I'm trapped in a cube

Jeff slowly squatted down and touched the mysterious rune.

That was the "clock" text that Mo Ling saw before.

Jeff's fingers slowly slid along the engraved marks, as if he were playing with the pendulum of a clock.

But he couldn't shake the hard mark, and the clock was fixed on that moment.

Of course the little fry couldn't swim, they just lay there quietly, motionless.

Jeff's face showed exhaustion and loneliness, his eyes seemed to have passed through the clock and saw the desperate future of the fish people.

At this moment, a faint moonlight shone in the center of the clock, illuminating the vivid little fry.

Jeff put his hand on the fry and froze.

The moonlight also shone on his hand, passed through the fingers, and fell on the clock.

Light spots penetrated into the deep carvings, and a faint mist with white spots slowly floated out from the depths.

Jeff had probably never seen such light before. His eyes widened and he stared blankly at the back of his hand.

"Is this moonlight?"

Jeff was very surprised.

He turned his head stiffly, looked up into the sky, and then froze again.

The other pseudo-fishmen also noticed the moonlight and raised their heads to look up.

"Hai Yue has risen?"

Although Mo Ling couldn't see the sky, when he saw the sudden appearance of the moonlight, he understood everything instantly.

"Isn't it five days from now?" Mo Ling was a little confused.

Will the sea moon rise early?

Mo Ling didn't know the details of the Haiyue Ceremony, let alone the cycle of the Haiyue.

He could only guess that maybe the sea moon would not rise five days later, but would rise in advance, and he would just perform the sea moon ceremony when the sea moon was at its brightest.

Just like the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Li Luo, like everyone else present, looked at the sky.

However, her expression was very awkward, as if she had seen something strange.

"What happened? Is there something wrong with the moon?"

While Mo Ling was still wondering, Li Luo had already taken out the recording device and pointed it at the moon in the sky.

Seeing the content displayed on the electronic screen, Mo Ling finally understood why Li Luo had such an expression.

That's not a moon.

Just a moonlight--stone?

Although the moon is originally just a stone, the moon on this screen is completely different from the normal moon.

The color is a bit whitish, and the moonlight emitted is also a bit white. It hangs high in the sky, and is not as far away as a normal moon.

"It seems like it's not far from Fish-Man Island." After observing carefully for a while, Mo Ling came to this conclusion.

This is not the moon, just a large searchlight-like thing hanging over Fish-Man Island.

As Li Luo continued to zoom in, Mo Ling also saw clearly what the fake moon hanging in the sky was.

That's a moon altar!

One is indistinguishable from the moon altar at your feet, and the other is the moon altar.

The rune lines were exposed under the high-definition camera of the recording equipment, and they were no different from what was being stepped on at this moment.

However, the rune threads wrapped around the moon altar in the sky are all glowing, and the light of the fake moon is created by these rune threads.

The round moon altar floats in the sky and is pointed at the ground. From a distance, it does not look much different from the moon.

The pseudo-fishmen present also quickly discovered something was wrong.

"Is that the moon? Why do you think it's weird?"

"Is it because of the fog? Why is it different from the moon in my memory?"

"Have I been on Fishman Island for so long that I don't recognize the moon anymore?"

The pseudo-fish people whispered, and they were also a little unsure, because the fog was very heavy, and looking at the moon from a distance, they would only feel that something was vaguely wrong, and there was no clue.

Li Luo was also very shocked when he saw the moon altar floating in the sky. After coming to his senses, he quickly handed the electronic screen to Jeff.

"Is the moon here like this?"

Jeff looked at the electronic screen and was also confused.

"I've never seen the moon. Does it look exactly like the Moon Altar?"

"..."

It seems that nothing can be learned from Jeff.

Li Luo quickly showed the electronic screen to the other pseudo-murlocs. These pseudo-murlocs all had the experience of leaving the Fish-Man Island, so they should be able to easily detect abnormalities.

"This is not the moon!" The fake fish people looked at the clear fake moon on the screen, and they were all shocked.

No one who has actually seen the moon would think it is the moon.

Only Jeff still looked confused.

"Isn't that the moon?"

Seeing how confused he was, the pseudo-fishman on the side quickly pulled him to explain.

Jeff listened and nodded in understanding.

It is indeed very difficult to describe the moon to someone who has never seen it.

After some explanation, Jeff suddenly understood.

"You mean, the moon and the Moon Altar look different? The moon is another thing?"

"That's for sure! That thing above is not the moon!" The pseudo-fishman on the side explained anxiously: "What exactly is Hai Yue Li sacrificing? Has the patriarch told you?"

Jeff shook his head.

"Why does our moon altar fly into the sky, and what is under our feet?" Jeff was still very confused.

"That could be a projection, or it could be another moon altar. Is there only one moon altar built in the village?"

"Of course, we built one..."

Speaking of this, Jeff suddenly realized something and asked slightly suspiciously: "Two hundred years ago, did we also build the Moon Altar?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone present froze.

"Where did the Moon Altar go at that time?"

The pseudo-fish people all looked to the sky, and they seemed to know the answer.

After a long time, someone finally broke the silence.

"No one seems to know where the previous Moon Altar went?"

"Given the scale of the Moon Altar, it is impossible for it to disappear without a trace in two hundred years, but we have never seen the remains of the previous Moon Altar on the island, right?"

"The Fish-Man Island is not big to begin with. Such a spectacular building will definitely not disappear out of thin air for no reason."

While talking, everyone suddenly realized that no fishman had ever suspected such a strange thing.

This time the Sea Moon Ceremony was arranged step by step according to the method recorded in the ancient fish-people books, and no one had ever proposed to use the previous moon altar.

This large sacrificial venue can be used multiple times.

Although the fog on Fish-Man Island seriously corrodes the buildings, as long as they are repaired for a long time, such stone buildings will not be easily damaged, let alone disappear without a trace.

But the fishmen never mentioned the previous moon altar, just like Hai Yueli had to build a moon altar from scratch.

No murloc has ever doubted this.

"Did you build the Moon Altar from scratch this time? Did you not build it on the previous ruins?" A pseudo-fishman confirmed to Jeff.

"Yes." Jeff nodded seriously: "The big patriarch personally selected the location according to the ancient fish-man books. I also participated in laying the foundation. It was indeed built from scratch by the village."

As soon as these words came out, there was another silence.

"The one in the sky must be the previous Moon Altar. Could it be that after this Sea Moon Ceremony, the one under our feet will also fly to the sky?" A pseudo-fishman asked with a look of disbelief.

"How did such a heavy thing fly into the sky?"

His question was not answered by anyone present.

Not long after, someone raised another question:

"Tell me, how many years ago was that moon altar in the sky?"

"Two hundred? Four hundred? Or eight hundred..."

"If you say so, there should be more than one, right?"

"Where did the earlier Moon Altar go?"