The blue sea is endless, and two white sails spread out in the wind, like the wings of a giant bird flying low on the sea. A group of seagulls followed behind the mast and moved forward with the help of the ship's air current.

On the towering mast, there was a black figure that suddenly screamed, soaring up into the sky, hovering in the sky for a while, then fell straight down, and swept across the water, attracting the flock of gulls behind the ship. Not a small panic.

　　 Aoki stood on the bow, closing his eyes, feeling the strong sea breeze blowing on his face.

　　 The salty and wet sea breeze carries a hint of the fragrance of leaves and flowers, but there are only blue waves in front of me, and I can't see any islands and reefs with plants growing in my field of vision.

　　 When Petru turned the sails and headed against the wind, the misty smell that came with the wind was gone.

　　 "What the **** is this?" Petru cursed.

　　 They have been searching the sea for five days, and the smell of the wind has brought them around in the same place, but they have not even seen the shadow of a reef.

　　 Aoki smells not only the scent, but also the spirit fluctuations. Whenever he stood on the bow and closed his eyes, the crows on the high mast would fly up and look around in the high sky.

　　 Its field of vision is that of Aoki, but it still sees only the sea, even if it has wiped the thin clouds at the lowest level.

　　 Su Huilan and Petru are standing not far from Aoki. They also closed their eyes slightly, doing long and deep breathing, as if they were doing an ancient yoga exercise.

On the deck next to 　　 lies an orange cat, holding a half-eaten fish in his arms, watching the sea in front of him, his eyes alert as if he has found a prey.

　　 Petru opened his eyes first, and saw that the person next to him was still in a dream. Even the cat did not move, so he could only shake his head mockingly.

　　 This is the method that Aoki taught him. When the spirit wave on the sea appears, he should carefully sense it and find a way to catch it. Although the energy is so weak that it is almost impossible to capture and will not supplement human mental power, when you follow its rhythm and invest your mental power to the farthest and widest range, mental power is invisible. Got exercise.

　　 Petru could not sense the existence of the mental fluctuation at first. He found that on the entire boat, he was the only thing he couldn't sense, even the bird and the cat. He felt lonely at one time, just like the salted fish in the warehouse.

　　 Later, he found the trick. When Aoki said that he found mental fluctuations, his sensitive nose, which was blown by the wind all the year round at sea, could smell a fresh scent of plants and trees, faintly drifting around with the salty and wet sea breeze.

He didn't know whether the spiritual power had a taste, or whether the ghost island passed somewhere in the void when the spiritual power fluctuated. Two unrelated spaces had mutual influence when the orbits were infinitely close. Here Smelling the fragrance of flowers on the island, do people on the island smell the salty and wet sea breeze here?

　　 Oh, of course yes, since it is an island, of course it smells like the sea.

　　 Petru learned the way Aoki and Su Huilan looked, closed his eyes, and looked for the faint fragrance from the sea breeze. The next day, he really felt the fluctuation of the spirit. The fluctuation was like the breath of the sea. He saw the tide under the moon, and saw the small lives on the beach with the tide.

　　 This feeling was like a dream, making him fascinated, until the tide receded, the moon disappeared, and the light in the dream, like the light of a comet, gradually disappeared into the boundless silence in his mind.

　　 In the past few days, Petru feels that his mental power has improved a lot. Every time he was immersed in this dream, and then opened his eyes happily, but was disappointed to find that he was always the first to wake up.

　　 He lit a cigarette and looked at them quietly. When the smoke was halfway up, Su Huilan opened her eyes, and the cat gnawed the fish under her claws again.

　　 When the smoke burned out, he flicked the cigarette **** into the sea with his fingers. The cigarette **** drew an arc and turned into a small black dot under the blue sky, falling toward the sea. At this time, a black dot appeared at the junction of sea and sky, slowly becoming larger.

　　 The crow spread its wings, like a falcon returning from a long hunt, with a croak, it landed on Aoki's head.

　　 Aoki slowly opened his eyes and stretched.

　　 "Didn't you find it again?" Petru asked, "If this goes on, when will we find it?"

　　 Aoki put his hand on the railing at the bow, and said lazily, "Oh, I will find it."

　　 "But it's been five days!" Petru looked a little anxious. "The food on my boat is only enough to last for half a month. At most, if we can't find it in five days, we can only return to the voyage."

　　 Aoki said, "I will find it."

　　 Su Huilan smiled and said, "It looks like you are already confident?"

　　 Aoki said, "I'm still a little sure if I don't know how to make it. Have you discovered that this mental fluctuation has a certain pattern?"

　　Su Huilan of course also discovered it, but I don't know what this law represents.

　　 "Are you saying that it appears periodically?"

　　 "Not very sure, it may be cyclical, but it is more like a linkage."

　　 "Linkage? How to link? Is information being transmitted between Tab and Tab?"

　　 "It's possible, maybe these tabs are some kind of mechanism that triggers the underwater ruins."

Su Huilan said, “Then this mechanism is too big! I don’t think humans have such an ability to arrange a mechanism on the sea of ​​one million square kilometers. Moreover, some tabs are obviously no longer effective, such as the one on Lapa Island. If it is a linkage mechanism, as long as any one of them fails, the entire mechanism will fail. Then how to explain that these ghost islands appear and disappear from time to time, and the underwater ruins also appear from time to time?"

　　 Aoki shook his head and said, "The disappearance of the mental power on the stone does not necessarily mean that the tab is malfunctioning! Maybe the tabs in different locations have different levels of mental fluctuations!"

　　Su Huilan fell into deep thought, and it took a long time to come back to her senses. "What you said makes sense. I ignored this. Mental strength may be a setting of the mechanism. Different wave strengths are used to control the function of the entire mechanism."

　　 "So, how do you open this mechanism?" Petrou said impatiently

Aoki said, "I don't know, we always have to see the appearance of the mechanism first. This ghost island where we hide and seek is probably the core of the entire mechanism, at least the most important component. Wait slowly, since you see Yes, it will always appear."

　　 "Oh, my goodness!" Petru cried, "Then you said there are so many birds for use! It's all nonsense!"

　　 The crow said angrily, "Hey, hello, what kind of bird do you use? What kind of bird is light? It's best not to bring a bird word when you scold people in the future. Don't you know that birds are also dignified?"

　　 Petru rolled his eyes, "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that you are a bird! By the way, what the **** are you?"

"Me?" My crow said proudly~lightnovelpub.net~Of course it is the most human-like in the bird, and the most bird-like in the human. Sometimes, I don’t know if I am a human or a bird, but from biology In the end, I really seem to be a bird. "

　　 "Well, birdman!" Petru gave him a thumbs up.

"Um..." The crow felt a bit wrong, "It's better for humans and birds. In linguistics, the position of subject and attributive is very particular. Sometimes changing the position makes the meaning completely different, such as sauce elbow and elbow. The sauce, um, are two different flavors..."

　　 "Okay, okay, I see." Petru raised his hands in a state of surrender. He really didn't know why he wanted to provoke this bird that was even more nagging than his grandma.

　　 Crow finally closed his mouth.

　　 Petru felt a little surprised. In the past, this bird babbled and didn’t care whether you were threatening or begging for mercy. It wouldn’t stop if you didn’t finish it. However, this time, it immediately closed its mouth, as if someone suddenly pinched its beak.

　　 The deck was very quiet, only the sea breeze was blowing.

　　 He smelled the faint fragrance of flowers in the wind.

　　 However, he found that no matter it was Aoki, Su Huilan, Crow or Cat, they did not close their eyes as usual. Instead, they opened their eyes wide and looked ahead.

　　 Petru followed their gazes. On the blue sea ahead, an island suddenly appeared at some point. The trees on the island were lush, and there seemed to be patches of silver fern flowers reflecting a strange light.

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