That was not an answer that surprised him. Although Luo Binhan was sure that he heard the calling voice, there was still nothing behind the curtain. There is still the vast and boundless river surface, and the water lilies covering the vast waters. The fog was more changeable and ethereal on this side of the curtain, as if it contained some living thing. But when Luo Binhan looked over one by one, his eyes accurately told him that there was nothing there.
"Vero?" he murmured. But I'm still not sure what I just heard were really these syllables.
Garfield asked him what that meant. Once again, the alien monster parasitic in his body failed to share what Luo Binhan saw and heard. But the environment it described was no different from what Luo Binhan saw, which seemed to prove that he had once again imagined something that didn't exist. This conclusion made Luo Binhan quite unwilling, so he turned to the third person present for testimony.
"Did you hear it?" he asked Asabam, "Just now, a woman spoke?"
Asabam said nothing. In Luo Binhan's opinion, it was more like a denial. He had no choice but to put the mystery aside and move forward before Asabam began to command him.
They passed through the mysterious and huge curtain, but the rest of the way was not significantly different. The river water is as clear as nothing, and the bottom is covered with soft gray-white sand. Lotus stems are spread over the net, making it easy for distracted people to trip.
Although these underwater lotus stems and flowers and leaves blocking the river channel created some obstacles for Luo Binhan, the actual danger was very small. Because the water in the river is very shallow, only slightly higher than Luo Binhan's waist, he can easily get up even if he falls. What really bothered him was the fog. The white mist on the river is not as silent as in front of the curtain. It changes strangely on the river, like a living thing. Luo Binhan wanted to tell himself that it was just an airflow problem, but he barely felt a breath of wind. The air here is quiet and even the water flow is warm.
He stepped over a large tangle of lotus stems, turned his head inadvertently, and saw a pale woman standing upright in the water from the corner of his eye. He turned his head sharply and found that it was just fog gathered into an elongated shape. Sometimes he thought that a pale woman's arms or head were floating on the surface of the river, and for this purpose he thoroughly examined every corner he could see. Of course nothing happened.
That didn't take much time, so Asabam kept silent about his various suspicions. But Garfield was very interested in it. It always claimed that it had not seen it, but asked Luo Binhan to talk in detail about the things he had mistakenly seen. Luo Binhan was very dissatisfied, but he had nothing to say - all those hallucinations about the fog were created in the fleeting light. Whenever he tried to get a clear look, all that was left was fog. Of course he had no details to give.
"You see the opposite sex all the time," Garfield said. "Complete or incomplete?"
"What do you mean?" Luo Binhan asked unhappily.
Garfield obviously knew he didn't like this statement. It skillfully avoided answering directly, but Luo Binhan thought he was not stupid enough not to hear it. Garfield's various reactions suggest that the hallucinations are some kind of spiritual manifestation of his. But then again, it was difficult for Luo Binhan to explain why he always mistook Wu for the opposite sex. Perhaps it was because the surrounding environment was so ethereal and sad that it reminded him of some girls he once knew. Zhou Yu is like a burst of fog, and Mi Gula is also like that sometimes. And Desiree. Yaleriga and Blue Magpie are different. They are more like storm or cat's claw vines.
Luo Binhan looked at the girls he knew in his life one by one. At last he finally remembered that he had one on his back. But Asabam is indeed incomparable. No matter she is really a girl, a man or a dragon, Luo Binhan is willing to call her "Tiejie" with respect.
"I've heard several stories about fog and girls," Garfield said.
In fact, Luo Binhan was not very willing to listen. He was already nervous enough without the need for imagination. But Garfield's conversation was in full swing, and it couldn't be stopped by covering his ears. It mentions a large lake that exists somewhere. The lake is often filled with fog. Many explorers once saw a girl as beautiful as a fairy in the foggy weather. Her eyes were filled with sorrow and mist, which made people lose their soul.
Everyone who met her fell in love with her without exception and stayed by the lake for a long time, looking forward to seeing her again. Some of them did meet her again and even claimed to have fallen passionately in love with her. But she never lives with anyone and always only appears in foggy weather. People nearby said that she was a female ghost who drowned in the lake in the past, or a banshee living in the lake. This legend was firmly believed until one day a huge flying island fell from the sky. The masters of the flying island conquered the small planet and learned about the legend about the lake. They saw countless strange things during the conquest, and they took it as a given. They routinely sent teams that were good at dealing with supernatural beings to clean it up - what was the result? The people in this team met the girl in the fog, and outsiders like them fell in love with her. And the physiological difference between them and the local aborigines is as big as that between fruits and dragons!
This incident was both incomprehensible and unforgivable to the rulers of Fei Island. You must know that they have long overcome the lowest biological impulses in their history-the reproductive instinct of punishment or motivation, the aesthetic standards based on competitive ability, and all kinds of low-grade entertainment that also numb the spirit. The erotic impulse derived from this is obviously a chronic disease of primitive animals. They didn't understand how the girl in the mist brought it back. So they took advantage of the fog-free days to investigate the lake, searching every unfathomable lake bottom cave and checking the water quality in every subdivided area, but found nothing. Finally, they drained all the water in the lake and took out everything that had been deposited in it for tens of thousands of stars for inspection, and finally found something suspicious. They took it back to the flying island, and from then on, the lake was deserted forever like the planet, and there was no fog again.
By this time Luo Binhan had been attracted by Garfield's story. The fog occasionally created illusions at the edges of his vision, but never really allowed him to see anything clearly. Over time he had recovered from his initial apprehension and accepted it as something natural. He recalled Garfield's story and couldn't help but ask the owner of the flying island what he found in the lake.
"Key...or coin," Garfield said. It doesn't seem entirely certain either. The thing that was considered strange was made of silver, with an oblate shell and exquisite carvings, with hidden mechanisms hidden in the reliefs. If pressed, eight thin legs will stretch out from both sides, making the entire silver creation crawl like a spider. This entire process can last for several minutes, does not require any additional energy, and relies solely on the ingenious mechanical structure.
The master of the flying island got such a strange thing. From then on, there was a fog that lingered on the island all year round, and he never flew away from the planet again. It wasn't until another team of explorers came there hundreds of years later that they discovered the Flying Island, but the island's rulers had suffered some terrible degradation. They have lost almost all their intelligence and technology, leaving only a huge pool of green liquid material that covers one-third of the island's surface, devouring all life that comes into contact with it.
Later explorers narrowly escaped death there and found the last record of this incident on the flying island. The masters of the flying island claimed that they used the silver object to open a certain door or passage, thereby discovering a way to elevate life to a higher form. In all likelihood, they failed, leaving only a puddle of goo that swallowed everything, and the silver key in the record disappeared.
The explorers had no choice but to destroy the flying island and take away this bizarre story and a small amount of slime material. They put it into the laboratory and studied its various strange properties until a huge cosmic war broke out, and they released the substance on the battlefield.
