Chapter 1: Adventures at Sea
The afterglow of the setting sun on the blue sea is not the sparkling of the daytime, but the warm color of the microwave ripples. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe sea extends into the distance, all the way to the sky, the sky, the same warm scenery, people can't tell the difference between up and down, can't distinguish the border. The wisps of golden light from the clouds add a different flavor to the warm colors.
A sailboat sailing towards the sunset, also dressed in warm colors, but from a distance, it is only a lonely shadow between heaven and earth. Hidden in the warm colors of the sky, slowly, moving.
Li Yiheng sat on the top of the boat and looked at the scenery in front of him, for no reason, a sense of sadness, a trace of vastness, and a little uneasiness rose in his heart. Counting the days when he left home, although he didn't think it could be called home, at least it was the place where he grew up, the place with his deepest and most beautiful memories, and there was still an emotion called longing spreading in his heart.
Soon, the sunset was completely hidden, and the warmth of the sea turned into boundless darkness.
Li Yiheng looked at the thick and undissolvable night in front of him, and stretched out his hand to play with it twice, as if he could get rid of the darkness in front of him with these two strokes, but in fact, it was just a pastime, a little bit of loneliness, or boredom.
It has been three months since he left Cape City, and every day except for the blue sea and blue sky, there is only a dark night, and Li Yiheng feels that he is about to become colorless, and he can hardly distinguish colors other than blue and black.
In such a dark night, Li Yiheng was still a little scared at the beginning. However, what he was afraid of was not the darkness or the night, but the quietness, even the dead silence in the dark night, as if there was nothing left between heaven and earth, and he was the only one left.
After so long, he has become accustomed to many things, but he has not given up the expectation in his heart, looking forward to something different at some point, breaking the current dead journey, and the goal that he himself does not know when it will appear.
It's not early, it's time to go to bed.
Li Yiheng sighed secretly and stood up, ready to slide off the mast.
Suddenly, Li Yiheng felt a shock in his heart, and with this shock in his heart, a lightning bolt crossed the night sky, followed by thunder on the flat ground, and a violent wind swept the ground.
The dead silence of the dark night was finally broken. At the same time, the necklace around Li Yiheng's neck emitted wisps of light, but this light was extremely weak, not obvious in the dark, and even drowned out in the lightning. Moreover, at this time, Li Yiheng didn't have the heart to pay attention to these at all.
In an instant, waves rose on the calm sea, lightning and thunder thundered in the dark night sky, and sailboats rose and fell on the churning water. Li Yiheng worked hard to grasp the mast beside him so that he was not thrown out.
By the light of lightning, Li Yiheng raised the telescope in his hand, wanting to see the situation ahead. A wave rushed over, Li Yiheng was caught off guard, his whole body was drenched, and when he finally regained his footing, the telescope in his hand had long been gone.
In today's situation, the safest way is to keep.
Li Yiheng no longer hesitated, jumped off the mast directly, and put away all the sails, lest the ship be blown over by the wind. All the masts are down, and if they are blown off, the rest of the matter will not be easy. All the sandbags hanging in the seawater hanging on the side of the boat were lifted, and the sandbags were put back on the deck, and Li Yiheng obviously felt that the boat was much more stable.
The rest is to take the helm.
Li Yiheng is actually not very good at helming, and the helmsman of the ship is usually a person with extremely rich sailing experience, but Li Yiheng only rowed through the park's pedal boat three months ago. Everything he knew about navigation had only been learned since he got on the ship, and he had never encountered the current situation before.
At this time, Li Yiheng completely relied on the power of his arm to control the rudder, trying to maintain the original established direction. One is because he can't see the situation clearly, and the other is because he doesn't know how to steer at all.
Fortunately, in such a short period of time, the course of the ship has not changed much, as long as you try to control the current situation, there will be no problems.
The lightning became more and more dense, and with it, wind and thunder, but no matter what, Li Yiheng's eyes finally lit up for a moment, and he could also use this to see the situation in front of him clearly, and try his best to avoid the reefs and whirlpools in the sea.
Strange to say, there is usually wind, thunder and lightning, and most of the time it will still rain, but at this time there is not a drop of rain. Li Yiheng observed the sky by the bright light of lightning and found no dark clouds, so there was no sign of rain.
So, where did lightning and thunder come from without dark clouds?
Soon, Li Yiheng was in no mood to care about the origin of the lightning and thunder, because another wave of more violent thunder, wind, and waves came towards him.
Practice is always the best teacher, and Li Yiheng is indeed a very smart student, but in such a little time, he has been able to master and control the rudder in his hand very well.
He found that he was going against the wind at this time, no more than when he was downwind, he was able to move forward in a straight line, but now he was moving against the wind, and a straight line would not work, so he could only move forward in a roundabout way, taking a zigzag line.
The zigzag line is indeed a good choice, but the current situation is too special, and Li Yiheng obviously feels that he has not been able to move forward for a long time, and he can no longer move forward.
Not long after, many whirlpools appeared on the sea in front of him, and Li Yiheng had no choice but to maneuver around these whirlpools while holding the helm, while thinking about how to deal with the current situation.
There were more and more whirlpools around the ship, and Li Yiheng had to go around the whirlpools that appeared and continue to move forward in a zigzag line.
After walking out of a distance of less than a thousand meters, there were many fewer whirlpools around the ship, and as soon as Li Yiheng breathed a sigh of relief, he found that the whirlpools that surrounded him before the boat seemed to catch up, and soon surrounded the boat again.
Li Yiheng had a conjecture in his heart, and in order to verify his conjecture, Li Yiheng drove the boat out of a distance again, and found that it was exactly the same as before.
Sure enough, the whirlpool around the ship was really chasing the ship.
Since the whirlpool is running after its own ship, the wind that caused the whirlpool is naturally running after itself. But why?
"Could it be...... Is it because I'm close to the mountain and sea passage now?"
Li Yiheng remembered that before he came out, the old monk who called himself a phantom monk told him that there were passages between different mountains and seas, but these passages were not allowed to pass through without permission. When you think about your three months of uneventful travel at sea, the situation is so different from what it used to be.
"Isn't that what is happening now?"
After figuring out the trick in the current situation, Li Yiheng ignored the whirlpool around the hull and marched forward with all his might.
The surrounding wind and whirlpools seemed to have sense, and the wind and more whirlpools were stronger than before, and they came towards Li Yiheng's boat. Li Yiheng laboriously held the helm, and his whole body was soaked, and he didn't know whether he was soaked with his own sweat or drenched by the waves that came.
The waves below the boat became more and more intense, and Li Yiheng felt as if he was stepping on an undulating machine. If it weren't for holding the rudder with both hands, Li Yiheng would have rolled around the deck by now.
Fortunately, at the very beginning, the sails and masts had been collected, and the sandbags that stabilized the ship had been brought back, otherwise the ship would have been blown over in such a rapid and fierce storm.
After traveling a distance again, Li Yiheng obviously felt that the situation in his surroundings was becoming more severe, which also showed that Li Yiheng was getting closer and closer to the so-called passage to other mountains and seas.
Another bolt of lightning snaked through the dark sky, and Li Yiheng saw the situation ahead clearly through this light.
Not far from where he was a rapid, Li Yi could see clearly that it was the situation before the current was about to fall from the cliff, which seemed to flow meekly in one direction, but soon after that meekness, it was a fatal fall.
If it weren't for the lightning and thunder now, you would have been able to hear the sound of water falling down the cliff. It would even be spectacular to be able to stand in front of the cliff and watch the waterfall formed by the sea falling.
However, Li Yiheng is not in the mood to think about these now, the current situation seems to him to be more than just a cliff and waterfall, he faintly feels that the cliff behind this water flow is the passage that he has been looking for for so long.
Li Yiheng finally came out of the whirlpool-filled sea, but soon he realized that he had not estimated the situation in front of him at all.
Leaving the whirlpooled sea, the ship immediately entered the rapids, and the boat drifted quickly in the direction of the rapids, and he tried to control the speed of the boat, but he could not help him.
The sea under the boat seemed to be gentle but flowed at a very fast speed, and at such a speed, the little speed that Li Yiheng painstakingly pulled down was nothing at all.
The lightning is more intensive, Li Yiheng no longer has to worry about not being able to see the surrounding environment clearly, one lightning has not disappeared, and another lightning will light up again, and there will even be a little time on the sea as bright as day.
But Li Yiheng felt that he might as well not be able to see clearly, and if he couldn't see clearly, he would naturally not be afraid, but now that he saw it clearly, he was simply afraid of his own guts, and he was so cold that he trembled.
The surrounding open sea was calm, except for the lightning and thunder in the sky, the wind, waves, and whirlpools that had chased and intercepted Li Yiheng had long since disappeared.
The seemingly rapidly flowing sea water did not make a sound, and Li Yiheng clearly saw them flowing to the bottom of the cliff, but there was no sound, as if the place where they were flowing was a bottomless pit that could never be filled and did not know where it leads.
It didn't take long for Li Yiheng's ship to approach the cliff, and during this time, the lightning gradually subsided, the thunder gradually subsided, and the dead silence on the sea gradually resumed.
Li Yiheng's hands holding the rudder had turned white, and he stared at the darkness in front of him, not daring to relax in the slightest, for fear that he would accidentally drown in this dead silence.
In the darkness, Li Yiheng didn't know where his ship was going, but he just used his already white hands to hold the rudder in his hand even harder.
If Li Yiheng could jump to the side of the boat at this time, if there was a little more light, he would see that the bow of the ship had sailed out of the cliff, and under the action of the rapid current, the boat would fall off the cliff in a few minutes.
Sure enough, Li Yiheng felt that the boat under his feet began to look strange, but the strange thing was that the boat did not fall down as expected.
At this time, more than half of the hull of the ship had already broken out of the cliff and hung in the air.
The hand that was already holding the rudder hard again exerted a little force, and a few lines of sweat dripped down Li Yiheng's forehead, and his eyes were open with horror. He tried to restrain himself from screaming, as if he felt that one of his screams would not only break the dead silence, but also invite some other unknown danger.
The hull of the ship continued to move forward, and when the hull completely broke out of the cliff, the movement changed from the original forward rush to falling. Suddenly weightless, Li Yiheng couldn't help but open his mouth that had been pursed tightly, "Ahh
As the hull fell, the mountains and seas seemed to suddenly enter a light from pitch black.
Looking at the sudden changes in his surroundings, Li Yiheng was taken aback, and before he could express his surprise, the hull of the ship had already fallen to the bottom.
"Smack-"
The sudden sound of hitting the water was like thunder, accompanied by a large splash of water several feet high.
The water splashed, and Li Yiheng was drenched again, from his hair to his arms, to his hands, to his legs, ticking non-stop.
Li Yiheng looked at the day in front of him, and turned to look for the pitch black he had just walked through.
Behind the hull of the ship is the endless sea, but it feels much wider than the one I've been in before. The blue sky, the blue sea, the occasional white clouds, the slight breeze blowing, as if what had been going through a few minutes ago was just an illusion.
Li Yiheng wiped a handful of cold sweat from his head, looked down at his hands full of sweat and still white fingers, all of which told him that everything he had just experienced was real.
By bowing his head, Li Yiheng noticed the necklace around his neck. The necklace was swaying slightly, as if it had been summoned by something and wanted to follow it. However, the movement of the necklace was very small, and Li Yiheng was too nervous to notice it during the previous period.
Could it be that the necklace will react when passing through the mountain and sea passages? Li Yiheng thought about it carefully and made sure that he really didn't notice it.
However, no matter what, now that we have passed that sea area, crossed that cliff, and successfully entered another mountain and sea, otherwise, how could it be that in such a short time, the dark night has turned into a bright day?
But how is this still water? The mountains and seas before had land and water, and since there is water here, there should also be land. But where is the land, and how long will it take to find it?
Li Yiheng stood at the bow of the boat and stretched out in the breeze, just that, he will always find it when he should find it.
If there was someone by his side now, Li Yiheng felt that he would definitely pull him to nag for three days and three nights. Strictly calculated, his previous experience was not too long, but being in it seemed like centuries long.
Whether the necklace really reacts when it is close to the mountain and sea passage, and whether it can help him find the mountain and sea passage can only be confirmed later.
Li Yiheng put the sandbags back into the sea, pulled up the mast, and the sails were raised, and with the help of the wind from the sea, the masts and sails that were soaked by the sea water quickly dried.
The sea breeze blows on the sails, and the ship moves slowly in the direction of the wind. Li Yiheng doesn't care about it, anyway, he doesn't have a clear direction now, so it's okay to follow the wind for the time being.
Li Yiheng cleaned the deck, took a hot bath, and before he could eat the hot food, he had already fallen asleep on the table, turned over, and turned over from the table to the bed next to him.