C57 (1/2)
”What's the matter with you?” I was startled by her. The old men and women on the boat turned their heads as well.
The grey-green eyes were suddenly a little strange. She looked up at the dark ceiling and said to herself,
”The storm is approaching...”
”Lady, please do not worry.” The guide was shocked by M just now, and was relieved to hear her say this.
”Even if it was raining outside, we wouldn't be able to feel it here …”
Before he could finish his sentence, the entire cave suddenly echoed with a gurgling sound.
”Look, it's bubbling over there!” DickPound was the first to notice that something wasn't quite right with the Sea of Lost. Following the direction of his finger, I saw a huge bubble floating in the middle of the lake.
One bubble, two bubbles.
The Lost Sea began to boil.
”Turn around!” DickPound shouted, and the guide finally reacted.
”Everyone, don't be impatient. This kind of phenomenon is very common. Besides the walls, there are many caves under the lake that connect to each other. They will allow air to flow in from the bottom of the lake …” The guide soothed us as he started the motor.
The grandfathers and grandmothers still seemed to have some scruples about M's insanity, and one of the two immediately leaned forward to get away from M.
After all, in a pitch-black cave, anything strange would cause one's fear to multiply.
The boat was equipped with environmentally friendly electric motors, and even at full speed it was only five miles and an hour, similar to the footstool boats in the park.
More bubbles rose from the dark and bright bottom of the lake.
”Rainstorm is approaching... ”The storm is approaching!” M leaned on my side, trembling.
No one on the boat spoke. The only sounds that could be heard were the sound of electric motors and air bubbles.
An old lady tremblingly took out a tissue from her purse and wiped off her sweat. In a confined space, people were prone to claustrophobia.
”Child, it's dry season in Tennessee. It won't rain.” A white man said impatiently, not sure if it was to comfort M or himself.
”Wang, Yu Di did not follow us.” Sayaka whispered to me.
I looked around at the water and saw that the fish that had been following the boat were gone. They were swimming, hypnotized, toward the surrounding cave walls, scrambling out of the water against the rocks, breathing in and out with their mouths wide open.
Just like they want to get out of the water.
After an unknown period of time, the boat finally reached the shore.
The moment they walked out of the cave, the rain began to pour down.
”This damned weather... This is really weird. ” The white man gave M a puzzled look, shook his head, and finally stepped out into the rain.
”M, how did you know it was going to rain?” After everyone had left, Darwin asked.
However, M shook his head and kept repeating the same words, ”The storm is approaching...”
”It's not a storm, it's a storm already.” DickPound ridiculed, ”Everyone, think about how we should camp out in the rain!”
M said no more and lowered his head.
By now, five people were sitting in the only tent that hadn't been blown down by the wind, talking about divination.
”Since you said that the ability to predict can be learned from the future, can you train for a while now and tell us when the rain can stop?” I laid paralyzed on the ground choking on DickPound.
”Let me help you predict your future,” Darwin said. ”One hundred percent accurate.”
”Don't tell me you have a power, I won't believe you!” I snorted.
”Do you want to bet?” Darwin asked me.
”Betting …” ”My last bag of duck necks!”
”I bet you'll walk out of the tent when the rain stops tomorrow.”
”...” Do I look like an idiot to you? If I don't come out tomorrow, will you give me a million dollars? ”
”Hehe, actually, when I said this prophecy, you had already lost.” Darwin laughed.
”Predicting the future is divided into the relative future and the absolute future. The relative future is that you can change the future through my language. Let me tell you, you will be out of the tent tomorrow, and to prevent this from happening, you will be out of the tent. Then you have changed your future according to my language, and my prophecy goes into the parallel universe, and in another universe it will still come true. ”
”The absolute future is the rule of the world. It cannot be changed just because of a prophecy — for example, the changing of the four seasons, the birth of an old person, or the death of an old person. Even if you don't get out of the tent, tomorrow we'll pack the tent up and throw you out of it.
After saying that, Darwin took away the last bag of duck neck from my dumbstruck hands.
”You, you're just changing the concept!” I realized that I was fooled and said angrily, ”You used common sense to change the concept of prophecy! Then why don't you foretell that I'll shit tomorrow? Isn't this common sense! I'm not talking about common sense! It's a precise prediction! ”
”I think Wang is referring to a prophecy similar to how old she was when she met Prince Charming!” Sayaka covered her mouth and laughed.