1: Chapter 1 Collective Time Travel

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[Main plot: Survival on the Weird Sea. Sub-plots: Rescuing female team members, exploring the mysteries of the other world, leading all Survivor to fight against otherworldly creatures. Characters are adults. No violations. No harmful guidance.]

[NO! HARMFUL! GUIDANCE!]

In the early hours, it isn't necessarily sleepiness that seeps into the body.

At dawn, it isn't necessarily sunlight that shines upon the face.

Li Taiping stretched lazily and reflexively opened the window.

His face—which possessed only seventy percent of the readers' handsome looks yet was already enough to stun the world—turned gently toward the edge of the bed.

The misty drizzle from outside sprayed onto the girl's face as a cool breeze snuck into her body.

The girl's face was breathtakingly beautiful.

Li Taiping looked at the girl, his face full of smiles.

This girl's name was Su Mei.

She was a well-known beauty throughout the school—alluring without being demonic, stunning without being vulgar, and delicate without being weak.

At this moment, she lay naked and still on the bed, her sleeping face enchanting.

Indeed, just last night, Li Taiping had shared the most primal and intimate biological connection with the girl before him.

Li Taiping's feelings were quite complicated, simply because he had lost his virginity. He had been forced by Su Mei, and he initially thought he was no longer "pure."

To his surprise, it turned out to be the girl's first time as well.

He smacked his lips, savoring the passion of the previous night. Perhaps this taboo and thrilling night would be forever etched into the deepest part of his memory.

"Mmm..." A groan escaped as Su Mei opened her hazy, sleepy eyes.

Li Taiping closed the window and turned back to the bedside.

Su Mei sat up, clutching the quilt. Strands of hair clung messily to the side of her neck, and her peach-blossom eyes held a mix of laziness and playful reproach.

"Letting the wind in so early in the morning... aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"

Su Mei's voice was slightly raspy, carrying a distinct tone of coquettishness.

Li Taiping slipped back under the covers, pulling that soft warmth into his arms:

"You were the one crying about the heat last night, and now you're afraid of the cold?"

A blush rose to Su Mei's cheeks as she reached out and gave the soft flesh at his waist a hard pinch:

"Shut up. You got what you wanted and you're still acting smug. Li Taiping, you're an animal."

"Even an animal belongs to you." Li Taiping grinned, wincing from the pinch, and leaned in to whisper in her ear, "Besides, according to the Law of Conservation of Energy, after expending so much energy last night, I really need some 'photosynthesis' to recharge this morning."

"What a load of nonsense. You sound like you've never been to school." Su Mei rolled her eyes but didn't pull away from his embrace.

"School? Then why don't you teach me some more 'biology'? I..."

Li Taiping was about to move when his body suddenly froze.

Not just him—Su Mei in his arms also tensed up instantly.

An inexpressible shudder pierced through their skulls, as if an invisible giant hand had crudely yanked out the power switch of the real world.

Consciousness was ripped away in an instant, and the world fell into a deathly silence.

...

Cold.

A bone-chilling cold surged from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.

Li Taiping snapped his eyes open.

Before him was a hazy, gray void. He wasn't standing on solid ground but on a translucent crystalline platform.

Through the platform, he could see a deep, boundless starry sky below. The stars were as tiny as grains of sand, swirling in heart-stopping vortices.

The scene was so grand it made one feel less than a speck of dust.

But Li Taiping had no time to marvel at the vastness of the universe.

Because he was still holding someone in his arms.

Su Mei's eyes were tightly shut as she clung to him.

Most critically, the two of them were still in the same state they were in the bedroom—stark naked and completely exposed.

"Hiss..."

Li Taiping sucked in a breath of cold air. The moment his skin touched the air, he broke out in goosebumps.

He quickly checked Su Mei's breath; it was steady. She was just unconscious.

Once he confirmed she was okay, he looked up and scanned his surroundings.

At that sight, Li Taiping's pupils contracted sharply, and his heart skipped a beat.

Holy crap.

What kind of heaven is this?

Dozens of figures lay scattered across the massive platform.

Every single one was a woman.

And every single one was top-tier.

Li Taiping swallowed hard, feeling as though his retinas were undergoing a nuclear-level baptism.

The woman closest to him didn't look very old. She was petite—a typical loli.

She clearly had a habit of sleeping naked; she was currently curled into a ball, her fair skin standing out starkly in the dim space.

A bit further away was a mature beauty wearing a black lace nightgown.

The fabric of the nightgown was pitifully sparse, barely covering the vital areas. Her long legs were crossed, and the black lace against her snowy skin created a powerful visual impact.

There was one in a professional OL outfit with two buttons of her shirt popped open;

Another wore a loose T-shirt with a hem that barely covered the tops of her thighs;

There was even one in ancient Hanfu, her sashes disheveled, looking like a fallen fairy.

Li Taiping's gaze swept across the scene as his brain whirred like an overloaded radar.

There were naive and sweet moe girls, cool and sharp sisters, dignified and noble ladies, lively and cunning lasses, cold and aloof ice beauties, small and flat loli-types, gentle neighborhood sisters, lazy and casual "Buddhist" girls, obsessive and passionate yandere beauties, simple and ignorant rich heiresses, and arrogant and gorgeous flight attendants.

And in the corner, those were... twins?

They looked identical and were sleeping soundly in each other's arms. The scene was practically a challenge to human moral boundaries.

"Which god's harem is this supposed to be?"

Li Taiping reflexively complained, his voice echoing across the empty platform.

He instinctively looked himself over.

He was the only boss on the scene, the only male.

A sense of absurdity welled up within him.

Kidnapped by aliens? Collective transmigration? Or was this the legendary Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss?

If it was the latter, wasn't this service a bit too thorough?

"Mmm..."

Su Mei let out a soft moan in his arms, her eyelashes fluttering as she slowly opened her eyes.

At the same time, the "sleeping beauties" all around seemed to be awakened by some signal, and one by one, they began to stir.

Dazed, Su Mei lifted her head, her gaze focusing on Li Taiping's face, then trailing down his chest, and finally scanning the surroundings.

Three seconds of silence.

"Ahhh—!!!"

Su Mei's scream was like a starting pistol.

Immediately after, a cacophony of screams erupted across the entire platform.

"What's going on? Where is this?"

"Where are my clothes? Who took off my clothes?!"

"Pervert! Don't look!"

"Help! There's a creep!"

The screams of dozens of women converged, the decibel level high enough to shatter glass.

Those who were clothed were relatively fine, merely hugging themselves in terror.

For those who weren't, it was a total disaster zone. They scrambled to cover their vital parts, their faces full of shame and indignation.

Li Taiping reacted quickly, covering Su Mei's mouth with one hand while turning his body to shield the scenery in his arms with his back.

Though he was naked himself, he was thick-skinned.

As long as I'm not embarrassed, the embarrassment belongs to others.

"Don't scream, listen to me," Li Taiping barked in Su Mei's ear, his voice calm and powerful. "If you don't want to be stared at by dozens of pairs of eyes, quiet down first."

Su Mei wasn't some brainless bimbo; after a brief moment of panic, she quickly grasped the situation and gripped Li Taiping's arm tightly.

Just as Li Taiping was calmly pondering what on earth was happening, a cold, emotionless voice abruptly rang out in everyone's minds.

[Welcome, everyone, to the Nautical Survival World.]

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