Chapter 110

I looked back at the small gap we had just come through and asked Bai Haotian, “How were these things put in here?”

“I don’t know. They were already here when I started working here.”

I circled around the goods and then looked back at the gap, “So, if someone comes to pick up the goods, how would they be shipped out?”

“Legend has it that Zhang Da Fo Ye used the Five Ghosts Transportation ritual.” Bai Haotian smiled. “Anyway, these things have been here for so many years and no one has ever bothered to pick them up.”

I took a deep breath and looked at this spectacular scene—the Mystic Nine in my mind was mostly just legendary stories you heard on the street. But after seeing this place, I suddenly realized that I didn’t know how amazing the Mystic Nine really was back in the day.

I went to move forward, but Bai Haotian suddenly took off her jacket and started to take off her pants. I was stunned for a moment before I realized that she wearing a close-fitting diving suit under her uniform. Her figure finally showed a trace of feminine curves.

She opened her backpack, took out a pair of diving goggles, and put them on before looking at me with a little blush on her face.

I was a little confused. I just wanted to check out the warehouse, so why did it suddenly turn into us swimming?

“What are you doing?” I sighed and told myself that with this much drama, I probably wouldn’t be bored during my time here.

She handed me something. I took it and glanced down, only to find that it was a pair of swim trunks. “I don’t like this kind of sport and the water looks dirty,” I said to her very slowly.

“Don’t you want to go down and have a look?” She handed me another pair of goggles and then took out two underwater flashlights.

I saw her face get even redder.

“The water…”

“Don’t worry, the water’s fine. Not only is the Bai family good at swimming, but we’re very familiar with water.” She started to do some stretches and then jumped into the water. When her head surfaced again, she said, “I’ll swim for a while. I won’t look at you changing.”

I looked at the swim trunks and suddenly remembered something that Jin Wantang had said before. Was it the Bai family that Fo Ye and Ba Ye had met while salvaging a sunken ship in Dongting Lake? It was said that the sunken ship was under an ice cave at that time, so salvaging it was an extraordinary feat (1).

I debated on whether I wanted to go down or not, but after thinking for a few minutes, I found that I couldn’t not go down. Everything above was already so thrilling that I was sure whatever was below would be jaw-dropping.

I took a few steps forward and moved to a dark spot. I took off my clothes and put on the swim trunks and goggles. I then carefully did some stretches and climbed into the water bit by bit by holding onto the railing.

The water still had a trace of warmth to it, so it wasn’t as cold as I had been expecting. Bai Haotian’s underwater flashlight wasn’t far from me, so I slowly swam towards her. The light rushed at me like an arrow in the water and then I saw her head poke out of the water right in front of me.

I immediately understood why her hair was so short. This tomboy was obviously very good at swimming and probably spent most of her time in the water.

With the light reflecting off the water, she looked like a completely different person. Her shyness on land had been replaced by an indescribable brilliance.

“We’ll have to dive deep. How deep have you gone before?” She asked me.

“The deepest place I’ve ever been was my Uncle Three’s trap for me,” I said.

I wasn’t afraid of diving. My fear of water had been reduced to the bare minimum when I went to the Zhang family’s ancient building.

She handed me an underwater flashlight and then dove down. I quickly followed after her. The two of us went down bit by bit, gradually going deeper and deeper. The pool was about twenty-five meters deep, but the goods were huge. As soon as I went underwater, I saw even more goods floating at the bottom.

The most striking thing was a group of colorful jellyfish-like things that were suspended in the water.

Bai Haotian led me over to them and I found that they were actually a group of ancient female corpses. They were wearing western clothes and suspended in the water. I realized that I had seen this kind of thing before.

Behind the female corpses were two huge coffins.

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TN Notes:

(1) I believe this is VERY loosely portrayed in Episode 46 of the “Mystic Nine”.

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This is Episode 27 of the drama. Times are 28:30-29:13; 32:10-36:44; and 41:08-42:05. Also continues into Episode 28, around 2:00-3:35 (if you keep watching, it goes into the next chapter). Viki link to the episode list here.