Royce was the first to be jolted awake by the explosion. It took him a full five seconds to realize he was not dreaming.
After all, his last memory was of going to the Convenience Store to buy cigarettes the night before.
He glanced down, and the pool of leaping piranhas below made his scalp prickle. Worse still, the chains overhead were slowly lowering.
In about another twenty centimeters, the toes of his shoes would touch the water.
He scanned his surroundings but found nothing he could use to save himself, only Qin Wei huddled in a corner with his hands over his head.
"Help!"
He shouted at the top of his lungs, but all he heard was a buzzing noise.
"Hurry, help me!"
He was almost touching the water. A piranha leaped up and bit the toe of his shoe, its sharp teeth piercing the upper and sinking into his flesh.
That really hurt!
Using his core muscles, Royce straightened his legs and thrust them forward, forming a perfect right angle in midair. But the unconscious Dick beside him was not so lucky.
"FUCK!"
Royce hesitated and swore, but in the end, he could not bear to let the child suffer. He clamped Dick's legs between his own and lifted them.
But that put even more weight on his lower back and abdomen, making things miserable for an older man who rarely exercised and always had a cigarette in his mouth.
"Will! Help... Please help me!"
His voice was on the verge of cracking, and his face had flushed bright red.
In just a few dozen seconds, the chains had lowered fifty centimeters. His backside was almost touching the water, and once that happened, lifting his legs would no longer solve the problem.
Just as Royce was on the