A thread of light began to appear on the horizon.
The light was miserably faint, yet in the dark night, it was so obvious.
Immediately afterward, as if accompanying the beating of a heart, the faint light strengthened bit by bit, growing more and more magnificent.
The darkness receded under the expansion of the light, the latter like a giant that had just awakened, opening its arms and stretching its limbs.
Daybreak.
Dawn!
The light shone on Huang Zao's face, yet brought him not the slightest warmth.
"Wuwuwu..." Huang Zao burst into loud sobs, suddenly collapsing onto his knees in the desert while Lan Zao on his back also tumbled to the ground.
"An oasis... an oasis!" Huang Zao shouted, his eyes already a blur of cloudiness.
In his field of vision lay an empty desert; the oasis he had encouraged himself with had not appeared.
"But I clearly heard the sound of water. I clearly heard it!" Huang Zao roared, recklessly shouting until his throat threatened to tear.
"There is the sound of water." Lan Zao unexpectedly woke up.
This was a sign of a flash in the pan.
"Yes, Brother, you heard it too, you heard it too!" Like a lost child who had suddenly found his backbone, Huang Zao shouted frantically.
Yet Lan Zao did not respond to him, instead continuing to murmur, "I heard it. That is the sound of the sea, the sound of the waves."
Huang Zao froze all at once, suddenly realizing that Lan Zao had fallen into a hallucination.
Dizzy and hazy, swaying and rocking.
Lan Zao's sensation was wonderful.
Hunger had left him entirely; he felt light as a feather, just like... just like he was doing his favorite thing.
That was diving.
He loved to dive down into the sea