Chapter 57: Difficulties in Practicing Kung Fu Under the Sea
After hiding in the living room of the homestay and lifting weights for more than an hour, his strength increased by 0.01. Noticing the beautiful sunset outside, Chen Jue put down the dumbbells and went up to the rooftop platform.
The seaside homestay we stayed in had a flat roof and looked a bit like a modern-style villa abroad. Upstairs was a large terrace with a rocking chair, rattan chairs, and a round table where we could play cards for fun.
I stood on the roof and looked at the beautiful sunset at the seaside. I took a few photos that could serve as wallpaper and posted them on WeChat Moments. I also casually added a few photos of the seafood dinner at noon to make a nine-square grid.
"Damn! You are having a great time now! Facing the sea and the spring flowers blooming~ Envy! A bunch of poor bastards like me are still working overtime, and every day we hear a few vice presidents swearing in the office about not keeping up with the business indicators (cold sweat)"
"Hurry up and report the address! (eyes lit up with love)"
"Chen Jue, where do you work now?"
“(Thumbs up) Beautiful!”
"Nice crab, leave me a claw !"
After a while, many people liked the beautiful sunset scene he captured casually, and several former colleagues from the company left comments to complain, which really deceived Bo Zan.
Chen Jue replied to each message with a smile, closed WeChat, went downstairs to take a hot shower to wash off the sweat from the workout, then glanced at the time and saw that it was almost time for dinner, so he walked to the main road, hailed a taxi, and headed straight to the seafood restaurant where he would have lunch.
There were more tourists eating in the evening than at noon, so Chen Jue waited in line outside for half an hour. Fortunately, he had ordered the dishes in advance, so the dishes were served quickly after he took his seat.
We ordered steamed mantis shrimp with wine, fried rice cake with swimming crab, braised sea cucumber with scallions, and a large portion of pineapple seafood fried rice. It was a delicious meal that cost us more than 200 yuan. It was delicious and affordable.
I thought I would be ripped off as a tourist when I came to Dongdao County, but I didn't expect that the two meals were cheaper than I thought.
After leaving the seafood restaurant, Chen Jue saw an old lady nearby selling glowing toys on the road. In a playful mood, he bought a tube of glow sticks, broke off one, turned it on and wrapped it around his wrists.
"If we tie a few more of them, it will feel a bit like the Hongmen Iron Wire Fist! No! It should be the Hongmen Laser Fist!" Chen Jue couldn't help but laugh. He was a little too obsessed with practicing martial arts. The first martial arts that came to his mind was boxing.
I hailed a taxi on the road and took it back to the B&B. The sky above the sea looked dark blue and deep. The moon was high in the sky, with twinkling stars and the sea breeze blowing.
The air environment on the island is better than that in Chencun, the visibility is higher, and you can see very far away.
On the beach below, there are several bonfires. Tourists who stay overnight nearby will go there to have some fun after dinner. There are no loud speakers playing music, and the most common sound is the sound of the waves.
Chen Jue did not attend the bonfire party. Instead, he threw the glow sticks he had bought back into the homestay, put on a pair of swimming trunks, took up his diving goggles, and took a less traveled path, heading towards the rocky beach on the other side of the beach.
There were too many people on the beach, and it was not convenient to practice diving in front of so many eyes, so Chen Jue had to choose a place nearby where he could also go into the water.
The path leading to the rocky coast was winding and overgrown with weeds. Fortunately, Chen Jue had practiced martial arts well and was not afraid of the weeds . It took him more than 10 minutes to get down to the reef.
There were traces of fishing left by tourists on several large reefs nearby . Chen Jue found a flat and clean place, took off his clothes, changed into swimming trunks and goggles, and dived into the turbulent sea.
The sea water at night is more dangerous than during the day. As soon as he entered the water, Chen Jue felt the undercurrents around him pushing him to drift in the water. He exerted force with his hands and feet and dived for more than ten seconds before he touched the silt on the seabed.
With his feet stuck in the sand and his toes clasped together, he was barely able to stabilize his body. Then Chen Jue began to practice Tai Chi and the Thirteen Postures, feeling the changes in the strength throughout his body.
This training lasted for more than ten minutes. The proficiency of the two skills continued to increase by +1+1, and the free attribute points also continued to accumulate.
However, the danger under the sea was far beyond Chen Fan's expectations. Suddenly, a huge wave hit the reef. Even Chen Jue, who was under the water, felt an impact force pushing towards him. The air in his chest was squeezed, and he lost his strength and swam hurriedly to the surface.
After emerging from the water, he was hit by two more waves. Chen Jue spat out two mouthfuls of sea water and jumped onto the reef using both feet.
"Damn it!"
"This is a hundred times more difficult than practicing martial arts in a reservoir!" Chen Jue cursed a few words, put on his coat, and crawled back towards the homestay.
The underwater environment is too complicated. Unlike the mirror-like Chencun Reservoir, the rapidly changing undercurrents will cause Chen Jue to lose his body stability.
Moreover, the extremely low water temperature was also sapping his strength.
If the pores on the body could not be controlled to close, reducing the loss of heat, just staying in the sea water for a few minutes at night would probably cause hypothermia.
He returned to the villa, took a hot shower, and dried himself. He glanced at the attribute panel and found that the underwater training just now had refreshed 0.12 free attribute points, which was much more efficient than when he was in Chencun Reservoir.
After all, Chen Jue had only been at the bottom of the sea for a little over ten minutes, instead of diving for more than twenty minutes under the Chencun Reservoir.
"It would be great if there was something that could stabilize my body without affecting my practice!" Chen Jue missed the weighted vest that was placed in his old house.
I didn't bring it out before because it was too troublesome, and now it's impractical to go back and get it.
I had no choice but to walk around this small villa and look around. The 200-kilogram dumbbell was not suitable because of its irregular shape and I couldn't practice with it while holding it in one hand or holding it in my arms.
After taking a look around, Chen Jue had to focus his attention on a few spherical pebbles in the small garden at the back door of the villa.
These pebbles are used to decorate the back garden. They are half buried on the edge of the flower bed. Each one weighs more than 100 pounds and is smaller than the pebbles that are commonly seen blocking the road on the sidewalk.
When there was no one around, he reached into the soil with his hands, picked up one and brought it back to the villa, put it in the bathroom and rinsed off the mud outside, revealing the other half of the stone surface that had been polished to an extremely smooth surface.
"It's best to use this stone ball!"
"It can help stabilize your body shape without interfering with your practice."
Chen Jue wiped the stone ball with a handkerchief, and used the technique of Tai Chi to roll the stone ball weighing over a hundred pounds back and forth on his arms and shoulders.
That scene was just like the scene in the movie "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" that I watched in front of the village ancestral hall when I was a child.
However, the Zhang Junbao in the movie used Tai Chi to juggle the Cuju ball, while Chen Jue directly juggled a stone ball weighing hundreds of kilograms.
Although the visual senses of the two are very similar, the difference in Kung Fu is as huge as heaven and earth!
