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'Don't stop, dammit!'
Zhu Gang desperately flailed his limbs in the water. Tears flowed nonstop from his wide-open eyes, but he didn't stop to wipe his face. He thought he could vaguely hear someone shouting at him from a distance.
Even then, Zhu Gang didn't stop swimming.
He didn't care whose voice that was. The only thing he cared about right now was to keep moving forward.
His blurred vision made it harder to differentiate what was what. All he could make out in front of him were waves larger than most houses constantly surging toward him. As the waves continued to buffet him, Zhu Gang kept swimming forward. And forward!
Was this even the right direction, though? Was he going the right way?
Obviously, finding the correct heading in an ocean devoid of a single buoy would never be easy. Whenever he felt lost, Zhu Gang looked up at the night sky.
'It's that way!'
The best he could do was use the constellation the elders told him as his signpost and swim as fast as humanly possible. He didn't have enough spare energy to ponder how much further he had to swim or calculate whether he could reach his destination with the remaining stamina or not. So, he simply focused on swimming.
Zhu Gang desperately held on to his fading consciousness and extended his arms again and again. His broken arm flopped about, but he didn't care. Pain no longer registered in his brain, anyway.
He suddenly found this situation somewhat laughable. Had he ever tried something so desperately in his life before? Sure, he used to think he always tried...
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