Chapter 51: The Water Floods the Ancient Well

The stone fell straight into the ancient well, and soon disappeared from my vision through the white mist.

As the stones fell, I began to count the time silently in my mind. After almost half a minute, the ancient well was still silent, except for the occasional violent sound of the two bronze chains, there was no other movement.

"Wouldn't it? How deep is this ancient well? After another half a minute, there was still no sound in the ancient well, and I couldn't help muttering in horror in my heart.

I pricked up my ears and listened carefully, but I never heard an echo from the ancient well.

At this point, the stone I threw fell into the ancient well for a full minute. At the speed of free fall, it is at least a few hundred meters deep.

I even wondered if the ancient well had dried up and there was not a trace of water, so there was no echo.

Or, the depth of this ancient well is far beyond my understanding, and even if the stones fall into the water, the sound of the water cannot reach my ears because it is too far away.

I thought about it and thought that the second option was more likely.

When I entered the cave, I noticed that the stalactites above the cave were dripping downward, and the water eventually came together and flowed into this ancient well.

Therefore, it is impossible to live without a little well water.

I was a little unwilling, so I picked up a large stone from the ground again, this time the size of a human head, at least twenty centimeters in diameter.

But just as I leaned out and was about to throw the stone in my hand into the ancient well, I suddenly saw an oval object the size of a fist in the depths of the ancient well, shooting straight at my door at a very fast speed.

Seeing this, I was so shocked that I almost flew out of the sky.

Although I only glanced at it, I immediately recognized that the thing that flew up was the stone I had thrown into the ancient well a minute earlier, and if it was hit head-on, it would be disfigured if it didn't die.

Looking at the stones that were shooting like bullets, I quickly retracted my head. Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough, and the stone flew over my scalp in a daze.

But before I could come back to my senses, I heard a loud bang above my head, and countless cold, transparent debris spilled down.

When I looked up again, I saw a shocking scene.

It turned out that the stones flying out of the depths of the ancient well continued to fly upwards at an unabated speed after I dodged them, and finally smashed on the crystal coffin above the ancient well impartially, and easily smashed the bottom of the crystal coffin into a hole the size of a bowl.

I was a little dumbfounded, I didn't expect this to happen.

Such a complete and beautifully crafted crystal coffin is still an ancient Qin Dynasty antiquity, and it is also a top national treasure in the museum.

I couldn't help but shrink my neck, feeling a little afraid.

Fortunately, the stone was dodged by my cleverness in time, if it really hit my head, my head is not much better than the crystal coffin.

After all, if the crystal coffin is broken, it will be broken, no matter how precious it is, it will be a dead thing, if my head is smashed into a hole, it will kill people.

However, looking at the crystal coffin that was originally good but was smashed out of a hole at the moment, I still feel a little sorry.

This crystal coffin is also a 2,000-year-old antiquity, although it was not destroyed in my hands, but it has nothing to do with me. If I hadn't thrown such a big stone into the ancient well, and the crystal coffin hung on top of the ancient well, I wouldn't have suffered for no reason.

Sin and sin, I silently thought in my heart, and quickly threw aside the big stone that I was still holding in my hand. If I throw this thing into the ancient well and fly out, the crystal coffin will probably be smashed into two pieces.

Throwing away the stones, I was a little stupid, and my plan to see the depth of this ancient well was frustrated.

Just looking at the water droplets that kept dripping from the top of the cave, I was still a little curious, why the water in this ancient well was not full when these water droplets flowed into the ancient well every day.

Could it be that there is a secret passage under this ancient well, which connects to other places?

I don't know if this thousand-year-old ancient well has become a refinement that can see through my thoughts, or if the crystal coffin hanging above the ancient well has been destroyed and touched a certain mechanism in the cave.

Just as I threw the stone in my hand to the ground, in addition to the sound of the bronze chains colliding, there was a sudden gurgling sound from the ancient well, which sounded like the sound of bubbling when boiling water.

I hesitated, then poked my head out again in disbelief to look into the ancient well.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, this look suddenly makes my back a little chilly.

At some point, the white mist in the ancient well had dissipated, and the flashlight in my hand became unobstructed, and it easily shone to the deepest part of the ancient well.

After the flashlight shines to a certain depth, the bottom of the well becomes sparkling, apparently shining on the surface of the water.

I roughly estimated the height from the head of the well to the bottom of the well, and it turned out to be no less than 40 meters, and this was based on not knowing how deep the water was beneath the surface.

I was amazed to find that the two chains wrapped around the crystal coffin seemed to have no end in the water.

I couldn't take my eyes off the surface of the water in the depths of the ancient well, which was now churning violently, as if something was about to emerge from the bottom of the water.

And as the well water continues to surge, the water level of the well water is also rising at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.

At first, the water surface was still about forty meters away from the wellhead, but after only a dozen breaths, the water level had risen no less than five meters, and it was still rising at a terrifying speed.

"Colonel Flower, come and see." The strange scene I saw in front of me was no longer something I could figure out alone, and I immediately shouted anxiously to Li Huiyan, who was standing not far away.

When Li Huiyan heard this, she also heard that the tone of my voice was a little unusual, and hurriedly stepped forward.

"What's wrong?" Li Huiyan walked up to me and asked a little strangely.

"Look inside the ancient well." I was still staring at the rising well water, and I said without looking back.

At this point, I didn't have time to think about anything else, and my mind was full of the rising well water.

At this rate, I am afraid that in less than ten minutes, the well water will spread into this cave, and then ......

I don't dare to think about it anymore, the bronze door was already closed when we came, and I had already looked around when I entered this cave, and I had not found a ready-made passage to escape.

With the diameter of this ancient well, if the well water really overflows the well, I am afraid that the entire cave will be completely submerged in a few moments. At that time, even if we don't drown, we will freeze to death by this cold and biting well water.

I couldn't help but think of the fourteen corpses of different ages standing next to the rock wall of the cave, all of whom had been frozen into straight zombies after death, and it was probably the credit of this ancient well.

The thought of this makes me shudder.

"Ah...... How so? Li Huiyan poked her head out, and when she saw the appearance in the ancient well, she immediately exclaimed.

I don't know what to say, I can't say that the stone I dropped inexplicably smashed the crystal coffin, which caused this scene, right?

I'm not stupid enough to put the black cauldron on my head.

When I thought about it, I didn't think it made sense. If the water in the well rose because the stone smashed the crystal coffin, then what is the explanation for the fourteen corpses standing next to the stone wall? After all, the Crystal Pavilion was intact before this.

I couldn't figure it out, so I simply stopped thinking about it.

At this time, I saw that Li Huiyan had taken two steps back with a pale face, and her eyes kept looking around the cave, seeing that she didn't look like she was looking for a mechanism that could control the water level of the ancient well, but a place to escape.

"Zhang Sansan, let's go. The ground is a little higher over there, so let's take refuge over there, maybe the well water won't get there. Li Huiyan's gaze swept around the cave, and finally stopped somewhere, and said to me.

I followed her gaze and was speechless for a moment.

I saw that the location that Li Huiyan was pointing to at this time was the place where fourteen frozen corpses were standing.

I didn't pay attention when I observed just now, and only then did I realize that the place where the dead bodies were standing was a small platform about a meter wide suspended in mid-air.

The small platform doesn't look like it was formed naturally, but rather like it was thought to have been hewn out.

The thought of being next to those straight, horrible-looking corpses for a moment gives me a chill in my heart.

But I've also observed, and there's really no better place to hide in this cave than there. The small platform was more than two feet high from the ancient well, and there were many protruding rocks on the stone wall, so it was not too difficult to climb up.

If even this platform is flooded by the well, then it seems that we will have no choice but to resign ourselves to our fate, unless we can reopen the bronze door and escape from here.

After Li Huiyan finished speaking, she took the lead in running out of the same place.

To my surprise, she didn't immediately run to the escape platform she had chosen, but ran to the place where Xiao Yue was at the entrance of the tomb.

I saw Li Huiyan whispering a few words in Xiao Yue's ear, probably telling her about the situation here, and then I saw Xiao Yue's face change greatly, and followed Li Huiyan towards the direction of the platform.

"Rice cakes, rice cakes......" Xiao Yue ran and gave me the nickname she gave me, probably because she was afraid that I would drown if I stayed here.

Seeing this, I was slightly moved.

Xiao Yue, this guy looks very arrogant on weekdays, he doesn't have a heart and a few tendons when he talks and does things, and he still cares about people at a critical moment, it's not in vain that I was tired and tired of carrying her in the tomb for so long.

While Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue were running towards the platform, I couldn't help but take another look at the ancient well.

This sight immediately made me gasp. It's not an adjective, it's a big breath of cool air.

Because in just this short period of time, the well water in the ancient well has spread to a place only fifteen meters high from the wellhead.

I looked down, and a chill rushed out of the water. I felt a cold wind blowing on my face at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour and a temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius, and my whole face was frozen in an instant.

I was so frightened that I quickly retracted my head and rubbed my face, the touch was a little rough, not fine sand but countless tiny ice crystal brushes shaking off.

I didn't dare to linger by the well for half a second, so I quickly bypassed the ancient well and trotted towards the place where Li Huiyan and the others were.