Chapter 3353 — Utterly Baffled
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The pool was not too deep. The car sank slowly to the bottom, but the beams of its headlights, refracted through the water's surface, were still clearly visible.
This car had been specially modified by Feng Tianlong's side—the mysterious investigation bureau—so even after taking on water, its electrical system would not fail for a good while yet. The headlights were still burning.
"Phew... Mr. Lin, you really are something. You judged the terrain in an instant. So what should we do now that we're down here?" Following Wei Zhao, Yu Dake felt as though he had gained some backbone; even after falling into an abyss, he was not overly worried. "This place is huge. Shall we look around?"
"Not yet. Look over there." Wei Zhao pointed at a sign not far away, caught in the beam of the headlights.
Yu Dake and Yu Xiaoke instinctively raised their heads to look—and gave a start! For on that large sign, a warning was written in many languages: "Danger ahead. There is only one way out alive. Do not wander about, or face the consequences!"
Near the sign were five passageways, and there was no telling which was the right one and which were wrong.
"Uh..." Yu Dake was somewhat speechless. He had not expected this place to be so complicated, with other hidden mechanisms and secret passages as well.
Yu Xiaoke was surprised too, but being of the Thief Sect, she was quite composed at this moment. "If I'm not mistaken, one of these leads to the Palan clan's ancient castle—the passage their own people use. The rest are dead ends. We're imprisoned down here: either we go get ourselves killed, or we wait for them to send someone. This is much the same trick as in some ancient tombs!"
"Then... do we wait here, or...?" Hearing Yu Xiaoke's words, Yu Dake asked uncertainly. "It looks to me like the Palan clan wants us dead. Something's off. Could the Gu family have tipped them off, so these people lay in wait to finish us off?"
Wei Zhao was in fact puzzled as well. Why had the Palan clan come at him with lethal force from the very start? They had surely never met before, and there was no grudge between them. How could he have drawn such hatred?
As for the Gu family tipping them off, that was not impossible—but the odds were really too small. After all, from Gu's son's manner at the time, he was a thoroughly timid man and would not dare lie. So they had no way to contact the two who had left, and those two had also revealed their whereabouts and their business—tipping off the clan would bring them punishment just the same. So it was hardly realistic.