There was a rustle of gravel falling, and amid the confusion there was the sound of water, but this was drowned out by the cries of the fleeing crowd.

There is water flowing under the abyss, followed by splashes of water.

Chu Qianli didn't even think about whether the rock would hit the mechanism, nor whether she would be hit by the bullet. She jumped off the Majestic Column in the smoke of the explosion, regardless of the danger below, and just took a fearless risk.

She didn't have time to tell fortunes now. The person being judged shouldn't tell fortunes.

If we simply look at the hexagram, she is in great trouble today, so it doesn't matter whether it counts or not.

Fortunately, there was an underground river under the ravine.

Chu Qianli spit out water violently in the river, trying to regain her balance, but she felt herself sinking due to fatigue.

She tried desperately to float to the surface, but was tossed around by the fast-flowing river, like a boat helpless in the raging waves, and she didn't know where to go.

In the ravine, the sixth bead successfully fell, and the passages near the Pillar of Mercy and the Pillar of Balance opened, allowing Abner and Tan Muxing to leave.

The construction here is the same as other places. As long as you solve the puzzles and stay in the safe zone, you will always find a way to escape safely.

The passage was quiet, and the two met first.

Abner looked down at the communication device and frowned, "Lin brought people here against Q's orders and even teamed up with Country A to launch a sneak attack. I'm afraid the next step is to go to the Gate of Truth!"

If Lin manages to grab the key before placement, he will have the right to renegotiate, but if he fails to grab the key or the placement is completed, he will have to fight a fierce battle in front of the Gate of Truth.

Q has already deployed troops in the hall to protect the ruins, fearing that the old and new powers will soon be replaced by the new ones in Mundsen. The adult wolves can no longer stand the current situation and can't wait to challenge the wolf king.

"I'll go down to find her first." Tan Muxing found that he couldn't contact Chu Qianli, and she didn't come into the passage for a long time, so he immediately went to the Wei Yan Pillar. He was inexplicably a little panicked now, still thinking about what she said before.

Abner: "Wait, aren't you going up to join the team first!?"

The passage can go up or down. Going up is where Liu Jun and others are, and going down is the Majestic Pillar where Chu Qianli is.

“I’ll send them a message.”

After Tan Muxing finished speaking, he hurried down without looking back. He did not see Chu Qianli along the way. He soon realized that the Majestic Pillar fell very deep and it took a long time to reach the bottom.

The area around the Majestic Pillar was like a purgatory burning with wicked fire. Explosions would occur from time to time, with debris and dust flying everywhere.

After the previous chaos, many people had already fled, but the fire was still spreading.

While Tan Muxing took out his pistol, he sent a message to Liu Jun, reporting the situation near the Pillar of Terror. Liu Jun gave Tan Muxing the pistol after he learned that he could shoot, so that he could keep it while staying in Country H.

Lilith and Lin forcibly broke through the mountain wall, causing the interior of the agency to be affected and the originally designed safe zone to no longer work.

The hot air made people's faces sting. Tan Muxing couldn't see other people clearly in the dust. Everyone was avoiding the sparks exploding in the middle, but he was going against the smoke and gradually approaching the majestic pillar in the ravine.

The bombing near the Pillar of Terror was the most terrible, and now no one stays there.

Tan Muxing hadn't seen Chu Qianli, and his heart was always hanging in the air. But when he picked up the blood-stained colorful rope on the Majestic Pillar, he suddenly became dazed, as if he had fallen into an icy cave.

Even though there was a heat wave all around him, he felt a chill on his back.

He had made it in the shamanic village, and she began to wear it on her wrist. It wasn't a very expensive item, but she didn't have to take it off to do anything, so she never took it off.

Now, the bracelet broke inexplicably and fell alone on the column, stained with blood.

Tan Muxing looked down. The abyss was dark and dark, like the terrifying mouth of a monster, which seemed to have swallowed her up long ago.

Tick-tick, tick-tick. There was a faint sound amid the explosion.

Tan Muxing listened quietly for a few seconds. After checking his equipment, he jumped directly off the Majestic Pillar and followed the mountain wall to explore the situation below.

In the dark river, Chu Qianli was swept around in a mess. She wanted to use divination to find the direction, but the rapids made it impossible for her to concentrate.

She didn't know where she was drifting down the river, she only knew that she reached the end of the river, saw the dark mountain wall, and crashed into it so hard that her arms became numb.

She wanted to use the cliff to get to the shore, but the water was flowing out of the cliff and she was stuck on the cliff, unable to move. She was like a small branch lying in the middle of the river, too far away from the two banks, and could only shiver miserably in the water.

After a long stalemate, he finally broke free.

She was washed into a secret passage at the bottom of the river, and could no longer breathe the surface air. She could only slowly fall into the silent abyss.

It's quite quiet underwater.

She opened her eyes weakly under the water. The water in the underground river was clear and transparent. She saw that the underwater stone walls were covered with murals, which were exactly the same as the patterns in the corridor.

This is not good news, it means that the fortune telling is not possible. Such murals will disturb her.

But there seemed no need to tell fortunes now, as her strength had long been exhausted and she was trapped underwater with no way out.

She felt that the world in front of her was like an old slow-motion movie, and as her strength faded, her mind became empty. She was still suffering from drowning and suffocation at first, but slowly she began to lose consciousness, and she always felt that her body and mind were separated.

She could scan the complex murals at a glance, allowing the vast amount of redundant information to wash over her, but she no longer felt pain. Perhaps the pain had reached its limit, or perhaps she was about to leave this body behind.

God did not allow Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, saying that they would die after eating the fruit. Some people say that this means that Adam and Eve lost their eternal life and that they began to experience birth, aging, sickness and death; others say that after they ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, it was their "spiritual life" that died.

Chu Qianli didn't know what the "spiritual life" of theism meant, but she knew very well that her body was about to die and only her consciousness could still wander freely.

It is said that people have an illusion when they are on the verge of death. Even if they only struggle underwater for a dozen seconds, the fear of drowning makes them mistakenly think they have lived for a century.

That's how she feels now, seeing the new century underwater.

She saw the brightest North Star in the sky, the first human being to observe the stars, countless people gathered in front of a bonfire to perform witchcraft, an old man with crane hair stroking his beard on the observatory, someone instructing the indigenous people to build the Baby Stone Ruins, Jesus being nailed to the cross, and the pattern of the Rosicrucian Society...

She also saw persecution, disease, conflict, and endless bloodshed, from cold weapons to information warfare, and to a future that is beyond the reach of modern humans.

She saw the bright red baby stones being dug out, the snow-white and peaceful H country being covered by magma, and no traces of ancient civilization left on the charred land. High-tech weapons razed the place to the ground, and the flames of war spread rapidly outward until there was no grass left in the land where humans lived.

She saw the five stars rising from the east, and she also saw the demise of great nations.

She also saw the chaos in public life.

Countless religions have records similar to the Last Judgment Day, but the Judgment Day is different from what humans imagine. It does not suddenly erupt on a certain day, but infiltrates silently, and by the time people truly realize it, it is already irreversible.

At this moment, she understood the reason for building the ruins.

Everything that rises must fall, and taking control of everything too early also means the beginning of death.

Humans are not ready yet, but they are ambitious to dig out the baby stone, just like Adam and Eve who picked the good and evil fruit in advance, which only speeds up the original survival progress bar infinitely. They are greedy for new progress at the moment without restraint, but in disguise compress the length of future possibilities.

The ruins exist to protect the baby stone, waiting for the right time to open it.

However, the ruins were also created by humans. As time goes by, the stars will also change. Someone is needed to constantly repair the settings within the ruins and calibrate the time point for the final opening of the door to truth.

The Baby Stone Ruins are indeed not yet complete. The seventh bead is the final correction, and the next one will be the official opening.

They gathered here for some unknown reason, not to mine the baby stones, but to select the last guardian and complete the setting of the seventh bead.

But is she the chosen one?

Chu Qianli's consciousness gradually darkened. She finally understood the mural, but it seemed too late.

Before she came to, she thought of the stars.

She now admitted that she had lied to him.

The so-called lack of regrets and remorse is just her pretending to be indifferent.

At the dark river, Tan Muxing searched along the river. When he saw the water outlet, he felt something was wrong and immediately dived in to look for her. Sure enough, he saw her figure faintly.

She seemed unconscious and looked fragile and brittle, like an overturned boat.

Tan Muxing dragged her to the shore. He crossed the turbulent water outlet and quickly brought her up. After making sure her airway was unobstructed, he immediately began rescue work.

He didn't dare to think about anything now, not even to check her pulse, and could only concentrate on rescuing her.

But her body was so cold, and she closed her eyes quietly, not at all as lively as before.

She seemed to be asleep, but people who sleep breathe, but her breathing was so shallow that it was imperceptible, like a lifeless porcelain doll.

Tan Muxing mobilized the rescue experience in his mind. He tried to convince himself that it was just an illusion of drowning, and rescuers should have confidence and patience, and never give up easily, but must persevere in continuing the first aid.

Her heart sounds just disappeared temporarily, but that doesn't mean there is no chance at all.

He didn't even dare to think that the drowning rate would exceed 10 minutes, and he didn't know how long she had been drowning.

If only he was faster, if only he could predict the future, if only he followed her everywhere, then she wouldn't have to go through all this. He insisted on coming to Country H with her, but in the end nothing changed.

He never had any grand ambitions, and the reason for his journey was very simple. He just wanted to accompany her back to her ordinary life, but even this small wish could not be realized.

A long time passed and she didn't wake up.

While Tan Muxing was recovering from his cardiopulmonary resuscitation, he felt a little warmth, but it did not come from her, but from the warmth that he could not stop falling.

Tick.

Chu Qianli wanted to raise her arms, but now she felt heavy all over. She felt as if her consciousness and body were out of place, and the two were now playing their own games.

She wanted to call out to the stars, but she couldn't open her mouth.

She wanted to say that the stars' tears are sweet.

So sweet.

Tan Muxing noticed a faint breath and looked up in disbelief. Finally, light appeared in his eyes and he dared not stop the rescue work.

Although her pulse was extremely weak, it was undoubtedly still beating gently, unlike the stagnant state just now!