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Chapter 497 - 488: Mechanism Detour, Something Under the Water

Chapter 497: Chapter 488: Mechanism Detour, Something Under the Water

Underground, without knowing day from night, we can only rely on a watch to keep time.

At seven in the morning, everyone who took turns resting for two hours gradually awoke.

After briefly washing up and eating some of the dry food and water we brought to fill our stomachs, we set off again.

Yun Yi walked at the back and closed the door, clasping his hands together, "Thank you for the stay."

Changning, who turned around and saw his action: "..."

Have to say, he’s improved quite a bit!

With the bedtime discussion from yesterday, everyone was more meticulous in this exploration.

But the more we investigated, the harder it was to relax.

"It seems it really isn’t an isolated case, nobody uses this house and furniture, so why is it built? It can’t just be for show, can it? Such a large-scale display would indeed be extravagant!"

One of Xu Zhao’s team members couldn’t help but comment, and after speaking, saw not only his own captain but also Miss Jiang at the front turn their bright-eyed gaze on him, making his heart panic, "Did I, did I say something wrong?"

"No."

"You didn’t say anything wrong."

Jiang Lingxi and Xu Zhao shook their heads and almost in unison finished speaking, then exchanged a glance.

"This ruin really might just be for show."

"Huh?"

"If you see this ruin as a grand tomb, then no living person would dwell here; all the buildings inside are merely for show."

After crossing a bridge and seeing water still flowing in the underground river below, the hypothesis of it being a grand tomb became more certain.

In a place like the desert, everyone knows how precious a water source is, even a child who just learned to remember things knows that.

With water available, you’d be foolish to choose to relocate to another place.

Unless this place was uninhabited originally!

Seeing a water source in the desert, even in this vast tomb, is undoubtedly an exhilarating event.

Just around noon, everyone unanimously decided to rest on the bridge.

Yun Yi even went down from the bridge to the riverbank to take a closer look, and upon hearing footsteps, turned back to see it was Changning, exclaiming excitedly, "The river water is very clear, you can even see the fine sand below. If we boil it, it should be drinkable, right?"

"I advise you to abandon that thought," Changning said, squatting down to pick up a small stone and throw it into the water, which instantly turned muddy and took a while to clear up, "Since this place is likely a tomb, generally things in the tomb are taboo, so try not to touch them."

Yun Yi quickly withdrew his hand right before touching the water’s surface.

The two turned to leave, not looking back, naturally not seeing a series of bubbles slowly rising from underneath the spot where Changning had just thrown the stone.

The water surface quickly returned to calm.

Although an extra river appeared, the strange thing was that the surrounding air wasn’t much more humid.

We basically needed a sip of water every half an hour to relieve the thirst.

Jiang Lingxi twisted the cap on her mineral water bottle tight and put it back into her bag, "Assuming this is a tomb, then most importantly we should find the residing place of the tomb’s owner, which is likely also the destination of the Changcang Sect."

"Then Mr. Yunqing and the others should have arrived, even if not, they should be there soon."

Jiang Lingxi closed her eyes to recall the map she viewed on the USB back then, "Since it’s the Ancient Capital, the tomb owner is most likely located in the Imperial City. Let’s continue forward."

By three in the afternoon, we arrived at a fork in the road.

This wasn’t the first fork we encountered; we had already crossed several.

This time, Jiang Lingxi was the first to stop.

"What’s wrong, Lingxi, are you tired? If so, we can..."

"Changning, Brother Xu, Yun Yi, look, doesn’t the signboard in front seem familiar?"

What does the signboard say?

Everyone fixed their gaze.

"Ming Ji Cloth Workshop."

"Did ancient cloth workshops open chains? That’s quite advanced!"

Changning held back his speechless reaction, "Are you sure this is a chain? Don’t you think this place looks exactly the same as the one you saw before?"

Yun Yi’s expression changed immediately, turning to see that everyone else’s expressions weren’t any better.

"Have we...looped back? But I remember we kept moving forward!"

When we crossed that familiar bridge again, Yun Yi specifically checked the footprints of him and Changning to the riverbank and back, losing the last bit of hopeful doubt.

"Looks like we were indeed a bit too optimistic before. After all, since it’s a tomb, there’s no way it lacks traps to stop people."

"Let’s not proceed first. Let’s review the path we’ve walked before and see where the problem occurred."

Changning readily took out paper and pens, and under Jiang Lingxi’s indication, everyone was given a sheet of paper and a pen.

Jiang Lingxi took the paper and pen, "Record everything you can remember. Think carefully, if we can’t find a way out, we’ll be stuck going in circles here."

Everyone listened, their hearts thumping, and their minds raced.

After Jiang Lingxi finished her drawing, she looked up to see everyone else still writing frantically, so she put down her paper and pen, quietly stood up, strolled to the riverbank, and glanced at the time on her watch.

Half-past five in the afternoon.

The night was approaching again.

The day’s gains couldn’t be said to be none, but they were very limited.

Who knows if Yunqing and the others encountered a similar situation when they passed through here.

The gurgling bubble sound interrupted Jiang Lingxi’s contemplation.

The sound came from the water ahead, she first stepped back a few paces, then shone her flashlight onto the water surface.

Only then did she notice that at some point, wisps of thin mist started to float on the water surface.

How thin was this mist? Just a very thin layer on the water’s surface, not even lifting up.

But with such a mist, the light couldn’t penetrate, making it impossible to see what was below the water surface.

The flashlight’s light hit the bubbling area directly; the mist seemed to be coming up from beneath the water through those bubbles.

The second the flashlight hit, the bubbling stopped in the next second.

Jiang Lingxi also paused.

If it reacts to light, then more likely than not, it’s not inanimate.

The first thing that came to her mind was the brief glimpse of green eyes she saw at the first inn the previous night.

In these Ancient Capital Ruins, there might truly be natives present.

The discovery from last night might not have been an illusion!

The water doesn’t seem deep; should I go in to investigate?

As soon as the thought crossed her mind, Changning’s voice came from the bridge, "Sister Lingxi? Everyone’s done drawing, would you like to take a look?"

"Come to the riverbank, there’s something in the river."

Soon, a crowd rushed over noisily.

Observing the mist on the river surface and the bubbling noise, no one spoke for a moment.

"No, no way!" Yun Yi’s mouth opened, "I checked with Changning before, the water was clear enough to see the bottom, there was nothing but sand underneath!"

"What about underneath the sand?"

Yun Yi was rendered completely speechless.

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