"The Senel organization has gone through the process, but they don't dare to go further if they only go here, they need more professional people to handle this."

Rick Jones walked beside Bai Ye and introduced Bai Ye: "The traces in this vicinity have been cleaned up, and it is certain that those missing children were transferred deeper underground from here." ”

Underneath the well is a wide karst cave, and large stalactites hang down from the surrounding rock walls, and puddles can be seen everywhere on the ground, and the groundwater from the unknown source is dripping down the stalactites, making a monotonous sound of ticking and ticking when it falls into the puddles.

There is only one irregularly shaped hole in front of it, which can be passed by about two people in parallel.

"Grylls, you and Joey go ahead and explore the way first."

With his hands on his waist, Rick began to order, "The others rest in place. ”

Grylls and Joey nodded at the captain and drilled into the dark hole with torches, while the rest of the group sat or stood to conserve their strength.

After waiting for a few minutes, only Joey returned to the cave, indicating that everything was in order ahead, and the group continued to drive.

Behind the hole was a long passageway, flanked by strange rock walls with white claw marks and sticky gelatin, and hair and flesh scraps could be seen on the ground, as well as marks from what appeared to be a fight.

After walking along the passage for about 100 meters, the terrain began to descend and the temperature dropped slightly.

"There's a tunnel ahead, there's no danger."

Joey reports to Rick.

The group took a few more steps, and the surrounding rock walls became a little smoother, but the temperature was lower, and the humidity began to increase.

Grylls stood right at the front of the tunnel, shaking his torch at the expedition team.

"I remember that in his long letter, Thurber mentioned that the descent from the dry well would take you through tunnels, subway platforms, and sewers before you finally reached an underground plaza."

Bai Ye glanced around and felt that this should be the tunnel area mentioned in the letter.

He used the torch in his hand to shine around, and found that the top of the tunnel was quite high, maintaining the natural shape of the excavation, hanging white stalactites, and the distance between the rock walls on both sides was about five or six meters, which was relatively open.

"These rock faces are carved with strange text symbols."

Grylls pointed his finger at the rock wall, brought the torch closer, and motioned for the captain to look over the rock wall.

On the rock wall, you can see strange black tadpole-like characters, seemingly irregular arrangement, and strange drawings between many of them.

The meaning of the tadpole character is incomprehensible, not even to a well-informed and legendary explorer like Rick Jones, and everyone can only look at the strange drawings and grasp some superficial meanings from the images.

"This style of painting is very familiar."

Bai Ye took a closer look and immediately remembered that the last time he saw a similar image, it seemed to be a skinned dwarf tomb in a novice teaching.

"You can see it, old man."

Rick Jones walked over, pointed to the tadpole character and said to Bai Ye, "This place is inextricably linked to the tomb of the skinned gnome. ”

He pointed to one of the images, which depicted a group of half-human, half-dog monsters kneeling in front of an old man with three skull-sized objects floating above his head, and three dots above them to describe the glittering of the treasure.

"I guess the things floating on his head are weird sculptures, there are 3 statues of this kind of sculpture, and the main meaning of this picture is that with these 3 sculptures, you can get the allegiance of those monsters?"

"On the surface, this may be the site of an ancient civilization."

"Then you can search carefully, and maybe you can find some treasures of the Lost Kingdom!"

Rodman, who was next to him, heard this, and his eyes lit up.

"And the treasure tends to be guarded by mummified guards, rua-"

Joey rolled his eyes at him and grimaced like a zombie, looking playful.

……

Everyone continued to move forward, but they didn't walk much, and the front of the tunnel was blocked by countless rocks, making it impassable, as if there had been a landslide in this place.

"No way?"

Rodman looked disappointed.

"It just looks like there's no way."

Grylls stuck out his tongue and licked his fingers, then raised his fingers to feel them around.

"There, I felt a faint flow of air passing through that direction."

The survival specialist quickly found a new way out and immediately turned around and headed to the right side of the tunnel, with the rest of the group immediately following.

There was a small pile of rocks scattered on the right side of the tunnel, and Grylls knelt on the ground, struggling to remove the stones from above, revealing a narrow passage that could only be crawled through by a single person.

"Oh! You don't want me to crawl over it, do you? I suffered from claustrophobia when I was a child, and I was most afraid of this cramped environment......"

Rodman made an expression of 'Jackie Chan grabbing his head', with a face full of reluctance while thinking about it.

Grylls was very conscientious as a pathfinder, and he had already removed the backpack from his back, pushed it forward, and crawled into the narrow passage first on the ground.

Rick Jones followed, followed by Bai Ye.

"Cowards always make excuses."

Joey smiled contemptuously at Rodman, then leaned down and followed Bai Ye and began to climb the passage, she was small and small, and she had a natural advantage in crawling in this narrow environment

……

Whew-

In the narrow passage, Bai Ye pushed his luggage forward and crawled forward little by little.

The distance of the passage is not short, there is a certain bending amplitude in some parts, and the ground is uneven, very awkward, and the consumption of physical fitness is not small.

However, what is even more uncomfortable is the psychological depression - the cramped environment makes it impossible for climbers to stretch their hands and feet, and it is easy to feel isolated and buried alive.

If a person with claustrophobia is placed in such an occasion, I am afraid that he will have chest tightness and shortness of breath, a kind of sadness of being abandoned, and even suicidal thoughts in severe cases.

After climbing for some distance, you can see the faint light of torches in front of you.

But at this moment, the inside of the narrow passage suddenly trembled.

The sand on the ground bounced, dust fell from the top of the passage, and the buzzing sound in my ears was like a deadly note.

"Not good! This place is going to collapse! ”

Bai Ye's expression froze, and he hurriedly accelerated and crawled forward, he didn't want to be buried alive here.

The tremors intensified, and the sound of rock cracking began to be heard from the top.

Bai Ye coughed, and after crawling for a short distance with all his strength, he suddenly felt that someone in front of him was grabbing his backpack and dragging him out vigorously.

He quickly grabbed the strap of his backpack, was dragged out of the collapsing passage by the force, and flung him rudely away.

After adjusting his body in mid-air, he finally slammed his back into a rock wall outside the passage, bounced back, and fell to the ground, where he was deducted 10% of his health by the system.

"Damn it! Hurry up! ”

At the entrance of the passage, Rick Jones once again put his hands into the inside of the passage to grope, and then suddenly pulled out Joey, who was crawling behind Bai Ye.

Joey was roughly dragged away by Rick, and it looked like she was about to hit the rocks on the side, which was definitely not pleasant for her skinny physique.

But at this moment, a figure stepped forward and reached out and pushed Joey's waist to help her stabilize her center of gravity and fall steadily to the ground.

"Ahem...... Thank you! ”

Joey coughed and glanced at Bai Ye with grateful eyes.

Boom Click-

The rocks tumbled over the narrow passage, and soon sealed the hole, and the entire rock wall continued to tremble for a while, and gradually regained its calm.

……