The fog grew thicker, the rain became heavier and heavier, and the vision became blurred, and only a rumbling sound could be heard, which was deafening as the earth trembled.

"Get in the right direction and run towards that waterfall!" Aoki shouted in the rain, for fear that the fog would scatter everyone.

It seems as if the heavens were about to fall, and the earth was about to crack. There was almost no oxygen in the air, only cold rain and a mist of unknown composition.

Petru felt like his lungs were going to explode, but he gritted his teeth and ran forward with Madame Larry on his back. There was no other choice at this point, he had to trust Aoki.

He vaguely heard Mrs. Larry shouting something in his ear, but he couldn't hear it clearly. He knew what Madame meant, probably telling him to let her go so that he could run for his life. Of course, he wouldn't let her go, wanting to say something in response, but he didn't say anything.

Su Huilan's feeling at the moment is not much better, although she doesn't have to carry a person on her back like Petru, but she has lost a lot of mental power just now, and she is running in such an extreme environment, if she is a little farther away, she may really not be able to hold on.

Thankfully, they soon reached the edge of the waterfall. Fog and rain obscured her view, but she could still tell that this was the end of the river in the canyon.

The winding river meets a steep mountain and rises from the ground and flows up the cliff, creating a spectacular waterfall with a reverse current.

When she looked up, the sky was cloudy and foggy, and she couldn't see the details of the giant moon clearly, only a white patch of moonlight. The waterfall of the reverse current passed through the clouds and disappeared into the moonlight.

There are many tree trunks piled up on the tidal flats by the river, long and short, straight and curved, as if someone deliberately piled them up here. Some of the thick trunks had been cut out in the middle.

Su Huilan understood, this was a canoe made by a wild man. It seems that they have already encountered this kind of catastrophe, and the way to escape is to drive a canoe up this waterfall when the fog is rising on the island, but they don't know where it is.

She wanted to tell everyone what she had discovered, but she couldn't make a sound due to lack of oxygen, her chest was uncomfortable, and her nose was full of rainwater.

She heard Aoki shouting, "Hold the wood and jump down!" ”

Without hesitation, Su Huilan picked up a piece of wood that looked like it was the right size and she could hold it. The wood is not as heavy as expected, it should be a very low-density wood, I don't know what kind of tree it is. This type of wood is generally very low in practicality and will rot if left unplaced, but it is highly buoyant, and it is the best material for escaping in the water in such an emergency.

She jumped into the water with a plop of the wood, and suddenly remembered that Aoki was also a piece of wood. She wondered why she would think of such a thought at such a time.

She thought again that she couldn't even speak, how could this wood still make such a loud noise, everyone was short of oxygen, wouldn't he be short of oxygen?

The river carried her body forward and floated forward. She suddenly felt a strong pull, as if she had been swept into a whirlpool, her body lost her balance, and her whole body fell into the waterfall against the current.

She had imagined that she would be carried upward by the tremendous force of the waterfall, but she had just seen those wild men fly towards the moon with their teeth and claws after falling into the waterfall.

But strangely, she felt weightless at the moment, as if she was falling from a high place, rather than flying up from a low place. She remembered when she was bungee jumping at the Grand Canyon Royal and the feeling was exactly the same except that there was water all around her.

She tried her best to steady herself and opened her eyes, surrounded by water and fog. The fog is uneven, thick in some places and thin in others, like clouds. She is now like a parachutist without a parachute open, her body in free fall, at great speed, through layers of clouds.

She remembered Li Bai's poem: The flying stream went straight down to 3,000 feet, and it was suspected that the Milky Way fell for nine days.

Su Huilan finally understood that she was not flying towards the sky, she would not fly to the moon, and this waterfall was not a river to the sky, it was an optical illusion.

Perhaps the island's gravitational field is unevenly distributed, or perhaps the distorted space bends the light, in short, if the curvature of this space is flattened, the river that diverges from the central lake of the island flows normally downward, and the river ends in a deep valley of cliffs, not a mountain that blocks it.

But their brains are unable to correct the changes in light caused by the curvature of space, and the visual response is that a river is slowly flowing upward.

After the river came to an end, the waterfall formed by rushing down the cliff should have been invisible, but due to the curvature of space, the light came from the curved surface and they saw it, making them mistakenly think that the waterfall was rushing up the current and rushing into the sky.

She knew now that they were falling down.

Usually at the bottom of a waterfall, there is a deep pool formed by the impact of the water. They're going to fall into this puddle.

It's just that she still doesn't understand, the devastating scene on the island just now, can just a waterfall escape?

Of course, the fog on the island is the key, and judging from the situation when they entered the island and Alice's statement, the fog may be a signal of some kind of spatial rift opening. But even if the waterfall passes through a wormhole and they fall into a deep pool in another dimension, at the rate of falling now, they will be seriously injured if they don't die.

As soon as she thought of this, she heard Aoki's shout again: "Hold on to the wood!" ”

Su Huilan subconsciously hugged the wood tighter, and then with a bang, the speed of the fall suddenly slowed down, like turning into a water slide.

She thought the waterfall had turned due to the slope of the mountain, but she didn't hit the rocks.

The vision is a little better than before, and the oxygen concentration seems to have increased a bit. Su Huilan took a few breaths, turned her head to look, and saw Aoki and Petru working together to support Mrs. Larry, while Mrs. Larry was holding a large log.

Lying soundly on Aoki's shoulders, the soaked fur sticking to his body, like a Sphynx hairless cat. Only the coal boss glides on the surface of the water with his wings outstretched, and occasionally stops on Aoki's head. And Aoki's hair was still so messy, there wasn't even a drop of water on it.

There are torrents everywhere around, but not the ocean. It's hard to describe, it's like a pipe without a pipe, they're in the pipe, yes, it's a pipe without a pipe in the void.

The hose is twisted, one moment smooth, the next sagging, the next spinning again. The speed at which they drift is also fast and slow. At this time, the wood in the hand plays a big role. Without the buoyancy of wood, it is difficult for the body to balance in the water.

After a while, the water suddenly accelerated, and before Su Huilan could adjust her posture, she rushed into the deep pool with a bang.

The water is lukewarm.

She rose to the surface by the buoyancy of the wood, and saw bubbles in many places on the water, as if it were about to boil.

She turned her head to look around, but she couldn't see the water pipe she had come from, nor the waterfall, only a white mist that was so thick that she couldn't dissolve.

"Aoki! Where are you? Su Huilan shouted, "Are you all here?" ”

She heard Aoki's voice coming from the mist: "I'm here!" ”

Then the crow: "Oh, I'm in the sea again?!" Fortunately, I am with you, oh quack, God Buddha Ann La, Taishang Lao Jun Newton Aristotle Marx bless, I am still alive! ”8)