Shen Xu tested the sturdiness of the three ropes, tied one end to the positions representing the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Vermillion Bird, and loosely tied the other end into a loop and put it on his shoulder.
She told Pei Zhiyuan to hold on to his body and float upwards according to her instructions.
After Shen Xu finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to pull the ring representing Xuanwu. He only heard the sound of the mechanism being triggered, followed by a huge noise. The water poured down like a rushing waterfall, instantly flooding the heads of the two people. The surging waves slammed the two people against the wall.
Pei Zhiyuan was a little embarrassed at first. After all, Chen Xu was only wearing a thin undergarment, while he was naked.
But when faced with the real issue of survival, no details mattered. He quickly hugged Shen Xu tightly to prevent the two from being separated by the current.
The water level quickly rose to the middle of the room. Pei Zhiyuan held her body with one hand and swam upwards with the other.
Seeing that there was still some distance to the iron chain above, Shen Xu tugged at the belt in his hand and pulled the ring of the Qinglong position with all his strength. He saw that the wall of the room began to narrow and the water level rose rapidly.
Shen Xu asked Pei Zhiyuan to swim closely along the corner of the wall, waiting for the opportunity.
Only the rumbling sound of huge rocks rolling came from the wall. Pei Zhiyuan held Shen Xu's body tightly with one hand and tried to grab the smooth wall with the other hand to reduce the loss of physical strength.
Suddenly, a huge spherical rock rolled out from the dark ceiling, flew over their heads, and fell into the water with a splash.
The splashing water and the swirling vortex of the sinking boulder quickly swept the two of them in. Shen Xu tried to ride the water to grab the chain, but was hit by the huge waves and was hit against the wall again.
Pei Zhiyuan swam quickly to Chen Xu's side and held her sinking body tightly. The two of them were tossed up and down by the waves caused by the huge rock falling into the water.
Shen Xu surfaced and took a deep breath, wiping the water droplets off his face and urging: "The water level is starting to recede, swim to the middle quickly!"
After the boulder fell, the water level in the room began to drop rapidly. Pei Zhiyuan swam quickly to the middle chain, but because the water level dropped, he could not reach the chain.
Seeing that they were getting further and further away from the chain, he lifted Shen Xu's body upwards, allowing her to quickly grab the chain. However, because he failed to grab her body in time, he was pushed far away by the waves.
Shen Xu grabbed the iron chain with his hands, leaned over and tried to grab Pei Zhiyuan's hand, but he was still some distance away.
"Hurry, swim over here quickly."
Pei Zhiyuan pushed away the waves with all his might and swam towards the center, but as the water level dropped, he got farther and farther away.
Shen Xu had no choice but to tighten the rope and let him climb up with it.
Pei Zhiyuan grabbed the rope in her hand and swam over with all his might, causing the pull ring of the white tiger to loosen.
Birds and beasts climbed out of the cages on the side of the wall, and the underwater arrow and knife mountain mechanisms were also released. Since the mechanism openings were all underwater, the arrows could not cause any damage in the water, and the animals could only struggle in the water.
It's just that the water level in the room is sinking faster.
"Come up quickly." Shen Xu's hands were hurt by his weight. She pulled the ropes that activated the White Tiger and Azure Dragon mechanisms, urging Pei Zhiyuan to come up quickly.
An eagle broke free from the water, flew onto the chain, and flapped its wings to attack Shen Xu. Its sharp claws tore her trouser legs, and its hooked iron beak pecked into her calf.
Instantly, blood flowed, staining her dress red. Shen Xu groaned in pain, and her hands, which were tightly gripping the rope, were also tightened to purple. She endured the excruciating pain of her flesh being torn apart, and she anxiously urged, "Hurry up and get up!"
The animals smelled the blood and became more excited, swimming towards the center.
Pei Zhiyuan gritted his teeth, glanced sharply at the two beasts swimming towards him, pulled the rope with all his might, stepped on the back of a tiger, used the force to fly up, grabbed Shen Xu's ankle, and quickly climbed up.
He grabbed the eagle that was pecking at Shen Xu with one hand, and climbed up her waist with the other hand, climbing to the same height as her, clamping his legs around her waist and the chain, fixing himself on the chain.
"How are you?" He still held the struggling eagle in his hand.
"Not bad." Chen Xu shook his arm that was strangled to a pulp, and looked down at the surging sewage under his feet. The blood on his calf kept dripping down, but it soon disappeared in the raging waves.
Some of the beasts in the water had been drowned, while others were still struggling, trying to climb up along the rope in her hand.
The two of them tied up the eagle tightly and threw it into the water. Shen Xu pulled the last rope to let Pei Zhiyuan climb up as quickly as possible.
After a while, red iron slurry began to flow from the four corners of the wall. The red-hot iron molten iron poured down from the four corners with a dazzling light.
All of a sudden, the surroundings became scorching hot, and the chain in his hand also gradually became hot.
When the molten iron hit the water, it immediately erupted in flames. The sewage began to churn and smoke, and the beasts in the water roared in pain. Then, a mixture of burnt smells and rising white smoke enveloped the two of them.
The two of them held tightly to the chain on the top of the room, looking at the tragic scene below the room. Shen Xu felt a little weak from the pain, and leaned on Pei Zhiyuan's solid chest without any hesitation.
"Pei Zhiyuan, hold on, don't let me fall. If I fall now, I'll be burned to death."
Pei Zhiyuan held Chen Xu's waist tightly. Her underwear, which was soaked with water, became particularly translucent, as if a layer of hazy mist covered her light pink skin, and her spring scenery was faintly visible.
She pressed tightly against his body, with only a thin layer of cloth between them. Pei Zhiyuan could even feel her warm body temperature coming through the wet cloth.
For a moment, his mind was filled with distracting thoughts. He resisted the urge to turn his head away and not look at her, but the more he tried to hide them, the more the distracting thoughts in his heart turned into a hot impulse that flowed through his body.
Shen Xu felt something poking his lower abdomen. He was slightly startled. His face, which had turned blue with pain, suddenly turned red. He said angrily, "Can you please stop thinking about those weird things at this time?"
"If you move again, I'll throw you down." Pei Zhiyuan complained with a red face, trying to arch his body away from her.
"No one will save you if you fall in." The two of them were like crabs hanging on a rope, struggling to grab the iron chain. Below was boiling hot pot soup. Some ingredients had been cooked, and some were still boiling.
The water slowly receded, and the room was already in a mess. The solid iron formed by the molten iron stuck around the walls, forming four black iron pillars that extended across half of the floor of the room.
The corpses of more than a dozen birds and beasts lay scattered on the ground. Some had arrows stuck in their bodies, some were pierced by knives on the ground, and most of them were half-cooked.
After all the sewage receded, a door suddenly opened on one side of the wall.
Pei Zhiyuan was thinking about leading his men to jump onto the boulder and then slide down, but he heard Shen Xu stop him and say, "Don't go down."
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