novelraw Chapter 323 - 257: Life of Water (2)
Chapter 323 - 257: Life of Water (2)
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At this moment in the high sky, Li Weimin, Ah Gui, and others, each holding a high-spec camera, anxiously looked at the situation on the sea with binoculars.
This challenge is different from the Awakening Earth challenge in Mexico’s Swallow Cave. In Mexico’s Swallow Cave, fixed cameras could be set up in advance at the challenge location. During the live broadcast, the audience could be presented with images by switching camera angles.
However, in the Cortes Sea, it’s all water, making it impossible to set up fixed cameras. The filming had to rely on logistics staff on helicopters holding cameras. Although the images might shake due to hand tremors, there were no other options, so they had to resort to this approach.
The logistics staff also controlled the camera’s direction in real-time based on what was seen through the binoculars, aiming the lens at Wang Ye,
but since it was manually controlled, there was a certain probability of making mistakes, so occasionally they would capture the Red Bull Team’s situation.
[Brothers, it seems the Red Bull side is almost completely wiped out...]
[Really, there were nearly ten people at the start, and now there are only two or three left on the sea.]
[It’s only been a dozen seconds... They fell so quickly.]
[Damn, I just saw a member of the Red Bull Team being engulfed by the wave in an instant!]
[I never realized humans could be so insignificant.]
[In the face of nature, we are really too fragile.]
[More than 80% of the Red Bull Team is down, indicating the challenge difficulty is indeed very high.]
[That’s the Red Bull Team... The Red Bull I sponsor, you give your life for.]
[To be sponsored by Red Bull, at the very least, they’re top players in their field, how could they fail so easily?]
[People who haven’t surfed may not have a concept of this. The difficulty of this... I can only say it’s Hell Level.]
[The current Guinness Record is only about twenty meters.]
[How many meters do the waves on the screen roughly have, forty to fifty meters or so?]
[Definitely over fifty meters. I calculated it based on Wang Ye’s height, it’s about 53 meters.]
[Oh my!]
[Fifty-three meters? Buddy, are you sure you didn’t miscalculate?]
[It’s more than twice as high as the Guinness World Record wave!
[Is it really that exaggerated?]
[Moreover, the environment for the Guinness World Record challenge is much calmer than this. They all choose to challenge on days without wind and rain, unlike Wang Ye who chose to challenge in stormy weather.]
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About ten more seconds passed.
As the waves got closer to the shore,
their momentum became more and more aggressive.
Wave after wave crashed onto the sea surface.
Sending up large splashes of water.
These splashes would directly drench the faces of the surfers.
Affecting their vision.
Coupled with the fact that the waves in the shallower areas would form tube waves—a closed tunnel-like space that surrounded the surfers, blocking external light and inside visibility.
These would severely disrupt the surfers’ state.
Being unable to clearly see the surroundings meant surfers couldn’t adjust their movements in time based on the situation, which is very deadly in situations requiring quick adaptability.
At this moment, Wang Ye was racing on the waves, and his cheeks were already soaked with water droplets. Occasionally, the surging wind would blow these droplets backward,
making it inevitable that many would enter his eyes while in motion.
One must know that seawater contains high concentrations of salt and other substances.
If a lot of seawater enters the eyes and isn’t discharged in time, it may damage the conjunctiva or cornea, causing redness, swelling, and pain in the eyes.
So, people who can open their eyes in freshwater may not be able to do so normally in seawater.
But ever since Wang Ye trained with the Golden Bell Shield, his eyes seemed to have grown an invisible barrier of some unknown substance that blocks anything potentially harmful from reaching his eyes. So even swimming in muddy water, he could keep his eyes open normally, without worrying about corneal damage.
Besides, Wang Ye noticed that he gradually stopped experiencing dry eyes, suggesting he no longer needed to blink. Even without blinking for a whole day, his eyes wouldn’t feel dry, as the internal membrane continually provided moisture.
Therefore, while surfing on the sea, Wang Ye kept his eyes open at all times, unaffected by anything,
enhanced by his microscopic vision and a field of view exceeding 180 degrees.
He could now completely perceive any situation around him through his eyesight.
As for why he didn’t use hearing and smell for perception,
it was because the sound of the waves and the sea’s fishy smell somewhat dulled these two perception abilities.
In such a situation, vision turned out to be the sharpest sense.
Hence, each sensory ability among the Five Senses is crucial. No matter how sharp other senses are, they can’t replace the role of any single one. During exploration, Wang Ye gradually understood this truth.
As time progressed.
About ten seconds later.
The Red Bull Team members struggling a dozen meters behind Wang Ye gradually succumbed to the power of the waves.
Even Carlos, with the highest skill level, was defeated halfway and dropped into the sea along with his surfboard.
Fortunately, Carlos himself had good swimming skills,
and soon, he surfaced by using the buoyancy of the lifesaving equipment.
By that time, Wang Ye also finally rode the wave onto the beach.
This time, the Life of Water challenge was successfully completed.
At the moment Wang Ye safely returned to the beach, whether it was the surrounding audience, the logistics staff on the helicopter, or the millions of online viewers in the live stream, everyone cheered and rejoiced.
"He made it!"
"Damn, he made it!!"
"It wasn’t in vain, it wasn’t in vain! Wang Ye really did it!"
"Did you record it all? That moment when Wang Ye landed on the beach!"
"Amazing, he really succeeded in the challenge, this is a fifty-meter giant wave!"
The live stream was also in a similar state of excitement.
Countless comments flew past the top of the screen like raindrops.
Over eighty percent were cheering and celebrating.
The remaining twenty percent were marveling at Wang Ye’s incredible strength.
[Damn awesome!]
[Truly awesome!]
[Guinness World Record secured! This wave directly doubles the world record!]>
[Marathon record doubled, Guinness record doubled...]
[No longer call him Qi Refining Brother, might as well call him Double Brother.]
[That’s a good proposal!]
[Truly double, I’m sweating out of excitement!]
[Just too awesome, I can only say...]
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After the challenge, Wang Ye did not realize the live stream chat was eagerly discussing the value of this record.
He sat down heavily on the sand, breathing heavily.
Although surfing doesn’t consume much physical energy, it requires a lot mentally.
He needs to stay highly alert at all times, paying attention to the surroundings.
Adrenaline would also spike, pushing his heart rate to over two hundred beats per minute.
The mere blood supply was enough to exhaust a person.
So even Wang Ye felt a bit tired at this moment.
But mainly mentally tired.
Just as Wang Ye lay on the sand catching his breath,
Carlos, still holding his surfboard, was also haplessly washed onto the shore by the waves.
At this moment, Carlos’s eyes were red-rimmed, mixed with emotions such as gloom, anger, and worry in his gaze. Clearly, he was in a very bad mood.
Wang Ye got up and pulled him up from the ground, asking with concern:
"How are you, is your body okay?"
"I’m fine... but... my five teammates went missing in the challenge..."