"There is no wind, making it impossible for the ship to sail?" Huzi licked his index finger and stretched it into the air. He didn't feel the slightest chill.
"Damn it, let alone the land, there is not even a cloud in the sky. Will this happen if we lose the reference object while sailing?"
"We have been making trouble for a long time, but we haven't moved. No wonder we can't see the land!" Lingdang said happily to everyone: "It would be nice to know the reason. If we paddle together, sooner or later we will see the beast-sealed continent."
"The waves are always there." Fang Tianmu was still sitting on the edge of the ship's railing, holding the black knife in his arms, looking sideways at the sea water, and said coldly: "It's not like the ship is not moving."
"But I am sure," Kite pointed at the waterweed in the sea and said, "This grass has always been in my eyes."
Then there were two more pops, and two long oars were inserted into the sea by Hu Zi. "Hey, Mu Ziyun, come here and help." Mu Ziyun walked over, grabbed the oars, and raised them up to insert the oar heads as deep as possible.
Huzi drank the beat, and the two of them pushed the oars down together. The strength of both of them was not weak, and the sliding arc of the oars was also very large, but the hull only moved an inch on the sea.
"Didn't you two eat dry food? You also ate the most!" Ling Dang held a pink fist, jumped over and hit Mu Ziyun on the arm, "Stop being sneaky, do you still want to go to Fang's house?"
"Shouldn't you?" Mu Ziyun rolled up his sleeves, held his breath, and rowed hard with Hu Zi. This time, they were farther away, with a distance of four inches.
"What's going on?" Huzi put down the wooden oar and leaned on the railing of the boat to look into the sea. "Isn't something holding the boat in place?"
Fang Tianmu suddenly stood up and said thoughtfully: "You try paddling backwards."
"Hmm?" Mu Ziyun and Hu Zi didn't know what trick this guy had come up with, so they thought to themselves that if they tried it as he said, there should be a lot of water plants entangled in the bottom of the boat. If they rowed in the opposite direction, they might be able to earn some money. open.
The two held the wooden paddle again and pushed a wave in the opposite direction. Everyone felt a cold wind blowing on the back of their heads, and their bodies were suddenly shaken down on the deck. After two or three breaths, the ship stabilized. Several people got up and took a look. Kite exclaimed: "Why did it come back?" From such a distance, I can feel the waterweed, and we are more than twenty feet away from it!"
"Brother Fang?" Huzi and Mu Ziyun stared at Fang Tianmu. Huzi then said, "Did you discover something?"
"The seabed is moving," Fang Tianmuleng said, "I have been paying attention to the waves, and I always feel something is wrong. I just figured it out. This seemingly ordinary sea surface actually has two layers of waves, and the upper layer is very thin. , is pushed forward, and our ship can stay still or move forward because of this layer of waves."
"What about the layer below?" Lingdang asked hurriedly: "Are you pushing it back?"
Bang! There was a splash of water on the sea. It turned out that Mu Ziyun had driven a ball of fire into the sea. The fire was not extinguished immediately by the water, but remained for a period of time. When it first entered the sea, it moved forward, indicating that When it was deep enough, the remaining flames were suddenly pulled back by a strong force and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"You are so right!" Mu Ziyun said worriedly: "The waves in the uppermost layer are indeed thin, and can barely carry our boat. The seawater in the lower layer is not waves, but undercurrents, and the flow is very turbulent."
After Mu Ziyun closed his eyes and pondered for a long time, he said: "This is like two disks stacked on the water surface, rotating in opposite directions, but these two disks are not in contact with each other. What is in contact is them. The water flow each brings up during the rotation process."
Mu Ziyun clapped his hands and said two pairs in a row, then pointed to the sea floor and said: "Although the disc below rotates quickly, the effect of the two different rotations of the currents affecting each other is much smaller. It just so happens that the two currents interact with each other. It allows the objects floating above to maintain a balanced state, but this balance is an extremely reluctant balance. The water flow below has to suppress the water flow above it to a large extent, so at the critical point of strength, When we row forward, we are equivalent to giving a boost to the upper current, but this force cannot change the situation where the upper current is suppressed. On the contrary, if we give a boost to the lower current at the critical point of balance, it will The balance suddenly collapsed violently, which is why we retreated so far, but when we moved forward, we walked inch by inch."
"What does that disk refer to?" After Kite asked, he seemed to already have the answer in his heart.
Mu Ziyun said solemnly: "It's the continent. The two continents on the sea and the bottom are moving in opposite directions. Maybe that guy Zhuan Wangxu is right. I don't know about other lands, but The former Guanglang Liuli Island, which is now the Eastern Continent and the Beast Feng Continent, seems to exist in the form of a plate."
"I have a question," Kite said, pointing to the location of the aquatic plant: "If there are really two layers of ocean currents in opposite directions above and below, why is that aquatic plant floating there so intact?"
"Let's go! Row the boat, start moving, and go have a look at the water plants!" Huzi directed everyone, using their own strength, to row the boat back to its original position inch by inch. They all saw the water plants, some black and some green. It should be that tiny floating objects in the sea are attached to its surface. The water plants are moving very peacefully and the floating direction is irregular, as if it is in a calm lake.
"You try here again," Fang Tian said coldly. Mu Ziyun immediately threw down a ball of flame. The flame made a dull sound when it hit the water. It did not twist back and forth, but slowly sank into the seabed.
"There are no sea currents here!" Mu Ziyun sighed and said with confusion, "I have never heard of this phenomenon. There are so many weird things in the sea."
"We are moving forward inch by inch, and we don't know how long it will take before we can see the land. If we go back, we will probably be pushed very far away and unable to stop. The worst thing is that now we have a blurred sense of direction. , once there are no stars or other reference objects at night, we may be completely lost." Huzi wanted to make an idea. Seeing everyone's expressions in a panic, he coughed twice and picked up the three-dimensional bag at his feet. Lengtian's stone hammer knocked on the railing of the ship and said: "It's neither going forward nor retreating. Let's do this. I'll just sink along this waterweed and observe the situation. If there is no solution, we have brought enough dry food anyway. Just move forward inch by inch!”
"Huzi, don't be reckless!" Lingdang took Huzi's arm and said, "Let's explore the depth first and check if there is anything dirty!" After that, Lingdang took out his small bow as big as his palm and pulled the string. Finally, a soul rat flew out from it. The bell injected the magic energy of the Zhongren realm into the soul rat, causing it to complete its evolution and become a black-faced demon rat. The demon rat jumped into the sea and became a water rat as soon as it touched the water. Status (similar to a water sloth, but a little trickier in appearance)
The demon rat sank along the water plants and disappeared after more than ten breaths. Everyone waited on the boat for a full hour, but the demon rat still didn't come up. Mu Ziyun asked Lingdang if the demon rat's energy had disappeared, and Lingdang He shook his head and replied: "The demon rat is still there, and I am still transmitting energy with it. However, the distance between the demon rat and me has been getting farther and farther. It seems that it has not yet reached the end!"
"It's been an hour and we haven't hit the bottom yet. How deep is this sea?"
"Wait! It's stopped moving!" Zingdang shouted, and then she closed her eyes tightly and carefully felt the sensation transmitted back by the demon rat. "It seems to have encountered something? It seems to be in a tight state of defense against the enemy. Um, it seems to have been fighting with something." As soon as Ling Dang finished speaking, he was stunned, took a cold breath, opened his eyes and said, "The demon rat is gone, it has been eliminated! It was too fast, I didn't even have it. react to"
"Is the other party a living creature?"
"It should be, and it's very strong. It killed my demon rat in an instant."
A strange sound suddenly came from beside them. In everyone's ears, Mu Ziyun condensed the thunder spear in an instant, and Fang Tianmu also drew the red knife shadow instantly. After turning around nervously, everyone saw a monster lying on the railing of the boat only half a foot away from them.
"Ah!" Bell and Kite were startled. Mu Ziyun frowned and said anxiously: "Hey, is it here now? Is this something under the sea?"
"Muziyun!" Huzi suddenly shouted: "Is this the sea monster that led us and sent us back to the East Continent?"
"Huh?" Mu Ziyun carefully weighed the monster in front of him and said, "Really, did these guys originally stay at the bottom of the sea?"
Puff, Tweet, Tweet. Although the sea monster is big and thick, its voice is extremely childish. It points its pointed mouth over and over to the sea surface where there are aquatic plants.
Bell said: "Does he want us to jump into the sea?"
"That's what you mean, hey!" Mu Ziyun actually started talking to the monster, "We don't know what you mean, what exactly are you?"
Fang Tianmu remained tense. He thought that the energy of this sea monster was very similar to the energy surface of the sea before, but why couldn't I notice its approach? But I shouldn't be able to detect any energy.
Phew! The sea monster became a little anxious, turned around and jumped back into the sea, swam to the water plant and made pulling movements with its mouth.
"Oh! It wants us to pull out this grass!"
The sea monster seemed to understand human speech and kept nodding.
"Hey, I've really become a spirit." Mu Ziyun took out a bunch of thick hemp rope from the wooden box next to the cabin, walked to the side of the ship's rail, and said, "Just do what it said and try it. Anyway, it helped me twice." This time, I'm not afraid of it hurting me!" After saying that, he threw out the rope and wrapped it around the waterweed.
