Book 1: Chapter 48: Jump into the Waterway

Book 1: Chapter 48: Jump into the Waterway

The water drained away quickly, revealing that the floor of this strange room was full of barnacles. They were far thicker than those on the surrounding wooden boards and made the ground look like rotten coral.

As I set the bronze basin aside, I noticed that we had all been cut several times, especially on the soles of our feet. It was only in that moment that I felt the severe pain as my blood flowed down the barnacles to the low-lying section of the floor.

Poker-Face pulled up a bronze ring that was connected to a chain that seemed to drive the valve below. As the water continued to drain out, I looked carefully and saw that there were a lot of other objects among the barnacles. They seemed to be porcelain and decaying bronze pieces that had been bound in the barnacle shells. I could even see a lot of bronze rings among them.

They appeared to be funerary objects that also belonged to the South Sea Kings tomb, but I didnt know where in the tomb we were.

We had climbed more than fourteen hundred meters just nowabout one and a half kilometers so it was reasonable to assume that we had already climbed out of the South Sea Kings tomb. The South Sea King was an ethnic minority king, so the ancient tomb couldnt be that big. But even if this place was part of the South Sea Kings tomb, it was probably another burial pit.

Under the candles green light, I patted the decaying wood around me. All the water had finally drained out, so I could finally see the "man" that Poker-Face had just killed. I wanted to get a closer look, but Poker-Face immediately kicked it down the drainage hole.

"I just wanted a quick look at it." I didn't even get the chance to stop him. "You should've let me study it."This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

Poker-Face glanced at me, "You can't see the living things here."

"Why?"

He pointed to Fatty's eyes.

Under the green light, I could see that Poker-Face's and Fatty's irises were green, but they looked very bright. I thought something was wrong with them, but when I looked closely, I could see that there was something strange on their eyes.

"What the hell?"

Our feet were already hurting a lot, but all the pain seemed to come back with this jump and I couldnt help but grimace. Before we had barely steadied ourselves, Poker-Face immediately jumped again. He took our physical capabilities into account and only jumped one stone beam at a time. We followed him the whole way, jumping wildly in the green light until we saw a pool below. By this time, our feet were killing us. Poker-Face squatted down on the last beam and looked at the candles to ensure that we still had plenty left.

He took a deep breath and jumped into the water, which reached all the way up to his neck. Fatty didn't immediately follow, but carefully dropped the bronze basin to him. After Poker-Face caught it, Fatty and I both jumped.

As the three of us stood in the water and looked around, I noticed that there were water channels on both sides of the pool. This was the main drainage channel, but the water wasnt flowing.

I could tell at a glance that the drainage channel here was very simple and made of stone bricks.

"Look carefully, Poker-Face said to me. What do you see?"

"Can't you see it?"

"We can't see it," Fatty said. "This is a drainage channel."

I didnt understand what he meant, but I listened to Poker-Face and looked around. The surrounding area was very ordinary and didnt look any different from the many drainage channels we had been in before. Feeling the pressure, I looked around three more times, but still couldn't see anything.

"No, I can't see it either."

"You can," Poker-Face said.

I took a deep breath and looked more carefully. Under the soft green light, I saw a single person standing there under the dark water.

The persons head hadnt breached the surface, so I thought it was a corpse at first. But when I looked more carefully, I found that it wasn't. Instead, the person was completely black.