Yumin got on the "thief ship" of mankind in this way, she watched the continent become smaller and smaller, the tall and stretching mountains were deflated by the sky and the ground, turning into a red-brown and black mixed horizon, and her heart was also pulled into a long stream of blood, connecting herself on one side and the other on the other side. If the ship goes down again, the heart will be completely torn apart.

"Alright," a human female named Bai Yao suddenly walked towards her, "you're finally calm. ”

Yumin didn't know who to do, what reason did she have to get off the boat and leave? If she offered to stay on the shore, the humans would surely find out who she was!

She was torn between a dilemma and asked anxiously:

"Where are we going?"

She was glad that she had learned the human language seriously when she was a child, and she thought that she would never be able to deal with people for the rest of her life, and now it finally came in handy, but she was not happy at all.

"Didn't you listen to your people?" Bai Yao sat down beside her, making her feel imprisoned. "What about your people, where have the other feathered people gone?"

"I ......"

Yu Min's nervous appearance made Chen Jian upset. It's not that he hates this kind of behavior, on the contrary, it is normal to feel fear when the bird army is approaching, he always feels that he has gradually lost a lot of emotions during this time, and the appearance of this feather girl makes him deeply aware that his soul is undergoing some irreversible change.

To sum it up in two words, it is "apathy".

Not only was his mind indifferent, but his gestures were also filled with a cold aura, and when he reacted, he was already deep in it.

This indifference is not offensive, but rather a defense for the cowardly who escapes purgatory.

"Madman, leave them alone, let's go and have a look. He walked to the bow of the ship in annoyance.

The boat left to them by the people was simple but delicate, it had only one floor, there were no superfluous objects in the boat, the left and right sides of the boat could be rowed by four people, and a boat penny was thoughtfully hidden in the inner compartment of the boat, which could be used to adjust the direction at first, and now that the boat is sailing into the unfathomable sea, this thing is useless.

The madman thinks that the penny can be used to fight the sea monster, but Chen Jian does not think that such a soft thing can deal with the creatures of the sea.

The red and black sea reflected their reflections clearly, and Chen Jian suddenly remembered the scene when he went to Xie Lingyuan for the first and last time. It's the same on a vast expanse of water, except it's a raft, it's a wooden boat.

It doesn't make much difference.

He suddenly smiled wryly. At that time, how could he have imagined that he would be sent to a real purgatory less than a year after crossing over? Sometimes, he forgot that he had lived on the earth called the 21st century, that the world of the Western Dynasty was like a dream, and that the events of his previous life were more like baseless conjectures.

But Huang Aimian's existence still keeps reminding himself that I am a real traverser, and there is more than one person who has crossed.

Where are they? In the Western Dynasty, they lived with a new body and a new identity? In this way, their souls still belong to themselves?

This question is not only being asked to them, but also to themselves.

Thinking of life on earth, he suddenly felt a sad nostalgia.

To be honest, he was not happy in the world, losing his memory, his background was vague, he was involved in the conspiracy of Wudang, and there were suspicious princess figures, and the struggle for imperial power...... All kinds of things formed a huge whirlpool, and it was extremely difficult for him to even protect himself, let alone get a good night's sleep.

However, compared to purgatory, the tribulation of the world is only a small thing.

The boat was far away from the shore, whether it was the birdsong or the central mountain, and he knew that now was the time to relax.

The ocean current is carrying them to the South China Sea with no end in sight, and the sound of natural harmony collided with the current, which makes people feel relaxed and happy in the sea of blood, and the smell of blood that they are gradually accustomed to has melted into a part of the body.

Chen Jian's eyes were a little misty, and he felt that as long as he left this sea area, eternity would end.

"It was so quiet. The madman spoke suddenly.

"Isn't it good?"

"Maybe the people who set out before have already killed those dangerous sea monsters. He comforted himself.

"What kind of monsters are there in the South China Sea?"

"Many, various. ”

The madman can't tell, only Bai Yao knows about these things, but she is currently focusing on communicating with the Yumin girl, and has not explained to them what to pay attention to, which also means that the danger has not come so soon.

How Chen Jian hoped that Bai Yao would stop talking to them, so that it would mean that nothing would happen.

"I really want to go on like this. The madman said what was in Chen Jian's heart.

"You don't want to get out of here?"

"Where is 'here'? South China Sea?"

"Purgatory. ”

"I don't know. The madman was rarely depressed, and he didn't know what affected him, "Where do you think you'll go after you leave purgatory?"

Chen Jian really hadn't thought about this question carefully, he hesitated for a moment, and set up the room of the Dizang Gong in his brain: "Go back to the room of the Dizang Gong?"

"That might be the case for you...... Could it be that I, who was sent to purgatory hundreds of years ago, will return there?"

Chen Jian's thinking seemed to have stagnated at this moment, like a train that had derailed and flew out, and his brain, which was operating rapidly, suddenly fell into meaningless idling, and he suddenly felt that he was paralyzed by something.

These words of the madman seem to be discussing the place, but in fact it is a question of time, and the key question is whether the time of purgatory can be included in the category of "time" in the conventional sense.

For man, the most obvious function of time is to measure the length of life, but prisoners have infinite life in purgatory, and man was once the observation of time, but now he has become its experiencer, the two are integrated, time is still time?

Chen Jian couldn't figure out the logical relationship, the more he thought about it, the more confused he became, and he felt that the whole thing was incomprehensible from the root, just like a two-dimensional creature trying to understand the three-dimensional space and the result would inevitably end in nothing, his prior knowledge structure was no longer able to explore the purgatory's view of time and space, and he even felt that his existence had been seen through by some higher-dimensional perspective, which had the omniscience and omnipotence of their world, and was their "God".

Chilling displeasure filled his chest, if Huang Aimian was still there, Chen Jian might be able to talk to him about the science of dimensions, but only the madman, Bai Yao, and the feather man who was always submissive were left around.

He had never felt so lonely, and a well-known line from Emily Dickinson flashed through his mind—

I could have endured the darkness if I hadn't seen the sun.

Yes, if I hadn't seen Huang Aimian at the beginning, or that guy hadn't reported himself, the memories of those previous lives might have precipitated. Sometimes, forgetting is also happiness.

Chen Jian's breathing became sluggish, a subtle change that caught the attention of the madman.

"Rose, what's wrong with you?"

Chen Jian's stomach rang at the right time.

"Hungry. He replied briefly.

"I'm a little hungry too. The madman slapped the hull of the boat hard, "Come, fish!"

The boat suddenly shook and made Bai Yao angry, and she immediately shouted: "Hey, be careful!"

"Understood!"

The madman grinned as he bent over the ship.

"Oops!" he cried, "Look, Ross! there are so many fish here, I don't even pay attention." ”

Chen Jian looked at the hull of the ship.

The bottom of the waterline was filled with small fish, with diamond-shaped bodies and sharp, shiny scales that did not look like a trivial species, and these fish were staring at them with dull eyes, and they were moving wildly, eager to eat the people on board.

"It looks dangerous. Chen Jian said as he took out the boat penny from the boat and slowly lowered it into the water.

I don't know what these little fish who lack intelligence mistake for what the penny is, but in short, they gather at the end of the penny, and eat desperately with teeth that are not sharp compared to the wooden poles, and soon, the fish that realize that this is not food surround the boat again, and the fish that pounce after them fill the vacancy, and after a long time, the fish that had previously surrounded the boat have healed their scars and forgotten the pain, and rushed to nibble on the penny again.

There was a repetitive, foolish predatory show in the sea, and there were only a few tiny strokes at the end of the penny.

"Why don't they bite the hull?" asked the madman.

"You still want them to bite?"

"We've got to figure out why. ”

"The boat is made of mountain wood. Bai Yao didn't know when he slipped to their side.

Chen Jian saw that Yu Min was still sitting in the stern of the boat. She was giving a thoughtful expression, as if she was watching their every move, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.

"I know!" clapped the madman's hands, "it's wood that smells of blood." ”

"Yes," Bai Yao nodded, "everything in the sea smells of blood, and these fish will only attack people who accidentally enter the sea, that is, they only eat things that don't smell blood." The boat may be for them to eat, lest some fish get dizzy and eat the boat. ”

"It seems that the aborigines have already arranged it. Chen Jian said admiringly.

"There is no danger in the shallow sea, trouble is ahead. Bai Yao didn't want him to think that everything was okay and let his guard down. She exudes a traveler's rigor and foresight.

"How's that girl?" asked the madman.

Bai Yao sighed and said depressedly: "She doesn't know anything, she doesn't know when the feather people of the same clan will leave, she doesn't know where they went, she doesn't know who her family is, it seems that she has a problem with her head, so she was abandoned by the clan." ”

"Great!" the madman cheered.

"What's good?" Bai Yao asked instead of Chen Jian.

"It's useless to keep her anyway, just throw her out if a sea monster attacks us. ”

Chen Jiangang wanted to oppose this inhumane practice, but Bai Yao said:

"Yes, then, be flexible. ”

"Good!" the madman seemed to have an extra life.

Bai Yao noticed that Chen Jian's eyes were different, and asked puzzledly, "Why are you looking at me with such eyes?"

"You say...... You can abandon her when the time is right?"

"yes. She nodded as a matter of course.

Chen Jian wanted to ask them, wasn't that girl human?

But he said something else: "Are you also going to abandon me?"

"What are you talking about?" said the madman, laughing, putting his arm around his shoulder, "We're partners!

The words reached Yumin's ears, and she blinked.

"And she-"

Chen Jian found that Yu Min was watching him, and he timidly avoided that innocent gaze, as if he was discussing with Bai Yao and the madman when to kill her.

Guilt and waves overlapped, beating against each other's atrium.

"She's an aborigine, so why should she care so much? Could it be that she has fallen in love with someone else's beak?" the madman felt that he was very happy, and he spoke quickly, "I heard that the children of the feather people lay eggs, and there will be a nest of eggs pulled out of her belly, you young and vigorous, you can try." ”

Something must have gone wrong......

The scene of the madman throwing himself into the body of the Shui River Clan man to cool off flashed through his mind.

"Hah......" he let out a tired laugh.

It turns out that there is nothing wrong, it is not normal to be yourself.

"What the hell is going on? You've been looking strange since you got to sea. ”

"Could it be true that you fell in love?" Bai Yao smiled poorly.

The aborigines are a part of purgatory, and purgatory brings endless suffering to the prisoners, and in the eyes of the prisoners, the lives of the aborigines are actually not important - Chen Jian is like a theologian who has understood the mysteries of the universe, and he fell to the ground in a daze, with a terrifying smile on the corner of his mouth.

"I should have discovered ......"

He said to the others in a voice that only he could hear.