"Thank you!" Lolita sniffed.
You Ai raised his hand and placed it on her shoulder, saying, "So you don't know about this hypnosis either?"
Lolita shook her head. "I'm just a temporary replacement. They didn't discuss this with me, but..." She paused. "I sensed something was amiss. The guard who escorted me seemed very familiar with the commander of Shoal Harbor. It didn't seem like they were meeting for the first time."
A guard? Yu Ai was about to ask the guard's name when she suddenly felt the ground shake, giving her a start. Everyone lost their balance and stumbled.
Yu Ai grabbed Lolita, who was about to fall forward, and barely managed to stabilize their bodies.
Fortunately, the shaking only lasted about three seconds before returning to normal. You Ai hurriedly asked everyone, "Is everyone okay?"
Everyone responded scatteredly: "It's okay."
"fine."
"What's going on?" Ruiko asked, swinging her tail to make herself perpendicular to the ground again, but she didn't get any answer to her question.
Everyone helped each other to get up, all feeling confused and scared.
But before he could recover from the shock, another incident occurred.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
There were three deafening thunderclaps. Everyone looked around vigilantly, and suddenly a door appeared in the air.
Then there was a bang and the door opened.
As the door slowly opened, an ancient atmosphere that seemed to have been sealed for thousands of years came with the wind, blowing towards us, as if taking us back to ancient times.
Inside the door, there was nothing but white. The mermaids standing closest to the door retreated in fear.
Ruiko seemed to be asking and talking to herself, "What is this?" Of course, no one answered her question.
Yu Ai thought to himself that perhaps this was the highlight, or even more so, this was just the beginning of the highlight.
Guan Landa looked at the door, then turned to You Ai and said, "How is it?"
You Ai shook his head and replied, "Since there's a door, there are two choices: going in or not. But it's hard to say whether it's more dangerous outside or inside the door."
As soon as she finished speaking, the door disappeared in full view of everyone.
"Gone?" An Fei was so shocked that she swam forward a body length, but suddenly stopped.
"The door is at the back!" Someone shouted, and everyone turned to look behind them.
They saw that the door that was originally in front of them had somehow moved behind them.
Long Man opened his mouth and said, "What's wrong with this door? It can run on its own?"
Looking at the door, You Ai's eyes flashed with color, and he said with a serious expression: "It's not that the door ran away, it's that we entered the door."
"What did you say?!" Guan Landa asked in confusion.
"Look!" Yu Ai raised her hand and pointed her index finger at the door. Lolita beside her gasped.
Guan Landa frowned and came over. It turned out that she couldn't see it from her position. When she came over and looked in the direction that You Ai pointed, she was immediately shocked.
"What, what?" Licia had been paying attention. Seeing Guan Landa's expression change immediately, she squeezed over to take a look and saw a blue flag floating on the other side of the door.
"Flag? Wasn't the flag just there?" Lisia turned around and pointed to the place where the flag was originally, but there was nothing there.
Originally, the flagpole was facing them, but now the pole was behind them, and the flag was in front, facing them.
You Ai pondered for a moment and said, "Given the distance between us and the gate and the direction the flag points to, I think it's not the gate that's moving, but us that's entering it."
Without even knowing it!
Now that you are inside the door, you don’t have to worry about whether it is dangerous inside or outside, or whether to go in or not.
"Inside the door?" Ruiko's tone was so high that no one knew where it was. Everyone swam towards Youai and really saw the original flag on the other side of the door.
But Yu Ai still worried that this might be an illusion. Or perhaps they were hypnotized again, and this was a dream? Otherwise, how could this phenomenon be explained?
She turned her head and saw that the others were shocked and worried when they saw the flag, with their expressions changing greatly. But An Fei just stood there silently.
You Ai thought something was wrong with her, so he swam over and asked her, "An Fei, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
An Fei looked at You Ai, pursed her lips, and said hesitantly: "I remembered something I saw before."
"What?" Yu Ai asked.
"I was little then, and I didn't like going out or playing with other children. I just liked to be alone. My grandfather gave me his collection of calligraphy and paintings to look at. I remember there was a line in it: 'The sea has a source, so there is a door in the hidden place. Once you see it, you enter and never come out again.' I asked my grandfather what this meant."
An Fei recalled as she spoke, "Grandpa said that the place we live in is actually very small, but no matter how small it is, it has a source. That source must be very hidden, but it has a door. Once you see that door, you enter it and can't get out."
Lolita listened, and she really didn't believe it. She said, "It sounds like the truth."
When the door was first opened, it was on the other side, and You Ai and the others were the farthest away. But now the door has changed its position and appeared behind them, so they are the closest to it.
Lolita swam towards the door with an expression that said, "I don't believe it!" and said, "I want to try and see if it's true!"
As she spoke, she reached her hand into the door. Yu Ai and the others had no time to stop her, and a horrifying scene appeared before their eyes: Lolita's hand disappeared after reaching into the door, and it seemed as if it turned a corner and came out of the door!
Everyone was busy gasping for breath. Guan Landa reacted and quickly stepped forward to pull Lolita back.
An Fei said anxiously: "It's true, we can't get out." Everyone was scared to death.
Lolita's mind was now filled with the sight of her hand going in and out of the door. When Guan Landa pulled her away, the hand that had come out retracted. Now she didn't dare to look directly at her hand.
You Ai hurried forward and asked her, "Is anything wrong?"
Lolita turned her head slowly to look at Youai, and finally shook her head at her.
Seeing that people could still understand what he said, You Ai secretly breathed a sigh of relief and turned to ask An Fei, "Did you say anything else?"
Hearing this, An Fei racked her brains and thought for a while before saying, "If it's white inside, it means it's cold."
"What do you mean?" Licia said.
An Fei explained: "That is to say, if the inside of the door is white, it is cold."
As if to verify what An Fei said, the temperature around them seemed to drop, and everyone felt a chill all over their bodies.
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