Mermaid Reef

John's mind sank.

Various strange sounds lingered in his ears.

The poisonous snake hissed and spit, the insects were eating the leaves, the cicada was struggling to suck the sap... These sounds were amplified countless times, as if they were happening inside their own body, which was creepy.

Then these voices became louder and louder, and most people would wake up at this time, waking up in cold sweat, and curled up in the quilt trembling in fear.

John sank slowly in the dream.

Those voices that made him feel strongly uncomfortable, with inexplicable malevolence, came frantically, as if to make John a part of them.

John suddenly felt a faint blue light emanating from his body, and he subconsciously wanted to touch the pearl.

"puff."

A huge bubble surrounded him.

Those grotesque whispers, like vampires exposed to the sun, instantly turned into black smoke, screaming and leaving John's body.

This chaotic and dark world is also illuminated.

John saw some old buildings.

There are cities, temples, and pyramids.

The speed of the bubbles was so fast that John didn't have a chance to take a look at those buildings, and they were too far away, just a blurred afterimage.

——I don’t know how long it has passed, it seems to be a few seconds, and it is as long as a century.

The sound of crashing waves filled John's ears.

He found himself in the sea.

The turquoise blue sea is like an expensive gemstone, clear and beautiful.

John felt terrified, because he was not floating on the surface of the sea, and from his vision, he seemed to be lying on the bottom of the sea, unable to move.

There are no coral reefs, no schools of fish, only sloshing blue water.

Empty, nothing.

The sound of the waves is still going on, they sound regular and beautiful, but they are more terrifying than those whispers with malicious intent, they can easily destroy a person's spirit and consciousness with the emptiness that has remained unchanged for thousands of years .

John struggled to stay awake when the light blue bubbles vibrated slightly again.

A long and narrow black shadow broke into this empty world.

That is a boat.

The old Spanish three-masted ship sailed on the sea, its shadow cast straight into the bottom of the sea.

This ship was so familiar that John swore it was the ghost ship he had seen in the fog the day the Zephyr died.

The problem is that a strange, dilapidated, and terrifying black sailboat, why does it look brisk and nimble when viewed from the bottom of the sea?People are involuntarily attracted to it, and they will draw arcs in their hearts along with its changing trajectory. Watching it get tired from running, it will automatically fold up its sails in the strong sunlight and float with the sea water.

Floating... wait, the boat is falling apart!

The ship was literally disintegrating, just slowly.

The hull of the ship is like flower petals in full bloom, each piece of wood is dismantled and opened, but it does not float away.

The mast fell and the deck went askew.

It lost its complete and three-dimensional form, and became a large pile of disorderly floating objects on the sea.

The waves suddenly became bigger, as if someone deliberately made trouble, and the waves pushed the board repeatedly.

"Whoosh."

John watched in shock as the pile of planks recovered in an instant and assembled back into a sailboat.

The three-masted sailboat swayed, circling the sea as if incomprehensible.

Since nothing was found, the sails were furled again and continued to drift with the current.And soon it fell apart again, becoming a mass of flotsam again.

John: "..."

Suddenly I understood why the ghost ship hit the West Wind in the first place.

On the surface, some evil gods appear to be a terrifying ghost ship full of holes, but in fact, they have already slept into a large pool in the dream.

Is this the person Sea God saw in his dream?

The detective felt himself being swallowed up by a boundless sense of absurdity.

"He likes wooden boards, oak and teak are the best, he likes to float on the surface of the sea and bask in the sun, he is still young, he is not willing to sink to the bottom of the sea, sleeping in the depths of the trench without sunlight...

"He is very charming, elegant and slender, every inch of his body is flexible and soft to the touch..."

John closed his eyes silently, preventing himself from remembering the passage that Gemil asked to find someone (God) when he was in London.

There was a long whale cry in the distance.

John looked up in surprise.

The sun disappeared, and the water turned a dreamy blue, and the water droplets shone like stars.

A huge whale slowly floats up from the bottom of the sea, with wide double fins, as if supporting it to soar in the sea. On the arched back are huge joints, with beautiful curves, even though it is huge, it is not clumsy at all. It feels like the powerful tail fanned the stormy sea.

Its head and back were draped in dazzling gold.

With gold as the base, there are countless pearls and gems inlaid.

The shining jewel chains swayed in the waves, and fell back to the back of the whale. Those long hanging from the head hung on both sides of the huge mouth of the abyss, and the parallel longitudinal grooves on the body surface.

John involuntarily covered his eyes, thinking that he was about to be smashed into a pulp by the impacting waves.

At this time, the blue air bubbles that enveloped him took him up again, rising to the surface of the sea with the giant whale.

The giant whale spread its fins and jumped high.

The silver moonlight rendered it a wonderful color.

The giant whale made a long and beautiful sound and swam quickly towards the sea ahead. John only had time to catch the shadow of a black sailboat.

John with a swollen head: "..."

Could this giant whale be the incarnation of Sea God?

No mistake, no rich king would put so many dazzling jewels on a whale.

John swears that the largest diamond is several times larger than the Mount of Light on the crown of the King of England.

These exaggerated jewels can only be said to be embellishments on the giant whales. What is surprising is the gold, which exudes bright and warm light, just like stars, which makes people doubt that this is their true colors , while the gold in human hands is just some burnt ashes.

After a long, long time, John came back to his senses.

At this time, the three-masted ship and the giant whale disappeared, and the sea water turned blue again under the sun.

John tried to get out of the dream. He pinched his face hard, but it didn't work.

The bubbles still wrapped around him.

This empty sea...

No, when are there more corals on the bottom of the sea?

John lowered his head and found that this place has changed from a silent world to a lively one.

The long whale cry sounded again, this time it was a group of ordinary whales, they were chasing each other.

A whale swims rapidly in front, and a dozen whales follow behind - the "leader whale" at the front is not disturbed, while the other whales chase, hit their companions with their heads and slap their tails, those who are thrown behind The whale is still following unwillingly.

John couldn't understand it at first, but slowly he realized that it was not a slapstick, but a wonderful ritual.

Because this rapid rush came to an end, the whale that successfully "caught up" to the leader was circling around the leader.

Then they rise and sink together.

They began to approach, as if deliberately maintaining the same speed, the same posture, like two vigorous dancers.

The waves slapped on the huge body.

They spread their fins tentatively, touching each other.

Finally, they reached a perfect rapport, and their perfectly synchronized movements brought them closer without hurting each other.

The next moment, the two whales sank at the same time, sinking into the deep sea invisible to humans.

……

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"boom!"

John rolled straight out of bed onto the floor with a loud bang.

His upper berth used to be occupied by the banker's secretary, but now it was vacant, so his bedmates were not disturbed.

"Dong dong."

There was a hasty knock on the door outside the box, and then the conductor asked worriedly: "Mr. John Doe, are you all right?"

John grinned and got up. Fortunately, he was on the lower berth, and the quilt was still wrapped around him, so the fall was not heavy.

"It's okay, the bed is too narrow." John said vaguely.

He opened the blackout curtains and found that the sun outside had risen very high, around nine or ten o'clock.

John hurriedly put on his coat and opened the door for the conductor.

"Everyone is up, but you are the only one who hasn't moved. I'm a little worried." The conductor reminded implicitly that they will arrive in Venice in four hours.

"I had a long dream."

John's head was still a little dizzy, and the long cries of those behemoths lingered in his ears.

He only remembered drinking, and then went to the social car to find Gemil and Jason, and asked a very deadly question.

...It seems that I have lost consciousness!

How did he get back to his box?

John forced a smile and closed the box door again.

On the small table by the bed was a battered antique box.

The detective hastily opened it.

The blue light of the waves filled the narrow space.

"Crack." John closed it in a second, worried that the light from the windows and doors would be noticed.

Then he remembered Jason's words, ordinary people can't see this kind of light.

John breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the bed in a daze.

——That space full of terrifying ravings is the dreamland of the gods?

Pearl led him through those fuzzy and distant dreams, until he came to the dream of Poseidon, and then he saw the empty and lonely sea, the three-masted ship that broke in suddenly, and the giant whale covered with gold and jewels...

The giant whale disappeared after chasing the ghost ship.

In the second half of the dream, he suddenly showed him a group of whales courting?

The detective's eyelids twitched and the corners of his mouth twitched.

Remembering the chase of the whales, and the dance performed by the final winner with his companions—well, he got it.

John knew what happened to his thrilling dream that night. This was the answer given by Sea God, the answer to the detective's question.

The sea god, who is not human in nature, reads human love novels, does he want to court like a human?

——No, that's dancing together, imitating the movements of the person you like.

The chase is long over.

Gemil had no competitors, he didn't need to win, he just had to catch up to Jensen.

Then there is a long process of imitation and synchronization, in which both parties must express sufficient tacit understanding and mutual understanding.

For the evil god, it may be necessary to adjust the wavelength of power and blend breath.

In the second half, they will start to try to make contact.

Jason and Gemil are wandering in the human city, traveling like humans, it seems that they have a great interest in humans, but in fact they just borrowed a place, humans are just this piece of sea water, those insignificant things spray.

Jensen would not take the initiative to harm these weak creatures, and neither would Gemir.

They are just "playing with water".

Play with the water tacitly.

Through this game, they increase their affection and get closer by imitating each other's actions.

This is an ancient ritual, and it is also the most direct "will not hurt the other party" self-evident statement.

——The pursued sees perseverance and patience, and the pursuer shows his strength and omnipotence.

For both parties in the ceremony, this is a game full of joy. When they stop chasing and swim together in the vast sea, no matter whether they are up or down, they are very close, squeezing and touching, and love is born .

The last step will take place in the deep seabed where there is no light, in a world beyond the reach of human beings.

and so……

"It's not a honeymoon, it's a love trip!" John said to himself.

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The author has something to say:

The aforementioned incarnation of Poseidon, a giant whale covered in gold and jewelry, and a tall black figure without a face.

The former appears in this chapter, and it has the appearance of a humpback whale.

The latter is a kind of sea monster in Norse mythology, similar to a magnified dementor. In many engravings, it suddenly emerges from the sea, and the black shadow of its cloak covers the ship-the way I use it, I think it is Manta rays (manta rays), the super big ones.

Humpback whales and manta rays are the kind of guys who want to play a chasing game when they find a partner, and when they catch up, they will do a pas de deux→_→

This courtship process also occurs in some birds.

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Gemil and Jason met for the first time, and Gemil failed with the most direct evil process, so he decided to change to this mode

Yes, other evil gods are not like this

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So the detective's dream is Gemil's answer.

Chase√Sync√Contact√

In the third step, breath and power try to blend (the stable power sealed in the pearl is a symbol of success).

The fourth step will never happen in the human world

No, what happened to the two evil gods, does this train still exist?