Chapter 161: The Whole Picture
But the shocking doesn't seem to end. Wang Yuanwei felt a chill.
A chill crept up his spine, soaking through his shirt in the blink of an eye. It was as if he had swallowed a big mouthful of ice cream in the summer, and he felt like half of his brain was frozen.
He immediately turned around and raised an arm in front of him. However, there were no terrible monsters as expected, and the island was still the same island. It's just that the strange black fog on the ground has disappeared, replaced by a layer of rapidly forming hoarfrost.
The season on the island seemed to turn from midsummer to bitter winter after he had just turned his head, and when he lowered his arms in shock, the hoarfrost on the ground had turned into a thin, hard crust of ice. He felt that the heat in his body had not yet faded, and the surface of his body was already freezing and aching.
The temperature drops dramatically, and the air around the islands cools and sinks. The surrounding hot air fills in from above, creating a convection current. The moisture in the tropical sea air is condensed at low temperatures, and the sun above the islands is dimmed and obscured by a thick cloud the next moment.
Wang Yuanwei felt that this was the lowest and most strange cumulonimbus cloud he had ever seen in his life.
Then the raindrops began to fall – and before they reached the ground, they turned into snowflakes.
It's snowing.
The snow had been falling for five minutes, and he felt like he was about to freeze. Before pondering what would happen, Wang Yuanwei peeled off a few pieces of clothing from the corpses that had fallen to the ground and wrapped himself in them.
At this moment, he finally knew what "despair" was. In the face of such a force, he couldn't think of any way to deal with it, and he didn't even have a clue about the reasons behind this series of changes. All he could do now was endure passively—perhaps at some point to be killed. Maybe get away with it. He felt that the former was a little more likely, and he knew that the best way to get rid of it all - the best way to get rid of it all by being toyed with and the other person didn't care about it was to die first. However, he could not convince himself to make this decision no matter what.
Wang Yuanwei believes that his life is incomparably precious. This thought made him extremely cautious and unwilling to take risks lightly - except this time. It was precisely because of this thought that he made a decision.
Jump.
He was actually very poor at water - he used to live in an inland city, and only learned to swim after arriving in South Luzon. However, that was only in a pool that did not make a wave, and he had never tried to swim in the wild, in the deep ocean.
But now he realized that the best thing he could do on this island would be to freeze to death, and he had to at least do something about himself.
With the fear of death trending, he didn't take more than three seconds to make a decision and put it into practice.
He strode to the edge of the island, took a deep breath, and leaped hard.
The high platform divers on TV rarely splash the waves – they enter the water in a graceful manner. It's like a swimming fish.
Wang Yuanwei is engaged in theoretical physics. But that doesn't mean he doesn't know what it means to jump into the water from a height of more than ten meters. As the wind whistled in his ears, he tried to adjust his posture, stretching his arms in front of him, and breaking through the water with minimal force.
However, less than a second after the fall, he realized that he was falling straight into the water like a heavy weighing stone.
So he immediately curled up and covered his face with his arms. There was not a single crevice.
After doing this action. He felt as if he had been hit head-on by a sledgehammer.
There was a loud bang in the eardrums. The arms and legs go numb together. The icy waters enveloped him, his head buzzing, and he lost his sense of direction.
He struggled to spread his hands and legs and began to paddle. Trying to curb the sinking trend.
When he finally saw the sunlight shining down from the water through the raging bubbles, his body hurt fiercely.
It sank deeply, and the sunlight above his head shone down. He swam to the surface with all his might, and felt like his lungs were about to explode. It was impossible to estimate how deep he had sunk in the water, but after a few seconds of hard work, he felt as if he was still quite far from the surface.
Perhaps it was because the bad effects on the island had not been completely eliminated, and he felt that his mind was becoming more and more dizzy.
A wave of pain passed through his right arm—Wang Yuanwei realized in despair that his arm was cramping.
A breath was finally spit out. With this burst of bubbles, Wang Yuanwei gave up his efforts, widened his eyes and glanced at the back of the ocean -
He then passed out.
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What brought him to his senses was an exclamation, and his consciousness was still stuck in the previous moment—the moment he sank underwater. Wang Yuanwei instinctively wanted to reach out and grab something, but what he touched was a thick blanket.
Consciousness rolled over like a tidal wave, and he opened his eyes.
The surroundings were shaking, and the air smelled of seawater and sunlight. He realized that he was lying in a dinghy and his hair was still wet...... It doesn't seem like much time has passed.
He was surrounded by a dozen people—all but two medics—all military—who seemed to have rescued themselves.
He was lying in the middle of the dinghy wrapped in a thick blanket, and none of the dozen or so people on the boat were looking at him—they were all staring straight at the back of the dinghy, each of them as if they had been immobilized.
An ominous thought slipped through Wang Yuanwei's mind - these people are also like those on the island?!
He quickly and brutally nudged the medical officer who was half-crouched beside him.
Fortunately, the latter turned his head and looked at Wang Yuanwei.
The man's consciousness was still awake, for there was a gleam of joy in his eyes. However, Xise was quickly replaced by shock and fear, he didn't ask Wang Yuanwei how he felt, but raised his hand and pointed behind the boat, and it took three seconds to squeeze out a sentence: "Look over there—"
Then he turned his head away.
Wang Yuanwei didn't care about his attitude, and barely stood up.
Then he felt a wave of vertigo. Because on the sea in the distance. A terrible crater appeared.
Not even a large whirlpool would be so shocking, but it was a crater - a huge amount of sea water was squeezed aside by an invisible force, and a bowl with a radius of nearly three thousand meters appeared in the middle of the ocean.
The water on the slope was as calm as satin, and even the sea breeze could not make a wave. At the "bottom of the bowl", the seabed is already exposed. There seems to have been a ridge beneath the surface of the sea in this area, which makes the ocean not as deep as one might think.
But even then there were hundreds of meters, and in the middle of the bottom of the bowl, hundreds of meters, the island was exposed.
Wang Yuanwei used to think that the shape of the island below the sea surface might be an "egg", but now he found that it was actually an "ingot".
The highest piece of the "ingot" in the middle of the projection, the part that exposes the ocean, is the former island. In addition, the sides are also slightly raised. But it's not that high. The side of the "ingot" is not very tight. It is united with the seabed beneath the ocean.
But in fact, no matter what shape the thing is, the scene in front of it is enough to make anyone stunned.
Because it's not just the sea that is being brutally squeezed out, but even the island is undergoing incredible changes.
The entire island was snowing when he jumped into the water, but now the ice and snow were gone. The island was shrouded in flames. It is the trees of the island that are burning. Smoke rose above the island and mingled into the clouds. It's like a giant with a crown of flame on his head.
Wang Yuanwei staggered to his feet, snatched the telescope from a soldier's hand, and looked there carefully.
So he realized that there wasn't just fire.
The island is also surrounded by small black dots – small dots from this distance. Then the actual size may be equivalent to the tire of a heavy truck. The black stuff floated in mid-air, moving in a pattern that didn't follow any pattern. But Wang Yuanwei noticed a phenomenon after observing for a few seconds.
The flames on the island actually burned quite violently, even like a corona, with a long tongue of fire popping up from time to time. A certain tongue of fire accidentally encountered a black dot - and the part of the flame that had burst into the black dot disappeared.
This situation may be unfamiliar to others, but for Wang Yuanwei......
He realized that those "black spots" might be formed by "spatial faults".
He put down his binoculars and exclaimed, "Don't look, get out of here!" ”
Nearly a minute had passed since he woke up, and the shout had pulled the people back from their shock. The soldiers immediately rowed forward with their oars, and the two medical officers tried to examine Wang Yuanwei again. But Wang Yuanwei waved them away irritably, and just asked, "When was that thing revealed?" ”
The island was revealed three minutes ago. At that time, Wang Yuanwei had been floating in the sea for nearly ten minutes.
The people on board the scientific expedition had noticed an anomaly over the island earlier—a thick cloud formation. So they tried to contact the team on the island. Fired from the ship was a reinforced tracer projectile that could rise to a height of a thousand meters and burst into bright red light in the bright light.
However, at that time, Wang Yuanwei's mind was in chaos and he did not respond.
Ten minutes later, the men on the Truth realized that the team might be in trouble, and they sent the dinghy.
Three minutes earlier, the men in the dinghy had spotted Wang Yuanwei and salvaged him—he was nearly four thousand meters from the island.
Of course, he couldn't have swam 4,000 meters in 10 minutes alone. So Wang Yuanwei realized that it seemed that the force had come into play after he had fallen into the water—it was slowly dispersing the sea water from around the island, and the "man-made" currents had inadvertently sent him out of danger.
Three minutes earlier, the slow-growing force had reached a critical point, and the spectacle had taken shape in an instant.
The dinghy was pushed a distance of thousands of kilometers by the raging currents in a minute, and the ocean near the island collapsed abruptly. There were no huge waves and no thunderous sound, as if the ancient god above the clouds reached out a hand and pressed it gently.
By this time, the force seemed to have flattened again, and the currents were still pushing them outward.
No one knows what else will happen in a while, and the wisest option is to get back to the research ship as quickly as possible, and then move away from here.
Only Wang Yuanwei is still looking at the island. As he was questioning, the flames on the island were extinguished, and the black dots disappeared.
In its place was lightning. Thick, dense lightning cleaved through the clouds above the island, and thousands of meters away, people were still tingling in their ears from the sound of rolling thunder.
Wang Yuanwei frowned, he felt that there seemed to be some kind of pattern hidden behind this series of anomalous phenomena.
A quarter of an hour later, the electric light on the island was gone.
But the vision didn't stop, and Wang Yuanwei saw a cloud of smoke forming over the island.
It was indeed smoke—through the telescope, it was mixed with a lot of stones the size of a millstone. It was as if the sand, soil, stones, and ashes from the burning on the surface of the island had all floated and hovered in mid-air as if they had escaped gravity.
When he saw this scene, Wang Yuanwei's eyes widened. A thought vaguely took shape in his mind.
He hesitated for a few seconds at the thought, and after a few seconds, he shouted, "Don't scratch - stop here for me!" ”
The soldiers on the ship were stunned. Wang Yuanwei repeated the order again without looking back.
The people had long been accustomed to the arbitrariness of the "minister", and the oppressive force of that habit made them obey orders with only a hesitation in such a situation.
They looked at each other uneasily, but Wang Yuanwei didn't speak again, still holding the telescope with his arms that were faintly painful.
Because he couldn't get any further away, he couldn't see what was going on the island.
They stayed on the surface of the sea for fifteen minutes.
Fifteen minutes later, the things that were suspended above the island suddenly fell, splashing large clouds of smoke and dust.
Wang Yuanwei pursed his lips and narrowed his eyes.
As he had guessed, another vision occurred.
It was as if a small sun appeared in the sky above the island, and in an instant, it burst into dazzling light. The sky and the earth were snow-white, and even the clouds above were reflected in a warm gold.
So Wang Yuanwei put down the binoculars, turned around and waved his hand: "Row, go!" ”
The dinghy continued in the direction of the research ship, and he sat down, his shadow reflected in front of him by the bright light behind him.
When he landed on the island, he took three guards, and all three guards were capable people.
One of them can control gravity, and the other can burst into the palm of his hand in an instant, blinding the person.
He felt like he knew something.
It is true that someone landed on the island before them, and it was a capable one. (To be continued......)