Sometimes, people are so strange: Lin Sanjiu clearly knows that she is not good at water, but she just can't remember to prepare an auxiliary prop - not to mention a canoe or a water motorcycle, she doesn't even have a swimming ring.
"If you don't know how to swim, you will sink when you enter the water. You must not forget to prepare a few things." When she flipped through the card library for the fourth time, Teacher Yi stopped trying to dissuade her and said as if watching the fun: "But you
If you can just rely on a dog paddle to deal with it for a while, it will be different. If you are half-assed, you won’t be scared anymore.”
Lin Sanjiu didn't have time to think about why she had to listen to the sarcastic remarks made by her own consciousness; right now, all her energy was spent on struggling with the wooden board - she broke it with a few palms and opened the wooden box.
Later, when the puppet master turned over the black grid on the largest wooden board without saying a word, she hugged the wooden board tightly, closed her eyes tightly, and fell straight into the sea.
However, the wooden board was not an air mattress after all. While Lin Sanjiu was planing to keep himself afloat, he had to adjust and urge the wooden board so that it would not sink.
"In the movies, people who encounter shipwrecks can float by relying on a piece of wood," she said breathlessly. As soon as she carefully put a little weight on the board, it immediately became shy and submerged under the water. "What's going on?
What’s the matter, doesn’t art come from life?”
In the waves not far away, Yu Yuan was pushed up and down, but he never sank. He waited for a while and finally said: "I think you might as well hold on to me and swim."
"It's not like I haven't tried it before, and you're not a good swimmer either. You kicked me once and that's enough." Lin Sanjiu gritted his teeth, pulled the board and planed it a few more times, feeling the distance between himself and Yu Yuan.
It didn't shorten at all. She spit out a few mouthfuls of seawater and asked, "Where is Yuan Xiangxi?"
Yu Yuan pointed behind her and said, "Over there, you are having fun."
If anyone welcomes the puppet master's decision the most, it must be Yuan Xiangxi. It's windy today, so he may have had some thoughts in his mind. After the puppet master finished speaking, his coat and robe began to separate from his body.
; Lin Sanjiu felt that her eyes had only spent a moment, and Yuan Xiangxi was already wearing only short sleeves and shorts.
"Lin Sanjiu - Yu Yuan - look at me -"
Yuan Xiangxi's greeting voice floated melodiously under the sky; when she turned around, she happened to see a stretched and wide white shadow lifted up by the sea breeze, stepping on a wave, accompanied by a "woohoo", rising from the blue again
The waves jumped up, as light as seabird wings.
Including Yuan Xiangxi, no one thought that being a ghost also had such an advantage: he was very light, and as long as he tied a large enough cloth to his limbs as a sail, Yuan Xiangxi could move like a mouse.
Being pushed by the sea breeze and gliding.
The only problem was that he was gliding in a direction other than the shore.
After Yu Yuan pointed out this point almost calmly, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but become anxious, and hurriedly shouted like a child: "I saw it, it's amazing, please close the sails and come back! Don't let the wind blow you apart!"
The place where the puppet master dropped them was not too far from the shore; however, some were playful, some were not good at water, and some had to be babysitters, so the two of them spent half a day working on a piece of wood.
After a lot of effort, the waves finally hit the rocky beach - the warm and shallow sunlight shining on the sea also reached its end on the rocky beach.
This rocky beach is very vast. Looking into the distance, you can only see a thin line of grass connecting the rocky beach on the distant horizon. Large swaths of clouds are heavy in the sky, so heavy that the wind cannot move; a deep black line of grass is visible in the distance.
The clusters of stone pillars, eroded by the sea breeze all year round, have formed strange and curved shapes, just like the afterimages of crazy dances in the depths of sleep, trying to communicate with the gods.
On the distant stone beach highland, there is a straight and dark shadow, standing in the center of the dancing stone pillars, as if quietly listening to the solidified and silent chanting all around.
"There's no one around here, no one will see us." Yuan Xiangxi whispered as he put his clothes back on - it wasn't like he was complaining, after all, he had just had a great time.
"You misunderstood," Lin Sanjiu sat on the ground, put her boots back on her feet, and said, "It was probably because of his arrival that there was no one around here."
"You know he has very keen hearing, right?" Yu Yuan asked.
Almost as a footnote to this sentence, the figures under the gloomy sky in the distance slowly turned their heads towards them. Lin Sanjiu coughed dryly, and just as he shouted, the people in the grassy beach were startled.
Blackbirds - black wings spread like fragments under the sky, stirring up short, wheezing winds; when the feathers floated from the dark clouds, and each bird stood still and perched on the stone pillar, several people came again.
At first glance, the puppet master turned his head again, as if he was indifferent to their arrival.
"Why did he come here..." Lin Sanjiu muttered, "This should also be a model of the doomsday world, right?"
"We'd better go there quickly," Yu Yuan finished, reminding her, "You can throw away your wooden boards."
Lin Sanjiu didn't know what he did right. He allowed the puppet master to accept the status quo of "everyone walking together" smoothly. When they walked up naturally and swaggering, he didn't even object - but
As she got closer, she began to realize that something was wrong.
The puppet master has remained strangely silent. Even after everyone kept him waiting for such a long time, he did not say a word, let alone ridicule or insult; in fact, he seemed to be deep in some kind of confusion, as if
Something happened just now that he couldn't figure out.
"You're here, haven't you been waiting too long?" When a few people approached, Lin Sanjiu coughed and broke the silence without saying anything else: "Um...why do you want to come to this place?"
The puppet master's eyes slowly turned around and stared at her coldly.
"What kind of apocalyptic world is this?" Lin Sanjiu pretended to be nonchalant and continued to ask, "What are we doing here?"
Probably because he really didn't want to be rubbed by her anymore, the puppet master finally opened his lips slightly and said something in a gloomy tone that no one expected - "I don't know."
"You don't know?" Lin Sanjiu was stunned, "Isn't it the destination you set..."
"No," the puppeteer suppressed his anger, waved his hand, and walked a few steps away - as if being too close to the other people made him uncomfortable. "It was the place that Chotans proposed.
"
So why did the puppet master come?
Lin Sanjiu didn't say anything; sometimes, instead of being urged, the puppet master would say a few more words by himself like now: "Shortly after you got on the boat, he told me that a 'wonder' appeared here.
'..."
He paused.
"Then what?" Lin Sanjiu waited for a while and finally asked.
"...I don't know anymore." The puppet master looked extremely ugly.
