Later, Aoki and suhuilan knew about it. Anderson came back to save Alice. Unfortunately, he was shot by a poisonous arrow in his leg. He had no time to deal with the wound and ran away with Alice. Their goal is to go back to the lake in the heart of the island and take the lifeboat hidden there to the other side of the lake. Although there must be savages on the other side, they can at least get rid of the dilemma of being chased and killed.
However, the attack of arrow poison made Anderson unable to attack at full speed, so he had to set up an illusion and turn back at the fork of the stream in order to deceive the savages who were chasing them.
After su Huilan's treatment, Anderson's situation improved slightly. His dry and pale lips moved slightly and shouted vaguely, "Alice... Alice..."
Alice grabbed his hand. "Anderson, I'm here! Everything's fine, Anderson, someone has come to save us!"
Anderson struggled to open his eyes and saw the faces of two strangers. He smiled: "it's good, Alice, God heard my prayer! I pray God to let him send an angel to save you. It's good! You're saved!"
Alice put Anderson's hand on her face and burst into tears. "Yes, we're all saved! We'll all be fine!"
The crow next to him looked at the scene and shouted, "quack, how touching!"
Su Huilan's heart was also sour. She swallowed what she wanted to say, took the green wood outside the cave and said, "let them stay alone for a while!"
Aoki had a bad feeling: "you mean... His injury?..."
Su Huilan shook her head and sighed: "the toxicity of curare wood is very strong. It's a miracle that he can persist until now."
"Didn't you give him medicine?"
"Drugs can alleviate some symptoms, but they can't stop the damage of toxicity to the nervous system and heart, unless we return to Lapa Island tonight and there are appropriate drugs in the camp."
Aoki knew it was impossible. Let alone whether they could leave the island now. Even if they could, it would take two days to get to Lapa island by boat.
"What do you think?" Su Huilan suddenly asked.
"What?" Aoki didn't know what she was asking.
"About the island and the lake on the island," said Su Huilan.
Aoki rubbed his face, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit a match. He thought as he raised the fire close to the cigarette. The match stopped a few centimeters away from the cigarette for a long time. It was not until it was about to go out that Aoki lit the cigarette. Then he took a deep breath and spit out the cigarette while analyzing:
"Whether we, petru and Alice came to the island alone before, they all came to the island when it was foggy, which shows that the island may appear in the Pacific only when it was foggy, but it is hidden when there is no fog. From the situation of Alice and them, if there is no fog, they can't get out of the island , I will only return to the lake in the heart of the island. This is consistent with the scene in the savage's dream, in which the sea and the lake are one.
But I can't figure out a few things. First, if you go back to the lake, why can't you go back to the sea from the lake? Second, if the sea and the lake are one, the sea outside the island is connected with our world, that is, with the Pacific Ocean, but the lake seems to lead to another island? Third, what is the picture of lake sea integration in the savage's dream Built? "
Su Huilan said: "I'm almost what you think. There may be a completely closed folding space here, which is connected to our world through wormholes."
"Collapse space?"
"The name may not be accurate, but it can be roughly understood in this way." suhuilan picked a wide leaf from the nearby tree and spread the leaf on the ground. "If this is the sea," she dug a ball of soft soil from the ground and put it on the leaf, "this is an island."
"This is the lake on the island." she stretched out her finger, pointed a pit in the center of the soil, and then wrapped the whole leaf inward from all around, just like wrapping a steamed stuffed bun, but the edge of the leaf was pressed on the pit in the middle of the soil, "Because of some unknown spatial distortion, the sea wraps up the whole island and connects with the middle lake. Therefore, the sea is the lake and the lake is the sea."
"When we see fog, a wormhole mechanism is activated, and the closed space is related to the external space, just like this -" she releases her hand holding the leaves, and the leaves open, but no longer flat, but open upward into a lotus shape, "It will become semi open. At this time, the space in contact with it will also be distorted to a certain extent. If this distortion is smooth, we can enter the space. When it is closed again, we can't get out."
Su Huilan's inference may not be rigorous, but it is intuitive and easy to understand. Aoki has to admire her open thinking.
"Then why are there different islands?" Aoki asked.
Petru once said with great certainty that the island was not the one he came to last time, and the dream of the female savage also proved that there was more than one primitive tribe here.
Su Huilan said: "it may be that multiple enclosed spaces are connected through the same wormhole. It may also be that the interaction between distorted spaces produces wormholes. This is too complicated for me to think about at the moment."
Aoki nodded: "Well, the analogy you use leaves is very vivid, but the islanders here may not imagine such a world. Why does the savage named tafiti overlap the sea and lake in her dream? Even if she returns to the lake every time she goes to sea, it is impossible to overlap the lake and sea visually, which is not in line with the cognitive mode of the human brain and the subconscious construction of dreams Even if we now know the existence of distorted closed space, we will only imagine it as the leaf model you made, which will never be as magical as tafiti's dream. "
In tafiti's dream, the sea is the lake, the lake is the sea, there are islands on the sea, and there are lakes on the island. It's too incredible. It's not the spatial structure that human beings can imagine.
"Maybe their visual system is different from ours. The lake and sea we see are separated, but what they see may be one," Su Huilan said, "Creatures have different neural structures and different perceptions of the world. Bats listen to the wind and identify positions by ultrasound. The compound eyes of dragonflies are composed of more than 20000 small eyes. They live in the same world as us, but the world they 'see' must look different from us."
Aoki was stunned and said, "you mean, the people on this island are not the same species as us?!"
"It's hard to say, but it may also be an inherent prejudice in consciousness. Our memory and knowledge fix our cognition of the ocean and the island. When we think of the island, we naturally think that it is the ocean outside. But the people on the island don't have this cognition. In their eyes, the sea and the lake are the same thing composed of water, and the whole world is a closed space composed of land and water So they never tried to leave the island. "