dognovel Chapter 1272
Chapter 1272
The ointment was pale yellow and had a cool, herbal scent.
The moment it was applied, the burning sensation on Mu Mu's back seemed to lessen a bit.
His tense body finally relaxed a little.
Zhou Shuwan then took out sterile gauze and carefully bandaged the burn.
"Eat this." She took out another painkiller and handed it to Mu Mu's mouth.
Mu Mu obediently opened her mouth and swallowed the pill. Not long after swallowing, the medicine gradually took effect, and the excruciating burning pain in her back finally subsided.
He let out a long sigh of relief, the sweat on his forehead gradually stopped, and his complexion improved slightly.
"Are you feeling better?" Zhou Shuwan asked softly, reaching out to wipe away the remaining beads of sweat from his forehead.
Mu Mu nodded, forcing a weak smile: "Much better, sis, thank you."
Qi Mingyu was maneuvering the submarine upwards.
Although we have left that dangerous hot spring area, the depths of the Boiling Sea are still fraught with peril, and we cannot afford to be complacent.
They had to race against time; the sooner they got back to the surface, the safer they would be.
Just then, the color drained from Zhou Shuwan's face.
She looked up abruptly, her gaze fixed on the porthole.
Outside, it was still a hazy, milky white, with visibility of less than five meters. Apart from the blurry, flickering light and shadow, nothing could be seen.
But her senses were like an invisible radar, penetrating the thick seawater and probing straight into the darkness of the deepest part of the ocean.
She "saw" it.
It was an overwhelming surge of heat.
Countless streams of seawater, scorched to boiling by the magma beneath the earth, are carrying along shattered rocks, forming a giant hot current hundreds of meters wide. It is surging toward them with overwhelming force along the seabed's gullies.
Wherever the heat flow passes, the seawater is instantly boiled, and large plumes of white mist rise up.
The rocks on the seabed were shattered and turned into dust.
"Left! Ascend immediately!"
Zhou Shuwan roared loudly.
Qi Mingyu didn't even have time to ask why.
His trust in Zhou Shuwan was ingrained in his very bones.
Almost the instant she finished speaking, his fingers gripped the control lever tightly, his wrist twisted sharply to the left, and he pressed the emergency ascent button.
"Om-!"
The submarine's engine roared under heavy load, the hull shook violently, and it darted wildly toward the upper left of the sea.
"Sis... what's wrong?"
Mu Mu also managed to sit up, her face as white as a sheet.
Zhou Shuwan quickly took out a brand-new air-conditioned suit from her spatial storage and threw it into Mu Mu's arms: "Put this on quickly! If something unfortunate happens later, it will help you withstand the high temperature for a little longer!"
Mu Mu gritted her teeth, ignoring the pain in her back, and used both hands and feet to put on the air-conditioned clothes.
“There’s an ocean current coming right at us. It’s moving too fast…we might lose control.”
Before she finished speaking, she had already walked quickly to the passenger seat and sat down, her fingers flying across the spare control panel.
A dense stream of data instantly appeared on the screen, showing the submarine's real-time location, ocean current speed, and seawater temperature.
She had to help Qi Mingyu calculate the best escape route, to find a way to survive in this pitch-black deep sea.
Qi Mingyu gripped the joystick, constantly adjusting the direction.
The submarine's ascent rate had been set to its limit, and the depth reading on the instrument panel was dropping rapidly.
However, they still did not escape the range of the ocean current.
Zhou Shuwan could clearly "see" that the edge of that giant stream of heat was getting closer and closer.
"Look!"
Mu Mu cried out in disbelief.
Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu looked up abruptly, their hearts pounding in their throats as if gripped by an invisible hand.
The once chaotic, milky-white seawater seemed to have been cleaved in two by an invisible giant axe, and a clear dividing line was rolling toward the submarine at an alarming speed.
On the other side of the boundary lies a world of churning, roaring boiling water—
Countless tiny bubbles burst and rose wildly, converging into a white, raging torrent that blotted out the sky, as if the entire deep sea had been thrown into a furnace.
This boiling ocean current, its origin unknown and its end unseen, surges forward like a colossal, awakened beast.
Each surge carries with it fragments of rock and gravel, scorched red by the intense heat.
The stones collided and rubbed against each other in the boiling water, sparking tiny sparks that vanished in an instant, but reflected eerie red light in the murky seawater.
Wherever the ocean current passed, even the surrounding seawater emitted a hissing sound, the mournful cry of the cold seawater being instantly boiled.
Visibility dropped to almost zero, leaving only a churning white expanse, a suffocating white expanse with a scorching heat.
"It...it's coming!" Mu Mu's voice trembled.
Zhou Shuwan's pupils suddenly contracted.
She could clearly see that the edge of the boiling ocean current had already touched the submarine's tail.
"boom--!"
A deafening roar erupted, as if a volcano had exploded at the stern of the submarine.
The ship jolted violently, the lights inside the cabin flickered erratically, and the pointers on the instrument panel jumped wildly.
Countless red warning lights lit up one after another, and the piercing sirens pierced eardrums, making people dizzy.
A scorching heat seeped in through the gaps in the submarine.
The bulkhead began to heat up, and even the metal handrails gradually became warm.
"Power up! Faster!" Zhou Shuwan roared, her fingers flying across the control panel, trying to adjust the submarine's buoyancy. "Charge upwards! Charge out!"
Qi Mingyu's forehead veins bulged, and he gripped the control stick tightly with both hands.
The submarine's engine emitted a wail as if it were about to break down, and the hull struggled upwards.
But the power of that boiling ocean current was far more terrifying than they had imagined.
It was like an invisible giant net, instantly engulfing the submarine completely.
A tremendous force surged in from all directions.
Like a leaf in a storm, the submarine was completely out of control, carried by the ocean currents and hurtling rapidly toward the unknown depths of the sea.
The ship spun and rocked violently in the ocean current, and items inside the cabin were flung around. Medicine boxes, tools, and instruments crashed against the bulkheads, making crackling noises.
Zhou Shuwan was violently thrown towards the control panel, her forehead slamming into the hard metal casing. A sharp pain shot through her, and her vision went black for a moment.
She struggled to lift her head, and through the porthole, all she could see was a churning expanse of white, boiling water.
Mu Mu's screams were drowned out by the ear-piercing roar.
Qi Mingyu gritted his teeth, enduring the violent shaking of his body, his fingers never letting go of the control stick.
He tried to maneuver the submarine to escape the ocean currents, but all his efforts were in vain.
The temperature inside the cabin rose higher and higher, the air became scorching, and breathing felt like swallowing flames.