Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 714 Five. Bottomless Pool

   The twinkling stars are clinging to the dome, creating the mask of a beautiful starry sky.

  Lu Li knew that was not true.

The rock wall behind    stands upright, and it is impossible to see the night sky on the ground.

   This is an underground cave.

  The land that escaped from the underground rock formation entered a wider... prison.

   The twinkling stars at the top of the cave may be radioactive fluorite or luminous bodies on the mysterious side. They make the caves less dull.

The    river originates from the pool at the other end of the cave, and the fountain-like water flows from the bottom of the tan and converges into a river flowing to the pass.

  Whoa——

  The flow of water into the pass eased as Luli dribbled away from the edge.

   Standing in the shoal, the biting water caressed Lu Li's calf.

  Wowla-wowla-

  Lu Li stepped out of the shallows and stood on the shore at the edge of the cave.

  The rock wall is covered with water droplets formed by moisture, as well as withered vines climbing nearly two meters from the ground.

  Lu Li reached out and tore off a piece of vine net and tried to tug it. After absorbing water, they were strong and resilient enough.

   Tore off a few finger-thick vines, tied them into vine ropes more than twenty meters long, and pushed a rock several circles larger than a human head into the shoal, wrapping the vines.

   Holding the other end of the vine, Lu Li retreated to the pass and re-drilled into the water.

  He's going back to the rock cavity to find Friday.

   Familiar feeling poured into my heart, but unlike last time, the fog of the road ahead has faded.

  Before the oxygen ran out, Lu Li saw the fire on the water, drilled out from under the rock wall, and got out of the water with the sound of clattering water.

   Fires were crackling on the rocks, and lighthouses and knives lay beside the draped coats.

   Other than that, there is no one, nothing.

  's head suddenly began to tingle, Lu Li frowned, feeling that his clear memory suddenly became disordered, and reality and illusion were intertwined.

   And the outline named Friday gradually faded, as if the last time I met her was extremely long ago.

Does   Friday really exist, or is it just an illusion in a desperate situation?

  Climb up the rocks and observe the fire and the marks on the rocks. But all traces of life point to only Lu Li living here.

  No cooking pots, no drying books, no wooden bowls, no sea fish and meat, no condiments and no empty jars.

   Lu Li suddenly stretched out his hand and squeezed his throat, causing himself to vomit. But nothing came out except the water he drank earlier.

  Maybe Friday is waiting for himself in the underground cave.

   wiped the corner of his mouth, Lu Li took everything he could take from the rock, and re-drilled into the dark river.

  The fire in the hollow of the rock formation burns quietly, and soon, the fire that has lost its fuel will return to darkness with its surroundings.

  …

  Whoa——

   Luli drilled out of the pass.

   With black hair pressed to his forehead, Lu Li looked around the underground cave and saw no trace of Friday.

   Holding the coat that was running down the waterline, Lu Li returned to the shore, wringing out the wet coat and trousers. But in wet caves they may hardly ever dry out completely.

   Looking up at the top of the cave, the lights are still flickering. Because they only existed at the top of a dozen meters high, it was difficult for Lu Li to see what they were.

  The body's water is gradually evaporating, but the cold is taking away Lu Li's body temperature. What awaits him is either to make a fire or to find a way to the outside world.

  Look around the edge of the cave, except for the deep pool of gushing spring water, there is no other exit.

  Lu Li temporarily gave up his plan to dive into the deep pool, and now he needs to recover.

  The underground cave is relatively clean, and the weightless sand and gravel are washed into the pass with the current, and only the withered vines on the rock wall can burn.

   When looking for something to burn, Lu Li thought of the evidence that Friday actually existed: without a source of fire, it would be difficult for the wet igniter to burn even if he drilled wood to make a fire.

  Thinking of this, Lu Li spread out his palms consciously.

   A scar filled with blisters appeared in the palm of his hand.

  “…”

   Lu Li couldn't be sure whether the palm injury existed before.

   silently returned to the shore with a few wet firewood, and tried to drill for fire.

   This doesn't work. Every time I rubbed the branches, my palms would feel a stinging pain that penetrated into my heart. Lu Li could endure it, but he couldn't get out of the spark at the slow speed due to the severe pain, especially with damp wood. The dense blisters in Lu Li's palm are enough to explain everything - if it was really caused by drilling wood and making fire.

  Lu Li's eyes fell on the only exit of the cave. It is about ten meters in diameter, and it is difficult to see the bottom of the clear pool.

   Now all he can do is to find a way to get out of here before his physical strength and body temperature disappear.

   is also a pool.

   took the lighthouse, Lu Li walked to the edge of the pool, and jumped into the pool.

   The radiance blooms, illuminating the dark pool. Lu Li sank nearly three meters, and was pushed by the rising spring water, unable to sink, and the bottom of the pool was still not visible from the bright edge.

   The pool is deeper than expected.

  Lu Li floated back to the surface, picked a rock weighing about 30 pounds on the shore, held it and jumped into the pool again.

  The rock belt landed and floated down quickly, and the fluorescent light on the top of the cave disappeared in an instant.

   Five meters, ten meters, fifteen meters.

  Water pressure squeezed his body from all directions, and Lu Li could still bear it.

   But the bottom of the tan is still not visible from the bright edge a few meters away.

   Twenty meters, twenty-five meters, thirty meters.

   Approaching the critical point of terrestrial bearing, the edge has not yet appeared.

  Lu Li was no longer stingy with humanity, and the lighthouse in his right hand suddenly burst into a brighter brilliance. If there was a substantial oppressive black shadow retreating from his side, the rock wall at the edge of the pool emerged, and the viewing distance below was getting farther and farther—

   But in the squinted black eyes, the bottom did not emerge until the depth of forty meters or even fifty meters. Only on the edge of the brilliance, the shadows of the phantoms flickered away.

   There was not much oxygen left in his lungs, so Lu Li had to throw away the stones and float up.

  Lu Li controlled the speed of his ascent, and only accelerated his ascent and rushed to the surface when the burning sensation in his lungs was unbearable.

  The world suddenly became clear, Lu Li climbed up the shoal, lying in the water to resist the ensuing feeling of powerlessness and uncontrollable itching.

   He ascended too fast and developed decompression sickness symptoms.

   After a few minutes, the symptoms subsided, and Lu Li, who was dizzy and dizzy, returned to the shore.

  The pool is deeper than expected. Unless Lu Li can find something that can hold the air wrapped up by the spring water, it is almost impossible for him to find the outlet of the pool.

  In addition to the larger space, people will not have claustrophobia, the underground cave seems to be no different from the hollow in the rock formation.

Is there any other exit from the    cave?

  Lu Li thought and looked up at the false stars again.

   He held up the lighthouse high, the human nature melted into the wick, and the gentle light of the morning sun filled the cave, and everything was unobstructed.

   The dark yellow fluorite inlaid at the top of the cave became dull. They are not the focus, but are surrounded by their clusters, an oval hole leading to the outside world.

  The exciting thing is that the hole is large enough in diameter to be drilled out.

   But a problem also arises.

  How did Lu Li climb from the nearly vertical wet rock wall to the top and then to the hole in the middle of the cave?

   (end of this chapter)