Nether Sea: Volume 3

By Qi Lian

In 1976, a Chinese and British drilling team secretly entered the mountains of the barbarians on the border between China and Myanmar, carrying out a shocking plan.

Members of different countries cooperate outwardly but each has its own agenda, secretly seeking their own best interests. When they for that plan more than 1000 meters underground, but found that someone had already arrived here, followed by many mysterious events emerge: the rebellion of the ancient nanzhao, the secret between the three emperors of the Ming dynasty, the mysterious underworld forged by the king of the yuan dynasty, the origin and decline of the west sea cloud country, the miao dynasty uprising...... Buried in this vast ocean of the dark!

All sorts of disasters had come back to life due to death.

In 76 years, only four out of hundreds of people came out alive, and my grandfather was one of them!

A few decades later, my grandpa suddenly disappeared mysteriously, and a body that had long died at the bottom of Savage Mountain wrapped around me …

• Language: English
• Publisher: Funstory
• Release date: Apr 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781648975608

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CHAPTER 201 - BEFORE THE GATES OF THE DEAD WERE CLOSED

Hiss!

Hearing Hai Yang's conjecture, I instantly sucked in a breath of cold air. I felt my blood run cold. Damn, this is too weird. Could it be that what Hai Yang said was true?

Zhu Yingqiong said: Why do dead people still know how to move?

Hai Yang said in a speechless manner, Could it be that all of you have forgotten why Sanjin entered this trap in the first place? Didn't that snake head find him after he died? I suspect that this place is the same as Nether Sea, people can still move even after death, that's why such a thing happened. Furthermore, don't forget, back then Yang Qi was with the drilling team, and Yang Qi was the most mysterious person, the only one who could live through all of the events, could it be that he used some method to let those people who had died live again?

Hai Yang was right. I remembered that it was because I was kidnapped by that snake that I found out that he had actually been dead for more than ten days. That's why he entered this whole matter so mysteriously.

Zhu Yingqiong frowned: Even if they are the drilling teams, why were they killed here? This is what we need to be wary of. If the people who killed them only attacked because they entered, would we encounter the same danger? Also, whether the murderer will still be hiding underground, we should be on guard!

Hai Yang nodded. That's right. We can't stay here any longer. We'll leave immediately and find a way to bury the corpse when we return!

Thinking about that mysterious killer who had used such a malicious method to kill eight people, my mind couldn't help but turn cold. I didn't know if we would encounter the same situation if we continued to delve deeper in, but Zhu Yingqiong was right, no matter what, we cannot stay here anymore. We must leave immediately!

We moved the eight corpses to the side of the stone door and placed what they left behind them next to us. Hai Yang took out a piece of Zhu Yingqiong's scarf from her backpack and covered the corpse with it as if it was a simple matter, and muttered: Seniors, it is fate that we meet each other here, but we will meet again after this. Don't follow us, when we come out, you guys better think of ways to bring you out to settle in the ground. You must be protected by thousands of times!

After saying that, Hai Yang sincerely bowed to the eight corpses. This fellow had always been bold, unafraid of gods or ghosts, but what happened just now was still fresh in my memory, even if it wasn't him, thinking about it now makes me feel scared. I immediately followed his example and bowed to the eight corpses, then we solemnly looked at the stone door behind us!

Judging from the position of the pool, this stone door was actually extremely awkward. The entire underground could be seen to have been constructed after a very long period of effort, and the Fuxi 64 divines above it was the first part of the underground, while the part behind this stone door should be the second part. Judging from the gaps between the two sides of the stone door, there shouldn't have been this stone door in the past.

The stone door had traces of having the door pushed open, and it shouldn't be too thick either. The stone door also didn't have any carvings on it, and it was completely bare, like a large stone slab was moved here to block the exit. This caused me to be extremely confused when I saw what was behind the door.

Was the stone door used to prevent people from entering, or was it used to prevent something from coming out?

Could it have something to do with the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty building this place?

Until now, we still haven't figured out why the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty would want to secretly build such a place here, but I can guess that it should be related to the Emperor Yongle. Since ancient times, emperors have their own secrets, so all we need to do now is to uncover them!

How do I open it? Just blow it up! Damn it, I got a lot of gunpowder this time, we've been cheated before, we have to pay more attention to this. Don't forget the last time at the Wild Mountain, it was only because of the opening of the cabin board that we were attacked by the Beastmen!

Hai Yang said with fear still lingering in her heart. She opened her backpack to get the gunpowder, but I hastily stopped her, "We can't explode. This place is filled with underground river, who knows what's behind it.

Hai Yang shrugged and said, "Then how do we open it? Look at this stone door, it's clearly a large stone slab embedded on top of it. There's no push or pull on it at all and it's completely sealed off. If you don't explode, you won't be able to get in.

Stop arguing, there seems to be something down there!

Just as Hai Yang and I were arguing over how to push open the stone door, Zhu Yingqiong, who was squatting under the stone door and researching, suddenly shouted. We hastily went forward and aimed the light at the bottom of the stone door and suddenly realized that there were eight extremely small things that were the size of a baby's palm branded on the stone door.

What kind of joke is this? Jade was hidden in the stone! Damn it, if we drag this stone back and cut it open, it will definitely be filled with jade!

Zhu Yingqiong said: I don't know, I had originally wanted to see if there was any movement trajectory under the stone door, but right when I squatted down, I saw it. Chen San, what is this?

There was a lot of fine dirt on it, and at the bottom of the stone door, there were traces of water level drowning, which meant that the pool below had once been submerged in this area, which was why this kind of situation happened on the jade tablet. It seemed like something was carved on it, but I couldn't see it clearly, so I got down on my stomach and dug the dirt off it with my hands, then wiped it with my clothes, and found that the words on the jade tablet were the size of a fly, but I could see clearly, in the middle, there was a row of four words: Feng to all, and beside the four words were three very small seals.

I hastily looked at the other jade plates and found that they were all the same as the ones I had seen before, but the only difference was that the names they signed were different. The other seven plates had the names of the other seven people from the drilling team!

These jade plates represent the identity of a member of the drilling team. I hastily stood up and retreated a few steps back. I sized up the stone door in front of me and my face turned ashen.

Hai Yang saw that I was in a bad situation and whispered, What happened? What do you see?

I swallowed my saliva and turned to look at him. In the legends passed down by our ancestors in China, have you ever heard of the gates to the dead?

Close the gates of hell?

Hai Yang was startled. She turned her head to look at the stone door and asked in surprise, You said that this is the gate to hell?

I nodded my head: At first, I did not pay attention to it, thinking that it was just a normal stone door, but after seeing the eight jade plates, I understood, legend has it that after one dies, they enter the Nether World through the seven great gates, and the Gate of Hell is the first gate, but not everyone can enter it. Other than the Black and White Impermanence pulling them in, there is still a road leading to the Gate of Hell, without which no one can enter!

Zhu Yingqiong said thoughtfully: I have heard of such legends, could it be that the Lu Yin you're talking about is the jade tablet below?

Ever since ancient times, it was said that Hades' Lu Yin had been a soul summoner, a jade token with the words Feng Du Tian Tian written on it. He would write the name of the deceased at the bottom, and send it to the Fengdu County, and after the county government had seen it, they would engrave their own seal of the Fengdu County, and then send it to the Yin Division. After the Yin Division had done so, they would issue their seal to the City Official, who would then pass his seal to the Black and White.

The jade tablet under the stone door in front of us is indeed the path given by King Yan. On it are the names of the eight people from the drilling team, in other words, they have come to the underworld!

However, these were only folklore. There were very few people in the world who believed it, so how could the members of the drilling team believe it? Furthermore, this place was clearly underneath the mountain behind the Fallen Dragon Village, and was even constructed by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, so how could it be hell?

I can't figure out what is going on, so I told them what I know about the Gate of Hell. Zhu Yingqiong listened in silence, and Hai Yang's face was full of surprise when he heard it. After squatting for a while, he finally exclaimed: Holy shit, Sanjin, could it be that the soldiers of the Ming dynasty are actually building an artificial Nether World here?

Was it a fake Nether World?

I nodded, looking at the door to hell and Lu Yin, who had such an intention, but Zhu Yingqiong said in puzzlement, Even if there really is an existence of Nether World, why do we need to forge one? What's his purpose?

CHAPTER 202 - FORGERY OF THE UNDERWORLD

I don't understand why the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty would forge a Nether World. What is the purpose of doing this?

After that, when I went to visit Fourth Uncle in the prison, I mentioned this matter. Fourth Uncle slightly frowned, then figured out the cause and effect!

First of all, we can confirm that this fake Gate of Hell was built by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. The Emperor Yongle had given the order to the Great Gentleman Wu to forge this secret in this place.

The Fourth Uncle gave me an answer, he said that this was used to deceive the Black and White Impermanence Soul Emissary!

According to folklore, the Black and White Impermanence would only bring people to the gates of hell, and after entering there, everything had nothing to do with the Black and White Impermanence. But after entering the fake hell, once people enter the hell, then they could trick the Black and White Impermanence into going through the real hell, and after a period of time, when people come out of the fake hell again, the dead person would revive and turn back into Yang. No matter how I hear, it sounds like an extremely strange kind of longevity, because the name in the Book of Life and Death has already been crossed out, and you were indeed taken away by the Black and White Impermanence.

In that era, only Emperor Yongle Zhu Di would have chosen to do this, because Emperors were all selfish beings, there was not a single person in the Ancient Emperor who did not want to pass on their lifespan. The Emperor Yongle wanted to use this method to deceive the underworld, but what made me suspicious was why would he think of forging a Nether World?

When I asked him about this, the Fourth Uncle mentioned a very important person to me. It's the person in charge of building this place and the one who oversaw the construction of the last permanent residence, Great Gentleman Wu.

Then who exactly was Great Gentleman Wu?

Could it really be Wu Zhong?

I can't guess, and in that situation, all of the three of us didn't think of this level. After Zhu Yingqiong asked this question, we all fell silent, and after a long while, Hai Yang said, Who cares if it is the gates to hell, are we really going to die? If you want me to open the door first, then I, your father, would like to see what this fake Nether World looks like!

Since the ocean can't think of anything, then we won't waste time thinking about it. We all agree that if we can't find the answer now, then maybe the answer will appear after we enter, which is the same as what happened under the Wild Mountain.

I squatted down, and touched the jade tablet with my hand, and then pressed it with force. With a cracking sound, the jade tablet that I was pressing on actually caved in, and then with a loud explosion, the stone door in front of me was also controlled by some unknown mechanism, it actually opened up a crack that was wide for two on its own. It was dark inside, and I could not see anything clearly, the sea was the first to squeeze in through the crack, Zhu Yingqiong and I followed closely behind!

The stone door was dark and deep. As soon as we entered, we felt a chill spread through our entire bodies. It was extremely eerie. The flashlight shined forward and we saw a large road paved with stone.

At the end of the road, it was dark. The width of the road was long enough to accommodate two trucks travelling side by side. On both sides, there were cliffs that had been polished. It was obvious that digging out the mountain had taken a lot of manpower.

What surprised us the most was that a ditch had been built under both ends of the road, leading to the end of the road. There was no water in the ditch, but it was filled with soil, and rows of blood-red flowers were blooming inside the soil. When I looked closer, I realized that they were real flowers.

In this place, besides water and soil, there was no sunlight at all. How could there be flowers blooming here? The entire main road was covered with it, from afar, it looked like a carpet made out of blood. Moreover, among the blood-red flowers, when we scanned with our light, we could vaguely see a dense mass of white bones lying on the main road, extremely ferocious!

Hai Yang took one look and said, There's a door in front and it's the Road to River Styx. F * ck, they really forged a Nether World. If I'm not wrong, these flowers are the Resurrection Lily!

I nodded and said, That's right, according to the folklore, people die at the seven stages of the Road to River Styx. The Road to River Styx leads to the Yellow Springs, where the Resurrection Lily is laid out all over the place and the bones of the dead are laid everywhere. Many ghosts and souls who don't want to enter the Road to River Styx want to go back, but in the end, they all died on the Road to River Styx, turning into bones!

Zhu Yingqiong squinted, It's getting more and more interesting, it seems like the person who forged the Underworld really wants to create a genuine Underworld!

My expression was extremely serious. No matter what his intentions are, I don't believe that he can really create a King of Hell. Let's go, let's see what's the next destination!

Due to our previous experience with the illusions of Mount Kunlun, we walked with extreme caution, afraid that the Resurrection Lily would have the same hallucinatory ability as the Demon Fox of Mount Kunlun. Thus, we used our clothes to cover our noses and slowly moved forward.

Honestly speaking, this kind of feeling is extremely frightening, but we have no reason to retreat even here. Otherwise, all of our previous investigations would have been in vain, so none of us uttered any words of fear.

I don't remember exactly how long the fake Road to River Styx was, because the entire Road to River Styx looks the same no matter how I look at it, giving people a false impression that we have been walking for at least an hour without encountering any danger.

Some of them were armor, some were rusty swords, some were digging tools. It is possible to guess that most of the people who died on the Road to River Styx were digging workers, and some were soldiers. As for why they died here, we can't guess!

An hour later, we arrived at the end of the Road to River Styx. We could faintly hear the sound of the dark river flowing. We quickened our pace and at the end of the Road we saw a huge rock nearly two meters tall!

It's like a mirror, shining the light on it, we can actually vaguely see ourselves. Standing in front of the huge rock, we have an extremely desolate feeling in our heart, accompanied by the sound of our underground river, we look at the blurry figure in the stone, and feel that we have walked to the fork in the road in our previous lives, that kind of strange feeling is really very surprising!

On the stone surface of the boulder, there were four large, blood-red words engraved upon it. Early morning on the other side!

I looked at the huge rock and exclaimed, This should be the Stone of Three Lives!

What is the Stone of Three Lives? Zhu Yingqiong asked.

Hai Yang explained, The Stone of Three Lives is actually the Demonic Mirror of the Underworld. Legend has it that it records everyone's past lives!

His previous life and his current life?

Zhu Yingqiong laughed: Does a person really have the same way as his previous life and this current life?

I slightly shook my head: I don't know, you could say that your previous life was fake, but if you were to tell others everything that happened to us, such as how people can still move even after dying, the mutated Thri-kreen, the corpses of Pill Cauldron and their breathing, no one would believe you, no one would say that what we experienced was fake, just like how we haven't experienced our previous lives, so we think that it's fake!

Zhu Yingqiong nodded slightly, as if she had thought of something.

I pointed at the mirror-like boulder before me and continued, "The Stone of Three Lives, ascend the other side early, it is said that it recorded the past lives of all people, and for countless years, it has witnessed the suffering, joy, sorrow, joy, laughter, and tears of all the living beings, and the fruits of its past life, the fate of its reincarnation, the due debt, the due debt, everything is carved on the Stone of Three Lives, and as long as I stand in front of it once again, I will write off all the debts, so it is said that the Three Lives Stone is the demonic mirror of the Nether World.

Hai Yang sputtered and then shook her body in front of the Stone of Three Lives: Look, this is the mirror. When I looked at it earlier, I realized that my body seemed to have become a lot slimmer, so let's not talk about the peach blossoms anymore and continue looking forward. I heard the sound of water flowing in the underground river, maybe I will discover something even bigger!

Following the footsteps of the sea, we rapidly went past the Three Lives Stone. Listening to the sound of the water from the underground river, the two sides of the passage started to become rough, and it became increasingly narrow, after all, it was in the middle of a mountain. We could vaguely feel that there were water droplets falling from the sky, and this section of road seemed to be built with great effort, because strange rocks could be seen everywhere on both sides of the road, so the road was extremely steep.

We hastily went over the intersection and discovered that in front of us was a cliff face more than ten meters tall. There was a narrow path cut into the cliff face, and below the cliff face was a surging and roaring river, the sound of water rumbled, as if an underground Dark River flowed out from the depths of the ground, forming a small gap in the cliff face. It was like a waterfall, which was why there were so many splashes!

This huge dark river lay in front of us, between the Road to River Styx and the empty darkness opposite us. We couldn't see the end of this river, and as the flashlight swept past the other side, we could vaguely see that it seemed to be a very spacious area, to my surprise, this Dark River was actually turbid to the point that it seemed like the Yellow River Basin was filled with mud. What made me even more surprised was that on a platform protruding out of the dark river, there was actually a pavilion!

This pavilion was constructed in a very peculiar manner. It was wide in top and narrow in bottom, and had a bow-like surface, and a bowstring that ran parallel to its back. Aside from a small path that led to the stone steps, the rest of the pavilion was surrounded by mountain of swords and trees; it was extremely steep and difficult to climb onto the platform.

I was stunned, the gates to hell, the Road to River Styx, the Stone of Three Lives, the Viewing Platform, then wouldn't the dark river basin in front of us be the River of Forgetfulness? What was the Forgetfulness River?

The River of Forgetfulness was the Nether World!

CHAPTER 203 - CROSSING THE RIVER OF WANGCHUAN

Since ancient times, when people died, they went through the gates of hell, took the Yellow Springs Road, followed the Stone of Life, stepped on the Wangchuan River, crossed the River of Forgetfulness, ascended the Bridge of Helplessness, and entered the path of reincarnation. When people's life flashed back, leaving behind the last trace of a memory, they were reborn after the Yama Hall's trial, and although the process was complex, but it reflected everyone's fate perfectly, I never thought that the fake Wu would actually think of forging the underground river into the River of Forgetfulness, and from the looks of it, after the River of Forgetfulness we pass through the Bridge of Nai, we can reach the Nether World!

Building a Nether World is not something that can be done in a day, especially under the ground. This is just in accordance with our previous speculations, it is impossible to create a Nether World in the Ming Dynasty after sealing the mountain for two years. We don't know how much time it took!

Furthermore, I have a feeling that there is another mystery behind this fake Underworld!

Hai Yang carried a flashlight and walked around the watchtower, up and down the River of Forgetfulness, only to discover that the river channel was very long, spanning the middle, and downstream, there was no place for water to flow through. Furthermore, the water current was extremely strong, so if a water flow over there, it would be very easy to be swept away. We didn't bring any diving equipment either! "

Even with the diving equipment, the water's current level is too dangerous!

Zhu Yingqiong muttered to herself for a moment: Drainage and gathering, changing the underground river to the River of Forgetfulness, they can't possibly not leave a way out for themselves, it's just that after so many years have passed, the path to cross the river should already be gone, can we use ropes?

I hastily opened my backpack. There was always a lot of rope, but we didn't have any hook guns, so Hai Yang told me that I stayed in the Qinghai Prairie for a while and learned some skills from the horse herder there. As long as I tied a loop at the end of the rope, he would be able to cover the things on the other side!

Although this guy didn't do any proper work, he had learned quite a lot of things. The horse riding was actually a traditional sport of the Ewenki race, and it was originally a skill used by herdsmen when they were herding horses, and it was divided into two types: swinging a horse with a pole, and carrying a bamboo pole with a length of two or three meters. The rider would tie a rope around the top of the bamboo pole, which was just big enough to hold the horse head!

As for the rope and horse harnessing, it is like holding a noose with a noose and swinging it out with force. If you pull on the noose with force, you will be able to succeed, but this ability is indispensable to the people who use it, there is no other way, we can only let the sea try!

Hai Yang happily wanted to show off her skills in front of us. He roughly measured the width of the River Forgetfulness before Zhu Yingqiong turned on her miner's light and head light, illuminating the opposite shore. From the other side, we could see that there were a lot of strange rocks on the opposite side, which looked like they had been dug out, but for some reason, we couldn't figure out their reason, so it looked like a coal mine!

When the sea was done with the rope, it began to swing its arms, and the rope whooshed above its head, and the wind came up, and the ring grew round and turned faster and faster, and the sea rushed back a dozen paces and then ran straight to the edge of the River Wangchuan, and the rope slipped from my hand, and with a whooshing sound the rope flew out like an arrow from a bow, and I saw from a distance the ring come on top of a protruding pillar on the other side, and the sea immediately retracted the rope, and the rope tightened, and we pulled hard, and the rope was held very steadily, until we could break the pillar!

Hai Yang proudly said, How is it? You have never seen your father's ability before, right? When I was in the Qinghai prairie, I used this skill to capture the girl from the local biggest herdsman's house. In the end, I almost got married!"

Zhu Yingqiong asked in puzzlement: Why is it almost?

Hai Yang was speechless. "Later on, a group called 'Legend of the Phoenix' sang a song about horses, and I became a man with horses. I kept whispering in my ear all day. When I felt annoyed, I ran away.

When I heard this, I knew that this guy was intentionally playing around and didn't want to talk about what happened back then, but now isn't the time to reminisce about the past. I pulled on the rope and said, "I don't know how big the water is and whether the rope can handle it.

Swish!

The moment she finished speaking, before I could even move, Zhu Yingqiong had already grabbed onto a rope to the edge of the River of Forgetfulness. With the sound of water rumbling, she asked me to put one end of the rope to a pillar beneath the watchtower, then she said: I'll go over and take a look first, I'm lighter than all of you!

Then, without waiting for me or the sea to react, she grabbed the rope and tightened it around her wrist, and then she shot into the water.

The moment Zhu Yingqiong entered the water, I saw her body being swept up by the water and rushing downstream. She immediately grabbed hold of onto the rope, and after the rope flew out an arc, Zhu Yingqiong was pulled out three or four meters away from the water. She leaned against the rope and stabilized her body, and then, she jumped into the water fiercely, causing my heart to tighten, and I had no idea what she was trying to do.

A dozen or so seconds later, under the light of the flashlight, I saw Zhu Yingqiong come out of the water, and then she shouted at us for something to do. I only saw the shape of her mouth moving, but I couldn't hear it clearly.

Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened. Ten minutes later, Zhu Yingqiong successfully reached the other side of the river and waved at us, her face revealing a look of excitement, it seems like this method really worked, I looked at Hai Shui and walked towards the water's edge with an extremely tacit understanding, grabbing onto the rope with my hand and jumping into the water.

I looked back, the sea also grabbed onto the rope and jumped down, I tried to step on it with my feet, but I couldn't do anything, I couldn't do anything about it, I could only use the headlight to shine on it, I grabbed onto the rope and moved slowly, it would be very simple if we didn't have the momentum to cross the river like this, because the water doesn't have any weight, but the Dark River's momentum is very strong, our bodies kept pulling downwards, so it was very difficult for us to do it, so we could only use all our strength to hold onto the rope and slowly move to the opposite side!

Roughly seven or eight minutes later, I had already reached the other side. Zhu Yingqiong was standing on the shore, constantly waving and shouting at me, but I could barely hear her shouting 'Hurry up!', I thought to myself that we were in the water but it was not fast, so I turned my head to look at the sea. The dog was even slower than me, but because of his weight, the rope's curvature had already become larger, and it was only halfway through.

Hurry up!

I turned my head and shouted towards the sea. I didn't care if he heard me or not, I turned around and continued to move towards the other side.

I hastily waved and shouted, but as Zhu Yingqiong faced me, she was simply unable to see the situation behind him, and could not hear my voice. I helplessly watched as the Crossbow Arrow shot into Zhu Yingqiong's back, and then, forcefully pierced half of Zhu Yingqiong's body, causing blood to spurt out. Zhu Yingqiong staggered on the ground with her feet, but behind him, a black figure flashed in the darkness and disappeared. I hastily shook my head, thinking to use the headlight on my forehead to see who it was, but the other party was very fast, I only saw a shadow!

At that moment, I was stunned for three seconds. I could not believe what I saw as Zhu Yingqiong fell to the ground, and the anger in my heart shot up like a straight line.

Could it be the guy who killed the drilling team that year?

Crossbow Arrow? Could it be that he was the same person as the Crossbow Arrow killer that killed everyone in the Old Man Wu?

I didn't even have time to think as I madly pulled on the rope and moved towards the other side. But the short distance between us was like the distance between us was like the distance between heaven and earth, the water was too strong, so my speed was simply too fast, and on the other side, Zhu Yingqiong, after falling to the ground, slowly propped herself up from the ground. At the same time, his body nimbly pulled out the dagger that we had prepared beforehand from her waist.

Whiz!

Another cold arrow shot out, the arrow beam flashed past in the darkness, and this time it was still aimed in my direction, but Zhu Yingqiong was blocking right in front of me, the Crossbow Arrow was rushing over, at lightning speed, Zhu Yingqiong wielded his dagger to block it, with a thump sound, the Crossbow Arrow brushed past Zhu Yingqiong's arm and drew another line of blood, then fell onto the ground, while Zhu Yingqiong's dagger also fell down.

Swish!

Just at this moment, an extremely blinding light suddenly opened up on the opposite shore, much like the light from a large flashlight, coming straight at my eyes. Just at this moment, an extremely blinding light opened up on the opposite shore, like the light coming from a large flashlight, the light coming straight at my eyes.

Three meters!

Two meters!

One meter!

My speed increased, and I saw that the shore was right in front of me. Behind me, the ocean also saw the situation on the shore, and my clumsy body also sped up, reaching behind me in a blink of an eye. But the moment I saw that I was about to step onto the shore, in a blind spot, I saw that the silhouette on the other side seemed to have picked up Zhu Yingqiong's dagger and cut the rope.

The rope swayed, and after three seconds, I felt the power of the rope suddenly collapse, and the water immediately swept my body underwater. The sound of water rumbled beside my ears, and I felt my body float like a piece of paper, and a large number of Dark River s rushed into my ears and nose, and I could only grab onto the severed rope tightly in the water to control my body. However, the water pressure was really great, and after the rope broke, I was unable to grab onto my body tightly, and after two consecutive failures, the broken rope had already disappeared before my eyes.

CHAPTER 204 - BEWILDERMENT

At that moment, I could only hear the deafening sound of Dark River being carried downstream by the water current. After being continuously sucked in a few mouthfuls of water, I crawled out of the water, took a few quick breaths, and was once again pulled into the water. I didn't know how long I had been washed into the water, but all of a sudden, I felt like I hit something underwater, and my body, which was always engulfed by the water current, also stopped here!

In the light of the headlight, I noticed that I had been dragged to an unknown place by the Dark River. On both sides, there were dense mountain rocks on the ground and there was no shore at all.

Following the light, I noticed that there were actually black iron chains that were as thick as a person's wrist blocking my body. The iron chains pierced through the two sides of the river and stabbed into the bottom of the river like a net.

And behind the metal chain, in a river not more than four or five meters away from me, the sound of water incessantly rumbled out. Looking back, I saw that the water was boiling and it turned out to be an underground cliff.

Fortunately, there were so many iron chains sinking into the water to stop me. Otherwise, if I had followed the flow of the water, I would have died without a complete corpse. It seems that the supervisors also found this place when they were forging the Underworld, and they were also worried that some workers would accidentally fall into the water and be swept away. Thus, they had fixed so many iron chains specifically to prevent those who fell into the water from dying without a complete corpse!

I turned my head and shone the headlight on my forehead to see if there was any way out, but I was disappointed that there was no shore on either side that could be used to stand and walk on. On both sides of the place were steep mountains, and on the other side of the wall, there seemed to be a path that had been dug out temporarily, just like the path that had been jutted out from the cliffs of the mountain in Shi Dao. It seemed to be a dizzying path, and it should have been dug by the workers in the middle of the mountain, otherwise there was no way to explain why the chain was stuck in the water!

I took out a palm-sized flashlight from my pocket and shouted out the name of the sea. However, due to the rumbling of the water and the echo of human voices, I didn't hear any response from the sea. In my heart, I started to get anxious.

It is unknown whether Zhu Yingqiong was still alive when she was in trouble, but the ocean and I had fallen into the water at the same time, so we did not appear at the same place, but either she was directly swept down the waterfall's cliff by the water, or he climbed onto the shore midway, but there was a metal chain blocking him at the end, so he probably climbed onto the shore midway!

We can't stay here any longer. We have to hurry back to the lookout platform as soon as possible!

I turned my head to look at the chains in the water on both sides of the dark river. Just as I was about to move the chain to the two sides of the mountain and climb up the small mountain, suddenly, a huge splash appeared in the water to my side and in an instant, I was sent flying a few meters by the sudden explosion. I turned my head to look in surprise and saw a huge pillar of water rushing out from the bottom of the river like a water dragon.

What the heck is this thing?

I tightly grabbed onto the metal chain as I stood in place, my face filled with disbelief. The scene just now was too shocking!

The underground river in front of us right now is different from the underground river we normally encounter. Normally, the water potential of underground river is very stable, so there would be more or less blind fish surviving in the water.

In that instant, I felt my scalp go cold and my eyes widen like a copper bell. Such a rapid flow of water, for a dog to be able to survive underwater meant that it could resist such a large flow of water itself, and me being in the water was no different from sending sheep to a tiger's den. Thinking of this, I grabbed onto the metal chain and crazily moved towards the mountain in front of me!

After moving four to five meters, another loud sound came from behind me. Another stream of water spouted out from the water, it was almost as thick as an ancient tree, the water pillar charged straight into the ceiling of the cave, creating countless splashes and huge waves. I was swept a few meters away again, my body floating uncontrollably in the water.

My body was swept out of the chain, and when I looked up, I had already charged to the edge of the waterfall. I did not have any time or method to react, so I could only grab onto the chains in front of me in a flurry. By the time I managed to hold onto the chains tightly, I had already rushed to the edge of the cliff, and looking down, half of my body was already floating in the air above the cliff. The sound of the water below me was as black as thunder, like an endless abyss, I had no idea how high it was!

I heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that I am lucky, but looking at how the water pillar in front of the metal chain still didn't stop, it was like watering flowers that were spraying back and forth around the metal chain, creating layers and layers of huge waves. I knew that as long as I was washed away by the huge waves and fell into the cliff again, I would have to go to the Underworld to report.

Thus, I could only grit my teeth and use my hands to hug the metal chain, as my entire body clung onto it. I could only feel the metal chain unceasingly swaying back and forth in the water, thinking that the metal chain has endured for more than a hundred years, so you must not break it at this time.

The column of water continued for two to three minutes before it gradually started to calm down. When I looked at the bottom of the water, I couldn't see anything clearly, it was blurry as though I could see a huge black shadow, but I couldn't think of what it was. This reminded me of a whale that could spurt water from the ocean, but my mother's Cloud Lord was in a highland with no sea.

If he really wanted to produce a whale, that would be a fantasy story!

F * ck! I was just about to turn into a dragon, but unexpectedly, it was blocked by the iron chains. So, I was currently in a rage, but after thinking for a long time, I still felt that something was wrong.

But apart from whales and flood dragons, what other species could be flopping in the dark waters of such a swift river? F * ck, I'm not a biologist, so why do I have to face all these strange species? I grumbled in my heart. This year is really weird, Bodhisattva closed his eyes, all these monsters have come out for a stroll!

After waiting for more than ten minutes on the metal chain, seeing the monster under the water gradually disappearing and the water column flowing upwards at a distance of thirty to forty meters away from me, I heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed that I had gone far, and without further hesitation, I carefully grabbed onto the metal chain and flipped my body to the other side before slowly moving to the edge of the cliff!

At this point, I started to worry again. There was no landing area, and the protruding path was at least 10 meters away from me. I'm not f * * king Duan Ming, I wouldn't be able to fly without being able to do so.

After thinking for a moment, I carefully took out a nylon rope from my backpack and tied one end to the metal chain while the other end was tied to my waist. This way, even if I fell down while climbing, I would still be pulled by the rope and not fall off the cliff.

However, just as I tied the rope around my waist, I suddenly felt a huge force burst out from the bottom of the water, followed by a pillar of water emerging from the water. The water was so strong that my body couldn't control itself as it flew towards the ceiling of the cave and collided with my body. At the same time, the rope tightened around my waist, almost strangling me to death.

Luckily, the rope was able to pull me under the water in time. After choking on it a few times, I managed to stabilize my body before opening my eyes and swimming towards the surface. When I was about to jump out of the water, my hand suddenly touched a soft object.

I immediately turned my head to the side and saw an extremely sinister face appear in front of me. The face of the face to the eye collided with mine, scaring me to the point that my entire body shivered in the water. I was unable to hold my breath as I directly sucked the water into my lungs.

CHAPTER 205 - UNDERGROUND FOUNTAIN

It was a face that had already rotted away, extremely pale from being soaked in the water for a long time, reaching the point of swelling. My eyes were wide open, staring at me as if I died with grievance, half of my body was tightly shackled by the iron chains, the upper half of my body was swaying in the water like a Water Ghost. At a glance, I can tell that the cowards were all scared to death, even after experiencing so much, I almost passed out!

How could there be a rotting body under the water? Could it be the villagers who accidentally fell into the water and were dragged here?

I calmed my mind and held my breath as I looked at the corpse's face. When I saw the face of the corpse, I was stunned, but in my heart, I scolded Zhati, this corpse was actually the Old Man Wu that was killed by the mysterious person!

When Zhati left, he took Old Man Wu's corpse with him, saying that he would take care of it himself so that we wouldn't get into trouble. I thought that he had burned the corpse or buried it somewhere, but I never thought that the corpse would actually appear here, and almost scared me to death.

I took a deep breath and looked at the side of Old Man Wu's corpse. My scalp went numb when I looked at it, and I saw that there were still many corpses hanging on the chains at the bottom of the river, some had already rotted into bones, some were even rotting, and some were even human corpses, but most of them were animals, such as livestock, pigs, cattle, sheep and so on. They looked extremely disgusting, and when I thought about how I had just swallowed a few mouthfuls of water, I suddenly felt like puking.

I held onto the chain and looked around cautiously, only to find that the water pillar had disappeared. I didn't see any strange creatures under the water and couldn't help but feel a little curious. Could it be that the monster that spouted out the water was a vegetarian or that it found me too small to fit in the gaps between its teeth?

But after thinking about it carefully, I still felt that something was wrong. When I was sprayed by the water column and then fell into the water, I didn't see any living things under the water.

There was no time to think about it now, I hastily adjusted the headlight, and pulled the metal chain as I groped my way to the other side of the mountain wall. After so long, I don't know whether or not Hai Shui and Zhu Yingqiong are dead or alive, and I don't know who exactly the mysterious man is.

Pulling on the chain, moving in the water, I could feel my feet constantly touching the corpses hanging on the chains, and every time they touched me, my scalp would go numb. I could only speed up, and a few minutes later, I was at the foot of the mountain once again. I pulled out a dagger from my tactical portable bag and stabbed it with all my strength.

Looking at the protruding path above us, I thought to myself that if the sea was there, he would be able to catch the stones and climb up, but unfortunately, I didn't have the skills to do so. I didn't even know how to do it, and just as I was about to forcibly climb up the mountain, I suddenly felt a huge force coming up from the bottom of the mountain, and the water level of the underground river also rose along with it, as if there was something huge rising up from the water.

I hastily lowered my head to look and once again, my face turned deathly pale. Under the turbid water, the huge black shadow from before appeared once again beneath my body. It was getting more and more obvious.

When I looked towards the bottom of the water, the huge black shadow was becoming more and more obvious, forming an oval shape. I searched through my mind and realized that there weren't any aquatic creatures that were oval shaped, but the shadow was always lingering under my feet, clearly wanting to treat me as a dinner. It would be better to take the initiative and attack first, rather than sitting still and waiting for death!

Gritting my teeth, I pulled out my dagger and saw that the black shadow had already reached the surface. I immediately dove into the water and stabbed the dagger into the water, but what made me disappointed was that the dagger actually stabbed into empty air. There was nothing under the water.

At the bottom of the lake, I could vaguely see a huge bubble rush up. When the bubble charged out of the water, it turned into a stream of water pillar shooting towards the top of the cave.

After dodging the water pillar, I took a deep breath and dove into the water. The water depth was about seven to eight meters, all the way to the bottom, where I turned on the flashlight, and saw that the bottom of the river was covered with large, black, oval holes. I didn't know how deep those pits were, but I was certain that all the water columns were ejected from them.

When I reached the edge of the pool, a large amount of sand and dirt rushed out of the hole and formed a huge black oval-shaped shadow on the surface of the water. When I arrived at the edge of the pool, a large amount of sand and dirt rushed out of the hole and formed a large elliptical black shadow on the surface of the water.

These water pillars were formed from the gushing out of the deep pit. As each gush caused a large amount of fine sand and mud to fly out, it formed the black shadow I saw earlier. When the water pillars dispersed, the fine sand and mud were also swept away by the Dark River!

The name of the fountain is actually an intermittent underground fountain, an extremely rare and peculiar geographical phenomenon in nature. I had seen it on television before, and under certain conditions, when the water in the underground river converges to a place that cannot bear it, it erupts, and each eruption is very powerful, and from the eruption to the fall, it goes through the overflow, the ejection, and the final fall. The cycle is very regular, so it is called an intermittent underground fountain, and if I had just dived into the cavern, there would have been an endless pit below, but I would have been ejected again soon, though not for a few minutes at a time, and more than half an hour at a time!

Without an oxygen tank, it is not recommended to dive into such a water hole!

However, what made me feel lucky was that although I encountered an intermittent underground fountain, it wasn't a high-temperature intermittent fountain. Although both of them belonged to an underground fountain, the difference between the two was like heaven and earth!

The high-temperature intermittent underground fountain spurted boiling hot water. The temperature was very high, and once a person was sprayed on by the water, they would be instantly scalded. This kind of high-temperature underground fountain would usually appear underground in volcanoes or high temperature underground river.

After thinking through all of this, I wiped the river water off my face. After all, I was the one scaring myself, but this kind of special geographical environment that doesn't even exist in the country, even if there are ordinary people underground, they would only have one or two, it definitely doesn't look like the water in front of me was filled with people underwater. Wu Hengshun's idea was right, once this place is developed, even the entrance fee can be retracted, let alone this fake Underworld!

When I had to climb halfway up the mountain, I had to do it within a few minutes. If not, once the water column rushed out, I would still fail, and if I was careless, I might even be thrown out of the cliff by the water column. At that time, I would truly be doomed!

Not daring to act carelessly, I stood at the bottom of the mountain wall next to the metal chain, while counting and using my dagger to dig holes in the mountain wall. The mountain wall is too steep, and there is no place for me to push myself up to.

When the water pillar first erupted, I dug out a small hole for my feet to step on. During the second eruption, I had already dug out a place where I could borrow strength from, and after the third eruption, I climbed halfway up the hole. When the fourth eruption, I used both of my hands to support the ground of the small mountain path.

It was the width of a foot, and once it was stepped on, it would fall into the Dark River. The danger level was not worse than Hua Shan's, it truly reached the point where the Yellow Crane was unable to fly, and the Ape could only imagine how dangerous it was to climb on top of it!

I used my dagger to cut the rope tied to my waist, and then carefully moved my body to the side as I headed upstream. After walking for about 10 minutes, the path under my feet suddenly widened, and following the flashlight, I saw that there were riverbeds on both sides of the river.

The riverbed was filled with strange rocks and broken stones, and the air was filled with an extremely unpleasant odor. There were also a lot of garbage made by humans on both sides of the shallows. These should have been washed here by throwing water, and there were also a lot of carcasses of livestock here previously.

After more than half an hour, I could see a pavilion standing tall in the darkness in front of me. I was overjoyed, I finally arrived at the place where I fell into the water previously, and the pavilion in front of me was the Forged Underworld's watchtower!

I quickened my pace, and when I reached the opposite side of the pavilion, there was no one on the shore. I could still see the dried blood and half of the rope that had been cut off.

Where was he?

Why is it all gone?

Zhu Yingqiong, Hai Shui, the mysterious person had all disappeared!

CHAPTER 206 - TRACE

My first thought was that they were taken away by the mysterious person, otherwise the shore wouldn't be empty, but after thinking about it carefully, I felt that something was wrong, if the mysterious person wanted to take us away, he wouldn't need to let the Crossbow Arrow kill people.

I thought of the worst case scenario, Zhu Yingqiong wouldn't have been killed by the mysterious man right?

At that time, her ribs were penetrated by the Crossbow Arrow and her hands were injured. Even though she was fast and nimble, she was definitely not a match for the mysterious man. After all, the mysterious man still had the Crossbow Arrow in his hands.

Could it be that the mysterious person would take the corpse away after killing someone in this place?

Furthermore, the sea was washed away by the water at the same time as me. He should have struggled to the shore while on the way back. The mysterious person didn't even have the chance to kill the sea.

I wanted to shout out their names, but I was afraid that I would attract the mysterious person over, so I became anxious. I wanted to shout out their names, but I was afraid that I would attract the mysterious person over, so I became anxious.

At that time, there would be revenge, and grievances!

Walking along the banks of the Wangchuan River, I passed a pile of gravel and saw that a paved road made of slate bricks had begun to appear. The two sides of the road were also filled with blood-red Resorts, but compared to the Road to River Styx, the road in front of me seemed much narrower.

It looks like the sea isn't dead yet. I don't know how he managed to cross the River of Forgetfulness to arrive here, but what makes me surprised is that there are seven or eight cigarette butts on the ground. It's not strange that there are cigarette butts, but why would the sea be here smoking seven or eight cigarettes?

This place didn't have any dangers or traps, it was just a normal road. Besides the Resurrection Lily that was spreading out from the two sides, there was nothing special about it. Was there really a need for the sea to smoke so many cigarettes here?

I squatted down to inspect each cigarette butt. There weren't any sparks left on it, meaning that the cigarette butt had been left here for a long time. I raised my head to look at the side and discovered that there was blood on the stone floor.

Healing injuries?

The sea healing here?

That's not right!

If he was injured by a mysterious person, he definitely wouldn't be healing by himself here, because this place is completely empty and cannot be defended against the attacks of Crossbow Arrow. Even if Hai Yang wanted to heal his wounds, he wouldn't have chosen to be here, and most importantly, we distributed all the equipment when we first came in, so the majority of the medicines are in Zhu Yingqiong's backpack. Could it