Volume 1 Red Dust Refining the Heart Chapter 12 The First Year After Falling Off a Cliff
The sea is vast and far-reaching, and when it is furious, it has the power to change the color of the wind and clouds, but when it is calmed, it is as gentle as the eyes of a girl with affection.
The vast sea, the water color is blue and deep, blue like a shining sky, it seems so fresh and refreshing, there is a layer of ripples on the water surface, like blue wrinkled satin, sometimes there are a few silverfish, leaping waves, on the slightly undulating water surface, dotted with a few small waves containing auspicious meaning.
On the calm water, suddenly there was a golden object, floating and sinking slowly, the golden object, fluttering so slowly, it was better to float at will as if it had no goal, just too far from the shore, I couldn't see if it was a living animal.
After a long time, the golden object finally moved closer, and it turned out that this competition was a strange fish that formed an octagonal, similar to a "starfish", with a soft and wide back!
This octagonal strange fish, with no head and mouth to be seen, and no fins and tails can be found, and its whole body shines with a dull and lifeless golden brilliance, without even the slightest movement, floating and swimming in the sea with the undulations of the waves.
And what is even stranger is that on the back of this strange fish, there is a person with broken clothes and wounds.
This person's black clothes have long been broken, his long hair is wet and covering his shoulders, the skin of his whole body has been soaked in seawater and is already swollen, and there is a faint purple and white color, a few deep bone scars, but condensed with black purple blood, white muscles rolled, obviously soaked in water for a long time.
The black-clothed man's hands deeply grasped the flexible body of the golden strange fish, and his lips were tightly pressed against the back of the strange fish.
He lay there motionless, as was the case with this strange fish, but, judging by the slight and almost imperceptible wriggling of his back, the man might not have died!
Another very long time passed......
The man in black, who looked dying, actually had a trace of movement, only to see that his whole body was trembling gently, and his hands, which were deeply immersed in the body of a strange fish, also trembled lightly with his body, and moved outward with difficulty......
It seemed that after a long and intense period of labor, the man in black finally pulled out his hands and turned over heavily on the back of the fish.
His face was as pale as paper, without a trace of blood, and there were several serious fatal wounds on the pipa bone and lower abdomen, and there was a white miserable rib under the ribs, which were broken and exposed.
Although his eyes were so swollen that there was only a line left, and his lips were purple and black, if we pay close attention to it, from the vague outline, we can be surprised to find that this person who is like a gossamer and covered in scars is actually the prodigal son Wang Yumeng!
He seemed to be hurt by the strong sunlight in the air, his hands were weakly covered in front of his eyes, his lips kept buzzing, and between the cracked lips, not only yellow water flowed, but also adhesion drops of golden juice!
A breath like a gossamer came out of his mouth:
"Water...... Water ......"
But who will give him water in this endless sea?
Wang Yumeng's vague consciousness, due to the torment of pain and hunger, has gradually awakened, Wang Yumeng knows: he has survived safely!
This discovery made him suddenly rise to infinite vitality, and his eyes shed two bitter tears from excitement, and he thanked God for his mercy, which can be said to be too great......
At this time, what else will there be besides the preciousness of life?
After Wang Yumeng's excitement in his heart slowly calmed down, he raised his neck slightly, and his eyes swept around with difficulty.
His weakened brain didn't need to think about it, he already knew what was going on, a feeling of decadence, despair invaded people's hearts, in this sea of thousands of waves, water and sky, even if he was alive, wasn't it the same as dead?
"Alas, if you had died, you would not have to suffer so many living sins......
However, from the dull touch of his hands, he felt a slippery and supple feeling, like a fine cowhide soaked in oil for many days!
Wang Yumeng's heart was shocked inexplicably, and he hurriedly lowered his head to take a look, only to realize that he was accommodating himself on an octagonal golden fish body!
He tugged at the corners of his mouth in pain and mockery,—— this is a bitter smile, in this case, even a bitter smile is not easy!
Wang Yumeng thought secretly:
"Alas, I still underestimate this ocean. "It's been a year since Wang Yumeng fell off the cliff, this time I wanted to go to the sea to catch fish for myself to eat, but I didn't expect a wave to hit and almost sink to the bottom of the water, at this time, it seems that it was this monster who saved himself......"
Wang Yumeng grinned at her unaware lips and continued to think:
"When I was swept into the sea by the waves, I suddenly seemed to come into contact with a slippery and soft object, ah! By the way, I remember that I instinctively and unthoughtfully hugged this object in order to avoid sinking, and who would have thought that this was an octagonal fish!
Wang Yumeng looked at the scarlet palm with golden blood stains and thought:
Probably because the desire to survive is too strong, I have invisibly inserted my hands into the body of this strange fish, no wonder I feel that after holding it, this object will roll in the water like crazy, as if flying through the clouds, and then, I don't know anything...... But this strange fish saved his life. ”
He let out a long breath, shook his head slightly, and continued: "This ocean. Boundless, I survived. ”
When he thought of this, his whole body suddenly trembled, and he said urgently:
"Strange! Why is it that he has been able to sustain himself to this day? Is this a force of will?" he couldn't help but be confused......
He thought carefully, thought hard with his heart, and suddenly spat out a few words in his fluttering lips:
"Yes, the reason why I didn't die must be the blood of this strange fish......"
He finally remembered that in the fog of his consciousness, driven by unbearable thirst, he seemed to bite a flexible and smooth muscle, and strangely enough, there was a salty and slightly bitter liquid in the muscle, so he sucked it to his heart's content, although the liquid was bitter in the mouth, but after drinking in the abdomen, it was extremely comfortable.
Wang Yumeng suddenly realized at this time, what else could that strange-tasting liquid be besides the blood of the strange fish under him?
He gently patted the silky body of the strange fish under him, and felt a burning hunger and thirst in his throat, so he struggled to prop up his body, flipped down again, and pressed his lips to the wound that had been bitten on the back of the strange fish, and sucked hard.
With the agitation of his cheeks, wisps of salty and bitter blood flowed into his abdomen through his throat, and Wang Yumeng began to realize at this moment that the blood of this strange fish, in addition to being salty and bitter, still had a strange and sandalwood-like taste!
A large mouthful of blood entered Wang Yumeng's body, circulating in his withered blood vessels, moisturizing all the functions of his long-suffering wounds, so he felt a stream of heat slowly rising from the dantian, filling every part of his body, and the pain of the scars and the numbness of the skin were also significantly and rapidly alleviated!
Wang Yumeng's heart began to flood with a trace of irrepressible excitement, he was like a newborn baby, greedily sucking his mother's milk, and swallowing a mouthful of unpleasant blood into his stomach.
The strange fish blood he inhaled just in time had an unexpected effect, and Wang Yumeng only felt that the broken bones seemed to be wrapped in a sticky and hot alcohol, and the pain during bone grafting had been greatly reduced.
Suddenly, the aura within a radius of ten miles condensed towards Wang Yumeng, and Wang Yumeng broke through! After many lives and deaths here, coupled with the blood of that strange fish, he reached the second level of the Qi Refining Period.
He lay still quietly, and after another hour, Wang Yumeng felt that he had eased up.
Wang Yumeng leaned down at this time, his eyes were slightly open, and what caught people's eyes was the skin of this octagonal strange fish, he looked carefully for a moment, only to see that on the back of a fish the size of a tabletop, there was no scale, and the skin showed a faint gold, and there were still sparse golden hairs on it.
Since Wang Yumeng woke up, this strange fish has not moved at all, Wang Yumeng said:
"This strange fish in the shape of an octagonal shape is thought to have died because he inserted his hands into its skin and sucked a large amount of its blood, but what kind of fish is it? Not only is it strange and incoherent, but the blood in its body can heal such a serious injury, and it is really a coincidence that he inadvertently sucked its blood and was able to save his life, otherwise he would have been buried in the belly of the fish at this moment. ”
The sun on the sea was hot, but as time passed, the sun moved a long way to the west, and a few white seagulls soared and danced in the sky, very leisurely, and the hot sea breeze was slightly stronger.
Wang Yumeng inserted his right hand into the water, unconsciously stirring gently, suddenly, he seemed to have touched something, hurriedly grabbed it in his hand, picked it up and looked at it, but it was a small tree branch bud.
He smiled wryly and threw the sprout into the water.
"Ah, since there are branches floating on the water, isn't that a sign of the neighboring land?"
He excitedly opened his eyes, which had already faded slightly, and stared eagerly into the distance, but he was disappointed, for what came into his eyes was still a vast ocean.
Wang Yumeng bowed down in frustration, and suddenly sat up with strong support, supporting the weight of his whole body with his two sore arms.
A low-flying seagull passed in front of him, and a spark of hope sparkled in his eyes.
Because he learned from the knowledge of the sea that he heard by chance, seagulls do not fly far from land, and it seems that he must not be too far away from landing now!
Wang Yumeng rekindled the flame of hope, a new vitality surging in his tired body, he carefully tried to avoid hindering his wounds, slowly stretched his hand in the water, and adjusted the angle of his drifting with the strange fish in the direction of the seagull flying in the air.
While paddling in the water with his arms alternately, he gazed at the seagulls circling leisurely in the air, and at this time, he sincerely and deeply envied these darlings of the sea:
"If you also have a pair of wings, can't you also fly freely in the air like these seagulls?
The sunset and sunset on the sea, the scenery is beautiful and magnificent, but Wang Yumeng is not in the mood to appreciate these, he has been rowing for more than two hours, but still does not see the shadow of the land.
The vagaries of the ocean are unpredictable, and it can suddenly be unstoppable in anger, and it can suddenly be calm and silent, Wang Yumeng secretly wondered: if he still did not find land before another storm came, then luck would not come to him again.
In the distance, there is a faint black shadow lying quietly on the horizon, this is the shadow of the land!
Wang Yumeng almost couldn't believe his eyes, he looked at it suspiciously for a while, yes, it was land, and it wouldn't be too far away!
He couldn't hold back his tears, his arms held high, and he muttered prayers for his luck.
The current flowed towards the distant shadow, so Wang Yumeng and the fish corpse under him drifted faster, and the black lines on the sea surface gradually became visible.
The sun has avoided the horizontal line, the red color glow, like the soft lips of a lover, seductive and brilliant in the sky to reflect a phantom beautiful scenery, Wang Yumeng's eyes shot out of the scorched brilliance, without a moment of staring at the slowly approaching land in front of him
Wang Yumeng returned to the place where he fell off the cliff when he fell, Wang Yumeng wanted to escape from this place every day for the past year, but today I see this is an unprecedented sense of intimacy!