As they walked forward, the moonlight became brighter and brighter. The moonlight shone through the woods, casting broken shadows on the ground.

As they moved forward, the breeze gradually brought with it a stream of hot air. The hot air became thicker and thicker, making people's clothes wet.

Lin Dahai walked along the beach while taking off his coat, cursing, "What kind of a hell of a place is this? It's getting hotter and hotter." He jumped up and down and shouted at Tang Zhongbai, "Tang, this is too abnormal. Can we still go on? Or should we go back?"

Tang Zhongbai did not stop and ignored him. He and Yin Yusheng led the way in front, holding torches, looking at the markings on the map and looking around at the surrounding environment.

Seeing that no one paid attention to him, Lin Dahai's already weathered face became even gloomier.

After walking more than a mile forward, the pear trees gradually became fewer and fewer, and were replaced by neat, lush and vigorous pine and cypress trees, which stood upright like soldiers, guarding the island.

The wind felt hot and uncomfortable on his body. Jiang Muxia wiped the sweat from his forehead and stopped under a tall cypress tree.

Jiang Hongxin also stopped as she did, looked at her in confusion and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, it's too hot, let me take a rest." As she spoke, she looked around. The forest here was so dense, how could it suddenly be so hot? Where did the heat come from?

Jiang Hongxin used her hands as a fan, her cheeks were red and she was sweating profusely.

"Yeah, you said it was quite cool just now. In just a moment, I felt like I was back in Suanzao County."

Jiang Muxia suddenly had an idea, and she ran towards the beach. What made her feel magical was that the temperature in the forest was at the opposite extreme from that at the beach. The moment she stepped onto the beach, it was like she had stepped out of a furnace and into late autumn. The salty and cool sea breeze blew over her, making her feel refreshed and sweeping away her restless and depressed mood.

She ran along the beach towards Tang Zhongbai and the others, raising her hand to let Jiang Hongxin follow her to enjoy the cool breeze.

But this wonderful time came to an abrupt end in less than half an hour. As Berlin turned, a hill began to appear. The hill divided Berlin and the beach into two parts. As the hill became wider, they would be farther and farther away from the team. They had to leave the beach and return to the team.

At this turn, they found a one-acre square pool built with bluestone slabs, which extended downward in a staircase shape. Tang Zhongbai held a torch and observed carefully, only to find that the pool had been built many years ago and was very old. However, the bluestone slabs had been wiped very clean, and the water in the pool was clear. There were neatly arranged ring patterns carved on the bottom of the pool. It was obvious that someone usually took care of the pool.

Tang Zhongbai put his hand into the pool. The water temperature was normal, he scooped up some water and sniffed it, but found nothing unusual.

The cypress trees around the pool are shorter than those elsewhere. Directly opposite the steps leading down to the pool is a winding gravel road, and the pear trees reappear at the end of the road.

Yin Yusheng has already dismantled the mechanism hidden here according to the markings on the map, and there is no danger anymore.

Zhang Yi took off his coat and went into the pool. He scooped up water with his hands, and with a smile on his face, he invited everyone to go into the water to cool off.

"What are you still standing there for? Come down and wash yourself off the heat."

Lin Dahai, who was standing far away from the crowd, had taken off all his clothes except his underwear. His hair and clothes were soaked with sweat. He hung his head like a drowned chicken, with a dejected look on his face.

After hearing Zhang Yi's call, he didn't care about anything else. He trotted to the edge of the pool and got into the water. Just caring about feeling comfortable, he walked down the steps, wanting to soak his entire body in the water.

"Lin Dahai, don't go down. Be careful of the trap at the bottom of the pool." Yin Yusheng reminded him.

In a place like this, where there are so many traps and you have to think three steps ahead before taking one step, the less contact you have with unknown things, the safer you will be, because no one knows when danger will come.

As if in response to his words, as soon as Lin Dahai reached the bottom, he shouted, "I think I stepped on something."

After saying that, he screamed and ran up the stairs.

The bottom of the pool behind him was like a boiling pot. The bubbles were getting bigger and bigger. All the ring-shaped patterns on the bottom of the pool bounced up, and white water with bubbles was visibly spraying out.

This is actually hot water.

Zhang Yi was close to the shore, so he jumped up and got out of the water. Poor Lin Dahai, with his old arms and legs, not only did he fail to run out, but his old eyesight made him miss the step, and he slipped to the bottom of the water.

He screamed one after another, it seemed that he was badly burned.

Fu Zi watched coldly, thinking that he had brought it upon himself and had implicated them, which made him so angry that he wished he would die in the pool.

A huge splash appeared on the water surface, and Lin Dahai was lifted out of the water and thrown onto the shore.

Tang Zhongbai patted the water off his body, his hands were burned red.

Lin Dahai lay on the ground rolling in pain. Yin Yusheng walked up to him and pulled open his trouser legs. He saw that his feet were red and bloody, and large blisters had appeared on his calves from burns.

Everyone gasped. It had only been a short while and he was burned like this. If Tang Zhongbai had acted a little later, he would have really lost his life.

"Bah, I told you to take a shower, you deserve it." Fuzi spat and cursed.

"Fuzi, stop talking, it's more important to hurry on your way." Yin Yusheng interrupted him.

But, in Lin Dahai's current condition, he couldn't walk no matter what.

"You can't abandon me." Lin Dahai shouted. After this disaster, he was determined not to stay here. "I said I wouldn't come. Now my son has been killed by you. You can't abandon me."

Jiang Muxia rolled her eyes at him and said, "Fuzi, why don't you carry him on your back..."

Fuzi glanced at him with disgust and waved her hands to refuse, "Sister Jiang, please don't embarrass me. I still have to take care of Yidao, I won't carry you."

Zhang Yi walked forward leisurely, as if he could not see Lin Dahai at all, and he could not be relied on at all.

It's impossible to let two girls carry an annoying old man.

"Or, let me do it." Yin Yusheng stuffed the map into Tang Zhongbai's hands, squatted down and was about to put Lin Dahai on his back.

Tang Zhongbai pulled his sleeve and pulled him up, "You have to watch the road, I'll do it."

"also."

After passing several checkpoints, some people died and some were injured in the team. Tang Zhongbai felt even more depressed. He was worried about Tang Si, who was a lively person. He was afraid that he would lose his temper, rush around recklessly, accidentally trigger the mechanism, and lose his life.

He walked quickly with Lin Dahai on his back, hoping to reach the entrance as soon as possible and ask the people inside to disarm all the mechanisms so that he could find Tang Si's whereabouts.

Everyone became more cautious, more vigilant, and walked more steadily.

Walking out of the cypress forest, the heat in the wind gradually disappeared.

Everyone was puzzled as to where the hot wind came from. They walked through the cypress forest but could not find the source of the hot wind.

The pear orchard appeared before my eyes again. The moonlight was like water. A breeze blew, bringing a cool breeze and a feeling of autumn.

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