Bai Ya paused briefly, thought for a moment, and took the opportunity to collect his emotions.
"I saw light," he said, "overflowing from the orb. Then... time around me seemed to stop, and the dragons that originally attacked me stopped moving. I lost consciousness and fell into a dream.
It was probably at that time that I was saved, but I didn’t really wake up until just now.”
Miss Quan, who was listening with great interest, suddenly interrupted: "Actually, I want to know - why is it such a coincidence that the essence in the orb hatched when you were here? Your spiritual power was not taken away, right?
"
Bai Ya was stunned for a moment. But only for a moment.
"No." He said calmly, "I think maybe it's because I broke it... Maybe it was me who broke it that made you lose your family's most precious treasure. If you want to take responsibility... I admit it,
It's me who didn't do a good job. Not only did I fail to bring back the treasure, but I made you lose it earlier."
However, the old man didn't seem to have much reaction. She seemed to believe Bai Ya's statement and didn't mind anything. She shook her head slightly.
"There will inevitably be changes when foreigners intervene. I have also guessed this. Mr. Bai must have done it unintentionally. Its core is the dragon ball, and the coat of tears must have bound it. If you destroy it, it will break
The shell came out. But... our family's most precious treasure is a solid thing no matter how you say it. How did you open it?"
"Use a knife." Bai Ya said simply.
The old man's eyes glanced at the knife behind his back and asked, "Can I see your weapon?"
Bai Ya agreed. He took out his two swords and handed them over. The old man touched the swords carefully, looked at them repeatedly, and sighed: "It is indeed a good sword. Today's craftsmanship is much better than in the early years. But
It can be seen that the craftsmen who can forge such weapons must not be ordinary people."
"Um."
"But with such a knife, it is impossible to cut off the orb."
The old man said and returned the knife to him. Bai Ya took it calmly and said nothing. The old man continued:
"It seems that I still underestimate your skill."
"...You are overly complimentary."
"You just said you had a dream?"
Old Shark seemed to be more concerned about this matter. Lord Shuangyue seemed to pay more attention to it when he heard it. He took a step closer and was ready to listen to what Bai Ya would say. So Bai Ya told the strange man one by one.
Although it is a bit difficult to tell the dream. It is admittedly a bit difficult to express the picture exactly as it is in words. Bai Ya can only convey a general meaning. Fortunately, other people's understanding is not that bad, more or less.
I can understand the picture he wants to express.
After all, it was such a grand dream.
Bai Ya finally added: "I also saw a young man in white. But it was still a momentary illusion. I might have woken up."
"Like a god." Miss Quan said with emotion, "I can see everything, hear everything, and there is nothing I don't know."
"This is the first time I feel so tired from dreaming." Bai Ya shrugged, but found that his shoulder blades were still hurting.
The old shark was thoughtful.
"That's a dragon that circles the island." She said, "You saw it...that's the little dragon from back then."
"Yeah?!"
Qi Huan and Liu Shenghan were shocked, and Bai Ya couldn't react for a moment. He calmed down, and before he could speak, Qi Huan continued to ask questions irritably:
"How is that possible? Didn't he... disappear? Since he doesn't have dragon scales, he can't transform back into a dragon and can only live as a mermaid. And after so many years, he still..."
"Of course he is alive. There is a saying among us sharks, translated into your human language, it is: 'The sharks have a thousand years, and the dragons have ten thousand years.' It means that the sharks have a maximum life span of thousands of years, while the dragons have tens of thousands.
Years are normal. These years are just a blink of an eye for the Dragon Clan. I’m afraid that child doesn’t want to use the same
If you continue to live as a human... you will return to the appearance of a dragon. It has no scales, and barnacles and starfish have become its scales; it has no hair, and seaweed and anemones have become its hair; it has lost its horns and coral reefs.
It became its horns. The dragon's silk wrapped around its body prevented it from being eaten clean by shrimps, crabs, fish and snails."
"Its essence will return to its own body." Liu Shenghan's face became solemn, "Then it may wake up and cause irreversible damage to Jiutian Kingdom and nearby islands... What should we do?
"
"It's impossible to say. Maybe the new young soul no longer recognizes its own body; maybe this mutated and fragile body will not accept the reincarnated soul; maybe it will wake up but not want to move.
Or maybe unable to move. Everything will happen, and no one can stop it before the change comes. We can only wait and see what happens. What's more, the thoughts of the dragon clan are not something we and other little creatures can speculate on. "
Bai Ya's face looked a little ugly. He didn't expect that his mistake would lead to such a big mistake. 100%
"If your homeland falls one day, I will not be able to escape the blame."
"Then let's wait until that day comes."
The old man's open-mindedness is incredible.
They were all silent for a while, and they were silent for a long time. There was a strange quietness around them. Only the sound of the sea was rising and falling, lapping the shore regularly, singing its own song. I am afraid only its own people can know what it is singing.
.
"Let me tell you another secret."
"What?"
Several people came over and stared curiously at the old shark in the water.
"The islands of Jiutian Kingdom are all alive."
"Alive, alive?"
These words sounded quite creepy. Before they could fully understand the meaning of this sentence, the old man suddenly laughed. No matter the old man of humans or the old men of mermaids, they all smiled the same. Although their faces were full of wrinkles, they still had the same smile.
He was as happy as a child. The old man explained:
"It's not like you and me, living like plants and trees. They have their own way of 'living'. We sharks can sense it, that's the sense we all have. We hear the sound of their movement. Why would the old man know that?
Is the hidden dragon still growing? Because it is indeed still alive. Its breathing and pulse affect every corner of the Nine Heavens Sea. The nearby islands will follow its growth.
It grows and changes its shape and orientation. Even the huge main island is rotating at an extremely slow speed... But all of this happened when the jewelry began to hatch in the clam. I am afraid that the soul is emitting an inaudible sound.
Only when the sound is heard by the body can it trigger such a slow restlessness. Although all this does not have much impact on the creatures on land and sea, things are indeed happening."
They suddenly understood. Many events and questions that were originally inexplicable and unknown were answered at this moment.
The shipwreck they encountered when they landed on the island was probably caused by a deep sea dragon. The islanders they met for the first time - loyal believers of Poseidon, the two children, Xiaoju and Xiaojie.
To become a loyal believer of Yasha, you need to make sacrifices every once in a while. I am afraid that Yasha is using the power of the dragon clan as an excuse and using the abnormal weather that would have happened as a cover to defraud the trust of the people in the fishing village. Many boats are also in these
Sunk in a shipwreck.
As for Jun Luanjiu, Liu Shenghan, Bai Ya's father, and more people who landed on the island, the landing positions of all ships were not fixed. Although the routes were almost exactly the same every time, when they came into contact with the main island,
The corresponding locations are probably not in the same direction. If you think about it carefully, there is no map of Jiutian Kingdom, which has happened in the past ten years.
Because the map no longer has relative position as a consideration.
This is indeed shocking news. All of them are thinking and recalling their arrival on the island. Occasionally, there will be a few words of exchange of opinions. The rest of the time, several people are lost in memories and confused.
Struggling up in the torrent of thoughts, constantly moving upstream, sorting out the messy river channels, making everything in my mind more vivid, vivid and real.
When he came back to his senses, the old shark had disappeared. It was not known when he returned.
Miss Quan also disappeared, and the shark who was watching them from a distance was also missing.
But everyone was sitting here blankly, and even Mr. Shuangyue didn't say anything. However, he never talked much. They just sat here, as if they had listened to a grand and complicated epic, and they were deeply involved in it, and they could not think about it for a long time.
Pull your legs out of it.
Until the sun sets.
"We should go." Shenghan said suddenly, "Let's go find Aoyan."
That's right, it's time to go to Wu Kingdom to pick her up. I don't know how she is doing or how she handles those complicated things.
No matter what, people should live in the present. Thinking of this, Qi Huan stretched out and yawned, and then lazily agreed with Sheng Han's words. The latter held the small but heavy
Tridacna seems to still be thinking about everything.
"We have to take this thing back." Bai Ya knew very well, "We bring it to them, which is an explanation. After all, we all have the relics and remains of the consort..."
Mr. Shuangyue had probably seen the clam, or maybe he was indifferent and had no intention of studying it more. The remaining three people put their heads next to each other and carefully looked at the shell, which was not small. The whole body of the clam was white and there were
A bright-colored line becomes even more conspicuous under the steady light of the setting sun on land. It extends from the shell surface to the roots, and half of it has been transformed into jade, giving off a sense of warmth brought by time.
Qi Huan said curiously: "I haven't looked at it carefully before... I have seen some clam ornaments, but the ones with gold wire are rare. If the gold wire is used to be polished into beads, it will be valuable."
"Listen, you're so greedy for money." Bai Ya glanced at him sideways.
Qi Huan scratched his nose: "I'm trying to discover its value."
After that, he took the shell from Shenghan's hand and looked at it. There was indeed a golden vein at the junction of the jade part and the ordinary clam, showing a vague translucent texture, like the looming texture on the back of a human hand.
He touched the blood vessels with his fingertips and couldn't help but think of the beautiful golden scales on the old shark's body. The color of the golden threads almost melted into the dusk.
