This was...
I peed myself?
Evelina squeezed her eyes shut, a powerful sense of shame welling up inside her.
She had never expected to lose control of her bladder at the brink of death.
But on second thought, she had already fallen into the Profane Calamity Water. No matter how embarrassing it was, no one would find out.
So she simply accepted it and quietly waited for death to come.
Yet five or six seconds later, Evelina realized her mind was still functioning.
Her consciousness didn't seem to have faded?
Her body didn't seem to hurt as much anymore?
Beneath her body, pressed tightly against her, was something cold and hard.
Had she sunk all the way down and hit the bottom of the pool?
Or...
Evelina cautiously opened one eye.
What entered her vision was not the suffocating darkness from before.
It was a familiar iron pillar.
An iron pillar whose bottom was connected to a metal tray, while its upper end curved into a hook, catching an iron chain and hanging beneath that massive mechanical structure.
"Huh?!"
Evelina opened both eyes fully and let out a quiet cry of surprise.
She discovered that she was not at the bottom of the cold, pitch-black Profane Calamity Water pool.
Instead, she was lying safely atop the metal tray!
What was going on?
Had that accidental fall earlier merely been an illusion?
But what kind of illusion could feel that real?!
She had been so scared that she peed herself!
Evelina instinctively squeezed her legs together and looked around again.
That was right.
She was indeed still on the metal tray. She had not fallen into the Profane Calamity Water below because of some absurd blunder.
Evelina even noticed that she was still holding the unfinished Taisui flesh in her right