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Bethany was struggling in the water, shouting and waving her arms around frantically.

Perhaps it was because she had been struggling for so long that her action had begun to slow down.

She was unable to exert herself, and her body began to slowly descend.

Seeing this, Jeff immediately dropped the envelope with the pictures in it, jumped over the railing, and swam toward Bethany.

"Benny!" When he reached her, he grabbed her by the neck, held her head up, and tock her toward the cruise ship's water-date.

But the cruise ship kept moving. It was slow, but it was still much faster than a human's swimming speed.

He swam for a long time but did not reach the cruise ship.

Instead, he was left behind. But the good news was that someone on the cruise ship had dropped the life buoy.

If he grabbed it, people on the cruise ship could pull them out.

But he was taking Bethany while swimming, so it wasn't easy to catch the buoy.

Plus, he hadn't swum for a long time and hadn't warmed up before j