin Zichen, Shen Qinghan was incessantly blaming herself, feeling increasingly oppressed.
She felt like a burden, having never provided any help to Lin Zichen, only holding him back at critical moments.
She thought that without her, Lin Zichen would have been much more at ease when facing danger.
Instead of always having to be cautious and restrained.
“Qinghan!”
“What on Earth are you doing!”
“Come down quickly!”
Seeing Shen Qinghan not responding at all, Ma Xiwei in the water shouted at her urgently.
Finally hearing her shouting, Shen Qinghan quickly came to her senses and apologized:
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m coming right now.”
After speaking, she darted down, entering the water with a smooth motion.
Not a splash was made.
All there was, was a series of gentle ripples spreading smoothly on the surface of the water.
Ma Xiwei rubbed her eyes, thinking she had seen something wrong.
How come there was not a splash when jumping from dozens of meters high above the water?
What was happening?
Before she could understand what was going on, a shout from Lu Tianrong came from ahead:
“You two girls, stop dawdling, swim fast!”
“Coming!”
Ma Xiwei replied and quickly swam up.
Shen Qinghan, uncharacteristically silent, followed behind, occasionally looking back in Lin Zichen’s direction with a worried expression on her face.
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Elsewhere.
With the boost from “Water’s Blessing,” Lin Zichen was swimming frenetically at high speed on the surface of the water.
He could swim faster if he chose to dive.
The reason he chose the slower freestyle was that he needed to expose himself on the water’s surface to attract the hunchbacked masked man.
He was not sure the hunchbacked masked man would be able to detect him if he dove under the water.
If not, Shen Qinghan might be in danger.
After swimming freestyle for hundreds of meters,
Lin Zichen noticed that the direction of the hunchbacked masked man finally changed.
It was no longer heading towards Shen Qinghan.
Instead, the figure changed their course and was now sprinting at high speed towards him.
Seeing this, he couldn’t help but sigh in relief, then immediately accelerated sharply and swam freestyle madly.
After swimming some distance and ensuring the hunchbacked masked man was following,
he decisively dove to the bottom, increasing his swimming speed to the fastest.
The hunchbacked masked man had been successfully lured over.