The corridor is very long. After a hundred steps, the old bricks on the ground changed. On the square bricks, totems of stars or the eight directions of heaven and earth began to appear. The style was not very old and was taken from the Fuxi Sect that was popular a hundred years ago.
After turning a long bend, a wide and long water bridge appeared exactly like before. There were no railings on both sides of the water bridge. However, the water level in that water bridge was very shallow, while here it was full of living water and flowing rapidly.
Stepping onto the water bridge, as the firelight illuminated, the invisible darkness was gradually dispersed, and a huge pool of water jumped out of the open space in front of the bridge, a world like no other.
The water in the pool is not deep and you can see the bottom, which is only up to Shen Shu's knees. There are relief totems carved on the water bottom.
The totem is extremely broad, and now we can only see a glimpse of it, making it difficult to tell what it is.
The men sent out soon came back and said there was no shore on both sides.
Shen Xu looked into the darkness of the deep pool and said, "Then just flow across."
After speaking, he walked directly into the deep pool.
"Young Master..." before Rougu could dissuade her, Shen Shu's legs were already gone in the pool.
Rougu ignored him and followed him down, and the rest of his men also got into the water one after another.
The resistance of the pond water was not light, so they walked slowly. The totem and embossed mud and stone they stepped on were three inches wide and four inches high. Stepping on them could barely reduce the amount of water on their legs.
When they were thirty feet away, the previous loud noise sounded again in the distance, accompanied by the sound of huge water.
The surrounding mountain walls and the bottom of the pool below them shook, and the ground shook. They managed to steady their bodies, raised their heads and looked towards the source of the sound, but their feet suddenly felt light at this moment, and the bottom of the pool they were stepping on dropped instantly. There is more than enough feet.
There was a sudden weightlessness, and everyone fell into the air and fell into the water.
Two torches were knocked out by the water in the pool, and then there was another loud noise. Before they could recover, the bottom of the pool beneath their feet began to sink again.
"Go back!" Shen Xu called back after getting up.
As soon as he finished speaking, the loud noise rose again, and the bottom of the pool sank again.
There were fewer and fewer torches, and the water surface illuminated by the fire was shaken and filled with ripples, making their reflections zigzag.
The cold water under the water bridge poured into the pool. As the height of the water surface from the ground was pulled away, the sound of water coming down from the bridge became louder.
When I ran back to the shore, the distance was already above my head. The stone wall that had been soaked in the pool water for many years was extremely smooth. Only a few people climbed up, and most of them fell back.
Seeing this, Rou Gu took a step forward and squatted down, "Young Master! Step on my back."
As soon as she squatted down, his slender hand grasped her right shoulder to help her up.
"Get up." Shen Xu said.
"Master, hurry up!" Rougu shouted.
"Sir!" The man on the ground stretched out his hand, "I'll pull you!"
Shen Xu straightened up and went to hold their hands. At this moment, there was a loud noise, the bottom of the pool sank again, and everyone in the pool fell again.
Rou Gu's knees hit the ground hard. Regardless of the pain, she hurriedly got up to help Shen Shu.
"Master!" Rou Gu's eyes were red, "Quick! Step on me!"
However, Shen Xu grabbed his arm and pushed him up.
"Catch her!" Shen Xu shouted.
The men on the ground grabbed Rou Gu's hand, and Rou Gu turned around and exclaimed, "Master!"
Just as he finished speaking, there was another loud noise. Shen Xu pushed Rougu up hard as she fell, "You guys, hold on tight!"
Rougu was dragged back to the ground, turned around and lay on the edge of the cliff, "Master!"
The bottom of the pool dropped further, widening the distance. Shen Xu fell into the water, and the black clothes could hardly see clearly in the darkness.
The water from the bridge pouring down from the mouth of the rock is like a curved stack of white dragons. It flies straight down from a high place, splashing big and small beads, making a noisy sound.
Rou Gu raised her hands to wipe her tears and cried silently. Suddenly she heard Shen Shu's voice coming through the sound of water, "Don't go far. If we can't come back, just treat us as dead and let Zhiyan take you away!"
"Young master will not die!" Rougu shouted, "Sir, just wait! I will find a way!"
Shen Xu sat in the water and looked up at her.
The subordinates around him steadied themselves in embarrassment and looked at him in panic.
"Sir, what should we do?"
"Can...can you go back?"
Shen Shu narrowed her eyes slightly, frowned slightly, and looked at the cliff.
It's not far away now, not even a foot away.
He firmly believed that he could go back.
But it depends on Rougu whether you go back early or late.
The pond they are now in is a big mechanism. It is a mechanism and it is man-made. Shen Xu does not think that anyone in the world can dig to the bottom of the dragon abyss here, not even five feet. Therefore, this pond Eventually, they will stop sinking, and the water from the outlet of the rock will be enough to send them back. The only worry is how cold their bodies will be.
Shen Xu turned around and looked at the large pool of water. He had been wading in the wild and hiking all year round, so every time he came out, he would be fully prepared.
For example, the winter clothes he wore were thick and warm. At the same time, special oilcloth was sewn inside the clothes. Several pieces were sewn on, both for the black outer garment and for the inner coat.
But now, the cold water gradually seeps in, like a sharp knife, cutting into the flesh.
"If I had waited a little longer, this matter wouldn't have happened. It was my fault." Shen Xu said.
"You don't blame me, sir," said a subordinate next to him, "no one expected that there would be such an institution."
Shen Xu glanced at him and raised her lower lip with a half-smile.
He...actually doesn't think this is a bad thing.
"It stops every three sessions," Shen Xu said, "and soon there is sound again."
The men looked at him with pale faces and uneasiness.
The water level rises very slowly, but you can feel it rising.
In order to prevent them from falling, they squatted in the water, which made sinking slightly easier, although there was still a risk of falling.
The loud noise came really quickly, one, two, three... four, five, six...
Several people were so beaten that they almost vomited.
After a long time, the sinking trend finally stopped.
The loud noise in the distance was still there, but after several sounds, the ground did not move anymore, and there was a very strong and distinct feeling of a machine turning under the feet.
"Seventeen times," Shen Xu said, "about one foot each time, so it's less than two feet here, so it's not very deep."
The distance is two feet, maybe even less than the third floor. If the light is not too dark, you can still see the few men who have already gone up by looking up.
Shen Xu turned her eyes and looked towards the darkness on the opposite side.
This mechanism started to operate when they came. He didn't think it was used to deal with them. Maybe someone went from here to the other side and used this mechanism to shut down.
But if he said that such a large institution was built just to cut off the future, he wouldn't believe it.
There are thousands of ways to break the problem, why choose the most tiring one?
So here...
"When you think of water, what do you think of?" Shen said suddenly.
Everyone's bodies were in the water, feeling numb from the immersion. They looked at him after hearing the words, not knowing what he wanted to say.
"Flushing, driving, or irrigation, what else?" Shen Xu said, "But here, it can't be flushing."
As for driving and irrigation.
To divert so much water, what can be driven?
Or, what should we use this water to irrigate?
When he saw those mountains of skeletons, the first thing that came to his mind was the issue of food rations.
