My Pretty Campus Queen

In the water, fighting was undoubtedly Chen Tianlong’s weakness. So, the girl quickly caught up with him. She transformed into a giant sea snail, stretched out her tentacles, and tried to grab Chen Tianlong.

Chen Tianlong swam hurriedly, dodging the attack of the tentacles. After struggling for a while, due to the lack of oxygen in the water, Chen Tianlong’s stamina quickly waned.

Desperately, Chen Tianlong swam upwards and finally saw the surface. He exerted all his strength and escaped out of the water, only to see that he was in the vast ocean, with nothing nearby except the starry sky and the crescent moon.

After taking a deep breath, he began swimming upward, as he saw the distant shore, which at least provided a direction. But as he swam, suddenly a large sea snail emerged in front of Chen Tianlong, transforming into the appearance of the girl.

"Haha, in the water you’re no match for me. You’d better come back with me obediently." The sea snail monster laughed and said.

"You sea snail monster, don’t get too cocky."

Chen Tianlong said coldly, continuing to swim towards the shore on his own.

"Trying to escape? It’s not that easy."

Suddenly, the sea snail monster transformed back into sea snail shape, leapt into the air, spiraled down, and stirred up huge waves.

In an instant, Chen Tianlong was engulfed by the surging waves and then swallowed by a large shell.

Struggling in the dark space for a while, Chen Tianlong soon lost his strength. After an unknown length of time, he found himself brought to an underwater jail, where there were many young men.

Chen Tianlong suddenly recalled the disappearance case of Fisherman’s Village men, and he figured the sea snail monster was undoubtedly the culprit.

"Turns out you were the one who captured the men from Fisherman’s Village?"

Chen Tianlong actually already knew, but he asked to probe anyway.

"Humph, didn’t you already know? Why ask me?"

The sea snail monster answered with a hint of disdain.

Now that she blatantly exposed him, Chen Tianlong didn’t intend to hide anymore and said deliberately, with resignation: "Oh well, caught by you, I’ll accept my fate. Tell me, what do you want?"

"Haha, I don’t want anything, I just want all you young stinky men to stay with me." The sea snail monster said triumphantly.

"You truly are a cruel monster. We’ll all die at this rate. We are humans, not fish. Living underwater for long will slowly kill us." Chen Tianlong felt this sea snail monster was nearly psychotic.

"Humph, I don’t care if you live or die, as long as I’m not lonely and have company." The sea snail monster said indifferently.

Thinking quickly, Chen Tianlong realized talking more with such a monster was useless, so he squatted to the side, pondering solutions.

"Young man, you’d better stop thinking about escaping; you cannot get away." The sea snail monster seemed to read Chen Tianlong’s mind.

"Hehe, we’ll see about that." Chen Tianlong replied with a mysterious smile.

The sea snail monster felt this guy was a bit strange, completely different from the others, not only showing no fear but repeatedly threatening her. Yet, she couldn’t figure out his game for the time being, so she retreated to rest.

Chen Tianlong deliberately baffled the sea snail monster; he actually didn’t have a good plan, just wanted to confuse and bewilder her.

After the sea snail monster left, Chen Tianlong began to seriously observe his surroundings.

This was an underwater jail, supported by Spiritual Power, with oxygen flowing through an entrance above, about a meter wide in diameter.

Chen Tianlong thought: Since this leads outside, doesn’t that mean sound can travel out too?

Seeing a group of young men nearby looking gloomy and lethargically sleeping, Chen Tianlong bounced over, tapped one who was sleeping soundly, and said: "Hey, buddy, wake up, don’t sleep, quickly think of a way to get out."

The man woke up, eyes bleary with sleep, and said a bit impatiently: "If you want to leave, figure it out yourself. This sea snail monster is so powerful; we’d better not waste effort and sit waiting for death."

Seeing this group, Chen Tianlong was quite disappointed and said angrily: "You lot are really hopeless; defeated by a sea snail monster like this; do you know how worried your families are?"

At this moment, a man around 27 or 28 came over and asked: "Are you from Fisherman’s Village too?"

Chen Tianlong became curious; this person seemed to have some sense, so he went over happily and said: "Yeah, I know Elder He."

"Ah! Are you talking about He Da?" The man suddenly asked in surprise.

Chen Tianlong’s eyes shifted, thinking for a moment and replied: "Sounds like the name, and she has a granddaughter."

Then the man fell to his knees with a "thump," crying out loudly: "Father, I’m an unfilial son; I’ve worried you."

"Hm? Are you He Da’s son, He Xiaohu?"

Chen Tianlong remembered the talk with Elder He before, and it clicked now.

He Xiaohu nodded, and Chen Tianlong also felt a bit excited, unexpectedly helping Old He find his son.

"Brother, tell me how to get out; I want to leave here." Hearing the news of Elder He, He Xiaohu suddenly had a strong will to survive. At this point, the others also stood up.

Seeing that everyone seemed to have regained their courage to live, Chen Tianlong began to feel happy.

"Everyone, trust me, I will get you out safely, but I need your help." Chen Tianlong said, having a plan in mind.

"Yes, brother, tell us what to do and we’ll follow you." The crowd said in unison.

"Alright, follow me."

Without saying much more, Chen Tianlong led them to the ventilation shaft he’d found earlier and stopped there.

"This vent leads outside. If we climb out and find rescue, we have a chance." Chen Tianlong said confidently, intending to instill enough confidence in them.

"Good, I’ll go up." He Xiaohu gritted his teeth and volunteered.

"Alright, let’s do it."

Chen Tianlong knew time was tight, who knew when the sea snail monster would appear again, so best to settle matters quickly.

"But how do we get up? It’s so high."

He Xiaohu scratched his head, looking at the ventilation shaft towering four or five meters above.

Chen Tianlong chuckled, and then walked over, grabbing Xiaohu’s shoulder and said: "This is easy."

You could see Chen Tianlong jump up to the ventilation shaft in one leap, gave a push, and He Xiaohu grasped the vent, making a great leap into the ventilation tunnel.

Looking back, He Xiaohu made a signal showing he was alright, then swiftly crawled outward.

On the ground, seeing He Xiaohu already climbing up, they all breathed a sigh of relief, while Chen Tianlong didn’t stop, deliberately telling everyone to pretend to sleep, to prevent the sea snail monster from discovering anything...

Wu Mengting awoke and hurried to Chen Tianlong’s room door, but after knocking several times, no one answered. With a gentle push, the door creaked open.

At this moment, Wu Mengting felt something was wrong, so she entered Chen Tianlong’s room.

"Chen Tianlong, are you there?"

Wu Mengting asked cautiously, just in case.

But after a long wait, no one replied, so she took a bold step towards the bed and looked, only to find no one there. Wu Mengting suddenly saw Chen Tianlong’s pants were still there, where could he have gone?

Soon, Old He also realized this, and together with Wu Mengting searched inside and outside the village for a long time. Old He suddenly remembered something: maybe it’s like the disappearance of those young men before.

As everyone was worried, suddenly a familiar figure appeared before them. He was soaking wet, standing at the door.

"Xiaohu?"

Old He couldn’t believe his eyes; his son, missing for over two months, appeared.

At this point, He Xiaohu was also extremely emotional, ran over and hugged Old He, crying, all was beyond words.

After shivering for a while, He Xiaohu suddenly remembered something, let go of his father, wiped his tears, and told everyone the whole truth of recent experiences and how he escaped.

"Did you say a fair-skinned young man in his twenties?" Wu Mengting asked, a bit surprised.

"Miss, are you talking about brother Chen Tianlong? He was the one who helped me escape." Xiaohu said gratefully.