Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 210 The Clever Man Who Broke the Mirror
Amidst Shenba's laborious efforts, the box filled with Iron Oak Blood Cores was lifted onto the small boat they had rowed there.

"Shall we begin our search on the island?" Shenba asked impatiently, putting down the box.

"Let's go," Cheng Lang said, already taking a step.

Behind them, Yun Ji and Yun Lan each held a nautical logbook and quickly flipped through it as they walked.

Stop

Before the four of them had taken ten steps, the two girls shouted in almost unison.

"what happened?"

Cheng Lang immediately stopped and grabbed Shenba's arm, gently pulling him back as well.

"Very strange"

Yun Ji and Yun Lan said in unison again, "You noticed it too? You go first?"

"Let me do it"

Yun Lan said, “In my logbook, since I set foot on this volcanic island, I have repeated the exploration records about the interior of the volcanic island 19 times.”

"In my logbook, the exploration of the interior of the volcanic island is repeated 27 times."

After Yun Ji finished speaking, she and Yun Lan exchanged a glance and said in unison again, "A perfect repetition of every single letter."

“There’s something wrong with this island,” Yun Lan said, frowning. “I even suspect it’s a trap.”

“Even if we enter this volcanic island, we probably won’t find the treasure,” Yun Ji continued. “Besides, there’s another crucial question: what exactly is the treasure?”

“The logbook I received never mentions what the treasure is,” Yun Lan said. “Yours doesn’t mention it either, does it?”

"no"

Yun Ji shook her head. "There was only repeated searching and what I saw inside the volcanic island."

"If the unknown treasure is not on this island..."

Cheng Lang retreated to the shore, pondered for a moment, then lay down and submerged his face in the calm water.

There was nothing beneath the surface, unlike the towering waves that could be seen on the surface.

In addition, he discovered that he had long since experienced the feeling of suffocation underwater. The ability to breathe underwater that the ship's heart had given him was useless, as was the belt that Van Hart had made, or even the ring that they had captured long ago that allowed him to breathe briefly underwater.

Cheng Lang lifted his head out of the water again and was on the shore, stretching his body and taking deep breaths.

"Are you going to go underwater to take a look?" Yun Ji asked first.

"Um"

Cheng Lang nodded, paused for a moment, and recounted his findings. "I don't know if we'll find anything underwater, but since we came from the other side of the ocean, we have every reason to dive down and take a look."

“I’ll go with you,” Yun Ji said.

"I also."

"You two stay here," Cheng Lang and Yun Ji said in unison.

"We really need to stay."

Yun Lan calmly said, "At least they drowned, and we can take their bodies back with us."

At this point, Yun Lan took out her substitute puppet and handed it to Cheng Lang, saying, "Smear your blood on the substitute puppet's face. That way, if you drown, we'll still have a chance to save you when you float up."

"So that's how it can be used!"

As Cheng Lang spoke, he took the substitute puppet and then lightly traced a line on the blade of the dagger handed to him by Yun Ji. Following Yun Lan's instructions, he used the blood from his fingertip to draw a crimson smiley face on the substitute puppet's face.

“Unlike armor, the substitute puppet’s power comes entirely from the land,” Yun Lan said confidently. “So it will definitely be useful.”

"Shenba, protect Yun, I mean, protect Princess Bakla," Cheng Lang said.

"Don't worry, Captain!" Shenba pounded his chest.

After exchanging a glance with Yun Ji, Cheng Lang continued to take deep breaths as he stepped into the calm, still sea.

"If we don't surface within 60 hours..."

Yun Ji gave her final instructions, "Shenba, you must assist Princess Bakla in conquering the entire Star Sea Continent."

"When I become the king of the continent, I will send a fleet to retrieve your bodies," Princess Yunlan, no, Princess Bakla, said earnestly, "just as I promised."

"Remember to bury me at the highest point of Dwarf Mountain, the scenery there is beautiful." After saying that, Yun Ji took a deep breath and followed Cheng Lang underwater.

"From this moment forward, the highest point of Dwarf Mountain will be our collective graveyard," Princess Bakla declared loudly. "I mean, if any one of us dies in battle."

Her promise naturally went unanswered by the two underwater, who were desperately swimming toward the seabed.

As they gradually increased the depth, they noticed that the underwater part of the island seemed exactly the same as the surface. They even saw Yunlan and Shenba still standing on the shore.

"crash"

With a splash, Cheng Lang and Yun Ji, still holding their breath, exchanged a glance and then began to breathe carefully. At the same time, Yun Lan asked in confusion, "Is there nothing underwater?"

"Tell me your thoughts," Cheng Lang said.

"Shenba, what is the biggest secret of our inn?" Yun Ji asked Shenba on the shore.

"Does our family's inn hold any secrets?" Shenba asked, bewildered.

"it is true"

When Yun Ji saw Cheng Lang looking over, she immediately explained, "The biggest secret of my family's inn is known only to my parents. If Shenba is a projection of my inner consciousness, he has already revealed that secret."

“I am now absolutely certain that you are my sister,” Shenba said, rubbing his forehead.

"So what happened?" Yun Lan asked. "We were swimming back and forth in the mirror."

Yun Ji succinctly described it, "Both sides seem to be real, or rather, we are indeed trapped here."

"If the magic mirror were here at this moment..."

Cheng Lang paused here, "Is there a way for the two of us to be on opposite sides of the mirror? The essence of a mirror is to replicate an exact scene, so is there any way to break this rule?"

"rope?"

Yun Ji asked, "If you pull one end of a rope to the other side, and I stay here pulling the other end, and then you suddenly appear next to me, what will the rope look like?"

“We each have a rope in our hands, but this rope is only connected to the rope in the hand of the person opposite us,” Cheng Lang said.

“Then we dive down at the same time, and we always meet underwater,” Yun Ji continued, “the two of you and two of me on both sides of the mirror overlap.”

“Shenba, we need a rope,” Cheng Lang said immediately.

"I'll go get it right now!" Before Shenba finished speaking, he had already dashed off towards the boat not far away.

There are two other possibilities.

Yun Lan, kneeling on the shore, looked at the two people soaking in the water and said, "Firstly, after you come out, the ropes connecting the two of you will be connected."

"That same situation shattered the mirror."

Cheng Lang said, "I have essentially gone to the other side. Since the mirror allows me and Yun Ji to travel back and forth, there is no reason to prevent a rope from traveling back and forth."

"But at this moment, you on the other side are also preparing to dive down with a rope."

Yun Lan realized something at this point, "If two identical people on either side of a mirror meet, the mirror can still be broken."

“What’s the other possibility?” Yun Ji asked.

"There's another possibility, this time it might never happen again."

Yun Lan stopped halfway through her sentence again, "If you can't swim to the other side of the mirror, then you've broken the mirror as well."

"The rope is here!" Shenba said, already throwing a large bundle of cables off the ship.

"How about I do it?" Yun Ji volunteered.

"Let me do it."

As Cheng Lang spoke, he wrapped one end of the rope around his wrist, took a deep breath, and began to descend.

“I’m starting to look forward to meeting my other self,” Yun Ji said, wrapping the other end of the rope around her wrist.

"Having even one intelligent person like you would be a disaster."

Kneeling on the shore, Yun Lan said, "Ah, I forgot, there's another clever person underwater. It's hard to imagine how much trouble you would cause the Star Sea Continent if there were four of you."

"Your expression and tone suggest you're looking forward to it," Yun Ji reminded her with a smile.

“After all, the Star Sea Continent isn’t mine yet,” Yun Lan shrugged. “I don’t mind if there are more people causing trouble for the continent.”

"What heartless nobles!"

"Yes, what heartless nobles they are."

"What are you two talking about?" Shenba asked, looking bewildered.

"It's nothing," Yun Ji and Yun Lan smiled at each other, tacitly refraining from further explanation.

They didn't have to wait long. With another splash, Cheng Lang, with ropes wrapped around his wrists, emerged from the water.

"Can we start the tug-of-war now?" Cheng Lang asked, shaking the rope in his hand.

"Hopefully our guess is true."

As Yun Ji, still submerged in the water, spoke, she and Cheng Lang simultaneously began to pull on the underwater rope.

At a certain moment, the ropes in their hands suddenly felt equal tension.

"You two come down too," Cheng Lang and Yun Ji said in unison.

Before that, Yun Lan had already stepped into the water, hugged Yun Ji's waist from behind, and then used the extra rope to tie the two of them together.

"Do I have to do that too?" Shenba asked foolishly.

"No need, just grab my belt." Cheng Lang patted his forehead. "And stay away from my butt while you're at it."

"Don't talk nonsense," Shenba said, already gripping Cheng Lang's belt tightly.

The four of them took a deep breath and dived underwater at the same time. Cheng Lang and Yun Ji also began to pull hard on the rope.

This time, thanks to the ropes, they were still much faster even though they were each carrying a "burden".

Gradually, they saw the figure at the other end of the rope. Shenba excitedly gurgled a series of bubbles, and similarly, the shadow on the other side of the rope also gurgled a series of bubbles.

Seeing this, Yun Ji and Cheng Lang immediately increased the speed at which they pulled the rope.

Just as they saw themselves on the other side, the four of them—no, the eight of them—simultaneously heard a clear sound of the mirror shattering. A hole, seemingly pierced by bright sunlight, suddenly appeared between them.

In the next instant, all eight people were simultaneously sucked into the hole by the enormous suction force.

"Wow!"

When Cheng Lang emerged from the sea once again, the sun shone brightly overhead, and the surrounding sea shimmered, with tiny waves surging in the cool sea breeze.

Looking around, thankfully, there were only four people on the sea: him, Yun Ji, Shen Ba, and Yun Lan who was busy untying the ropes, and behind them, a beautiful, lush, miniature island dotted with tiny volcanoes.

How big is this island? It's not even as big as the table in the Valkyrie's conference room.

(End of this chapter)