Sui Xiong groaned and opened his eyes.
Headache, severe headache!
"I'm just drunk. Why does my head hurt so much?" He groaned and tried to turn over and sit up.
Then he saw the blue sky and the blue sea. The vast sea was endless. There were white seabirds flying in the sky. The salty sea breeze was gently blowing, and the sea waves were slightly rippling.
This scenery was really beautiful.
But … why was he lying on the sea?
Sui Xiong began to recall.
Last night, he played online games with his friends and finally passed a difficult dungeon. He got the top equipment that he dreamed of. Then because everyone wanted it, he lost in the ROLL.
He was so depressed! He almost dropped the mouse. So he didn't want to play games anymore. He went offline, turned off the computer, and went straight to the food stall downstairs. He ordered three dishes and a bottle of wine.
Then?
Then … he didn't remember.
This was natural. Who could remember things when they were drunk?
But he lived in an inland city. There was no sea nearby. There was not even a lake. Why did he come to the sea when he was drunk? There was no land around.
Wait! There was no land at all … So where was he sitting now? On the water?!
Sui Xiong suddenly realized this. He didn't sink into the water like in the funny animation. Instead, he was still floating on the water, which made him feel a little relieved.
Anyway, it seemed that he didn't have to worry about drowning. He couldn't swim.
However, he suddenly felt that something was amiss.
My legs! My body!
According to common sense, a person sitting should see his legs and torso when he lowered his head. But he didn't see anything.
Strictly speaking, he didn't see nothing. He vaguely saw a faint transparent outline, which seemed to be a little human. Below it was clear water, and there were some fish and shrimp underwater.
But what did this have to do with him? Where were his legs and torso? Was this the outline left?
Sui Xiong raised his hand blankly and found that there was only a transparent outline.
Perhaps, probably, most likely … his entire body had already turned into such a transparent silhouette?
Or maybe, this transparent outline was not a body at all, but … a soul?
"Well, now I know two things. Firstly, I'm on the sea. Secondly, my body is gone. I'm probably in the form of a soul now. "
At this time, he suddenly realized that the severe headache he had when he woke up not long ago had completely disappeared.
This was probably to be expected. Without a body, how could he have a headache?
However, the strange thing was that even without a body, he could still see, hear, and smell the fishy smell of the sea. When he stuck his head to the surface of the sea and licked it, he could still taste the seawater.
On second thought, he did not have to worry about drowning without a body, and his soul could still feel, so he did not have to worry about becoming blind and deaf. Thinking about it this way, the situation in front of him did not seem too bad …
"Sure enough, every piece of bad news is accompanied by good news. No wonder there are always jokes like 'I have two pieces of news for you, one is bad news, the other is good news' in comedies."
Sui Xiong muttered to himself. He was unexpectedly calm in the face of such a sudden change. Even he himself did not expect that in such a situation, he could not only not panic, but also think so calmly.
"Maybe it's because without a body, there's no pain, and there's no hormone in the kidney that affects thinking?"
He muttered to himself and tried to move a little.
So he stood up and looked at the sea and the surrounding situation. There was indeed a slight change in height.
So he lay down again and found that the height had indeed changed again.
"Well, now I'm sure that the soul does have a specific shape. It's neither a gas like some myths say, nor a ball … This will definitely win the Nobel Prize."
He muttered and tried to walk a few steps to see if this body, which should be called a soul, could move.
If it could not even move, it would be terrible.
Fortunately, he could still move normally, walking, running, and jumping were not a problem. Although his speed did not seem to be much faster than when he was alive, at least he did not have to worry about being confined on this vast sea and being a lonely ghost for the rest of his life.
"What a blessing in misfortune!" Sui Xiong sighed, stopped, and began to think about what to do next.
As for the question of "why is it like this", he had already given up looking into it.
This kind of unimaginable thing was definitely not something that an ordinary staff could understand. To waste time and energy on this was like those scholars in ancient times who tried to connect the stars in the sky with the lives of emperors, generals, and ministers in the human world for generations.
The idea was good, but it was meaningless.
The first problem that Sui Xiong considered was to go ashore.
He was a human, or rather, a human soul. He was not an aquatic animal, but a terrestrial creature.
So he first had to find land and go ashore.
After going ashore, he had to look for signs of human habitation and determine where he was.
He was not sure that he was still on the earth, nor was he sure that he was still at the beginning of the new century, because he suspected that he might have traveled through time, but he did not know where.
If he traveled to ancient times, it would be okay, because the soul did not seem to have the concept of birth, old age, sickness, and death, and he could eventually return to modern times. But if he traveled to a different planet or a different world, it would be terrible. He was afraid that he would not be able to go back in this life.
"No, that's actually not important."
He quickly overthrew his previous thoughts. For a time traveler who was suspected to have become a soul, it was not very important what time, where, or even what world he came to.
The most important thing at the moment was to survive!
No matter what kind of myths and legends, the soul was not something strong and tough. Eastern myths even believed that a beam of sunlight or a gust of wind could destroy a fragile soul. Although he did not feel that he was afraid of sunlight or sea breeze for the time being, it was absolutely not safe to leave his soul in such a defenseless state!
In particular, when he realized this, he felt cold.
This cold was not unbearable, but there was a kind of cold and wet feeling, just like when it rained in winter, cold and wet, sticky and gloomy, which made people feel disgusted from the bones.
So, what should I do?
Sui Xiong pondered.
The simplest way was to find a shell for his soul, or to find a body.
However, no matter how hard he looked around, he couldn't find a single human body.
In fact, finding a body was not necessarily a good idea. As a person who grew up in an inland city, Sui Xiong did not know how to swim at all. In this vast and boundless sea, even if he found a body to possess, he would most likely end up drowning.
In that case, he would have to settle for the next best thing. At the very least, he would have to find a shelter.
He thought, looking left and right, up and down.
But within the range that he could see with his naked eye, he did not find anything hard and could be used to hide.
He tried to get into the water again, looking for something in the water.
When he went into the water, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration — when he woke up, he still had a headache, which meant that it was likely that he still had a body at that time. But after he woke up, because he could not swim, his body sank into the sea, and only his soul was still floating on the sea.
This meant that maybe if he dived into the sea, there was a chance to get his body back?
Thinking of this, he suddenly became spirited, and tried to dive into the depths of the sea.
But just a few seconds later, he was depressed to find that he could not dive into the deep water at all, and the limit of the diving depth was no more than two meters.
But fortunately, as a soul, he would not suffocate, and it was not a problem to stay in the water.
Alas, now even if his body was really in the sea, there was no hope to get it back …
Forget it, I still don't know whether my body is really in the sea, there is no need to be depressed now. The most important thing now is to solve the problem of safety.
Maybe it was an illusion, or maybe it was really safer in the water, staying in the water, he had an inexplicable sense of peace, like a person who was shirtless could finally put on an unlined shirt.
The clothes were not thick and not warm, but at least he did not have to rely on his subcutaneous fat to fight against the cold wind.
"There are often mountain spirits and water ghosts in the myths, maybe it is really safer to stay in the water?" Sui Xiong muttered, so he decided to live in the water like this, except for looking for land, he usually did not go out.
"The problem of clothes is probably solved for the time being. As for transportation, it is not impossible to take the No. 11 bus, and the next thing is to eat and live."
Sui Xiong muttered, looking at the surrounding aquatic animals.
He saw some fish, but they were a little far away, and there were only a few jellyfish close to him.
Jellyfish.
White translucent bodies, slender tentacles, very ordinary jellyfish.
"I remember that most jellyfish are edible, although some of their tentacles have poisonous thorns, the poisonous thorns should not be useful to the soul," Sui Xiong said to himself, "but it seems that the soul can not eat …"
But he felt that he really needed to eat something.
Once the idea of "eating" arose, it gradually became stronger, and soon he felt hungry.
So he subconsciously stretched out his hand, trying to catch the jellyfish closest to him.
Only the transparent outline of his hand easily caught the jellyfish, to be exact, he reached into the body of the jellyfish and grabbed something.
He caught it, and it could be eaten!
So he took the jellyfish, or in other words, he took the edible thing he had caught, and put it to his mouth.
Looking carefully, it was a faint light, weak and inconspicuous. It was not like the outline of a transparent jellyfish as he had imagined. When it put it to his mouth, it carefully observed it for a long time, making sure that it was just a small light.
He noticed that the jellyfish did not lose even one tentacle. What he had caught was some kind of invisible thing.
Could it be … the soul of the jellyfish?
His hunger increased a little, so he ate that thing.
Not much, just a little bit, just a little bit to fill his stomach.
He looked at the jellyfish again, and found that it had lost its vitality and was floating in the sea.
"Sure enough, what I ate was its soul."
He thought for a while, and then went to catch some other jellyfish.
After a while, Sui Xiong, who still felt that he had not eaten enough, found some jellyfish that had completely lost their vitality.
"Now I can proudly say that I am no longer an ordinary person who will fall to the bottom of the food chain without weapons, but a dangerous predator in the sea, or should I say, a water ghost."
Giving up studying the jellyfish bodies, Sui Xiong laughed three times, and walked toward the fish in the distance.
He was still hungry.
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