The flow of Huai Shui is very large. Therefore, the water gate of the inner city to close the upper Huai was also built many and large. The walls of the inner city, where the Water Gate is located, are incredibly much larger.

His Royal Highness said that section of the city wall was also called Huaiqiao in the inner city. This section of the city wall spans the Huaishui River, and there is a civilian access road for civilians to go up and down, connecting the two banks.

Gu Chuan didn't know the detailed data, and he had never climbed this section of the city wall. However, according to his visual measurements, the length of this section of the city wall is more than 500 meters, and the width may be eight meters, the ground is said to be polished bluestone, and the walls are all made of stone from Daling Mountain by the Round Pagoda family. Dozens of bridge piers are lined up one by one on top of the Huaishui River, pressing into the land under the Huaishui water.

The water gate of the inner city is often said to be the bridge hole of the water city wall, a total of twenty-one, which evenly divides this section of the city wall. The water gate is very large, allowing water to pass through, and also for boats to pass through.

The reason why it is called a door...... This is because there is a mechanism in the middle of the water gate, which can lower the large door panel and directly block the entry and exit of the ship. It is said that it was once even able to drop to the bottom to suppress the flow of Huai Shui.

However, if it were to be completely lowered, the walls would inevitably be under great pressure or even damaged and collapsed, and the water would accumulate and flood the shores of the inner city. In the historical records of the Fifth Twilight War, Sunset City suffered such a loss, so it was redesigned, the materials were changed, and the height and length were also cut, and the water gate could no longer be lowered to the bottom.

"The water transport of the Huaishui River connects the inner city and the outer city. Many of the building materials in the inner city had to be transported in water from the outer city. There are also things that are complete and indivisible to be transported by water. ”

Gu Chuan said.

It's just that this solar term is full of ups and downs, and most of the ships have stopped working. According to historical records, only some of the most special salvage ships of Xinshui will continue to work.

When the group of fugitives approached the water gate, it was already an hour after entering the Huaishui.

The clouds in the sky are still very low, and there are colorful and changing aurora everywhere, distorted into all kinds of real or unrealistic, like birds, like pegasus, like buildings, like human portraits, and the reflection in the water is the most bizarre painting.

The great waters that poured down from heaven in all directions washed away the ancient walls. Along the city walls were towers that radiated light on both sides in the gloomy rain. The light pierced the water curtain like a sharp sword, and the shadows of the soldiers who had been stationed there all year round could be seen drinking.

This heavy rain solar term is already a terrible cold weather for Sunset City, so you should drink more rice wine to warm up.

In order to avoid being caught by the Sky Mirror, the three fugitives were still in the sea most of the time, and only surfaced during ventilation.

By this time, the rain had already turned light. When the rain was at its heest, it blew up the boats in the harbor, so there were planks and other debris floating down the river.

The fugitives then sought something that could bear their weight floating on the water, leaned on the float to save the effort of paddling, and floated towards the water gate, often with only one hand exposed.

"All twenty-one water gates were opened. It's the time of day when the sun is over, and they won't close the water gates, so we just need to be careful to avoid the patrols in the towers. Moreover, on a rainy day, these soldiers may not be willing to come out. ”

Gu Chuan said.

His Highness and the Toeless Man nodded incomprehensibly.

When he got closer, Gu Chuan could see more clearly.

There are statues on the city walls every few meters, but according to history, after the victory of the Fifth Dusk War, in order to praise those outstanding soldiers and commanders, new carvings were added, and after decades, they have been rusted and fluttered in the rain.

Next to the statue, there are soldiers on duty in the rain.

Dressed in raincoats, these soldiers stood coldly on the edge of the city walls, looking out over the inner and outer cities.

There was no shortage of them in peacetime, and everyone stood up straight.

"The soldiers of Sunset City are really dutiful......"

Gu Chuan's face was only half above the water, and he began to glow up and down, and he quickly held his breath and returned to the water.

On the stairs on both sides of this section of the city wall, there are neatly lined up people climbing and descending.

The rain was falling, but Sunset City was still extremely dark. A few lights swept across the water, and Gu Chuan suddenly felt a little uneasy. His Highness said reassuringly:

"I've seen it before, it's whether there are boats smuggling. We were leaning against a plank, and the plank was mixed with other clutter, and they couldn't see us. ”

"That's good."

When Gu Chuan raised his head again and came out of the water, a lightning bolt pierced the sky, shaking the sky for a long time, mixing with the aurora, making the entire water surface glow.

Then the world plunged into darkness again.

They are like kites with broken strings in a thunderstorm, floating in a dark and endless water, rolling down the torrent. And the water rushed over the piers of the city wall, splashing a large white wave

The fugitives all noticed that the current was starting to get faster again. The planks they leaned on, or the trees around them, the washed away flowers and trees, even the carcasses of animals, the fish in the water, and the ancient lightweight bottles and jar buoys were moving faster, gradually beyond the control of human man.

"We're going to get ready, we're going to rush the seventh water gate from the left."

He said.

"Hmm."

Both the Toeless and His Highness nodded.

"Success or failure is ...... here"

Escaping to the outer city was already a phased victory.

In the last few minutes, they were closer to the wall, almost beneath it. The waves that rushed onto the city walls brought out countless droplets of water, splashing on their two hands that were exposed to the water, and they were cold.

When Gu Chuan raised his head for the last time, an extremely large thunderbolt flashed in the sky.

The dazzling white flames in the air twisted and turned, and in an instant, they rolled from the left bank to the right bank, and they did not know hundreds of thousands of kilometers, illuminating the entire Shanghuai wave very brightly.

The wind ravaged the trees, and the rain began to rush again. The monstrous waves push everything until it breaks everything.

In that moment of light, Gu Chuan looked at the soldiers on the city wall for the last time.

All the soldiers were still standing straight, but the hurried procession in raincoats stopped, and two men who seemed to be leaders were standing on the edge of the stone railing, flanked by statues.

With the afterglow of lightning, Gu Chuan saw that there was a face he was familiar within.

It was the chief officer named Gund, who was looking at the sundial tower from afar.

The hands of the sundial tower are walking on the top.

And the other person, whom he did not know, seemed to be gazing with interest at the endless Huai Shui.

Gu Chuan didn't dare to look at it, and the two nostrils that appeared above the water were submerged again.

Then the surging water took the fugitives and sent them to Watergate.

If you are present, you will be able to recognize who the other person is, and it is the water that first found him. As the commander of the city guard, Mizui had very little cooperation with the 24th Division. He found an excuse, and acted together with the chief officer of the Criminal Affairs Division, Yin De, and climbed this tall building.

"You think they'll walk out of the water? Chief Shuimei? ”

Another flash of lightning streaked across the sky, and the rain struck Hade indiscriminately on his undressed raincoat and his undressed face, and he didn't react.

Shuibei Says:

"Exactly, Chief Officer."

"But it is very difficult to get ashore, and it is very easy to die in this water."

Said Jade.

In this rainstorm, even the best fishermen in Sunset City did not dare to leave the port at will, or even to go near the water's edge. Every rainstorm, Sunset City has people drowning.

"Haha, you have a point. But sir, you think, if you walk the wall, you will be caught, and you will be executed. If you go to the water, you have a chance to die. Which will you choose? ”

The emaciated human body leaned against the edge of the stone fence and coughed.

The rain poured down from the stone fence like a curtain of water.

"I'm not stupid enough to resist the crown, and I won't be in this situation."

He said calmly.

Shui Huang laughed, and called his adjutant to give a few soft commands. The men of the Third Legion, who had followed Mizuki's actions, all moved.

Afterwards, Shui Huang said to Shen De:

"Also, the chief officer is a smart man. But now that there are such fools, they will naturally choose a way to survive from them. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Guess where are those three prisoners now?"

Yu De narrowed his eyes, and without answering, Shui Huang continued:

"Where are they ......"

Before he could finish speaking, another lightning bolt from the sky brightened up all the people on earth. Then, the sound of the boom shook the ears, and it was the strongest drum music in nature. And the magnificent rain drifted with the wind, giving a miserable and deep accompaniment.

Mizumi's eyes were almost red and bloodshot.

He coughed, spat out phlegm into the boiling water, and then smiled:

"They're at our feet right now."

The Third Legion of the Protector Army, also known as the Water Combat Corps, as the name suggests, the current Third Legion is unmatched in its proficiency in water warfare than any other legion.

This was facilitated by the curiosity held by the Third Legion.

One of them is called Mizuri.

This strange object is also very simple, it is formless, it can only be touched, but it cannot be seen, when it is laid out in the water, it is like blending into the water, it is completely invisible, but it can stop things. When it was first discovered, Mizuori had intercepted thousands of fish at the source of the ink for an unknown number of years, so that the invisible and formless things were pasted with flesh and blood, and they also had shapes, like a wall of flesh standing in the water, piled up into a cold mountain of meat.

So at that time, that body of water was called the forbidden land.

"Like now."

The three fugitives held their breath and sank into the water, following the turbulent current all the way through the water gate. Above is a masonry stone wall, below is a gray turbid wave, and in front of you is freedom.

- We are saved.

At the last moment, Gu Chuan's mind was even calmer. He sank into the water, silent, just waiting for an opportunity to move away from the waves.

He stared ahead with wide eyes underwater, grabbing the toeless man with his left hand and His Highness with his right.

His Royal Highness under the water was stunned, and also clenched Gu Chuan's hand.

I don't know if it was lucky or unfortunate, but there were not only these three fugitives under the water at that time, but also schools of fish. It was an ordinary river fish, migrating in stormy weather, swimming faster than the three fugitives underwater, walking ahead of them like a signpost of hope for their escape.

Gu Chuan smiled because of this.

But at this moment, the signs of Mizuori appeared.

Dozens of fish swam to less than fifty meters in front of them, as if they were about to turn around and head to the shore side, but their movements suddenly stiffened, and their fins seemed to slide slowly only with the instinct of their bodies. So the fish suddenly broke up and rushed in all directions.

It was too dark to see clearly, but then another bolt of lightning swept across the sky, illuminating the shallow water. Gu Chuan saw that the collapsed school of fish was all stopped, and it was divided into three pieces from the mouth to the tail. All the bodies are still moving forward in their original positions. Fish are vertebrates with nerve reflex arcs that twitch their muscles to drive themselves forward after their bodies have been cut into several pieces.

The blood immediately dispersed. In front of him, an invisible net that looked like water but not water, he saw fresh pieces of meat foam hanging in the water.

There was no sound at first, and it took a while for a faint sound to come out of the water.

It was emitted by the debris from the back hitting the severed fish in front and piling up together.

"Stop, stop!"

Gu Chuan couldn't hold back any longer, his head came out of the water directly, and his face began to glow due to the aurora scattered by the Sky Mirror. He grabbed the hands of His Highness and the toeless man and kicked back into the water.

"Death ahead!"

The young man, who was terrified to the extreme, looked upstairs. Sure enough, I saw that the person who was originally looking at Shanghuai had turned to the side of Xiahuai.

And the man he didn't know was on top, talking to the man he knew.

If his hearing was better, Gu Chuan would have been able to hear Shui Suiyin's deep words:

"Your Majesty said, there is no need to stay alive. Mizuori will kill those two ordinary people, leaving only the resilient Highness. ”

He didn't care about any of this, but saw that there seemed to be some glitter on the water.

The water was fierce, and they could no longer stop their advance. For the first time, Gu Chuan realized that death was a net, which would envelop all people's hopes and dreams into it, and what leaked out was the remains of the dead.

"Don't be afraid."

At that time, the faces of Gu Chuan and His Highness were radiating light, and they were about to echo with the Heavenly Mirror. His Royal Highness grabbed Gu Chuan's hand and said calmly.

"You are hiding in front of me. I can resist it all! ”

Gu Chuan looked at His Highness in a daze.

His Royal Highness smiled, and for the third time, he used his arrogant arm strength against Gu Chuan, holding Gu Chuan in front of him, Gu Chuan pulled the toeless man tightly, and pulled him in front of him. The three of them re-entered the water, and the flashes on the surface of the water disappeared into the darkness again.

At that time, His Highness was silently recalling all the strange things that he had understood in the past under the teachings of the doctors.

Then the three of them did this, slamming their backs into Mizuri.

It's like the skin, flesh, and bones of a person's back inevitably colliding with the water.

And then...... The transparent Mizuori let out a sharp howl as if steel had been cut mercilessly, and the tons of water near the point of impact boiled horribly in a form incomprehensible to everyone on the shore, and large clouds of smoke came out, billowing and rolling like clouds and mist, crumbling towards the sky like the eruption of a volcanic crater.

The lightning fluttered in the mist for only a few seconds, and the vast expanse of water took on an abnormally bright red, and then, a rolling torrent rose from the center, and the terrible white waves rose into the sky like a majestic mountain, destroying and exploding.

The waves climbed along the walls to the top, and when they finally fell, they were more intense than the rain in the sky, and they fell on the soldiers of the Third Legion.

The temperature of the water was close to the edge of evaporation, burning the exposed skin of the water mill. He regressed in horror:

"What happened?"

He hurriedly looked at the two sides of the river, and found that the strange water weaving might not have had an accident, but the sturdy artificial wedges used to fix the water weaving on both sides and facilitate recovery collapsed due to that momentary abnormal movement, pulling out lumps of dirt and rolling them into the water and flowing downward.

This is equivalent to the fact that the door is not broken, but the hinges that connect the door to the door frame or wall, as well as the door frame itself, are torn by the force of the explosion. In other words, Mizuori has lost its interception function.

"Search! It must have been His Highness, and the three fugitives who passed through here. ”

The rising mist envelops everything around. The water of the explosion rushed directly onto both sides of the embankment, and along the road deep into the civic area of the Xiahuai District, so that the nearby citizens could not help but open their windows one by one and stare in horror at what was happening under the city wall and in the Huai Shui.

Soldiers who were hastily dispatched searched the river. Shui Ui ordered people to jump into the water to find it, but the water weaving hidden in the water was already an indiscriminate source of killing, and anyone who accidentally bumped into it in the water would become a piece of meat.

Shui Jie's face turned blue, and he said coldly:

"Let's start with the recycling of the water weaving."

The rain was pouring and the thunder was heavy.

The three people who were concerned about the entire inner city rushed down the river unconsciously and unconsciously along the current, reaching the mouth of the river.

The wharf of the Xinshui family in the estuary area has long been closed, and the salvage ships of strange things do not dare to leave the port, and they all stop at the water's edge, undulating with the water. Only a small number of crew members are still on board.

At that time, there was a dark-skinned young man cleaning the inside of a boat. The boat was empty, and he accidentally overturned the bucket.

The bucket ran down the sloping deck and carried the water out of the captain's cabin and onto the deck, mingling with the torrential rain.

He caught up to the deck, barely grabbed the bucket, and rocked with the ship, hitting the edge headfirst and swelling on the spot. He is an optimistic person and quickly collected his feelings:

"Come on! I'm sure I'll make it...... Everyone doesn't want to do it, so I'll do it...... Just do as much as you want...... ...... that can be found after all"

He stood up and couldn't help but stare at the gray and angry Huaishui.

The wind and rain are miserable, and the chickens are chirping.

So it just so happened that he saw three people holding the planks from the water, revealing a little light.