But Su Chen grabbed her.
"Sorry, I misunderstood you..." Xia Yan said with some guilt.
She had just thought that Su Chen was a cold and unapproachable person.
Su Chen said nothing, speaking now would just be a waste of energy.
He swam with one hand dragging Xia Yan and the other stroking through the water.
"Xiaochen, let go of me, I'll hold onto you, that way you can save some energy," Xia Yan suddenly grabbed Su Chen's clothes.
This way, Su Chen could free both his hands and feet.
Indeed, it saved a lot of energy.
She knew clearly that Su Chen was everyone's only hope for survival.
Wasting Su Chen's physical strength was wasting everyone's lives.
"Xiaochen, you really have great stamina," Xia Yan regained some strength and whispered in Su Chen's ear.
There's no doubt about that.
After all, Su Chen was already carrying three people.
You know, swimming with someone versus swimming alone, the energy consumption is absolutely worlds apart.
Moreover, the positions he used earlier while carrying Lin Xi and Xiao Yifei were more energy-consuming.
While whispering in Su Chen's ear, Xia Yan gently blew air near his ear.
Her voice was very soft, heard only by Su Chen.
Xia Yan's shameless words gave Su Chen a slight boost in spirits.
This woman was indeed clever, knowing that this could stimulate the secretion of adrenaline.
The effect was quite noticeable.
Swimming this far while carrying others indeed severely drained Su Chen's energy.
He was almost unable to swim any further.
But after hearing Xia Yan's shameless words, he actually felt less tired.
Carrying Xia Yan for about ten minutes, Xia Yan then voluntarily got off Su Chen's back.
Although this man showed superhuman stamina, he was still human, and humans have limits.
If Su Chen couldn't continue, it would be the end.
Then, even Melissa couldn't swim anymore.
Su Chen carried Melissa again.
Melissa, being a pilot, knew a lot of knowledge and, being a foreigner and not as delicate as Huaxia girls, held onto Su Chen in the same way as Xia Yan had.
"You are the most impressive man I've ever met," Melissa said in French in Su Chen's ear.
"Not bad," Su Chen replied in French.
"You speak French?" Melissa was surprised.
The two exchanged a few more words in French, then fell silent.
After that, Su Chen continued to swim with the others.
Although they felt the position was somewhat inappropriate, they seemed to understand that this position was less exhausting for Su Chen.
Thus, not only the flight attendant but also Lin Xi began using that position.
Whenever it came to Xia Yan, she would say those heart-fluttering words in his ear, reinvigorating the utterly exhausted Su Chen.
Xia Yan, not only beautiful and with a great figure, her skills in flirtation were also top-notch.
Su Chen almost envied her husband to death.
Gradually, the people who could keep up with Su Chen became fewer.
There were hardly any people visible behind them.
Even Tie Niu and his group had fallen a kilometer behind.
The person on Su Chen's back switched to Melissa again.
"Actually, there isn't really any island ahead, is there?" Melissa voiced the doubt in her heart.
If her calculations were not wrong, they had actually swum more than twenty kilometers by now.
But all around, it was still just the baffling sea.
No sign of any island.
Melissa had actually guessed this result long ago.
Now, it only confirmed her suspicion.
Su Chen had said that there was an island twenty li ahead and described it vividly.
It was just to give people hope.
Without the encouragement of an island, those people behind would probably have given up long ago.
Now, behind Su Chen, probably fewer than twenty people remained.
But if it weren't for the belief in an island ahead, the number would surely be less than ten by now.
But at this time, those behind were becoming increasingly desperate.
They also felt that Su Chen was deceiving them.
But even if Su Chen was deceiving them, they had no choice but to follow through to the end.
Swam a few more kilometers forward.
"There's really no island ahead, we've been fooled..." Finally, someone completely broke down.
Sometimes, hope can provide a powerful drive.
But once hope is shattered...
Suddenly, a few people gave up.
Quietly waiting to die on the surface of the sea.
But the women with Su Chen would absolutely not give up.
Because they could swim this far, it was all thanks to Su Chen's help.
Giving up now would be a disservice to the effort Su Chen had expended on them.
Some gave up, while others persisted.
The only thing to be happy about was that, having swum so far, they hadn't encountered a single wave.
Maybe it was too early to be pleased.
Just as Su Chen thought this, waves began to rise on the sea.
"Dammit, does it have to be this tragic!" Su Chen felt the urge to curse.
Not only were there waves, but they were also quite large.
Everyone had to cling together to prevent being scattered by the waves.
It was definitely not possible to continue swimming now.
They had to wait for the waves to stop or stabilize.
Otherwise, if you swim out ten meters, the waves could roll you back twenty meters.
For the already utterly exhausted people, this was undoubtedly adding insult to injury.