However, the stone walls on both sides seem to consciously avoid our ship, and the ship does not always follow a straight line during its travel, and there are many jolts during this period, causing the hull to swing back and forth with great amplitude.

The canyon looks straight, and the rock wall seems to cling to the edge of the boat, but no matter how the boat shakes, it will not rub against the stone wall.

Old Tang leaned over and said to me, "Luogu Gorge is the dotted line of this world, it connects the real and the unreal. ”

Connecting the real and the unreal?

I looked at the stone walls on both sides of the ship, and then at the wisps of water huddled between the stone walls directly in front of the bow.

At this moment, I can't tell which one is real, the sea or the canyon.

The sea is not the sea, and the gorge is not the gorge.

After the Iron Maiden had traveled through the Valley Gorge for two hours, the black stone walls finally disappeared from our sight, and all we could see was the calm sea and a blazing sun hanging in the eastern sky.

When I looked back again, the canyon was long gone.

"I'll be in the market in another hour," said the captain, who came to me with his bottle, and said with a smile, "you must be careful when you enter the market." ”

I turned to look at the captain, "What's the matter, isn't that place peaceful?" ”

The captain shook his head thoughtfully: "The sea market is full of dark corners that cannot be seen by the naked eye. In those corners, there is a lot of dirt that is impossible to look at. ”

He said it in a cryptic way, but I could understand what he meant.

It seems that the sea market is also a mixed place, and in that place, there are many dark sides of human nature.

I sighed through my nose and said nothing, then I lay on the edge of the boat, staring at the waves that had been cut by the hull.

After about an hour and a half, the sky gradually became darker, not the extreme darkness of the night, but a feeling close to dusk, and everything in the eyes was gilded with dark color, and everyone was covered with heavy shadows, as if the outline of everyone's body had been redrawn with a thick black line.

It is said that there has been no wind and waves in this more than an hour, and with the captain's temperament, he must have drunk some wine and relax at this time, but since the Iron Lady left the canyon, he has only held the wine bottle, but he has not eaten a drop of wine, during which he has been sitting on the bow of the ship, looking forward with a heavy heart.

Not only the captain, but Lao Tang also looked very worried.

I could only feel the two of them, but I couldn't see what they were thinking.

As the hull of the ship became darker and darker, a large number of eddies appeared on the surface of the sea, and those eddies were about the size of a steamed bun, and they were very shallow, and even if there were many of them, they would not affect our ship in any way.

Lao Tang stared at the vortex in the sea, and as if he had suddenly made up his mind, he said to me, "I plan to directly let you participate in the ultimate test." ”

I was a little confused by the fact that I was a little confused: "What do you mean?" ”

Old Tang Chang exhaled a turbid breath and said, "Your purpose for going to sea should be the same as your master, right?" ”

"Well, the same."

"That means you don't have much effort to waste," as he spoke, Lao Tang put a hand on my shoulder: "Then let's go straight to the top." ”

"I still don't understand what you mean."

"Haishi has divided fighters like you into forty-seven ranks, and I intend to register you directly as the highest rank, but accordingly, you will have to pass the final test that Haishi has prepared for you."

"Registered as the highest level of ...... Is there any benefit? ”

"The good thing is that you can look at any information in the sea market at will, and other ships have to share it with you. That's the case, if your registration level is too low, you can't rush to the top in a short period of time, after registering as a witcher in Haishi, Haishi will conduct an assessment on you in September every year, only if the examiners feel that you are qualified to advance, you can be promoted, and you can't skip the promotion. In other words, if your initial registration level is level 1, it will take at least 46 years to reach the highest level, and during this time, Haishi will not share any information with you. ”

"Holy, so hard?"

"This is not the most troublesome, the most troublesome thing is those assessment personnel, these rabbit cubs are really black to grandma's house, if you want to be promoted with real skills, it is difficult. If you want to be promoted, you have to rely on this. ”

As he spoke, Lao Tang made a gesture in front of me to count the bills.

Then Lao Tang said: "The ultimate test itself is difficult, but this is not the most difficult, the most difficult thing is that you have to compete with other people on the ship, every year there will be three or four teams participating in this test, but each time only one team can win." To put it bluntly, the final test is the killing field, and the most terrifying thing is not the test itself, but the human hearts hidden under the darkness. ”

I nodded, and didn't say anything more.

But Lao Tang's words were not finished: "There are countless pickles hidden in the market, you have to be mentally prepared." And if you encounter something in the sea market...... If you can't get used to it, you can not interfere, and it is best not to interfere. ”

I shook my head: "This is not moral, when it is time to intervene, I will definitely intervene." ”

Lao Tang was stunned for a moment, and then sighed: "Alas, in fact, I already knew that you would say that. is worthy of being a pro-master and apprentice, and your master didn't cause me much trouble in the sea market back then. ”

I also casually asked, "What level was my master back then?" ”

"When he left the ship, he was forty-two," Lao Tang said, "Hey, your master's mistake was completely a strategic mistake, when he entered the sea market, the initial registration level was nineteen, in fact, he should also register as a top level as soon as he entered the sea market." ”

Just as I was chatting with Lao Tang, a huge black shadow slowly appeared in front of the ship.

At this time, the sea surface was covered with clouds and mist, and the fog blocked most of the outline of the black shadow, but it could not stop its massity.

It was like a Xuanwu crawling on the sea, and in front of our ship was a speck of dust under a big tree.

When I think back to the sea, many of the things I saw were so large that it seemed to have become a common practice on the ocean.

Lao Tang looked at the giant shadow in front of him, frowned and said, "That's Haishi." ”

"If you build the sea market so big, aren't you afraid that people outside will find out about it?"

"This is the Inland Sea, and people from outside can't see what's in the Inland Sea at all. It's time to enter the port, hold on!"

I didn't dare to slack off at all, and immediately grabbed the edge of the boat with both hands.

In the next instant, there was an extremely violent turbulence in the hull, and the hull suddenly rose more than ten meters, and then descended at an even speed.

This process lasted almost two minutes, and by the time the deck had settled down again, we had officially sailed into Thousand Sails Harbor.