"Grandma! Didn't I throw away this crystal ball a long time ago, oh no, it's long gone? Anne asked, looking incredulously at the crystal ball in the old lady's hand.

"Huh!" The old lady smiled mischievously, "I told you that this is a sacred object, how can it be that you can throw it away casually?" Besides, I'm the greatest soothsayer in the world, and I won't find it where you throw it? ”

Anne shook her head speechlessly, she walked up to me and whispered to me, "This crystal ball was bought by my grandmother from a crook before, it's actually a glass product, I'm sorry!" ”

"It's okay! Anyway, it's raining outside now, so I'll pass the time to play with the old lady for a while. I smiled and said to the old lady, "Well, since you are the greatest fortune teller in the world, please give me a fortune divination." ”

The old lady nodded, then put the crystal ball on the table, and after a strange nervous ritual, her hands floated back and forth on the surface of the crystal ball, and her mouth said intermittently: "I see a ship, a strange ship?" The way it looks, the way it looks, is full of light. There are a lot of people on it, wearing such strange clothes! ”

"Margaret?" As soon as the old lady opened her mouth, I was shocked, and I don't know why I immediately thought of the Margaret we were riding.

"Shhhh Don't talk, God loves to be quiet! The old lady motioned for me not to speak, and then continued: "The storm is so great, the wind is heavy and the rain is blowing, and the strange ship has capsized!" A lot of people are crying, a lot of people are sinking to the bottom of the sea, and a lot of people are coming to a beach! I saw you, you're the one on that strange ship, aren't you? ”

"This old lady ......" Listening to the old lady's words, the storm in my heart has been as wild as the weather outside the house, what a bullshit worldview, the cosmology is sparse!

Does the old lady really have magical witchcraft? Can she see the past? What hell is this Nima! What kind of scientific theories can support this possibility? I stared into the old lady's eyes and asked, "What else do you see?" How did we get to that beach from where the strange ship capsized? ”

"The storm was too big, I couldn't see clearly, it seemed like there was a man, he, he moved you to a, a red soft boat."

"You're talking about a lifeboat? What does that guy look like? ”

"Can't see, can't see clearly." The old lady shook her head and said, "It's raining too much, wait, a bolt of lightning!" I saw it, oh my God, that guy had a blue face! ”

"Blue face? Small card? It was Xiaoka who saved us in the first place? "I can't put into words the shock I felt at the moment, and if it was possible that the old lady was talking nonsense and happened to overlap with the scene of our encounter, then the blue face could not be made up in any way.

"What else? What else? Can you see what's happening in the rest of the world? ”

"No! Can't look any further! God needs rest, God needs rest! After the old lady finished speaking, she quickly wrapped the crystal ball with a cloth again, and the luster on the surface of the crystal ball was really much darker.

Seeing that I somehow stayed where I was, Anne nudged me, "Mr. Han, Mr. Han, are you okay?" Did Grandma scare you? I'm really sorry! ”

"Oh, no, no!" I came back to my senses and waved my hand and said, "What did the old lady do when she was young?" Is it really a soothsayer? ”

"Of course not, my grandmother was a noble lady when she was young, and she was never a soothsayer, but when she got older, she always claimed to be a soothsayer for some reason, and bought a fake crystal ball from a liar and said it was a god given to her!"

"I'm tired! I am tired! I want to rest! I want to rest! The old lady suddenly snorted, and flew upstairs with a bumping walk, and I wanted to take out the crystal ball and look at it again, but I don't know when the old lady locked the cabinet.

"Then how did you end up on Paradise Island?" I asked Annie.

"My family had some accidents later, my grandmother and I were kicked out by our stepmother, and at first we lived in other people's homes, but my grandmother often disturbed others because of her delirium, so after many times we finally had nowhere to go. In the end, my father secretly gave me a sum of money, but asked me to take my grandmother away from the empire, so we came here. ”

"Ridiculous! Their own mother and daughter were swept away like this? How could he be ruthless? I said indignantly.

Anne smiled helplessly, "My stepmother doesn't like me and grandma, and my father needs and fears the power of my stepmother's family, so I ......", Anne raised her head strongly, and let the tears rolling in her eyes flow back again. I didn't know how to comfort the poor girl, so I stood quietly by her side.

"Okay, let's not talk about me, let's talk about you? What do you do? Anne sorted out her emotions and asked me cutely.

"I'm the manager of the Paradise Island Rum Distillery, so come to me if you need help in the future."

After chatting for about half an hour, the rain outside finally stopped, and I thanked Anne again and left the house.

The road outside the house was muddy after being washed away by the torrential rain, all kinds of messy branches and leaves could be seen everywhere, and the sky in the distance was dotted with colorful rainbow bridges, bright blue, dilapidated but new.

Along the way, I kept thinking back to what the old lady had just said, and the scenes she described were so apt that they were frightening. Although I sometimes talk about Bodhisattvas and Buddhas, I am essentially an atheist, and I have never believed in the existence of such gods, I only believe in science, but this time science obviously cannot answer my confusion.

After arriving at the camp, I told everyone what happened when I was sheltering from the rain, and the survivors of the shipwreck were as surprised as I was, and everyone looked at Xiaoka, who shook his head and said that he had no impression at all, and that he had never left the waters of Pelican Island before meeting us, let alone seen the Margaret cruise ship.

Uncle Wei thought for a long time, and suddenly patted his thigh and said, "Could it be that there is something wrong with that crystal ball?" Maybe it's not a crystal ball or a glass product at all, but a device or an instrument, and what the old lady sees is the image recorded in that instrument? ”

"Makes sense!" I agreed, but after thinking about it, I was still a little puzzled: "I also saw that crystal ball at that time?" Why don't you see those images? ”

Uncle Wei said: "Maybe there is a problem with the angle you are standing on, maybe the image in there needs to be viewed from a special angle." ”

After some gossiping, I decided to find the old lady again, if it was really as Uncle Wei deduced, the crystal ball was an instrument similar to a video camera, then as long as we could see the video data recorded inside, many of the confusions we encountered could be easily solved.

At this time, Uncle Song also returned to the camp, and he told us that he might have to stay in the Governor's Palace for the next few days, because this sudden rainstorm had caused serious damage to many of the island's infrastructure, and Duke Jackson had asked all the imperial officials to repair it overnight.

I laughed and joked: "I didn't expect these officials of the feudal empire to also have a bit of a servant spirit." ”

Uncle Song shook his head, "Where is the spirit of a public servant, it is because Prince Charles is going to come to Paradise Island to pass the holy flame in the past two days, and there will be a large number of imperial reporters accompanying him. ”