Lu Qianqian held the oar with one hand and pointed to the river bank not far from them with the other hand.
This place is already a vast plain. Looking around, there are no traces of human habitation. The light of the giant moon shines on the grass on the bank of the river, giving off the glimmer of stars.
What Lu Qianqian was pointing to was a clump of reeds on the right side of the river bank.
"There are...a few reeds." Meili squinted and looked over.
"No," Lu Qianqian said, waving the oar and rowing there hard, "there is something under the reeds."
As the boat approached, they all noticed something reflecting the moonlight under the reeds.
"It's reflecting light, like some kind of metal." Jasmine stretched her neck.
Lu Qianqian brought the boat near the river bank, leaned forward and grabbed the reflective thing, and the reflective thing was caught in her hand.
Three heads came over.
Lu Qianqian spread his palms.
It was an oval ruby set on a metal base.
"So beautiful..." Merry reached out and poked the surface of the gemstone.
"Why is this here?" Lu Qianqian asked.
"The other girls must have dropped their jewelry here when they passed by." Jasmine replied.
"How could they fall on the shore?" Meili looked towards the shore, "Did they land here?"
"What's here?" Jasmine looked towards the empty plain.
"Nothing." Lu Qianqian answered simply.
"Then why don't we go ashore and have a look?" Merry suggested.
"I think it's okay." Jasmine nodded.
Lu Qianqian also acquiesced and moved his eyes to Xiaolan.
The three of them looked at Xiaolan who had been silent for a long time.
"Xiaolan, what are you looking at?"
Xiaolan, who was staring into the distance in a daze, was called out by them. He immediately came back to his senses, pointed at the giant moon and asked, "Do you feel that the moon seems to have become bigger again?"
Jasmine tilted her head and glanced at the giant moon, then turned her head back and said, "Didn't the people in the village say that the moon will get bigger and bigger?"
"When the moon fills the sky and no girl is sacrificed, disaster will occur." Meri said again.
"But I always feel..."
"Shh-" Lu Qianqian put her hand to her mouth, interrupting their words, "Did you hear anything?"
Xiaolan raised her hand, "I heard it."
From the direction where the moon was hovering in the sky, there were several low humming sounds.
"What's this noise?" Jasmine unconsciously squeezed the paddle in her hand.
In the distance, there was a sound again. The sound was distant and vast, like the roar of thunder, but it was a little different.
"Where did this sound come from?" Merry looked around uneasily.
Xiaolan silently raised her hand, "From the direction of the moon, and the sound... seems to be slowly getting louder, together with the moon getting bigger and bigger,"
Meili swallowed and said, "How about we get ashore from there first? The reason why the other girls dropped the pendant in that place means that she must have got ashore from there."
At this time, their boat jolted violently, as if it had hit something on the bottom of the river. The four people on the boat were caught off guard and staggered and fell into the boat.
"What's going on?"
"Is there anything under the boat?" Jasmine held on to the edge of the boat and looked under the boat.
The river below the boat was as dark as the night, and nothing could be seen clearly.
"without……"
Before they finished speaking, the second wave of bumps came again. After gaining some experience, the four of them each grabbed the hull next to them and looked at each other uneasily.
Lu Qianqian's paddle was originally stuck on the shore to fix the position of the boat, but the bumps caused it to break away from the mud on the river bank, and their boat drifted down the stream again.
Jasmine grabbed her oar and pulled it under the boat a few times, shouting, "There's nothing under the boat."
"Then this bump..."
"Look behind you!" Xiaolan shouted fiercely.
Everyone turned around.
A wave of waves came up from the upper reaches of the stream. The waves were big or small. They hit the back of the boat and just caused a jolt.
"How come there are waves in such a small river?" Meili helped Lu Qianqian hold the oar to resist the waves.
"I know, that force won't let us stop," Xiaolan looked at the giant moon, "the waves will push us to where we should go."
The frequency of the boat's jolting increased, and the oars could not withstand the force of the waves, and the crackling sound reached their ears along the oar handles.
"Are we going ashore?" Merry asked through gritted teeth.
"Of course we can't go ashore. There's nothing on the shore, nothing we want."
"Then we..." Merry's hands holding the oar were shaking a little, "Are we still going to stay here?"
"I think we can let go, let's..."
Before Xiaolan could finish her words, she heard a "crack" sound, and the oars in the hands of Lu Qianqian and Meili were broken by the waist. At this time, a big wave came, and the boat lost its support and turned and rushed downstream of the stream.
go.
The stream became more and more turbulent, and the screams of the four people swirled and intersected in the boat. Their boat was like a speed car with broken brakes, spinning around in the stream, taking them deeper into the river.
Xiao Lan was at a loss to find a holding point to prevent herself from being thrown off, and finally spotted the protrusion on the front side of the boat for hanging the anchor. After Xiao Lan's body was lifted twice by the waves like a spoon, she was lifted by the waves.
That force rushed directly towards the protrusion.
Then, her and Lu Qianqian's bodies collided.
"You want to catch here too?" Xiaolan shouted from the waves.
Lu Qianqian sat up, "We each have one hand, and then we grab each other!"
"good!"
The two of them let go of the slippery edge of the boat and grabbed the protrusion at the same time. However, with a clang, something was thrown out of Lu Qianqian's sleeve and fell directly behind Xiaolan's feet.
"It's that gem!" Lu Qianqian immediately planned to loosen the protrusion, "We can't lose it!"
"Hold on there! I'll pick it up!"
Half of Xiaolan's body was splashed with water, she wiped her face, tremblingly knelt on the ground, and reached out to grab the ruby.
The moment her fingertips touched the warm surface of the ruby, Xiaolan's world seemed to suddenly become quiet.
The boat was still spinning wildly, and the sound of water, waves, and screams came and went.
But in Xiaolan's ears, the volume of these sounds seemed to have been turned down.
Instead, there was a melodious singing voice.
The singing was getting louder and louder, using a dialect they didn't understand, singing a song...with a somewhat familiar melody.
That was the song Lang Yuerong sang when she said goodbye to them.
But more importantly, the voice ringing in his ears now was not Long Yuerong's voice.
Who is this?
Although it was not Lang Yuerong's voice, this voice also felt inexplicably familiar.
Who is it?
"Xiaolan? Xiaolan!" The shouts of his companions woke up Xiaolan.
When she returned to the terrible reality, Xiaolan's body was almost completely wet. She was sitting on her knees on the boat, holding the gem tightly with both hands, and was on the verge of being thrown off the boat.
Thanks to Little Spider for the reward! (*￣3￣)╭The little flowers will hit you