"Accident?"
Yan Qing was puzzled. Yue Qi's attire clearly indicated that she was in the water! Shouldn't she be in some cave somewhere?
What's going on here?
"It's a long story—" Yue Qi sighed and began to tell her about his bizarre experiences over the past two days.
It turned out that after meeting Sun Ning and his two companions yesterday, they discussed the matter and basically concluded that the so-called "Zhang Family Old Residence in Cangyun Mountain" was a complete trap, designed to lure outsiders in and kill them.
Because this area is surrounded by mountains year-round, communication with the outside world is inconvenient. Therefore, although people have frequently gone missing or died over the years, everyone has assumed that they were killed by wild animals in the mountains.
After Yue Qi discovered it was a conspiracy, he began to try to escape. However, the Zhang family's old residence on Cangyun Mountain seemed to be shrouded in an invisible barrier, allowing everyone to enter but not leave.
So, after much thought, he decided to set his sights on the Zhang family ancestral hall.
Judging from the memorial tablets in the ancestral hall, he discovered that the Third Elder and the others were not living people, but rather people who had died many years ago. This discovery led him to a bold association.
Judging from the feng shui map in his hand, since the feng shui map is a mirror image, could the real Zhang family old house also be in a position symmetrical to the present?
Based on this conjecture, he and Sun Ning confirmed it several times before finally turning their attention to the unfathomable Mirror Lake.
Yue Qi had a premonition that this Mirror Lake was unusual. After all, there was an identical Mirror Lake directly below the Vajra Avici Hell inside the Azure Dragon Coffin.
The man named Chu Jiang was the one who kidnapped Yan Qing by the lake.
Therefore, he immediately made up his mind to explore this Mirror Lake.
Originally, it was him, Yan Che, and Sun Ning who went into the water. The remaining three waited for them on the shore.
The accident happened at that moment. The three of them had only put on half of their diving suits when a violent earthquake suddenly struck the Zhang family's old house, turning all the buildings into ashes in an instant.
The earthquake lasted for nearly fifteen minutes. After the dust settled, the entire Cangyun Mountain sank below the surface. The Zhang family's old house disappeared completely.
Strangely, Mirror Lake, located behind Cangyun Mountain, remained completely undamaged. Although the tremors were less than a mile away from them, the lake water, apart from churning violently, remained completely unharmed.
Not only that, but all six of them on the shore were also completely intact, without a single hair missing.
Therefore, even if they still don't believe it, Mirror Lake has become their only way out.
After discussing it again, Yue Qi and Sun Ning decided that everyone should go into the water.
As a result, they were short of the tools they had prepared. Yue Qi had been given a whole room full of various equipment by Yan Qing, while Yan Che had bought his own complete set of equipment, so he naturally had plenty of diving suits.
The problem lies here: the two of them originally planned to venture deep into the mountains, and they had plenty of mountaineering equipment, but no one expected that they would also have to go into the water!
The diving suits and such were leftovers from before, totaling only four sets, all for men.
As for the two girls, they probably weren't prepared either. After all, who would bring diving equipment when they're deep in the mountains? In this post-apocalyptic dungeon, spirit coins are so hard to earn; most people buy restorative medicines like Golden Water with their earnings, and nobody has spare money to buy unnecessary diving equipment!
And most importantly, this thing is ridiculously expensive!
This meant that two out of the six people were destined not to be able to go down. Left with no other choice, they discussed the matter again and decided to send two people down to scout ahead.
The two candidates changed several times before finally settling on Yue Qi and Guo Hu. After all, as the only two intellectuals, Yue Qi and Sun Ning had to have one of them stay on top to prevent any unforeseen circumstances.
"So, you came down with Guo Hu?" Yan Qing asked, also becoming curious. "Where's Guo Hu? Why are you alone?"
Yue Qi gave a wry smile. "I want to too, but he can't get down."
"I can't get down, what's going on?" Yan Qing was completely bewildered.
Yue Qi gave another bitter laugh. "Yan Qing, let me ask you, were you staying at the Zhang family's old house all along?"
Yan Qing nodded, and then she heard Yue Qi continue to ask her,
"So, where do you think the Zhang family's old house was built?"
“This—isn’t it in the mountains?” Yan Qing scratched her head. “When I first came out of the cave, I walked down the mountain path and arrived at the Zhang family’s old house.”
Yue Qi laughed, "If I told you you'd been underwater the whole time, would you think I'm crazy?"
What does that mean? Underwater? How is that possible! Although she sensed something was amiss, based on her guesses from the geomantic map, she had always believed she was underground.
Somewhere underground was the Zhang family's old residence, entirely surrounded by a special array. Members of the Zhang family could briefly appear on the surface using the array, via beds made of ice jade, only to automatically return to their bodies at the crack of dawn.
Yan Qing always believed her guess was correct, after all, there had always been a legend in the mountains. A hundred years ago, because the Flower Cave Maiden ran away without permission, the cave god was angry and sank the entire Zhang family's old house underground.
But now Yue Qi says that she had been underwater the whole time, a guess that she simply cannot accept.
Yue Qi had known her for quite some time, and from her expression, he could tell at a glance that she didn't believe the truth at all.
He understood this, after all, there was no lake water here because of the array barrier, so it was practically underground.
So he patted Yan Qing's head and said, "I know you can't accept it right now, but it's okay. You'll see it with your own eyes soon. Put on your diving suit, we're leaving here soon."
Yue Qi's gaze fell on her, and Yan Qing belatedly realized that she hadn't noticed when her diving suit had been changed. She was now wearing the same red mourning attire she was wearing.
"Huh, where's my wetsuit?" Yan Qing suddenly realized something. This Chu Jiang must have deliberately taken her wetsuit.
It seems that what Yue Qi said is probably true.
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