Water

"Where are they?" Not much time had passed before the iron doors of the cave were opened from outside, and a group of dark-skinned men carrying various kinds of guns filed in.

A bald-headed leader walked in and questioned the bearded man beside him.

"Chief, they went behind the cave!" the bearded man said in a strangely awkward tone, pointing his gun at the wall in the corner where they usually used the bathroom.

The atmosphere instantly grew oppressive. The armed guards looked like silent, cold-blooded killers; with a single order from the bald man, they could turn the whole place to ashes with bullets!

"Be careful. All the missiles here have disappeared. If they've been piled up in a corner, they'll be extremely dangerous!" the bald man warned. Then he waved for his men to go ahead.

They slowly approached the back of the cave, their guns trained on the surroundings. At the slightest sign of movement, they could send the culprit straight to the afterlife.

By then, the three people at the back of the cave had already quietly made their way up the stairs and reached the top of the mountain.

"Fang Bie," Tony said, sounding a little awkward as he called his name. "Did you secure your portal?"

Fang Bie gave him a confident look. "Of course. I surrounded them with stone blocks. Once I have the means, I'll surround them with obsidian!"

Tony was still in the mood to joke with them. "No need. Once we get out, I'll make you a big titanium alloy box and put your portal inside it!"

"It's a deal, then. I'll be waiting for that titanium alloy box!" Fang Bie laughed in reply, then used the square stone block in his hand to seal the one-meter-square passage behind them.

Now, unless the people in the cave brought out a rocket launcher and bombarded the area, they couldn't possibly hurt the three people hidden in the crevice between the rocks.

Fang Bie could already hear gunshots from below, along with an angry, hoarse shout. Puzzled, he asked Tony, "What happened to them?"

A mysterious smile appeared on Tony's shiny face. "I left them a little present on my way out."

Boom! A tremendous explosion rang out from the cave below. It was followed by the screams of people who seemed to have been injured, their cries verging on hysteria.

"Looks like it worked pretty well?" Fang Bie raised an eyebrow.

"Of course," Tony said. He was much more relaxed than in the original story. "This is my specialty!"

"But isn't that a little cruel?" Fang Bie had never lived through a war, and suddenly found himself hesitating.

"When you see what they've done to prisoners and ordinary civilians, you won't feel that way," Yinsen said, shaking his head. "You don't want to know."

"Then..." Fang Bie found his sudden, childish thought a little ridiculous and changed the subject. "Can we begin?"

Thud! Yinsen took a wooden door out of his Backpack and slowly set it on the ground, then put down another one.

The space Fang Bie had dug out was small. After he set down four doors, it was immediately cramped.

Tony took an Iron Pickaxe out of his Backpack and opened several two-square-meter holes in different spots in the cave. He also opened a hole in the cave passage they had come through.

"Let's do it!" they said almost at the same time. As they spoke, they put on a set of iron armor.

Fang Bie had already put on a suit of iron armor. He took out a bucket of water and slowly poured it over their heads.

Then he took out another bucket of water and poured it over their heads as well. A new water block immediately formed between the two sources of infinite water and began spreading outward.

Fang Bie hadn't really created an infinite water source here. This was just a large, three-by-three space. Because it was so tall, the water would keep spreading and washing downward until it filled every area below.

He made a few simple adjustments, letting the water wash over them and flow through the sealed space formed by the wooden doors, into the cave!

"Boss! There's a cave here!" The bearded man suddenly spotted the cave that had appeared in the wall. He didn't even stop to check on the men injured by the explosion beside him, hurrying over to claim credit.

When the bald man heard the news, he didn't hesitate. He walked over with his gun. "What cave? Let me see..."

The whole group crowded around the entrance, trying to figure out what kind of place this strange, newly appeared cave was.

A cave that had suddenly appeared in front of them, with such a smooth opening, clearly wasn't anything normal. They gripped their guns even tighter.

Just then, a rumbling sound startled them. The huge tremor shook them out of their daze.

"Earthquake! Earthquake!" someone shouted from the crowd. The group of bandits, who had been so confident a moment earlier, suddenly panicked and began shouting in alarm.

Rumble! The huge noise drew closer, but the shaking didn't grow stronger. Instead, they let their guard down.

They had all survived the battlefield and faced death. How could they lose their nerve so easily?

They grew more and more certain that the sound was coming from the cave, and leaned closer to look inside. The rumble, like the roar of a mighty river, became impossible to ignore.

Splash! A torrent of water washed over their faces, scouring away the layers of dust that looked like they hadn't been cleaned in months.

Some of the gunmen even looked delighted. "Water! Water!" they stammered, repeating the name of the liquid.

But the bald man, whose face had been drenched too, looked grim. This wasn't one of those oases teeming with water. It was a desert where water shouldn't exist at all!

The water didn't slow down after rushing in. Under the tremendous pressure from the great height, it only grew wilder and more violent!

In a different world, at a different height, what should have been a cute, cool little thing had now become a demon come to claim their lives.

The opening was a full cubic meter in size. When a jet of water poured through it, the excited grins on the henchmen's faces froze!

Especially when one man was hurled against the wall by the torrent and immediately lost his strength, his life fading away. The excitement on their faces was finally replaced by another emotion: fear!

The water, which had only reached their ankles at first, gradually changed from the color of a savior into a demon that could devour their lives!

Crash! An even greater surge of water came pouring down, rushing along the cave walls and driving them backward!

Everyone started running. Behind them, several more openings appeared in the ceiling, and torrents of water surged through like waterfalls, on the verge of swallowing them all!

"Run!" The bald man was the first to react. After shouting those words, he didn't wait for his men to respond. He shoved his way out and fled!