The next day.
Yang Chen sat beside Ye Xin’s nutrient pod, speaking to her in a soft whisper about all sorts of things.
Professor Qian pushed the door open and ca in, saying to Yang Chen, "Co out for a mont."
Yang Chen looked at Professor Qian in puzzlent, but still got up and walked out.
Professor Qian led Yang Chen to a secluded corner and said in a low voice, "Just now, an Elder from the Yun family’s Cabinet ca to . He said there’s a type of drug that can treat the aftereffects of the Forgetful Spring and might help Ye Xin wake up."
Yang Chen frowned, looking sowhat unconvinced. "Why would they do that?"
He really didn’t believe that. Yesterday, he had just taught Second Young Master Yun a lesson and injured their Elder Zu, completely trampling the Yun family’s dignity. And now they’d co running over today to cozy up to him?
In his opinion, the Yun family probably didn’t have such a magnanimous heart.
"There are conditions," Professor Qian said.
Yang Chen looked at him.
Professor Qian explained, "If their drug can make Ye Xin wake up, he hopes you can have Elder Kun Yao keep his promise and teach them the cultivation thod beyond the Divine Realm."
Yang Chen frowned. "I do have the thod, but I won’t gamble with Ye Xin’s safety!"
"I understand," Professor Qian said. "I’ll take it for testing first!"
"Then tell him this: if anything happens to Ye Xin, not only will they not get the cultivation thod, I’ll make the entire Yun family die with her," Yang Chen said coldly.
Professor Qian nodded, then turned around to go handle the matter.
Yang Chen watched Professor Qian’s back, his gaze flickering.
He didn’t trust the Yun family. If he couldn’t be sure the drug was safe and effective for Ye Xin, he would absolutely not allow it to be used!
Back in the ward, Yang Chen sat in front of Ye Xin and quietly recounted what had just happened.
"Don’t worry. I won’t let you take any risks. If it really doesn’t work... I’ll use my own way to wake you up..."
"Alright, you just rest well. I have so things I have to do... Wait for to co back!"
After Yang Chen finished speaking, he got up and left.
After Yang Chen left, one of the instrunts beside Ye Xin suddenly flickered, emitting two beeps, then returned to normal...
...
Behind the mountain on Penglai Island, under a cliff, several boats were moored nearby.
At this mont, the tide had already receded, exposing both the giant boulder and the deep well.
Yang Chen and Jian Feng stood at the bow of a boat, watching the Guard mbers prepare the equipnt.
The equipnt had been rushed over overnight and was now all in place.
What they had to do now was sonar detection.
They needed to test not only the depth, but also map the terrain.
That way, it would be easier for them to understand the deep structure of the well.
Soon, after the equipnt was ready, Yang Chen directed them to move to the edge of the deep well.
Coming along with them was an oceanography professor surnad Song. When he saw the deep well, he beca wildly excited.
"Th-this is simply unbelievable! This is a miraculous place! Not only are there so many secrets, there’s also this island, and this kind of deep pit. It’s practically... an untouched paradise! If this place were made public, it would definitely shock the whole world!" Professor Song said excitedly.
Jian Feng said coldly from the side, "I don’t think you’ll get a chance to present this place to the outside world."
The icy tone made Professor Song shiver all over. He glanced at Jian Feng and recalled the warning he’d received before coming.
Whatever happened here, he must never tell anyone!
Otherwise... he would face punishnt for pan, guo cris!
This was no joke. From the setup all around, he could tell that whatever was going on here was absolutely beyond his control.
Imdiately, Professor Song led people to start deploying the equipnt.
He even requested to send people down, but was blocked by Jian Feng, who scolded, "I already said, no one is allowed to go down! Did you take my words as a breeze past your ears?"
Professor Song retorted, "Only by sending people down can we investigate properly. Without people down there, just relying on machines is useless!"
"You just do what you’re supposed to do," Jian Feng stared at Professor Song and said coldly.
Professor Song glared fiercely back at Jian Feng, but helpless in the face of brute authority, he could only compromise.
Once the equipnt was lowered, they could use the forward-facing cara to see what it was like inside.
Based on the mapping data, the space below was the sa as above—five ters in diater, extrely smooth and very regular, as if it had been artificially excavated.
As the equipnt descended, the surrounding scene gradually beca clearer.
Rock walls, the surroundings were all rock walls.
The speed of the equipnt’s descent began to get a bit fast.
Further down, so cave-like openings began to appear in the rock walls. It wasn’t clear what was inside, and there was no chance to inspect them; the equipnt just kept plunging down.
Professor Song shouted, "Don’t descend so fast! Explore carefully, see what’s inside those caves!"
The Guard mber operating the machine was sweating profusely with anxiety. He shouted, "It’s no good! The equipnt’s out of control!"
"What!" The professor hurriedly stood up, rushed to the Guard mber, and tried to take over the controls.
But it was completely uncontrollable, the speed of descent getting faster and faster.
To the point that the image on the video screen was already a blur; you couldn’t see anything clearly at all.
"Quick! Grab the cable!" Jian Feng shouted to the others.
Several Guard mbers imdiately rushed over and grabbed the equipnt’s cable.
The cable was very sturdy, more than enough to bear the equipnt’s weight.
However, the few Guard mbers were yanked off their feet and almost pitched headfirst into the deep pit.
Fortunately, Jian Feng reacted quickly and grabbed them, preventing them from being pulled in.
The speed kept increasing, and the cable whipped around them like a crazed snake.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
The cable raced downward.
Bang!
The full five hundred ters of cable ran out and yanked against the wheel.
But in the very next second—
Bang!
The iron wheel mounted on the post let out a dull bang, was torn clean off, and was dragged into the deep pit.
The connection was instantly severed!
The computer screen went completely dark, showing signal lost.
Everyone was stunned.
Jian Feng looked at Yang Chen.
Yang Chen’s brows were tightly furrowed; this phenonon was extrely strange.
The device could spray jets to move on its own, and even had small propellers so it could adjust its direction underwater. But as soon as it went down, it was as if all functions failed at once, and it plunged straight down at high speed!
The feeling was... as if sothing down there had grabbed the equipnt and was pulling it down!
Thinking of this, both of their expressions turned rather grim.
Professor Song was even more frantic, squawking in panic. For him, losing the equipnt was equivalent to a failed exploration!
Thankfully, there was still backup equipnt.
But Yang Chen did not allow them to continue probing. Instead, he told them to use other instrunts to extract water from the deep well and take it back for testing, to see what its exact components were.
However, the situation was still the sa.
The water at the top was easy enough to take, but drawing from deeper in the well still required equipnt.
Even the water-sampling devices were lost three tis. In the end, only through everyone’s combined effort did they barely manage to collect surface water, water from ten ters, and water from fifty ters. Any deeper than that, they simply couldn’t get a sample.
Just as Yun Haotian had said, this was practically a bottomless pit—once sothing fell in, don’t ever think about getting it back out!
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