"You know, although I don't remember my parents, I also have family, they are Mei Lee, Vincent and Yu Xiang, we have been together since we wore diapers, I used to think I didn't like them, but now I feel that they are the most important people to me.

"Mei Li is a girl who doesn't like much (laughs), at least in my opinion, but she's very enthusiastic and capable, and the three of us are not used to leaving her; Vincent was a man who had been unruly since childhood, and I was nothing compared to him, but he was very righteous and kind to his friends; Yuxiang is always quiet, and people will ignore him unconsciously, but if you know him, you will find that there is a shocking side hidden under his iceberg-like appearance. ”

"What is it?" Shaman asked.

Ryan pursed his lips, "I can't tell...... But among the three boys, Mei Li relies on Yuxiang the most, and among the four of us, the most transparent person is Yuxiang. ”

"What do you mean by transparency?"

"Hmm...... For example, once I asked Yuxiang, you had the opportunity to be the preferred person, why did you give up again, do you know what this kid said? ”

"Say what?"

"He didn't want to marry a stranger," he said. ”

Sandman's eyes blinked.

"yes, can you imagine, this is something I didn't expect at the time, and besides, there are even more amazing."

"What?"

"He said that he didn't want Mei Li to watch him marry someone else."

Sha Man gently covered his mouth with his hand.

Ryan sat at the entrance of the stone cave, looked at the gradually brightening sky, and said: "So, don't the people of the Ark have love, is love just a hormone, I don't think it maybe, even if people who have taken tranquilizers, they can still feel its existence, it can exist between any two people, in any form." ”

Sand Man sat beside Ryan and leaned gently against Ryan.

"Look, the sun is rising, the red morning glow is dyeing the sea, and the sea is gradually waking up, and the sea is slowly moving, and it is lapping the beach one by one, as if stretching its waist, and lifting the quilt, and the white seabirds are flying above the sea, making a pleasant chirping, as if to say: Get up, get up......"

Sand Man laughed.

***

Ryan finds himself stepping onto a black land. But it wasn't the land, the particles under your feet were hard and rustling, as if they had been carbonized in some way.

"This is, the ruins." Shaman said.

Ryan looked around, and saw mounds buried in black sand, with occasional protrusions sticking out from the mounds, showing that what was buried underneath was not naturally formed, but looked like the remains of some kind of human activity.

Ryan's eyes widened, he had never seen any of this.

They walked through the black mounds, and though the ruins were shapeless and almost submerged, Ryan still felt that this was his departure

The most recent moment of prehistoric civilization.

Shaman looked left and right, as if looking for something, and Ryan followed quietly. They chatted until dawn last night, and Ryan wanted to sleep a little longer, but was pulled up by Sand Man and said that there was a long way to go today, and there was something very important to do.

Everything was dead and silent, not even the sound of a reptile, Ryan didn't know what Shaman was looking for, but a glimmer of hope slowly rose in his heart: Could it be that there was anything else?

This damn hope.

They came to a huge mound with a slight depression in it, like an entrance, and the sand vine stepped forward and dug it up with his hands, with Ryan helping.

The two of them had four hands, and slowly, a black hole appeared, and the two of them sped up, widening the hole, and when they could allow people to pass through, Shaman pulled Ryan into it.

Although the entrance to the cave is small, there is a cave inside, and Ryan feels that there is a large space inside, but the black is not real. With a thud, Sand Man lit the torch, and Ryan was stunned when he saw everything in front of him.

It was like, the cross-section of a huge building, diagonally in front of it, the building seemed to be cut off by something, and in that cross-section, you could see the broken floors, and between the floors, there were rows of shelves, and on the shelves, there were things placed close together.

"This is, the library." Shaman said.

Ryan walked forward slowly, only to see the shelves lined up to the point where they could not be seen, and the flattened square-shaped things that were densely arranged on the shelves really looked like books, but they were all charred and black.

The sand man moved slowly with a torch, illuminating the blackened books as if endlessly. Ryan had never seen so many books, so many, full of books for an entire building.

"Library ......" Ryan repeated the old and discarded phrase, leaning forward, only to see that some of the books could still be faintly seen on the spine, and Ryan couldn't help but reach out to them.

"Don't touch it," Shaman said, and as soon as he finished speaking, the place where Ryan had touched shattered and fell into black powder.

"It's a pity that it's all carbonized." Shaman said.

Ryan tilted his head, looked at the charred remains of the library, and sat down on his knees.

Or, there is nothing left......

This is not only the grave of books, but also the grave of prehistoric human civilization.

Shaman's hand landed lightly on Ryan's shoulder, "Follow me." ”

Sandman held a torch in one hand and pulled Ryan in the other, and walked towards the depths of the cavern. Ryan felt that what they were stepping on was the smooth ground of stone texture, and as the footsteps of the two made a distant sound, Ryan also saw that on the charred ground, there were faintly exquisite patterns, and in the corner not far away, there was a corner of a large fireplace, which was also the texture of stone, vaguely light-colored, with intricate and beautiful lines carved on it.

Ryan calmed down and said, "You dragged me out early in the morning just to let me see this?" ”

"Nope." Shaman said.

The cave became tighter, and Ryan held on to the stone wall with his hand, and as he walked, he found that the touch of the stone wall changed from dry to wet, and the further inside, the more damp the feeling became.

"Is there water here?"

As he spoke, Sand Man suddenly stopped, and Ryan crashed into Sand Man. Ryan looked over Sandman's shoulder, and saw a hole in the ground a few meters ahead.

Ryan stepped forward and saw that it was a hole about two meters in diameter, the entrance of the cave was dark, and there was water in it, so he was immediately excited, "So there is water here!" ”

"Don't move."

Ryan's hand that was about to stir up the water stopped in mid-air, but he saw Shaman fold his hands, and then knelt on the ground, touching his palms with his forehead, and chanting words in his mouth, looking very reverent.

"What are you doing?"

"Ask for forgiveness from the god of water."

"Why?"

"Because, I'm going to do disrespectful things."

I saw Shaman tie up his long hair at the back of his head, untie a roll of rattan rope (which he had brought this morning) that was tied diagonally to his body, tie one end to his waist, and hand the other end to Ryan, saying, "Pull it up, if I pull the rope, you can pull me up." ”

"Wait," Ryan said, "what are you going to do?" ”

"Perhaps, there's something down there in this pool."

"Maybe?"

"Well, your father said that." The eyes of the sand man are like amber.

Ryan's expression froze, "Slowly, slowly, slowly, what did he say, you make it clear!" ”

Shaman said, "This waterhole is our holy place, and we have relied on it for our water for generations, but your father is ...... Before he died, he called me to his side and said...... There's something in this pool. ”

"What's there?"

He said it very vaguely, and it was the last thing he said, and I was the only one who heard it, and it was: You go to the cabin, go to Ryan, and then, go to the waterhole, there is ...... Then he didn't say any more......"

"He only said this to you alone?"

Shaman nodded, "He called me over, told me to put my ear close to him, and then said, don't tell anyone else. ”

Ryan's brows froze, and Shaman continued: "I was only five years old at the time, and I didn't understand his words very well, this waterhole is our most sacred place, ordinary people can't approach, and the water can only be taken by a special person in a prescribed container, and it is never allowed to be contaminated, how can there be anything in it, how did I come here, although I don't understand, but I firmly remember it." ”

Ryan said, "Are you sure, down here?" “

"After the Ark people came, there was no one here, I have been here a few times, and I have searched all around, it can only be down here."

Shaman came to the edge of the pool and said, "We have to hurry, you have been outside for too long, you must return to the stone house as soon as possible." ”

Ryan gasped a few times, gripped the rope, and said, "Okay." ”

Seeing that Shaman bowed to the waterhole again, he took off his shoes and carefully put his feet into the water, the waterhole looked very deep, and the black hole could not be seen, Shaman grabbed the rope tightly with both hands, stepped on the pool wall with both feet, and sank his body into it little by little, Ryan felt the weight on the rope, and the rope trembled slightly.

Ryan looked at Shaman and suddenly said, "Wait a minute. ”

Sandman looked up at Ryan.

"Can you swim?"

Shaman shook his head.

"......," Ryan picked up the sandman.

Sand Man sat on the edge of the pool, and Ryan tied a rope to his body. Shaman said, "Hey, how do you know I can't?" ”

"You just looked like a cat in the water."

"Then I can do it too."

"If you could, you would have gone down and looked for it, didn't you?"

Sand Man Stopper.

Ryan smiled, "Finally found one you're not good at." ”

Ryan took off his rubber mask, took off his cloak, jumped into the pool with ease, and said to Sandman, "How deep is this?" ”

Shaman shook his head, "No one has ever gone down. ”

Ryan tilted his head, "Okay, my highest breath-holding record, five minutes, I'll take a look first." ”

Ryan picked up the mask and took a deep breath, and just sank in, Sand Man shouted, "Ryan! ”

Ryan had no choice but to float.

"If there is a problem, come up quickly, for our legend says that whoever dares to defile the holy water will be ...... Water God...... Swallow ......"

Ryan wiped the water from his face and smiled at Shaman, "Don't worry. ”

Ryan groped his way on the stone walls of the stone pool.

If he were to hide something, where would he hide it?

There are some natural bumps on the stone wall, but not to the extent that you can hide things, and if you hide at the bottom of the pool, the buoyancy of the water is so great that it should be very deep......

It's so cold, it's biting, and if you hide it at the bottom, I'm afraid you'll freeze before you find it...... Damn, I came down in too much of a hurry, and I didn't do any preparatory activities, and it would be funny to have cramps when the time came......

After a few minutes, Ryan found nothing but to float.

Ryan slammed out of the water, and when he met the motionless gaze of the sand man squatting on the edge of the pool, Ryan smiled and said, "It's so cold in the water, come up and warm up." ”

Sand Man quickly lit a small fire, and Ryan stood by the fire, shaking and breathing heavily as he put on a rubber mask.

Sand Man held a torch and roasted it up and down behind Ryan, saying, "Otherwise, I'll try it." ”

"What a joke," said Ryan, "and besides, I'm the only one to do." ”

"Only you do it?"

"Because, that person, he wants me to do it."

"Why?"

"Think of his words, 'You go to the cabin, go to Ryan, and then, go to the waterhole,' he wants you to take me to the waterhole, and besides, wild people can't swim, it's hard to get into the water, and only I can get it." He left this message only for you as a child, that is, to avoid the wild people, and avoid the Ark people. ”

Hearing this, Sha Man nodded slowly.

Ryan jumped into the water again, made an "OK" gesture to Sandman, and sank.

Father, I guessed right. For some reason, I understood your intentions all at once, and it came as naturally as intuition.

Like if it were you, I'd think the same thing.

As you guessed, I'm going to be here one day.

As you might expect.

Why, why do we make such similar choices, hehe, it's amazing, is that the power of genes?

But Father, what else I didn't think of, I knew there must be, what was it, tell me, tell me......

The cold penetrated the marrow again, and the pain in his lungs grew stronger and stronger, and Ryan groped as hard as he could on the four walls of the waterhole, Father, what else, tell me, tell me......

Suddenly, Ryan's fingers ran through a depression, which was a depression in the smooth stone, and it was impossible for the force of nature to form such a linear depression.

Ryan touched the depression up and down, left and right, and gradually recognized that it was a "t" shape, the Western letter t? Ryan hurriedly touched the side again, only to see that next to it, the letters "D", "o", and "n" were engraved, which together were: "Dont".

Don t, Don 't, this must be the mark left by the father!

Excitement rose from Ryan's heart, he touched the stone, but found nothing more, and looked around the stone, but found nothing unusual, he followed the position of the character downward, and finally, a few meters below, Ryan touched another mark: "Go".

Dont go…… What does that mean? Ryan continued downwards and touched the third stone, "gentle".

A flash of lightning flashed through Ryan's mind: the editor-in-chief took the dark blue book and said that it was a precious ......

Do not go gentle into that good night ， Do not go gentle into that good night !