A lake is not a pond or a puddle after all. Although the lake area is less than one-fifth of its original size, it still lacks its roof. He walked forward step by step, until he reached four meters below the surface of the water.

At this depth, the disturbance of the lake due to the infusion of river currents has completely disappeared.

The murky waters of the lake finally turned into frozen stagnant water.

And the water at the bottom of the lake is hotter. Unlike normal lakes or rivers, the deeper it gets, the colder it gets.

He felt like he was getting closer to that answer—because he felt ...... at the same time

Stream.

Quite slight perturbation. At first, he thought it was his own delusion. But when he stood quietly at the bottom of the lake for five minutes, waiting for the turbulence he had driven to calm down, he could still feel the current.

Li Zhen slowly opened his eyes and felt a tingling pain. He looked into the distance—the water seemed to be flowing that way.

Once he has determined the direction, he walks slowly in that direction. It was extremely slow at first - for fear of losing the lead. But after moving forward for more than ten meters and reaching a depth of six or seven meters, the force gradually became larger.

There is an outlet at the bottom of the lake – and the water is flowing out of it.

At this time, he realized that the rapid decline in the lake was due to the high temperature evaporation. On the other hand, it's because of this gap. This thing may have been around for thousands of years. For thousands of years, the "devourers" that exist at the bottom of Taizi Lake have digested large amounts of the Yangtze River's water.

It seems that this is the true meaning of the existence of this lake...... And those rivers that have disappeared for thousands of years are just for "suppression"?

Ten minutes later. Li Zhen finally saw the thing.

It appeared to be a pillar cast of metal - bronze, perhaps. If you add the aquatic plants and various well-known and unknown snails that cling to it, it reaches almost a meter in diameter. Li Zhen locked on to its position, surfaced with a little force to change his breath, and then dived down again, cautiously approaching it.

This pillar, or pipe, rises more than a meter above the bottom of the lake. Maybe it would have been higher at first, but now it's mostly buried in silt. There is a hole about 20 centimeters in the center of the pipe, and a thick layer of aquatic plants clings to the walls of the hole.

Li Zhen tried to reach out and use a little force to erase the layer of things on its surface. Reveal the dark green surface underneath. This is clearly patina. and a water pipe made of bronze...... The era is right.

Right now, the copper pipe is a little hot. It's like being in the sun all day.

Li Zhen thought about it and leaned over and looked down through the nozzle, but didn't find anything unusual. Because the water is quite turbid, and this copper pipe must be extremely long. You can't see anything three or four meters away. Not to mention more than a dozen meters or even tens of meters.

But there was one thing he didn't figure out - the water pipe was still working?

Even if this thing was made a few meters thick in the first place. After all these years, it's time to silt up.

However, this doubt did not bother him for long. For just as he had removed his face from the mouth of the tube, he suddenly heard a slight rumbling sound. He tightened his grip on the gun in his hand in alarm, and took two steps back.

Then a thick cloud of water vapor erupted from the mouth of the pipe—as if a large cloud of gas had poured up from below. The red-hot gas produces a slight popping sound underwater. It quickly turned into countless tiny hot bubbles, tumbling and floating above the water.

Li Zhen had no way of knowing what was going on next. But there was one thing he was absolutely sure of now - there was indeed a fiery presence hidden under this lake!

If that's Lu, then it means that now she's awakened and is starting to recover. But Li Zhen still subconsciously gasped, but swallowed a mouthful of turbid lake water. So he hurriedly surfaced again and took a breath.

Because he had just thought of something, and it sent a chill down his spine.

If it is only recently that it has only recently begun to recover, then why did it create such a lake thousands of years ago and keep it flowing? If she existed in the state of Chiyu or Adam, it would be unnecessary.

This means, then, that she may have been "awake" for a long period of time, but in a state of extreme weakness - perhaps limited by some strength.

For thousands of years, trapped in this kind of place......

In this way, even the most painful experience for myself becomes insignificant.

Li Zhen dived again, and walked around the super-large water pipe with mixed feelings. The evidence has been found, but where is the entrance?

After a few seconds, he wasn't going to think about it again. Because he realized that if the one who suppressed the Lu in the first place could use this method to ensure that the repression was effective, then the so-called "humanitarianism" - and perhaps the species would not have considered that thing at all - would not have existed at all.

Maybe that person never planned to go in again, maybe there was no "entrance" at all.

All this makes the position of the one at the bottom of the lake puzzling again—would the Yellow Emperor do this? And for what?

He hesitated for a quarter of an hour in the murky waters. It wasn't until he ran out of breath that he surfaced for a third time to breathe and glanced at his watch. 11:26 p.m.

He realized that if he went back to the little hotel like this tonight, he probably wouldn't be able to fall asleep again. As for things like "when you are fully prepared, then plan and then act......

There's really nothing to prepare for. All the information was guessed by himself - fortunately, he guessed correctly. And here seems to be the range of the Siberian crowd, and it is even more difficult to find any support.

But "support" has always seemed a bit redundant to him. In this situation, he will always consciously or unconsciously see support as a burden. Because it may be a kind of species to deal with—even that one is not related to Lucifer for some reason, and ordinary people are even more powerless.

So he looked at the lake again and sank.

In fact, it is very simple to find out. He atomized himself in the water.

It feels strange to be almost tangible and incorporeal in this environment, as if your body has been mixed with a heavy layer of lead sand, and now this lead sand is constantly trying to flow out, and by the way, it wants to take away the fresh flesh and blood from your body. It took him two minutes to get used to it, and to his surprise he found that he didn't have to hold his breath.

There was dissolved oxygen in the water, and now he could suck them up directly.

He mixed himself in the water and fell as fast as he could.

The process was expected. The fall lasted only a dozen seconds. When it is fogged, it is difficult to see and hear like a normal person, but the senses become sharper. The surrounding environment is perceived only by touch, which is a completely different "perspective".

So after these ten seconds, he first felt the wind—a wind so faint that all tangible creatures could not perceive it, and it seemed to him as obvious as a man yelling in his ear. The wind is not formed by the fall of the water, but from one end of the space to the other, and it seems that there are one or two other vents here.

Half a second before he had broken away from the pipe, and felt the heat grow stronger. He disengaged from the wind and heard a second of a second a clanging sound—like cold water poured over a red-hot piece of iron.

Drift four meters away with the wind. During this time, he tried to make his form thinner as much as possible.

If I'm not mistaken, the space should be pretty dim. Even if there might be some light source—possibly from the suppressed Lun—it wouldn't be bright. What's more, the lake water gushes in under the pressure of the water, and the surroundings must be misty, and it is unlikely that anyone will notice such a faint cloud of gas.

He continued to retreat a few meters until he felt himself leaning against a slightly hot stone wall. Then he cautiously and carefully walked slowly against the stone wall.

It appears to be a naturally formed cave and is quite wide. After five minutes of walking, he felt a faint force dragging him past, and a current of water.

Turbulent water, splashing waves from time to time. He thought it was the water from the lake that poured down, but after a minute he realized that it seemed to be an underground river.

Reasonable. With so much water pouring down, there must also be a channel for circulation. The river is very wide, four meters long. On the other side of the river, it became quite narrow, and there were stone walls rising almost against the riverbank. As he began to approach the fiery being, Li Zhen retreated.

The area he had explored was about the size of half a football field. The height of the cave was more than ten meters, and counting the bronze cast water pipe, meant that he was now more than thirty meters deep underground. No other presence has been found here, and the possibility of an ambush can almost be ruled out.

So Li Zhen retreated to the side of the cave wall, and after "listening" for three minutes, he regrouped his form.

Now, as he expected, he was hiding in the dark.

Merely......

There are others.

The spear of Longinus had been freed from his psionic influence and had turned ivory white again. But instead of hiding the gun from its faint reflection, he held it to the ground.

Because in the current situation, it is no longer necessary.

A voice sounded in the empty and dark space, calm and gentle, even a little kind.

"Long time no see."

Li Zhen pulled one foot out of the ground, kicked off a stone chip that was accidentally fused into it when condensing his body, and smiled slightly: "Is this a surprise?" ”

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Two more today, less tomorrow to make up, back pain (to be continued......)