Calamity Island: Endless Trials

Chapter 182 The hidden passage
"So, you still plan to try and kill this monster?" Liu Ziyun said in a disapproving tone, "I think you are looking for death."

"No, no, no." Tang Jiumin waved his hand, "This monster is right in front of my eyes, and it's so easy to show, it makes me feel too fake."

"Do you understand what I mean? It's like you find a room with hidden treasures, and when you open it, you find that there are gold, silver and jewels in it, and you happily take them away."

"But that's all the treasures? Not necessarily, isn't that the ancient tomb? The real tomb of the owner's house can be called the Three Caves of the Rabbit."

While talking, Tang Jiumin looked around with a more determined expression. He said, "There must be other things hidden here, and they are things that we can easily overlook."

"What catches our attention is what the trial wants us to see. It's the exam questions that test whether we are real treasure hunters or greedy lucky ones."

These words sounded a bit convoluted, but fortunately Liu Ziyun quickly reacted, and he couldn't help asking, "What is it?"

Tang Jiumin showed a pensive look.

After a few seconds, he stared at the mutated octopus and spoke slowly.

"We were all attracted by the big guy in front of us, but we didn't think about how the flesh and blood on the top of the water came from. It's not a mutated octopus that is produced and sold on its own."

"These things are more like cultured colonies, and what we need to do is to find out where they came from."

"what do you mean……"

Liu Ziyun and Tang Jiumin looked at each other and said in unison, "Follow the lake and go deeper into the waterworks to check!"

"Very well, your thinking ability has finally synchronized with mine." Tang Jiumin nodded.

"This guy is surrounded by zombies. Their attention will not be on us. If we can find the answer before it is defeated, maybe we can discover more secrets."

"Are you sure?" Liu Ziyun pinched his chin and spoke in silence for a moment.

"Sure." Tang Jiumin nodded, his tone playful and relaxed.

Hearing the unsurprising answer, Liu Ziyun couldn't help but look behind him, and then seeing everyone's reluctance, he couldn't help touching his nose, and looked at Tang Jiumin beside him again.

Completely different from everyone else, Tang Jiumin's eyes revealed an extremely confident light.

Liu Ziyun thought about it carefully, and chose to trust Tang Jiumin. He nodded, "Then make arrangements, we will all listen to you."

With Liu Ziyun's support, Tang Jiumin led the crowd to bypass the mutated octopus and head deeper into the water plant.

Soon they entered the interior, and by checking the water plant, they found that there was also a storage tank at the other end of the water plant, and according to the water plant's instructions, the bottom of the two pools was connected.

This was unexpected.

Therefore, Tang Jiumin and others arrived at the newly discovered pool immediately to observe.

Then, they saw a strange scene.

Compared with the pool on the octopus side, this pool can't even see a little bit of blood-red fleshy fat.

Completely absent.

Cheng Zhi couldn't help sighing, "Fortunately, there is no monster on this side, otherwise the water quality would be polluted."

Zhang Tiandao couldn't help echoing and agreed.

Hearing everyone's sighs, Liu Ziyun looked at Tang Jiumin suspiciously, "There's nothing special here, why don't you continue exploring inside?"

However, Tang Jiumin stopped, squatted down, and began to observe carefully.

What is this for?
Everyone looked at Tang Jiumin in confusion.

From time to time, the roar of zombies and the loud noise caused by the battle can be heard in the distance. Under such circumstances, Tang Jiumin has the leisure to observe, is there any abnormal pool?

This person is not in a hurry, but they are in a hurry!

Horrible!
At the edge of the pool, a very miraculous scene suddenly appeared. A group of people stood uneasy, looking at someone squatting down from time to time.

Fortunately, this situation did not last long.

Because after a while, Tang Jiumin stood up, and the first sentence he said to Liu Ziyun was: "There is a problem here, and it is a big problem!"

"Ah? Is there a problem?" Liu Ziyun was puzzled, and he asked, "What's the problem?"

Tang Jiumin raised his hand and pointed to his side.

"Look at the two pools. This is the priority pool, because it's closer to the reservoir, and the octopus side is the second pool."

"Have you ever thought about how the flesh and blood come from? If in a normal water flow environment, the water flows down, where will they flow?"

"Why are the same two pools connected to the same reservoir, but one has it and the other doesn't?"

"Because there are mutated octopuses over there, but there are no such monsters here." Liu Ziyun replied without thinking.

"This theory may be possible, but since the appearance of the monster created the flesh and blood, why did it insist on stopping there, waiting for the zombies to attack?" Tang Jiumin laughed.

"If it can really give birth to those substances, it can choose a better place, after all, it has this IQ and ability, instead of trying to prevent others from approaching here."

"I'm more inclined to another hypothesis."

"That is, the blood curd fat is produced from the waterworks. The two pools are transported by the same pipeline. Under the same conditions, this kind of thing should not happen. That only shows one problem."

"There must be something wrong between the two pools."

"That's not right." Liu Ziyun understood Tang Jiumin's words, thought about it carefully, and immediately answered, "According to what you said, the two pools are connected, so there is no problem, maybe it is caused by other external factors?"

Tang Jiumin shook his head firmly.

The rest of the people were silent as they listened to the conversation between the two.

At this time, Tang Jiumin put his belongings into the system backpack, and then raised his head and said to Liu Ziyun, "I'll go down now to find out what's going on, and I'll know what's going on."

"Hey, Tang Jiumin, you...!"

Before Liu Ziyun finished speaking, Tang Jiumin jumped directly into the pool when he heard a splash.

After going through bloodline strengthening, Tang Jiumin's physical fitness is still much better than before, even without the special ability to activate the bloodline.

Coupled with some swimming experience before his death, at this time, relying on his improved physical fitness, he dived downward.

The depth of the reservoir was not too deep, but it was definitely not shallow. Tang Jiumin quickly descended towards the bottom of the pond.

Soon, under the water, Tang Jiumin saw a channel, which should be the transmission pipeline connecting the two pools shown on the structure diagram of the reservoir when searching for the water plant.

Swimming along the current, Tang Jiumin looked at the entrance of the passage and chose to enter.

The surroundings are quiet and dark, and there seems to be nothing special?

Tang Jiumin continued to swim inside, and as soon as he entered, he discovered that there was a special existence inside!

Inside the pipe, there was a relatively biased gate. What attracted Tang Jiumin's attention was that drops of viscous red liquid were floating out of it, swimming towards Brother Octopus's reservoir.

Tang Jiumin's eyes flickered.

He swam over, held the valve with both hands, twisted it hard, and slowly opened the gate valve.

After losing the obstacle, suddenly, a large stream of red viscous liquid rushed out!

fine!Tang Jiumin had been prepared for a long time and avoided it a step in advance, so that he didn't get drenched all over his body with the red liquid.

Just like that, Tang Jiumin floated quietly aside. He found that after he opened the gate valve, the red liquid inside gushed out for a while before he regained his composure.

After a while, Tang Jiumin probed into the gate valve.

The entrance is a dark tunnel.

Observing from the outside, Tang Jiumin couldn't see clearly what was going on inside. Tang Jiumin simply bent over and swam in smoothly with his whole body like a mermaid.

After swimming for a certain distance, soon, different scenery appeared in the field of vision.

Holding his breath, Tang Jiumin rushed out of the water in one breath. As soon as he came out, he looked around vigilantly.

After all, he didn't know where the fleshy and fat-like viruses were distributed, but there was no doubt that most of them existed in the water.

The water is clear.

Tang Jiumin's expression relaxed a little. It seemed that he was lucky that he didn't touch that thing.

But when he looked up, his eyes stopped for a moment, and he instantly understood where he had come.

The bottom of the waterworks.

But there is nothing related to tap water here, but a huge automated machine.

Most importantly, Tang Jiumin saw the source of the flesh and blood: the bright red liquid was filled by a huge transparent water storage tank, connected with various pipes, and outputted through the power system.

And the red liquid just now.
There was a leak at a certain connection point of this machine, causing drops of red liquid to drip naturally.

Because of the high terrain of the machine, the liquid flows along the ground and into the canals on both sides.

The canal is connected to six pipeline locks, three of which are already connected.

But because the connection is rusty, there is also some leakage.
And these bright red liquids are floating on the surface of the canal, accumulating, and finally seeping out along a rusty and loose gate, which caused all this.

And this gate is where Tang Jiumin came out.

Although it is not known where these pipes are connected, the truth is clear at a glance.

What kind of terrorists are all blindfolds.
The real poisoning is in the waterworks.

Seeing this scene, Tang Jiumin understood everything.

Tang Jiumin walked around the automated machine and began to look for something.

It wasn't long before he found a switch.

Press the button, and with a slight shake, a hidden elevator descends from the back wall.

Taking the elevator up, the door opened slowly after a while, and it was dark outside, with nothing, as if separated by a wall.

Tang Jiumin didn't leave hastily, but stretched out his hand, tapped lightly, and found that it was made of wood.

Seems like nothing unusual?
So, he kicked it out, and quickly shattered into several pieces against the wooden board inside.

Tang Jiumin walked forward with his head down, and found that he was already in the dressing room. What he kicked away turned out to be a wooden cabinet.

The locker room is located on the basement floor of the entire waterworks, and the inside looks tidy and not messy.

But who would have thought that there is a hidden elevator hidden behind a wardrobe in the dressing room.

Tang Jiumin walked out of the elevator.

He walked along the passage and found that the structure here was exactly the same as the internal structure of the waterworks in his mind.

After returning to the garbage warehouse, the garbage on the ground is being cleaned up by a special robot. It seems that the sundries here are processed regularly.

Standing at the hidden door of the elevator, Tang Jiumin paused slightly, and walked towards the direction where Liu Ziyun and the others were waiting.After a while, he heard the roar of mutated octopuses and zombies coming from outside.

Just by listening to the volume, one can clearly hear that one side is strong and the other is weak, which means that the zombies and mutant octopus outside are about to decide the winner.

At the same time, Liu Ziyun led the others and stood in their original positions, waiting anxiously.

Zhang Tiandao was so anxious that he couldn't help turning around in circles, and he couldn't help muttering, "What should I do...how long has the leader been down? Why does it feel like it's been a long time, will something go wrong?"

"It stands to reason that it should have come up long ago, shouldn't it be..."

"Drown?"

"Shut your crow's mouth!" Liu Ziyun glared at Zhang Tiandao, warning him not to talk nonsense, "Tang Jiumin has been strengthened, it's impossible for accidents to happen so easily, understand?"

Zhang Tiandao shut his mouth wisely, he could tell that Officer Liu was very upset.

"Very good, you are all here." At this moment, Tang Jiumin came out from behind the group of people, causing everyone to turn their heads in shock.

"Of course I'm fine, but there really is something under the pool."

"Flesh and blood are drained from the water delivery system underneath. There are hidden caves inside. There is even an elevator hidden in a garbage warehouse. However, I haven't been there for the time being."

"..."

Tang Jiumin told everyone the general situation in the shortest words, which shocked a group of people including Liu Ziyun, after all, it was really unexpected.

"Then we..." Liu Ziyun couldn't help murmuring.

Tang Jiumin glanced at Liu Ziyun with a strange look, and said in surprise, "Could it be that you still want to retreat? It's already at this time, and it makes sense to hurry up and go down with me."

Although Tang Jiumin didn't use a strong tone, he successfully shut up Liu Ziyun.

A few minutes later, led by Tang Jiumin, a group of people came to the dressing room on the basement floor and found the hidden elevator.

This time, a group of people took the elevator and entered the unknown.

Soon, the elevator finally reached the ground and stopped. As the door slowly opened, everything Tang Jiumin had seen before appeared before their eyes.

Tang Jiu sympathized with him and guessed right again!

Although everyone knew that with Tang Jiumin's excellent plan, what he said was basically on target, but when the facts were in front of them, they were still very surprised!
"Okay, don't stand still, act quickly."

"The flesh and blood leaked from a rusty valve. Before, I thought it was specially set up by the entire water delivery system, but after thinking about it carefully, it should be just an accident."

"But it was because of this accident that I found the anomaly here."

Hearing Tang Jiumin's reminder, everyone came back to their senses, hurried out of the elevator, and began to search around.

The first thing to check is those valves.

Liu Ziyun checked them one by one, and stopped in front of one of the valves, frowning in thought.

"Why, Police Officer Liu, what did you find?" Tang Jiumin walked over after seeing it.

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