Watching the giant wave draw ever closer, everyone closed their eyes in despair.
One second, two seconds, three seconds… They did not know how many seconds had passed, yet the anticipated disaster never occurred, and it had also grown quiet around them.
Upon opening their eyes and looking around, they saw not a trace of the huge wave anymore; the river surface was calm, as if what they had just witnessed was nothing but an illusion.
"Are we… not going to die?"
"Thank you, Guanyin Bodhisattva! Thank you, Buddha Tathagata! Thank you to all the gods for your protection!"
"It was just a false alarm, fortunately. If that big a wave had hit us, we certainly wouldn't have survived," said the crowd excitedly, their faces beaming with the joy of a narrow escape from death.
