Chapter Forty-Seven: The Vanishing Haizi

The scene in front of me made my brain buzz and go blank. I stood there like a log, unable to move. Staring at the front of the eyes stupidly.

The huge sea, the sea that should have been in front of me, disappeared out of thin air like this? All that remained was a huge wet bunker.

I looked around blankly, and in some places there were still small puddles of water, glowing silver in the moonlight. I think Kong Xue's disappearance must have something to do with the disappearance of this Haizi.

I stepped on the wet sand and walked forward. The further you go, the softer the sand becomes, and there is a lot of moisture mixed with it, and as soon as you step on it, your feet will sink deeply.

I know that the place where I am standing now is where Haizi used to be. Looking at the scene in front of me now, how could thousands of tons of water disappear overnight!

By this time, the sky was already slightly bright, and I really didn't expect to wake up and become a loner. I crouched at the bottom of the sea, trying to think about what the hell is going on! I hope to find more clues related to Kong Xue's disappearance.

Suddenly, I saw that in the middle of this huge sand pit left by Haizi, there seemed to be a black shadow, bulging up on the ground. I was shocked, slowly stood up, nervously looked in that direction, at this time the sky was still very dark, I couldn't see what it was, for a while I didn't dare to act rashly, but after a long time, the black shadow did not move at all, so I mustered up my courage, stepped on the sand under my feet, and walked towards that place with difficulty.

When I actually got closer to the shadow, I realized that it was the kayak that had been taken, and by this time, it had deflated and was covered on the ground. And the bulge was under the kayak.

I gritted my teeth, but I didn't dare to lift the kayak directly to see what was covered underneath, for fear of seeing something horrible. I just cautiously reached across the kayak and felt for the bulge.

My hand touched it, and I saw that something underneath was hard, like some rocks. How can there be stones in the desert sea? I touched it again, and yes, it looked like a stone.

Then I got a little guts, reached out and grabbed the kayak, and lifted it up with a bang. When I saw the bulge below, I was stunned, it turned out to be a well, a well made of stone. The eaves of the well have been eroded and somewhat mottled and broken, but the general appearance is still very clear.

I let go of the kayak in my hand, leaned over to the eaves, and slowly looked inside, because it was not yet dawn, it was almost dark inside, but with the help of the faint light, I did not notice whether there was any water in it.

When I lay on the eaves of the well and looked down, I was very scared in my heart, for fear that something would suddenly burst out of the dark well!

But imagination is imagination, the well is quiet, ordinary, and nothing unusual happens. Despite this, the well itself is an anomaly, and who would build a well under Haizi?

A more probable speculation came to mind that perhaps the well itself existed. If there is a well, there must be an underground water source underneath, most likely a dark river. I once heard Wenmo say that the ancient kingdom of Shan Huan is at the end of a tributary of the Tuya Dark River. So could it be a tributary of the Tuya Dark River below this ancient well?

In this way, it makes sense that Haizi belongs to a kind of desert lake, and the reason for its formation is that when the underground dark river flows through the low-lying terrain of the desert, or the fracture of the impervious rock layers around the dark river, the river water flows out to form Haizi.

So I made a bold guess, if this ancient well is connected to the underground dark river, then with the rise and fall of the underground dark river, then Haizi heard that the ancient well is connected to the dark river, which will cause the water in the sea to pour into the dark river.

I thought about it for a while, and I felt more and more that what I was thinking made sense. If so, Kong Xue and they are likely to be brought into the well by Haizi who poured into the dark river, I was taken aback by this idea of my own, if this is the case, then Kong Xue They are really very dangerous, I don't know what happened to them now!

I reached out and pulled up the kayak, only to see a large opening in the hull, and next to the opening I picked up a fragment of the mottled green rust that showed its antiquity. Looks like it should be bronze.

I glanced at the fragment casually, and there seemed to be something like text on it, or something like a symbol. Judging by the fracture marks on the fragments, it is clear that this is the upper part of a large bronze object.

But there is nothing like it around, so where did this bronze fragment come from, there is only one answer, and that is, it comes from this ancient well.

Thinking of this, I suddenly thought that the rise and fall of this underground river must be periodic, so the appearance and disappearance of this sea also have a certain periodicity. Then can I just wait for the next cycle of the Dark River, and then enter the Dark River area to look for Kong Xue's traces.

I'm almost certain now that Kong Xue and Shi Tao must have entered this ancient well, whether they did it intentionally or accidentally.

I grabbed the dinghy, took the bronze shard, and turned and walked to the tent.

By this time the fire had long since been extinguished, so I looked for a small withered branch and rekindled a bonfire. I sat down next to the campfire and waited quietly for Haizi's cycle to cycle.

Out of boredom, I took out the bronze fragment again, and this time I looked at it carefully, and suddenly, I saw a word on the back of the fragment, which did not look like the original words, which was clearly just engraved to remedy. I carefully identified the word and found that it was a "Wen" character.

I suddenly remembered, could this be Wenmo, no wonder we can't find him, it turns out that he has already drilled into the ancient well, so he left traces on this bronze fragment.

Thinking of this, if this is true, I simply can't understand Wenmo's practice, carving words on a bronze sheet under the water, if it weren't for Haizi disappearing, who would have found the message you left behind! Unless he concludes that Haizi will disappear, we will inevitably find this piece of bronze left here when we come to the bottom of Haizi.