Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 511 - 352: Dangerous Underground Water System_2

Chapter 511: Chapter 352: Dangerous Underground Water System_2

"Boss, did we gain anything?"

"Yeah, I found a golden sword, but it’s broken into two pieces."

"That’s still pretty good, right? This sword is so big—it must weigh at least a couple of kilograms, right?"

Sean Knight put the golden sword next to the tent and said, "It’s probably around three kilograms."

He hadn’t taken out the previous items he’d collected, so this was their first valuable find, and it was quite impressive.

Later, Elijah Hastings and Lincoln Harrington also returned and were very happy to see the golden sword that Sean Knight had salvaged.

They had never doubted that Sean could salvage good stuff.

So it wasn’t all that surprising.

After lunch and some rest, Sean dived into the water again.

He came directly to the water exit, turned on the Sky Eye, and started to examine it carefully.

This time Sean Knight had a specific goal in mind—before the water of Swan Lake had been released, there should have been something controlling the water here.

Even if it was natural, there had to be something suppressing the water. It couldn’t just be the silt—he didn’t think the silt could hold back the water with such a strong flow.

As the Sky Eye scanned down, he found that about half a meter below the water exit, the silt disappeared, leaving only rock.

He hadn’t paid much attention to these rocks before, as the Sky Eye focused primarily on scanning below them.

Now that he was paying attention to the rocks, he realized there was more to them than met the eye—they weren’t completely natural!

These rocks, they could be moved!

Before, when Brown’s organization was salvaging in the lake, they must have touched these rocks, which released the water!

Theoretically, by moving these rocks, the water could still be blocked off!

While the idea was good, Sean knew it wasn’t feasible with such a large flow of water—it would be like ants trying to move a mountain!

He continued to observe the three water exits.

Sean felt there was more to it; there had to be more details waiting for him to uncover!

With the Sky Eye activated, he carefully examined everything again and finally found a suspicious rock protruding from the silt next to another water exit.

Underneath this rock was another rock, and he could now see that what appeared to be one rock on top of another were actually two connected rocks—a mortise and tenon structure linking them together.

Usually, this structure was found in wood, but here, it was made of very hard rock.

This discovery excited Sean, as he realized it wasn’t naturally formed!

Upon closer inspection, indeed, the wear marks where the two rocks connected showed that they had been moved, which had resulted in some areas of the rock becoming smoother due to friction.

Sure enough, layers of rocks below were connected in a similar way. But the tight connections and material made it impossible for Sean to notice earlier.

Now that he had found this anomaly, he could trace it to its source, and more problems would be revealed.

All of the rocks beneath the three water exits were stacked in this manner, layer by layer, all the way down to the deepest backwater area.

At this point, Sean also realized that the middle water entry was surrounded by these rocks, and it went deeper than the water exits—it wasn’t on the same level.

Sean squatted down, slowly approached the water entry, and felt the pull of the water dragging him towards the center.

Not daring to move forward, he activated the Sky Eye to continue observing.

Then he saw that the water entry led to a huge, suspended spatial realm about twenty meters from the bottom of the lake, where the water directly fell down. However, this space was currently filled with about two-thirds of the water.

Sean guessed that if the water exits were "closed" now, the water entry would rise to the level he had originally seen, and when the space below was full, the water would stop flowing down.

So that’s how it worked!

Once he understood this principle, Sean didn’t immediately act. Instead, he surfaced, returned to shore, took off his diving suit, and moved around to stay active.

He knew that he might resolve the issue soon and needed to maintain his best condition.

Gathering his internal energy, Sean’s entire body becomes more coordinated, and his Sky Eye energy becomes more sensitive. He moved around the nearby forest for a while, planning his diving strategy in his mind.

Half an hour later, Sean dived into the water once again, starting the final action of this treasure-hunting journey.

At the water exit, Sean looked at the stones again, confirming his deductions were correct, then took out a shovel and slowly removed the silt from the protruding stone.

When the stone was dug out, Sean put away the shovel and started moving the stones.

The stone moved.

Sean suddenly found out that as the stones moved, the water outlet became smaller, but the pressure at the outlet didn’t increase—

It is well known that under the same water flow, the smaller the area, the greater the pressure.

This is why the pressure of a car wash spray gun is so strong.

Of course, this also involves some physics knowledge.

But with his own movement of the stones, the stones underneath the three water exits weren’t moving uniformly but in a more complex way.

This movement caused the water that came up to go through a complex "corridor" of water, and when the water reached the lake, the pressure was much more gentle!

Now Sean understood why those sacrificial implements were in the space beneath the water exit.

After all, in theory, these things should have completely fallen into the space under the water entrance. Since the water exit has pressure, even if the sacrificial items fall here, they would be washed away by the water pressure!

Now, with the water pressure decreased and the objects heavier, they naturally fell down.

With this thought, Sean suddenly guessed that a large space below the water entry must have even more sacrificial implements?

However, considering the situation where the Sky Eye could not see it, he decided not to try it yet.

Otherwise, if he got stuck in there, it would be a big trouble.

Feeling that the water flow at the water exit was bearable, Sean stopped his actions and slowly went towards the water exit.

Looking at it with Sky Eye, the underwater passageway was complicated, but it was basically accessible.

Stepping down with one foot, Sean encountered an embarrassing situation—he had neglected his oxygen cylinder. As he went halfway down, the oxygen cylinder got stuck at the water exit.

Fortunately, there was water gushing out, so he wasn’t trapped tightly. He pushed both hands to the sides and came out.

Sean looked at the distance underwater and had a bold idea!

He took a deep breath of oxygen, then took off his diving equipment and dived underwater, holding his breath!

With his current physical condition, there was no danger in diving several tens of meters underwater, and his enhanced physical fitness allowed him to hold his breath for an extended period.

Taking off the diving suit did make things easier.

With Sky Eye, Sean could find the way down even with his eyes closed.

When he first went into the water, the pressure wasn’t too great. It increased as he went deeper.

Fortunately, Sean felt he could still bear it. He grabbed the edge of the rock and stepped down.

When there were only one or two meters left to go, the pressure suddenly increased several times, and Sean, caught off guard, was almost pushed up to the rocks above!

It was a right-angled waterway. The water below had turned several corners to get here, and it also turned upward. Sean had just passed through the horizontal passageway when he was suddenly pushed off balance.

Luckily, he was quick-witted and grabbed a crack in the stone to avoid being washed away.

The difficulty of the remaining one-fifth of the passage was much greater than before!

Sean felt he was running out of breath, but he wanted to hold on a little longer!

Step by step, Sean clenched his teeth, holding his breath until his face turned red, and even behind his tightly closed eyelids, his eyeballs were bulging!

Finally, he felt the pressure on his body lighten, and before him was a spacious area!

He made it down!