No matter how heartbroken he was, it was useless. The place was now completely deserted; there was nothing left. Only he remained, barely clinging to life here.
Alas, he only hoped he would have another chance to see Master, Senior Sister, and Junior Brother.
After a long while, Black Shadow seemed to have made up his mind. With a flash, he arrived before the wall behind the building at the bridgehead.
The bridgehead buildings on both sides of the lake were identical, and so were the walls behind them. Each had a recessed hollow and a button above it. However, because it was now night, the button inside that hollow had disappeared. It would only appear during the day.
Yet unexpectedly, Black Shadow stepped forward and pressed one hand against the hollow. Moments later, the small hollow with etched patterns appeared above it.
Unexpectedly, Black Shadow could produce the small hollow with the etched patterns without using a horn to insert into the recess.
Black Shadow then placed his palm on the etched patterns again. With a bang, the entire Iron Chain Bridge mechanism began operating. It turned out that the Iron Chain Bridge mechanism could operate not only during the day, but at night as well.
Moreover, the Iron Chain Bridge mechanism operated quickly. In barely ten minutes, it had fully returned to its Iron Chain Bridge state. It was nothing like when Qian Ying and Zhou Zixing used Xiantian power to operate the Iron Chain Bridge, with its agonizingly slow movements.
It seemed that operating the Iron Chain Bridge mechanism depended on who was doing it.
With a click, every component of the Iron Chain Bridge mechanism locked into place, and the entire Iron Chain Bridge became the usable crossing bridge spanning the lake.
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