The sudden turn of events sent everyone's hearts into their throats.
"Dad!" Sang Yu's face went deathly pale as she rushed toward the river without a second thought.
Afraid Sang Yu might do something irrational, Wen Yanyu hurriedly reached out and caught her.
The safety officer reacted quickly. Setting down his camera, he rushed toward the river with the rescue equipment he carried, calling for backup over his radio as he went.
The water only reached just below the chest and was not particularly deep, but the current was swift and the lakebed slippery. Once someone lost their balance, they could not get back on their feet.
Sang Huairen cried out and flailed wildly at the surface, his head bobbing in and out of the water as river water quickly entered his windpipe.
"Grab the rope!"
The safety officer threw a rope into the river.
In his panic, Sang Huairen did not notice what the people on shore were saying. The current kept sweeping the other end of the rope off course.
The safety officer tried to reach the man with a wooden pole, but they were too far apart, and the pole he found could never quite reach him.
Alone, he still did not dare enter the water.
The man was about to be swept farther downriver.
Wen Yanyu quickly stripped off his coat and plunged into the water.
"Yanyan!" Jiang Wanrou cried out in alarm.
"Be careful!"
A bone-piercing chill spread through his body. Wen Yanyu shuddered, but could not worry about that now.
He had been a merman many times during his cycles of reincarnation, and the abilities that remained made him a good swimmer.
Wen Yanyu took a deep breath, grabbed the rope, and quickly swam toward Sang Huairen, ignoring the rushing current around him.
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