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Li Hui smiled in a rare, almost shameless way. She had initially approached Jiang Kehan for fun. Despite her seemingly reformed appearance, she still had a touch of wickedness.
For example, she's quite interested in teasing, or rather, correcting the slightly perverted psychology of a certain little witch.
As for why Li Hui knew what Solita was thinking, she had always been able to read minds, but she had vowed not to use it on Jiang Kehan.
This is why she was able to defeat the witch, but was helpless against Jiang Kehan's rather rudimentary combat strategy.
Because Li Hui genuinely had no idea what kind of big stunt Jiang Kehan, this girl who fought like a crazy girl, was planning.
Before they could even finish thinking, the teleportation was ready.
Ariel clapped her hands, drawing everyone's attention to herself. Her face relaxed and she appeared calm and composed, making it difficult for anyone to find fault with her.
"It's nice to meet you all. From now on, we'll be teammates fighting side by side in the Little Witch Preliminary Tournament."
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Ariel Haynes. I will be your head coach, in charge of tactics and food delivery, and I will also be your teammate."
Jiang Kehan led the applause, and the others followed suit.
No one had any objections to Ariel becoming the head coach.
Ariel gently pressed her hand down, her expression turning serious: "Since no one has any objections, I hope that everyone in the school team can patiently listen to what I have to say."
Then, she chuckled softly and continued speaking.
"But outside of the school team, like today, we're all friends, so please look forward to the next gathering; I've put a lot of thought into it!"
Ariel blinked mysteriously, arousing the curiosity of the others.
Witches never make promises lightly. Since Ariel is confident that she can make them start to look forward, it means that this so-called fishing is definitely not just a simple fishing game.
As the teleportation light began to rise, everyone tacitly covered their mouths.
The teleportation system in the Witch Tower is similar to that in the Space Pavilion, both causing unavoidable motion sickness. However, the Witch Tower is generally much better than the Space Pavilion.
At least after reaching their destination, Jiang Kehan and the others only felt a little dizzy and didn't immediately start experiencing stomach pain.
One day, one day, I'll see why these teleportation systems are so terrible... Jiang Kehan couldn't take it anymore. Getting carsick in her past life was bad enough, but why did she have to get carsick again in this other world?!
This is unreasonable!
However, what puzzled Jiang Kehan the most was that normal long-distance teleportation would not cause such a dizzying sensation. She felt that the Witch Tower and the Space Pavilion seemed to have deliberately added dizziness in this regard.
After she was the first to get rid of her motion sickness thanks to her excellent physical condition, Jiang Kehan looked around.
Huh? Is this a cave?
Jiang Kehan looked around in surprise. Some crystals emitting different colored lights were the only light source here, and in front of the crisscrossing strange rocks was a small pool of water.
The stalactites hanging upside down were dripping crystal-clear liquid into the small pool, creating a rhythmic symphony.
This prompted her to ask Ariel, "Are we fishing in the cave?"
"Of course not." Ariel, who had caught her breath, stood with her hands on her hips, her face pale.
She didn't have Jiang Kehan's physical fitness, and there was still a trace of drool at the corner of her mouth. After wiping it away, she continued speaking.
"Hey, we're going to walk out of the water later, this is a water-repelling bead."
Ariel took out several small balls with obvious mechanical structures and threw them to the others before walking towards the small pool.
Jiang Kehan caught the ball and began to play with it with some curiosity.
Although the water-repelling bead sounds fantastical, witches have always pushed mass-produced items onto the technological assembly line, so it is essentially a special kind of witch technology.
For example, Jiang Kehan saw some light blue powder inside the bead. This powder was made from the crushed scales of the mermaid witch and could be used for underwater communication within the water-repelling bead.
After attaching the water-repelling beads to their collars or cuffs, the group followed Ariel into the water.
The water-repelling bead unleashed a strange force field, isolating the water outside the spherical space, while the mermaid witch's scale powder floated inside.
Jiang Kehan opened her mouth and tentatively made a sound.
She could clearly see that the powder swayed gently after the sound waves were transmitted, and then transformed into special information, causing the powder in other people's spheres to make sound.
"A wonderful little thing." After saying that, Jiang Kehan couldn't help but look around.
The water here is incredibly clear; you can see clearly hundreds of meters away. Jiang Kehan even saw some strange dragons.
Yes, she was certain it was a dragon. It had a long, narrow snout and scales, and although it wasn't even a level 1 dragon, it avoided them under the witch's pressure.
But this also made Jiang Kehan start to look forward to it.
"Is Ariel going to take us dragon fishing?" she started to imagine.
However, the underground river connected to the small pool was not long. After walking for about a kilometer, they saw a crack.
“Our real destination is just outside,” Ariel said with a smile, and was the first to step across.
Jiang Kehan frowned, realizing that things were not so simple.
The water didn't seem to be flowing from inside the cave; it looked like it was flowing in from the outside, which was very counterintuitive.
Sure enough, when she stepped out of the gap, she saw a completely unbelievable scene.
“The sky…is the sea?!” Jiang Kehan murmured, her mouth agape.
It's as if the sky and the ocean have been switched, with the endless ocean sending columns of water crashing down towards the floating island.
Jiang Kehan finally understood why the water flowed from the outside into the cave, and what she found even more incredible was that gravity also reversed.
Yes, when her feet left the sky island, her whole body involuntarily turned upside down and fell upwards.
Fortunately, Ariel grabbed her and joked, "We're here to fish, not to dive, sisters."
“But welcome to the fishing paradise, Skysea.” She smiled, welcoming the ceaseless sea breeze, letting her blonde hair flutter freely.
Chapter 201: What is fished up is longing, what is released is expectation.
"This is a bit too crazy, sister!" Jiang Kehan shouted.
Even with her strength, she couldn't escape this inverted gravity, while the gravity on the sky island was completely normal, which made her very uncomfortable.
"Haha, the crazier the better, isn't it? We're witches, after all!"
Ariel laughed happily as she forcefully dragged Jiang Kehan to the ground, making sure her feet touched the floating island.
"But remember to be careful, this place is special, you need to make contact with the Sky Island to avoid being captured by the Sky Sea."
After Jiang Kehan regained her footing, Ai Lier looked at the others and couldn't help but give them some instructions.
Apart from Jiang Kehan, who is very curious, no one else has crossed the gap yet.
"Then how do we fish?" Jiang Kehan looked up. The sky and sea were so clear that they didn't look like the sea at all. She could clearly see all kinds of creatures flying freely in them.
Yes, Jiang Kehan prefers to call it soaring.
They and the creatures inside seemed to live in two inverted worlds; what they called seawater might be just slightly resistant air in their understanding.
Jiang Kehan even saw birds chasing after gorillas before being swallowed whole by a large fish.
The fish, after leaping over the water's surface, met Jiang Kehan's gaze upside down, sprayed out a huge splash of water, and then gently shook its massive tail before falling back into the water.
"Here, use this to fish!" Ariel took out the fishing rod she had prepared earlier and handed it to Jiang Kehan, while also telling her.
"Remember not to use magic. You don't want to be pulled into the Sky Sea, do you?"
Jiang Kehan didn't speak, but smiled shyly.
She genuinely wanted to try going into the Sky Sea and see what it was like inside.
Seeing her like this, Ariel rolled her eyes at her and continued speaking.
"SkySea is not as simple as you think. Without customized diving equipment, it is easy to drown."
"Drowning?" Jiang Kehan looked at Aieri curiously. Witches don't need to breathe, especially after their magic power exceeds 2000 points, their need for the outside world is constantly weakening.
Therefore, drowning is a false term for a witch.
“Yes, drowning.” Ariel nodded affirmatively. “The Sky Sea is not just a simple ocean; it is longing.”
Ariel raised her head wistfully, gazing at the strange scenery in the sky and sea, and slowly recounted her story with it.
“My mother used to bring me here to fish a long time ago.”
"They told me that the so-called sky and sea are actually the longing of people living underwater for the world, which has converged into streams and become a kind of reality."
“You see, when a fish leaps out of the water, it escapes from the illusion and is able to breathe in reality, but in the end, it still needs to return to the illusion that belongs to it.”
Jiang Kehan nodded thoughtfully.
"Drowning refers to the witch becoming so engrossed in these illusions that she can't escape them."
“Hmm.” Ariel murmured, her eyes dimming for a moment, but she quickly smiled again. “However, for a witch, the truly beautiful fantasy is still the reality that awaits us to change.”
But sometimes we need to breathe in the illusion... Jiang Kehan noticed that Ai Lier was preoccupied, and she almost instantly figured out the reason for the other's gloom.
Ariel misses her two mothers.
She gazed quietly at Ariel's upturned profile, tilting her head as she pondered how to comfort her.
The others also came out one after another. They carefully held onto the edge of the floating island and climbed to where Jiang Kehan and Ai Lier were.
"This...is beautiful."
An Meng spoke with some shock, and Nuo Xi beside her nodded vigorously in agreement.
"It's like an unreal dream." Qingxue, an alchemist, gave it her highest praise.
Solita, clutching her sins, stared blankly at everything above, and she too was moved.
The only one unaffected was Li Hui, who was walking at the back. She looked up at the sky and sea above, her brows furrowed slightly, and then she immediately lowered her head.
Missing someone? Li Hui stared silently at the ground, somewhat afraid to raise her head. In her eyes, the sky and sea were like a mirror, and what was reflected on her was only emptiness.
However, she concealed it well, wearing her usual smile as if nothing had happened.
"Everyone's out here." Ariel said smugly as everyone gathered around her.
"How about the projects I chose? I told you they won't disappoint you."
She then called to the others to help: "But so that we can enjoy our fishing time even more, please help me set up camp."
"Light the campfire and set out some snacks! We'll eat every fish we catch!" Ariel boasted. "The fish here are absolutely amazing, you'll know once you taste them!"
After setting up the campsite, she picked up her fishing rod and demonstrated how to fish to everyone.
Jiang Kehan imitated Ai Lier's manner, gripping her fishing rod, which looked like a kite with a row of fishhooks tied to it and an empty lamp.