A Mad Dash

The last ferry to leave Hidden Dragon Island each day departed at 7 p.m. After 7 p.m., anyone wanting to leave the island could only wait until 6 the next morning. Thus, barring special circumstances, ordinary people had no way off Hidden Dragon Island except by boat.

The so-called special circumstances generally referred only to certain members and organizations of the Zhang Clan being granted the privilege of using airships to travel to and from Hidden Dragon Island. Naturally, not just anyone could board the Zhang Family's airship to Hidden Dragon Island, and the airship route to the island had not even been opened. Ordinary people need not even dream of it.

The sea route from Hidden Dragon Island to Jinhai City was over 140 kilometers. By passenger ship, it generally took four or five hours. There might have been more than one person in this era capable of swimming over a hundred kilometers in the sea; as long as their stamina and swimming skills could keep up, some high-level Warriors might truly be able to swim over a hundred kilometers after more than ten or twenty hours in the water.

But probably no one on all of Hidden Dragon Island—or even throughout Huaiyuan Prefecture—could have imagined that someone could swim from Hidden Dragon Island back to the mainland in less than an hour.

Zhang Tie felt that he was moving very fast within the ocean current. Yet just how fast, even he could not say. It was difficult to determine directions underwater, so every few minutes, he would break away from the current and surface again, using the positions of the stars in the sky, the compass in his hand, and the islands, reefs, and lighthouses protruding from the sea to reassess and adjust his direction.

After Zhang Tie