Temple of Xian - Gold Key
After making your way through the POOL WITH SIDE TUNNELS AND LEVERS, as shown in the last section, you're now in the room below the one with the encroaching spiked walls. Kill another fish (18) in the pool.
Then retrieve 2 boxes of shotgun shells (26-27) underwater and some M16 clips (28) at the top of the wooden ramp.
In the next room, a spiked wall comes from the right. Run into the room and immediately head for the switch opposite the entrance and a bit to the left.
Pull it to open a nearby trapdoor. Side flip to the left twice...
...and then backflip into the open trapdoor.
Lara will slide into a flooded tunnel...
...and the current will carry her...
...to the GOLD KEY (29). Pick it up and swim straight on through the gate, which opens as you approach. Grab the small medi pack (2) on the bottom of the passage if you didn't notice it at the beginning of the level.
Then swim out of this tunnel and up to the left to surface in the pool below the waterfall near the level start.
NOTE: The pool near the TEMPLE ENTRANCE is above on the right, but you don't need to return there yet.
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