Until the end, Lily failed to learn to swim.

Although she was almost an honor student in school, at least in terms of athletic talent, she was much worse than Victoria.

Considering the "window period" with only one day...... Tomorrow she was going to school, but Lily finally gave up her plans to study, returned to the shore and repacked her luggage, and pushed the boat out of the conversation as best she could.

"You're still there anyway, aren't you?"

It looks like it's been broken. Xia Zhi complained in his heart.

Unable to even eat lunch, the girl pulled him into an inflatable boat and officially began her journey to explore the borders of the world.

"Wouldn't it be nice to take a leave of absence?"

Sitting on the rickety inflatable boat, Xia Zhi took a bite of the rice balls that the girl brought for lunch in his hand, and suggested curiously.

"No...... Yes, I've ...... this semester I've asked too many times, and now it's almost the end of the semester, so the teacher must be ...... Won't agree...... Whew......"

Lily shook her head, panting as she paddled her oars in reply.

It's a repeat offender.

Xia Zhi thought to himself, and took a bite of the rice ball in his hand again, which was filled with egg yolk...... I don't know if it's made by the girl herself, but it tastes pretty good.

"Is it really okay for you to sit there and not come to help?"

Lily looked at the teenager across from her who was leisurely enjoying her "service", and her cheeks puffed out in dissatisfaction.

Why did he feel like he was out sightseeing? Someone even prepared lunch for him.

Obviously he is the minister...... She hasn't even eaten lunch yet!

"You're going, not me. "

As she spoke, Xia Zhi took out a new rice ball from the girl's schoolbag and handed it to her mouth

Lily opened her mouth and took a big bite, as if venting her frustration

“...... According to you, if the inside of the walls is really completely cut off from the outside, then the surrounding sea has not changed dramatically, how can it be done?" she asked, munching on the food in her mouth.

"The power of the gods can do anything. "

Xia Zhi replied, and then reminded her: "Swallow what is in your mouth before you speak." "

You care about me, and you're not my dad.

Despite muttering in her heart, Lily obediently swallowed the food in her mouth before she continued, "It's no different from not explaining, right?"

After all, there was nothing to explain

If you have to expand on it

"To put it simply, the Sacred Tree uses its power to maintain the ecosystem within the barrier, providing the resources that humanity needs to survive, thus allowing humanity to survive in this small, isolated closed system. After thinking about it, Xia Zhi explained.

"You mean, it built a large ecological bottle?" the girl tilted her head slightly.

In terms of ecological bottles, although some details are not very appropriate, they are not too close.

Xia Solstice didn't refute it, and it was a tacit acquiescence.

After receiving his answer, Lily did not speak again, and fell silent, paddling silently, not knowing what she was thinking.

On the vast surface of the sea, only the sound of the sea breeze and the waves is left.

Although it was described as an "ecological bottle" by the girl, the scale of this ecological bottle is not small at all...... At least the distance between the wall and the beach, although Lily had deliberately sought to get as close as possible, it would be too difficult for a young girl with no training to get to the wall by rowing alone.

Even if there is a little bit of divine power left by the summer solstice in her body, after all, the girl is still an ordinary person's physique, plus her original body is not very good, even if she has been biting her lip and holding it hard, but from the breathing that gradually became rapid, and her not very good face, it can still be seen that she is struggling.

In the end, Xia Zhi couldn't stand it, sighed slightly and took it, and then helped to draw it to the wall.

...... Thankfully, she chose to act today.

If she didn't accompany her, there was probably a chance that the plans she made would fail.

"Really...... There is not a single crevice......"

Lily muttered as she reached out and touched the wall lightly, feeling the rough texture of the trunk in her hand, unlike the surface of the trunk.

It was the first time she had seen the wall so closely, since she was born.

It seems to be woven from the roots of plants, and it seems to be some kind of organic aggregate, but like a concrete wall, there is not the slightest gap that runs through the entire wall

Not to mention letting people pass through, even if the sea water wants to flow through, it seems impossible.

As the boy said, this is really a completely closed world.

"We live in ...... Is it in such a world... ~..."

Xia Zhi noticed that her face didn't seem to look very good.

After thinking about it, he handed over the last uneaten rice ball in his hand.

Lily shook her head slightly, but didn't take it, as if she wanted to hold on to the wall and sit down on the boat

And yet the next moment

"Vomit ......"

She bent down suddenly, and her face was pale and she was retching on the side of the boat.

Summer solstice:......

Even if you don't want to eat, there's no need to vomit, right?

"No...... I was just...... It's just a little seasick......" Lily explained weakly, shaking her head.

...... Well, Xia Zhi knew why her face was so ugly just now.

He also thought that the girl couldn't accept the facts, so he was disgusted.

"Nothing...... I can't accept it...... After all, you said it a long time ago...... I'm mentally prepared too......"

After vomiting up everything she had just eaten, as if she was feeling better, Lily said breathlessly and sat down on the boat

"Your constitution is still doing these dangerous things...... If I hadn't been there, you'd have just been drifting on the surface of the sea until dark. Xia Zhi complained.

Even more dangerous, a slightly bigger wave could overturn the inflatable boat, which was originally designed to drift in water parks.

You know, the girl hasn't even learned to swim, relying on her ability to only flutter three or four meters, it is estimated that she will not be able to swim back to the shore, right?

"No......"

Lily shook her head, curled up, and hugged her legs.

"Without your words...... I'm not going to go to sea at all. "

When Xia Zhi heard this, he was slightly stunned.

The girl sat on the boat with her knees crossed and continued in a faint voice

“...... Because of you, I dare to mess around...... Only then did he dare to climb to the top of such a high mountain, and only then did he dare to run into the sea to practice swimming without a swimming ring and a floating board...... Without you, Ken wouldn't dare to have some love... It's terrible to go to sea alone, and it's definitely not okay......"

It turns out that the complaint about "safety measures" was serious?

Xia Zhi didn't know where she trusted herself so much.

"Because you said it, you will protect my ......"

Lily lowered her little head and whispered like a child making a mistake

“......"

Xia Zhi sighed slightly, sat down beside her, and gently stroked her hair.

Feeling the warm touch coming from her head, the girl's mood seemed to relax, and her face became much better

"I'm sorry ......"

After a long time, her snorting voice came from beside her

"Why did you apologize suddenly?" Xia Zhi lowered his head and looked at her.

Lily shook her head slightly: "I've only known each other for two days, but I'm so willful to rely on you...... I can't do anything without you by my side...... Although I founded the Brave Division, I didn't do anything until you joined......"

“...... It's ironic, isn't it? Obviously the club is called the Brave Ministry, but as the founder, I'm a coward. A self-deprecating smile appeared on her face.

"The school and the teachers didn't recognize the club. Xia Zhi reminded her after thinking about it.

That's right......

The girl couldn't help but be even more depressed. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

The boat fell silent again, and after a few moments, there was a crashing sound from the side of the boat, and Summer Solstice turned his head to see a dark shadow under the water.

It seems to be a sea turtle, and I don't know if it's lost, and it's hitting its head against the hull of the inflatable boat, trying to find a way out, and it doesn't seem to be very smart.

After thinking about it, Xia Zhi simply fished it up.

"It's a turtle?"

Seeing the animal that was caught in the boy's hand and kept fluttering its limbs, Lily blinked and quickly recognized it.

"Look, don't you look like you learned to swim just now?" Xia Solstice asked, looking at the fluttering turtle.

In your eyes, was this what I was like before?

Lily tried to think about it, and couldn't help but show a disgusted expression.

As if sensing that the two were not malicious, or that they were simply tired of fluttering, the turtle quickly quieted down. You can see that it has some barnacles on its back, which is not very much, but it still doesn't look very comfortable.

"Divine Tree, does even this creature help maintain the ecology?"

The girl looked like she wanted to help clean up, but she didn't dare to get started at will.

It's not that she's afraid of turtles or barnacles, but that if she helps clean them up without permission, it can damage the skin and the surface of the shell, leading to bacterial infection

Wild animals don't have the help of savages to take antibiotics, and once infected, the consequences are not far from death.

"In its eyes, all races except humans are actually pretty much the same. "

Xia Zhi replied and also helped to give a solution: "Put it in fresh water for a while, and these barnacles will fall off by themselves." "

In the case of sea turtles, it doesn't matter if they live in fresh water for a while.

"We don't have fresh water here. "

Lily hesitated for a long time, but gave up the idea of helping to clean up...... Anyway, it doesn't seem like a lot, so it shouldn't be a normal life, right?

She looked up at the land in the distance.

At this distance, the city in the distance has become extraordinarily small, and the familiar hustle and bustle of the past cannot be conveyed here

In this vast sea far from the coast, there are only two people, she and the boy......

An inexplicable emotion rose in Lily's heart.

"You know what, I...... I actually hated this wall. After a moment of silence, the girl opened her mouth slightly, muttering as if talking to herself.

"Because it cuts off the possibility of your mother coming home?" asked Xia Zhi.

Lily shook her head,

"Mother, she was a refugee from outside the wall, and from before I was born, when this wall appeared, refugees from outside the wall were not welcome. "

"After all, the social resources within the walls were limited at that time, and the people who came from outside the walls seemed to be stimulated in the process of fleeing, and the proportion of people suffering from mental illness was high, which led to the increasing exclusion ......"

Xia Zhi didn't speak again, turning the turtle's face while listening quietly to the girl's story

"That's when my mother got sick......," the girl continued.

Being alone and sick is a terrible thing, and it doesn't stop there

"Even though it was a genetic case that had been identified and the pathological cause was understood, because my mother was from outside the walls, the people around me who didn't like her very much were more willing to believe another kind of statement than these...... Maybe it was Bartic's curse, or maybe the toxins from the monsters that came in from outside the walls or some other unknown virus......"

She looked at the gently undulating sea in front of her and continued

"People are more willing to believe these baseless and frivolous rumors than scientific explanations...... This is also due to the fact that my mother is a refugee from outside. They were immersed in unfounded self-determined superstitions and spoke ill of their mothers...... At that time, I was obviously by my mother's side, but I couldn't do anything about this kind of thing...... Until my mother finally died of illness, it didn't change all this......"

She took a deep breath, her eyes turning cold

"So, I hate this wall, I hate Bartick and Stardust, I hate people who hurt people without thinking......! I can't do anything......"

I see......

People who blindly believe in superstitious claims have hurt Lily and her mother just based on brain supplements...... That's why girls hate people who believe in one thing from the bottom of their hearts just because they hear about it, right?

At this moment of the summer solstice, I can finally realize that the girl is so obsessed with finding out the "truth" of the wall.

It should be said that the point is not the truth, but the "ascertainment" of the matter itself.

In the absence of information to prove it, and without investigating herself, whether the amnesty or her own statement is positive or negative, it is actually a superstition in the eyes of the girl, so she has to rely on her own actions to deny such superstition.

...... Always keep at least half of the suspicion of unilaterally unverifiable information (Li Zhao Hao). If you think about it, my past self had similar thoughts.

Xia Solstice thought to herself.

At the same time, he also knew why the girl's body was bad.

...... Is it because of heredity?

"Don't worry, I also go to the hospital every once in a while for check-ups, and I didn't find anything bad...... Maybe it's because you're not old yet. "

As if to vent all the accumulated emotions in her heart, Lily let out a long sigh of relief

“...... Let's go back. "

She threw the turtle back into the sea, stood up and spoke.

I don't really agree with this by the way.

Xia Zhi complained in his heart, raised his head and looked at the sun that had not yet set in the distance, it was obvious that there was still a lot of time

"Aren't you going on?"

Lily shook her head slightly, "I'm not that stubborn...... What you have seen now has confirmed your claim. "

She said, lowering her little head, "I'm sorry, I've been so willful to let you mess around with me......"

"I don't want to trouble you anymore...... I would certainly not be able to continue the rest of the action on my own. "

"So, let's end it like this, you don't have to worry about me, I won't continue. "

Looking at the petite girl with her head bowed in front of her, recalling her words just now, Xia Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and stood up as well

“...... Let's go. "

Lily was slightly stunned for a moment, looked around at the vast sea, and asked with a confused expression, "Where are you going?"

"Don't you have a backup plan? Let's go and execute planC. "Summer Solstice returns.

After all, as the girl said, she promised to protect her

So

"It's okay if it's messing around"

Xia Zhi lowered his head, looked at her stunned eyes, and continued with a smile

“...... Don't worry, I'm here. "

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PS: 2-in-1 chapter...... Because it's not good to break the context, it's just put together.

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