Chapter 54: Chapter 58

Chapter 058

The other people were a little surprised to hear that.

August explained without haste, "Yesterday I lost and was splashed with two buckets of water, so I

was a bit reluctant.

Today, to wash away the shame of the last time, I suggest following the grouping of yesterday, with

two people in a team to compete again.”

When he said so, some people agreed, but some female colleagues scowled and didn't agree with

him.

If the grouping was the same as yesterday, August would be grouped with Lucia again. Naturally,

they were not happy about

But a few rowdy male colleagues led by Guy did not realize this. They clapped their hands and said

they want to have another game with August. Even if the female colleagues were reluctant, they

couldn't say anything in front of August now, so they glanced at Lucia a few times with discontent,

and then dispersed wanly. Emma was standing right beside Lucia and touched her excitedly, winking

at her frantically. Lucia naturally understood what she meant. She smiled a little embarrassed, and

once she looked up, she saw August

standing on the shore watching her. She knew that August had done all that for her. She stepped

forward but was unconsciously nervous. August's voice rang in her ears, “Let's go?” Lucia nodded,

followed his steps, and walked to the boarding port on the shore. When all the teams were on

board, the staff looked at the time and reminded, " The race will last one hour in total. Meet here

after one hour and the team with the most red flags wins.”

After the staff made clear the rules, everyone began to start the electric boat to spread out to the

vast lake after hearing a whistle from the staff.

August sat at the bow of the boat, Lucia sat behind him and could smell his faint fragrance. In a

short while, they drove the boat to the forefront. Lucia looked at the surrounding scenery and slowly

relaxed. There was no communication between them. After a while, August finally turned his head

slightly and took the initiative to

ask her, “Do you want to have a try?”

Seeing August was steering the electric boat, Lucia suddenly had some interest, “Can I try it?”

"Come here.” Lucia carefully moved forward to August. The space at the front of the boat was

relatively small, and once she went over and sat side by side with him, it seemed a bit crowded.

Seeing Lucia's hesitation, August said, “Give me your hand.” Lucia reached out obediently.

Immediately afterward, August gently grabbed her hand and instructed her to grab the steering

wheel. August patiently instructed her, “Put your foot here. The pedal on the left is for backing up

and the pedal on the right is the throttle for forwarding. Let it go when you stop the boat,

understand?” Lucia repeated it in his mind, nodded, and tried to step on the throttle. Sure enough,

the boat suddenly picked up speed and shot ahead.

The man's voice rang in her ears, “Yes, that's it. Hold the steering wheel steady.’

Since they were so close together, Lucia could feel the warm spray of his breath on her ear, and

then her ears warmed up.

August turned his head, looked at the woman beside him, and called out her name shakily, “Lucia.

There were two reasons that he wanted to follow yesterday's grouping at the shore just now. One

was to ensure her safety. and the second was to create time for the two of them to be alone

because he had something to say to her, Lucia gripped the steering wheel and looked straight

ahead,"Hmm? What's wrong?” “If I need your help one day, will you help me?” Hearing August

speak so seriously, she first froze, and then immediately nodded and said with certainty, of course, I

will

At these words, August sighed with relief as he said in a deep voice, “Actually, I need your right

now.” Suddenly, the bow was crooked, and the electric boat crashed straight toward the reeds next

to it. Before his words were

finished, August sensed the anomaly and reacted suddenly, so he hurriedly reached out his hand to

hold the steering wheel.

After he righted the steering wheel, the ship shook violently. Out of inertia, Lucia also crashed

towards August.

“Bang”, Lucia froze. After a while, she realized that she had somehow turned the steering wheel

askew and almost made a

big mistake! “So-sorry.” She said subconsciously, and when she turned her head, she saw August

was frowning.

“What-what's wrong?” Lucia asked in a hurry. Thinking of the crisp crash just now, she looked at the

bars on the side of the boat and then at August before responding, “Hit your head? Let me have a

look.”

August avoided her hand and said in a deep voice, “I'm fine.”

It seemed that today was not a good time to tell her the truth. Lucia was blaming herself in her

mind when suddenly, Guy and another male colleague's boat drove past next to them. They blew a

loud whistle and then waved the little red flag provocatively at them. Seeing them, Lucia then

remembered that it was still a race. Their boat was in the lead, but Guy's team had already found a

small red flag!

August turned his head to look at Lucia and found her staring brightly at the boat in front of him.

He felt some reluctance to tell her these things on such a supposedly joyful occasion and it seemed

a bit cruel. He decided to wait until he got back before talking to her. It would be a good idea to

make it up to her by playing nice with

her today. He asked softly, “Do you want to win?” Lucia nodded affirmatively, “Yes.”

"Okay. Then let's go for the red flag too!”

The boat slowly approached the bushes and Lucia poked her head in and finally saw a little red in

the bushes. “There's a red flag there!”

August looked over and saw the red flag. He slowly lowered the speed of the boat to approach the

bush and reached out to pull down the red flag that was stuck in the dirt. Lucia took the red flag

and waved it excitedly, wanting to play even more, “Great! Let's keep looking for the red flag!”

August smiled crookedly and kept driving the boat Down, they surprisingly found five red flags

successfully! Looking at the time, August saw that there were still more than twenty minutes left, so

he looked at Lucia beside him and asked, “Do you still want to look for red flags?”

Lucia nodded, “Yes.” This time, they must win! She had given August a drag last time and this time,

she would match him well. August continued to sail, leaving most of the boats behind. The boat

turned left and right around the bush, and Lucia saw

another red flag tied to the bush. “There's one there!” The red flag was a little high and it was

flanked by mud bogs. August approached carefully and after taking off the flag, he backed up the

boat.

"Buzz-"

For some reason, the boat did not back up but rang a few times.

Lucia froze and asked, “What's happened?”

August tried to back Up again, but the boat stil “buzzed a few times, and did not back up at all. He tried several times, and the boat seemed to be stuck and

dict move. But there was no obstaci around.

August looked at Lucia and said seriously. “The boat cant move”

At that Lucia was a litle confused, sit stuck by something?

“The boat can still move and its not stuck” August felt vaguely uneasy, “Maybe there's something wrong with the engine.” Hearing him say that Lucia imme-

diately realized that th situation was more serious than they thought, and she immediately took out her phone, “Im calling for helpo”

Before she finished her words, she saw that the cell phone signal on her phone was less than haf a bar and she froze.

The phone had no signal, so how could they ask for help?