Chapter 98
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His hand reached into the river but he couldn't touch the woman's face.
"Why are you still here? Do you still want to protect me …"
Qin Mu shed tears. He couldn't grab the woman in the water no matter what. When he stopped, the woman in the water also stopped. However, it was as if they were in a different world, unable to touch each other.
"Are you my relative?"
"What happened?"
"Why did you bring me out? Why did you escape to Disabled Elderly Village? "
"Did you stay here to see me?"
…
The woman in the water could no longer answer his question. She could only look at him faintly with tender love and gratification in her eyes.
Feng Xiuyun used her magic power to drive the ship over and wanted to make a move on the female corpse in the water. However, when she saw Qin Mu kneeling on the water surface, she couldn't help being stunned and didn't make a move.
The female corpse in the water looked at the youth in Disabled Elderly Village. Fourteen years ago, she had drifted here. When the water had slowed down, she didn't get washed away by the river and instead sank to the bottom.
Her obsession made her stay in the water and wait quietly. When she knew Qin Mu had passed by on the ship, the familiar jade pendant woke her obsession up and made her float underwater to look at the youth in the ship from her reflection.
"Look, I've grown up, I've survived …"
Qin Mu looked at the woman in the water with tears in his eyes. He revealed a smile and said in a low voice, "You can be at ease now. I will search for my birth, I will find my hometown, I will search for your past, I will remember your name forever …"
The woman in the water seemed to reveal a smile before slowly sinking into the deep water and gradually vanishing.
Qin Mu knelt on the river surface in a daze and only got up after a long time. He felt that he had really grown up and was no longer the ignorant boy.
He returned to the ship and the fog gradually dispersed from the river.
The woman under the river disappeared along with the fog, and the river surface regained its clarity. Looking from afar, there was an impregnable pass that spanned across the Surging River. This impregnable pass was actually made up of countless ships, forming a huge camp that housed a magnificent army with thousands of men and horses!
Iron chains sealed the river, leaving a waterway in the middle. From this waterway, one could sail out of Secret Waters Pass and enter the territory of Yankang Kingdom.
"Young master, this is the Secret Waters Pass."
Feng Xiuyun urged the huge beast pulling the ship to pull it into the waterway and said, "The center of the city is the Inspection Mirror. My people are there, so don't worry, young master."
Qin Mu looked around and saw that this Secret Waters Pass had a majestic army. There were also fine horses galloping between the ships at an extremely fast speed. There were almost no gaps between the ships. The tenons and tenons of the ships were interlocked, and they didn't look like ships at all. Instead, they looked more like an incomparably complex building.
If the tenons and tenons were staggered, the ship would still be a ship and could attack at any time.
"The person who built this place can be said to be the work of God!" Qin Mu praised.
Feng Xiuyun chuckled and said, "Young Master, the Secret Waters Pass was designed and built by the Craftsmen Hall's Hall Master."
Qin Mu's heart skipped a beat, and he was even more impressed.
Now, he finally understood why the Yankang National Preceptor had to subdue the Sky Demon Cult. The Sky Demon Cult's power was certainly inferior to the Yankang Kingdom's army, but the Sky Demon Cult had all sorts of skilled craftsmen. They had three hundred and sixty trades, three hundred and sixty halls, and were deeply rooted among the common folk.
When the ship reached the city, there were some merchant ships in front waiting for inspection, forming a long queue in the waterway. Feng Xiuyun steered the ship into a water alley and stopped there, bringing Qin Mu ashore.
Hu Ling 'er immediately followed and jumped onto the backpack on Qin Mu's back in a few steps. She squeezed into the backpack, leaving only her small head outside to look around curiously.
"Young master, that's the Inspection Mirror."
Qin Mu looked in the direction she was pointing and saw a flying bridge hanging horizontally on the waterway. In the middle of the bridge, there was a mirror that was shining brightly. The mirror was facing the waterway, and everything that passed by the waterway would be reflected by the mirror.
All the merchant ships that passed by would have to stop under the bridge, and everyone would have to go through the Inspection Mirror.
However, Qin Mu had already come ashore and bypassed the Inspection Mirror, so he naturally didn't have to worry about being discovered by the Inspection Mirror.
Secret Waters Pass had guards every three steps and guards every ten steps, so the inspection was very strict. Luckily, with Feng Xiuyun leading the way, they didn't encounter any inspection along the way.
Feng Xiuyun led him to the merchants' gathering area in the city and said, "Young master, please stay in the city first. There will be a caravan leaving Secret Waters Pass tomorrow, and the sluice gates will open. Young master can set off with the caravan."
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