Chapter 24: What Ghosts Can Do

Anne Yi has always had a question, since ghosts can't touch people, and can directly pass through doors, windows, walls and other obstacles, then why can they stand on the ground and not keep falling?

Now, she's having this problem.

She had tried a few times before, but she couldn't reach the few missing people trapped here, they couldn't hear them, and she couldn't pick up the sand and stones to spell it - not that she couldn't touch the sand and stones, but the sand and stones seemed to be fixed to the ground, and she couldn't pick them up at all.

Probably the same as the sand and gravel on the ground, she couldn't pass through it.

Originally, Yi Annie planned to go to the depths of the cave by herself, but found that she also had no night vision, and after walking a short distance into the cave, the light outside was completely gone. Darkness hits, and Anne feels deep fear even when she becomes a ghost.

The wind blowing from the cave proved that there should be other vents inside, but after adjusting to the darkness for a long time, Yi Annie did not feel any light in any other direction.

The cave was very damp and smelled of the sea, but there were no stains, and it didn't seem like bats living in it. In addition, there is water above the cave, Yi Annie tried it, it is fresh water, and it has the sweetness of a mountain spring, and this is the drinking water for a few people here.

Then groping her way inside, she fell a few times on the potholed ground in the cave, and then silently dismissed her plans to find a way out, and groped her way back to the hole.

Without light, even if Iannie was in the form of a ghost, she couldn't find her way from the inside to the outside. It seems that we can only wait for Noah and his father to say and make the torch.

The fresh sea breeze blew through Iannie's hair and the corners of her clothes in the sound of the tide, and Anne realized that she was wearing the same sportswear she wore during the day. Speaking of which, she always thought that she was dragged over in her sleep, and she should be wearing pajamas, so when she thought about it, she probably was caught by the female ghost at Noah's house, and this state of not knowing whether it was a curse or something had already begun to affect her.

Continuing to watch the tide lapping on the rocky beach in a daze, Yi Annie suddenly remembered that I am a ghost now! If you can't get through the cave, why not try the sea route?

With that in mind, she walked out into the sea.

Anne thought about the various states she might have in the sea, and since she could step on the ground, could she also step on the water? Since she can still touch all kinds of things, it means that her form is still there, so will it make a humanoid cavity in the seawater? And if she can walk through the water, will she be able to walk underwater?

It's a great experience to think about!

However, she was able to cross the water, but the water would push her.

Anne walked not far into the sea before the water reached her calves, and suddenly, as soon as her body lightened, a wave came, and she was thrown back on the rocky beach. The moment he fell, his back was on the ground, and he was hurt all over his body by the stones on the rocky beach.

"Pain, pain!" Anne bent her arm to touch her back, but fortunately it didn't seem to break......

After two more attempts, she was thrown twice, and it seemed that there was a wonderful force preventing her from continuing deeper into the sea.

The pain of grief persisted, and Iannie never dared to try the sea route again, and continued to think about what else could be done.

Legend has it that children under the age of a few years can see ghosts because of their pure hearts, and Iannie walked around Tom a few times, but Tom didn't appear to see people/ghosts at all.

I think of many TV movies where ghosts pass through the human body and make people feel a chill. So Yi Annie also went to try it, because she was afraid of causing irreversible mental damage to the elderly and children, Yi Annie's initial experiment was Noah's father.

Wearing it back and forth, the other party didn't feel anything, and Yi Annie didn't feel anything. Yi Annie didn't give up, and tried the remaining three people, but it still didn't work.

It was a magical experience, and although Anne maintained her own five senses, she couldn't feel people.

After thinking about it, Anne prepared to do another experiment - she stuck her head inside Grandma Noah, and opened her eyes.

I thought that what I saw would be the scene of human organs wriggling in front of me, but I didn't expect that as if the human body didn't exist, Yi Annie directly saw the reef and the sea in front of her.

Anne couldn't help but wonder, did these four people really exist? Is it possible that they are just phantoms?

The initial sense of fun cooled down, and Anne began to worry about her state.

Can I get out of this place? Will this ghost of mine ever be able to return to his body? Am I dead?

Thinking so, Iannie sat passively on the flat ground where she had woken up before, watching the four of them collect driftwood and food, not knowing what else she could do.

As time passes, the sun gradually sets, and since you can see the sunset here, it means that this is the west bank of the province.

Listening to a few people chatting before, Yi Annie also learned that they were all trapped in the cave before, and it was not until the tide receded today that they had the opportunity to come out to find supplies and a way out. Thinking about the fact that it has been almost two weeks since Noah's father disappeared and then his grandparents, it is not easy for them to hold on all the time.

Noah's father started a fire using the materials he had collected, but the materials were limited here, and it looked like the driftwood had just been dried. Together with Noah's grandfather, he sharpened one end of a piece of wood with a flake of rock, and collected the shaved wood chips together to use them as velvet to drill wood for fire.

Yi Annie looked at it for a while, and found that there was no fire for a while, so she went to look at Grandma Noah, who was handling the food, and Tom, who was making soy sauce, and the small shrimp, crabs and shells they found before were piled up in a small puddle in the cave.

Still limited by the material, Noah's grandmother had to break open the hard shell of the oysters with stones, pick out the tender shells, and then put them in a puddle in the cave to wash off the shell fragments stuck in the meat, and put them on a piece of stone that was used as a plate, and in a short time she saved up a small pile.

"Wow! Pearl! Tom spotted a ray of brilliance in the flesh of the plate, and thought it was an unwashed shell, but when he picked it out, it was a light purple pearl.

This pearl taken from edible shells is not beautiful in shape and has a very natural form, and is loved by the people who live in this province near the sea.

With Tom's cheers, there was a lightness in the dreary cavern, and several adults showed a hint of a smile. With the appearance of the first pearl, more pearls were knocked out, and three pink beads were cut out of a huge oyster.

Tom washed the beads in seawater and put them all in the pocket of his leather jacket.

"I'm going to take it home and show it to my mother!"

Compared to the few adults who have been here for more than ten days, Tom's sudden appearance in the cave was only two days ago, and the excitement has not yet passed, and the children do not eat much, and they are also very happy to eat some kelp casually.

Listening to his naΓ―ve declaration now, it made the hearts of several adults feel bitter.

Can you really go back?

A faint spark flickered, and a wisp of green smoke rose from the darkening sky.

"There's a fire!" Noah's father and grandfather let out a cheer and quickly took some flammable items to keep the fire alive, and then added some dry driftwood to make the flame bigger.

"Uncle is amazing!" Tom also came over and circled the fire.

Noah's grandmother came over with the washed shellfish and the shrimp and crabs that were worn together: "I can at least eat something hot today." ”

After taking the food and placing it on the fire to bake, Noah's grandfather looked at the gradually darkening sky outside and said, "We have a fire here, will there be a passing fishing boat to see us?" ”

Noah's father shook his head with a slightly heavy face and said, "I don't know, I've been in the water before, there are too many reefs in the sea near here, the current is very complicated, and it is estimated that it is difficult for fishing boats to get close." ”

Noah's father's words are not unreasonable, they have been here for so long, and they have not seen any ships passing by. The terrain of the cave is a bit deep, and it is difficult to find it if the angle is wrong.

"Well, let's fill my stomach first." Noah's grandmother roasted the shellfish with a stick, "Now that there's a fire, we can go and explore the hole." ”

Noah's father nodded, and directly picked up a piece of raw oyster meat and sent it to his mouth, in fact, in Noah Province, oysters are basically eaten raw.

Tom also wanted to learn from Noah's father to eat like this, but his little hand was grabbed by Noah's grandmother: "Children are weak, so it's safer to eat cooked food as much as possible." ”

Tom was confused, but obediently took the cooked shellfish and ate it.

Yi Annie squatted on the side and looked at the drool, such a big oyster, at least 5 dollars a piece on the market, Yi Annie bought half a dozen (six) at most to taste it, and never saw such a large plate of oyster meat and shellfish in front of her to eat casually.

On the other side, the small shrimp and crabs strung on the twigs also turned from blue-black to pink, and most of the sea creatures cultivated in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean were fleshy and fat, and a fresh fragrance wafted in the cave, causing Yi Annie's mouth to water.

She probably woke up in the middle of the afternoon, and Anne didn't know why she didn't have the impression of the morning, but she didn't think she had eaten for a day.

But can ghosts be hungry?

Thinking like this, Yi Annie actually felt a sense of emptiness in her body, as if this soul body was about to dissipate.

"This, this, this...... What's going on? "Yi Annie touched her abdomen, she was really not hungry, but she felt super empty and weak when she smelled the smell of food.

remembered the scene in a ghost movie, where the ghost smoked the fire, Yi Annie also went to the side to take a sip of the smoke in the fire, but she choked and coughed all the time.

That didn't work, and Anne's eyes turned to the oyster meat that was set aside.