Absolute Gate

Chapter 82 Death Escape
Onion chose to stay and continue the mission, much to McGonagall's surprise, who immediately had his equipment delivered as well.

"Are you telling the truth?" Onion sat down next to Wu Zhongsheng with a stern face.

Wu Zhong cut a slice of beef and ate it: "Why would I need to lie to you?"

Onion bit her lip: "Maybe McGonagall just doesn't know? How are you so sure McGonagall knows all this?"

He knew very well that discovering ruins was nothing unusual.

But whether the investor knows and hides it, or whether the investor doesn't know, are two different things.

The former almost inevitably involves calamities and strange objects.

Wu Zhong glanced at him and said, "I have my own methods. Just tell me if you believe me or not."

“I believe you!” Onion turned around and glanced at the coffin where the skinny man’s body lay.

He really didn't want to accept his brother's unexpected death.

He was about to leave, feeling disheartened, when Wu Zhong suddenly told him that the financier had problems and there was more to the story.

Onion suddenly felt like he had found an outlet for his frustration and chose to stay without hesitation.

Wu Zhong said, "Since you trust me, do you still dare to go into the water?"

Onion firmly replied, "Why wouldn't I dare? By staying, I've already disregarded my own life and death."

"All I want to know right now is what killed my brother and whether it was the sugar daddy who did it."

"Once I've confirmed this, I will kill him!"

Wu Zhong glanced at him: "It's very simple to confirm this. After you go into the water, you encounter a monstrous object and then die."

"What?" Onion exclaimed in surprise.

Wu Zhong calmly said, "I mean, pretend to have encountered a calamity, and fake your death."

"This dive was recorded. You were at about 150 meters, which is a depth where the plants were almost rotting. Just put on a show in front of Perrin's team and scare him away."

"At this point, we are like the dead, hidden in the shadows, waiting for our chance to strike."

Onion bit her lip: "Does this fool the sugar daddy? Did you talk to Perrin about this?"

Wu Zhong said, "No, I can't believe him 100%. I believe you because you're abandoning the mission and leaving, and your teammates are really dead, so I believe you're not involved in this."

Onion sighed bitterly, "Then how am I supposed to act? Do you perhaps know what the effect of that calamity-inducing object is?"

Wu Zhong shook his head: "I don't know, but does the patron really have a complete understanding of the calamities? I'm afraid no one in the world would dare to say that."

"Just make it up yourself. The key is that someone died in an extremely bizarre way. The rest depends on what the sugar daddy wants to do."

Onion licked his lips and said, "But what if we really do get infected?"

Wu Zhong squinted and said, "There's a high probability that simply diving won't cause any problems. I went down twice yesterday, and today, there are still two of his men soaking in the water."

"However, everything has its risks, which is why I asked you if you still dare to go into the water."

The same question was asked again, and this time Onion fell into a long silence.

"Are you thinking about how you'll survive if you run out of gas after you pretend to be dead?" Wu Zhong broke the silence.

“I will have Yang Chunsha create an ‘air chamber’ at the top of the dark hall. Come up here before you run out of oxygen, and I will come to meet you.”

Onion exclaimed in astonishment: "Create an air chamber?"

Wu Zhong affirmed, "I swear, I will definitely come to your aid, but what exactly are your abilities? How long can you hold your breath underwater without an air tank?"

Onion hesitated and said, "Well, I'm not particularly good at holding my breath. I have four times the strength of an average person, so I can hold my breath for twenty minutes, up to half an hour at most."

"I'm not afraid of water pressure. I can fight back. McGill treated my stress last night. I didn't actually need it, but I didn't refuse."

Wu Zhong frowned: "Can you only hold it in for twenty minutes? That should be about right."

"There are six gas cylinders attached to the safety rope every twenty meters. Just find the safety rope. Just in case, bring an underwater flashlight. Don't worry, I'll come to your rescue."

After a moment's thought, Onion said, "Okay, I'll do it."

He had nothing to lose, and Wu had been kind to him, so there was nothing he couldn't risk.

……

At nine o'clock in the morning, everything was ready and everyone had eaten and drunk their fill.

Except for Yang Chunsha, everyone else was wearing diving suits and equipment, and there were also underwater video recording devices.

They jumped into the water and came to the center of the lake.

Perrin, soaking in the water, smiled at the shore and said, "Miss Yangchunsha, aren't you really coming along?"

"Hmph." Yang Chunsha suddenly stood up, startling everyone, who thought she was going to join in at the last minute.

He placed one hand on her hip and the other holding a book, her chest glowing, the pages turning without wind.

She walked forward with her hands on her hips and suddenly stepped onto the lake.

The flower-shaped rocks rising from the lake supported her, keeping her feet dry.

With another step forward, another rock bursts forth from the water!

With each step she took, like lotus blossoms blooming in the spring sunshine, she strolled to the center of the lake, standing before everyone.

Ripples spread across the lake beneath her feet, a sign that the lakebed was vibrating.

For a moment, it seemed as if her magic was shaking this land and water.

"Give way."

As Yang Chunsha spoke, he suddenly waved his hand, and the silt and limestone at the bottom of the lake began to wriggle and spread in all directions.

The originally narrow opening of the sinkhole has been widened!
The dark opening beneath the water's surface spread like ink droplets, eventually transforming into a giant pit with a radius of fifteen meters.

Not only that, the rock rose high above the water, and everyone was supported by the rock that she raised.

Yangchun Sand altered the terrain, forming a levee in the center of the lake that encircled the sinkhole, allowing people to stand directly on its edge.

"Hiss..." Everyone was shocked. Yang Chunsha's sudden display of skill was quite intimidating.

Her earth magic can soften and flow soil, and she is very skilled at manipulating and shaping it. When Wu Zhong first met her in the tunnel, he imagined that she might be able to fight against an armed infantry company.

But when you actually fight it, you'll find that this move is very weak. The rocks are loose, and the impact of the movement is less than that of an electric scooter... In actual combat, it can basically only bury people alive and crush them to death.

But apart from Wu Zhong, no one at the scene knew anything about her background.

I only felt that Yangchunsha was probably extremely powerful, changing the terrain with a wave of his hand.

“Sister Chunsha.” Wu Zhong leaned against the bank and looked up.

Yang Chunsha squatted down lightly, her chest shining, and reached out to touch Wu Zhong's forehead.

"Little brother, be careful in everything you do."

A wave of energy emanated from Wu Zhong, causing the lake water to surge and mist to rise.

"Huh?" Perrin swallowed hard. Yang Chunsha had finally revealed her skills; she did indeed seem very powerful.

It must have been magic, and then they used some kind of blessing on their own people.

"Thank you for the enhancement, sis." Wu Zhong said, then suddenly flipped over and plunged into the water.

Suddenly, a tremendous force shook the ground, and Wu Zhong crushed the rocks on the embankment beneath his feet!
White waves splashed high, and Perrin and the others were swept away.

Wu Zhong's figure shot into the sinkhole at the bottom of the lake like a sharp arrow.

Perrin's eyes were serious, estimating that Wu Zhong's current strength was definitely more than twenty times that of an ordinary person.

This is terrifying! It's twice as strong as last night's performance, so Yang Chunsha's blessing directly doubled his strength!

McGonagall raised an eyebrow slightly on the shore, clapped his hands, and exclaimed, "Amazing, amazing! What kind of magic is this?"

"It's just a trivial skill." Yang Chunsha leisurely walked back to the shore and sat down on the deck chair again.

Perrin and the others wasted no time and immediately followed, crossing the sinkhole.

Upon entering the dark hall, Onion, Perrin, Acorus, and two of McGonagall's men, along with five beams of light, finally illuminated the dark hall clearly.

But how come there are only five?
"Huh? Where are the people from the Dragon Subduing Wood?" Pei Lan exclaimed in surprise. He had already caught up at full speed, but still couldn't catch up with Wu Zhong.

“Perrin, look down,” Onion said, pointing downwards.

Looking down, everyone saw a faint white light flashing intermittently as it descended.

That was clearly Wu Zhong's headlamp, but from a distance, the light was very weak, as if it were about to be swallowed by the darkness at any moment.

"What? He couldn't stop? He just went down the road?"

"Heh, you got enhanced, so what?"

"Why are you rushing through the cave so fast? Are you in a hurry to be reborn?"

Perrin said dismissively, but his tone was also a little sour.

Onion said, "Let's hurry and follow them."

“No rush!” Perrin said firmly, “I won’t let him disrupt my rhythm.”

He adjusted his buoyancy and slowly descended along the safety rope at a perfectly standard pace.

Sweet flag followed him closely, while onion was slightly faster, trailing below them.

But what they didn't know was that Wu Zhong never went down at all.

He rushed into the dark hall at full speed, and before anyone else came down, he looked in the direction where Yang Chunsha had just walked with lotus-like steps.

In that direction, he found a strangely protruding rock.

Then he immediately locked his gaze on the nearest hole, staring intently at it, while simultaneously taking off his headlamp and letting it fall freely.

Wu Zhong then used his persistence of vision to unleash the Longevity Technique, and his figure shot towards the cave entrance like an arrow.

His vision was completely dark, and once inside, he kept groping upwards on the rock wall with both hands.

Sure enough, he found an air chamber not far away!
The rock wall extends upwards, leaving a large cavity. Wu Zhong climbed up and found a place to sit cross-legged against the wall, with the water right at his feet.

"Well done, Debiao."

Wu Zhong smiled. Just now, Yang Chunsha wasn't actually strengthening anything; she didn't have that ability. She was just pretending, feigning to bless, but in reality, she was altering the distribution of the rock layers at the bottom of the lake to create an air chamber.

The "lotus blossoms with every step" technique simply moved a stone chamber enveloped in air to a certain part of the dark hall.

However, when he took out his flashlight and swept it around, he found that the stone chamber was a bit small, only about seven or eight cubic meters. He could touch the ceiling by standing up and raising his hand.

"De Biao, why don't you go bigger?" Wu Zhong said, taking out the plant.

Yang Chunsha said aggrievedly, "Isn't this big enough? I moved the stone chamber fifty meters deep from the water's surface; that's already my limit."

"I'm already being kind by moving it for you, what more do you want from me?"

Wu Zhong scoffed and said, "Fine, fine, I'll just practice asphyxiation. It won't consume much oxygen."

Yang Chunsha chuckled: "You're really shameless, pretending to be a brute while actually hiding here slacking off."

Wu Zhong scoffed, "Slacking off? Fine, I'll go down there. At worst, I'll die down there. Anyway, you'll be buried with me."

"Hey, no, no, take it easy, I was just kidding," Yang Chunsha said hurriedly. If Wu Zhongruo died, she would really be buried with him.

She added, "If you ask me, we should just confront the client directly. At worst, we can abandon the mission and run away."

Wu Zhong shook his head: "I can't have come all this way for nothing. Even if this is actually a silver-level mission, I still have to get it done for him!"

"My goal is gold; how can I let him scare me away?"

"I want to see what tricks the sugar daddy is up to."

……

(End of this chapter)