Chapter 136: Chapter 132: Life and Death (5) On the Verge of Death
Translator: 549690339
The later it gets, the deeper it becomes.
Song Zhizhi half-closed her eyes.
She was so tired.
Soaking in seawater made her feel weaker than she had imagined.
She leaned against Luo Xiaolang.
Her gaze was faint as she looked up at the sky, where there were no stars left.
Perhaps, it was the darkness before dawn.
She couldn’t see her hand in front of her face.
“If you’re tired, have a rest,” said Luo Xiaolang. “I’ll keep you afloat.”
Song Zhizhi didn’t reply.
In that moment, she didn’t even have the strength to speak.
She didn’t even feel like speaking.
She didn’t want to waste any more of her strength.
She didn’t want to die either.
There were too many things left undone; she couldn’t die yet.
She kept reminding herself of that, over and over again.
It seemed to be slightly lightening up in the sky.
Song Zhizhi kept her eyes half-closed, watching the breaking dawn, and then saw a bright red sun rising from the horizon.
It was genuinely beautiful.
So beautiful that she couldn’t open her eyes.
She couldn’t feel her body anymore.
She didn’t know what her body was like, soaking in seawater.
She even lacked the sense of her body.
She thought.
Perhaps, she might not hold on much longer.
Such a long night, without water or food, constantly depleting.
The red sun seemed to keep rising before her.
She wanted to sleep.
Completely sleep.
“Miss Song.” A familiar voice suddenly echoed in her ears.
Song Zhizhi struggled. “Miss Song…”
It was Ji Baijian.
Ji Baijian, save me.
Save me…
You promised to keep me safe.
“Miss Song… Don’t sleep.” No, no…
“Don’t sleep, don’t sleep…”
Song Zhizhi was desperately struggling.
She saw Ji Baijian.
She really saw Ji Baijian. He was standing in front of her, calling her anxiously.
But, she couldn’t get closer to him.
She wanted to run, to move into his arms, she wanted him to hold her.
But she couldn’t move, couldn’t move at all.
She could only watch Ji Baijian, watch him.
“Good girl, don’t sleep,” Ji Baijian spoke in a very gentle voice.
That’s a tone he’s not good at. “Be a good girl, don’t sleep.”
But how was she not sleeping?
Song Zhizhi became anxious.
“Song Zhizhi.” Ji Baijian suddenly called her name. She hadn’t heard him call her by her first name before.
“Song Zhizhi!”
Ji Baijian.
Song Zhizhi moved her lips.
Why couldn’t she make a sound?
Why did her throat hurt so much?
No.
She couldn’t sleep.
She couldn’t fall asleep, she couldn’t die.
She reminded herself that she was still on the sea, she needed to stay alive, she needed to keep herself alive.
“Ji Baijian!” Song Zhizhi suddenly shouted. In that moment, she seemed to regain consciousness.
She violently opened her eyes.
The moment she opened them, she violently closed them again.
The sunlight was too dazzling.
What time was it now?
The person supporting her seemed to feel her awaken.
Luo Xiaolang said, “You can’t sleep anymore.”
Song Zhizhi still couldn’t feel her body, but at this moment, she seemed to smell something fishy.
“If you fall asleep now, you won’t wake up. Your body has reached its limit.” Luo Xiaolang spoke again, “So no matter how tired, you must keep your eyes open.”
“Mm.” Song Zhizhi managed to make a sound.
In that moment, she seemed to taste something bitter in her mouth.
Was her throat torn apart?
She felt excruciating pain, far worse than what a cold might cause in her throat.
She asked with all her strength, “Is there still no island in sight?”
“No, we’ll see it soon.”
Song Zhizhi’s eyes flickered. Was the sunlight too harsh? She couldn’t see anything.
Before her lay nothing but the endless sea.
“Trust me, I grew up in the forest, I am very familiar with nature, I can smell, or perhaps sense, the scent of trees and plants,” Luo Xiaolang explained.
She believed Xiaolang, even if he was lying to her, she believed him.
She kept her eyes open, staring ahead.
“Xiaolang, pinch me every five minutes,” Song Zhizhi said weakly.
Her eyelids were getting heavy, and she was drifting. She needed pain to stimulate herself.
But she doesn’t even have the strength to bite her lip.
She kept holding on, time and again, reminding herself that she couldn’t die.
She absolutely couldn’t die.
She had to live, to put all those who hurt her to justice.
She can’t die…
She must not die.
If she died, Ji Baijian would be devastated, wouldn’t he?
Ji Baijian…
Her eyelids were becoming heavier and heavier.
Even the pain didn’t seem to stimulate her to open her eyes anymore. But at that moment, she heard Luo Xiaolang’s excited voice, “I can see the island ahead.”
As if she suddenly gained strength, Song Zhizhi opened her eyes wide. At sunset, she saw an island far away. The green plants on the sea level seemed like a mirage in the desert.
She will survive, she must survive.
She kept her eyes open, staring at the distant island.
But the island seemed so far away, even after what seemed like ages.
It was still so far away.
“We’ll get there soon, we’re almost there,” Luo Xiaolang said.
It seemed that he also felt Song Zhizhi’s body weakening.
Even if he pinches her now, she won’t have any more physical reactions.
This can’t be happening.
Luo Xiaolang said, “Song Zhizhi, you must hold on.”
Song Zhizhi tried to keep her eyes open to look ahead.
Life was right in front of her. As long as she held on, she would survive.
Night fell.
Song Zhizhi stared at the moonlight on the sea.
She could no longer see the island.
It was too dark, and she didn’t have Luo Xiaolang’s sharp vision.
She even felt as if she couldn’t see hope anymore.
She woke up time and again only to pass out instantly.
Dawn broke.
Song Zhizhi saw the island again.
But, she couldn’t hold on any longer.
Even if it was right in front of her eyes.
I’m sorry.
She had failed to avenge her wrongs.
I’m sorry.
Ji Baijian.
Song Zhizhi moved her lips.
Water.
It was water.
She sucked it in.
Slowly, slowly waking from the deep darkness.
She thought she would sleep forever.
As she opened her eyes to the bright sky, she wondered if she had arrived at another world.
“Are you awake?” Luo Xiaolang’s voice rang out beside her.
Song Zhizhi turned her eyes towards her. It was this woman who saved her.
“Xiaolang, ” Song Zhizhi began.
She could still talk
She was still alive.
“Just lie here for a minute, I’m going into the jungle to see if there’s any fresh water for you,” Luo Xiaolang said.
At this moment, she was finally lying on the sand.
She felt the warmth radiating from the sand onto her body.
“It seems like I drank some water just now,” Song Zhizhi said, licking her lips.
Her lips were a bit damp.
But… it didn’t taste like water.
It was bitter and had a metallic taste, the same taste as when she was in the sea and thought her throat was torn.
She touched her lip with her hand.
Blood.
Bright red blood.
She looked at Luo Xiaolang abruptly.
She stared at the obvious bloody mark on her wrist..
