Sui Xiong groaned and opened his eyes.
Headache, severe headache!
"I'm just drunk, why does my head hurt so much!" He groaned, trying to turn over and sit up.
So he saw the blue sky and blue water connecting to the sky, the vast sea surface as far as the eye can see, white seabirds flying in the sky, the salty sea breeze blowing gently, and the sea waves rippling slightly.
The scenery is so beautiful.
However... why is he lying on the sea
Sui Xiong began to remember.
Last night, he played an online game with his friends. He finally cleared a difficult dungeon and got the top equipment he dreamed of. But because everyone wanted it, he lost the battle for ROLL points.
He is so depressed! I almost dropped the mouse. So I didn't bother to play the game anymore, so I went offline, turned off the computer, ran straight to the food stall downstairs, and ordered three dishes and a bottle of wine.
Then what
Then... don't remember.
Of course, who can remember things when they are drunk
But he lives in an inland city. Not to mention there is no sea nearby, not even a lake. He was just drunk. Why did he come to the sea? There is no land around at all.
etc! There's no land at all... So where is he sitting now? On the water? !
Sui Xiong, who suddenly realized this, did not sink into the water like in the funny animation, but still floated on the water, which made him feel a little calmer.
Anyway, it seems like there's no need to worry about drowning, since he can't swim.
However, he suddenly felt something was wrong again.
Where are my legs! Where is my body!
According to common sense, when a sitting person lowers his head, he will naturally see his legs and torso, but he sees nothing.
Strictly speaking, it was not that he saw nothing. He could vaguely see a vaguely transparent outline, which seemed to be slightly humanoid, and below was the clear sea water, with some fish and shrimps underwater.
But what does this have to do with him? What about his legs and torso? Is this the only outline left
Sui Xiong raised his hand blankly, and found that there was only a transparent outline.
Maybe, probably, probably... His entire body has turned into this transparent outline, right
Or maybe, this transparent outline is not the body at all, but... the soul
"Okay, now I know two things. First, I came to the sea; second, my body is gone, and now I am probably in a soul state."
At this time, he suddenly discovered that the severe headache he had when he woke up not long ago had completely disappeared.
This is probably natural. Even if the body is gone, how can there be a headache
However, the strange thing is that without his body, he can still see, hear, and smell the fishy smell of sea water. He can put his head on the sea and lick it, and he can also lick the sea water.
He then thought about it, if he lost his body, he wouldn't have to worry about drowning, and if his soul still had feelings, he wouldn't have to worry about becoming blind or deaf. When he thought about it, there seemed to be nothing wrong with the situation in front of him...
"Sure enough, every bad news is accompanied by good news. No wonder there are always jokes like 'I have two pieces of news to tell you, one is bad news and the other is good news' in comedies."
Sui Xiong talked to himself. He was unexpectedly calm when he encountered a sudden change. Even he had never thought that in this situation, not only did he not panic, but he could think so calmly.
"Maybe it's because without the body, there is no pain, and there are no things like adrenaline that can affect thinking?"
He muttered to himself, trying to make a move.
So he stood up and looked at the sea surface and the surrounding situation. The height did change slightly.
So he lay down again and found that the height had indeed changed again.
"Well, I am now sure that the soul does have a specific shape. It is neither a breath nor a ball like some myths say... This will definitely win the Nobel Prize."
He muttered, trying to take a few steps to see if this body, which should not be called a soul, could move.
It would be terrible if he couldn't even move.
Fortunately, he can still move normally, walking, running and jumping without any problems. Although the speed does not seem to be any faster than before in life, at least there is no need to worry about being imprisoned in this vast sea and being a lonely ghost for the rest of his life.
"What a great blessing among misfortunes!" Sui Xiong sighed, stopped and began to think about what to do next.
As for the question "why is this happening?", he has given up pursuing it.
This kind of unimaginable thing is definitely not something that an ordinary clerk can figure out. Wasting time and energy on this is like those ancient scholars who tried to connect the stars in the sky with the emperors in the world. scholars.
It's a good idea, but it makes no sense.
Sui Xiong's first consideration was to get ashore.
He is a human being, or a human soul, not an aquatic animal, but a terrestrial one.
So he must first find land and go ashore.
After landing, he still had to look for people to determine where he was.
He was not sure that he was still on Earth, nor was he sure that he was still at that point in time at the beginning of the new century, because he suspected that he might have traveled through time, but he didn't know where he had traveled.
It would be fine if we traveled to ancient times. The soul seems to have no concept of life, old age, sickness and death. If we wait slowly, we can always return to modern times. But if we travel to some other planet or world, it would be terrible. I am afraid I will never be able to go back in this life. .
"No, that doesn't really matter."
He quickly overturned his previous thoughts. For a time traveler who was suspected of becoming a soul, it was not very important what time, place or even world he came to.
The most important thing at hand is to survive!
No matter in which myths and legends, the soul is not a solid thing. Eastern mythology even believes that a beam of sunshine or a gust of wind can destroy a fragile soul. Although he has not yet felt that he is afraid of the sun or the sea breeze, it is definitely not safe to leave his soul in such an undefended state!
Especially when he realized this, he felt cold.
The cold was not unbearable, but there was a clammy feeling, just like when it rains in winter, that kind of cold, damp, sticky feeling makes people feel disgusted from the bottom of their bones.
So, what to do
Sui Xiong pondered.
The simplest way is to find a shell for your soul, or a physical body.
However, looking around, he couldn't find any human body.
In fact, finding a physical body is not necessarily a good idea. As a person who grew up in an inland city, Sui Xiong couldn't swim at all. In this boundless sea, even if he found a physical body to possess him, it would probably be useless. The fate of drowning.
Then the next best thing is to find a shelter.
He thought, looking left and right, up and down.
But within the range that could be seen with the naked eye, he found nothing hard that could be used to hide.
He tried to get into the water again and search in the water.
When he entered the water, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration - he still had a headache when he woke up, which meant that he was probably still alive at the time. But after waking up, because I couldn't swim, my body sank into the sea, and only my soul was still floating on the sea.
This means that maybe as long as I dive into the bottom of the sea, I still have a chance to get my body back
Thinking of this, he suddenly became energetic and tried his best to dive into the depths of the sea.
But just a few seconds later, he discovered to his dismay that he could not dive into deep water at all, and the visual limit of diving was no more than two meters.
But fortunately, as a soul, he won't suffocate, so he has no problem staying in the water.
Woohoo, even if his body is really in the sea now, there is no hope of getting it back...
Forget it, I still don’t know if my body is really in the sea, so there is no need to be depressed now. The most important thing at hand is to solve the safety problem.
Maybe it was an illusion, or maybe it was really safer in the water. He felt an inexplicable sense of security staying in the water, like a shirtless person who could finally put on a single piece of clothing.
The clothes are neither thick nor warm, but at least I don't have to rely on subcutaneous fat to fight the cold wind.
"There are often mountain spirits and water ghosts in mythology. Maybe it's safer to stay in the water, right?" Sui Xiong muttered, so he decided to live underwater and never go out of the water except for looking for land.
"The problems of food, clothing, housing, transportation and 'clothing' have probably been temporarily solved. As for transportation, the No. 11 bus is not impossible. The next step is food and housing."
Sui Xiong muttered and turned his attention to the aquatic animals around him.
He saw some fish, but they were a little far away, and only a few jellyfish were close by.
Jellyfish.
With a white translucent body and slender tentacles, it is a very ordinary jellyfish.
"I remember that most jellyfish are edible. Although some of the tentacles have stingers, the stings should be of no use to the soul." Sui Xiong said to himself, "However, the soul seems to be unable to eat..."
But he felt that he really needed to eat something.
Once the thought of "eating" arose, it gradually became stronger, and he soon felt hungry.
So he subconsciously reached out and tried to catch the jellyfish closest to him.
The hand with only the transparent outline easily grabbed the jellyfish. To be more precise, it penetrated into the jellyfish's body and grabbed something.
Caught and ready to eat!
So he took the jellyfish over, or in other words, took the edible thing he caught and brought it to his mouth.
If you look carefully, you will see that it is a faint light, weak and inconspicuous. It didn't look like the outline of a transparent jellyfish as he imagined. When it brought this to its mouth, it observed it carefully for a long time and determined that it was just a small point of light.
He noticed that not a single tentacle was missing from the jellyfish. What he caught was something invisible.
Could it be... the soul of a jellyfish
The hunger increased a little, so he ate the thing.
Not much, just a little bit, just to fill my stomach a little bit.
He turned his attention to the jellyfish again and found that it had lost its vitality and was floating with the current in the sea water.
"Sure enough, what I ate was its soul."
He thought for a moment and then went to catch a few more jellyfish.
A moment later, in front of Sui Xiong, who felt he was not full yet, were some jellyfish that had completely lost their vitality.
"Now I can proudly declare that I am no longer a mortal who will fall to the bottom of the food chain without weapons, but a dangerous predator in this sea water, or in other words, a water ghost."
Giving up on studying the jellyfish carcasses, Sui Xiong laughed three times and walked towards the fish in the distance.
His stomach is still hungry.