The Lost Tomb : Sea Of Sands

Chapter 96: Design Drawings

After Black Glasses beat the both of them black and blue, they obediently followed him to the edge of the filtration pool. They were still in the same room as before, and Black Glasses told them that Yang Hao and Liang Wan had jumped into the pool. If they weren't dead, then they must have dove into the pipe under the pool.

The spray in Black Glasses' hand was the kind of stone powder Wu Xie had said could restrain the Snake Cypress. They sprayed their bodies two or three times, and had to spray again once they came out of the water on the other side, which meant they couldn't stray too far from Black Glasses.

The rain had finally stopped, leaving the area above their heads silent. They sat on the edge of the filtration pool as the desert was restored to its original calm.

Su Wan's watch was still running, but only the clock function was left working. He glanced at it and said to Li Cu, "We've just lived through ten hours, and there are still fourteen more before the first day is up."

"Take the watch off. If it rings again, I'll definitely make you eat it." Li Cu said.

"Don't worry. The backup power only keeps the clock running." Su Wan said.

Black Glasses was the first to descend into the water. He took off his sunglasses, switched them out with diving goggles, turned to Li Cu and Su Wan, and then said, "This is the dividing line."

They looked at him doubtfully, and he continued: "You've been able to handle everything you've experienced before, but when you come up from the water again, it will be a whole other world." He then dove into the water. Li Cu, who was already numb to these kinds of movie scenes, snorted, glared at Su Wan, and then dove down.

Su Wan shrugged and followed.

The water was very cold, and felt completely different compared to when they first fell in.

After entering the water, Black Glasses had turned the flashlight all the way up, enabling them to see some of the black snakes that were nearby. But the snakes were all lying dormant at the bottom of the pool, looking just like sea cucumbers at the bottom of the sea. The stirred up sand had almost settled down, and only a few particles were suspended in the water.

The flashlight was so bright that the areas it couldn't reach looked pitch black in comparison. Li Cu shuddered when he thought of what lay below them, but the cold water made him more and more calm, and his previous feverish anger gradually disappeared.

When they arrived at the entrance, the three men went up to take a breath and tried to relax the tension in their lungs. Then, they took a deep breath and followed the blind man into the hole.

The hole was very narrow, and Li Cu immediately felt claustrophobic upon entering. The tension quickly consumed the oxygen in his blood, but he managed to close his eyes, exhale bit by bit, and climb in slowly.

The pipe was very deep, and Black Glasses swam very fast, reminding Li Cu of a water rat that had lived in a pipe for many years. Li Cu slowly followed him and swam over a section of sand before the pipe widened. They saw the concrete pipe wall, its parallel part about fifty meters away, and after passing it, Li Cu felt that he wasn't far from drowning.

Fifty meters later, all of his physical strength was focused on his lungs as he continued through the water pipe's network. He refrained from inhaling any water, and floated up like a buoyant corpse.

The moment he emerged from the water, he inhaled the biggest breath of air since he had been born. It wasn't until his lungs felt like they were about to explode that he slowly exhaled, actually tasting a little sweetness in the air.