Aoki and Su Huilan knew about the rest of the matter, and Anderson came back to save Alice, but unfortunately he was shot in the leg by a poisoned arrow. He didn't have time to treat his wounds and ran away with Alice. Their goal is to return to the lake in the middle of the island and take the lifeboat hidden there to the other side of the lake. Although there are certainly savages on the other side, at least they can get out of the current predicament of being hunted down.

However, the attack of curare poison prevented Anderson from running at full speed, so he could only set up an illusion and turn back at the fork of the stream, hoping to blind the wild men who were chasing them.

After Su Huilan's treatment, Anderson's condition improved slightly, his chapped and pale lips moved slightly, and he called out in confusion: "Alice...... Alice ......"

Alice grabbed his hand: "Anderson, I'm here!" All is well, Anderson, someone has come to our rescue! ”

Anderson struggled to open his eyes and saw the faces of two strangers, and he smiled: "It's good, Alice, God heard my prayer!" I prayed to God that he would send angels to save you, and it was good! You're saved! ”

Alice put Anderson's hand on her face and tears flowed down her face: "Yes, we are all saved!" We'll all be fine! ”

The crow next to him looked at this scene and exclaimed, "Oh, that's touching! ”

Su Huilan's heart was also sour, and she swallowed back what she wanted to say, pulled Aoki to the outside of the cave, and said, "Let them stay alone for a while!" ”

Aoki had a bad premonition: "You mean...... His injuries? ……”

Su Huilan shook her head and sighed: "The poison of the arrow poison wood is very poisonous, and it is a miracle that he has been able to hold on until now." ”

"Didn't you give him medicine?"

"Medication can do some relief, but it can't stop the toxic damage to the nervous system and heart, unless we go back to Lapa Island tonight, and there are suitable drugs in the camp."

Aoki knew that it was impossible as soon as he heard it, not to mention whether they could leave the island now, and even if they could, it would take two days to get from here to Lapa Island by boat at the earliest.

"What do you think?" Su Huilan asked suddenly.

"What?" Aoki didn't know what she was asking.

"About the island, and the lake on the island." Su Huilan said.

Aoki rubbed his face, took a cigarette out of his pocket, and lit a match. He thought as he approached the cigarette with a fire. The match stopped for a long time a few centimeters away from the cigarette, and it was not until it was about to be extinguished that Aoki lit the cigarette, then took a deep breath, and while spitting the cigarette, he analyzed:

"Whether it's us, or the time Petru came alone before, or Alice, they all came to this island when it was foggy, which shows that it may only appear in the Pacific Ocean when it is foggy, and when there is no fog, it is hidden. Judging from what happened to Alice and the others, if there was no fog, they would not have been able to get out of the sea from the island, and would only return to the lake in the center of the island. This is consistent with the scene in the wild woman's dream, in which the sea and the lake are one.

But there are a few things I can't figure out. First, if you go to sea and you go back to the lake, why can't you go back to the sea from the lake? Second, if the sea and the lake are one, then the sea outside the island is connected to our world, that is, to the Pacific Ocean, when the fog is blowing, but the lake seems to lead to another island? Third, how was the scene of the integration of the lake and the sea in the dream of the female savage constructed? ”

Su Huilan said: "I think about the same, there may be a completely enclosed folding space here, which is connected to our world through a wormhole. ”

"Folded space?"

"It's not necessarily accurate, but it's roughly understood." Su Huilan plucked a large leaf from the tree next to her and spread it on the ground, "If this is the sea," she dug up a lump of soft soil from the ground and placed it on the leaf, "This is an island." ”

"This is the lake on the island." She stretched out her finger and lit a pit in the center of the dirt, and then wrapped the whole leaf from all sides inward, as if she were wrapping a bun, but the edge of the leaf was pressed against the pit in the middle of the dirt, "Because of some unknown reason the space distortion, this sea wraps the whole island and connects it to the lake in between, so the sea is the lake, and the lake is the sea." ”

"When we see the fog, a wormhole mechanism is activated, and this enclosed space is related to the outside space, just like this-" She let go of the hand holding the leaves, and the leaves opened, but no longer flat, but stretched upwards into a lotus shape, "It will become semi-open, and at this time, the space in contact with it will also undergo a certain degree of distortion, and if this distortion is smooth, we can enter this space." When it's closed again, we won't be able to get out. ”

Su Huilan's reasoning may not be rigorous, but it is intuitive and easy to understand, and Aoki has to admire her open-mindedness.

"Then why are there different islands?" Aoki asked.

Petru had said with great certainty that this island was not the one he had been to last time, and that the wild woman's dreams proved that there was more than one primitive tribe here.

Su Huilan said: "It may be multiple enclosed spaces, connected by the same wormhole. It could also be that the interplay between distorted spaces creates wormholes. It's too complicated to say, and I can't figure it out for a while. ”

Aoki nodded: "Well, the analogy you made with leaves is already very vivid, but I'm afraid the islanders here can't imagine such a world, why would that female savage named Tafijin overlap the sea and the lake in a dream?" Even if you return to the lake every time you go to sea, it is impossible to visually overlap the lake and the sea, which does not conform to the way the human brain perceives and the rules of subconscious construction of dreams. Even if we now know of the existence of a distorted enclosed space, we will only imagine it as the leaf model you made, and it will never be as magical as Tafidi's dreams. ”

The scene in Tafijin's dream of the sea being a lake, the lake being the sea, the islands on the sea, and the lakes on the islands is too incredible, and it is not at all a spatial structure that human beings can imagine.

"Maybe their visual system is different from ours. The lake and the sea we see are separated, but what they see may have been one. Su Huilan said, "The neural structure of living things is different, and the perception of the world is different. Bats rely on ultrasound to hear the wind and identify their positions, and dragonflies have compound eyes made up of more than 20,000 small eyes, they live in the same world as us, but the world they 'see' is definitely different from us. ”

Aoki was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "You mean, the people on this island are not the same species as us?!" ”

It's hard to say, but it may also be an inherent preconception of consciousness. Our memories and knowledge fix our perception of the ocean and islands, and when we think of this island, we naturally think that it is the ocean beyond it. But the people on the island don't have this kind of understanding, in their eyes, the sea and the lake are the same thing made of water, and the whole world is a closed space made of land and water, so they have never tried to leave the island. ”