Chapter 1259: Chapter 1258: Detection
The next day.
Yang Chen sat beside Ye Xin’s nutrient pod, speaking to her in a soft whisper about all sorts of things.
Professor Qian pushed the door open and came in, saying to Yang Chen, "Come out for a moment."
Yang Chen looked at Professor Qian in puzzlement, but still got up and walked out.
Professor Qian led Yang Chen to a secluded corner and said in a low voice, "Just now, an Elder from the Yun family’s Cabinet came to me. He said there’s a type of drug that can treat the aftereffects of the Forgetful Spring and might help Ye Xin wake up."
Yang Chen frowned, looking somewhat unconvinced. "Why would they do that?"
He really didn’t believe that. Yesterday, he had just taught Second Young Master Yun a lesson and injured their Elder Zu, completely trampling the Yun family’s dignity. And now they’d come running over today to cozy up to him?
In his opinion, the Yun family probably didn’t have such a magnanimous heart.
"There are conditions," Professor Qian said.
Yang Chen looked at him.
Professor Qian explained, "If their drug can make Ye Xin wake up, he hopes you can have Elder Kun Yao keep his promise and teach them the cultivation method beyond the Divine Realm."
Yang Chen frowned. "I do have the method, but I won’t gamble with Ye Xin’s safety!"
"I understand," Professor Qian said. "I’ll take it for testing first!"
"Then tell him this: if anything happens to Ye Xin, not only will they not get the cultivation method, I’ll make the entire Yun family die with her," Yang Chen said coldly.
Professor Qian nodded, then turned around to go handle the matter.
Yang Chen watched Professor Qian’s back, his gaze flickering.
He didn’t trust the Yun family. If he couldn’t be sure the drug was safe and effective for Ye Xin, he would absolutely not allow it to be used!
Back in the ward, Yang Chen sat in front of Ye Xin and quietly recounted what had just happened.
"Don’t worry. I won’t let you take any risks. If it really doesn’t work... I’ll use my own way to wake you up..."
"Alright, you just rest well. I have some things I have to do... Wait for me to come back!"
After Yang Chen finished speaking, he got up and left.
After Yang Chen left, one of the instruments beside Ye Xin suddenly flickered, emitting two beeps, then returned to normal...
...
Behind the mountain on Penglai Island, under a cliff, several boats were moored nearby.
At this moment, the tide had already receded, exposing both the giant boulder and the deep well.
Yang Chen and Jian Feng stood at the bow of a boat, watching the Guard members prepare the equipment.
The equipment had been rushed over overnight and was now all in place.
What they had to do now was sonar detection.
They needed to test not only the depth, but also map the terrain.
That way, it would be easier for them to understand the deep structure of the well.
Soon, after the equipment was ready, Yang Chen directed them to move to the edge of the deep well.
Coming along with them was an oceanography professor surnamed Song. When he saw the deep well, he became wildly excited.
"Th-this is simply unbelievable! This is a miraculous place! Not only are there so many secrets, there’s also this island, and this kind of deep pit. It’s practically... an untouched paradise! If this place were made public, it would definitely shock the whole world!" Professor Song said excitedly.
Jian Feng said coldly from the side, "I don’t think you’ll get a chance to present this place to the outside world."
The icy tone made Professor Song shiver all over. He glanced at Jian Feng and recalled the warning he’d received before coming.
Whatever happened here, he must never tell anyone!
Otherwise... he would face punishment for pan, guo crimes!
This was no joke. From the setup all around, he could tell that whatever was going on here was absolutely beyond his control.
Immediately, Professor Song led people to start deploying the equipment.
He even requested to send people down, but was blocked by Jian Feng, who scolded, "I already said, no one is allowed to go down! Did you take my words as a breeze past your ears?"
Professor Song retorted, "Only by sending people down can we investigate properly. Without people down there, just relying on machines is useless!"
"You just do what you’re supposed to do," Jian Feng stared at Professor Song and said coldly.
Professor Song glared fiercely back at Jian Feng, but helpless in the face of brute authority, he could only compromise.
Once the equipment was lowered, they could use the forward-facing camera to see what it was like inside.
Based on the mapping data, the space below was the same as above—five meters in diameter, extremely smooth and very regular, as if it had been artificially excavated.
As the equipment descended, the surrounding scene gradually became clearer.
Rock walls, the surroundings were all rock walls.
The speed of the equipment’s descent began to get a bit fast.
Further down, some cave-like openings began to appear in the rock walls. It wasn’t clear what was inside, and there was no chance to inspect them; the equipment just kept plunging down.
Professor Song shouted, "Don’t descend so fast! Explore carefully, see what’s inside those caves!"
The Guard member operating the machine was sweating profusely with anxiety. He shouted, "It’s no good! The equipment’s out of control!"
"What!" The professor hurriedly stood up, rushed to the Guard member, and tried to take over the controls.
But it was completely uncontrollable, the speed of descent getting faster and faster.
To the point that the image on the video screen was already a blur; you couldn’t see anything clearly at all.
"Quick! Grab the cable!" Jian Feng shouted to the others.
Several Guard members immediately rushed over and grabbed the equipment’s cable.
The cable was very sturdy, more than enough to bear the equipment’s weight.
However, the few Guard members were yanked off their feet and almost pitched headfirst into the deep pit.
Fortunately, Jian Feng reacted quickly and grabbed them, preventing them from being pulled in.
The speed kept increasing, and the cable whipped around them like a crazed snake.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
The cable raced downward.
Bang!
The full five hundred meters of cable ran out and yanked against the wheel.
But in the very next second—
Bang!
The iron wheel mounted on the post let out a dull bang, was torn clean off, and was dragged into the deep pit.
The connection was instantly severed!
The computer screen went completely dark, showing signal lost.
Everyone was stunned.
Jian Feng looked at Yang Chen.
Yang Chen’s brows were tightly furrowed; this phenomenon was extremely strange.
The device could spray jets to move on its own, and even had small propellers so it could adjust its direction underwater. But as soon as it went down, it was as if all functions failed at once, and it plunged straight down at high speed!
The feeling was... as if something down there had grabbed the equipment and was pulling it down!
Thinking of this, both of their expressions turned rather grim.
Professor Song was even more frantic, squawking in panic. For him, losing the equipment was equivalent to a failed exploration!
Thankfully, there was still backup equipment.
But Yang Chen did not allow them to continue probing. Instead, he told them to use other instruments to extract water from the deep well and take it back for testing, to see what its exact components were.
However, the situation was still the same.
The water at the top was easy enough to take, but drawing from deeper in the well still required equipment.
Even the water-sampling devices were lost three times. In the end, only through everyone’s combined effort did they barely manage to collect surface water, water from ten meters, and water from fifty meters. Any deeper than that, they simply couldn’t get a sample.
Just as Yun Haotian had said, this was practically a bottomless pit—once something fell in, don’t ever think about getting it back out!
