The sycamore trees in May flocculated in the air in the classroom, and the physics teacher's voice was as sticky as melted seaweed. Xu Xingyao stared at the flocculation on the test paper that had swollen into fish eggs, and found that the light blue liquid seeping out from behind her ears was saturating the entire classroom into a shallow sea layer - this was a precursor to the "emergence of critical people" and her first step into the "deep sea cage".
In this institution called Ocean University High School, students are nurtured to become "living anchors."
When Xu Xingyao touched the bronze compass left by his grandfather, the truth of the deep sea gradually emerged: when the school was founded in 1958, the first principal fished out a bronze boat carrying boys and girls from the Han Dynasty from the East China Sea, and used the Analects of Confucius as an anchor to turn the students into a living compass. ; The scale-breaker diary left by the class of 1998 revealed the conspiracy of "taming the soul with perfect test scores"; and the barcode hidden under the fish tail by class teacher Li Ying proved that she was a survivor of the "purification accident" of the class of 2023.
Twenty-eight critical people discovered deep in the shaft that the so-called "appearance" was not evolution, but degeneration - degenerating into an experimental body that surrendered memory glands and degenerating into a "qualified anchor" for the blood supply of the gear set. But Xu Xingyao's "unqualified anchors" - the memory of the fishing port, his grandfather's compass, the imperfect wrong questions - have become spears piercing the deep sea. When they used "imperfections" to repair the keel of the bronze boat, used "wrong questions" as patches, and "unspoken dreams" as sails, the entire deep-sea cage began to tremble.
This is not a simple escape, but a deep-sea revolution about "how to define oneself".
Intention: When society tries to refine every soul into a standardized anchor, there will always be someone with scars and courage who will let the whale song of the deep sea eventually turn into the thunder of the sky.