Chapter 1: Coastal Horror

  The scorching sun was like a fire, and the golden beach of Pinghai City's first seaside resort was packed with handsome men and beautiful women in swimsuits.

  A moist sea breeze blows on the body, in the heat, a refreshing coolness is revealed, on the beach, one or two, or three to five people gather together, playing with unparalleled ease and happiness.

  But Chu Feng silently faced the sun, sitting on the scorching hot beach, and seemed somewhat out of place with the surrounding laughter.

  Chu Feng is a waiter at the Zhuangyuan Pavilion Hotel. He's an idealistic person, not someone who saves the world or anything that grand, but he has a passion in his heart that yearns for something more than just being ordinary. However, this passion of his was crushed by the cruel reality.

  It reminded him of a very vulgar saying: Life is like being f**ked by a strong woman, either resist or enjoy.

  The Chu wind sighed softly, and in its bewildered eyes, a hint of unwillingness was so obvious.

  His hand tightly grasped a handful of scorching sand, the sand slowly slipping away with time, and the confusion in his eyes also gradually disappeared.

  The sand in his hand had emptied, and his fingernails were deeply embedded in the flesh, but he seemed to feel no pain. In his eyes, a fierce fire slowly burned up.

  ……

  "What's on your mind, Chu Feng?" Chen Zhibin walked over with two bottles of frozen purified water under the sun umbrella behind Chu Feng.

  The sudden shout awakened Chu Feng from his reverie. He lifted his head and smiled at Chen Zhibin, took the water and gulped down a few mouthfuls. The icy water flowed down his throat, cooling him to the bone: "I wasn't thinking of anything, why aren't you accompanying Xiao Qian?"

  Chen Zhibin is Chu Feng's colleague, and Xiao Qian is his girlfriend.

  Wang Deman and Li Ming also came together, chatting with their girlfriends.

  "It's nothing." Chen Zhibin turned his head and glanced at Zhang Qian, smiling lightly: "This sun is too poisonous, let's go sit under the umbrella for a while?"

  Chu Feng patted Chen Zhibin's shoulder lightly and was about to refuse, but seeing his sincere face, he changed his mind: "Okay."

  What can be done by just sitting there? With those people, it's really not compatible. The reason for the incompatibility is actually a bit ridiculous. It's because I'm the only college student among all the attendants, so they've always been excluding me, with Chen Zhibin being the exception.

  Thinking of this, Chu Feng sighed and shook his head.

  ……

  "Hey, our great talent has arrived, please sit down." Under the sun umbrella, Li Ming, who had dark skin and a sturdy build, called out to Chu Feng with a sarcastic tone as soon as he saw him.

  Chu Feng furrowed his brow and directly ignored his mockery.

  But unexpectedly Li Ming made a step forward, even more reckless: "Isn't it said that those who are lovesick become haggard? How come our great talent here is actually a fatty?"

  Chu Feng cast a disgusted glance at Li Ming, ignoring this physically strong but simple-minded guy, because he was clear that this guy was his superior, Wang De's dog.

  In his heart, he silently cursed: a dog bites a man, but a man can't bite back!

  To say the least, I'm just a little plump myself.

  Li Ming's joke immediately triggered a burst of thunderous laughter.

  "Haha......"

  Wang Deman laughed loudly on the side, pretending to scold Li Ming: "You dare to misquote classics in front of a great talent? Chu Feng doesn't have a girlfriend, how can you be lovesick for her?"

  "He's got no car and no house, every month he earns just enough to barely afford a prostitute, yet he still wants to find a girlfriend? Maybe in the next life!" said Wu Meng, Wang Demao's girlfriend.

  Her sharp words and disdainful gaze, mixed with the crowd's laughter, were like a sharp sword that pierced the heart.

  "Boom......" Chu Feng only felt his head suddenly exploding, a bellyful of anger, and it instantly ignited, rushing straight to the top of his head. Chu Feng couldn't bear it anymore and was about to erupt.

  Chen Zhibin, who was standing beside him, saw his embarrassment and anger, and quickly reached out to press on Chu Feng's shoulder, laughing and coming out to mediate: "Don't make a fuss, let's go swimming instead."

  His proposal was immediately responded by everyone and also dissolved the tension just now.

  Wang Deman shouted first: "Good, let's have a competition and see who swims the fastest."

  "Boss, why don't we rent a boat and go further in? Then we can swim back. What do you say?" Li Ming, with a sly smile on his face, said to Wang Deman in a flattering tone.

  "Alright, that's good, husband. You can rent a boat now. I want to watch you swim." Wu Meng clapped her hands forcefully on the side, her charming eyes gazing at Wang De full of water.

  You demon! Chu Feng coldly glanced at Wu Meng with a silent curse in his heart.

  "Alright, let's go rent a boat." Wang Deming was dizzy from Wu Meng's teasing and since the money was originally contributed by several people together, he agreed without hesitation.

  ……

  "Chu Feng, let's hurry up." Chen Zhibin walked a few steps and found that Chu Feng hadn't caught up yet, so he urged him.

  "Zhibin, you guys go ahead, I don't know how to swim." Chufeng felt that even if he went, it wouldn't be fun, and instead preferred to stay on the beach to check out the beauties and feast his eyes.

  "We can't swim, let's learn." said Wang Deman, who gave a wink to Li Ming following closely behind him.

  Li Ming understood, and directly walked towards Chu Feng, forcibly pulling him onto the boat.

  ……

  "Let's start from here." Wang Demao ordered the speedboat to stop, stretched his robust muscles and looked around with a pleased expression.

  "Alright, let's see who can swim to the beach first." Li Ming's eyes sparkled with excitement as he loudly responded.

  Chen Zhibin was also eager to try, but only Chu Feng looked at the deep blue sea water and felt dizzy. He tightly grasped a life ring beside him and didn't dare get close to the speedboat.

  "Bang!"

  Wang Deman jumped down first and showed off by doing a few tricks in the water, then shouted at Chu Feng and others on the speedboat: "Come down quickly!"

  Li Ming was about to jump down, but caught sight of Chu Feng hiding in the center of the speedboat. He immediately turned his eyes and walked straight towards Chu Feng: "Chu Feng, get down quickly."

  "I really can't swim!" Chu Feng saw Li Ming walking over and knew what he wanted to do, so he quickly shook his head in explanation.

  Chen Zhibin, who was standing beside him, also saw Chu Feng's fear and pulled Li Ming: "Chu Feng can't swim, don't pull him anymore."

  "How can that be, it's all settled, you guys are going to swim over together." Wu Meng walked over, unyielding and unrelenting, directly grabbing onto one of Chu Feng's arms, a hint of slyness and coldness flashing in her eyes.

  She actually didn't have any grudges against Chu Feng, but because Chu Feng was a university student, she felt threatened by Wang De's position, so she kept targeting Chu Feng.

  "It's okay, can't swim, aren't there flotation devices?" Li Ming's girlfriend Deng Yan saw Wu Meng make a move and also walked over, grabbing Chu Feng's other arm.

  Two scantily-clad beauties held him up, and Chu Feng's heart grew even more tense, his muscles tightening: "I really can't swim, stop messing around!"

  But the two women didn't listen to him, especially Wu Meng, who became more and more agitated as she saw Chu Feng's fear: "You're still afraid even with a life jacket on, are you a man?"

  Chu Feng was taken aback by Wu Meng's humiliating words, and the swimming ring in his hand fell to the ground. Li Ming, who was standing beside him, saw an opportunity and suddenly shook off Chen Zhibin's hand, directly pushing Chu Feng forward with a shove on his waist.

  "Bang..."

  Chu Feng, who had been carried by two women to the side of the speedboat, was directly pushed into the sea.

  The icy seawater instantly enveloped Chu Feng, his body rapidly sinking down.

  "Save...gulp..."

  The fear of death made Chufeng desperately paddle with all four limbs, but as soon as he poked his head out, he only shouted a single word for help, and a mouthful of water immediately poured into his mouth.

  Seeing Chu Feng in this state, the few people on the speedboat were instantly stunned.

  Wu Meng just wanted to make Chu Feng lose face, so he wouldn't be able to stay in the Number One Pavilion anymore. But Li Ming and Deng Yan were just following along, teasing him. Now that they saw Chu Feng struggling in the water, really unable to swim, the three of them were shocked stiff.

  "I didn't push him, it was you who pushed him down." Wu Meng's face turned pale, the charm in her eyes disappeared, and in her panic, the first thing she thought of was to clear herself.

  "I, I didn't..." Li Ming hadn't expected Wu Meng to push all the responsibility onto him, and was so frightened that he hastily waved his hands repeatedly.

  "Hurry up and shout for help, Li Ming, you and I will go down to rescue people!" Chen Zhibin saw that at this time, the three of them were still shirking responsibility from each other, suddenly furious, he loudly shouted, then he directly jumped down.

  Li Ming hesitated for a moment and then jumped down as well.

  Wu Meng hastily picked up the life ring that Chu Feng had just dropped from the speedboat and threw it forcefully towards Chu Feng.

  Chu Feng could no longer see the life ring, he was desperately using his hands and feet to slap the water, trying to float his body up, but the uncoordinated slapping motion had no effect at all.

  He didn't know how much water he had drunk, but only felt that his hands and feet were getting heavier and heavier, and his body was also getting heavier.

  In the chaos, he touched the ground, he desperately wanted to grab onto something, but unfortunately the soft sandy beach was not a lifesaving floating grass.

  He was already unable to think, only subconsciously reaching out to grab, and in the midst of it, a hard object scratched his fingers, he could no longer feel the pain.

  Blood flowed into the seawater, strangely it didn't dilute, but instead coagulated into a strand, flowing towards the hard object tightly grasped in Chufeng's hand. That hard object was surprisingly in the shape of a ring.

  The blood was sucked into the ring by this unknown ring, and the ordinary black ring slowly emitted a faint glow, with a touch of enchanting red.

  "Hmm..."

  Chu Feng felt a sudden darkness in front of his eyes, and his consciousness was sucked into a massive black hole.

  Is it going to die? Chu Feng's last memory stayed on this thought.