Kiki looked back, and sure enough, as the captain said, the whales were all gone. It should have dived and left: "Uncle, what's going on?" Could it be that they are hiding under the boat and preparing to sneak attack? ”

Akon looked down at the bottom of the boat, where the water was luckily crystal clear. I saw the scene of the bottom of the sea directly, obediently! The sight of the bottom of the sea makes people's scalps tingle, and it is all the bones of Bai Sensen, piled up like a mountain.

"Kiki, this place can't be put into the water, because this is a forbidden place for marine life------ the sea area of the salt brine pond."

"Salt brine pool!" Kiki's eyes widened in surprise and she looked to the bottom of the ocean.

"Yes, a pond formed by salt sedimentation on the seabed. It is poisonous, and many fish creatures will be poisoned and faint if they swim into or near the area. And many of the remains do not decay unless they encounter some kind of mussel or shrimp that can adapt to this environment. ”

The boat still moved slowly, only the occasional rattling knocking at the dead silence of the seabed. In the face of the sleeping spirits in the salt brine pool, no one can squeeze out the depression that they don't want to say in their hearts. It's like walking through a forest full of miasma, which makes people feel physically and psychologically choked. Although overhead is a beautiful sky and lovely clouds.

The captain looked at the damaged sails and masts and shook his head helplessly. Such damage was not expected at the beginning, and perhaps the only way to row with oars was to be able to do so later. Looking at the carved goose head on the bow of the ship, and listening to the rattling and rattling of the ship's planks, it felt like a big duck gloating at the passengers on the boat laughing and mocking. Perhaps the little swan should not have been ridiculed for being like a duck in the first place, as the pedants often say: everything has a spirit, let alone a deified little swan with a wooden hull. The bow of a large wooden ship built by terrestrial humans is often carved with a statue of a god, probably to make the hull of the ship spiritual.

"Uncle Akang, I feel that the geomagnetic field is shaking here." Kiki said, "The sense of direction is a bit out of order. ”

"Hmm!" The captain suddenly looked up and looked around: "It's weird, I feel the same way about the direction of the magnetic field that my brain senses." ”

The two of them stretched their heads along the side of the boat to look at the clear bottom of the sea. It's very strange that the boat has already sailed some way out of the salt brine pond, why can't there be a single fish or marine life here? Where are they hiding? Nothing but the unusually clear waters and the calm sea sand underneath it, and it was eerily quiet.

"What to do? Uncle Akang. Kiki was overwhelmed because she could get lost.

Captain Akon fell into deep thought, with his decades of experience in the ocean, but he had never encountered such a strange sea area, and he couldn't come up with any conclusions and suggestions for a while. Kiki shook him for some length before he could react.

"Uncle, the situation has changed again." Kiki felt that the boat seemed to stop but not stop, and it seemed to move instead of walking. It's incredible: "Look at the sea, it's incredible." ”

Ah Kang looked down at the boat, and he was taken aback by the scene in front of him. The sea under this ship no longer looks like a sea, but more like a sky made up of blue sky and white clouds. When I looked up again, I could see the sea level far away above me, and I could faintly see the white waves surging in the sea above. Why? The ship is still there, but the sea and the sky have changed positions?

If it's a normal day, it's so common to look up at the sky and look down on the sea. However, although the scenery is also very beautiful, it makes people feel depressed and almost crazy.

"Listen, listen......" the captain adjusted his breathing, "Kiki, this is just an illusion, an illusion more wonderful than a mirage." First of all, it is the mirage of the sea that is reflected in the sky; Then, because the sea level was so quiet, a huge mirror was formed, and the sky was reflected in this mirror. So the sky is down, and the sea is above. ”

In fact, Captain Akon had just figured out that the two of them had strayed into the legendary psychedelic sea, into a world that did not conform to conventional logic.

"Listen, listen...... Kiki. The captain breathed nervously: "The younger the person in this sea area, the easier it is to stay awake, I heard the old man mention it when I was a child. Relatively old people will not be able to lift their spirits and fall asleep. So maybe I'll fall asleep delirious, and you have to work hard and not give up. We have to find a way to get the ship out of this area so that we can both be saved, or we might be stuck here forever. Don't be afraid, you can do it, you will do it, you ...... You ......" Before he could finish speaking, the captain's head drooped and fell asleep.

"Hey! Uncle, Uncle Captain! Kiki shook him and yelled, "You haven't told me how to go, what should I do?" Wake up! No matter how much she shook the captain, the captain still fell asleep.

How so? Kiki felt lonely and helpless like she had never felt before. The surrounding scenery is so beautiful that it can kill, the blue sky and white clouds are actually under the boat, and the vast sea is overhead. I never thought that the blue sky and the sea would appear so terrifyingly in front of me. What joke did the Creator play to fool the ignorant people on their journey? If Reiki was there, she might be able to summon her jellyfish to shake the mysterious silence. But Kiki really didn't have this ability, and let the loneliness and death-like atmosphere drown her little by little, making her feel like she was struggling to breathe.

"No, no." Kiki sweated urgently: "I will definitely be able to overcome the predicament, I will definitely do it." ”

The excessive silence made Kiki anxious to make a noise, and she picked up the oars of the boat and flapped them down, hoping to make a splash of water and sound under the boat. But the effect was like slapping at the real sky, and nothing was slapped. Why is this so? Kiki gasped and almost cried. She tried every way she could think of to make a sound, but she never heard an echo after the tapping, not even the slapping of the Little Swan.

Until she was exhausted, Kiki lay helplessly on the deck of the ship, staring blankly at the ocean above. I've never seen the sea from such an angle, but what can I do? Could it be that such a useless mermaid as himself was abandoned by the sea? If you are really abandoned, does it mean that you are going to die? No, it won't. I vaguely remember the words of Du's father before boarding the Little Swan: "Every step is practice, don't give up lightly; Every step has a cause and effect, and it should be done and cherished. Every step ......"

Could the uneasiness at this time be the claustrophobia mentioned in the book? Will it usher in a collapse of consciousness in the imagination? Will it be like the picture in the fairy tale, the man-eating demon appears from the sky, opens its mouth full of terrifying fangs and approaches step by step, and calls the heavens and the earth to be unspiritual. Everything has gone into the chaos of the void again, all the memories have begun to turn yellow and then turn pale, will time stop blocking the next round of reincarnation of helpless life. Stuck in the lonely gap between life and death.