Chapter 91: An Encounter with a Dolphin

Under the powerful, hot current brought on by the Bone Blood Pill, Zhou Yu felt strength surging through his entire body. It felt as if this power was about to burst him open from the inside. All he could do was desperately swim through the sea, his hands paddling the water rapidly, like propellers.

In the sea, he moved like a sharp arrow, cutting swiftly across the water’s surface as he headed toward the deep sea.

At that moment, some people fishing by the shore saw a figure in the distance racing quickly over the sea, leaving a trail of waves behind. Everyone’s faces wore expressions of stunned amazement.

“Is that a shark or a dolphin?” one person asked, looking somewhat confused.

“Shark my foot. I think that’s a person,” another, more experienced middle-aged man said uncertainly.

“No way. I think he’s swimming faster than Phelps.”

As everyone chattered, one person burst out laughing. “Haha, I got it on camera! I got it on camera! I just pulled out my mobile phone to record a video and happened to catch it. So lucky to have recorded a clip, haha!”

“Hey, buddy, let us have a look!” Hearing this, the crowd gathered around him.

The man did not refuse. He took out his mobile phone and played the video he had just recorded. The footage was very blurry and shaky because the figure had been far from them. In the video, they could only see a human-like shape moving away amidst the waves, with no clear view of what the person actually looked like.

“Looks like it really is a person. That speed—I think it’s way beyond any Olympic athlete,” everyone exclaimed in awe as they saw the figure’s speed across the water.

Zhou Yu, however, paid no attention to any of this. He only wanted to release the hot current within his body into the seawater.

Slowly, he swam farther and farther out. The coolness of the sea made him feel somewhat more comfortable, but his body continued to burn, as if he were in a furnace.

He hadn’t expected the effect of that half-bowl of medicinal soup to be so powerful. No wonder consuming twenty pills could make one’s body that strong.

While swimming, he noticed some movement beside him. He turned his head and was instantly stunned. A dolphin was swimming alongside him in the water not far away, occasionally leaping out of the sea, spraying a stream of water, and calling out to him a few times.

Zhou Yu thought for a moment. “Do you want to race me? Then come on!” After that, he paddled the water even more forcefully, swimming toward the deep sea at an extremely fast speed.

Seeing this, the dolphin beside him happily let out a call, then dove into the water and chased after Zhou Yu.

The dolphin was very fast. Even with the power from the Bone Blood Pill, which made Zhou Yu move like an arrow through the sea, he couldn’t catch up to the dolphin.

However, during this process, the dolphin would occasionally stop and wait for Zhou Yu in the water before continuing to swim, as if it were playing with him on purpose.

After swimming wildly in the sea for over half an hour, Zhou Yu felt the nearly explosive hot current in his body gradually subside and disappear. At this point, he didn’t feel tired at all. On the contrary, he felt refreshed and energized all over, and it seemed his body had gained even more strength than before.

He slowly came to a stop in the seawater, clenching his fist experimentally. Sure enough, that was the case. A look of joy appeared on his face. He hadn’t expected the Bone Blood Pill to be so powerful; even without the secret method, his body had absorbed some of it.

Just as he floated on the sea surface, savoring the changes brought by the half-bowl of Bone Blood Pill medicinal soup, the dolphin waiting nearby couldn’t help but nudge his body with its head.

Zhou Yu snapped back to attention. He looked at the dolphin and smiled. During the race with the dolphin, his mind had been burning with heat, and without thinking, he had just swum desperately. Thinking back now, it was quite amusing.

Many dolphins are very friendly to humans, and growing up by the sea, Zhou Yu had deep experience with this. When he was young, he and others had once rescued two stranded dolphins. After being released back into the sea, those two dolphins lingered nearby for a long time, constantly leaping out of the water as if to thank them.

Back then, he would occasionally hear stories about dolphins rescuing people. However, in recent years, with the development of the surrounding waters, dolphins had become a rare sight on the Beach.

Looking at the dolphin swimming beside him, Zhou Yu smiled and reached out to stroke its head. It felt very smooth.

The dolphin called out to him, then swam and jumped in the water, as if urging him to keep playing.

At this moment, Zhou Yu seemed to realize something. He looked around and saw nothing but the endless Sea. The shoreline was nowhere in sight.

He gave a bitter smile. Earlier, he had been solely focused on venting the hot current inside him, completely unaware of where he had swum. Now it seemed he was probably very far from land.

When he had swum out here, it was thanks to the hot current from the Bone Blood Pill constantly burning off that he now felt no fatigue at all. Without the medicinal power of the Bone Blood Pill, getting back would likely take a very long time.

If only he had brought the Bone Blood Pill with him, Zhou Yu shook his head. He had originally thought that just practicing his martial arts would dissipate the effects of the half-bowl of Bone Blood Pill soup. Who knew it didn’t work at all, and his body just grew hotter and hotter? That was why, in a moment of last-minute clarity, he had jumped into the Sea.

Seeing that he wasn’t moving, the dolphin swam over to him again and nudged him with its head.

“I can’t play anymore. I still have to go home.” Zhou Yu patted its head, looked up at the sun’s position in the sky to determine the direction of land, and then began swimming.

The dolphin, however, didn’t leave him. It still followed by his side, occasionally leaping out of the water, amusing itself happily.

After swimming about one or two kilometers with still no sign of land, Zhou Yu began to feel a bit tired. He really wished he could drink the remaining half-bowl of Bone Blood Pill soup left in the yard. If he had, getting back home would have been a breeze.

The feeling of being filled with strength from the Bone Blood Pill made him miss it greatly.

Zhou Yu figured that from the start of his swim until now, no more than an hour had passed. Having swum one or two kilometers with no land in sight, he could imagine just how fast he must have been going earlier.

For an ordinary person, swimming two or three kilometers in an hour in the water is pretty good, as they need to slow down to rest in between. But he had probably maintained a very fast speed from beginning to end.

It seemed the dolphin sensed Zhou Yu’s growing fatigue. It swam close to him, dove underwater, then lifted his body. Unprepared, Zhou Yu slipped off in a panic.

After steadying himself in the water, Zhou Yu looked surprised. He tried climbing onto the dolphin’s back, and the dolphin didn’t resist at all.

Once he was seated comfortably, the dolphin happily called out and began swimming quickly toward land.

“Haha, our journey is to the stars and the sea!” Sitting on the dolphin’s back, unable to contain his excitement, Zhou Yu laughed heartily.

At some aquariums, he had interacted with dolphins before, but riding on a dolphin’s back and swimming in the open sea—this was his first time.

At the same time, a bit of doubt crept into Zhou Yu’s mind. Even if dolphins are friendly toward humans, they probably don’t just let anyone ride on their backs. He thought about it and considered two possibilities. One was that this dolphin might be one he had rescued when he was young.

Back then on the Beach, he was the first to spot the stranded baby dolphin. He tried carrying it back to the sea, but the waves were too strong, and he couldn’t wade into deeper water. So he dug a pit, placed the dolphin inside, then returned to the village to gather some people.

Dolphins generally live thirty to forty years. It had only been about twenty years since he rescued that baby dolphin. Judging by its size now, it roughly matched up.

The second possibility was that the Bone Blood Pill he consumed contained a scent that dolphins find appealing. In his opinion, the first possibility seemed more likely. After all, if the Bone Blood Pill had that kind of effect, more than just one dolphin would probably have come.

Finally, with the dolphin’s help, Zhou Yu reached the sea surface not far from Taoyuan Village. He voluntarily slid off and waved to the dolphin. “Thank you.”

The dolphin called out, leaped a few times on the water’s surface, and gradually swam away.

Zhou Yu’s heart filled with emotion as he swam toward the direction of the Old Family House. If only he had something like a Spirit Beast Pill with him, he would have liked to thank this dolphin that brought him back.

But with the Bone Blood Pill, he would have many more chances to swim in the sea in the future. He believed he would meet this dolphin again.