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The sea breeze stopped.

The tide was gradually receding.

The rich night gradually obscured the dissipating moonlight, and in the darkest night before dawn, the whole world seemed to have resumed its most subdued silence.

The last ray of the moonlight shed on the sea. The bluish waves were slowly rising and falling, and the shimmering waves cast a dim light over the whole beach with stirring coolness. Under the dim light, the figure ...