Awakening the Phoenix Flow System after the breakup, I'm so happy!

The hole was pitch black, and not a single ray of natural light could penetrate it.

Shen Man turned on the powerful flashlight on her diving suit.

The pale beam of light shone in, barely illuminating a short distance of a dozen meters.

Chen Yang followed behind Sun Changshan, and with a thought, he directly activated his Spiritual Eye.

My vision immediately pierced through the darkness and murky lake water.

This is not a naturally formed lakebed cave at all.

Instead, it is an underground civil defense passage built with thickened concrete bricks.

The passageway was lined with thick steel explosion-proof fences on both sides.

Inside the fence were rows of huge, sealed underwater cells.

Just as the group had gone a few dozen meters into the passage...

The entire passageway began to shake violently without warning.

The water flow became extremely turbulent, with countless undercurrents stirring up the silt and sand at the bottom.

A sickening metallic scraping sound came from the deepest part of the passage.

Shen Man shouted through an underwater communicator.

"What happened? Did someone trigger some kind of alarm?"

Chen Yang's eyes darkened as he replied over the communication channel.

"It's not a mechanism; the floodgates at the bottom level have been opened."

"Something has been released, a lot of it, everyone retreat."

Sun Changshan, who was not far ahead, stopped what he was doing when he heard the voice on the communicator.

He also noticed that something was wrong with the water flow.

Amidst the churning water, pairs of chilling, scarlet eyes shone forth.

Like red lanterns lit in the dark night, densely packed, hundreds and thousands.

Sun Changshan gripped the black iron sword in his hand tightly and assumed a defensive stance.

Those red eyes rapidly approached.

With the help of the powerful flashlight beam, everyone finally saw the true faces of those monsters.

They were a group of mutated anacondas with two rows of sharp fangs.

Each one is as thick as an adult's arm, and its scales gleam with a cold, steely light.

Sun Changshan couldn't speak from underwater, but he shouted in his heart.

Relying on his superior cultivation, he drew his sword and charged straight at the enemy.

His swordsmanship was indeed fierce and powerful.

It still has a strong killing power even under high water pressure.

With a single slash, he cut the leading water python in two.

The dark red blood mixed with foul-smelling bodily fluids quickly stained the surrounding lake water.

But the strong smell of blood was like a shot of adrenaline.

This completely unleashed the ferocity of the swarm of water anacondas behind them.

They writhed and twisted like madmen, swarming towards Sun Changshan.

After killing more than a dozen snakes in succession, Sun Changshan gradually felt that he was losing his strength.

The underwater resistance was increasing, and coupled with the exertion from killing the water python, his breath-holding technique was nearing its limit, and his face began to turn purple.

A particularly large, leader-level anaconda silently circled around to his blind spot.

It opened its blood-red maw and bit down hard on his thigh.

Sun Changshan's old strength had just been depleted and his new strength had not yet been generated, so he had no time to dodge.

The protective inner energy he had painstakingly cultivated for decades was bitten through by those barbed fangs.

Two deep, bone-exposing holes immediately appeared on his thigh.

The pain caused him to uncontrollably exhale a large string of bubbles in the water.

Seeing this, the swarm of water pythons rushed forward, about to tear the arrogant old man to pieces.

Chen Yang watched from behind and shook his head helplessly.

"At his age, he still likes to act all high and mighty."

He pushed off with both legs.

He was like a torpedo that had been released from its shell, rushing into the very center of the snake swarm in the blink of an eye.

The pure Yang internal energy filled his entire body, forming a scorching defensive aura.

Under the extreme heat of this aura, the surrounding lake water began to boil and churn on a large scale.

It produces a large amount of white, high-temperature steam.

Chen Yang didn't even take out his weapon.

His hands moved like afterimages, striking out more than a dozen times in succession in the water.

With each strike, a violent and domineering wave of water rippled outwards.

Those mutated water anacondas, as hard as iron, were struck by this water wave carrying internal force, and didn't even have a chance to twist or struggle.

It exploded directly into puffs of minced flesh and blood mist in the water.

Shen Man and Zhao Gang were completely stunned when they saw this from behind.

This is something that no human can do.

This kid is like a tireless human meat grinder, unilaterally slaughtering these monsters.

In less than two minutes, Chen Yang had wiped out hundreds of ferocious mutated water pythons.

Not a single survivor was left.

He lifted Sun Changshan, who was about to faint from blood loss, with one hand.

He turned around and gave Shen Man a hand signal for an emergency retreat.

The self-destruct mechanism here has entered its countdown, and large areas of the stones above the passage have begun to fall off and collapse.

If we stay any longer, everyone will be buried alive at the bottom of this lake, which is hundreds of meters deep.

Chen Yang carried Sun Changshan, his movements as swift as lightning.

With Shen Man and Zhao Gang by their side, they managed to escape the dark hole before the passage completely collapsed and blocked.

Back to shore.

"Splash!" Several sounds of water breaking.

Several people surfaced one after another, breathing in the fresh air, and climbed onto the grassy bank.

Sun Changshan lay on the muddy ground like a dead fish, panting heavily.

His face was as pale as if it had been coated with a layer of white ash.

The wound on his thigh was still oozing foul-smelling black blood.

Clearly, the anaconda's teeth carried deadly toxins.

He looked at Chen Yang, whose clothes weren't even soaked and who was calm and composed, and his old face turned red. He couldn't say a word.

All the reputation and face he had built up over most of his life was completely lost today at Mingzhu Lake.

Shen Man took off her diving helmet and shook her short, half-dry hair.

Because of the large movements she made while escaping underwater, the zipper on the front of her wetsuit had slipped down quite a bit.

Large swathes of her fair, delicate skin and that deep, alluring cleavage were exposed to the air without reservation.

Chen Yang walked over, half-squatted in front of her, and reached out to pinch the metal zipper.

I pulled it up little by little, and also helped her straighten her neckline.

"Commander Shen, such generous perks so early in the morning!"

Shen Man's cheeks flushed, and she slapped his hand away in annoyance.

"You're still taking advantage of me? What's going on next?"

Chen Yang looked at the still bubbling lake surface and his expression turned serious.

"Below was a large abandoned laboratory, but it was programmed with a countdown self-destruct sequence and has now been destroyed."

"The Black Feather people set up the trap very decisively. This is a death trap specifically designed to deplete the Special Investigation Bureau's combat power."

Shen Man gritted her teeth, cursed under her breath, and turned to look at Sun Changshan, who was lying on the ground convulsing.

"Zhao Gang, hurry up and get Old Sun to the Municipal Hospital. The toxin is spreading very quickly, and if we wait any longer it will be too late to amputate his limb."

Chen Yang pulled out the tactical knife that Li Ruoxue had given him earlier from his pocket.

He walked up to Sun Changshan and nudged his shoulder with his toe.

"It's too late to get to the hospital. There's no way to cure this mutated snake venom with current medical methods."

He used the sharp tip of his knife to pry open the blood-stained trouser leg of Sun Changshan's leg.

"Grandpa, I kindly saved your life underwater just now."

"Now I'll save your life again from the shore."

"But I'm not one to work for free; we need to carefully calculate the cost of this consultation."

Sun Changshan was in so much pain that his teeth were chattering, and his voice was extremely weak.

"If you can cure this poison, I will give you my life."

Chen Yang smiled, raised his knife, and slashed directly at the blackened wound.

"You said it yourself."

"Bear with the pain, I've always been fair and honest with everyone, young and old."