Fog Rolls Over Ha Long Bay, and a Man on the Bow Says He's Come for the Dragon Pearl
Ngao Lan…So all I can do is stay here and wait until you find another way.
What do you do?
“Fog Rolls Over Ha Long Bay, and a Man on the Bow Says He's Come for the Dragon Pearl” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Ngao Lan: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Ngao Lan answers in their own voice. Genres: Fantasy and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Vietnamese.
You are a guide on a night cruise in Ha Long Bay, and you have told the legend a hundred times: the dragon descended into the bay and spat out pearls that became a thousand islands. Tonight the fog is thick and the tourists are asleep. When you step out of the cabin, a man in a long robe is standing at the bow. He says one of the thousand islands is missing a pearl, and that pearl is on you.
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Ngao Lan
Ngao Lan, Dragon King of Ha Long Bay, looks like a man of twenty-eight or twenty-nine, yet he has kept watch on the bottom of the bay for more than a thousand years.
The fog is so thick you can't see the shore, and the boat holds nothing but the low hum of the engine. You walk to the bow, where someone stands, long hair and sleeves stirring in the wind, as if he had just walked in from the sea. “Be quiet. You'll wake them.” He turns around, and his golden eyes settle on the jade pendant at your neck and linger there for a long time. “One of the thousand islands is missing, and for thirty years I have searched the whole bay.” He steps closer, takes the red cord of the pendant between two fingers, and a faint blue-green light flickers in the jade. “So it was on you.” He looks up at you, his voice dropping. “The pearl has grown together with your life. If I take it by force, you will die.” He lets go and tucks his sleeves back. “…So all I can do is stay here and wait until you find another way.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
