What entangled Tianming was a thing of unknown material that looked like a thick chain.
At first there was just one, and then several more sprang up, tying up all of Tianming’s limbs, making him unable to move.
"Gudu~~Gudu~~"
A series of bubbles were ejected from the mouth of the struggling Tianming with a gurgling sound. Although he tried hard to survive, he was still unable to wrestle with these chains of unknown origin in the water, and was pulled into the bottom of the pool little by little.
During this process, as Tianming struggled, the little air remaining in his lungs was exhausted.
As the oxygen became scarce, Tianming's consciousness began to gradually fade. His whole body became weak, and his struggling movements became slower and slower until he stopped. Even his eyes could not keep opening and slowly closed.
Before his vision completely fell into darkness, through the cold water, Tianming felt that he seemed to see those... strange scenes again.
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The forbidden area of the government city, the retreat stone room.
After Tianming opened the Xuanwu valve at the end of the pool, the water surface that was almost overflowing in the hole began to gradually drop.
When Gong Shuqiu, who was guarding the cave, saw this scene, he couldn't help but raised his eyebrows, stroked his mustache, and thought to himself, "Oh, I really let that brat do it!"
"It's a pity... even if you successfully pass through the waterway and open the gate, you still can't escape Xuanwu's attack!"
Talking about Tianming in his mind with some malicious intent, Gongshu Chou still had a smile on his face and said to Qiantaki, "Your Highness, the water level has dropped, we can leave."
"It seems that this time there is no need to trouble the Imperial Master to come to the rescue."
"Ah!" Chitaki was very surprised when he saw this scene. It was not because he wanted to leave, but because the water level dropped, it meant that nothing happened at dawn.
After she was happy, doubts arose. She looked at Gong Shuqiu and said, "How...are we going to leave?"
"Haha..." Gong Shuqiu stroked his beard with his hand and raised his head with a proud smile, "Such a small problem can't trouble this old man."
Chitaki leaned back slightly, narrowed his eyes, and was deeply suspicious of this:
"I don't quite understand, does it affect your performance whether the water level drops or not? Why must you let Tianming open the Xuanwu valve?"
Gongshu Qiu's elation was instantly defeated by Qiantaki's words, and stopped abruptly, leaving him speechless.
How should he answer?
The water level is not important, the important thing is to ensure that the agency Xuanwu will not find them?
This is undoubtedly a reasonable explanation, but doesn’t this explanation make it appear that he is afraid of the Mo family’s four spiritual beasts?
They, public losers, don’t want to lose face anymore!
"Anyway, your Highness, just rest assured." Gong Shuqiu failed to give a more appropriate answer, and just said something perfunctory with an awkward smile.
Qiantaki is more sensible. Looking at the unnatural expression on the public's face, he knew that the answer might be quite heartbreaking for him, so he didn't insist on asking further.
Anyway, the most important thing is to leave here now and find Tianming.
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Central Hall, Ink Core Chamber.
"Master Ban, another mechanism has been activated...many, many mechanisms have been activated!" The Mohist disciples in the secret room screamed at Master Ban, while pointing towards the wall with their hands.
In fact, there is no need for them to remind Master Ben at this time.
A large number of mechanisms on the walls of the Mo Core secret room were touched, and the movement was not small. Even if Master Ban was still focusing on the vertical and horizontal duel outside, he was still alarmed.
Master Ban took a closer look and immediately found the core part. His eyes suddenly widened and he said in disbelief, "Is this... someone opened the Xuanwu valve!?"
After being stunned, Master Ban instantly turned into a state of ecstasy, "Great!"
"In this way, all the poisonous water in the city will be drained out and fresh mountain spring water from the outside will be reinjected!"
After hearing this, Sledgehammer immediately joined in the laughter, "That's great, finally good news!"
However, Big Hammer is obviously just following it for fun, and has no idea what the effect of changing the water is.
"So what's the use of changing the water? Can the poisoned brothers recover?"
Master Ben rolled his eyes angrily, "Of course the poisoned brothers will not get better just by changing the water, but no one will be poisoned again!"
"The most important thing is that if things don't go well for Xiaozhi and they fail to join up with Juzi and the others in time, at least the large forces of the Anti-Qin Alliance will not plunge into the poisonous gas without knowing anything about it."
"That's really good, haha..." Big Iron Hammer scratched his head and laughed naively to cover up his embarrassment, and then asked a very idiotic question, "By the way, what is the Xuanwu Valve? We still have this place in the city.
Place?"
"..." Master Ban didn't even bother to roll his eyes, and asked feebly, "You can actually forget about the Xuanwu Valve... The commander asked you to do it!"
Sledgehammer was not ashamed and replied nonchalantly, "I never pay attention to the messy agencies in the city - unless it's the ones I often need to deal with, it's normal to forget."
Master Ban was too lazy to argue with this brash man who was full of muscles. He turned to thinking about the Xuanwu valve, and his face gradually became serious again.
Seeing this, Sledgehammer couldn't help but said, "Looking at your face, why do you feel like there's going to be bad news again?"
"Hiss... I can't tell." Master Ban shook his head slowly, "The Xuanwu valve is not a mechanism that can be activated casually."
"Most of the disciples in the city are now dead or disabled, and basically have no ability to move. The probability that they can get close to the Xuanwu Valve is low."
"Old man, I thought about it. It seems that Tianming and the others are the most likely people to open the valve - I remember that there is indeed a road to the Xuanwu Valve from the forbidden area, and it is relatively close."
"Is this... bad?" Big Hammer didn't know why.
They just open it at dawn, isn’t it great?
"Do you know why Xuanwu Valve is called Xuanwu Valve?" Master Ban did not answer Big Hammer, but asked the other party.
This made Big Hammer confused, "I didn't choose this... name, how do I know!"
This answer was as expected by Master Ban. He explained without sadness or joy, "Once the Xuanwu Valve is opened, the drainage system and water supply system of Guan City will be fully loaded at the same time."
"Under normal circumstances, this is almost the maximum load state of the machine in the city. In order to ensure the power supply, the machine Xuanwu will stop near the underwater Xuanwu valve at this time."
"Xuanwu!?" Big Iron Hammer's face became serious when he heard the name.
Xuanwu is the most important mechanism beast of the Mo family besides Qinglong. If it has something to do with it, it won't be a trivial matter if something happens.
"Well..." Master Ban nodded heavily, "The parked Xuanwu will attack all living animals within its attack range."
"In other words, anyone who opens the Xuanwu Valve will basically be targeted by it."
Under water, Xuanwu is almost synonymous with invincibility. It is difficult for any living thing... or dead thing to compete with it. Being targeted by it is almost as good as death.
"No!" Big Iron Hammer touched his sparse hair, completely unable to accept Master Ban's statement, "Old Man Ban, how did you design the mechanism? Isn't this clearly targeting the person who turned on the mechanism!?"
Master Ban spread his hands and said, "There is no other way, I just have to target the person who opens the valve!"
