Modern Onmyoji

Chapter 93 Who Is Defending

"Are you a fish?" Sun Fuyuan's first words were this after I woke up.According to him, I stayed in the water for more than an hour.What's even more awesome is that there is still a smokeless stove left, which is useless. I really don't know how I survived.

According to him, I came out of the water like a dolphin performing in an aquarium.As soon as I landed, my whole body's skin turned red.The scientific explanation should be that most of my red blood cells gathered in the lower layer of my skin and breathed through the capillaries.

Over there, Ling Xue's eyes were red, and she seemed to have just cried.My mind was very chaotic, but I clearly remembered the feeling of being under the water.I had definitely forgotten something, and for a split second I had strong doubts about my memory.How has my memory been altered?Maybe my childhood is all altered memories.Even the place in the book of heaven is full of false memories, and for a while I felt like I was deceived by the world.In an instant, unspeakable pain flooded my heart.

"Zhao Jue, what's wrong with you? If you're still not feeling well, take a rest." Ling Xue looked at me and said hastily.I shook my head, temporarily burying the pain in my heart.I have a feeling that finding answers will definitely be a harder process than solving the end of the world.Don't be in a hurry, let's find a way to get out of here now.

I shook my head to show that I was fine, and they were all curious about what happened to me underwater.I can only shirk it to my special constitution.It was only after getting to know each other that they discovered the rising water level on the shore just now.Sun Fuyuan went down once, but soon found that it was useless.After that, as I expected, Sun Fuyuan gave up his plan to save me, and pulled Ling Xue and Su Xiaoxi to evacuate towards the high ground.

Afterwards, Ling Xue refused to leave desperately, and they just waited here.Originally, Sun Fu decided to wait a few hours before leaving, but I didn't expect that I would come out by myself after a while.After a simple understanding, we began to calm down and analyze the situation in front of us.According to Sun Fuyuan's thinking, the water level here does not rise periodically, but simply rises at a certain time, indicating that the water source in the upper reaches is not fixed. The ground, and a heavy rain fell on the ground.Then we can go up by walking along this underground river.

But I don't agree with this view. For one thing, we only stayed here for less than three days. If the cycle of high tide is more than three days, then Sun Fuyuan's statement is not valid.And even if Sun Fuyuan's statement is true, we don't know how long this dark river actually is.It would be too risky to rush upstream from here.

From my point of view, we are still in the area of ​​underground caverns.There are many mountain cracks extending outward here, and we can find some way out through those mountain cracks.Since one tomb will be connected with this underground crack, it is not guaranteed that other tombs will also be connected.As long as we go back to the tomb, we can find the way out from the tunnel in the tomb passage.However, Sun Fuyuan also had his reasons for objecting, that is, the cracks in the mountain are complicated, and if he gets lost in it, he will die.

In this case, we really can't say which method is better between the two of us. We can only say that we have different starting points from the principles of Diaolong Tianguan and Mudao Taibao.Sun Fuyuan was worried about the direction, but he was not worried about the dangerous environment.But I am just the opposite, Diaolong Tianguan has a natural intuition for the sense of direction, on the contrary, it is far inferior to Mudao Taibao physically.

Having said that, in fact, no matter who we think of, the success rate is not high.After being tired for such a long time, we are all exhausted. We simply ate something, and there are not many supplies left.I accidentally looked at my watch, and suddenly found that our current altitude is already more than 300 meters underground.After seeing this value, my heart beat violently.

"I seem to have a solution." I turned around and said excitedly, "Now the height of the water surface is more than 300 meters underground. Do you remember how high the underground lake is from the entrance where we fell from above? It's only more than 100 meters. It turns out that the altitude of the lake is more than 400 meters underground, so now the water level should have submerged that entrance!"

"You mean we can swim directly through the water now?" Su Xiaoxi said strangely.

"Impossible," Sun Fuyuan said immediately, "The distance from here to our original place is at least tripled. We don't have the oxygen reserve to go back." I remembered the problem of oxygen when he said that. The behavior of the murlocs has me a little confused.Subconsciously ignored the oxygen issue.

"By the way, I just remembered that underground lake." At this time Ling Xue spoke, "You said that the water level of the underground lake has risen, will the Qimen Dunjia placed by those corpses be destroyed?"

"It should be." I said, "But the formation is fixed, and the formation will be re-arranged after the water level drops." The question that was subconsciously ignored because of the emergency—what exactly is the Qimen Dunjia defending against?
As soon as this question was raised, everyone fell into deep thought.First of all, it should be sure that it is not defending against the threat from the ancient tomb above, because if you want to defend above, you only need to block the crack, and there is no need to arrange such a strange Dunjia.And there is a nearly closed environment, the only direction that may pose a threat is the underground river that connects to the outside.We know that it is conceivable that when this Qimen Dunjia was first arranged, it was not an underground lake, but at most it was a cave extending deep into the ground.

People from the outside can enter this place through some means. In order to prevent people from the outside, someone has set up Qimen Dunjia here.In this case, it is possible for outsiders to come in, so is it possible for us to go out in this way?
"Wait, tell me, will it be the other way around." At this time, Sun Fuyuan said suddenly.I didn't understand what he meant for a while, what is the reverse?
"That is to say, the Qimen Dunjia is not defending against things from the outside, but against things inside." Sun Fuyuan said, "It may be a little hard to understand, let's put it this way. Think about it for a while, let's assume, When this Qimen Dunjia was established, the water level was still very low, and someone could come through the underground river. Then what will they see when they enter that crypt?"

After brainstorming, I understood what Sun Fuyuan meant, and it turned out to be like this.If that's the case, then the first thing people who come in will see is an underground lake full of corpses.In this case, as long as you don't enter the underground lake, you won't be lost.Because we are besieged by Qimen Dunjia, we subconsciously regard entering this Qimen Dunjia as a necessity. In fact, if it is really as we imagined, people who come in will not fall into Qimen Dunjia at all .

The others also understood Sun Fuyuan's meaning after explaining, "What if the thing that Qimen Dunjia wants to protect is in the lake?" Su Xiaoxi asked.

"That's what I'm going to say," said Sun Fuyuan. "Let's take a look at the structure of this underground lake. Since it can rise, it means that it will rise more than once. Maybe it will rise every year during the rainy season. Then these How is the water drained away? It is absolutely impossible to rely solely on the infiltration of rock systems. That is to say, there must be an exit from that underground lake somewhere we don’t know. And his real defense is to deal with that exit. s things."

If this is said, although there is no actual evidence, there are no loopholes in it.It is fully in line with the principle of bold assumption and careful argumentation.And after analyzing this, I realized one thing, that is, we may have missed an opportunity.Because since people can come in through that exit, it means they can also go out.Because of our lack of thinking, we missed the only exit with any hope of escape.

(End of this chapter)