I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 79 The Player's Big Plan (Part )

Cannibals are soft and short.

This is a path that is useful everywhere.

The lumberjacks had never heard of this truth, but when Ajax gave at least five copper coins to more than 200 lumberjacks in the camp, they felt that Ajax was a good man.

Report him to the Restoration Army soldiers?
Are you sick? If we report Ajax, will those soldiers give us meat?

No, they wouldn't. They would even take away the fine copper coins in the lumberjacks' pockets. So, the lumberjacks collectively decided not to report Ajax.

Relying on the simple and crude method of spending money, Ajax temporarily gained the trust of the lumberjacks.

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Time continues to go backwards.

On the fifth day, while individual players were happily playing scout pve, Barbarossa was lying on a raft.

The raft dropped anchor and was fixed in the middle of the slowly flowing cliff river. At noon, the scorching sun shone down from between the two cliffs above his head, falling on Barbarossa and illuminating his miserable body.

Barbarossa was not in a good condition now. He had no clothes on except a pair of shorts.

His skin was pale, swollen, and wrinkled, and his shoulders, back, and thighs were covered in bruises and lacerations from the impact.

A trace of blood was still oozing from a fresh wound on his arm that had been made more than ten minutes ago.

However, Barbarossa's situation was scary, but he was not the worst off. The worst off person was another player next to him.

The latter was also naked. He sat on the edge of the raft, holding a simple harpoon and looking intently at the water. Through the reflection in the water, one could see his empty left eye socket.

One of his two legs submerged in the water was twisted into a hemp knot by external force, with pale bone stumps piercing through the knee area and exposed outside the skin.

There wasn't a single piece of healthy flesh on his body, only wounds and bruises.

The tragic situation of the two people was caused by their long-term unprotected diving in the underground river under the cliff. Some sections of this underground river have calm water flow.

Some areas are extremely turbulent. The water hits the stone bank, making a rumbling sound and also grinding out sharp stone knives. Undercurrents surge beneath the water surface. Players diving here are risking their lives.

There were eleven players who followed Barbarossa down two days ago, but today, only he and another cripple are left. This is enough to prove the danger of this extreme sport.

As for why Barbarossa came here?

That's for Bolas Fortress, of course.

"I say, Lao Ba, how long are we going to stay here?"

After failing to spear fish again, the player pulled the harpoon out of the water. Disappointed by the empty harpoon, he couldn't help but complain.

"This damn place is really not a place for people to stay. Although we won't be discovered by the enemies above us, it's not safe to log off. If we're not careful, we'll fall into the water and drown."

"I don't know. We might find what we're looking for, or we might die here... I definitely can't climb that fifty-meter-high cliff right now."

Barbarossa continued to bask in the sun without a care in the world. He felt an itch on his wound and wanted to scratch it. A few days ago, when he saw the Bolas Fortress with his own eyes, Barbarossa had a question in his mind: how did such a castle fortress on the edge of a cliff solve the problem of drinking water?

Digging a well is impossible, and living by storing water is not realistic either, as there are thousands of mouths waiting to drink water.

So, after circling the Bolas Fortress half a circle, we discovered that there was a river of unknown depth below the two cliffs.

Barbarossa concluded that the fortress guards' drinking water problem must be solved by relying on this river.

Then a new problem arose. The fortress was at least fifty meters away from the river at the bottom of the cliff, which was almost eighteen stories high. How did the guards in the fortress get water?

Rope bucket?

This is unlikely. A fifty-meter-long hemp rope can be connected, but the efficiency of using it to draw water is too low to meet the water needs of the entire castle.

Go to the other side of the cliff to get water?
It is also unlikely, because the players lurking nearby have not seen the cliff suspension bridge of the Bolas Fortress's secondary fort lowered since the arrival of the Restoration Army.

Therefore, Barbarossa concluded that there must be a passage leading to the bottom of the cliff in the Bolas Fortress, which may be natural or man-made.

Only in this way can we explain why Bolas Fortress is not afraid of being besieged and cut off from water supply.

In order to solve the doubts and get answers, Barbarossa found eleven players who were willing to go down with him to find out the truth.

Then he and the players brought five days' worth of dry food, threw ten rafts with iron anchors down from the upper reaches of the cliff river, and then they jumped in.

As soon as he fell into the water, Barbarossa lost two of his companions. These two people failed to control their falling movements when diving 50 meters, causing their bodies to hit the water sideways and die on the spot due to shattered internal organs.

Then, in the subsequent raft drifting and diving expeditions, the players who followed Barbarossa died or were injured. Now, only he and the last player with a missing eye and a broken leg are still holding on.

However, seeing the latter's complaining look, Barbarossa knew that he could not hold on any longer.

He looked up at the sun that was about to disappear over the cliff, sighed, and then rolled over into the river.

No matter what, let’s finish exploring this section of the river.

As soon as he dived into the riverbed two or three meters deep, before Barbarossa could move his hands and feet to swim, his sharp eyes saw an unusual dark yellow luster on the dark river surface more than ten meters away.

It's not sunlight, it's the flame produced by a burning torch!

Then the next second, as a heavy object fell into the water, something that looked like a bucket fell into the water and was quickly lifted up.

Almost instantly, Barbarossa's heart began to beat wildly. He knew that he had found the right place.

It's here, right here, the secret exit of the Bolas Fortress for getting water. It is hidden at the bottom of the dark river on the cliff. It cannot be found just by floating on the river on a raft. You have to jump into the water and dive to the bottom of the river to find anything unusual!

Barbarossa was overjoyed. He immediately turned around and swam towards the surface.

Now that you have found the place, you should go up quickly, mark it on the small map, remember the three-dimensional coordinates of the location, and at the same time notify others and formulate a battle plan.

Go and investigate?
There is no need. There is no need to risk alerting the fortress guards who are fetching water. We must not alert the enemy now.

(End of this chapter)