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Because of the limited lighting equipment they carried, our Luo'an girl, who had better physical fitness and more outdoor experience, and Lulu, who was born as a hunter, hung lanterns and fell to the bottom of the valley first, carrying the light source to stay there so that the latecomers could see the scene at the bottom when they descended.

Even though it was only the light of a candle flame, hanging a burning light source on his waist in the summer heat was still quite a test of endurance, and even our Luoan girl immediately untied it and changed it to carry it after dropping down as quickly as possible.

After she said something to Lulu, who also came down next to her and was also holding a lantern, the latter stood there waiting for the person above to come down, and Mira turned around and shone the lantern around.

In the complete darkness, the range that candlelight can illuminate is larger than most people think, but even if they lift the light source up as much as possible in the 10-meter-deep canyon, what they can barely illuminate is only about 4 meters, and then it is all pitch black.

The firelight and swaying figures could only be seen when the sage and others above were holding torches close to the edge of the cliff and letting the next person descend along the rope, while others who were not carrying lanterns were even more unlit and pitch black when they climbed down the rope.

Henry might be able to rappel like an adventurous hero with a torch in one hand and a rope with the other, but for others who lack such experience, it takes a lot of courage to let go of the rope and fall without holding it all tight.

Even if the hemp rope they prepared was as thick as a man's wrist, it was still not as strong and reliable as a ladder when it carried the weight of a person. There are people who can be frightened when climbing the ramp, not to mention the soft hemp rope that will sway from side to side with a little effort.

Visioned and deprived, nothing can be seen clearly. There was a thin stream of water running over the damp cliff face, wetting the rope and making it a little slippery. And the water of activity overflows your skin in the darkness, and it is easy to see what is happening, and with the previous encounters, it is easy to imagine that it is a bug or a tentacle and be frightened.

The fear makes people want to let go of their hands, but because they are afraid of falling, they not only clench with their hands, but also clamp the rope with their legs. But the more stalemate you have, the more physical energy you consume, the more dangerous it will be, so you need to muster up the courage to climb down as soon as possible.

That's why our experienced Luo'an girl and Lulu have become the vanguard.

Men are very stupid and innocent creatures, especially those like Torotaro and Yajiro who are still teenagers.

Young girls can do things, how can they show their timidity. This jealous machismo is especially true in traditional countries like the Land of the Moon, and even overshadows the fear of darkness and heights, making young samurai scramble to perform.

Mira herself didn't realize this, she just habitually considered herself an adventurer, and it was better to do it herself than to let her guard do it herself. But Miss Luo'an's crooked behavior dispelled the tension in the team, so that the group could not waste too much precious time on such a thing.

Because of the presence of Torotaro, a boy with fine skin and tender meat, even Aya, who was an old and frail old pharmacist and scholar, was not the most lagging behind in the team.

The 10-meter hemp rope took the longest time to climb Torataro, and after the Luoan girl surveyed the surroundings, they also confirmed that the climb down was actually the easiest.

On one side of the canyon in the cave is a stone wall, which leads directly to the top of the cave. On the other side is a waterfall that goes down to a deeper cave.

There is no convenient way to climb the damp cliff face.

There are obvious traces of civilization here, and the larger the illuminated area as everyone comes down, the more they will notice this.

There is a somewhat slightly blasphemous saying in the Rigalese saying that "God does not draw straight lines" – a phrase that refers to the work of nature, where lines are often complex and varied, and straight creations are usually made by human hands.

This section of the canyon is 10 meters deep and several meters wide, and the water flowing from both sides and above the cliff wall is not above the surface of the foot, and the further you go, the deeper the cliff gets closer to the other side, and finally forms a waterfall that falls deeper and cannot be seen.

The two sides are almost straight when viewed from the side after everyone has come down and illuminated, and it is likely that it was the result of artificial excavation and widening of the naturally formed rift valley in the past.

They don't know how long ago this was, but the carved marks on the stone walls are still fresh even under the continuous washing of the water day and night, as if they were formed yesterday. It is not a day's work to penetrate the stones, and the traces left by human beings are not enough to be completely erased in a few hundred years.

But the bridge above is rotten.

Wooden objects can crack if they are too dry and bend and decay if they are too wet, but the wood used in bridges can surprisingly last for decades if properly treated and maintained.

Only a small section of the decayed bridge remains, and there are no wreckage on the ground, meaning that it has been washed down the waterfall. From this series of traces, it is likely that it has been uninhabited for more than a century.

After combining these details, Aya, who was born in Dr. Hoshi, believes that this is the remnant of the legendary minority of the Land of the Moon in the past, the "Earth Spider" clan that once left a painful memory for the Wa clan.

Nowadays, even the records of the Great Academy are very scarce, and the war to unify the Crescent Continent with the people was bloody and cruel, and after the end, most of the ethnic groups in the past were forcibly accepted into the He and their history and culture were erased.

The Soil Spider Clan is one of them, but because this people are good at digging holes and hiding, it is said that they are still left in the mountains and forests outside the mainstream society.

The name of this people simply and crudely reveals their relationship with the giant monster Earth Spider. There are two theories among scholars among the people, one is to deny the existence of the earth spider as a monster, and believe that it is a rumor left by this people's ability to dig holes and hide and use the horror of the earth and ghosts to take possession during wartime.

But since the group has seen this huge monster with their own eyes, this argument is self-defeating. Therefore, Miss Doctor is more inclined to agree with the second statement, that this people used to be good at using monsters such as earth spiders, living with them, and using them on the battlefield.

The truth has been buried in the thick dust of history, and when the next group judged that this cave might be the hiding place of the earth spider clan in the past, the really important information was actually only confirmed that there was a "human factor" in it.

They didn't come here to study history, but they were entrusted to save people. However, knowing that there is a high probability that there are relics of the Earth Spider Clan here, the group must also be more cautious - because this people who are good at stealth warfare will not only dig pits, but also set up various traps in their hiding places in order to resist the attacks of the Japanese warriors.

As if the big bugs weren't enough of a problem, now they have to be careful not to trigger a trap by stepping on something they shouldn't.

And this is still the trouble after that, first of all, they have to try to climb the 10-meter distance to the cliff that is high or low enough to knock you to death.

Taking advantage of his height and night vision, Henry saw that on the right side of the bridge, near the waterfall, there was something that was also fixed to the cliff, and it was made of a thick wooden base that was inclined and protruding outward.

Upon closer inspection, the sage found that it was an aid for drawing water, and that in the past, hemp rope and buckets may have been hung under it to facilitate the people living in the cave to fetch water from the vicinity of the waterfall.

The existence of this thing became a tool for them to use, and Henry immediately took off the remaining hemp rope and made a slipknot to make a lasso, and spun it a few times to throw it on, but he pulled it slightly to try to make the lasso tight, and the bracket on it, which still looked very strong, directly made a muffled "click" sound and broke into two pieces and fell into the waterfall, and it was also thanks to the sage's strength that he was not carried down by the rope.

Retrieving the water-soaked hemp rope, Henry shrugged at Mira, and the girl rolled her eyes, and the group had no choice but to try to climb.

Before going up the wall, they gave some basics to inexperienced people - keep at least three points of contact, that is, at least three places of hands and feet should be in contact with the rock wall at the same time, and do not let go of two hands or two feet at once. And we should pay more attention to relying on the foothold than the landing point, because the human foot is far more able to support its own weight than the hand.

Although I don't know how much these people can listen to when they grind their guns, Luo An still answered as much as she could.

In addition to this, our Sage took the remaining part of the nail with him, and he began to climb first, and drove a large nail at an angled downward angle along the wall, and then tied the hemp rope to it, and divided it by two to make a stable rope that could be grasped by hand as a safe.

It's just that the nails that are just in case of emergency are almost exhausted - because they are not here for rock climbing, and these large enough nails are basically bought by Torotaro from Ryunosuke when they go back to move the rescuers, and they use them to repair the nails for boxes and carriages.

Since Ryunosuke and his party only bought them from the village blacksmith, the level of these nails was uneven. Some carburizing is hard enough to chisel into rock, while others can only be used to nail softer items such as wood. It is also thanks to the sage's strength and skill that he can forcibly smash these nails that bend as soon as they hit the tip into the rock wall.

Before he could go deep into the hole, he had already used two sections of hemp rope, and although there were still two sections left, who knows if it was enough. What's more troublesome is that the number of iron nails is exhausted, and if there is a large height difference behind them, they can't do this anymore.

It is safer to make use of the man-made objects that already exist here as much as possible to save the materials and tools you have brought with you. But it was clear that the things here had gone far longer than the group had expected, and almost all of them had decayed structures that would break down with a little effort, and if you relied on them, you would die faster.

It's just that after climbing to the other end, it's not a bad thing.

The people who used to live here, whether they were Spider-Folk or not, did arrange traps, including crossbows triggered by string-mixing machines and traps like fallen logs with spikes. It's just that it's been too long, and without maintenance, these things have completely rotted.

The twine rope that hung on the spiky fallen wood had broken off, and the fallen wood that had fallen on the ground had broken under the erosion of moisture, and if it weren't for the lack of light here, a lot of mushrooms would probably have grown from above.

The crossbow machine next to it was originally hidden, but now it has broken down. The trigger mechanism was dusty and rusted, the copper was rusty and green, and the iron was cratered.

The parts soaked in water have a glossy oxidized black, while the parts exposed to air are the more common maroon rust powder, with some signs of peeling off the surface.

"Be careful not to step on it, rusty iron is highly poisonous. The old pharmacist who accompanied him noticed all this and opened his mouth to warn, and Henry and the others took the lead to conduct a general investigation to confirm that all the defense organs had completely decayed under time, and swept aside these still sharp instruments.

Disarm the crossbow, remove the arrows, break off the spikes, and set them all aside.

"It should have been more than three hundred years. A piece of rust in the sheath caught the attention of the group, and a little observation of the maki-e made of Raden on the scabbard was still distinctly deduced from the approximate age - more than 300 years ago, the samurai of the previous dynasty were very fond of this lacquer sheath process, and the colorful parts of the inside of the polished shells were made into patterns of flowers, birds, wind and moon on the scabbard.

This technique, which took a lot of effort to sheath and sword, still exists today, but it is relatively rare due to the large samurai population. Nowadays, the mainstream is simply lacquered and buffalo horns are attached to the sheath, and the craft of maki-e is the choice of Chinese people who pursue "retro tones".

In addition, today's maki-e is different from the past patterns of flowers and birds, wind and moon, and is more inclined to use landscape patterns. Combined with the fact that it has not been visited for a long time, it is a relatively reasonable speculation that it has been abandoned for more than 300 years.

The former samurai sword that was abandoned in place was not the only Japanese item, and further on, the group also saw a set of armor scattered on the ground, all peeling off and rusting into brown. Judging from the lack of bones nearby, the group thought it was just a stolen property from the Earth Spider Clan—after all, the samurai's armor and sword were still quite valuable—but upon closer inspection, they found a lot of scars on the armor.

"The armor of the cage hand. Narumi, who was a samurai, immediately noticed the sense of disobedience on the armor, and after Henry came over with a torch to illuminate it, the group could clearly see the strangeness of the armor.

"It's like something has pinched it. "The "cage hand", which was composed of long iron bars and human hand armor, was clearly dented by an external force in the middle of the forearm, causing the ends of the iron bars to be cut open like flowers on the other side, and the cheeks that protected the lower limbs, the lower leg armor, were also identically traced, and were thrown at a considerable distance, along with a severe, decayed long naginata.

"If it's really a samurai of peace, the naginata is no longer the mainstream. Narumi nodded, and the weapon and armor together confirmed their previous suspicions.

"How does this look like. And our Luoan girl next to her frowned, these strange details made the armor and weapons less and less like looted property, but the remains of a battlefield that had been preserved forever in a no-man's land like a cave.

"I was grabbed by something, pinched my hands and feet and tore them in two. Henry also came to a similar judgment as Mira, the samurai died a tragic death three hundred years ago, but what was even more strange was his corpse.

The armor seemed to have been hollowed out from within, retaining the position of the samurai when he was killed in battle, but the flesh and bones inside were gone.

"The wind became clear, and it was all the way down. Joshua, who was superior in hearing, said to Henry.

"Well, I can hear that, too. The sage's brow furrowed slightly, staring at the darkness below that he couldn't even see.

The faint sound of the wind greeted guests who were visiting for the first time in more than 300 years.

This tense atmosphere made Torotaro, who was clinging to Ahui's clogs, no longer dare to make a sound, and although he was very worried, the deeper the cave went, the more strange it gave the group.

"It feels a little weird. Pressing the magic pool near her heart, the girl also noticed something strange similar to breathlessness.

"Because there's no magic ahead. Henry gave a rare direct answer, and his night vision, based on enhanced magic, rarely worked here.

The invisible magical light that pervades the heavens and the earth is gone, and the darkness here is true darkness.

Sunlight can't penetrate it, not even the magical lighting that can be seen through special magic doesn't work, and the only thing you can rely on is the lantern and torch in your hand.

"Let's go. The sage stared straight ahead.