The bright beam illuminated the bow, then quickly swept to one side.
Everyone held their breath and stared at the area covered by the searchlight.
The boat was deathly quiet. Waves rolled across the pitch-black water, and they could clearly hear the wind and the soft slap of water against the hull.
A creaking, scraping sound rang out, as if something were rubbing against the boat. A long shape vaguely bobbed up and down on the surface.
"Left," Brother Jie called out.
Amon swung the searchlight to the left. The beam covered the long object, and at last they could make out what it was...
The trunk of a dead tree.
"What the... I got excited for nothing," Snow Fox muttered unhappily.
Amon swept the searchlight across the river again. There was nothing but the endlessly undulating black water.
The eerie phosphorescence beneath the surface and the red fireballs shooting into the sky had also vanished. Everything that had just happened felt like an illusion.
Wang Xu walked out of the monitoring room, his expression calm again.
"Wang, did you find anything just now?" Snow Fox asked.
"The sonar detected a large object passing by, but it might have just been a branch." Wang Xu shook his head.
Sand Scorpion had shut off the engine just before the collision. He stepped out of the cockpit. "Don't let your guard down. Everyone, get back inside the cabin."
Everyone returned to the cabin, and Wusen was brought over as well. He still had not calmed down, and he looked at them in terror.
"Demons... you're all demons!"
Snow Fox shrugged. "We're here to hunt your Naga God. Calling us demons doesn't seem wrong."
Wang Xu decided to help him calm down. He pulled a stack of Thai Baht from his pocket and