56: swim

The two changed their clothes in the paid changing room and headed straight for the beach, one after the other.

Yang Qi thought the snorkeling suit was conservative enough, but he overlooked one problem: it was incredibly tight!

Looking at Bai Xue slowly walking towards him, her fair and flawless face, coupled with her curvaceous body, was truly captivating!

He instantly felt that the bikini-clad ladies playing in the water nearby weren't as appealing anymore!

"Can't look, can't look. How can anyone handle this?"

Yang Qi turned his head away.

"Yang Qi Ge, what are you doing? Come over quickly! Let's see who can swim faster," Bai Xue called out loudly.

"Coming, coming. What's there to compare? You're a professional, I'm just an amateur. I only used to splash around in rivers; I've never swum in the ocean before."

Yang Qi walked towards Bai Xue, saying somewhat modestly, "Let me get used to it first."

After Yang Qi finished speaking, he walked into the seawater. You have to admit, scenic spots are different from other places.

Whether it was the water quality or the sand on the seabed, it was much better than the coast where he usually fished.

Yang Qi saw Bai Xue's graceful figure wading through the water towards him. Feeling a bit embarrassed, he opted for a tactical dive.

Yang Qi dove into the water and, out of curiosity, activated his ability.

It gave him a very strange feeling.

There was no expected feeling of breathlessness; everything felt so natural.

He didn't even know how much time had passed when he suddenly felt his arm being pulled a few times.

He quickly surfaced, about to ask Bai Xue what was wrong.

"Yang Qi Ge, are you okay?"

"Uh-huh? What's wrong? What could be wrong with me?"

Yang Qi was a bit surprised.

"Do you know how long you were just underwater? It was almost three minutes!"

"Ah ~! Is three minutes very long? Oh, right, what's the world record?"

Yang Qi asked curiously.

"Uh ~ the world record seems to be 24 minutes, but that was after inhaling pure oxygen beforehand."

"The record without equipment seems to be 11 minutes."

Yang Qi couldn't help but roll his eyes:

"Other people's records are ten or twenty minutes. I've only been down for three minutes, why are you making such a fuss?"

Bai Xue explained, "I was just worried something might happen to you! For someone without professional training, three minutes is already the limit!"

Yang Qi asked curiously, "Didn't you take diving as an elective in college? What's your limit?"

"My performance is pretty average, around five minutes!"

"You really are..."

Yang Qi was a bit speechless.

Yang Qi knew his own limit was about two and a half minutes, definitely not three minutes.

Now, at three minutes, he still didn't feel any urge to hold his breath.

"This must be the effect of the Golden Finger. I just don't know what my limit is. But with so many people around, I can't act too unusually."

Yang Qi thought to himself.

"I definitely need to test my limit when I get a chance."

And so, Yang Qi began to pretend to practice diving, silently counting to himself, surfacing once every three and a half minutes, then once every four minutes. These were all within the normal range and not too astonishing.

He practiced like this several times.

Then he started learning underwater breaststroke from Bai Xue, the 'regular army' member.

Yang Qi could swim, and he was self-taught. But he had never learned anything beyond the dog paddle.

Bai Xue explained a few times and demonstrated it herself. Then Yang Qi started practicing, with Bai Xue correcting him from the side.

Whenever his posture was incorrect, it was inevitable that she would hold his waist or hand, which greatly stimulated Yang Qi's enthusiasm for learning.

This led to a period where Yang Qi was very uncoordinated, and Bai Xue would correct him closely.

After about twenty minutes of this back and forth, they began to learn the surface breaststroke. Compared to the underwater breaststroke, it added the element of breathing.

More than half an hour later, Yang Qi had completely mastered the breaststroke technique.

How to put it? One can only say that for someone good at holding their breath, learning to swim is very easy and fast.

After all, if you can't learn, you can just hold your breath and walk two miles underwater.

Bai Xue was also incredibly envious of Yang Qi's talent for swimming.

Yang Qi, full of himself, declared, "Talent, it's all due to talent!"

Subsequently, Bai Xue taught Yang Qi butterfly stroke, backstroke, freestyle, and all the other swimming styles she knew.

An hour later, the two were already frolicking and swimming freely in the sea.

As someone who had just learned various swimming styles, Yang Qi couldn't wait to spend all day in the seawater, leaving his teacher behind, taking a deep dive into the water, and swimming far away.

Yang Qi went all out, diving and searching the nearby waters according to his ability's visual feedback.

The nearby waters here were similar to the coastline where he often fished. A little further out, there were also some large and small marine fish, crabs, shellfish, and so on.

It was a pity he hadn't brought any equipment; otherwise, he could have really brought back some catches.

Yang Qi pretended to surface for air, observing whether Bai Xue noticed him, but found Bai Xue swimming happily like a mermaid.

He looked left and right, saw no one was paying attention to him. He took a deep dive into the water and swam towards the deeper parts.

He still wanted to see how long he could hold his breath and find his limit.

Just a few seconds after diving, he surfaced again.

"Damn it, I almost forgot I don't have a watch!"

"What a waste of emotion!"

"Forget it! Let's try something else!" Yang Qi sank back into the water, trying to open his eyes.

Normally, opening one's eyes underwater, especially in seawater, would definitely cause discomfort.

But at this moment, he felt no discomfort at all. It was as if a layer of air film protected his eyes.

"It doesn't seem to be of any use!"

Although he could open his eyes, his vision hadn't changed. With poor visibility underwater, he couldn't see very far.

It was miles apart from his ability's visual feedback!

Yang Qi just felt it out and didn't pay too much attention to it. After all, he had already received the Golden Finger, what more could he be dissatisfied with?

By this time, there were already quite a few people coming to swim at the beach.

In Yang Qi's ability's visual feedback, countless bare arms and legs were constantly swaying.

Yang Qi felt a bit disgusted, closed his ability, and wanted to find Bai Xue to go back.

Bai Xue had long since gotten tired of swimming and was sitting on the beach, resting and drinking an iced beverage.

Seeing Yang Qi walk over, Bai Xue handed him a bottle.

"Quench your thirst, it's iced!"

Yang Qi took the drink and didn't say anything, just stared at her directly.

This made Bai Xue's cheeks flush, feeling somewhat bewildered.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"I just wanted to see where you pulled the money from!"

Both of their belongings were stored, and they only had their snorkeling suits on. He couldn't help but wonder!

Bai Xue's face grew even redder, and she pouted, "Don't mind where it came from, just tell me if you're going to drink it or not!"