That night, when he had dinner with the sailors by the campfire, he secretly drank Xia Beihao's wine. He imagined that he had drunk the elixir from the white jade cup, and before he knew it, he had fallen on the beach.

What happened after that was more like an illusory dream, and it was impossible to determine whether it had actually happened after recalling it countless times for more than a decade.

His body and consciousness seemed to be separate during that time. He remembered that Xia Beihao whispered when he carried him back to his room: "Hehe, the little mascot is drunk, look at him sleeping!" At that time, I should have fallen asleep with his eyes closed in his arms. Strangely enough, he remembered clearly that the sailor was smiling and looking down at his face in the flickering light.

This feeling persisted that night – the body was asleep, but the consciousness was awake.

After putting him on the small bed, Xia Beihao closed the door and left.

Lying on the bed with one mind, motionless. But he could hear all sorts of sounds coming from the beach—the clamor and singing of the sailors, the clatter of the passengers walking up and down the deck and their shoes hitting the floor, the roar of the rising tide washing over the stern of the Sand Gull, the whine of the sea breeze drilling through the rocks of the mountains...... Suddenly, all sounds were gone!

The sudden silence terrified Issin . He tried to get up and check, but found that he couldn't control his body. He felt his consciousness waking up telling his body to just move, just wake up from a dream. But the body seemed to be chained, and it was impossible to move.

Until a strange voice sounded in his ears: "Come on, come on, carefully, quietly, come on, come on...... " The words were repeated slowly, one by one into Yixin's ears.

He tried to move his body again, and it did! And stand up! Walked up!

Ichishin found himself on a deserted beach covered in thick fog, with burnt campfires and traces of sailors behind him, but empty. Through the thick fog, he could see a full moon hanging high and stars shining, but the stars and moon seemed to be watching him vigilantly, guarding some important secret. Something is moving in front of you, blinking hard to see clearly!

Yes! It's that little girl! Alone, barefoot, she walked into the dark valley, and a thick mist came out of the valley and was about to engulf her!

He wanted to call her, but he couldn't even open his mouth, let alone make a sound. He tried to step forward to stop him, but his legs were as heavy as stones. He moved up and down, towards the figure of the little girl.

The strange voice echoed in the mist: "Come on, come on, carefully, quietly, come on, come on...... " The figure of the little girl disappeared into the valley.

The mist rolled in and drowned the heart.

He was in it, there was no passage around him, and he felt a thick fog that seemed to be fearful itself, trying to drown him in, immobilizing him. The sound echoing in his ears became smaller and smaller, and he felt strongly in his heart that he had to find a way out before the sound disappeared, or he would be lost forever in this endless mist!

The space in which Ichishin was located seemed to suddenly grow in size, stretching out in front of him, and he himself became very small, like an ant. But in the particles of the dense fog, he saw a glow of fluorescence ahead, and that was the way out!

He shifted his body and moved there quickly, the sound of swishing sounded in his ears, and before he could discern the source of the sound, he noticed that the strange words became clear again, "Come on, come on......

He kept moving forward as he followed, following the massive rock folds toward the dark interior of the valley, crawling in a spiraling path to the top of the uplifted rock face, a trail of dust particles falling behind him.

He saw the little girl!

At the bottom of the huge dome-shaped cavern, the little girl was standing looking up at the ...... standing in front of her A bunch of stuff? Dead trees? Strangely shaped rocks? Or is it a broken sack?

I can't tell the difference.

The misty light, the damp cave where water droplets fall from time to time, a little girl and a blurred figure...... The sight before him, which was both real and illusory, had made him lose his ability to discern.

The strange voice came again, but not the monotonous repetition of the words just now.

Intermittently heard: "Grit or gold...... Flame...... Oh...... Oh...... Yes! Yes...... It is this primordial, pure ...... that has been chosen Is it a father or a mother...... Oh...... Oh...... I can't see it yet...... It's not time yet......"

The little girl seemed to be absorbed by the spell-like words, and just stood there dumbfounded.

What does the voice say?

It's too far away to hear clearly. He looked at the folds of rock that swirled downwards and felt that he could get down. Find two fulcrums there first, then turn around at the platform on the other side and continue down, he thought as he moved cautiously, and his voice was much clearer: "Oh...... No, no...... It's not the end yet, and you're worth the wait...... Tell my sister that I can't give you anything like that yet, go ahead, and you'll remember...... Go, go, you'll know when the time comes. ”

As if commanded by a spell, the little girl stiffened and fell back the way she came.

"Where to go?!" Single-mindedly shouted, "Wait for me! He opened his mouth, but he didn't hear his own voice.

But apparently, the owner of that strange voice heard it!