I think everybody has the same question about the shadow, why didn't it attack, why we weren't in danger now, if we could get to the island safely as long as we didn't alarm them, if we were wrong, we could all survive.

A lot of questions haunt my heart, and I also haunt everyone's heart. It's just that we all know that when it comes to the greatest possibility, these doubts are all because we are still lucky.

Death itself is not terrible, after all, it is just a thing that everyone will eventually experience, just like birth.

Human beings are thinking creatures, and death may mean the disappearance of all their own thinking, or simply a change of form of existence to continue thinking. I don't know if the soul exists, maybe no one knows, but it doesn't matter.

When we fear death, we are not afraid of death itself, we are just afraid of loss.

When you are afraid of dying, you lose everything you already have, and when you are afraid of dying, you cannot have more.

Death itself is not terrible, but loss.

It's just that many people don't understand that living is a process of constant loss.

We may be able to have something for a certain period of time, but we will lose it after a while.

The so-called life is a thing that is constantly lost and constantly accepted to lose.

And now, we have become gamblers, betting on whether it is others or ourselves who will lose everything.

Those who win bets live, and those who lose bets stay here forever to feed the fish.

I stopped wiping Lin Ya's body and looked up at the sky, there was no sun, and there were large areas of slightly gray clouds, but they were still faintly dazzling. I looked at it half-squinting for a moment, and suddenly I missed the unchanging twilight outside my room window.

I looked down again and looked at the water around the raft and I paused slightly.

Is it my delusion? Why does it feel like the water is a little darker than before? Visibility is also lower. Before, you could faintly see the gray-black water gradually darkening, but now it is almost completely black, and you can't see anything in the water at all.

Maybe it's because of the island in the middle of the lake? The closer you get to the middle of the lake, the worse the water quality?

Confused, I moved slightly towards the edge of the raft, carefully surveying the black water, trying to see what was going on in the water.

"Mo Li?"

The place I approached was where Yu Pu was sitting, his physique had never been good, worse than me now, he seemed to be tormented by the temperature here, and the sweat on his head looked extremely embarrassed, which made me very worried about whether he was going to suffer from heat stroke.

Yu Pu said that my business could attract the attention of others, and Fu Lingjun also came to my side, looking at the lake by the raft and asked strangely.

"What are you looking at? Is there anything in the water? ”

"No, nothing." I frowned slightly and shook my head, but I just felt that the color of the water had become darker, but I didn't see anything unusual in the water, so I just shook my head and didn't say anything.

After seeing me sit back beside Lin Ya, Fu Lingjun looked at me strangely, and then looked into the water, but he still didn't find anything, and sat back.

The raft continued to move forward under the control of Lu Haisheng and Li Sheng, and the small island in the middle of the lake was getting closer and clearer. The signs on the stone walls grow larger in our eyes, like ghosts, like maggots on tarsal bones, symbolizing meanings that all of us don't want to face.

We looked closer and closer to the center of the lake and fell silent again. I don't know what's going on in other people's minds right now, but I think it's about the same as me.

The closer we got to the middle of the lake, the more nervous we became. We all know that we won't cross this lake safely, that something must take one of us away, and that all of us are just waiting for that second to come.

I suddenly felt a fear that came not from what was in the lake, but from ourselves.

Before we know that we have to kill someone, we will do our best to protect everyone, and we will do our best to escape from danger. But after understanding the rules here, our minds are no longer on how to escape from danger, but on how not to be the chosen one.

I can even predict that if one of us is in danger, the others will not try to help, but will simply stand by and even thwart those who want to help.

What does it help? Anyway, they are all going to die, so I can only blame myself for my bad luck, just die, and I can be regarded as contributing to other people.

I know people think so, because I can't control myself right now**

It's just that I seem to be a little bit more greedy, and I don't want to be chosen by me, nor do I want to be any of them.

Don't ask me who some people refer to, I don't dare to think deeply

Because once you think about those people for sure that I want them to live, it means that those people want them to die.

Now we are closer to the island in the middle of the lake, and it can be expected that we will be there in the middle of the lake in ten minutes. The lake was still calm, and even the dark shadows that were about to appear from time to time did not appear for a long time. Although everyone was still nervous, the imminent arrival at the island in the middle of the lake also made everyone more excited, and their faces were more or less vivid than when they were silent.

I looked left and right, and the surface of the lake looked calm, although it was not as calm as the mirror before, but there were only a few small ripples, not as large as the previous waves when the fish approached. Maybe those little ripples are because of the wind? I frowned slightly and felt it, but I didn't notice that the wind was blowing again, maybe I was too sensitive

There was nothing unusual other than those small ripples, but I don't know if I was so nervous that I had the illusion that the color of the lake seemed to be darker?

"Lu Haisheng, let's paddle faster, we're about to get to the shore" Li Sheng held the wood pulp dragged in the water in one hand, and wiped the sweat on his forehead with the other, "That thing hasn't been here for a while, it's safer to hurry to the shore." Are you all right? Do you need to come down and rest? ”

For nearly four hours, Lu Haisheng kept rowing the boat, while on the other side, Li Sheng, Yu Pu, and Lin Chang took turns to change. After all, no one has used wood pulp to row the bamboo raft, and there are so many people on the bamboo raft, which is also considered individual work.

"No, I'm fine, but since you want to row faster" Lu Haisheng's voice was very calm, as if this was just a very common suggestion, "You go and rest, Lin Chang, you come for him, let's row quickly and go ashore." ”

I paused slightly and raised my eyes to look at Lu Haisheng. His gaze looked straight in the direction of the island in the middle of the lake, and he didn't even look at Lin Chang's side, but I clearly felt that the atmosphere on the raft was condensed because of Lu Haisheng's words.

"Huhuhuhu"

I raised my hand to wipe away the sweat that blurred my eyes, and tried to calm my breath in vain.

The process of crossing the lake has been on the surface of the water, and it is never hot. But it doesn't take into account that it doesn't look like a forest, sheltered by trees and leaves. Even though there are heavy clouds in the sky that block the refraction of the sun's rays, the sun is still hot after being weakened by the clouds, and the temperature is still scorching on us, which is no lower than walking in the forest.

We've been on the lake for three and a half hours, and we're getting closer and closer to the center. Now we can clearly see that the middle of the lake is a small island, and the island is not big, just the size of a cave. It is not accurate to say that it is a cave, because it looks more like a monolithic boulder, and it should be that the entrance to the cave is a flat and smooth stone wall. And at the top of what should be the entrance of the cave is the familiar sign - "e".

The brightness of the "e" is the same as the one on our wrists, and it can be speculated that when we die two more people, the two symbols will become the standard brightness together, and then the smooth stone wall will be like the door of the Forty Thieves, and the symbol on the wrist will be the "Sesame Door" that opens the door of the cave.

In the two and a half hours since the last time what I thought was a school of fish, they had appeared three or four more times, each time we had no idea if it was really useful to keep quiet, hoping not to attract their attention. Luckily every time they didn't attack us, but they appeared and left, as if they were just moving normally, really just passing by, and didn't attack us as expected.

So we all moved on, and we continued to be silent. The raft wasn't very big, and it was still a little crowded carrying the eight of us, but no one spoke, no one spoke.

If the order of the previous rotation is followed, it should be Yu Pu instead of Lin Chang who will replace Li Sheng. At the same time, the errand of paddling is the most dangerous in the first place, after all, it is at the edge of the raft closest to the surface of the lake, and if there is really an attack from the lake, then the paddler must be the priority target.

In this context, Lu Haisheng asked Lin Chang to replace Li Sheng, which has a different meaning.

Obviously, Lin Chang also thought of what I thought, he didn't get up from the raft, just raised his eyebrows and looked at Lu Haisheng, "Me?" Why me? Shouldn't it be Yu Pu who replaces Li Sheng? ”

Lu Haisheng and Li Sheng both stopped paddling at this time, Li Sheng looked at Lin Chang and then at Lu Haisheng, and was about to speak but was preempted by Lu Haisheng.

"You can take a look at Yu Pu's current situation, and letting you replace Li Sheng is naturally out of consideration for reaching the island in the middle of the lake as soon as possible, I don't think Yu Pu's current physical strength can contribute to our acceleration." Lu Haisheng's voice was calm and cold, with a hint of a secret salvation warning, "What? It's just another 10 minutes of paddling, so it's worth the time? ”