After the Water Ghost left, he put on a miserable face and looked around nearby, then quietly borrowed a phone, checked the map, and his face got even more miserable.
Only now did he realize, this is the price of being uneducated, and the price of not being observant enough.
Back then, he'd casually picked a small river to go underwater, but that river turned out to be an upper tributary of the Huai River.
He followed the current all the way down, merging from a tributary into the main river, and then, at some point, got noticed by the Water Monarch, who led him over.
Now he was really screwed, been targeted by the Water Monarch.
After getting out, his first thought, of course, was to just give up.
As long as he got away from the Huai River and went somewhere else, it should be fine.
But as soon as he left the Huai River water area, he felt the ring around his wrist, ever so slowly, begin to tighten.
