"The bottom of the lake? No, the lake looks clear, but it doesn't seem to have a bottom downstream...... When I say gem, I'm on the wall of this lake! It seems to be embedded in a crevice, and it seems to have grown out of the lake wall. That's why I said I couldn't catch it...... It should be said that there is no way to pull it off the lake wall! ”

Under Zhou Daoan's inquiry, the sailor who originally thought that he had discovered the treasure was a little calmer, so he recalled it carefully and explained it to everyone.

"Lake wall?" Zhou Daoan frowned, "Is the location deep?" ”

"Deep! Twenty meters for sure! But I can dive at least 30 meters in the water! If I hadn't dived deep, I wouldn't have found out...... It's just that the deeper you go, the worse your sight becomes......" replied decisively, not forgetting to boast about himself.

This time it immediately aroused the competitiveness of several other sailors, and they choked one after another:

"Thirty meters? I can dive fifty meters! What a fool you are! ”

"You kid, diving close to the edge of the lake, you must be cowardly! We all dived in the center, so we didn't notice anything unusual! ”

The sailor immediately retorted, and went back and forth, almost being led off the subject.

"Alright...... Hassan found the gem, it's a big deal! Come, tell me well, what kind of material is this gemstone, we don't have enough tools now, can we give it up? Little Abu stopped the pointless quarrel and asked for details.

"Yes! Absolutely! I saw that half of the stone was outside the stone wall, and I should be able to get it down with a knife and a chisel! The surface of the stone has been polished smooth by the lake water, and it must be a natural gem of many years! Material...... This villain can't say it well, he doesn't have much knowledge, but it's very similar to the oriental jade you mentioned, milky white, like milk, and a little salt and stone! The sailor who made a meritorious contribution immediately clapped his chest!

Due to the relatively poor language of the sailors, the "jewels" depicted really made little Abu and Zhou Daoan unable to imagine a clue. Fortunately, they don't need to imagine the next situation-

Three or four sailors immediately took out daggers and knives from their packages, put them in their mouths, shouted and dived one after another. After a while, a series of bubbles rose on the surface of the water - it was the sailors who came up to breathe, and then plunged again. And so on again and again, and at last, when the water bubbled again, first a white stone the size of a wine barrel came to the surface, and then the excited sailors showed their heads.

The people on the shore hurriedly helped the sailors to carry this "jewel" ashore, and when they looked closely, it was milky white, as smooth as pebbles, but as warm as jade, and under the illumination of the morning sun, it really reflected a crystal luster.

It was certainly not jade, but it was a bit like white marble, and when the sailors lifted it up, the underwater operation must have been rough, and there were even some scratches on the stone surface. Other than that...... Well? Why is there still some blood-spliced stuff on the other side of the smooth stone face? This side was pressed down at the bottom end, and I really didn't pay attention to it......

Just one minute after everyone looked at it, suddenly, there was a violent shaking sensation under their feet.

Earthquake?

These two words immediately flashed through everyone's hearts, and they saw that countless resident birds were also shocked by this vibration and flew away from the nest! The next moment, the mirror-like lake in front of everyone also began to ripple......

No, not ripples! It's a vortex that spirals from the center! It seems that the drain plug of the bathtub has been pulled out, and the lake level is rapidly lowered! Fortunately, those who bathed in the lake had come ashore earlier to look at the gem, otherwise, with such an attraction, they would have been swept away by the whirlpool!

Just a few seconds later, the surface of the lake, which had been falling rapidly, suddenly rose again, and it was so fast that it was too fast to react. Just listen to the "bang", the surface of the lake has turned into a column of water, rising to the sky! Straight to a height of more than 20 meters, only to be scattered and splashed like a fountain.

The shaking beneath his feet continued, and around the island, a strange sound came from the ground beneath his feet. It's not the sound of the earth's crust cracking, but two familiar syllables, but under the long rhythm of the drag, it is difficult for people to react immediately.

These two syllables are–

"Ahh——!h

The sound of vicissitudes of life and simplicity seems to rise from the bottom of the sea and surround it, and there is a dull feeling.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed through Zhou Daoan's mind, making him suddenly understand why this island was strange! He almost punched himself in anger - how could the story he had heard as a child be forgotten for a while? If you can remember that story, how could you come to such an "island"?!

In "Arabian Nights - Sinbad's Voyage Adventure", once Sinbad boarded a "small island" with a crew member, but because of a barbecue on the island, the "island" was woken up!

That's a huge whale! It is only a little of its back that floats on the surface of the sea, and even because this huge whale sleeps for hundreds of years at a time, the exposed back is covered with sand and grows trees! If it hadn't been for the barbecue scalding its skin, the whale would have continued to sleep......

When I heard this story as a child, the teacher in the reading class joked that the author of the Arabian Nights might have borrowed from Zhuangzi's "Getaway...... It's just that the "Kun" of the "North Hell" was released to the Indian Ocean in the south.

Later, there was a singer with a high national popularity who also sang a song "The Whale Who Incarnated as a Lonely Island...... Maybe it was also the inspiration. It's just that these fragmented memories were placed by Zhou Daoan on the stored "attic"! As a result, although Zhou Daoan felt strange at the time, he did not have the first association.

Right now, the island they are on is not marked on the map of decades ago, and the plant species on the island are strange (it should be that the epiplasmic cortex of the whale's back is metabolized into nutrients, so that the plant growth has a little variation), and in the context of this legend, it suddenly becomes reasonable!

Now, the island has apparently woken up! The reason for this - the Eight Achievements are the fault of the sailors who cut off that stone! Reminiscent of the plot of the lake in front of me turning into a fountain, nine out of ten of this lake is the "nostrils" of giant whales! And the stone the size of a wine barrel...... How do you look like nasal calculus!

No wonder this sleeping whale wakes up! This is the equivalent of a rough nose stone surgery on it by sailors! How sensitive the nasal cavity is, a normal person can't stand a toothpick poking his nostrils, let alone digging a stone with a knife! Or without anesthetic, who can stand this! If it weren't for the size of the giant whale, the reflex arc would definitely be slower, and it would be asleep...... The first blow of those water hand knives may be washed into the sky by whale sprays!

Except for Zhou Daoan, no one in this group knew what was going on, they just shouted in panic, but they didn't know what to do.

"Into the woods! Tie yourself to a tree with a belt! ”

In a hurry, Zhou Daoan could only take one step at a time. He shouted loudly, first looking at little Abu, and then beckoning everyone to rush into the woods. Several people had a bad sense of balance, and under the influence of the "earthquake", they couldn't step on it at all, and they almost "rolled" into the woods after rolling and climbing.

Untie your belt in unison and tie yourself up in a hurry! After doing this, everyone could clearly feel that the amplitude of the vibration was getting bigger and bigger, and a feeling of the ground slowly rising appeared. Zhou Daoan knew that this was the consequence of the giant whale waking up and moving its body to the surface.

And that's not even the scariest of all. The most terrifying thing is that if the whale wakes up, it rolls over, dives, flutters, and swims......

The others couldn't think of it that far, and the violent vibration and sense of air in front of them made them panic. But I finally begged for a living at sea, and I have seen the wind and waves, and I know that this trip was born by the boss in order to find excitement. Therefore, several leading sailors immediately beckoned everyone to stabilize their emotions, and showed their experience in facing the storm on the deck, and they all stabilized their figures.

"Zhou, do you know what's going on?" Beside Zhou Daoan, Xiao Abu, who tied himself to the trunk of the tree with his belt, asked loudly. He was already accustomed to asking this oriental advisor - just now the sudden change occurred, and it was this "Zhou" who calmed down first.

"If I'm not mistaken, we've disturbed an ancient being...... Mr. Abu, get ready for swimming! Zhou Daoan smiled bitterly - his hand had already touched the edge of the Pirate King's gold coin, if the giant whale really dived, then they must get out before the whale enters the deep sea, even if it is floating on the surface of the sea, it is better than being carried by the giant whale to the bottom of the sea.

Sure enough, the giant whale that woke up was also quite "up and angry", and after a sneeze, a majestic and ethereal whale chirp appeared! When they felt the island under their feet rise higher and higher, reaching the height of three or four stories, most of the sailors realized what kind of creature they had come on. Although some of them have seen whales, it is unimaginable that they are so huge! Many people were so frightened that the six gods had no owner, and they prayed for Lord Zhen's blessing.

If you have a pair of eyes that can take a bird's eye view of this scene, you can find that under the light of the morning sun, a large fish of more than 100 feet on the blue sea has half of its body floated out! And at the stomata of its head, there is a circle of lush greenery, like a potted plant on the top of the head, green and oily......

But you won't make fun of the green on top of this head, because the visual impact of this huge creature beyond human cognition is extremely shocking! When its dark and deep eyes, but dozens of meters in diameter, are exposed to the surface of the sea, this whale leap officially begins!

"Stand firm! Prepare to ......" Zhou Daoan shouted, as if he was on a roller coaster, trying to adjust his center of gravity, and the mentality of about to usher in "excitement"!

The next moment, the big fish soared into the air!