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Chapter 504 - 495: Disappearance, The Water is Strange

Chapter 504: Chapter 495: Disappearance, The Water is Strange

"Glug glug!"

"Mmm, save..."

After a tiny splash, the hall returned to silence.

The first to wake up was Chong Shi.

Seeing his subordinate snoozing by the flashlight, he walked up with a cold face and kicked him.

"You sleep when you’re supposed to be on night watch!"

The kicked man woke up with a bewildered look, "Master Chong Shi, I wasn’t on night watch last night!"

Only then did Chong Shi realize he had kicked the wrong person, but an apology was out of the question, "Then who was on night watch last night? I woke up and there wasn’t a single guard in sight."

The commotion caused the others who were still asleep to wake up one by one.

Upon investigation, they found that it wasn’t that the person responsible for the watch had irresponsibly fallen asleep, but that they had vanished without a trace.

"Did anyone hear any unusual noises last night? Even if you thought it was a dream, it counts."

The crowd exchanged glances, then shook their heads with solemn expressions.

Being on night watch carried significant responsibility at this time. If danger was detected, they had to alert, and they must not leave without permission, so leaving on their own was impossible.

The hall was only this big. Last night, before sleeping, they had checked it thoroughly, and they hadn’t even found the exit.

Where could a living person have gone?

Yin Chong’s tone was cold and calm as he ordered, "Find them, alive or dead!"

Everyone immediately became tense and began searching for the missing person.

At least they had rested for a few hours, and their spirits had recovered significantly, so this time they searched even more meticulously than before.

Yet in the end, they still couldn’t find the person, but they did find some inscriptions hidden in the hall.

Yin Chong looked at the patterns on the stone wall in front of him.

They seemed old, likely carved by the last person trapped here. They depicted the monsters they had encountered and the entrance that brought them into the hall. One small section at the end appeared to depict the Black Pond.

The reason it only "appeared" to depict it was that, whether from lack of energy or having died, the person who carved the images had only managed to carve half of it.

"Did you find any human bones?"

Chong Shi walked up behind Yin Chong, looking at the carvings on the stone wall, his face as dark as charcoal, with a hint of fear deep in his eyes, "No, there’s nothing in this damn place!"

At least leave a skeleton behind!

"No, I’m going to find the exit now!"

Yin Chong didn’t stop him, nor was he in the mood to do so.

After carefully studying the carvings on the stone wall again to confirm that there were no other clues, Yin Chong turned towards the Black Pond where they had fallen before.

One thing was certain: everything depicted on the stone wall should be of use.

The monsters and the entrance, both they and the carver had already encountered them.

Only the Black Pond remained. Since falling and leaving it, he hadn’t approached it because of its pungent smell.

But now, even if he didn’t want to approach it, he was compelled to thoroughly investigate any peculiarities it might hold.

"Get a container over here."

Luan Feng heard the order and quickly retrieved an empty plastic bottle from his backpack, "Sir, will this do?"

Yin Chong nodded, "Take some water from this pond."

Yesterday, when they crawled out of the pond, someone had accidentally swallowed some water, and none of them felt unwell afterward. It was evident that despite the odd color and smell, the pond water contained nothing lethal.

Luan Feng wasn’t afraid and quickly filled the bottle to the brim with the black water from the pond.

Yin Chong took it and poured some onto the ground.

The water was merely black in color, with no impurities.

Then, he flicked his finger, and a tiny golden insect, the size of a rice grain, fell into the bottle.

This was the most delicate type of gu he had, and using it made him a bit pained, but now wasn’t the time for hesitations.

Once in the water, the insect started to struggle.

Yin Chong thought it would struggle for a short while and then die, but surprisingly, by the time he looked back after two sips of water, the insect had undergone a small mutation.

Quickly, it crawled out from the uncapped bottle. After the two tiny wings it just grew had dried, it fluttered its wings and flew away, vanishing from his sight.

Yin Chong found himself surprisingly captivated.

Lian Lian was the last to wake up; being pregnant made her weaker than the others. The journey with the Changcang Sect had been a significant strain both physically and mentally.

When she opened her eyes, she saw Yin Chong sitting nearby.

Even though he appeared somewhat weary but still as handsome, she had no thoughts about him now other than wanting to be far away from him.

Seeing Lian Lian awake, Yin Chong slightly curled his lips, giving her a smile.

But encountering that smile only sent chills down Lian Lian’s spine.

"Are you looking for me?"

Yin Chong nodded with a smile, "I have a favor to ask."

Lian Lian: "..."

She braced herself and replied, "I don’t know what I can do to help you."

"Here, drink this."

Lian Lian glanced at the black water in the clear plastic bottle, instinctively retreating a few steps with her hands holding her belly, trying to resist, "I’m pregnant!"

"Do you want me to feed you?"

In the end, though Lian Lian struggled and spat out most of the water, she still swallowed some.

Yin Chong remained unmoved by the retching sounds behind him, only watching as Chong Shi walked back with a grim face, "Did you find an exit?"

"No!"

Yin Chong nodded unsurprised, seeing that Chong Shi’s expression confirmed nothing was found.

"I’ve made a discovery."

"What?"

"The water in the Black Pond is peculiar."

Just as he finished saying this, intense struggling and a few unrestrained cries came from behind.

The two men looked down together.

They saw Lian Lian, who had been lying on the ground, now writhing in agony, clutching her belly, her face flushed, eyes bloodshot.

"What’s happening?"

"I gave her some water from the Black Pond."

Chong Shi: "..."

Is this person even human?

Alright, this guy’s ruthlessness was inhumane!

"Why on earth did you make her drink that stuff?" Just after asking, he suddenly remembered.

Yin Chong had just said he found something odd about the Black Pond water.

So he made her drink it to see what effects it would have?

Li Yan, witnessing Lian Lian’s miserable state, hugged his knees, curled up in a corner, too frightened for his mind to process.

If Jiang Lingxi were to see their plight, she could confirm that even if Li Yan and Lian Lian managed to escape, they might never return to normal life.

After struggling for a long time, Lian Lian either felt better or was completely exhausted and lay limp, no longer moving.

Only then did Yin Chong put on gloves and approach, slicing a cut on her wrist, causing dark red blood to flow.

At the same time, an almost invisible worm crawled into the wound.