Searching for someone in northern Myanmar, and you call that earning tuition fees?

The moment the bamboo raft entered the water, it didn't look like a boat at all; it looked more like a block of tofu being slapped into the muddy soup with a "plop."

The impact sent Jerry bouncing up. If Su Ming hadn't reacted quickly and stepped on his stomach, the fat man would be floating on the river by now.

"Gurgle—Help—Gurgle—My lungs!"

Jerry choked on two mouthfuls of muddy water, clinging tightly to the thick bamboo tube at the edge of the raft, sprawled out in a "spread-eagle" position, his fingernails almost digging into the bamboo skin. He was now shirtless, his white, flabby flesh trembling in the wind and rain, like a Thanksgiving turkey that had just been plucked.

"Shut up, lower your center of gravity!" Su Ming roared, his long bamboo pole flashing as it plunged into the water, precisely striking a protruding rock.

Using this clever momentum, the bamboo raft skillfully carved a graceful angle in the turbulent rapids, narrowly avoiding a knife-like rock in front of it.

"Da da da da!"

Flames continued to spew furiously from the shore, bullets relentlessly whizzing past the raft's stern, exploding in deadly sprays on the water's surface. Several bullets struck the raft's tail, sending flying bamboo shavings that instantly tore Jerry's buttocks.

"Ah! I've been shot! My butt is all bruised!" Jerry screamed, his voice so shrill that even the sound of the torrential rain couldn't drown it out.

"Those are bamboo spikes!" Ling Qiao shouted back, protecting the medicine girl with one hand while gripping the securing rope tightly with the other. She was out of bullets, and her only weapon now was her own weight—wherever Su Ming shouted, she had to press down there, acting as a human counterweight.

"The flood peak will arrive at the battlefield in thirty seconds." Su Ming didn't turn around, but listened to the strange noises in the wind.

A dull rumble, like a train traveling underground, came from upstream.

That wasn't a train; it was the sound of millions of tons of water, carrying mud, boulders, and trees, crushing down.

On the shore, Venomous Fang was soaking wet, his face so grim it looked like it could be squeezed for venom. He looked at the broken bamboo raft swaying wildly in the rapids and raised his RPG.

"Boss, the water's too strong, it's hard to lock on!" his subordinate shouted.

Venomous Fang sneered, "Then let's not lock on, just blow up the cliff face in front."

"Whoosh—Boom!"

The rocket didn't hit the bamboo raft, but instead struck a loose cliff face above the raft's likely path.

Countless pebbles tumbled down, including a huge boulder about half a person's height that roared down and crashed straight into the middle of the river.

"Holy crap! They're playing dirty!" Jerry's eyes nearly popped out of his head as he watched justice fall from the sky. "This doesn't follow the basic rules of villainy! They should be hitting the protagonist, right?"

"Hard to port! Fatty, get to the left!" Su Ming shouted.

"I...I'm Jerry!" Jerry protested verbally, but his body betrayed him. To survive, he displayed the agility of a fat man, rolling to the left side of the raft like a bowling ball that had been kicked.

Su Ming's arms bulged with veins as he stretched the bamboo pole to its limit, bending it into a full-moon bow.

"collapse!"

With the help of the bamboo pole's rebound and Jerry's counterweight, the bamboo raft suddenly swung sideways more than a meter across the water.

"Boom!"

The boulder crashed into the water, right next to where they had just been! The resulting giant wave instantly lifted the bamboo raft more than two meters high, almost perpendicular to the water's surface.

The dirty shirt covering the woman slipped off, and her small body was about to be thrown into the river.

Because of her injured arm, Ling Qiao couldn't hold on and could only watch helplessly as the girl slipped away.

"Grab him right now!"

A chubby hand gripped the woman's ankle tightly.

It's Jerry!

This coward, who was just crying and begging for his parents, now had his legs hanging upside down on the bamboo raft, his face turning a deep purplish-red, one hand gripping the bamboo seam tightly, and the other hand holding the girl like an iron clamp.

"Damn it... this girl... is as light as my ex-girlfriend's conscience..." Jerry squeezed out the words through gritted teeth.

The bamboo raft slammed heavily back onto the water, making a teeth-grinding cracking sound, but thankfully it didn't fall apart.

"Well done." Su Ming glanced at Jerry.

"This time you've made amends for your mistake."

"Rumble, rumble—"

True despair has arrived.

At the bend upstream behind us, a five-meter-high wall of murky water, like a colossal, earth-yellow beast that seemed to devour the heavens and the earth, roared and turned out.

Wherever it passed, the trees on both banks were uprooted like matchsticks.

Jerry stared at the wall of water, closed his eyes in despair, and wailed, "We're doomed... Brother Su, does your bamboo raft have a diving function?"

"No." Su Ming put away the bamboo pole and pressed Ling Qiao and the medicine girl to the center of the bamboo raft. "But it has the ability to fly."

"What?"

Su Ming didn't explain. He looked at a terrifying drop in the river ahead—a near-waterfall fault with a huge protruding rock below, which had now become a natural diving platform due to the surge in water level.

"Hold on tight to that dead snake! Don't let go, even if it kills you!"

Su Ming adjusted the angle of the bamboo raft and headed straight for the fault line.

The flood peak arrived instantly.

A powerful thrust came from behind, and the speed of the bamboo raft suddenly soared, so fast that even the surrounding raindrops turned into horizontal lines.

"take off!"

The bamboo raft surged onto the protruding rock and, propelled by the immense force of the flood, soared into the air!

Like withered leaves swept up by a gale, the bamboo raft actually rode on the roaring dragon's spine!

On the shore, Venomous Fang watched the bamboo raft flying in the air, his walkie-talkie clicking loudly in his hand.

"Notify the downstream Viper Team 2 to bring out the armed hovercraft."

Venomous Fang spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, his eyes filled with madness.

"I'm going to skin them alive."