Chapter 282: Water Gate (8/10, Autumn Subscription)

Rather, Liao Moran, after overcoming her fear, looked at Fang Yue with eyes that grew more and more appreciative.

In her grandfather's team, she had never met a man with such courage and execution!

Apart from the first rough, violent method of throwing her down, which earned her a grudge, there was nothing wrong with the rest.

People fear comparison.

Comparing him to the cowardly Hai Ming beside him, Liao Moran felt she must have been blind to have ever fancied that sort of man before.

And Fang Yue, at this moment, had already moved along the iron chain to directly above where the sound had been heard earlier.

This time, he prepared to use a heavier object to pinpoint the location of the next platform.

The previous objects were mostly small ones, easily affected by wind pressure, causing deviation.

Heavy objects, however, were not affected as much.

What Fang Yue took out was a piece of ore — Ink-Color Ore.

Everyone has thoughts of earning a little extra money.

Fang Yue was no exception.

As long as he took out money, using the Captain's convenience to buy some Ink-Color Ore in Mo Cun, then bring it back to Gu Yue Cun, or sell it in villages along the way, that would be a large sum of income.

Although silver's purchasing power was not as good as special currencies like Blackstone that circulated among martial practitioners, its versatility was broader, and it was real money — why not get it for free if you could?

Therefore, Fang Yue had actually bought quite a bit of Ink-Color Ore, just waiting to return to the village.

As it turned out, now it had found a wonderful use.

The weight of the Ink-Color Ore was definitely up to standard.

And the platform's position was basically confirmed to be directly below, only needing final precise positioning.

If the positioning was correct, the Ink-Color Ore would drop precisely onto the platform.

Without hesitation, Fang Yue let go directly.

Whoosh… Thud!!

The Ink-Color Ore fed back the precise location of the platform.

The previous positioning did have some wind pressure influence, with some positional deviation; Fang Yue adjusted slightly and quickly aligned the position.

Additionally, based on the Ink-Color Ore's weight and falling speed, he could roughly deduce the distance to the next platform — it wasn't as far as imagined.

Summoning the three over, Fang Yue led them in a leap down.

Amid their screams, Fang Yue landed steadily!

With this experience, Fang Yue began searching for the next platform to land on, becoming more and more adept.

After continuously descending in what seemed like a bottomless endless abyss, until Fang Yue even activated the special effect of 【Night Breathing】, he suddenly discovered something.

A transparent platform… appeared directly ahead.

That's right, the platform no longer appeared directly below, but appeared straight ahead in a lateral shift, away from the cliff's cross-section.

"Ye Ge, what's wrong?"

"Captain Ye, have we reached the end?"

The other few people couldn't see this transparent platform at all, so every time Fang Yue descended, they were on edge, watching themselves standing in mid-air, as if they might step into empty air and fall at any moment — it was simply playing with their hearts.

Only someone like Tail, who completely trusted Fang Yue, would be slightly calmer; the other two nearly fainted from fright several times, and Hai Ming even proposed quitting the game and logging off, letting Fang Yue do whatever he wanted with his body.

But that was just talk — he still couldn't bear to part with his talent ability and his hunting skills.

Now seeing Fang Yue stop, they all thought Fang Yue had reached the destination.

However, the truth was, Fang Yue suddenly brought the three of them along and leaped forward.

"Ahhhhh!"

"Heavens! This is suicide!!"

"Ye Ge?!"

The three cried out in alarm, but soon discovered Fang Yue had landed steadily, also stepping on some invisible platform.

"Ye Ge… the platform's position appeared ahead?" Tail immediately understood what had happened and couldn't help but ask.

"Mm, it's started shifting laterally, which means the ruins you're looking for should be close." After a pause, Fang Yue asked: "By the way, I never asked before — why is your rope exactly a little over a hundred meters in length? Was there a hint in the quest chain?"

Tail was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

"Lord Ni Dongmei's quest chain, besides hinting at the location of the ruins, also gave quite a few things — a scattered pile of stuff. The small stones I gave you earlier to probe the transparent platform were also obtained then. Additionally, the materials given were just enough for me to make a rope about a hundred meters long; the extra dozen or so meters I added later were extended with materials I found elsewhere."

Hearing Tail's words, Fang Yue roughly understood Ni Dongmei's implication.

A height of a hundred meters was precisely the distance to reach the edge of the transparent platform.

Next, as long as one could use those small objects to probe and find the first transparent platform, one could smoothly descend to here.

It's just that when Fang Yue discovered the first transparent platform, he used a clever and intuitive method — using the Analysis Pupil to look directly, so probing was unnecessary.

After discovering the first transparent platform, following the steps methodically afterward would allow a smooth descent.

And because of the distance issue, Fang Yue couldn't use the Analysis Pupil to directly see the subsequent transparent platforms, so he returned to the original small-object probing stage.

Regardless, reaching this step now should all be within Ni Dongmei's calculations.

"Then let me see — with all this prelude you've arranged, the ruins you ultimately had Tail seek out, what exactly are they!"

Fang Yue led the three, jumping forward, and even gripping the iron chain to move forward and close the distance before jumping.

After advancing for about half an hour, Fang Yue finally stopped his steps, landing steadily on the transparent platform.

And ahead of him, a transparent great door lying horizontally, as if facing the cliff, appeared before him.

This door, compared to the transparent color of the small platforms underfoot, had slight differences — more crystalline and translucent, as if reflecting flowing light, while also being natural like flowing light, like a water door constructed from flowing water.

The water door was a full three meters tall and over two meters wide, lying flat horizontally, as if welcoming those who leaped down from above the cliff.

At this moment, Fang Yue faintly understood why Ni Dongmei had hinted for Tail to jump off the cliff.

If lucky enough, one really could leap down and precisely slam into the water door.

But... if this head crashes down, most people would be crushed into mud, impossible to survive.

So, Ni Dongmei wanted the tail to die on the gate?

Fang Yue began to feel confused again.

After thinking it over, Fang Yue did not leap over rashly, since the Water Gate was tightly shut, and he did not know how to open it.

He pulled out the small iron ball he had taken from the tail and flicked it toward the Water Gate.

The small iron ball shot away from Fang Yue's fingertips, struck the Water Gate—and then shot right through it!

Shot... through it!?

Fang Yue's pupils shrank, and cold sweat broke out along his spine.

If he had, just now, followed his habitual thinking and leaped over like he had with the transparent platforms, carrying everyone with him.

Then right now, all of them would have already plunged into an endless abyss, becoming dead men.

(End of Chapter)