novelraw Chapter 633 - 429: Re-entering the Underground World! (5,000-word Extended - !)_2
Chapter 633 - 429: Re-entering the Underground World! (5,000-word Extended - !)_2
The mechanism can now be activated.
"Alright, let’s activate the mechanism quickly."
"Yes, activate the mechanism quickly." Wang Lei said while walking towards the mechanism, "I always feel like there’s definitely treasure here! The Red Mist we encountered was just a trap for the treasure. Now that we’ve passed the trap, as long as we trigger the mechanism, the treasure will reveal itself!"
"Your idea does make some sense." Xu Xin smiled, noncommittal.
He hadn’t forgotten the scene depicted in Ji Chaoyang’s prophecy.
Ultimately, he saw Xue Lan there.
What secret does this place hold?
Soon, everyone was in position.
Xu Xin was the last to step onto the gravity mechanism.
With a "ka" sound, the iron tile beneath his foot began to sink.
Finally, after sinking twenty centimeters, another "ka" sounded, and the entire tile lit up, flickering with blood-red patterns.
At the same time, the entire floor suddenly vibrated.
"Yikes!" Keke yelled, glanced at the floor, and tilted her little head.
Then, the vibration began continuously!
"Oh, what’s happening?" Zhao Xiaochuan called from the other side of the room.
"Has the mechanism been triggered?" Wang Lei observed all around, "Can we leave this thing now?"
"Don’t leave yet." Ji Chaoyang stopped him.
The continuous tremor made them all slightly anxious as they observed the changes around them, fearing that an attack-type mechanism might appear.
At that moment, a change occurred.
In the very center of the room, a twenty-centimeter-thick metal column quickly rose to the ceiling, making a crisp sound of metal colliding with metal!
The sudden change made all six of them standing on the mechanism startled.
"The mechanism is coming!" Some even pulled out their weapons, ready for action.
But the situation wasn’t as they imagined.
There wasn’t an attack-type mechanism; instead...
The originally smooth metal floor beneath the column suddenly cracked!
Yes, the floor suddenly opened up with several cracks!
These cracks extended straight out from the center of the room, totaling six, dividing the room into petal-shaped sections!
And each section was precisely where they all were standing!
Next, the floor beneath them shook violently again!
"What the heck is happening? Is this iron room about to transform?!" Wang Lei exclaimed.
"Look at the cracks!" Lou Fei’Er cried out.
Everyone looked towards the surrounding cracks.
From the six cracks, six metal walls, each just a few centimeters thick, slowly rose.
No!
It’s not the walls rising, but the platform below them sinking!
Those few centimeters thick metal walls were already beneath the ground, now just revealing themselves due to the sinking floor!
If this continues to sink...
They will be directly separated by these walls!
Very soon, they sank at least two meters, unable to see the figures of others!
"This mechanism wants to separate us!" Wang Lei instinctively took a step closer to the wall and stepped off the mechanism.
"Ka!"
The entire space suddenly echoed with a sound as if gears were jammed.
Then the arrangement in the entire room started to reverse as if time were flowing backward.
However it changed before, it’s now reverting back.
The six of them saw each other again.
"Ah...!" Wang Lei was about to go back.
"No need." Ji Chaoyang stopped him and also stepped off the mechanism.
Xu Xin directly pulled out his lance and slashed it against the few centimeters thick iron wall.
"Sizzle!"
The bright sparks from metal collision illuminated the surroundings.
Xu Xin looked at the wall continuing to sink with only a white mark scratched on it and sighed.
The wall, like the room, couldn’t be destroyed either.
Finally, the entire iron room returned to its original state.
Everyone walked out and gathered together again.
"After the mechanism activates, we will be separated." Ji Chaoyang frowned, "After that, we might have to explore independently."
The scene in his prophecy was indeed going to happen.
Unavoidably, it was going to happen.
Every time he tried to avoid exploring alone, it ultimately didn’t work.
Xu Xin glanced again at the passage that was originally the exit.
There, smooth and flat, no trace of a passage could be seen.
There’s no escape route in this room anymore.
The only thing they can do now is completely trigger that mechanism.
But that mechanism will certainly separate the six of them completely.
"...I wish I had brought a few more people down." Wen Guixin rubbed her head and sighed.
"Bringing more people might not necessarily help." Xu Xin shook his head, pointing at the original exit location, "There, maybe after six people entered, it would lock up?"
The entrance closed after exactly six of them entered.
Perhaps, this dungeon requires six survivors to trigger but also only allows six people to enter.
"There’s no choice, we can only explore alone; hopefully, the watch can still be used." Zhao Xiaochuan also sighed.