Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen

Affected by this amazing underwater trip, Chiyo's heart breaks away from the mundane routine and wanders in a boundless dreamland unknowingly.Whether it is T City, Koda’s family or her mother’s family, they are all like dreams of the distant past, and the ordinary relationships of parents, husband and wife, master and servant, etc., are like the sunset in the sky gradually fading away at the edge of consciousness. The bewilderment of the soul, as well as the numbing yearning for the opposite sex who didn't know whether it was her husband or someone, occupied her whole body and mind like fireworks in the dark night sky.

"Here, the road ahead is a bit dark and dangerous, let me hold your hand." When approaching the last section of the glass passage, Kosuke turned his head and stared at Chiyo, and said softly. "Okay." Chiyo took his hand. Then the surroundings suddenly darkened, and they entered a cave that seemed to be artificially excavated in the rock.It was a narrow passage barely enough for one person to pass through.Are you on land?Or is this still a grotto under the sea?Chiyo is completely at a loss, she has never been so scared, and she has never been so excited, the touch of a man's big hand clenched tightly came from her fingertips, and the strange feeling of blood and blood almost melting together filled her heart. Her one heart, which made her have no time to care about the fear of being swallowed by darkness.

The two were groping forward in the darkness. Chiyo felt that they had walked about ten towns away, but in fact it was only a few meters away. At this time, the vision suddenly opened up, and there was a scene in front of her that made her unable to help but exclaim. magnificent scenery. As far as the eye can see, a large straight valley stretches in front of you, about half the width of the town.On both sides of the bank are towering cliffs, layered upon layer upon layer, and a stream of emerald green water flows between them, as green as solidified emeralds.At first glance, I thought this was a natural big valley, but after careful observation, I gradually realized that all of this is artificial landscaping, but there is no trace of ugly chiseling. The above is a work of uncanny workmanship.Having said that, it cannot be regarded as a natural scenery, because the cut is too neat and there is no sloppy shoddy.There is no dust on the water surface, not even a single weed grows on the cliff, and the rocks are smooth and dull like sliced ​​yogurt, reflecting the water surface as black and shiny as lacquer.Therefore, the widening of the field of vision just mentioned is by no means a sudden broadening in the ordinary sense.The valley is so deep that you can hardly see the bottom, and the cliffs on both sides are so high that you have to look up. The whole valley is full of gorgeous colors.The only light is the thin strips of the sky, and this light is different from what you usually see, but the gray of the sunset, dotted with twinkling stars.This valley is not so much a valley, it is more appropriate to describe it as a deep pond, and this is where the scenery is amazing.One of its two ends is the exit of the subsea tunnel that the two walked out of just now, and the other end disappears at an indistinct staircase on the opposite side.The ladder is at the narrowing point of the cliffs on both sides.The pure white stairs seem to be pulled up from the water suddenly and rush straight into the sky. Since the surrounding scenery is completely black, the stone stairs are naturally and perfectly separated, just like a waterfall flowing down. This monotonous scenery adds a kind of elegant beauty.

Just as Chiyo was staring at this majestic scenery, Hirosuke seemed to have given a signal. When she came back to her senses, two unusually huge swans appeared out of nowhere, with their proud necks raised and their plump lips raised. Two or three smooth ripples appeared in front of the chest, quietly approaching the shore where the two were standing. "Oh, what a big swan." While Chiyo was amazed, a pleasant female voice suddenly came: "Please sit up, both of you." Chiyo read it right, it was the swan who was speaking. Chiyo didn't even have time to be surprised, Kosuke had already picked her up and put her on the back of the previous swan, and he himself stepped onto the other swan. "There is no doubt, Chiyo, they are all my retainers. Here, Swan, take us to the opposite stone steps."

A swan can speak human language, so it can certainly understand its master's orders.They puffed up their chests, and their pure white figures slid across the black lacquered water, swimming quietly.Because Chiyo was too shocked, she couldn't think for a moment. After she calmed down, she felt that what was wriggling under her crotch was definitely not the muscles of a swan, but a human body covered with feathers.Probably there was a woman wearing a white bird's coat, paddling water with her hands and feet.The feeling of stretching the soft shoulders and plump buttocks muscles, as well as the temperature of the skin through the clothes, all make people feel that this should be a young woman.

It's just that Chiyo didn't have time to further see the true face of the swan, and was completely attracted by the more bizarre or more beautiful scene in front of him. When the swan advanced to 20 or 30, there was a "boo" sound on the water surface, and an unknown object emerged from the bottom of the water and swam to Chiyo's side.The unknown object swam shoulder to shoulder with the swan, turned to look at her and smiled kindly.She is the mermaid who surprised Chiyo at the bottom of the sea just now. "Oh, are you the mermaid from just now?" But even when greeting her, the mermaid only responded with a respectful smile.She nodded softly and swam forward quietly.Surprisingly, she is not the only mermaid. Suddenly, one or two young naked girls like her gradually increased, and in a blink of an eye, a group of mermaids appeared, swimming, jumping, playing, or with two swans Forward, after a while, he assumed a breaststroke posture and quickly moved beyond, drifting to the distance, and then turned around and waved to them.Against the background of dark cliffs and lacquer-like water, the naked figures of women dancing and playing are like a famous painting with the theme of Greek stories.

After a while, the swan swam halfway, as if deliberately echoing the mermaid in the water, and several naked women also appeared on the top of the remote cliff. , Some of them hugged their knees and rotated to the limit, some stretched their hands like a bow and raised their bodies, like petals flying in the wind, they quickly floated across the black rock wall in various postures, stirring up water and diving deeply into the water.What a superb swimming skill! Then, surrounded by many bodies, the two swans quietly arrived at the stone steps at the other end of the pool.When he got closer, he saw hundreds of pure white stone steps standing majestically in front of Chiyo. Just looking up made him tremble all over.