Arknights: Studying medicine can't save Terra

Ernesto struggled in the water and lunged to grab the other man's wrist.

In his panic, the burly man felt something to grab onto and quickly pulled himself up to the surface of the water with all his might.

But his struggle immediately shifted the pressure to Ernesto, causing Ernesto's body to sway and sink towards the surface of the water.

At the critical moment, Chen Chenggong arrived, grabbed Ernesto's hand, and raised his other hand high to grab a branch of an ornamental tree next to them.

The three of them were like a rope, swaying constantly in the water.

Ernesto turned and nodded his thanks to Chen, then looked back at the burly man and loudly reassured him:

"Stay calm, we'll get you ashore. Don't struggle now, just hold my hand tightly!"

The burly man heard Ernesto's familiar voice and looked up in astonishment to find that the person who had risked his life to save him was the very person who had recently expelled him from the group.

The burly man had a complicated expression and was about to say something.

Unfortunately, the situation did not give him a chance to speak. Suddenly, a boulder was swept downstream and hit Chen, who was clinging to a tree branch.

Chapter 264 People's Mindsets Are Also Changing

Faced with the surging, rolling stones, Chen's face immediately turned extremely ugly.

At this moment, she had both hands tied, and was completely powerless to resist the rolling stone.

In a flash, Chen released his grip, allowing the three of them to float downstream once more.

The rolling stone narrowly missed Chen's shoulder, splashing water everywhere and wetting her face.

Seawater splashed into Chen's eyes, instantly blurring his vision and making it impossible for him to open them.

"Ernesto, tell me which way we should grab it!"

Chen decisively closed his eyes and handed over command to his companion.

Ernesto shouted, "Hands up, stretch them out straight ahead!"

Faced with this strange instruction, Chen chose to trust it completely, stretching out his arm and reaching into the darkness ahead.

Then, a small, warm hand firmly grasped her hand.

"Gotcha... glug glug."

Rafiela's voice came through, but her words were mixed with strange bubbling sounds.

Chen couldn't open his eyes and didn't know what had happened.

But Ernesto saw it clearly.

My younger sister's head was barely floating on the surface of the water. She used a long-handled sickle to hold onto a building by the roadside with one hand, and held onto Chen firmly with the other. When she spoke, her mouth opened and closed on the surface of the water, and a small wave could pour in.

Ernesto quickly shouted:

"Stop talking. I'll give the orders now. All you need to do is take action."

Rafiela spat out the seawater from her mouth, nodded her little head obediently, and then... as she nodded, her face continued to immerse itself in the water.

After tapping twice, Rafiela belatedly realized something was wrong, quickly stopped, and spat out another mouthful of seawater.

Ernesto: "..."

After worrying about his mentally challenged sister's intelligence for two seconds, Ernesto regained his composure and looked at the burly man again.

"The current is too strong. My sister alone can't pull us all across. Now you're the only one left to hold onto!"

Ernesto said solemnly, "The lives of the four of us now depend on you to save us!"

The burly man looked flustered and stammered:

"what should I do?"

“Try to get closer to the left side of the road, grab the edge of the building over there, then I will let go of Chen’s hand, and you grab my hand and pull me over,” Ernesto said urgently.

The burly man's eyes widened.

It wasn't because Ernesto had given him a difficult task, but because he found it unbelievable.

"You still believe me?" the burly man exclaimed in shock. "I am a traitor. I don't understand why you would save me and believe me again."

Ernesto took a couple of breaths and forced a smile:

“You are a traitor, so I am unwilling to associate with you, but that has nothing to do with me saving you. I save you because you are a living person, a Bolivarian, and my compatriot.”

A strange, indescribable emotion suddenly welled up in the burly man's heart.

The tall man, over 1.8 meters tall, who struggled in the seawater and was almost in despair, only shouted but did not cry. At this moment, his eyes were a little blurry.

He never imagined that on this terrible land, there would actually be someone willing to risk their life to save him.

"I will, I will definitely catch you."

The burly man shook his head violently to avoid Ernesto seeing his reddened eyes.

Without further hesitation, he used the strength Ernesto's arm gave him to struggle and swim toward the building not far away.

Several times during this time, he was hit by objects rushing downstream and lost his balance, but Ernesto gritted his teeth and grabbed him, forcibly stabilizing his body.

Finally, the burly man's arm touched the edge of the building, and he immediately used all his strength to cling to it.

"Hold on tight?" Ernesto shouted.

The burly man turned his head and nodded vigorously.

Ernesto immediately turned to Chen and said, "Let go, then let my sister pull you over. You two hide in a safe place first, don't worry about me."

Chen Shen glanced at the burly man and slowly released Ernesto's hand.

Without Chen's pull, Ernesto's figure was immediately swept away by the current and drifted into the distance.

But soon, his figure was dragged and pulled by the burly man.

"Come on, I've got you! Swim over here!" the burly man shouted, pulling hard on Ernesto's arm.

With their combined efforts, the turbulent current became less overwhelming, and Ernesto gradually moved closer to the building.

“Brother, be careful!”

Rafiela's exclamation suddenly rang out.

Ernesto looked up in horror and found himself upstream, with a fallen street lamp pointing straight at him.

The streetlights were broken by the seawater, and the sharp cracks at the break points were pointing directly at Ernesto.

In this situation, he had no time to dodge unless he immediately let go and let himself drift downstream with the water, thus prolonging the time it would take for him to collide with the streetlight.

Just as Ernesto was about to let go, he suddenly felt the force pulling him disappear.

The force of the water caused his body to float downwards for a distance, and then the pulling force reappeared.

The burly man stretched out his arms as far as he could, but his hands gripped Ernesto's wrist tightly, as if using all the strength he had in his life.

"You saved me once, I'll repay you once!"

The burly man fixed his gaze on Ernesto, not even glancing at the streetlight that was pointing straight at him.

The sharp metal pierced his flesh, and the enormous impact caused the burly man to groan and stagger.

The streetlights swayed, tumbled and rolled by the water, and swept across the burly man's shoulders, taking away large chunks of flesh and blood.

The glaring scarlet red, like a torn paint packet, spread in the water, meandering into a red waterfall.

The burly man's body trembled slightly from the intense pain; his shoulder was a bloody mess, and the white bones were even faintly visible.

Even so, he did not let go, roaring as he forcefully pulled Ernesto toward him.

With the help of the burly man, Ernesto slowly approached the building and eventually managed to grab the edge.

"Thank you," Ernesto said sincerely.

“…My name is Sman,” the burly man suddenly said.

His face was sickly pale, and his lips were almost completely bloodless.

Even the wound on his shoulder no longer gushed out large amounts of blood.

"Hey!" Ernesto's heart tightened. "Don't talk nonsense here. We'll have plenty of time to introduce ourselves once we get to a safe place."

"I'm afraid that will be difficult."

Sman gave a bitter smile: "I think I overdid it. It's like I've developed a hole in my body, and my strength is constantly draining away... Hehe, you can go now."

"Shut the fuck up!"

In his desperation, Ernesto blurted out a curse and then clung tightly to Smann.

But this did nothing to help; Ernesto could clearly feel Sman's body growing heavier and heavier.

"Don't waste your energy. I was meant to die anyway. Thank you for giving me hope before I die."

Sman tried to push Ernesto's hand away, but in his current state, he was completely unable to resist Ernesto's strength.

Chapter 265 Rescue

Sman felt very cold.

That kind of cold is not the cold of being immersed in seawater, but a cold that seeps into the soul, the cold of death.

His eyelids were heavy, even heavier than when he stayed up all night, so heavy that they seemed to want to crush him.

In the cold darkness, only an arm that held him tightly provided him with a sliver of warmth.

Almost instinctively, he wanted to hug that arm tightly.

But a faint voice in his heart firmly told him that he couldn't.

The owner of that arm will be dragged down by him. He was a good person and shouldn't be dragged down by a rotten person like himself.

In a daze, he seemed to hear someone calling his name.

Was it that good man named Ernesto?

No...it wasn't just him.

Many people were calling his name.

"Sman, I'll remember your name, you better hold on!"

"Sman, we're rescuing you! We'll be there soon!"

"You bastard, I'm going to save you today, not even the King of Heaven himself can stop me!"

Sman struggled to open his eyes. Through his blurry vision, he saw one figure after another jumping off the platform, holding hands in the water, forming a rope of life that stretched towards him.

On the platform, the doctor had already left Patriot's hands and was now standing with his hands in his pockets, silently watching the crowd struggling to save people in the water.

"so good."

The doctor suddenly let out a soft sigh.

Patriot stood with his hands at his sides beside the doctor, his tall figure silently observing everything before him.

In fact, with his abilities, he could have easily gone into the water alone and rescued Sman.

But he didn't.

Because he was not a Bolivarian, because all he could do was save Sman's life, but not the souls of Sman and the other people on the shore.

On the other side, Shuiyue silently squatted on the edge of the platform, one hand reaching into the water.

Beneath the surface, several translucent tentacles intertwine to form a safety net, blocking debris washed downstream.

"Doctor, I won't die, will I?" Shuiyue asked with a worried look. "I've come into contact with the seawater of Dosoles, and I'm so scared."

"If you're afraid, why did you offer to help?" the doctor asked with a smile as he turned around.

Shuiyue's pretty face fell as she said:

"I was already wet when the tsunami hit, and now I'm not clean anymore."

Another reason is that I don't want to see those people die. Shouldn't humans help each other?

I'm so scared! What if I die? Will anyone come to save me?

The doctor was amused and laughed for a while: