Chapter 15: The Silver-White Hilt
There is a winding path along the lake, smooth and flat, as if it was deliberately built.
Liu Min silently followed behind Rey.
The man in front of him was shirtless, and his shorts were tattered, which could only cover important parts.
He has no weapons and doesn't seem to know how to do martial arts......
Impulsive, unreliable......
But strangely, he has a reassuring feeling.
Liu Min smiled.
The beautiful fireflies seemed to have not been disturbed for many years, fluttering their little wings and flashing with a faint green light around the two of them.
"Knock, knock, knock......"
The footsteps of the two echoed through the large, empty cavern.
I don't know how long I walked, but behind the lake, a wide and straight hole suddenly appeared.
"Liu Min, look, there's a hole here."
Rey stopped.
"This, this ......"
Liu Min looked at the entrance of the cave, thoughtful.
"I'll go in first."
Rey was about to walk towards the entrance of the cave after speaking, but Liu Min hurried over and grabbed Rey.
"No, that's where we came from!"
……
Rey stared at the entrance of the cave with burning eyes, wide and straight, very familiar, and turned to look at the lake behind him, crystal green, a large field of fireflies were dancing.
"It turned out that we walked around the lake."
"Looks like there's no way out." Liu Min tightened the fishing rod in his hand.
"Let me think about it, think about it." Rey clutched his hair and muttered to himself.
How did that song come about?
In the place where the rock protrudes, lies my mysterious hometown.
No matter how you look at it, the cave that I have worked so hard to come to should be the hometown of the mysterious man.
Later, how do you sing it later?
Ahhh
Not this sentence.
Ahhh
……
There's one important sentence that Rey just can't remember.
Ahhh......h
The most absurd and out-of-tune singing voices exploded in my mind repeatedly.
Ahh......hh
"Enough!"
Liu Min saw Rey slapping his head in pain.
"Hey, Rey, definitely, there must be a way." Liu Min hurriedly grabbed Rey's arm.
"I'm fine, I'm fine."
Liu Min's eyes were concerned and anxious, one small hand pulled his arm tightly, and the other hand held the fishing rod.
Fishing rod?
That's right!
Liu Min's weapon is a fishing rod, but what about his own weapon?
And what about the sword?
"The sword, the sword is reflected, the reflection is in the ...... Clear water? Flocks, crows around the beautiful, beautiful what, what camphor? Rey frowned and said silently.
"Sword? What sword? Crows? Rey, what are you talking about. ”
Liu Min looked at Rey's eyes clearly, without any impurities.
Water? Rey looked at the calm waters behind him.
"I see."
Rey strode towards the lake behind him.
"Hey, Rey......" Liu Min followed with light steps.
The lake is turquoise, and it is painted by fireflies in the sky, like countless eyes hidden under the surface of the lake.
"Liu Min, borrow your fishing rod and use it."
"Huh?" Liu Min was puzzled and handed over the fishing rod.
Rey took the rod and slowly plunged it into the water......
……
The lake is incredibly shallow, and the head of the pole seems to have touched the silt at the bottom of the lake shortly after it was submerged in the water.
The pitch-black rods were mostly exposed, and a swarm of fireflies flew around Rey, buzzing like they were mocking him.
Rey jumped into the water without thinking about it.
"Plop."
Ripples rippled on the calm water, and large swaths of fireflies flew in both directions.
The lake's green has become lighter......
After a while, the fireflies gathered on the surface of the lake again.
The lake is as green as new.
……
The water was waistless, and Rey groped frantically under the surface with his head down.
"Hey, Rey, what are you looking for?"
Where's my sword? Where's my sword?
The widow should have a sword here.
In the middle of the night, Rey straightened up.
The mud slid through Rey's fingers with the water and trickled into the water.
The water in the lake is clear and cool.
The lake of the head man's skin is like countless knives slashing through Rey's skin.
As far as the eye can see, there is not even a single fish and shrimp under the water of Qingqing Lake, where is there any sword?
Fireflies flutter overhead, flashes of green light reflected in the water.
"Rey, I'll help you." Liu Min kicked off the straw sandals and was about to go into the water.
"Don't come down, the water is too cold."
Rey walked towards the lake with his rehydrated shorts.
"Did you find anything?"
Liu Min looked at Rey, who had been behaving strangely since just now.
Without a sword, am I thinking wrong?
The turquoise waters of the lake faded the last few ripples and regained its calm, like a giant emerald. The fireflies are still dancing, fluorescent and flickering.
Rey grabbed his shorts in one hand and his hair in the other.
Think about it, think about it again.
The sword, the sword is reflected in the clear water.
Inverted image?
Rey jerked above the lake.
A piece of turquoise, a large area of fireflies covering the sky and the sun on the water, impermeable to the wind.
"Rey." Liu Min walked over and actually grabbed Rey's arm, "Don't worry, don't worry......"
Liu Min comforted Rey softly.
From the moment they fell into the cliff, the fates of the two people were tightly tied together, and Liu Min was afraid that there would be something wrong with Rey's spirit.
Rey's gaze followed closely to the fireflies flying in the air.
The cave is very quiet, and the lake is very calm. Except for the faint sound of fireflies flapping their wings from the surface of the lake, there is no sound here.
Half-night......
Just as Rey's eyes were about to be ghosted by the fluttering glow, a handful of fireflies in the middle of the lake suddenly flew around......
"Tick."
A drop of water falls into the lake, breaking the calm water.
With a little ripple, the fireflies gathered together again.
Rey got it!
"Liu Min?" Rey softly called out to the girl who was holding his arm.
"Huh?"
Rey finally spoke, and Rey just now kept staring at the flying fireflies without saying a word, and Liu Min was very worried.
"What color did you say the lake was?"
“…… Yes? What color? Turquoise ......"
"That's not right! The water of this clear lake has no color. ”
Rey grabbed the fishing rod and swung it at the fireflies flying on the surface of the lake, and the fireflies that danced with a glowing green light hurriedly flashed out of space.
A small patch of floating green on the surface of the lake suddenly receded into a blue-gray color.
"It turns out that the lake is ......," Liu Min suddenly realized.
"Yes, it's the color of fireflies."
Rey said as he waved his fishing rod around the lake, and large fields of fireflies flew away from the speeding rods.
Each escaping firefly took away a small patch of green, blue-gray top rocks reflected in the lake.
"Here!"
Eventually, another small piece of fireflies flown away, and the cyan rock at the top of the cave was reflected in the calm waters, and this rock was different from the others, a sword plunged deep into the rock, and sank into the hilt.
"Tick."
A drop of water dripped through the silver-white hilt.
"Sword, why do you know there is a sword hidden in this cave?" Liu Min was puzzled.
"Hmm...... I'll talk about this later, but let's find a way to pull the sword off first. ”
Why do you know what you can say? Is this just a game? Are you all game characters?
"Hmm." Liu Min didn't ask any more.
Rey touched the hilt of his sword with the end of his rod through the dense fireflies.
"Tick, tick, tick."
The hilt seemed to tilt slightly, and a few drops of water fell.
Although the whole thing has not been submerged in the rock, it must have been too long ago, and the sword has been loosened a little.
"Okay, I'll go up and pull it off." Rey was eager to try.
"I'll do it anyway."
Liu Min took the fishing rod and walked down the icy lake to the bottom of the hilt.
"Rey, hold my rod tight, I'll try to climb up."
Rey hurriedly walked down the lake and plunged one end of his rod deep into the silt at the bottom of the lake, and the other end of the long, narrow black rod was about to reach the rock wall.
Overhead, a group of fireflies happily flew around the fishing rod.
Liu Min crossed the fishing rod barefoot, grabbed the fishing rod with two small hands, smiled at Lei who was holding the fishing rod, and ran up lightly, through the dancing green, to the top of the rod.
With his feet tightly wrapped around the fishing rod, Liu Min held the rock above his head with one hand and the hilt of the sword with the other, and pulled hard......
"Whoa."
The hilt was long, but the blade was short, more like a dagger than a sword, and as the sword was drawn, a stream of water rushed down.
"Whoa."
The current is getting stronger.
Liu Min quickly slid down the fishing rod and grabbed Rey's hand and ran towards the lake.
"Click."
The sound behind him grew louder and louder, and the sword was like a plug that locked the flow of water, and as the sword was pulled out, the water poured down rapidly.
The crack in the rock that had been pierced by the sword opened wider and wider, and finally, the rock collapsed.
"Crackling, crackling!!"
Like a mountain flood bursting its banks, the waterfall-like water slopes down rapidly, and the fireflies that can't escape in the future are mercilessly swept into the water.
"Whoa, whoa!"
The water couldn't stop the car at all. The only sound left in my ears was the sound of running water. The small clear lake could not contain these swift flowing waters, and it was about to overflow.
In an instant, more than half of the fireflies were swallowed up by the water, and the bright cave became dark.
"Let's go."
Liu Min pushed Rey into the hole behind him.
But it was too late!
Like a mighty river pouring water into a small pond, the ruthless waves swept away Liu Min's petite body in an instant.
"Ah......h
Liu Min's mournful voice just came, and Rey couldn't stand still.
"Ah...... Ah......h
Rey was also swept into the water.
The beautiful fireflies were all buried in the water, and the cave was pitch black, and the water was getting higher and higher, and it was about to reach the rock wall.
It's painful...... Rey, who was immersed in the icy water, gradually lost his breath, and as his consciousness gradually drifted to the other side, Rey suddenly felt a pair of small hands grasp him, and stubbornly wanted to drag himself into the gap in the rock wall.
Rey finally lost consciousness......