Su Yang was getting a little bored waiting, and since someone was there to play with him, he naturally wouldn't refuse.
"I bet he won't make it."
"I have faith in Shen Qiu. Although he's not an assassin and can't compare to the other four in terms of skill, he's a patient person with strong willpower. He'll definitely pass."
"Alright then. I bet anything you want. If you lose, you have to promise me and let my sister go."
Thinking of her sister, Sakata Sōgetsu's eyes were filled with longing and tenderness.
This was uncommon for an assassin.
Su Yang knew their sisterly bond was deep, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'm bored anyway, I'll gamble with you!"
"Excellent, then we shall see!"
As they spoke, Shen Qiu took a few more steps forward.
His speed slowed down, and he was already sweating profusely.
Shen Qiu looked back with difficulty and weakly shouted, "Boss, I'm afraid I can't hold on anymore. Please help me collect my corpse!"
Upon hearing this, Sakata Sōgetsu burst into laughter, her laughter making her ample bosoms bounce.
"Hehehe, I told you he wouldn't make it, but you insisted he was so amazing!"
Su Yang's face darkened. "Shen Qiu, she says you're no good. Are you or are you not?"
"Miss Sōgetsu, once I get out, I'll make you pay!"
Shen Qiu cursed as he took a few more steps, but his destination was still more than three meters away.
Sakata Sōgetsu was not worried at all. She leaned against the wall, humming a little tune, and leisurely watched Shen Qiu crawl at a snail's pace.
"Oh my, there are so many arrows around. I wonder what it feels like to be shot by them. I'm really looking forward to it!"
Ten minutes later.
Shen Qiu's clothes were soaked, as if he had been rained on, water flowing incessantly.
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Shen Qiu's hands and knees were covered in friction wounds. Even without being hit by arrows, the crawling process was painful.
The wounds mixed with sweat, causing Shen Qiu to grimace in pain.
Su Yang was speechless. To win, he had to resort to drastic measures.
"Shen Qiu, I've made a bet with Sakata Sōgetsu. If she loses, I can do whatever I want with her."
Shen Qiu seemed to guess something. "And then?"
"If you pass, I'll bestow Sakata Sōgetsu upon you. You have to try your best. She's still untouched, you know."
"Really? Then I'll go all out!"
Shen Qiu's spirits instantly soared. He gritted his teeth and continued to move forward.
Sakata Sōgetsu was both ashamed and angry. "Su Yang, are you a dog?"
"What do you mean?"
"How can you tell if I'm untouched or not?"
Su Yang looked Sakata Sōgetsu up and down. "Do I even need to ask? I, Su Yang, have plenty of women. I can tell your physical condition with just a glance."
"Pah! Pervert!"
Sakata Sōgetsu turned away, not daring to continue the conversation with Su Yang.
At this moment, Shen Qiu was staggering, only one step away from the finish line.
"Sōgetsu, just get clean and wait for me!"
Shen Qiu gritted his teeth. Thinking of embracing a foreign beauty like Sakata Sōgetsu, he no longer cared about his wounds.
When his hand touched the wall at the end, all the infrared beams disappeared.
Those cold arrows also retracted into the opening.
Shen Qiu was stunned. "The mechanism disappears after one person passes. Why did I have to crawl all this way so painstakingly?"
Sakata Sōgetsu was also stunned. "How is that possible? You actually passed?"
"Yes, from now on, you are my woman."
Shen Qiu, in pain and joy, staggered to his feet, wanting to grab Sakata Sōgetsu.
Sakata Sōgetsu took a few steps back, shaking her head with disgust. "I will never be your woman."
"Why?"
Shen Qiu looked at Su Yang. "Boss, is she going back on her word?"
Su Yang looked at Sakata Sōgetsu. "You were the one who proposed the bet. If you lost, I could do whatever I wanted with you, and if you won, you'd get your sister back. Are you going to break your promise?"
"No!" Sakata Sōgetsu shook her head. "I can marry you, but not as your subordinate. Moreover, I don't like poison masters. They are smelly and dirty, and their personalities are surely gloomy and cunning."
Shen Qiu felt like crying. He had risked his life to crawl to the finish line, only to be met with ruthless mockery and cold rejection.
Su Yang sighed. "Shen Qiu, go back and tend to your wounds! There are plenty of female mercenaries outside. I'm sure some of them will like you."
"Alright, then I'll be going back."
Shen Qiu picked up his medical kit and stumbled away.
Sakata Sōgetsu walked into the passage and observed it carefully.
"Which second entrance should I choose?"
There were entrances on both sides of the passage, and she didn't dare to enter just anywhere.
Su Yang wasn't in a hurry to choose. "If you're scared, go back. Why do you have to go in?"
"Hmph! I'm just curious. Are you afraid I'll steal your ship?"
"Let's be clear. You can go in if you want, but don't come looking for me if something happens."
Su Yang entered the left entrance, and Sakata Sōgetsu followed closely behind.
...
The second mechanism was another passage, and it was quite long.
With a "bang," the entrance automatically closed.
Now the two of them could only move forward, as the door was made of some material that was extremely hard.
Su Yang took a step forward, and the squares on the ground shifted.
The squares were arranged in a square pattern, and each steel plate was inscribed with different characters.
Su Yang took a second step, and the square beneath his foot disappeared, nearly causing him to fall.
Seeing this, Sakata Sōgetsu behind him patted her chest, also quite frightened.
"What do these characters mean? Why was it fine when you stepped on the first one, but the second one disappeared?"
Su Yang didn't understand either. He looked down, and the space below was filled with dense, inverted sharp knives.
If he had fallen, he would have been stabbed to death by those knives.
"Who designed this so cruelly? Is this meant to kill all outsiders?"
Su Yang muttered to himself. The Yangwei ship, a reward from the system, was built by someone unknown.
But the more this was the case, the more curious he became about what awaited him after passing all the mechanisms.
"Su Yang, hurry up and find a way! Otherwise, what will happen when we stay here too long and our energy runs out?"
"You go!"
"I'm not going. I can't understand your country's traditional Chinese characters, they're too difficult."
Sakata Sōgetsu refused to move forward, staying in place to observe and urging Su Yang to proceed.
Su Yang crouched down and carefully examined each character.
When read together, they seemed like poetry or an essay.
What was the core meaning of the content? This was the question that puzzled him.
"Han, Di, Shan, Bai, Cheng, Gu, Yan..."
Su Yang racked his brains but couldn't figure out the relationship between these characters.
He wished he could just rush forward and reach the end.
However, since someone had designed a square mechanism, it was likely impossible to simply rush through.
To resolve his doubts, Su Yang took out a coin and tossed it onto the ground.
"Clang, clang, clang!"
Where the coin landed, some squares fell, but they quickly reappeared.
Some squares remained still, indicating they were safe.
Sakata Sōgetsu, with her quick wit, quickly understood.
"Su Yang, do you see? We can test the path this way, and then we can remember which squares are safe."