Chapter 91 Finding He Liang
"He Liang?"
Yu Miaomiao called out many times, but there was still no response.
At such a height, it would take He Liang a while to fall to the ground. As long as he reacts quickly and hides in the shadows, he will not be in any danger.
However, whether they can safely return to the ground is another question.
"We'll wait for him here for half an hour. If he doesn't come back, we'll go down and look for him."
Yu Miaomiao made a decisive decision, and Lu An and Xu Nanwei had no objections.
"That's what I think too. Let's wait for him for a while. He has superpowers, so he can walk through walls and come back in no time, unless he encounters other dangers."
Lu An and Yu Miaomiao thought the same thing: if it was just a deep pit, it wouldn't be difficult for He Liang.
"Um"
Xu Nanwei was still somewhat shaken and annoyed.
"If I had released my superpower in time, I could have used the updraft to hold myself and Brother He Liang back."
"Don't blame yourself. Learn from the experience and make sure it doesn't happen again next time."
So the three of them sat down to rest, calling He Liang's name several times every ten minutes at the cave entrance, but when the thirty-minute time limit was up, He Liang still hadn't appeared.
"Let's go down into the cave."
Yu Miaomiao stood up from the ground, dusted herself off, and then took out the longest climbing rope from her spatial storage.
The mountain is about 1,000 meters high, and the longest rope is only 100 meters. However, Yu Miaomiao has many ropes in her space, so she is not worried about not having enough.
They chose a spot on an exposed rock face as a protection point and tied a figure-eight knot around it.
After donning the lifting device and outdoor light hats, the three entered the cave one by one.
The inside of the mountain is humid and hot, shrouded in mist, a climate completely different from that outside the mountain.
The cave walls were slippery, and there was nowhere to put down and rest. The three of them were so tired that they could only hang in the air to rest for a while.
As they slid down, they alternately called out He Liang's name.
Only the echoes of their calls could be heard, but there was still no response from He Liang.
They lost count of how many times they had to attach ropes along the way, but in terms of time, it took them nearly an hour, and they still hadn't reached the bottom of the cave.
Until Yu Miaomiao heard the clear sound of water, and that they could barely see each other, only hear each other's voices, because the fog was too thick.
There may be an underground volcano inside this mountain, and this place is a volcanic hot spring vent.
A volcano erupts due to an earthquake. After the eruption, the uncooled magma underground continues to release heat, heating the groundwater and forming hot springs.
"Splash..."
"We're almost at the bottom, but there's a small problem now: we have no foothold. It's all water down here."
"This seems to be an entire underground body of water, which has been boiled into hot spring water."
Yu Miaomiao found a powerful flashlight and shone it around, discovering that there was no place to land in the entire body of water.
"Help... Sister Miaomiao, you really are my sister."
That familiar voice, seemingly from the netherworld, belonged to He Liang.
"Why aren't you coming up here? We've been waiting for you up here for ages."
Yu Miaomiao shone a powerful flashlight around her and finally managed to spot a dark shadow in the deeper part of the water.
"I can not swim..."
"What impact will using your superpowers have on your swimming ability?"
Yu Miaomiao was puzzled. If Invincible Shadow Walk was fine after being soaked in water, he should be fine after coming out, right?
"What's absurd is that my superpower seems to be ineffective in this water. No matter how I move, I can't get out, as if I'm stuck. I can't get out of the water even at my fastest speed. It's like I'm sealed in the water."
"What?!" Such a bizarre thing?
However, the world couldn't be any more bizarre, so Yu Miaomiao preferred to believe it was true.
"I'll try lowering the rope down; see if you can pull it up."
"OK."
Yu Miaomiao then retrieved a rope from her spatial storage and handed one end to Xu Nanwei and Lu An. The two tied the rope to their respective lifting devices, and Yu Miaomiao threw the other end of the rope into the water. The two activated their lifting devices, while Yu Miaomiao waited in place for He Liang to be pulled out of the water.
The rope fell quickly without any obstruction.
But when He Liang reached out from the shadows and grabbed the rope, and Lu An and Xu Nan pulled with all their might, an accident occurred.
"Why can't I move it?" Lu An tried several times, using a lot of force, but it still wouldn't budge.
It really felt like I was sealed away.
Upon hearing this, Yu Miaomiao lowered her rope a little, found a hammer in her spatial storage, and smashed it hard into the water.
As expected, the hammer struck the water as if it had hit a concrete surface, and the reaction force was transmitted to Yu Miaomiao, who immediately felt her arm go numb.
"It's a non-Newtonian fluid. He Liang, try adjusting the speed to the slowest setting and slowly moving it upwards."
Non-Newtonian fluids are characterized by increasing strength with increasing force and decreasing strength with decreasing force. He Liang's shadowy figure always moved at its maximum speed. Under these circumstances, the property of increasing strength with increasing force meant that He Liang could never penetrate this layer of non-Newtonian fluid.
However, there is a bug: the shadow can usually pass through all objects, but it fails when it comes to non-Newtonian fluids? And the underground hot spring has become a hot spring version of non-Newtonian fluid, which is a bit strange no matter how you look at it.
There may be other oddities here.
He Liang slowed down his speed to the slowest setting, and Lu An and Xu Nanwei also slowed down the lifting device. The three of them worked together and finally pulled He Liang out of the water.
Of course, it was He Liang's arm that was connected to that dark figure. If an ordinary person saw this scene, they would probably faint from fright.
"Sisters... I'm so glad you came, otherwise I would have spent my whole life alone here."
After He Liang came up, a dark figure floated in the air, one arm swinging with the rope. He recounted his fear of the dark cave and how he had seen another strange thing. "When I was floating in the water, I saw a stone door underwater, the kind of heavy stone door you see in tomb raiding novels, you know? It was really, really eerie!"
"Stone gate? What does it look like?"
Tomb raiding novels were Yu Miaomiao's favorite genre in her past life, and the mention of this sparked her interest. Could they really stumble upon an ancient tomb in this desolate wilderness?
"There are many strange totems on it, similar to a Chinese knot, but different, it is flat and long."
"A totem? Is it this kind?" Yu Miaomiao took out the paper from her space from which she had previously copied the totem on the main stone in her space and shone it on He Liang with a powerful flashlight.
"Yes, that's it. You wouldn't believe it, in that eerie, dark atmosphere, when I suddenly saw that gloomy door, I felt like I wanted to die..."
Yu Miaomiao's heart was in turmoil. She couldn't hear a word, her mind was filled with conflicting thoughts about whether or not to go underwater to investigate.