Chapter 99: The Fishwife
The burning lamppost is now so hot that it cannot be touched. Our vitality is limited. The weirdo quickly ran to a flat garbage mountain and picked up a squid bag. Then, while turning around, he put the squid bag in his hand, grabbed the lamppost and rushed out!
It should be true. The key can slide here for a limited trajectory. If you draw the hexagram from beginning to end, the design of this big lock is too boring.
There is a positive triangle embedded in the circle. We have seen this figure several times in the icebergs of the Arctic. It is the symbol of the male group in the Eastern Prince tribe, and the one that represents women is an inverted triangle symbolizing the shape of the uterus. The two triangles overlap together to form the whole of hexagrams.
Since Da Fei Gange pieced together a female mermaid from the Eastern Prince and Prince on the top wall here, the answer on her territory is of course her logo!
I thought about the meaning of the inverted triangle uterus, and then looked at the mermaid's extremely plump pair, and suddenly I felt that this painting was depicting a mother.
She gave birth to a water ghost, and did she also create the mermaid civilization in the marmoset city?
“Hot…”
The weirdo's feet jumped forward and couldn't stop breathing, but the speed of his pushing the key did not slow down. The trajectory of the inverted triangle I mentioned was still half the edge left and was about to finish.
I saw that due to the high temperature, the numb skin bag he used to protect his palms had begun to melt. It is conceivable that the hand he wrapped inside must be at the risk of scalding. Maybe the melted numb skin bag will be stuck on his skin and it will not be tear off!
"Hey, you can pull it out first. There are so many miscellaneous items here, I'll help you change it!"
"No, it's not that I don't want to change it, I can't stop this key... Forget it, I'll run to the finish line!"
As soon as the weirdo finished speaking, I just turned around and wanted to bend down to help him pick up a substitute for a sack. Suddenly, all of us escaped from the bath of the orange fire and fell into a darkness like ink.
Just like someone turned off all the lights in the room, everyone was stunned for a moment. I felt the weird guy standing behind me and "hissing" and blowing cold air in my hand. I knew that the inverted triangle track had finished running, and it was the lamp post key that pressed the switch of the light in the cave!
Buzz —
"Damn, what's wrong? What's the sound?"
Buzz —
"The ground... was trembling."
Buzz —
It was a vibration and noise caused by the friction between things that were pressed very tightly. I could hear that the uneven surface of the coral reef rock was fighting fiercely with another reef rock. I was a little curious about whether the squeezing and friction between each other like this could polish the surface of the moon to be as smooth as the road. I felt a cool breeze blowing from bottom to top and I fell to my feet!
"Ahhhh, Brother Dao, I fell down!"
"Ah~I~I~Go——"
The weirdo grabbed me in the air. Before I could feel at ease, his tone changed: "Hmm? That's gone?"
I felt a soreness in the soles of my feet, which was the feeling I had only when I jumped down heavily from high school.
Just now, the monster ran the orbit with the key, and the six-pointed star was extinguished, and then we fell off the second floor. So isn't this... the "space under our feet" we have always dreamed of?
"Just now, it seemed that the hexagram had cracked." I heard Dr. Lin's voice sound from my feet. It turned out that he fell down directly!
I think the air here is indeed much more abundant than when it is surrounded by flames. Unfortunately, it is pitch black in either direction, and even the faint lighting of the luminous ball is gone.
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Two or three Mars flashed by, and the monster pulled down the flint he found in the garbage dump. I thought to myself that there was Mars but no fuel, but a small ball of faint fire light lit up. I saw the brain-taking maniac standing next to the monster, holding a burning towel in his hand. Isn’t this for wrapping dried fish? I didn’t expect it to be useful at this time!
Fortunately, when the hexagrams were cracking, we were standing next to the sharp corners of the inverted triangle, otherwise some would fall down and some would stay on it, which would be very troublesome.
With this precious fire, I saw a large piece of garbage that had not piled up the mountain as we fell down. The strange man quickly found something that might be a mop stick, and replaced the towel that burned in minutes in time.
The scene here is completely different from the above layer. It is more like a cave in the mountains. I saw several grounds covered with a layer of velvet plants.
Conch, mermaid, vegetation, building complex.
I remember that in the southern seabed of the world map, in addition to the boat and mermaid, I could also see plants, so I originally thought there would be land in the ocean, but now it seems that it is just a marine plant growing on coral reef rock. Facing upwards, don’t the trees on Jinqing Island also grow on coral rocks? It seems that the reefs also contain nutrients similar to land, and the coconut juice on Jinqing Island tastes good...
But what happened to the building complex I saw?
Since the coral reefs can be transformed into temples dedicated to the Eastern Prince and Mermaids, and can also create a less difficult mechanism, can other coral reefs containing air holes be carved into the appearance of buildings?
The so-called [South China Sea Mermaid City] is not really a [city]!
The reason why the air is much more comfortable than near the flame is because the air here is humid, and the water source where the sea snake vine resides is seven or eight meters away from us.
After walking a few steps around, we found that what Dr. Lin said was "separated spaces in one layer" was beyond our guess. Although they were separated, they were not horizontally arranged, but occupied half a layer of upper and lower layers, and the room filled with diesel was hanging above our heads. I don't know how it was originally designed. When the hexagram cracked, the flame automatically went out and did not burn us, and the diesel inside did not spill out. The mermaid's mind was also quite smart!
"The mind of a mermaid is the mind of a human." He felt a little sad when he mentioned his brain and took the brain-taking maniac. I knew he was a pity that he had been "inadvertently" broken by Dr. Lin. He was in a bad mood. He gave me a blank look and said, "After all, the establishment of the mermaid city should rely on human wisdom!"
"Uh...Director Ma, I just happened to have something I don't understand..."
I often get rolled my eyes, and I know that he is in a bad mood and is angry but doesn't dare to speak out. I don't mind his attitude. Instead, I took this opportunity to ask: "After a person dies, his brain stops working. You told us before that you came to the South China Sea with the living brain to try whether the so-called 'soul transfer' can be operated in your hands. I have never studied medicine and I don't understand it very much. I want to know, if this dead person is not changed into another person, how will the dead brain be activated?"
The weirdo stopped to inquire and looked over with interest.
"Maybe I'm the stupidest, and I don't understand the meaning of the expression. I want to say: If a person dies, we don't use his brain, and don't open his back to replace other people's brains, forming the kind of soul transfer you mentioned. He is still his soul, and his own memory has not changed. So assuming that the swallowing of the erect male fish can make people resurrect from the dead, and his brain can also restart the computer when the heart beats, and still retain the original settings?"
The brain-taking maniac did not speak, and I don’t know whether he was organizing language or taking care of something. Then he said: “Chen Zichuan was shot and died during the Battle of Xisha. A failed product like Mr. Zuoqiu should have died once, right? There is also the mermaid on the shell painting, and even the gods have died once... We definitely don’t know how they all died, but from their death to being in the same body as the Henggong Fish, the interval between this time is so long. Although the two species must take their time to merge with each other, do they have any consciousness during this period? Can the resurrection of the brain be taken slowly without necrosis?”
"You are wrong. In fact, these 'dead people' in the South China Sea have not died from the beginning."
The brain-taking maniac wriggled his lips a few times, and finally put down his defense line and spoke to us: "The medical standard of death is no longer a criterion for judging pulse, breathing, and heartbeat. The most accurate standard is to judge whether this person has brain death, that is, whether there is still a soul in his body."
In fact, it’s not just me. I guess the weird guy and Dr. Lin have long had the idea of “the dead are not dead”, but no one can confirm it. I want to use the authority of the brain maniac to confirm this inference. The standard statement of judging whether there is brain waves in corpses. I heard Dr. Lin talk about it before, and nodded and waited for him to continue.
"Some people may become vegetative after being severely damaged, but you can't say 'vegetative is equivalent to dead people'." When the brain-taking maniac talks about these tricks, he is really a bit of a master's demeanor. "As long as there is no brain death, there will always be a possibility of being awakened no matter how long it takes, of course, the premise is that the person's body has not failed."
"If the dead in the South China Sea were not dead from the beginning, then the Henggongyu followed up from the end and continued their bodies. Isn't the formation of the mermaid in the South China Sea meet the conditions you said to be awakened?" The monster couldn't help but interrupt.
"Hasn't Zuoqiu already reminded us? He asked if you know the 'fish lady'."
Chapter completed!