Chapter 139: Underground Demon
"Hurry, run faster!" Jie and Ouyang Jin ran at the front. The route they chose determined everyone’s fate. The pressure was enormous.
Now the palace seemed to be infinite in its supply of strong acid. In some places, the acid was like a drizzle, unavoidable. At other times, the acid dripped slowly, allowing one to dash across swiftly.
What was worse, this mechanism was exquisite. The constant drips of acid forced others to change their route in small scales, and led them to dead ends, where they would then be overwhelmed by concentrated acid.
Now, Su Hui and her company were facing this situation. Regardless of how they ran, strong acid was dripping behind them. The degree was not intense, but they dared not to break through by force. So these drips of acid overhead made them move forward.
As Su Hui and the others reached a three-way crossroad. They thought of turning left to get back to the underground river they came from. But once they made a left turn, they saw a ton of acid coming down in front, and rotting meat on the ground. They saw signs of agonizing struggles, guessing what just happened here, dare not force their way forward. They immediately changed their course to the right.
They ran a bit further and found a door blocking their path. This made them very anxious because the acid was dripping faster behind them and was about to catch up.
"Quickly figure out a way to open the door." At Jie’s desperate cry, everyone tried pushing the gate together. Regardless of how hard they tried, the door wouldn’t budge.
"Oh my God, really?" Jie, panting heavily, turned around to look. The acid was falling like rain, forcing them into a corner. No going back now.
Su Hui shone the flashlight upward and found some small holes in the ceiling. The acid dripped from these holes. The size of the holes seemed to be controlled by the mechanism, slowly opening to control the amount of acid dripping.
If it weren’t for the dire situation, Su Hui truly admired the designer of this mechanism. Knowing that the acid is limited, they used the opening and closing of the holes to control the location and intensity of the acid rain.
Su Hui stopped everyone," It seems no matter where we run it’s pointless. The mechanism designer has calculated all our possible routes, blocking all of them and forcing us to run here."