"Phew..." Jiang Yan Hai let out a long breath and abruptly sat up in bed. His movement was a little too forceful, waking Li Ruo Bai beside him before she had fully awakened.
"What's wrong, honey?" Li Ruo Bai asked groggily.
"It's nothing... I'm going to the bathroom... I woke you up. Go back to sleep," Jiang Yan Hai hurriedly said. His body in reality did not need air.
"Oh..." Li Ruo Bai mumbled, then drifted back into deep sleep. It was still early, only a little past six in the morning.
Jiang Yan Hai got up, went into the bathroom, sat on the toilet, and began to recall.
Every death was an unpleasant experience, but this one had been especially agonizing.
His previous two deaths had ended quickly. Though they had come with the same overwhelming terror of death, they had ended so fast that the suffering had not been as severe. This time, however, he had truly experienced pain and fear existing side by side in death.
If one had to name the most painful ways for a human to die, setting aside pain from bleeding and such, suffocation would definitely be among them.
And suffocating underwater was even more painful and terrifying than ordinary suffocation.
If there was anything even more painful and terrifying than that, it was watching, with your own eyes as you died, your comrades, your subordinates, those young men, die before you with faces full of pain and terror.
"Captain... save me... I'm scared... I don't want to die."
Jiang Yan Hai could still seem to hear the terrified words of that young man, who could not have been more than twenty. His voice had been muddled by the water and hard to make out, yet to Jiang Yan Hai's ears, it had