Immortal God of War
Chapter 1532: Chapter 1465: Premonition!
The lake was very deep.
But the water was clear as a bright mirror.
Led by the Crocodile Emperor, Qin Feiyang and the Dragon Phoenix Building Miss kept sinking down.
The cool lake water put one in a pleasant mood.
Before long.
The two people and one beast sank to the lake bottom.
The bottom of the lake was piled with thick sludge, and looking around, not a single living creature could be seen.
If someone were here alone, they would definitely feel afraid.
Because it was too quiet.
So quiet it made your scalp prickle.
Qin Feiyang scanned the surroundings and sent a voice transmission: "Let’s start searching!"
The Dragon Phoenix Building Miss nodded.
But the Crocodile Emperor had been half?hearted the whole way down.
Time passed, breath by breath.
The Crocodile Emperor began to grow impatient.
It looked at Qin Feiyang and the Dragon Phoenix Building Miss and said, "Big bro, big sis, I really have already searched down here, even dug three feet into the ground. I swear on my life there’s nothing suspicious here."
Qin Feiyang laughed and said, "If you’re not willing, you can go up and wait for us."
"Alright, alright, I’ll keep you company."
The Crocodile Emperor was helpless.
The Dragon Phoenix Building Miss suddenly said, "Little crocodile, I want to ask you a few questions."
"What questions?"
The Crocodile Emperor looked puzzled.
The Dragon Phoenix Building Miss said, "The water in this lake—where did it come from?"
"Nonsense."
"Of course it accumulated when it rained."
The Crocodile Emperor said.
The Dragon Phoenix Building Miss said, "Then let me ask you this: has the water in this lake ever dried up?"
The Crocodile Emperor thought for a bit, then shook its head and said, "No, it hasn’t."
"Hasn’t?"
The Dragon Phoenix Building Miss knit her dark brows.
She looked quite surprised.
"What’s wrong?"
The Crocodile Emperor looked at her in confusion.
"According to what the Ant Emperor said, it rarely rains here, right?"
The Dragon Phoenix Building Miss asked back instead of answering.
"Right."
"It’s common for it to rain only once every few years, or even decades."
The Crocodile Emperor nodded.
"Then that fits."
The Dragon Phoenix Building Miss said, a sharp light flashing in her eyes.
"What fits?"
"My dear big sis, can you please say it all in one go? The way you’re doing it is really making me suffer here!"
The Crocodile Emperor was a bit annoyed.
The Dragon Phoenix Building Miss glanced at it and laughed: "If it only rains every so many years, even with the nice temperature here, there would still be evaporation."
"What do you mean?"
The Crocodile Emperor still didn’t get it.
Qin Feiyang, however, started to mull it over.
Signs of evaporation...
Suddenly.
As if he had thought of something, he looked at the Dragon Phoenix Building Miss and the Crocodile Emperor and said, "You wait here for me, I’ll go check the shore."
"No need, I’ve already examined it."
"Along the lakeshore, other than the current waterline’s mark, there are no other water marks."
The Dragon Phoenix Building Miss said.
"You mean..."
Qin Feiyang was startled and puzzled.
"Exactly."
The Dragon Phoenix Building Miss nodded.
"Hold on."
"Can you two say it in a way I can understand?"
"If this keeps up, I’m going to get mad!"
The Crocodile Emperor shouted.
How did a simple conversation turn into a guessing game?
The Dragon Phoenix Building Miss glanced at the Crocodile Emperor, then looked at Qin Feiyang and said, "You explain it to him."
With that, she turned back and continued searching.
"Come on, talk!"
The Crocodile Emperor looked at Qin Feiyang.
Qin Feiyang shook his head with a smile and sent a voice transmission: "No matter where water is, no matter what the weather is like, over time it evaporates, doesn’t it?"
"Right."
The Crocodile Emperor said.
"After it evaporates, the water level drops, doesn’t it?"
Qin Feiyang asked again.
"Exactly."
The Crocodile Emperor nodded.
"There you go."
"The water in this lake would evaporate too, and the water level would go down with it."
"Once the water level drops, it would definitely leave water marks on the mud or stones along the shore."
"But Ruoshuang just said she didn’t find any other water marks along the shore."
"What does that tell you?"
"It tells us the water here has never evaporated."
"Is that phenomenon reasonable?"
Qin Feiyang said.
"Unreasonable."
The Crocodile Emperor blurted out.
But as soon as it spoke, its expression froze.
"I get it, I get it."
"You mean the water here isn’t ordinary water, that even if the sun shines on it, it won’t evaporate."
"Right?"
The Crocodile Emperor looked at the two of them.
The Dragon Phoenix Building Miss’s cheeks twitched; she shook her head and said, "Hopeless!"
Qin Feiyang was also rather helpless.
"That’s not it?"
The Crocodile Emperor was puzzled.
"Of course not."
"We’re in the water right now. Take a look—do you see anything different about this water compared to normal water?"
Qin Feiyang said.
The Crocodile Emperor swept its gaze over the lake water around them, then shook its head and said, "Doesn’t seem like I see any difference."
"Nonsense."
"This is just ordinary water. What could you possibly find?"
"What we really mean is, the water here is indeed evaporating, but while it evaporates, there’s also water pouring into the lake."
"In other words."
"No matter if it’s wind blowing or rain falling or whatever else, the water in this lake always stays at the same level."
"And that’s exactly the cause we need to track down."
"As long as we figure this out, the anomaly in this mountain range will naturally become clear."
Qin Feiyang said.
"So that’s how it is."
Only now did the Crocodile Emperor completely understand. He looked at the two of them with displeasure and said, "Couldn’t you have explained it earlier? You had to make me rack my brains over it—such a hassle."
Qin Feiyang and the other exchanged a look, rather helpless.
This was a textbook case of developed limbs and simple mind.
However.
Despite having discovered an abnormality, after a whole day of searching—practically digging three feet into the lakebed as the Crocodile Emperor had said—Qin Feiyang still hadn’t found anything in the lake.
Not only Qin Feiyang; Ling Yunfei and the others likewise turned up nothing.
Time slipped by, and night fell.
Everyone returned to the shore one after another, brows tightly knitted.
Everywhere else under the same ten suns, the ground was dried and cracked, not a blade of grass growing, yet only here was life flourishing.
To say there was no problem here was clearly impossible.
But where exactly lay the root of the problem?
Qin Feiyang lifted his head, sweeping his gaze over the lake, his expression quite irritable.
The night grew deeper.
Cool gusts brushed past in strands, making one’s whole body feel comfortable, but the clouds of worry in everyone’s hearts only grew thicker.
Suddenly!
As if noticing something, Qin Feiyang locked his gaze on a certain spot on the right side of the lake, a hint of doubt in his eyes.
Seeing Qin Feiyang’s abnormal reaction, everyone also looked over.
At first glance, there was nothing.
Grass and trees were lush, covering everything.
But on closer inspection, everyone slowly realized that there seemed to be a gap there, as if a river channel connected to the lake.
The Crocodile Emperor also glanced that way and asked doubtfully, "Is there something wrong?"
"What is that?"
Qin Feiyang asked.
"That’s the little creek we saw around the Fortune Tree!"
"The creek doesn’t just run across the entire plain, it runs through this whole mountain range as well."
The Crocodile Emperor said.
"Runs through the entire mountain range!"
Hearing this, Qin Feiyang’s eyes trembled slightly as he asked, "Where is the source of this creek?"
Miss Phoenix Tower said, "Feiyang, you mean this creek is the root of the problem?"
"That’s right."
Qin Feiyang nodded and said, "Come with me."
With that, he shot toward the mouth of the creek.
Everyone exchanged a glance and hurried after him.
Very quickly.
A group of people arrived at the creek mouth.
Qin Feiyang waved his hand, and the weeds and shrubs on both sides instantly turned to dust. The full form of the creek immediately appeared clearly before everyone’s eyes.
Qin Feiyang swept his gaze over the water surface. After a long moment, a sharp light flashed in his eyes as he said, "Carefully observe the surface of the water."
Everyone swept their gaze over the water.
The surface was very calm, with no sign of flowing at all.
But on closer inspection, they discovered:
The water in the creek was quietly flowing toward the lake.
Which was to say.
It was precisely the water from this creek, continuously pouring into the lake, that caused the lake’s water level to always remain on a single line.
Miss Phoenix Tower’s eyes grew gradually brighter as she asked, "Little Crocodile, does the creek only have this one entrance feeding into the lake?"
"There’s another one over there."
The Crocodile Emperor pointed to the diagonal opposite shore from where they were currently standing.
"Let’s go take a look."
Qin Feiyang said.
Led by the Crocodile Emperor, the group quickly arrived at another creek mouth.
This creek mouth was likewise concealed by lush weeds and shrubs. If one didn’t look carefully, it would be hard to discover.
As before, Qin Feiyang waved his hand, swiftly clearing away the weeds and shrubs, then carefully observed the water surface.
The water here was also calm and still.
But after observing, everyone discovered that this creek mouth was likewise feeding water into the lake!
This only further confirmed Qin Feiyang’s suspicion!
Normally, a creek like this, connected to the lake at both ends, would have one side flowing in and the other flowing out.
In other words.
The water should be cycling.
But here, both creek mouths were feeding water into the lake. That meant the creek had another source.
And the water in the lake came precisely from the creek’s source!
Qin Feiyang turned to look at the Crocodile Emperor and asked, "Have you ever noticed this detail before?"
"I haven’t."
"I always thought the creek and the lake were just circulating."
The Crocodile Emperor shook his head.
"That’s you being careless, understand?"
Qin Feiyang said.
The Crocodile Emperor gave an awkward smile.
Qin Feiyang shook his head, looked at everyone, and said, "Now we’ll split into two teams."
"I’ll go with Ruoshuang and the three beast emperors."
"Ling Yunfei, Li Jian, you two go with the Crocodile Emperor."
"We’ll follow these two creek mouths all the way down."
"Remember, don’t overlook any detail. We must find the source of the creek."
"I have a feeling we might discover a remarkable supreme treasure this time."
Qin Feiyang sent a voice transmission, his tone difficult to hide its excitement.
Having the Crocodile Emperor and Ling Yunfei together was partly because the Crocodile Emperor had protective armor. If Lu Xingchen was really hiding in the dark and tried to harm them, they wouldn’t be completely helpless.
The other reason was that Ling Yunfei also had a spatial divine artifact.
If the Crocodile Emperor couldn’t match Lu Xingchen, there’d still be a fallback—retreat into the spatial divine artifact.
As for Qin Feiyang’s own team.
With the ancient castle, he could completely guarantee everyone’s safety.
"Alright."
Everyone nodded.
Qin Feiyang turned and swept his gaze over the jungle in the night, a cold light flashing in his eyes as he said, "Then let’s move out!"
At once.
The group split into two teams, hacking through thorns and brambles as they quickly vanished into the mountain range.
"Go ahead and search. I’ll just wait to reap the fisherman’s profit."
And just after Qin Feiyang and the others disappeared, Lu Xingchen walked out from a dark place. He swept his gaze over the two creek mouths, muttering to himself.
Then.
He stepped forward, like a ghost in the night, silently following in the direction Qin Feiyang had gone.

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