Chapitre 36: A Place Where the Usual Law Of Survival Is Useless
*Bluehh...*
It's been exactly twelve days since Mike wakes up and nothing much happened since then.
It was a miracle that he didn't have hyperthermia in these past days.
His body is pretty much fine after these days. His upper feminine body can be seen because he uses his wet upper clothes to catch fishes. He would be pretty much embarrassed if anyone could see his girly body but good thing that there are no humans around.
Mike would be bewildered if he could see one. Well, He did from time to time but they're pretty much dead. He has gotten used to seeing a dead body after that.
The number of bubbles he went inside as he goes deeper into the ocean is a total of thirteen including the one he is in right now.
As he went deeper he pretty much got used in holding his breath that he can hold it now in more than ten minutes thanks to the speed-up evolution. 10 minutes is half equivalent to the record of the longest breath in the world without the help of speed-up evolution he's pretty much dead by now.
The only trouble he has now is that he can't proceed much with this stomach of his.
His stomach is grumbling loudly not because it's empty but because he ate something unusual.
Well, no question there as he only ate raw fish in these past days and only drinks saltwater.
It's impossible to light up a fire underwater or even take time to be in full slumber.
Not to mention the fish monsters are still everywhere.
Sometimes they notice his presence but they just ignore him but even with that's not the case for him to lower his guard.
Mike could take a super short nap but he isn't used to it.
He kinda misses the surface again especially seeing Sena.
(I hope they are living comfortably now.)
As he thinks of Sena and the others he touches his dry lips checking if he will drink salt water now or later.
When it comes to filling his thirst for water he rarely drinks the salt water because of its weird taste. He didn't know that avoiding drinking more of the saltwater will avoid his death of dehydration.
"I can only stay inside the bubble for two days in total so I must get ready before this bubble gets depleted. *grumbles* Guh... My stomach is in serious trouble right now."
He can only rely upon the miracle of the speed-up evolution for this.
The time he could only stay in the bubble is about two hours from now.
He can't get out of this with this stomach of his.
As usual, he always thinks of a plan to survive no matter what.
(Stomach aside, the water is the real problem. If I can't get hold of water that I could drink I will die. The pressure of the water is also a problem, the more I sink the more pressure will press into my body. My ears are already in pain since the first day I woke up and my body has gotten hard to control.)
His ace of talent, his hearing is pretty much useless underwater.
There are no more possibilities for him to survive longer.
(But I will not give up just because of this! Unlike the last time I could now see a ray of hope clearly in my own eyes!)
Gritting his teeth he endures the pain from his stomach. He takes a deep breath and calms himself.
(Oy stomach... don't disturb me with your whining.) Mike looking at his stomach as he ordered it with an absolute dominance through his voice.
Like the stomach heard his words it stop giving his owner a pain.
(Oh- It works! Not much of a problem now, eh!?)
As soon he speaks proudly of himself his stomach groans in pain again.
He takes back what he said and immediately orders his stomach to stop giving pain in the end, the stomach yields to his owner.
The time it takes to suppress his stomach is two hours, it takes longer than he expected to be.
If he lets his guard down again the stomach might go in pain again so he raises his focus a bit.
The bubble life is already reaching its limit as its size was so small for Mike to fit in.
Since he pretty much got used living inside the bubble he knows how to get out of it easily.
Mike holds his breath and readies himself.
Squishing his body like letting getting pulled from outside he got outside of the bubble without trouble.
As always, as soon he reaches outside the tentacle from his left leg reacted to his movement and started to pulling down.
The two tasks he must do when he goes outside are: find a suitable bubble and grab many fishes as he can.
With his blurry vision and the little light of the sun, he started focusing what's below.
He still cannot let his guard down from his surroundings because fish monsters are not the only his enemy in this unfamiliar place.
And from the end of his vision where the ray of sun isn't reaching, a great white shark appeared.
Mike was surprised that a great white shark with rarity appeared in front of him but he already knows how to handle this kind of danger as he thought of a plan for past days. In fact, the probability of encountering a lightning strike is high compared to encountering a great white shark.
This shows that Mike really does have a stroke of bad luck on his back.
The shark surges forwards not giving its prey a time to react.
Mike already expects a danger that something like this except actually encountering a great white shark in this depts.
He readies his stance as he waits for the shark's approach.
His stance is similar to the stance he uses when he fights Leo. Basically just a normal stance but it was more steady even in underwater like he had a foothold to put his weight into his balls of feet.
Since he pretty much doesn't have any idea when it comes to fighting head-on, as he only has a reference from seeing Sena's and Leo's fighting style.
He indeed did something that everyone got surprised but for him, he just imitates what Sena had done, his imitation is far away from the original one. So the only stance he can do is the most comfortable for him to move.
(I still regretted that I didn't take the swimming lesson too seriously.)
The shark approaches him with a bloodlust through its eyes as it shows it's deadly teeth far superior from the worm he encounters.
*CHOMP*
With its speed, the shark thought that it can bite Mike to his death but the shark didn't expect that the prey would dodge.
Mike uses the flow of the water with the help of the tentacle pulling him below to dodge the shark.
Normally, sharks will only attack once and go home as they're mistaken for humans as their average prey.
However, this shark is acting weird. Fortunately, Mike doesn't know much about sharks from their hit and run tactics so he still raises his guards after the shark finishes its first attack.
The shark quickly turns and charges towards Mike with an open mouth as it wanted to take a bite.
Mike didn't run away from the shark but he's still descending away from it because of the tentacle.
The shark didn't plan to let its prey to get away as it still chases him.
*CHOMP*
This time the shark looks like its desperate to bite Mike that he didn't manage to dodge in time.
A piece of his flesh from his right shoulder was bitten apart from the shark's bite.
The wound is too painful for Mike as he almost shouts in pain.
As the pain went to his brain he loses focus as the pain from his stomach appeared again.
Two different pain interrupting his thoughts as he can't pretty much react if the shark attacks again.
The shark takes its distance and attack once again with more speed into it for not to let its prey swim away.
(Gurrr!)
He wanted to make a complaint to his body after this but he must focus his attention on the shark or else he will die.
The shark opens its mouth with anticipation of his meat.
Mike tried to correct his stance once again but he's too slow.
(MOVE DAMN IT!)
His eyes are glaring toward his own body forcing it to move to his command even if it's damaged.
(I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE WHINING ABOUT BUT IF I DIE HERE YOU WILL ALSO STOP FUNCTIONING... SO, MY BODY, DON'T LET ME DISAPPOINTED AT YOU.) Voicing his body with a cold tone, more adrenaline goes through his veins as he commanded them and after that, he can now move and only feel a little pain.
An adrenaline rush but unlike the normal adrenaline rush this was more of a superhuman could do.
No one could command their body in just a whim to release adrenaline but Mike is completely different. Fluke or not, a result is a result.
His muscles adjusted to his command as they were controlled in unity.
The shark is already near him but Mike could now react to it.
He thought; (Instead of dodging it, should I do this?)
In underwater where one could not control their body in their ideal form, Mike with a heavy wound he could now control his body more than ever.
After dodging the shark to swimming to its side he immediately stretches his hand grabbing the shark's gills.
As Mike pulled the shark's gills blood splurts out of it.
(Haha! A jackpot!) Without hesitation, as he found a weakness he pulled it with more force.
Gills was torn apart from its body and the shark was released from Mike's grasp.
Shark runs away and did not bother to turn around showing that Mike has won the battle.
However, he cannot celebrate yet...
It's only a five minutes battle but he's running out of breath and needed a bubble to recover from his wound.
After the battle, the pain came back bringing much more pain and his body feels heavy in an instant he loses focus.
He tried to command his body again but it was futile as he loses more power.
(Damnit! Damnit!)
Mike was too late to realize that the sun is about to set as the light was no more at his side.
Another dangerous situation if Mike could say but he got used to it anyway so he could not complain anymore.
Swimming deep desperately he founds a bubble before the sun could set completely.
He rushes towards it with his remaining strength as he endures the pain and the heavy of his body.
His lungs are about to reach its limit.
Without hesitation like when he first sees the bubbles, he went inside.
As his face went inside the bubble he immediately gathers his breath.
However, before he could even put his whole body inside the bubble the shark appeared again.
Mike is surprised because he's too focus on the bubble that he didn't give much attention to his surrounding.
Not making it in time the shark bites the tip of his right foot, his toes.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! AHHHHHHHHH!"
An intense pain comes through his nerves that Mike shouted as he gritted his teeth trying to put his whole body inside the bubble.
As his body went inside tons of blood flows from his right shoulder and from his right foot.
"It's hurt! It's fucking hurt!"
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