Chapter 15 Chapter fifteen

Hirosuke Hitomi, posing as Genzaburo Komoda, embarked on this thrilling honeymoon trip with Chiyo, who is both his wife and not his wife, which is tantamount to a mischief of fate.At this moment, they are wandering in the so-called dream country and paradise on earth created by Kosuke. On the one hand, the two have endless love in their hearts, and on the other hand, Hirosuke is trying to kill Chiyo, and Chiyo has a lot of doubts about Hirosuke, so the two spy on each other from time to time.However, since it was just the two of them, no hostility towards each other could be aroused, but an unbelievably sweet affection would develop between them.

Hirosuke's desire to kill Chiyo gradually wavered. Although his previous determination was quite firm, at this moment he even hesitated whether to dedicate his body and mind to Chiyo and this unusual love. "Chiyo, are you lonely? Now it's just the two of us walking on the bottom of the sea...Aren't you afraid?" He suddenly asked tentatively. "No, I'm not afraid at all. The underwater scenery on the other side of the glass is indeed very strange and scary, but when I think of you by my side, I'm not afraid at all." She leaned on him coquettishly and replied.Unknowingly, she forgot all the disturbing doubts, and was completely intoxicated in the happiness in front of her body and mind.

The glass tunnel bends forward in a weird curve, like a snake or some indescribable strip stretching into the distance.Even with the hundreds of watts of electric lights on the top of the head, it still can't dispel the thick and indelible darkness of the bottom of the sea.The cold air shrouded in the tunnel, the roar of the waves beating against the glass sound so far away, and the creatures wriggling in the dark world outside the glass, all these are not the scenery of the real world. Chiyo followed Hirosuke step by step, and her mood gradually changed from fear of the unknown to surprise. After gradually getting used to the surrounding scene, she fell in love with the dreamlike charm of the underwater tunnel.

The fish in the distance, which cannot be illuminated by the light, only show their bright eyes, like fireflies flying on the river in summer night, cruising up and down, dragging a long tail like a comet behind them, and the phosphorescence is intertwined into a strange picture.When they gather in front of the glass plate toward the light, they cross the boundary between darkness and light, and show various colorful colors under the light. How to describe the strange scene?The big fish swims around with its mouth wide open, its tail and fins motionless, sliding through the water like a submarine, and the hazy figure in the fog becomes huge in the blink of an eye, and finally approaches like a train in a movie, almost head-on Hit the audience.

The glass channel winds up or down, left or right, and stretches for dozens of lengths along the coast of the island.There is a passage where the zenith is almost at the same level as the sea level. Even if the lights are not turned on, the surrounding scenery can be seen clearly. In the passage deepest from the sea level, the electric lights of several hundred watts are turned on at the same time, illuminating the whole passage brightly. It is dim, but it can only roughly illuminate a distance of one or two feet outside the glass wall, and beyond that is the bottomless dark hell. Although Chiyo grew up by the sea and has been exposed to the noisy habits of the sea, it is of course the first time in her life to travel around the bottom of the sea like this.This weird, mysterious, poisonous and terrifying but fascinating beauty of the extraterrestrial wonderland, this fresh and gorgeous underwater world that makes people tremble, exists beyond our imagination, so it is not incomprehensible that she will be tempted by inexplicable things.She has seen all kinds of dry and hard seaweed on the coast many times, but she has never been so moved like this.The seaweeds in front of me are floating with the current, breathing and giving birth in the sea water, caressing and fighting with each other, and talking to each other in their unique language, which is so different from the usual gestures. The unusual gesture made Chiyo flinch.

The big brown forest is the kombu branches struggling in the storm stretched out and intertwined, swaying gently in the sway of the sea.Porphyria is so rotten like the face of a leprosy patient, it is eerie and terrifying.There are also wing algae, with vibrating slimy skin, struggling with ugly hands and feet, like a giant spider; pounding brown algae, like a cactus growing under the water; sargassum, comparable to a large coconut tree on the coast; It is rope algae, crowded together like roundworms; green seaweed is burning, spitting out a green tongue of fire... Various seaweeds push together to form a large plain, one plain is connected to another, densely covering the entire seabed, only occasionally A palm-sized rock wall is exposed.I don't know what kind of world the roots of these plants are?What terrible creatures dwell there?The branches and branches of seaweed are like snake heads, intertwining, playing and fighting with each other.Through the blue-black seawater layer, these scenes can be seen clearly under the faint illumination of the light.

Some great plains seem to have just experienced a massacre. There are large areas of laver groves stained with jet-black blood, like a woman's red-haired cow hair seaweed, crinoids like chicken feet, like a giant red centipede. Centipede algae.Among them, the most impressive thing is the bright red cockscomb that sinks into the bottom of the sea like a whole flower bed at first glance. In the dark bottom of the sea where you can't see your fingers, you suddenly see a bunch of bright red clumps. That kind of horror is really not conceivable on land. On the great plain of this alien space, countless snake heads spit out colorful and viscous snake letters. They push each other, entangle, and intertwine into a strangely shaped plant jungle, dotted with yellow and red on the turquoise background. Tens of thousands of fireflies are flying up and down, and as the light in the tunnel becomes stronger and stronger, they appear in all kinds of strange shapes like images on a slide.The ferocious tiger sharks, showing their pale abdominal mucous membranes, leaped past the eyes like passers-by, sometimes smashed into the glass wall with their bloodthirsty eyes wide open, and sometimes gnawed on the outer wall. The greedy thick lips on one side, like a wretched man with evil intentions, tilted his mouth and dripped dirty saliva, this association made Chiyo couldn't help but tremble all over.

If the petite small shark is compared to a beast on the bottom of the sea, then the fish swimming outside the glass tunnel, such as rays, should be birds of prey that live in the water, while eels and moray eels can be regarded as raptors in the ocean. Viper.When it comes to living fish, most people on land see them swimming in glass tanks in aquariums. They may feel that this analogy is too exaggerated, but those prawns that look docile and are neither beneficial nor harmful to eat The faces in the sea and the gestures of eels, a close relative of sea snakes, wandering among the seaweeds are so creepy. It is impossible to guess if it is not actually going deep into the bottom of the sea.

If horror can add points to beauty, I am afraid that there is nothing more beautiful in the world than the underwater scenery.At least through this experience, Chiyo feels that this is the first time in his life that he has come into contact with the beauty of the dream world.From the dark end came the faint smell of some kind of huge creature, the two shiny scales gradually faded, and then brightly colored bream stripes appeared faintly under the light, outlining an agile figure, Chiyo Seeing this, she couldn't help admiring, and she was so frightened and excited that her face turned pale, and she clutched her husband's sleeve tightly.

The plump rhombus-shaped body of the flag bream exudes blue and white light, and the lines on its body are like the sun flag. The two thick black and brown stripes reflect golden light under the light.It has a pair of big eyes, like a coquettish woman with heavy makeup, with thick eyeliner, protruding lips, and a high raised dorsal fin, like the ornaments on the armor of a general in the Warring States Period, proudly raised.It twisted its body vigorously and swam towards the glass, then turned its head in a "snap" at the next moment, and swam leisurely almost close to the glass in front of Chiyo's eyes. Seeing this scene, she couldn't help but exclaimed.It is not a pattern created by the painter on the canvas, but a living fish, which is indeed amazing.In such a place, with the strange seaweed and the dark water as the background, and seeing this scene through the dim light, she would be so surprised that it was not an exaggerated reaction.

The two kept moving forward, and a simple fish could no longer amaze her.The endless stream of fish passing through the glass made her dizzy, evil and gorgeous.Spotted light gill fish, high bream, tengu sailfish, and flower-tailed hawk feather. Some fish have purple and gold stripes on their bodies, and some stripes seem to be dyed by paint. If I allow me to describe it in secular words, That's the beauty of nightmares.Yes, utterly chilling nightmare beauty. "I want you to see more scenery ahead. This is a pioneering work that I spent all my property and dedicated my life to despite all kinds of advice. Although it is not yet fully completed, I hope you can appreciate it before anyone else What an amazing piece of art I create, and listen to your thoughts. You should know the value of my work best...Here, look here. From here, the scene in the sea looks different again.”Kyosuke There was a certain eager enthusiasm in the tone. Chiyo looked in the direction he pointed, and there seemed to be a piece of convex glass with a diameter of about three inches embedded under the glass. It was a convex lens.Chiyo bent down according to his instructions, and looked out cautiously. At first, the whole field of vision was like cumulus clouds rising in front of her eyes. It was hazy, and she was confused, but she tried to adjust the distance between the eyes and the convex lens, and gradually On the other side of the glass, some kind of horrible creature was wriggling.