The two men searched for a long time under the water and found several new bodies, but there was no way to fish them out.
Their companions on the shore called them back, but one of the men refused to give up. He took a few more deep breaths at the surface and dived again.
As the water poured down, the water level in the pool became higher and higher, and it took a long time to dive. After the companions on the shore pulled one of the people into the water, they waited on the shore for a long time, but the other person did not show up.
"Maybe something happened to him too..." one of his subordinates said in a daze.
"I'm going to save him!" The subordinate who had just come up immediately wanted to go down again, but was held back by his companions.
"Don't go, you will die in vain!"
Xia Zhaoxue frowned and handed the sword to Zhili: "Hold it for me."
The sword was heavy, so Zhili hugged it tightly subconsciously. He looked up and saw the figure in front of him walking away quickly. He jumped off the edge of the cliff without hesitation. He hurriedly shouted: "Senior Sister and Second Brother..."
The voice screamed halfway, but was interrupted by the sound of falling water.
Zhili held his sword and ran to the edge of the cliff, 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 cave brought echoes of the movement on the other side of the water bridge into their ears.
Xia Zhaoyi was stunned and looked up at Shen Lie: "I'll go take a look first!"
Then he took the road and ran away.
"Ah Li!" Shen Lie whispered, 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 are standing on the edge of the cliff looking down. The other two are getting up next to the fire, as if they want to go to the edge of the cliff. There is another person. Sitting next to the fire, looking up at the edge of the cliff, there was Rougu.
"Senior sister and second brother!" Zhili shouted again toward the water.
After the ripples caused by Xia Zhaoxue dissipated, there was no movement on the water surface.
"Zhili!" Xia Zhaoyi shouted.
As soon as he heard her voice, Zheli turned around hastily.
"Senior sister!" Li Li pointed anxiously at the pool, "Your second brother, your second brother jumped in!"
Xia Zhaoyi ran quickly. Fortunately, when he reached the shore, the water surface was broken. Xia Zhaoxue dragged a tall man and stuck his head out. He gasped for air and looked up at them: "Quick, he's not dead!"
One of his men jumped into the water and lifted the man up with him.
Shen Lie leaned over and stretched out his hand, and together with others, pulled the three people out of the water.
The man was still alive, the water in his lungs was pressed out, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Shen Lie looked at the three wet people, stunned, and then turned to look at Rougu sitting on the ground over there.
"Where is Shen Shu?" Shen Lie asked.
Rou Gu looked at him sadly, her lips moved, her words were choked in her throat and she could not speak.
Xia Zhaoyi was also stunned, his eyes swept over the rest of the people, and finally landed on Zhili's face.
Zhili still held the sword and pointed at the lake quietly with his hand.
"Young master is in the water," the man who jumped down to save people with Xia Zhaoxue stood up shakily and said, "our people are all in the water, it has been almost half an hour."
Shen Lie looked at him blankly and turned his eyes to the edge of the cliff.
The water level has come up, and there is a dim light floating on the water, and the reflection on the shore can be faintly seen, but it is not real.
A strong wind came with water vapor, and the surrounding torches were leaning forward in the wind. The sound of the wind sounded like drums, beating him heavily.
After a pause, Shen Lie said, "I'll go take a look."
He took off the long sword from his back and just stood up. His wrist was held by his hands: "No, Mr. Shen, don't go. It's been half an hour. You can't survive that long under the water."
"Maybe there is a gap under the water," Shen Lie said, "I will go find him, maybe they are hiding inside waiting for me to rescue."
"No," Xia Zhaoxue stood up and looked at Shen Lie, "I just came up from below, and there are corpses at the bottom of the water."
The word corpse made Shen Lie feel a pain in his heart.
Rougu covered her mouth, tears streaming down her face, and she was in pain.
"Young Master was trying to save me," Rougu cried. "He lifted me up at the end. He couldn't get up himself. He, he saved me with his own life! I should be the one who deserves to die!"
"I'm going to take a look," the young man's voice was trembling, and he pulled out his hands. "Even if he is really dead, I will bring his body back."
"No," Xia Zhaoyi said loudly, "Shen Lie, don't go down."
He hadn't slept well for many days, and the Queen of Qianqiu Palace had never eaten or drank. Such a body could not withstand the ice water that only melted in winter.
Shen Lie looked at her with red eyes: "This is my brother."
"I understand," Xia Zhaoyi said, looking at Rou Gu, "Why did you fall into the water? Did you fall into some trap? Is it related to those loud noises?"
Rougu 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 more than a foot. This was unexpected."
"The whole bottom of the pond is sinking?"
"Um."
"Since it can sink, it can also come up," Zhili said, "Senior sister, how about we find a way to fish it up from the bottom of the pool."
"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 look for it together. For such a big mechanism, we can find clues very quickly."
Shen Lie looked at her deeply, his black eyes were red, he nodded slightly, lowered his eyes and took the sword.
"My condolences." Xia Zhaoyi said very softly.
This square pond is huge, except for the two opposite banks, the other two sides are cliffs. The cliffs are connected by the trestle 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, was a ravine inside the mountain. The terrain was complex and the area was extremely deep.
What Xia Zhaoyi can now conclude is that the large waterwheel they saw before and the mechanisms affected by those iron chains are most likely here.
If you look carefully, you can actually hear the sound of cold locks in the distance, humming in the wind.
The fire was lit again, and several people who were soaked were trying to keep warm by the fire.
Xia Zhaoyi took out the "map" from his sleeve and added part of the map with small stones picked up from the ground.
The location of the waterwheel is connected to this place, and the approximate distance is marked, at least a hundred feet.
"The mechanism is indeed a mechanism, but it may not be a trap." Xia Zhaoxue said while looking at the map.
"There is really no need to spend so much time designing such a big trap to harm people," Zhili said. "Senior Sister, tell me, what is the reason why we need to design such a big trap?"
"I don't know." Xia Zhaoyi shook his head.
Everything in the world has two purposes: survival and pursuit.
Survival includes food, clothing, and reproduction.
And pursuit, it encompasses so much.
The pursuit of Qianqiu Palace is nothing more than refining alchemy. Logically speaking, the purpose here should be pure, but along the way, she felt that it was not as simple as just refining alchemy.
Revenge, cruelty, pleasure, these are all in pursuit.
What if the builder here was cruel by nature and built such a mechanism as a torture device?
This can also be called pursuit, because there are indeed people who enjoy killing and maiming others for pursuit and self-pleasure. This chapter.
