cut the waves

The Second Mid-Autumn Festival tour is very uncreative. Every year in the first grade of senior high school, I go to Ninggang City Ocean Paradise.

The weather is getting colder, and most of the water entertainment projects are closed. There is only a huge sightseeing Ferris wheel, spinning lonely in the cold wind.However, Ocean Paradise is most famous for being the largest indoor aquarium in Salt Province—the water depth is 20 meters, and the bottom simulates a tropical coral ecology. There are many marine life, and there is also an entrance connecting to the Beluga Whale Pool.

The aquarium has a total of six floors, with a glass deep diving pool running through the middle. Each floor of the exhibition hall is in a ring shape. The diving pool can be seen through the glass on the inside, and there is a circle of water tanks displaying small marine life on the outside, or some Popular science display boards, marine fossils, models, etc.

Yu Yu followed Su Liao and several boys from Class [-], and turned up layer by layer.Originally, more than a dozen boys came in together, but now, they formed a long line in twos and threes.

As a person who grew up by the sea, Yu Yu visited the so-called "Aquarium" for the first time.He found that he didn't like this place very much. If he hadn't promised Xu Yufeng to help, he might have just said that the provincial team had run away from training.

Su Liao really likes to read those popular science introductions. He will go over to take a look at any brand, and if he sees something he is interested in, he will check the information on his mobile phone.

Yu Yu followed behind him bored, looking at the large water tank on the other side.There are more people on their level, because there are two adult beluga whales swimming in the pool, and many people have mobile phones in their hands, chasing the video.

One of the beluga whales circled twice in the water, then gently pushed its head against the glass wall, and let out a few "beeps" in its mouth, then it repeated the previous circle and pushed its head against the glass wall. The top of the glass wall seems to be "smiling and nodding".

A mother hugged a baby in swaddle, "giggled" and laughed: "Baby, it is greeting you." Then, she took the baby's hand and waved to the whale: "Come on, let's talk to the whale too." Big Whale says hello."

Yu Yu suddenly said stiffly: "It's not saying hello to you."

The mother turned her head in surprise, and the child's eyes widened, as if he was aggrieved.

Su Liao heard the movement and turned around.The glass wall of the diving pool put a layer of blue filter on Yu Yu's face. He looked very serious, with the word "unhappy" capitalized directly on his face.

"This is not a greeting." Yu Yu stepped forward and took a step forward, "This is a stereotyped behavior of an animal, which means that it is too boring to stay in this cage. It is not happy at all."

"You're not a whale, how do you know?" Mother glared at Yu Yu.

"Woo—ah——" the little baby opened his mouth, drooled, and reached out to pat the glass jar eagerly, with considerable force.

Yu Yu frowned, and said to his mother: "You can't take pictures. The whales will find it very noisy."

"I still think you are noisy!" The mother gave Yu Yu a disgusted look, and while she was busy wiping the baby's saliva, she strode away while holding the baby, cursing "crazy" in a low voice.

Yu Yu stood where he was and raised his head.The diving pool is deep and the light is relatively dark.They're on the third floor now, and looking up they can see a worker in scuba gear cleaning the walls of the upstairs pool.

A big turtle paddled across the pool obliquely, swimming leisurely.

Yu Yu touched the clean pool wall lightly, and said softly: "An old Inuit fisherman once said, 'Ears are the entrance to the soul of a whale.' In the sea, they can hear the sound hundreds of kilometers away. voice."[1]

The noise of the crowd, the children yelling, and the unreasonable tourists slapping the glass pool wall...it must be very noisy.And when the night falls, when these noises recede, there will be no moonlight, no tides, and no unknown distance.

Su Liao looked at him silently.He felt that Yu Yu seemed really sad.

But at that time, a sentence flashed in his mind, "Sound travels faster and farther than air in water", and then he remembered several constants to be memorized in physics competitions, such as the sound in the air at 25 degrees Celsius , the speed of propagation is 346m/s.

The two went up another floor, and Yu Yu found that there was a diving club on the top floor of the aquarium.He originally wanted to go up and have a look, but Su Liao was attracted by an interactive screen for tourists.

Yu Yu wondered if creatures like Xueshen were naturally interested in answering questions.It is not enough to do homework at school every day, even the autumn outing is not enough, and I even have to come to the aquarium to do homework.

outrageous.

Yu Yu crossed his arms and watched Su Liao pass the level one after another.

Another row of cute cartoon fonts popped up on the screen: "How deep is the killer whale diving?"

A.50 meters

B.100 meters

C.200 meters

Su Liao tapped C, and a small red flower jumped out on the screen, following the voice prompt: "Congratulations, you got the answer right!"

Yu Yu glanced at the screen and sneered: "These three options are all wrong. Currently, scientists have discovered that killer whales can dive to a depth of more than 900 meters. What kind of rubbish science is this? There is still a face to answer questions about the wrong content." [ 2]

Su Liao raised his eyebrows in surprise: "How do you know?"

"Because I've seen a documentary about whales," Yu Yu glared at him angrily, "Orca diving is just like that. The diving champion is the sperm whale. I heard that it can dive more than 3000 meters."

"Sure, little killer whale." Su Liao clicked on the next question without any hassle.

At this time, Yu Yu's trouser pocket trembled, and he took out his mobile phone and glanced at it.Xu Yufeng sent him a message, which probably meant that they had changed places due to the coldness at the beach, and the ordered cake had arrived, and everything was ready.

Soon, Xu Yufeng shared another location, which is a coffee shop in the park, next to the pool where the dolphins are performing.

Yu Yu put away his phone calmly, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and patted Su Liao on the shoulder: "Hey, I want to go to the Little Dolphin Cafe."

Su Liao turned his head: "Do you want to buy coffee?"

Yu Yu didn't answer, but said dryly, "Come with me."

Su Liao frowned suspiciously, and pointed to the upstairs: "There's still one floor I haven't seen yet, and I'm right here. It shouldn't take long for you to walk around."

Yu Yu: "..."

Hold.

What to do, something unexpected happened!

The fish didn't even take the bait? !

For a moment, Yu Yu wanted to say forget it, if he told Xu Yufeng that he couldn't catch people, lest Su Liao would be angry for a while.But after he thought about it, the cake was already ordered, and with so many people, he couldn't be the only one who lost the chain.

Thinking of this, Yu Yu felt wronged.Obviously everyone is out of good intentions, why are you caught in the middle, and you are not human on both sides.This broken fish is not yet hooked.

So angry.

Su Liao was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't expect Yu Yu to have such a reaction.

He originally wanted to make a joke, saying that it's not a girl who goes to the toilet, so why go to a coffee shop and have to stick together, but when he saw Yu Yu's aggrieved expression that didn't know how to speak, his heart softened immediately.He put his hands on Yu Yu's shoulders and turned him 180 degrees: "Let's go, let me go with you."

At that time, Su Liao was still puzzled and mixed with a little joy—why is this classmate so attached to me?

He wanted to slap himself afterwards.

The coffee shop is not big, and as soon as you enter the door, you can see the big round table that Xu Yufeng mentioned.

There is a nine-inch cake in the middle of the round table, decorated with strawberries and cream on a matcha green background, and a piece of "Happy Birthday" with a chocolate border.Except for Song Hao, who was a sophomore in high school, the No. [-] Middle School swimming team came.Xu Yufeng also brought two female classmates from the same class, and the six girls sat in a row. Xu Yufeng took the lead and said, "Happy birthday to Brother Liao in advance", and everyone clapped their hands together.

Su Liao opened his eyes wide in surprise, his eyes swept over Yu Yu, and he did not hide the anger of "betrayed" in his eyes.

Yu Yu felt a "thump" in his heart - he couldn't be really angry, could he?

However, that anger was fleeting, and when Su Liao looked at his classmate again, his face turned into a gentle smile: "Thank you, I, I'm really surprised."

"I originally wanted to give Liao a surprise in the team on his birthday." Xu Yufeng lowered his eyes, a girl who has always been carefree is rarely a little shy, "But that day was Saturday, and I thought that we would go out together during the autumn outing." Let's eat cake."

Su Liao politely said "Thank you".Originally, the twin sisters wanted everyone to sing the birthday song, but they were forcibly stopped by Shou Xing.

Wang Pengpeng couldn't wait to pick up the knife: "Come on, singing is fake, cake is real, cut cake, cut cake!"

Su Liao's eyes fell on the cake.Xu Yufeng seemed to have guessed what he would say a long time ago, and blocked his mouth in advance: "I know that athletes usually pay attention to what they eat, and they mainly chose a low-sugar and low-fat food to get together with our team. "

Su Liao hooked the corner of his mouth reluctantly: "Then I'll slice it into small pieces."

Ten people quickly wiped out most of the cake.

"Ahhhh what brand is this cake? This is too delicious, Brother Fen, you guys are so good at choosing!" Wang Pengpeng made three mouthfuls and made two mouthfuls, and finished the portion on his paper plate like a whirlwind. Small eyes kept aiming at the table.

He really wanted to eat another piece, but... Wang Pengpeng looked at the paper plate in "Shouxing"'s hand again, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed: "Brother Liao, why are you eating so slowly?"

Su Liao casually licked his spoon: "Little Fatty, how many pounds have you lost?"

"Hey, are you polite to ask such a question?" Wang Pengpeng pointed, "Isn't Yu Yu almost finished eating, why are you staring at me?"

Yu, who was gorging himself, was innocently cueed, and when he looked up, there was still a bit of green cheese on the corner of his mouth: "?"

To be honest, he has never eaten such a "flavored" cake. The fluffy cheesecake is filled with matcha-flavored whipped cream, which will flow out after one bite. There is also something similar to mochi, which is satisfying in every bite.

but……

Su Liao's cold eyes fell on Yu Yu's face again, and he sneered: "Is it delicious?"

There was a villain in Yu Yu's heart who almost jumped up on the spot, and screamed "It's so delicious" after spinning twice in the air, but seeing Su Liao's eyes, he felt that he should restrain himself a bit.Yu Yu poked out a small tip of his tongue, "sucked" and licked the cheese particles from the corner of his mouth into his mouth: "It's... delicious."

With a gentle smile on Su Liao's face, he stomped Yu Yu's foot hard under the table, "Let's settle accounts after autumn" written in black and white in his eyes.

Yu Yu: "..." End.Really angry.

Fortunately, the topic on the table quickly dispersed from "birthday", chatting about the mid-term exam, complaining about the boredom of autumn travel, Su Liao returned to his normal "social butterfly" appearance, can answer any topic, amusing Several girls laughed, but they didn't give Yu Yu half a look.

"This shitty place has no energy at all. I wonder if the school just paid for it." Yang Hui shook the park ticket in his hand, "There is a dolphin show at 01:30, let's go together."

Seeing that the time was up, everyone got up in twos and threes and walked towards the dolphin performance pool, but at the fork in the road, Yu Yu suddenly stopped: "I'm going to another museum, I don't want to watch the dolphin performance."

"Go, what about the special performances." Wang Pengpeng bumped him with the shoulder, "Yu Yu, you should take part in group activities more often, and don't always be alone."

Yu Yu lowered his eyes and turned around at the fork in the road: "...if there is a chance, let's go out to see the dolphins."

Su Liao glanced at him, but didn't express anything.Wang Pengpeng glanced at Su Liao, then looked back at Yu Yu's back, thinking what happened to everyone today, the air pressure is so low.

Su Liao went to the dolphinarium with everyone.

At 01:30, the show starts on time.Probably because some students came to the autumn outing, the auditorium was full, and there were many standing in the back row.

As the cheerful music sounded, two short-nose dolphins swam in. After jumping twice in the air "synchronized" with the rhythm, they swam to the center of the pool, jumped again, and passed through two dolphins with different heights, one left and one right. The hula hoop drew applause from the audience.Then, a staff member in a wet suit waved to the audience and jumped into the pool. The dolphin pushed him underwater, making the staff member break the water splash on the pool surface like a "flying man".

The "Rocket Man" swam around, and the audience applauded even more enthusiastically. The staff rewarded the dolphin with a small fish.The dolphin dived into the water with a fish in its mouth, revealing a big "Y" shaped tail, which swung back and forth.

Su Liao lowered his eyes and looked at the open space in front of his feet, where there was a crushed iced tea box.Suddenly, the expression that Yu Yu showed in front of the white whale pond in the morning appeared before his eyes again.He belatedly began to understand why Yu Yu didn't like these things.

They could have traveled in a world of 3.6 million square kilometers, but they were imprisoned in such a small swimming pool, mechanically repeating behaviors that please humans for their daily rations.

Loud music, loud human voices, and the sound of water splashes could not be heard.Su Liao started to feel depressed while eating the cake, and now his mood is even worse.On the other hand, how could he not be "captive" in a small world?As long as he "behaves well", he can get all material rewards.

Those Smurfs, though, were born free.

What about him?

Was he born free?

Su Liao got up quietly amidst the applause of the whole hall.Xu Yufeng turned his head and glanced at him, Su Liao shook his head, turned and left.

Su Liao went back to the aquarium alone, and he hadn't finished the science popularization he read earlier.

He also wanted to see the introduction about the "twilight zone" under the sea.For some unknown reason, Su Liao especially loved the English name "TwilightZone".That is the area between 200m and 1000m under the sea.Where the twilight zone begins, sunlight ends in the sea.There is no light to reach, but there are countless marine life.

The area fascinated him.

The beluga whale in the glass pool is back, only this time, with a diver interacting with it.

There was applause from the crowd, and the camera clicked everywhere.Su Liao glanced back, and was stunned for a moment, not because of anything else - he recognized the ankle-length orca-colored swimming trunks.

Yu Yu? !

He didn't wear a wetsuit, and he didn't carry a gas cylinder. He dived to a position of more than ten meters in one breath, and was interacting with the beluga whale.The blue and black freediving fins sway softly in the water. Yu Yu kicks beautifully. It looks almost effortless, but it can generate huge thrust and the speed is incredible.

He is obviously very skilled in "rolling" the whale.Yu Yu didn't have any physical contact with the big guy the whole time, but he kept swimming around him, and the beluga whale seemed to want to play with him very much, screaming "beep" and wanting to take his head from time to time Go to hit Yu Yu, but can't touch him.

Su Liao walked towards the glass wall.

Strange to say, from the moment he saw Yu Yu, he subconsciously took a deep breath and held it.But when he felt that he was dying, Yu Yu was still floating at the bottom of the water.Su Liao couldn't help complaining again from the bottom of his heart: Doesn't this person need to breathe? !

Soon, Yu Yu also found that Su Liao was looking at him, his soft waist leaned back, and the whole person slowly dived down.His whole body is "hanging upside down" in the sea, his hair is gently spread out, one leg is straight, the other leg is slightly curved, and his posture is elegant and relaxed.Yu Yu seemed to have lost weight again. Under the dark honey-colored skin, the muscles outlined clear lines, like a strong stroke.

Su Liao raised his head, and the eyes of the two met through the glass wall. The sea water behind Yu Yu gradually deepened, and the "weightlessness" of the space made him dizzy for a moment.

A sentence inexplicably flashed through his mind——

You haven't seen him in the sea.

Yu Yu stretched out a hand, and his index finger lightly touched the glass wall. Su Liao covered his palm through the glass, feeling cold.He watched Yu Yu swim down slowly with his head down, turned back after hitting the bottom, and then went up to take a breath.

Su Liao ran along the stairs to the top floor.The sixth floor of the aquarium is where the deep diving pool enters the water.The girl at the front desk stopped him: "Student, are you taking a trial class or free practice? For the class, we need to make an appointment in advance."

Su Liao was taken aback: "Can I just go in and take a look?"

"Of course." The receptionist got up and led him in enthusiastically. "Actually, it's better to see the effect downstairs. It's just a pool from here."

"Do you want to make an appointment here?" Su Liao glanced at the pool and frowned slightly, "I saw my classmate in the pool just now."

"Oh, you are classmates." The receptionist smiled dimples, "For classes, you have to make an appointment. If you just use the swimming pool, you can use any vacancy, but you must show valid certificates. Your classmate is an AIDA four. Where is the star?"

Before the words fell, Yu Yu's head popped out of the water.Then, with a "beep", the round head of a white whale appeared behind him.Yu Yu paddled backwards, and the white whale chased after him. He took a sip of water and moistened his face, and the boy in the water ran away with a smile.

When the receptionist saw this, he covered his mouth and giggled: "This is the first time I see Xiaobai as a relative. Before, he would ignore the divers except for feeding them. He said before that this is the coldest little animal in our museum. "

Yu Yu pulled off the diving goggle and asked, "Is my time up?"

A staff member in a wetsuit said gruffly, "I've finished my work here, so I don't have time to keep looking at you."

The "cold" beluga made another "beep", and this time the water gun was aimed at the staff.

The middle-aged man sighed, and waved his hand again: "For the sake of Xiaobai kissing you so much, this is the last time!"

Hearing this, Yu Yu plunged down again, and the white whale flicked its tail and hurriedly followed.

"Your school's autumn outing, the ticket can be used for one activity in the park. Our free practice fee is 10 yuan for three 100 minutes. Anyway, there is a place now, so let him go." The front desk explained with a smile, "But Freediving, you have to have a buddy watching, a person will not let him into the water."

Su Liao raised his eyebrows, remembering that he just exchanged that ticket for a dolphin show.

"How about it, do you want to dive like your classmate?" The front desk took Su Liao to a shelf where the promotional leaflets were placed, and introduced, "There are marine animals in this pool, so the teaching class and experience class are all downstairs In the six-meter practice pool, you have to enter from the second floor. This large pool is mainly for exams, photos, and deep practice, and the number of people will be limited."

"These are some courses that can be chosen. Which one are you more interested in?"

Su Liao smiled: "I'll take a look first."

"Then look first, if you have any questions, I'll be at the front desk."

Su Liao nodded politely: "Okay, thank you."

The foldouts on the ad racks are all kinds of, there are PADI scuba diving, AIDA free diving, and training for various one-way specialties.Su Liao glanced up and down, and finally his eyes fell on a beautiful mermaid - she dragged a mermaid tail that gradually changed from golden yellow to orange red to bright red, her long hair was gently spread out, like a flower blooming on the bottom of the sea.

That piece was full of advertisements for "PADI Mermaid Series Courses". Su Liao picked up a foldout and saw that there was also an advertisement for "Mermaid Model Recruitment" below, emphasizing "good salary".Su Liao turned his head and glanced at Yu Yu who was still in the deep diving pool. While the front desk was not paying attention, he quietly stuffed the small recruitment advertisement into his trouser pocket.

Su Liao looked around again in the hall, and felt that the locker room and the bathroom were quite clean, except—his eyes fell on the bench, Yu Yu's old schoolbag was open, and a set of No. [-] Middle School uniform was wrapped around it , a long-sleeved T-shirt and a sweater with the sleeves hanging down to the floor.

There is a neat cabinet on one side, but I don't know if Yu Yu is in a hurry to get into the water and has to throw things in a mess.Su Liao felt a little uncomfortable all of a sudden.

Su Liao put away his clothes and folded Yu Yu's underwear one by one, trying to stuff them into his bag.Yu Yu's schoolbag was quite empty, so Su Liao tossed about for a while, and soon discovered another problem——Yu Yu didn't bring a change of pants?What did he wear when he went ashore?

He rummaged through his bag for a long time, but found a small waterproof bag with a picture of a baby killer whale, and stuffed a pair of dry swimming trunks inside.

This guy really likes to wear swimming trunks.

Su Liao thought of Yu Yu's tricking himself into going to the birthday party, and couldn't help feeling old and new grudges welling up in his heart.He poked his head out of the locker room and asked the front desk: "Excuse me, do you have a hair dryer here?"

"There are, but it's in the women's locker room." The front desk grinned, thinking that Su Liao was asking about the facilities, "We provide hot water, bath towels, and toiletries here, all of which are big brands. Don't worry. .”

Su Liao glanced at the pool surface. Yu Yu hadn't come up yet, so he turned his head and showed a harmless smile to the front desk: "Thank you, sister."

Anyway, there is a hair dryer.

Su Liao put the little killer whale waterproof bag into his trouser pocket calmly, and left as if nothing happened.

Ever since the accident of "borrowing a hair dryer" at the beginning of No. [-] Middle School, Yu Yu has learned to be good. There are always dry underwear in the school locker, and a pair of dry swimming trunks will be stuffed in the schoolbag that he carries, just in case.

Like now!

But when Yu Yu went ashore with the whale, and buried his head in his bag——

Where's his swimming trunks?

And his underwear, who folded them?

With a "ding" sound from the phone, Yu Yu clicked on the screen, and saw a message from "Cuisha Pen": I kidnapped your little killer whale.

Make up a silly pen: Explain the cake, or I will tear up the ticket.

Yu Yu: "..."

The author has something to say: [1] 2015 Discovery Channel documentary "SonicSea"

[2]Towers，JaredR.，etal.“Movementsanddivebehaviourofatoothfish-depredatingkillerandspermwhale.“ICESJournalofMarineScience76.1（2019）：298-311.

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