Heavy, very heavy water.
Gao Tianyi's eyes widened.
He sank almost as soon as he entered the water. He couldn't feel any buoyancy at all. Lifting his legs seemed to be a luxury. He could only rely on the twitching of his legs to move forward slowly.
In this case, it becomes unrealistic to arrest people and bring them back... No, what is reality in a dream?
While Gao Tianyi was struggling, the children around him swam happily, falling into the water from time to time, and fished something out of the water where Gao Tianyi couldn't even see his fingers.
At this time, the young people began to doubt, were they really seeing and entering the same lake?
The boy whose face couldn't be seen clearly and who had a tug on the back of his head suddenly raised his hands and emerged from the water holding a fish in his hands.
It must have been a fish, and the damp, salty smell wafted to my nose.
Gao Tianyi blinked and shook off the liquid that splashed on his eyelids as the fish jumped.
Long, curved, strip-shaped, silver-gray with tiny spots, and the tail gradually becomes thinner and blacker.
Hairtail, the boy caught hairtail from the lake.
The young man's eyes were blank.
Hairtail is a sea fish, right? Just like the fish feast they had last night, why would they fish out sea fish in a place like this?
"A Tao, follow on!"
Gao Tianyi was still thinking, but the boy over there had already called "his" name and threw the fish over.
The young man was still slow to respond to the name "Wen Tao", and the resistance of the water tended to be infinite for him, causing him to raise his hand too late.
The hairtail fish first crashed into Gao Tianyi's arms. The fish's overly flexible tail flicked in the air, making a soft sound and splashing all the water on the young man's face.
The weight followed, Gao Tianyi's hand sank, and he caught the fish.
The smooth and sticky feeling was fleeting in the palm of his hand. Seeing that the hairtail was about to escape, Gao Tianyi subconsciously retracted his arms and hugged the whole fish into his arms.
This time, the damp smell became stronger, and there was also a slight rotten smell.
rot? Why is there such a rotten smell?
The young man, who had been led by the children's actions from beginning to end, lowered his head and looked at the fish in his arms, which was restrained by his arms.
Several pieces of the silver film on the fish's body were scratched off, dyeing the arms with a cold color. Under the dorsal fin on the back and the pectoral fin on one side, sharp gray foreign objects protruded from the bottom.
The arms that were wrapped around him were lucky enough to avoid those parts, so they weren't hit.
what is that?
The foreign object seemed to be growing, slowly crawling out of the hairtail fish's body, building a thin framework on the surface of the fish.
If Gao Tianyi didn't let go, his arm might also be wrapped in it.
——No, I have to get rid of it.
After struggling to throw the fish to the shore, the child who had not entered the water immediately caught the fish and put it in the bag at his feet. He did not avoid the gray foreign object at all.
From the perspective of Gao Tianyi, who almost lost his footing and was about to fall, he could only see the gray thorns scratching the child's fingers and turning into a dark blue like sea water when they were stained with blood.
"Hey -" Gao Tianyi shouted, "your hands..."
The companions on the shore looked over in confusion and raised their hands to look at it.
"What's wrong?" he asked, "Wen Tao, you are so weird today. You usually catch several fish. What's going on today?"
"Oh, I understand. Are you not used to it because we changed places today? It's okay. Everyone has the same message. Just go to the mountain stream and play."
"All the adults have gone to [——] today, and they won't be discovered."
...came and appeared again.
An inaudible, silenced sentence or phrase.
Gao Tianyi would stay in the dream and follow these children here under the identity of "Wen Tao". On the one hand, he wanted to find out what they were going to do, and on the other hand, he wanted to know what the silenced words were.
The fish caught later seemed to be normal.
It is normal if it is still full of sea fish.
The children around him didn't show any inappropriate reaction to the fish caught in the lake, but as the types of fish gradually became more bizarre, Gao Tianyi was afraid that if they continued like this, they would really catch another fish similar to the oarfish.
"Um..." The young man tried to find a way to move back a little, because the resistance of the weak water took a while, "Is this how you usually catch fish?"
Gao Tianyi is not very interested in what a village relies on for food. In fact, from the road, it seems that there are some fields here, but the amount is not large.
After being asked this question, the two boys who could not see their faces in charge of catching the fish stopped and said, "We usually catch them like this. We just rely on the mountains and the water to eat... but it seems that the types of fish are a little different?"
Seeing that the boy finally got to the point, Gao Tianyi immediately asked: "What's the difference?" He felt that no matter how bad the difference was, he could still get some clues.
However, the young man's expectations were dashed.
It was a bit difficult for children to describe the differences. The boy who couldn't see his face clearly and had a knot on the back of his head thought for a while and said that the appearance was different.
The good-looking ones they caught in the mountain streams are now getting uglier and uglier from the lake.
Gao Tianyi: Can it not be ugly? Don’t deep-sea fish just look random because no one sees them?
The young man took another step back. He squeezed the water on his skirt and was about to ask again when the boy over there turned his head first.
"Wen Tao, you are really weird today." It seemed that as these words were spoken, the air became a little bit thicker and sticky.
The boy jumped out of the water and onto the shore in confusion, and approached Gao Tianyi with his whole body wet.
Gao Tianyi wanted to hide, but he found that his control over "his" body had weakened.
"You didn't go into the water with us to catch fish, and you asked questions here and there...what's the point of asking this kind of thing." The boy seemed to pout, "Hey, tell me, let's go diving for a while?"
Invisible eyes were fixed on Gao Tianyi, waiting for his answer.
The young man looked at him and suddenly realized... If he didn't answer now, the dream would end here.
But if the answer is yes, this lake...does he really have a chance to float up again?
The warmth brought by the warm sunlight only stays on the surface of the lake. When your legs sink in, you can only feel the incomparable coldness and heaviness.
The translucent lake color is only a shallow layer. When you look deeper, the dark blue water turns into a dark color like ink, and you can't see the end at a glance.
"How deep is the lake?" Gao Tianyi heard his own voice ask, as if his consciousness was somewhat separated, and he heard a bit of a girl's voice.
"How deep?" The boy tilted his head. "I don't know. No one has measured it. It should be... quite deep, right? If you are afraid of drowning, can we tie a rope and go down?"
As he spoke, another child next to him whose face he couldn't see clearly took out a long string of ropes from the bag.
Gao Tianyi was sure and certain that they didn't bring these things with them when they came.
However, dreams can be illogical, and he can only regard the things in front of him as brought instead of conjured.
As if there was no possibility of rejection, several children on the shore tied the ropes to the two of them on their own initiative, and tied them very standardly to ensure that they would not fall off due to any accident unless someone cut them off with a knife.
Child A who couldn't see his face clearly said: "Wow, stop talking."
Child B, who couldn't see his face clearly: "I always feel like I'm setting up something strange... but does it really matter if you do this?"
The other end of the rope was tied to the tree. Gao Tianyi roughly calculated that the middle section was four or five meters long.
As long as the lake was normal, Gao Tianyi had the confidence to swim back and forth with the help of others, but now the lake looked like an abyss to him!
In the end, Gao Tianyi entered the water again.
His whole body dived into the water, as if he were wrapped in a heavy and soft film, weighing him down as he fell deeper into the water.
He opened his eyes with difficulty, and the lake water poured in from his ears, nose, mouth and other places. The organs that could not breathe became even more suffocated, and all his attention was forced to focus on his right hand.
The young man's right hand was held by the hand of a child who was slightly younger than him, which was his only fulcrum in the lake.
He didn't know how the boy swam so fast and steadily. Gao Tianyi only felt that the surrounding light was dimming a little bit, and soon it reached the point where he couldn't see his fingers and could only feel through touch.
He felt a little regretful. Why did he feel like he couldn't see anything?
Except for water, which is still water, the whole world is dead.
If you fall into a deep sleep in such an embrace, it will definitely be——
"Look." A voice said close to his ear, "Is that underneath..."
The indistinct human voice accompanied by the sound of gurgling bubbles caused the young man to open his eyes.
No, he had half-opened his eyes to begin with, but what he opened was--the environment he saw had a little halo, and some luminous plankton floated there, lighting up the surrounding environment and making it... People saw the scene nearby.
Gao Tianyi saw a fish tail.
The fish's tail, which was larger than an adult's body, glowed beside the halo, followed by a rather fishy tail flick. Under the turbulence of the water, the person was directly lifted out.
When he regained consciousness, Gao Tianyi found that he had surfaced and was being pulled towards the shore by a boy with a hand on the back of his head.
It came up. When did it come up?
Gao Tianyi, who was still immersed in what he had seen before, heard the boy say: "Why is there nothing at the bottom of this lake? No matter how deep it is, it cannot be held in one breath... Sure enough, I still need to bring some equipment. I can only do it next time." Come again."
"...Wen Tao... Wen Tao! Did you see anything in front of you?"
According to the boy's story, he and "Wen Tao" separated not long after they went down, and they were not holding hands all the time as Gao Tianyi felt.
The two of them walked in the same direction, held their breath and rushed down.
Then the boy came back first, then "Wen Tao".
The boy also stretched out his hand to pull "Wen Tao" when he swam back late, so their hands joined together again.
"I..." Gao Tianyi opened his mouth, "Cough cough cough..."
He kept spitting water out of his mouth, which scared the boy in front of him and turned around quickly.
"Hey, hey, isn't it...are you choking on water?"
Just as the boy was patting "Wen Tao" on the back and the two were supporting each other, a strange voice came from the shore.
The adult's voice was full of displeasure. The boy turned his neck stiffly, and Gao Tianyi also raised his head while coughing repeatedly.
The tall adults stood there together, and the children who were on the shore were all pushed aside. The leading man had a dark face, and at his feet were the plastic bags used by the children to hold fish, and held two ropes in his hands. .
The other end connected to the waist of the boy and Gao Tianyi has been removed from the tree.
"Wen Tao, Wen [——]...you are very good."
The boy's name can only be heard as a surname, and the following characters have been erased.
The man on the shore was reluctant to smile at first, but later he couldn't laugh anymore, so he yelled: "Didn't I tell you not to come to this lake if you have nothing to do!"
Gao Tianyi took Wen Tao's identity and had not yet spoken. The boy on the side explained first: "We are just curious... so we..."
"Curious." The man grinned, and his smile suddenly sent chills down the spine, "Curious, right?"
Gao Tianyi felt something was not good, but now he seemed to have entered the next scene of the plot, and his whole person was out of control.
It should be said that "Wen Tao" was not under his control. Gao Tianyi could only be like a bystander, watching the two children approach the shore step by step.
Then, then they were—
…
"This size..." Qi Zhuyue stood there and gestured, "Wait, there are more over here."
Qi Zhuyue glanced at the traces farther away, so she went back to the house to get a broom and swept the leaves and ashes on the ground to make the traces more visible.
She looked at the outline that was finally revealed and murmured: "Hey...isn't this a little too big?"
It's not a small piece as I thought when I first saw the corner, nor is it the size of a coffin as I thought when I scanned a part of it, but...a square frame at least two meters by two meters wide and an unknown height.
Tang Nuo looked at the depth of the mark for a while and said, "The height should be more than two meters..." It was more than two meters but not higher than the height of the courtyard wall.
The young man wearing glasses looked around and found that the trees outside the house were quite tall. If he climbed on them, he could almost see clearly what was in the backyard.
After that, Tang Nuo walked around the yard and looked at the drainage outlet under the corner. Finally, he walked back into the house and headed towards the storage room where the sundries were placed with a clear purpose.
The storage room was locked. If it were a normal household owner, he would probably open the door by touching the key. However, Tang Nuo and Qi Zhuyue had no memory and no time, so they still took out the slender wire made from a hairpin.
The wire was inserted into the keyhole and turned a few times, and the storage room was easily opened.
Once again, he pushed the door open with his companion's threatening eyes, and Tang Nuo covered his mouth and nose in time to avoid being hit by the dust.
After the smoke cleared for a while, Tang Nuo covered the lower part of his face and walked in. He rubbed his hand on the wall and turned on the light. His eyes began to wander in the storage room.
After watching a few laps, Tang Nuo had a goal.
The young man wearing glasses quickly moved several storage boxes that had fallen on the ground. Once the rollers rolled, he dragged the boxes away. If there were no rollers, he would hold them with both hands.
The clothes on his body were stained with dust, and he finally exposed the "boards" at the bottom.
Qi Zhuyue followed behind and offered her hand in confusion: "What is this... wooden board?"
Tang Nuo opened a corner of the cloth package, looked at the transparent part inside and said, "No, this is a fish tank."
It's a very big, very tall fish tank, and I don't know what it is used to hold.
(End of chapter)
