The sky is clear, cloudless, and the sun shines comfortably on the calm sea.

Cheerfully chirping seagulls rise and fall, fluttering along the edge of a lush island.

There is a flock of blue-footed boobies frolicking on the beach. This penguin-shaped bird has a large beak, and the most special thing about it is that the male has a deep blue toe, as if wearing beautiful boots. In order to win the hearts of females, they will dance with their blue feet to show their "beauty".

The waves lazily climb onto the beach, with a slender shadow appearing next to a flock of blue-footed boobies. The birds flapped their wings and fled in panic. This tranquil island is a regular visitor, and because it is a regular visitor, some other birds not far away still don't think so.

The girl with long blue-black hair and a pink dress ran excitedly. The corners of her mouth curled up with a smile, hiding the sadness that had never been seen in her curved eyebrows. Delicate facial features hung on her white face with beauty.

She trotted along the quiet mountain road, her light steps towards the center of the island. After passing through a white sand beach, enter a dense forest. The little girl had an inexplicable feeling about the island: it seemed familiar, but it seemed strange. It was as if there was a voice echoing in her head, guiding her in the right direction, and she had no scruples or fears, letting the call of this mysterious and gentle voice guide her way with excitement.

The seemingly thorny jungle miraculously gave way to the way when she arrived. The girl's pink skirt floated behind her, like a wisp of smoke flying through the woods. Following a crystal clear stream, she came to a valley where the scenery stopped her.

The valley was a small mountain that had been split through the middle. At the bottom of the valley there is a clean mountain spring that tinkles. The top of the valley is flanked by towering trees with lush foliage. From the gaps between the leaves, thousands of rays of sunlight are densely sprinkled. The appearance of the slightly moist air flow at the valley floor creates a thin flowing ribbon of gauze light mist. Mixed with the chirping of unknown insects and the occasional startled bird, unknown flowers and grasses dot this peaceful, magnificent and mysterious valley.

The little girl stooped down and picked up a handful of spring water in the stream with both hands, letting the fine light pouring down from the top shine on the water in her hands. The slight ripples reflected a brilliant and agile light, shining on her intoxicated and delighted face. This is a priceless rarity in the world, like a fairyland on earth.

Although she was alone, she didn't feel that this place was surprisingly quiet, and she never felt lonely. She sat on the root of a huge tree, admiring the mist in the valley, drifting slowly, like a white veil, one by one, under the illumination of thousands of rays of sunlight, telling the tranquility and beauty of being far away from the world.

If people can immerse themselves in such an environment when negative emotions such as mania, anger, sadness, and despair invade, I believe that they can dispel the chaos and evil fire in their hearts and make people peaceful. If all people's manic souls could be purified, the world would be so peaceful and beautiful.

But this valley of light is too small to accommodate too many restless souls. After all, it's just a super small beautiful wish that exists in the heart.

Looking at the green moss and exotic flowers and plants around her, the little girl suddenly came back to her senses, and the short rest was over. That gentle voice came from the depths of my heart again, although I didn't care very much about who was speaking? But she is willing to follow the voice, the feeling. In fact, she felt that the voice was very much like her own voice, so she should follow her feelings.

"Let's go, let's go, through the valley. In front of me was a relatively gentle hill with green grass, and over that hill ......"

The little girl had a beautiful and pure smile on her face, and her big watery eyes reflected a beautiful hillside covered with grass.

Passing through the valley of streamers, her steps quickened, without a trace of tiredness. The wind gently caresses the grass and shakes the small flowers of different colors, like jewels inlaid on the green flannel, which is particularly charming.

Being able to travel to such a magnificent island, a magical valley, and a green meadow can really make people forget the many disputes and troubles in the world. What else is there to discover?

Gradually, the little girl finally crossed this quiet grassy slope. At the end of the grassy slope is a large area of golden yellow. The breeze brought a fragrant scent, blowing the flowing pink skirt and waterfall hair of the startled little girl standing there.

She looked at the sea of sunflowers, and her heart was extremely excited and excited. She raised her hands to the sky and jumped. Like a joyful magpie, he ran to that brilliant golden sea, singing and screaming in his mouth. This is the world summoned by the voice in her head, maybe she was born with some kind of inseparable connection with this sea of sunflowers, maybe she was originally the elf that grew among the flowers, maybe she was the princess of this flower country, maybe there are more maybes.

The little girl who ran among the flowers forgot all about the world, and her crisp laughter sprinkled on the lush flowers. A round of golden sun shone heartily in the sky, and all the flowers lined up like guards to look up at the sun to welcome the little girl running all the way to the parade. The buzzing bees seem to be blowing happy trumpets and playing charming and fresh music.

The little girl swims in the sea of sunflowers, letting this golden ocean drown herself, and let her humble life merge into this magnificent fairyland.

She was tired, lying on the ground among the flowers, looking up at the blue sky between the receptacles. A flock of small birds flew in the sky, and the black pressure was overwhelming, and two or three butterflies appeared in front of them, dancing......

I don't know if it's because of the sleepiness in her eyes, but the scenery that the little girl's eyes see turns gray and dim. She rubbed her eyes and opened them again. I saw that the scene where the butterflies flew over was filled with mysterious ripples, just like the reaction of water droplets on an ink painting, and the scene changed inexplicably. The light was still dimmed, and I felt a little drowsy, and I found that the butterflies were no longer butterflies, but a few swimming shrimps, and through the flowers, I saw that the birds in the sky were no longer birds, but a group of fish.

The little girl's eyes widened in astonishment, her eyes were shivering with light, and the sunflower in front of her slowly and slowly turned its "face" from the original direction towards the sky, and the petals and stems changed in color at the same time, and swept in with the breath of withering.

When the "face" of the flower unfolded the angle of the "whole face" little by little from the "side face", it suddenly realized that it was not a sunflower, but a black and terrifying distorted face with crimson eyes and a grinning black horror, smiling gloomily at the little girl.

The sky became darker, and the light was no longer clear, but was trembling and reflected by the ripples and distortions of some force. More and more flowers turned into horrible faces, turning to look at and smile at the little girl.

All the flower faces, or terrifying black faces, change into seaweed and coral like dust.

The world suddenly became the bottom of the sea......

After a split second of time returning through the dark tunnel of chaos, the little girl sat up from the bed like a spring, and it turned out to be a dream. Bean-sized beads of sweat and rapid panting accompanied her to wake up.

"Ah-----h-----h

Wherever there were small clay pots and small bottles in the room, there was a sound of explosion, and there was also a sound of wooden tables, chairs, and cabinets shaking.

The little girl also heard these voices, and hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand. For the first time, she discovered that her own voice was destructive when she screamed.

Outside the door, a chubby woman came to the little girl's bedside with a smiling face and a rare horror.

"Gross! My poor little darling. The woman looked at the little girl with wide eyes and asked, "What happened?" ”

The little girl trembled, but did not speak.

"Kiki, my dear child, are you having that dream again?"

"Mother Kenken." The little girl grabbed the sheets on the bed with flowers in both hands: "Why did I have that dream so many times?" I don't have an immediate memory of the beautiful plot in my dream, and I don't have the corresponding immunity to the horror part? ”

"Oh, baby, it's no big deal. Someday you will become numb to this dream. Kenken's mother showed her original smile, always so kind and gentle, full of happiness. She turned to the rest of the room, "Oh, how is that? The fragile things in the room were shattered. You never drop things, tell your mom that you won't drop things in the future, okay? ”

Kiki saw Kenken's mother's brow furrowed, and for a moment she stretched out again. The small mouth opened slightly, and the watery eyes blinked with an innocent light, and she couldn't tell the reason why the bottles and cans in the room could be blown apart.

"Hmmm! Okay, Mommy Kenken. Kiki nodded stupidly.

"Do you know what Mommy likes best?" Kenken's mother let out a grunt laugh in her throat: "You are obviously eighteen years old, but this childish little face is as cute as if you are only eight years old." Always make mom reluctant to be angry with you. He laughed again.

Looking at Kenken's mother laughing at her small face, Kiki naughtily stuck out her little tongue and laughed fakely, which made her mother laugh happily again.

Kiki's room was similar to the other children's rooms, with snow-white walls painted with a few mischievous fish like hers, and a few broken bottles on the bedside table leaking out some sand for play. But the hourglass used for timing was miserable, the transparent bottle wall was broken, and although it could stick back, it was much more ugly. There is also a model of a wooden boat made of dirt, which has been broken in two. Kiki didn't understand why she was looking for dirt to pinch such a boat in the first place.

At some point, Kenken's mother came in with a plate of fragrant food and placed it on the table. Then he tilted his head and said, "My sleeping beauty, it's time for breakfast, a new day begins." ”

"Oh, thank God for giving us abundant food." Kiki prays.

"You need to grow up and eat more." Kenken's mother's smiling face couldn't contain the deep look of sadness that she had quietly transformed.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door, and a familiar voice called:

"Did Kiki wake up?"

"Oh, baby, your friend Lingji is here, I'll open the door."

Kenken's mother went to open the door, and a girl with short silver-gray hair ran in, like a puff of smoke. She is Kiki's good sister Jellyfish Lingji who has been playing since she was a child.

"Okay, Lingji, you stay with Kiki for a while, mom still has something to go out to do first, see you later, have fun."

"Goodbye, Mom." Kiki replied as she ate.

As her name suggests, Kenken's mother is diligent and tireless, and her love knows no bounds.

Lingji looked at Kiki's food and sighed slightly:

"Let me see what you eat? One fish broth, one cabbage, one potato chips. Lingji said in a disdainful tone, "Kiki, do you know why you have always been so slim? You should eat more meat. ”

"Alright, let's get down to business." Kiki replied as she ate.

"Oh, I've searched all the books you asked me to help find in this village, and you've read almost all of them you can find. If you want to find the answer, you have to look for it outside the village. ”

Lingji stood there and shook her body as she spoke, her gray skin trembled and turned into a transparent person:

"Did I say see if my invisibility technique is better than yesterday?"

"I really envy you, you can learn so much about the refraction of light, diffraction, radiation, reflection, skin discoloration, and body shape mimicry."

"Actually, fate pets have also helped a lot, you should go out to a bigger place outside to find your pet, and promote your second evolution."

"I know you're a student bully in the village, so I can't. I don't know that God created me, but why didn't he let me find my destiny? ”

"Don't worry, it's a pet, it's a pet that you can only meet when you get it, it's part of the wisdom of our mermaid people. After all, one day, every mermaid will make a difference. Lingji appeared in the other corner of the room, her head tilted impassionedly, a little proud.

"To be honest, if you look closely, you can still see a little shadow when you're invisible, but that's good."

"Really? It seems that there is still work to be done, after all, jellyfish instincts are not invisible. ”

"Oh yes, jellyfish dance so gracefully in the water, you must be okay too, right?"

Lingji shrank her head, stared at her eyes, and touched her rebellious short hair with one hand:

"Would a cynic like me learn to dance? I don't believe it either! ”

Kiki pursed her lips and snickered, her shoulders trembling. Although it is rude to laugh at a friend.

The round-faced jellyfish Lingji felt that her face was hot and cold for a while, and waved her small fist in the air: "Be careful!" With a sly look in her eyes, she walked towards Kiki.

"Wow! Spare me, wow! The two little girls frolicked.

……

After dinner in the evening, Kiki tidied up the messy pile of books and lit the ice lamp. It was a type of lamp called combustible ice for fuel lighting, and it was a common type of lamp used by merfolk. The faint light filled the room, the light was full of natural silkiness, and suddenly a flash of inspiration appeared, and Kiki wrote a random thought. On that parchment:

Gurgling water

Winding

The one that stretches out behind the mountain

Agile golden inside

In this dreamy flow

In the ocean of sunflowers

The breeze spreads the fragrance of happiness

Caressing the golden yellow of this hot bloom

A faint melancholy stained my heart

In a trance

A golden yellow that catches the eye of a sunflower in my mind comes to mind

Warm textured colors

There is no purple enchantment

There is no blue sorrow

It's like a nutritious and delicious soup

Warmth nourishes my confused mind

You are the warm temperature of my life,

Radiating a strong light of love,

When I am sad and sad,

Give me strong courage and strength,

……

"Knock knock!" Suddenly there was a knock at the door.

Kiki walked over and opened the door, and Kenken's mother stood there with a solemn face, a bad mood enveloping Kiki's body.

"My poor darling, there's something mamma must talk to you about."

Kenken's mother sat down next to Kiki, with a sad face:

"Child, you know, my mother was called to a meeting by the village chief today, along with Lingji's mother, Linglong's mother, and the content of the meeting was about the traditional rules of the mermaid clan.

The merfolk have thrived in the sea for thousands of years, and have survived surrounded by many ferocious sea creatures, thanks to the active evolution of the mermaid's body. The Creator also does not allow laziness to appear in the race, so that each mermaid has a fair evolution, and they have to go through their own efforts to practice, so the evolved ability cannot be inherited.

Kid, you know, the mermaid body evolves twice in its lifetime. The first degree is the transformation of the fish-shaped human shape, when the mermaid baby who was born in the shape of a fish grows to a certain age, under the guidance of the parents' experience, the skin, bones, nerves and body are strengthened. Skin calcification produces scales, scales decalcify into skin, subtle changes in the skin like clothing tissues, rapid healing of skin and bone tissues after injury, and the coordination of the lungs and gills in the body.

For the second evolution, you need to find a pet that can communicate with your mind. Once you find them, they can be your lifelong companions, sharing their wisdom, power, and information. Causes you to evolve their special abilities, which you can then use to serve the merfolk. If there is no ability to evolve twice, such a mermaid will not be recognized and respected by the clan, and it is very easy to be eliminated from the mermaid world, which is a very regrettable ending.

Child, seeing that you are already eighteen years old, and you are still so thin, my mother is really reluctant to let you go out to practice. But Mom is for your own good, and for your future survival, you must follow the rules of the clan: when you are at least eighteen years old, you have to go out and practice. ”

Mother Kenken whimpered and cried sadly, wiping her tears with her hands: "Child, my poor darling, I love you, and I will always love you. Your father died early, and I'm more than 300 years old, I can't take care of you forever, you have to live independently and strongly. ”

Kiki hugged her mother and comforted:

"Mom, don't be too sad, I've thought about going out to practice too. First, I came to find my pet, and second, I also wanted to find an answer to the dream that I had been haunting for many years. You've also seen my friend Lingji and found her favorite lantern jellyfish. Although the second evolution is only half completed, it is still the beginning of the second evolution. But I don't have any grades, I will only be coquettish in front of you. Kiki's mood has never been depressed and melancholy.

There has always been an insoluble question mark in her heart, the pet of the jellyfish Lingji is the jellyfish, and she is the pet owner of the lantern jellyfish. Linglong's mother's pet is the water glowing insect, and she is the pet owner of the glowing insect, one of the lighting sources in Wucun. And my mother is the pet owner of blue krill and is responsible for the filtration of water sources in Wucun. But I haven't found my pet, and it seems that I won't find my pet if I don't go out to practice.

"Another thing that reassures me is that this time I'm on the off journey with you. Her second evolution has not yet been able to grow the unique talisman stinger of the jellyfish, and it cannot be considered a complete evolution. Another thing that reassures me the most is that the person who led your cultivation this time is Captain Akang, the pet master of the anglerfish. Tomorrow I will come to pick you up from Wucun, and the first stop is the nearest invisible island to Wucun. ”

"Invisible Island!" Kiki's expression relaxed, it was the island she used to go to when she was a child, and it should be a joy to revisit the old place.

"Yes, the Invisible Island. Captain Akon will lead you to practice, and you must respect Captain Akon's orders in everything, he is a trustworthy person. Kenken's mother held Kiki's hand and couldn't bear to let go.

……

The next day, the sun's rays hit some special rocky surfaces at the bottom of the ocean, which was not too deep, activating some mysterious crystal light-absorbing stones. The optical fibers connected to it extend to the vault of Wucun, which resembles a giant turtle shell under the rock formation, and the village uses these lights to illuminate the hall.

More than 50 households and more than 200 mermaids walked out of their homes along the oxygen-producing cyanobacteria pond and poured into the entrance ------ filtration tunnel of Wucun in the rocks of the northerly bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

The village chief was holding a cane, a lean but energetic old man with white hair and a wrinkled face. Behind him was a dark-skinned, muscular mermaid with a resolute rectangular face with an awe-inspiring majesty. On top of his head was a hat made of long strips of gray cloth wrapped around it, and his eyes were squinted.

"Villagers, I have gathered everyone in front of the filtration tunnel today to announce something to everyone. With the careful help of the villagers over the years, there are two mermaid children in our village, who have reached the age of 18. One of them is Kiki, the daughter of Kenken's godmother, the manager of the filtration tunnel, and the other is Lingji, the daughter of Linglong's godmother, the manager of the night lights in Wucun. Based on the needs of the mermaid clan rules and the second evolution of the mermaid, it is now necessary to arrange for the two children to go out to practice, so that they can have a brighter future and let them gain people's respect through their own efforts. Today, I specially gave the two girls a simple farewell ceremony, and the ceremony began! ”

The old village chief raised his scepter and commanded.

The villagers surround Kiki and Lingji, singing and dancing at the same time. Cheering from time to time, the girls used to watch the person who went out before them being sent off like this, but today it was their turn to be sent off, and they were worried, I don't know whether it was joy or sorrow, maybe both. The same mood also hung on the faces of Kenken's mother and Linglong's mother in the crowd.

After the dizzying ceremony, the stone door of the filter tunnel rumbled open. Wucun is a space in a gap between the rocks of the seabed, filled with air. The entrance and exit of the village are a "U" shaped waterway that stretches out from the village, bends outward and then extends upward, which ensures that the air in Wucun does not flow out and is not easy for outsiders to find. At the same time, the waterway also supplies the water needs of the villagers, so it is necessary to clean and maintain the water. At the same time, it becomes an entrance and exit to the village, allowing the mermaid's past to come and go cleanly.

The dark-skinned uncle behind the village chief walked up to the two girls. Before she could speak, Ling Ji tilted her head and shouted, "You are Captain Akang, right?" ”

"yes, are you ready?" The uncle opened his mouth to reveal a mouthful of white, sharp teeth.

"Gross! I've heard your story. You're still a detective, aren't you? Lingji asked.

"It's despicable." The uncle lowered his head and opened his squinted eyes.

The two girls were startled, Uncle Akang had a slightly messy fangs, which was a little scary, but when he opened his eyes, it was a pair of surprisingly large cross-eyed eyes, which made people want to laugh.

At first, Lingji pursed her lips and snickered, and then all three of them simply laughed.

Mother Kenken lay on the edge of the filtration tunnel, her eyes fixed on the mouth of the tunnel, a deep pool of water. Her eyes grew brighter and brighter. That's the process of mermaids summoning their pets, and the reason why the filter tunnel can be filtered is thanks to a kind of transparent blue krill that specializes in cleaning up microorganisms, dust and other garbage in the deep sea, and the pet owner who can summon them to work here is Kenken's mother.

The dense blue krill in the water felt the call, and they swam neatly to form a pipe with blue scale shrimp as the wall.

Captain Akon and the two girls waved goodbye to each other, then transformed into a half-fish and jumped into the tunnel. Glancing back, he reluctantly swam out of the tunnel.

……