Upon hearing this, Yao was also surprised.
He had just witnessed an incredible sight.
He saw Dai Xiaomei running uncontrollably into the sea, as if encountering something unfathomable. She was shouting for help, yet there was nothing behind her.
"When I was watching you outside, you were running, weren't you? And you were heading into the sea."
"If we hadn't coincidentally sailed here to find you, you would have been finished."
Hearing this, Dai Xiaomei was also incredulous. She distinctly remembered running on land, being chased by a shadow, which prompted her to run. Otherwise, why would she have jumped into the sea?
"No, I wasn't. I hid in a tree hollow for quite some time. It's been a whole day, and I only fell out of the tree hollow."
"It was a shadow chasing me that made me run frantically and cry for help. I don't know why my breathing suddenly felt normal, and then water rushed into my nasal cavity. I thought I was dead."
At this, Yao looked astonished, and Gun Gun beside him also looked at Yao with surprise.
Clearly, neither Yao nor Gun Gun knew what had happened.
"You know, there was no shadow behind you at all, and you were on land. When we first saw you from a distance, we kept shouting your name. But when we saw you sitting in place, repeatedly shaking your head as if secretly looking at something, we stopped calling and came to find you."
Hearing this, Dai Xiaomei was completely dumbfounded. This was entirely different from what she had seen. She clearly remembered seeing a shadow and hiding in a tree hollow.
Suddenly, she recalled a strange event from the previous night. Although she was in the tree hollow, she felt as if the wind could not be blocked at all.
A biting wind seemed to blow mercilessly onto her.
Even though Dai Xiaomei was hiding in the tree hollow, it was of no use. The surrounding wind seemed to penetrate the trees and blow directly onto her.
"Could I have hallucinated? That shouldn't be it. I clearly saw a shadow when I went out to the latrine, then I was knocked unconscious and brought here on our boat."
Yao became even more astonished upon hearing this. His sword had disappeared and was now lying on the boat they had built earlier.
That boat had been destroyed, and the sword, along with the wreckage, was on the shore.
It was clear that only Dai Xiaomei could have taken the sword. If an enemy had approached Yao, he would have sensed it immediately, having fought for so long that he could already perceive killing intent.
It was only when Dai Xiaomei approached him that his killing intent did not manifest, meaning only Dai Xiaomei could have taken the sword.
"Impossible, you must have taken this sword. Only you could have taken it. If an enemy approached me, I would have felt it. And this sword is now lying by the shore."
"Our previous boat was destroyed long ago. We built a new one and sailed over."
Hearing this, Dai Xiaomei finally understood what had happened.
"I must have been affected by something, causing me to hallucinate. Otherwise, this could never have happened, because what you saw seems completely different from what I saw."
"Before you arrived, this island seemed to be pitch black."
"But after you woke me up, I found the island to be very normal. Although it's just a small island, I could clearly feel how different the situation was before and after."
Yao nodded quickly upon hearing this, but he didn't want to dwell on these matters now. The most important thing was to get Dai Xiaomei away from here.
"Let's go. We need to hurry back to the Golden Coast. The most important thing now is to rendezvous with Jiang Fan and Zhou Niannian. Otherwise, it's too dangerous for them to continue searching for you around here."
On their way, Yao and Gun Gun had encountered some very powerful monsters.
Fortunately, the two of them had managed to shake off the monster together. Otherwise, they would likely have become the monster's prey.
Similar to Jiang Fan, they had encountered powerful marine creatures.
However, they encountered a crayfish. A crayfish is much stronger than a crab, and its pincers are much larger. However, its eyeballs cannot rotate freely when moving.
Therefore, it was also easily outmaneuvered by Yao and Gun Gun.
Of course, Gun Gun and Yao had initially wanted to fight the crayfish, but they didn't expect its combat power to be so formidable. With just one swing of its pincers, Yao and Gun Gun were sent flying as if they had been flicked.
Realizing they were no match for it, they began their escape and ran all the way here.
Fortunately, at the most critical moment, they found Dai Xiaomei.
Otherwise, if they had been a minute or two later, Dai Xiaomei would likely have drowned.
It was now basically confirmed that Dai Xiaomei had hallucinated and steered the small boat to this side herself, but how the hallucination occurred remained unknown.
At this moment, Dai Xiaomei suddenly stopped, hearing a strange sound from behind.
"What's going on? It was calm when we arrived. Why does it sound like the tide now?"
Hearing the commotion, Yao, Gun Gun, and Dai Xiaomei immediately looked back and saw a series of giant waves rushing towards them from behind.
Clearly, these waves could engulf the small island directly.
Seeing this, Yao became extremely anxious. Such enormous waves could disintegrate them even if they merely hit them, let alone trying to navigate within them.
"Not good, quickly tie ourselves together with vines to prevent us from getting separated."
As Yao spoke, he immediately tied a vine to one end of the small boat, and then tightly embraced the boat with his body.