Jiaohua

Chapter 492 I'm going to find him (one more)
The two men searched for a long time at the bottom of the water and found several new bodies, but there was no way to salvage them.

The companions on the shore called them to go back. One of his men refused to give up. He took a few deep breaths on the surface of the water and dived again.

With the flood, the water level of the pool is getting higher and higher, and it takes a long time to dive.After the companions on the shore pulled up a person who entered the water, they waited for a long time on the shore, but the other person did not show up.

"Could it be that something happened to him too..." a subordinate said in a daze.

"I'll save him!" The subordinate who just came up immediately wanted to go down again, but was held back by his companions.

"Don't go, it's useless!"

Xia Zhaoxue frowned, and handed the sword to Zhili: "Help me hold it."

The long sword is not light, Zhili hugged it tightly subconsciously, but when he looked up, he saw the figure in front of him walking away quickly, jumping off the edge of the cliff without hesitation, he hurriedly shouted: "Senior sister and second brother..."

The voice exclaimed halfway, and was interrupted by the sound of falling water.

Zhili ran to the edge of the cliff with his sword in his arms, staring at the ripples on the water with wide eyes: "Senior Sister and Second Brother!"

Xia Zhaoyi and Shen Lie turned around the corridor, and the empty karst cave echoed the movement on the other side of the water bridge and heard it in their ears.

Xia Zhaoyi was taken aback, then looked up at Shen Lie: "I'll go and have a look first!"

Then he took the road and ran.

"Ali!" Shen Lie called out in a low voice, striding to follow.

On the other side of the water bridge, there is a vast open space. There are two fires and several torches on the edge of the cliff. Two people stand on the edge of the cliff and look down. Sitting by the fire, looking up at the edge of the cliff, is Aunt Rou.

"Senior Sister and Second Brother!" Zhili shouted towards the water again.

After the ripples brought by Xia Zhaoxue dissipated, there was no movement on the water surface.

"Fragmentation!" Xia Zhaoyi shouted.

Hearing her voice, Zhili hurriedly turned around.

"Senior Sister!" Zhili anxiously pointed to the pool, "Your second brother, your second brother jumped down!"

Xia Zhaoyi ran quickly, but fortunately, when he reached the shore, the water broke open. Xia Zhaoxue dragged a tall man out, gasping for breath, and looked up at them: "Quick, he's not dead!"

One of his men jumped into the water and lifted him up with him.

Shen Lie who came with Xia Zhaoyi immediately leaned over and stretched out his hand, and together with the others, pulled the three of them out of the water.

The man was still alive, the fluid in his lungs was pushed out, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Shen Lie stared at the wet three people for a moment, then turned to look at Aunt Rou who was sitting on the ground over there.

"Where's Shen Yan?" Shen Lie asked.

Aunt Rou looked at him sadly, her lips moved slightly, her words were choked in her throat, unable to speak.

Xia Zhaoyi was also stunned, his eyes swept over the rest of the people, and finally fell on Zhili's face.

Still holding the sword, Zhili stretched out his hand and quietly pointed at the lake.

"My lord is in the water," the man who jumped into the water with Xia Zhaoxue to save others tremblingly got up and said, "Our people are all in the water. It's already, almost half an hour already."

Shen Lie stared at him blankly, and turned his gaze to the edge of the cliff.

The water level has risen, and the floating light on the water surface is dim, and the reflection on the shore can be seen faintly, which is not real.

The strong wind came with water vapor, and the surrounding torches were leaning in the wind. The sound of the wind was like a drum beating, hitting him heavily.

After a pause, Shen Lie said, "I'll go and have a look."

He took off the long sword on his back, and just got up, his wrist was grasped by Li Li: "No, Mr. Shen, don't go, half an hour has passed, and you can't live that long underwater."

"Maybe there is a gap at the bottom of the water," Shen Lie said, "I'll go find him, maybe they're hiding in there waiting for me to rescue them."

"No," Xia Zhaoxue stood up and looked at Shen Lie, "I just came up from below, and the bottom of the water is full of corpses."

The word "corpse" made Shen Lie's heart ache.

Aunt Rou covered her mouth, tears streaming down her cheeks, in pain.

"Young Master is here to save me," Rou Gu cried, "He lifted me up at the end, but he couldn't get up by himself, he, he saved me with his life! The one who should be damned should be me!"

"I'll go and have a look," the young man's voice trembled, and he withdrew from Zhili's hand, "Even if he is really dead, I will bring his body back."

"No," Xia Zhaoyi said aloud, "Shen Lie, don't go down."

He was covered in injuries, he hadn't slept well for many days, and the Empress Qianqiu hadn't eaten or drank all this time. With such a body, he couldn't bear the ice water that only melted in winter.

Shen Lie looked at her, his eyes were red: "Ali, this is my brother."

"I understand," Xia Zhaoyi said, looking at Aunt Rou, "Why did you fall into the water, did you hit some mechanism, could it be related to those loud noises?"

Aunt Rou choked up and nodded, crying: "At first it was just a pool of water, very shallow. After the loud noise, it began to sink. Every time there was a loud noise, it sank by more than a foot. This was unexpected."

"Is the whole pool sinking?"

"Ah."

"Since it can sink, it can come up," Zhili said, "Senior Sister, why don't we find a way to get the bottom of the pool up."

"Yes," Xia Zhaoyi said, she picked up the long sword on the ground and handed it back to Shen Lie, "Don't go down, let's go find it together, such a big mechanism, we can find clues soon, okay? ?”

Shen Lie's starry eyes were red, and he looked deeply at her.

The girl's eyes shone like snow, flashing against the fire, not concealing her worry.

"Shen Lie..." Xia Zhaoyi said in a low voice, holding the long sword in both hands, and handing it forward a little more.

Shen Lie finally nodded slightly, and received the sword with lowered eyes: "Okay."

"My condolences." Xia Zhaoyi whispered.

This square pool is huge, except for the two banks on the opposite side, the other two sides are cliffs. This cliff is connected by the trestle bridge they saw before.

This abyss mountain stream is a huge arc, bending from southwest to north, half surrounding the Qianqiu Palace.Adjacent to the abyss they came down from, but blocked by large rocks, it is a gully inside the mountain, with complex terrain and extremely deep hidden.

What Xia Zhaoyi can conclude now is that the mechanism of the large waterwheels and the iron chains they saw before is very likely to be here.

If you look carefully, you can actually hear the sound of cold locks in the distance, buzzing by the wind.

The fire ignited again, and several people who were drenched were trying to keep warm by the fire.

Xia Zhaoyi took out the "map" in his sleeve, and added a part of the map with small stones picked up on the ground.

The waterwheel is connected to this place, and the approximate distance is marked, at least a hundred feet.

"A mechanism is indeed a mechanism, but not necessarily a trap." Xia Zhaoxue said while looking at the map.

"It's true that there's no need to spend so much time designing such a big trap to harm people," Zhili said, "Senior Sister, tell me, why do you need to design such a big trap?"

"I don't know." Xia Zhaoyi shook his head.

All spirits in the world act for nothing more than two purposes, survival and pursuit.

Survival includes food, clothing, and reproduction.

And the pursuit, it includes too much.

The pursuit of Qianqiu Palace is nothing more than alchemy. Logically speaking, the purpose here should be pure, but along the way, she feels that this place is not as simple as just alchemy.

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(End of this chapter)