The blue sea stretches as far as the eye can see, and two white sails open in the wind, like the wings of a giant bird flying low on the surface of the sea. A flock of seagulls followed behind the mast and advanced with the help of the ship's air currents.

On the towering mast, there was a little black figure parked, and suddenly with a cry, it rose to the sky, went straight up to the sky, circled in the sky for a while, and then fell rapidly, and swept across the water, causing a lot of panic among the gulls behind the boat.

Aoki stood at the bow of the boat, his eyes closed, feeling the strong sea breeze blowing in his face.

The salty and wet sea breeze carries a hint of the fragrance of leaves and flowers, but there are only blue waves in front of you, and there is not a single island or reef with plants growing in sight.

When Petru turned the sails and sailed against the wind, the ethereal smell that came with the wind was gone.

"What the fuck is this?" Petru scolded.

They had been searching the sea for five whole days, and the smell of the wind had been circling in the same place with them, but they had not seen even a shadow of a reef.

Of course, Aoki smelled not only the fragrance, but also the mental fluctuations that were vague. Whenever he stood at the bow of the ship and closed his eyes, the crows perched on the high masts would fly up and look around in the high sky.

Its vision was Aoki's, but it could only see the sea, even though it had brushed the thin clouds at the bottom.

Su Huilan and Petru stood not far from Aoki, their eyes also slightly closed, and they breathed long, deep, as if they were doing an ancient yoga exercise.

On the deck next to it lay an orange cat, holding a half-gnawed fish in its arms, its eyes fixed on the sea ahead, its eyes wary as if it had spotted its prey.

Petru opened his eyes first, and saw that the person next to him was still in a dream, and even the cat did not move, but could only shake his head self-deprecatingly.

This is the method that Aoki taught him, when the spiritual fluctuations of the sea appear, carefully sense it, and find a way to catch it. Although that energy is so weak that it is almost impossible to capture and will not replenish one's spiritual power, when you follow its rhythm and cast your spiritual power into the farthest and widest range, your spiritual power is invisibly exercised.

Petru didn't even sense the mental fluctuations at first. He found that he was the only one in the entire boat that he couldn't sense, even the bird and the cat. He felt lonely for a while, no different from the salted fish in the warehouse.

Later, he found the trick, and whenever Aoki said that he noticed mental fluctuations, his sensitive nose, which had been blown by the wind at sea all the year round, could smell a fresh scent of grass and trees, faintly drifting around with the salty and wet sea breeze.

He didn't know if the spiritual power had a smell, or when the spiritual power fluctuated, did the ghost island pass by somewhere in the void, and the two unrelated spaces affected each other when the orbits were infinitely close, and they smelled the flowers on the island, so did the people on the island smell the salty and wet sea breeze here?

Oh, of course yes, since it's an island, of course it smells of the sea.

Petru followed the example of Aoki and Su Huilan, closed his eyes, looked for the faint fragrance in the sea breeze, and the next day, he really felt the fluctuation of his spirit. The waves were like the breath of the sea, and he saw the tides under the moon, and the little lives that came with the tide on the beach.

The feeling was like a dream, and he was fascinated until the tide receded, the moon vanished, and the light in the dream faded into the boundless silence of his mind like the departing light of a comet.

In the past few days, Petrux has felt that his mental strength has grown greatly. Each time he was immersed in this dream, and then opened his eyes with joy, only to be disappointed to find that he was always the first to wake up.

He lit a cigarette and watched them quietly. When the smoke was halfway burned, Su Huilan also opened her eyes, and the cat gnawed on the fish under her claws again.

When the cigarette burned out, he flicked the cigarette butt into the sea with his fingers. The cigarette butt drew an arc, becoming a small black dot under the blue sky, falling to the sea, and a black dot also appeared at the junction of the sea and the sky at this time, which slowly became larger.

The crow spread its wings, like a falcon returning from a long hunt, croaked and landed on top of Aoki's head.

Only then did Aoki slowly open his eyes and stretch.

"Didn't you find it again?" Petru asked, "If this continues, when will we find it?" ”

Aoki put his hand on the railing at the bow of the boat and said lazily, "Oh, I'll always find it." ”

"But it's been five days!" Petru looked a little anxious. "The food on my ship is only enough to last for half a month, and after five days at most, if we can't find it in five days, we can only return to the sea."

Aoki said, "I'll find it." ”

Su Huilan smiled: "It seems that you are already confident? ”

Aoki said: "If you don't have a bamboo or not, you still have a little bit of certainty." Have you noticed that there is a certain pattern to this mental fluctuation? ”

Of course, Su Huilan also found out, but she didn't know what this law represented.

"You're saying there's a cyclical pattern to its appearance?"

"Not very sure, maybe cyclical, but more like a linkage."

"Linkage? How to linkage? Is there a message being sent between the tab? ”

"Possibly, maybe these tabs are some kind of mechanism that triggers the underwater ruins."

Su Huilan said: "Then this organ is too big!" Placing a trap on a million square kilometers of ocean, I don't think humans have the ability to do that. Moreover, some of the tabs are clearly no longer working, such as the one on Lapa Island. If it's a linkage mechanism, if any one of them fails, the whole mechanism will fail, so how can we explain that these ghost islands appear and disappear from time to time, and the underwater ruins also appear from time to time? ”

Aoki shook his head and said, "The spiritual power on the stone has disappeared, which doesn't necessarily mean that the tabb is out of order!" Maybe the strength of the mental fluctuations of the tabb in different positions is different! ”

Su Huilan fell into deep thought, and only came back to her senses after a long time: "What you said makes sense, I ignored this, the spiritual intensity may be a setting of the mechanism, using different wave strengths to control the function of the entire mechanism." ”

"So, how do you open this mechanism?" Petru said impatiently

Aoki said, "I don't know, we always have to see the mechanism first, and this ghost island with us playing hide and seek is probably the core of the whole mechanism, at least the most important component." Wait a minute, since you've seen it, it will always appear. ”

"Oh my God!" Petru exclaimed, "Then you say so much for a bird!" It's all nonsense! ”

The crow said angrily, "Hey, hey, what are you talking about?" What bird is light? It's best not to bring a bird word when scolding people in the future, don't you know that birds are also dignified? ”

Petru rolled his eyes: "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot you were a bird!" By the way, what the hell are you? ”

"Me?" My crow proudly said, "Of course I am the most human-like among birds, the most bird-like among people, and sometimes, I don't know if I am a human or a bird, but biologically speaking, I do seem to be a bird." ”

"Alright, Birdman!" Petrux gave him a thumbs up.

"Forehead......" The crow felt a little wrong, "It's better to be a human bird, in linguistics, the position of the subject and the definite sentence is very particular, sometimes the position is changed, the meaning is completely different, such as sauce elbow and elbow sauce, well, are two different flavors......"

"Okay, okay, I got it." Petru raised his hands in surrender, he really didn't know why he wanted to provoke this bird that was even more nagging than his grandmother.

The crow finally shut up.

Petru was a little surprised, in the past, this bird nagged and didn't care if you threatened or begged for mercy, and he wouldn't stop until he finished his words. This time, however, it immediately stopped, as if someone had pinched its beak.

The deck was eerily quiet, with only the sea breeze blowing.

He smelled the faint scent of flowers in the wind.

However, he found that neither Aoki, Su Huilan, nor the crow nor the cat closed their eyes as usual, but instead opened their eyes wide and looked ahead.

Petru followed their gaze. In front of me, an island suddenly appeared on the blue sea, and the trees on the island were lush and green, and there seemed to be patches of silver fern flowers reflecting strange light.