Chapter 1415: Getting Carried Away

The one with the cramp was Mo Zixun!

She was clearly in the deep water, struggling in pain, but still unable to escape the danger of drowning.

Her right foot was in severe spasm and cramp, hurting so badly that she was about to sink under the surface, coughing and choking down several mouthfuls of water in a row.

Bai Zhiqing, Feng Yueji, and Su Xiaoxiao all panicked, but they were barely able to keep themselves afloat at this point. Even Feng Yueji and Su Xiaoxiao, who practiced martial arts, had their muscles numbed by the cold and wouldn’t obey them, so they couldn’t swim over and could only call out to Jiang Feng for help.

"Don’t panic! I’m coming!"

Jiang Feng didn’t dare delay in a situation like this. He immediately jumped back into the sea and swam toward them!

When the three women saw Jiang Feng swimming over at such speed, he was practically like a fish; only a white line was left on the surface of the water. Their hearts, which had been in utter panic, finally regained a bit of calm.

Looking again at Mo Zixun, she was already coughing so badly she could hardly breathe, and she didn’t know if it was just her imagination, but she felt her numb right foot suddenly sting sharply again, like being pricked by needles, which made all the strength in her body drain away. She was on her last breath!

In that split second, right before Mo Zixun could no longer hold on and was about to sink, Jiang Feng had already reached her side. He grabbed her slender waist in one arm and then lifted her up, holding her whole body out of the water.

Mo Zixun was truly half-unconscious by now. Relying only on instinct, she could only wrap both arms tightly around Jiang Feng, as if clutching at a life-saving straw.

"My lady!!!"

At this moment, Su Xiaoxiao finally relied on her powerful Inner Strength to barely break free from the grip of the cramp a little and laboriously swam toward the two of them.

Her heart had just leaped up to her throat; only when she saw that her lady was safe after all did she finally breathe out in relief.

As for Bai Zhiqing, she herself was almost at her limit by now. Fortunately, Feng Yueji burned all of her Inner Strength to get close and grab her in time, sparing her as well from the danger of drowning.

Then Feng Yueji carefully supported Bai Zhiqing and swam together over to Jiang Feng and Mo Zixun.

"Didn’t I tell you to only swim in the shallows? How did you end up this far out the moment I took my eyes off you?"

Jiang Feng frowned and asked the four women.

"Brother Feng, I’m sorry... Don’t blame Sister Zhiqing and the others, it—it was me..."

Mo Zixun finally came around at this point. Shrinking in Jiang Feng’s arms, she sounded aggrieved: "I got a little carried away. I started chasing a school of pretty little fish over here, and before I knew it I’d swum this far..."

Seeing Mo Zixun on the verge of tears, Jiang Feng couldn’t bring himself to scold her even if he still wanted to. He could only sigh and ask, "Which foot cramped?"

"R-right... right foot..."

A faint flush crept over Mo Zixun’s pale face. She buried her delicate head in Jiang Feng’s chest, seemingly too shy to say it.

"Bear with it. I’ll take a look for you."

Jiang Feng temporarily handed this smooth, slippery little beauty—who was reluctant to leave his arms—to Su Xiaoxiao, then dove under the water to help treat Mo Zixun’s cramp.

In truth, treating a cramp was simple. Just stretch the spasming right foot the other way and it would be fine.

As Jiang Feng went under, a breathtaking scene unfolded around him!

The water here was still very clear; he could see the fair, tender thighs of the four beauties clearly under the surface. Surrounded by such a dazzling sight, Jiang Feng felt a flush of heat in the slightly chilly water, but he didn’t dwell on it. He reached out, grabbed Mo Zixun’s cramped right foot, and gently but firmly flexed it upward a few times.

"Ah..."

Up above, Mo Zixun’s slender body trembled, and she let out an uncontrollable soft moan. A tingling, numbing sensation spread from her foot, and finally the muscles didn’t hurt as much.

It was just that, for some reason, that stabbing pain of hers was still very strong, and the numbness that pain brought felt different from a simple cramp.

"Any better?"

Jiang Feng’s head broke the surface again. He took a deep breath and asked.

"A l-little better, but it still feels really numb, and also..." Mo Zixun knit her brows. "It feels like something’s stuck into my ankle..."

Jiang Feng froze for a moment; he really hadn’t noticed that. So he dove down again and grabbed Mo Zixun’s little foot to check it carefully.

He hadn’t thought much of it at first, but once he looked closely, he really did find the problem!

On Mo Zixun’s soft, boneless, delicate little foot, near the ankle, the skin was actually swelling up bluish-green, with thin trickles of fresh blood seeping out. There were clearly two irregular marks on it.

What had bitten her?!

Jiang Feng looked left and right; there were no sea snakes or eels around here, but when he focused farther away, he saw a few translucent jellyfish drifting like tiny umbrellas in the water!

Jiang Feng instantly realized things were bad—Mo Zixun had been stung by a jellyfish!

Since ancient times, jellyfish had been among the most venomous creatures in the seas, some even thousands of times more toxic than snakes or other reptiles. With just that one little sting, Mo Zixun’s ankle was swelling up like a little steamed bun at a speed visible to the naked eye. Clearly, the jellyfish that got her was no mild one!

"You got stung!"

Jiang Feng surfaced again and said helplessly to Mo Zixun.

"What?" Mo Zixun’s pretty face went pale with fright. Her lips immediately pouted, and she looked utterly miserable.

Why was she so unlucky? She’d come out to have fun, and somehow she’d become the one who spoiled everything and dragged everyone down. She was really, really vexed.

"Your foot’s gone blue, there’s poison in it. I need to help you get it out."

After Jiang Feng finished speaking, he glanced around. Going back to shore now would only waste time. Just ahead at a slant he saw a large reef they could stand on, so he directly led Mo Zixun and slowly swam toward it.

Bai Zhiqing and the other two saw this and had no better idea; they could only follow along anxiously.

Very soon Jiang Feng brought Mo Zixun over. Then, with a princess carry, he lifted her onto the reef and gently set her on the highest point.

Now Mo Zixun was even more miserable. Her long, wet hair hung loose, her body slanted to the side, one hip on the rock, one hand propping her up. The numbed leg and jade-like foot that had been stung could only stretch straight out. Her soft little bottom pressed against the stone, and her delicate face was tight with pain and discomfort.

Seeing that Bai Zhiqing and the other two had come over as well, she forced herself to act like it wasn’t that bad, but the moment she moved even a little, her whole leg went numb again. She could only fall back with a pained little cry, her eyes reddening with grievance.

"Don’t move." Jiang Feng hurriedly stopped her and then glanced at her ankle, which was swelling worse and worse. "I’m going to squeeze the poison out now. Bear with it."

He once more took hold of Mo Zixun’s crystal-clear little foot.

Mo Zixun was aggrieved, but her beautiful big eyes also couldn’t help filling with shyness.

After all, this was right in front of the other three sisters, and Jiang Feng was openly playing with her jade foot like this—how could she not be embarrassed!

"Jiang Feng, my lady’s foot looks really serious. Are you sure you can handle it?" Su Xiaoxiao suddenly looked at Jiang Feng with a questioning gaze and asked.