Chapter 24: She brought more than just food and water...
She brought more than just these, she also prepared food and water.
Liu Shu has always understood the importance of preparation, just like stacking buffs for his character in a game. When all the positive buffs are stacked, the battle will be much easier.
"Where do you think they are? How do we find them?" Liu Shu sat back on the sofa.
"No, there's no need to look for it. He must have left a clue." Sherlock hadn't agreed with Bruce on such a thing, but he felt he would do it.
"The bat was in this room when we first got here." He walked to the window and looked at the Roman rod above.
"Can you go up and take a look?" The furniture around seemed to be fixed and could not be moved, so Sherlock asked Liu Shu for help.
"Okay." Liu Shu stood on it easily. There was dust on it and traces of someone climbing on it.
She found a scrap of newspaper.
"The new subway is completed."
Sherlock took the fragment, thought for a moment, and looked out the window.
The lake is as calm as before, so is there something underneath?
"There must be a way leading underground." He lowered his head, folded the fragment and put it in his pocket.
Liu Shu took out a small communicator from her arms. She really wanted to rush over, but the last message Bruce sent her was to tell her not to be impulsive.
"Do we have to wait until tonight?" She put the communicator in Sherlock's hand.
"Time has no meaning here." He fiddled with the clock on the wall.
The scenery outside the window actually changed with the clock.
"Wait, what are you doing?" Liu Shu called him, and time stopped at dusk.
"This is already a supernatural phenomenon." Sherlock withdrew his hand without any innocence.
"Don't the memory extraction techniques from Baimen count?" Isn't it a little too late to bring this up now? Liu Shu took a step back. She still didn't want to use the stuff from Rusty Lake.
"There is some technological element over there, it's amazing, it's influenced by reality and it influences reality..." Sherlock fell into his own world again.
"The lake water is red now." Liu Shu looked at the lake surface, which was only dyed orange-red by the setting sun, and was still some distance away from the rust color.
It looks like just an ordinary tourist attraction, and you can see the small houses on the shore from here.
"What should we do to see the real Rusty Lake?" Sherlock quickly came over and stood with her.
Liu Shu gave him some space, even though she didn't take up much space to begin with.
"Something like sacrifice." She didn't remember much about that game.
I only remember seeing human limbs in many places, as well as corrupted souls whose bodies were pitch black but whose eyes were white. The more I thought about it, the more puzzled I became.
"I'll go check the elevator."
"Let's go together."
"Of course." Sherlock stopped in front of the door.
"What's wrong?" Liu Shu walked behind him, wondering why he was not moving.
"The door is locked." Sherlock turned around and opened all the drawers in the room.
There were also various locked cabinets and boxes. In his eyes, those things were like educational games for children, simple, very simple.
The fruits of the rapidly growing plants in the flowerpots can be exchanged with the hands behind the curtains for keys; use the knife in the drawer to kill the butterfly and obtain red pigment...
Liu Shu no longer paid attention to Sherlock, who seemed to be solving a puzzle after reading a guide, and looked at the locked door again. It would be a good idea to just shoot it or chop it open with a sword.
Forget it, Sherlock is having so much fun, so let's just follow the procedure.
They got the keys quickly.
"No one." Liu Shu closed the door and followed the person in front.
"We don't need room service after all." Sherlock pressed the button next to the elevator.
"Let me do it." There are only four floor buttons inside the elevator, but it is obvious that there must be other mechanisms to get down to the bottom of the lake from the elevator.
Liu Shu first touched the original four buttons. With her current height, she didn't need to squat or bend down, so she was just able to operate the mechanism from here.
The button next to it that said "B1 Floor" was not working, so she removed a whole piece of metal plate, and sure enough, there was a mechanism inside. There was a red button at the original B1 location.
"There are traces, probably from the past few days." Sherlock squatted down and looked at the metal plate on the ground. He nodded to Liu Shu and motioned her to press it down.
The elevator started moving and slowly descended.
"Sherlock?"
When the elevator went below the ground, Liu Shu caught the fallen person. What happened to him?
Through the metal fence, you can see a strange scene outside. Black and white cubes are suspended in the lake. Liu Shu clearly feels that this is underwater, but the people next to him can still breathe normally.
Liu Shu felt a little regretful that she shouldn't have let Sherlock come down with her. She realized that this man had fallen into a dream.
It's probably a nightmare.
After discovering this, every minute and every second seemed to be extremely long, and the elevator seemed to be falling endlessly.
Maybe the problem was time. Liu Shu turned around in place and noticed a disc like a clock face behind her.
The hour and minute hands were still missing, so she squatted down and found a small object that could serve as an hour hand from the arms of the unconscious person.
Is there any place I haven't searched yet? Liu Shu raised her head and saw a small stick-shaped shadow in the round light above. She broke the light and the elevator went dark.
Yanou has night vision. She picked up the minute hand from the ground and assembled the clock, but there was still one question.
What time do you want to adjust it to?
If only Sherlock were still awake, Liu Shu recalled the clock he had turned when he was upstairs just now.
At that time, he put the minute hand at 12, but was interrupted by her when he was about to move the hour hand... Since he already knew one, Liu Shu raised his hand and decided to use the exhaustive method.
At eight o'clock, the elevator stopped.
They reached the bottom of Rusty Lake.
This seems to be a square room with a door leading to the outside on the opposite side. There are some machines in the room whose purpose is unknown.
Here, Liu Shu saw Bruce with a serious face and Watson being carried by him.
“…”
From the looks of it, they weren't injured, so Liu Shu went to meet them.
"Let's go. We've figured out the situation here." Bruce took Watson into the elevator.
Looking out the window, you can see a forest, and with Liu Shu's eyesight, you can even spot a dark shadow in the distance.
"What happened to him?"
"Head-on collision with a soul." Bruce put Watson in the corner of the elevator. He could finally take a rest.
"This happened as soon as Sherlock came down." Liu Shu pointed at Sherlock who was lying in another corner.
"His will is not as high as his observation."
When the elevator was halfway up, Bruce held onto the wall beside him and said to Liu Shu, "Wait a minute... Don't promise anything to anyone, just take us with you, can you do that?"
"Okay." Liu Shu realized that Bruce was in a very bad condition, with a dull look in his eyes. After he said this, he knelt on one knee, obviously on the verge of losing consciousness. The bracelet that Liu Shu had originally fastened on him also disappeared.
It’s great that everyone in this team is very inspired. Liu Shu was safe because he used a layer of barrier called Yanou.
Who should I put at the bottom? Bruce? He should be at the bottom with his physique.
"Hello, Miss Grace." A person with an owl head and a human body spoke. He was standing outside the elevator, not very close, with a crow head standing behind him.
"Your guardian looks unwell. Do you need help?" The deep voice seemed to be bewitching.
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