Shen Xitang tucked the Lodestone Foil into a waterproof fish-bladder pouch. As she turned, she collided with Xiao Jingming, who was in the process of cutting the mooring cables.
His back wounds had reopened, and blood mixed with magnetic dust to form a jagged, crooked route map on the deck. "There is a culvert thirty rods to the west..."
"We go together this time!" she grabbed his armor’s binding strap. The moment they plunged into the river, the magnetic armor clamped onto the iron grate at the culvert’s entrance.
Chapter 57