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Chapter 897: Chapter 36: Negotiation
Everything that happened on the surface was completely unnoticed by Xiao Xian, who had already gone deep underground.
She entered about half a minute later than Wang Shuai and Yiyi, and this seemingly short half-minute caused her to lose contact with the other two.
The black hole, which only allowed one person to enter, became more spacious after entering the passageway, accommodating five or six people at the same time.
The walls of the passage were very smooth, as if they had been meticulously polished. However, the passage was very long, winding and rugged, and even without considering the depth, the sheer darkness was enough to give Xiao Xian a headache.
In the darkness, Xiao Xian could only feel the damp air inside the tunnel continually blowing past her ears, as if she were on a slide, her body constantly falling downward.
It was here that Xiao Xian, gripping the Spiritual Rhinoceros Scissors, stabbed the scissors into the wall of the passage.
The sharp scissors halted her downward momentum. Xiao Xian took out Xuerou’s detection device, twisting it to light up a small built-in lamp.
Fortunately, Xuerou was meticulous. Xiao Xian couldn’t help but admire Xuerou’s clever design when creating the goggles. By the light of the testing glasses, she saw clearly where she was.
She was hanging in midair, and about ten meters away from her feet, six openings appeared.
How could there be so many openings? Xiao Xian wondered, and she tried calling out the names of Yiyi and Wang Shuai, but aside from her own echoes, there was no other sound.
She didn’t know if Wang Shuai had caught up with Yiyi when seeing those identical black holes. At the moment, Xiao Xian could only hope that Yiyi and the others wouldn’t run into any difficulty.
Looking up, after a period of transformation, she could confirm that she was at least five to six hundred meters underground. Such a distance effectively isolated her from the situation on the surface.
Going up was unlikely; it would be better to continue going down. Xiao Xian’s gaze moved back and forth between those openings, trying to figure something out.
"Forget it; each one looks pretty much the same. Might as well pick one at random and try my luck," Xiao Xian sighed, just about to pull out the Spiritual Rhinoceros Scissors when her pupils suddenly shrank. She saw several newly added scratches at the entrance of the centermost cave.
Could it have been left by Yiyi and the others? Xiao Xian was about to move closer for a better look.
Suddenly, a pile of rubble rolled off the passage walls, shaking the entire passage like an earthquake.
Xiao Xian was startled, knowing something must have happened on the surface. Earlier, she had noticed, around Mafu Lake, some familiar spiritual energies concealed, which even Wang Shuai had noticed, but silently signaled Xiao Xian to stay quiet.
"If they don’t offend me, I won’t offend them," was Xiao Xian’s principle.
Could it be that those people had a conflict on the surface? Without much time to think, the wall suddenly cracked open. The Spiritual Rhinoceros Scissors loosened, and she, along with the falling stones, tumbled into the leftmost hole.
After Xiao Xian fell into that hole, a brilliant golden light flashed from the leftmost opening, and the soil in the passage quickly moved toward the opening. In just a short while, the entire opening vanished without a trace, leaving only five identical entrances.
At the same time, Aisha and her group, who had just entered the passage not long ago, were much better equipped. Aisha held Feng Bird’s foot with one hand, descending slowly, while Ye Heng continuously shook the Spiritual Power Propeller. Perry and the others followed closely, each holding a mining headlamp that illuminated the passage brightly.
When the rocks fell, everyone in the passage was momentarily stunned, and Aisha looked puzzled.
Ye Heng couldn’t help but ask, "Could something have happened above?"
"What could happen, it’s probably Michael starting an attack. Poor Old John, if he knew that his precious grandchildren both died here, I don’t know how heartbroken he’d be," Aisha sneered, her crimson lips as bright as blood.
"Further down; the airflow seems a little off," Ye Heng wet his finger and held it up in the cave. He could feel the airflow in the passage, initially slow and gentle, starting to speed up.
"Go down together. This underground passage was discovered more than a hundred years ago. Unfortunately, the cave is very peculiar, and only lizard reptiles and different cultivators living in the area can enter. The last time the US Army sent five different cultivators in, only one survived. It’s said that there are five openings below, and the only one with a bit of a way out is the center hole," Aisha explained, having the most detailed records of this pit by Mafu Lake in her hands.