Chapter 274: Inhuman (82) (1st update + 2nd update + 7,800 thunderbolts) [VIP]

The space outside the platform doesn't feel like a subway platform.

When stepping out of the subway and onto the land here, everyone felt the air suddenly become a little stuffy.

Guan Hongyan, who was walking at the end, felt someone walking past her shoulder as soon as she stepped out of the subway.

She paused and subconsciously looked behind her.

The subway car door was still open, and the moment she turned around, a woman in sportswear walked out from behind her.

She suddenly remembered what Yuan Shanming said before entering the subway.

In the subway, time and space are distorted. All ticket-buying queues enter the same subway. Theoretically, there are countless queues in each carriage, and each queue only occupies a short period of time in the carriage.

Guan Hongyan didn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence at first, but now she seemed to understand a little bit why this subway existed.

There were clearly only a few of them in that carriage when they came out, but after a short while, several team leaders came out from the same carriage.

They are all other tour leaders from the same carriage at different times.

Spatially speaking, they are in the same space, but I don't know how they did it, they actually separated all the time in this carriage, so that everyone is theoretically in the same space but will not meet each other in the carriage.

"Sister Hua?" Xiao Tang called Guan Hongyan in a low voice, "Let's go."

"Coming, coming." Guan Hongyan then realized that she seemed to have stayed at the door for a little too long. Several team leaders who came out from behind her looked at her strangely.

She hurried to catch up with Yuan Shanming in front of her.

"What's wrong?" Bai Jinshu asked her in a low voice, tilting his head.

Guan Hongyan doesn't seem like the kind of person who would stop for no reason. Did she notice something wrong?

"It's okay," Guan Hongyan shook her head slightly, "This is..."

She subconsciously looked around.

There was a slightly damp smell in the air outside the platform, which made people feel uncomfortable in their lungs, as if they had inhaled a gas that was much heavier than normal air into their lungs, causing the entire lungs to fall uncontrollably, and even the expansion and contraction of the alveoli seemed to be slowed down by several steps.

The leader who was in constant contact walked out of the carriage behind him. Guan Hongyan looked around and found that there were very few lights here. The only light came from an incandescent bulb a few meters above her head.

"Is this the subway tunnel?" Xiao Tang lowered his voice.

"No," Yuan Shanming walked in front and whispered, "This is a natural cave. It is said to be connected to the subway tunnel."

"Suppress the curiosity on your face that you're here for the first time."

"Oh...oh," Xiao Tang patted his face, trying to raise his head and act proud, "Is this okay?"

"Don't look up," Yuan Shanming moved his lips slightly, "Just open the live broadcast room and pretend to click something on the terminal, just like the leaders next to you."

As soon as he said this, everyone looked to the side with veiled eyes.

Outside the platform was a very wide passage with only one road. All the tour leaders who came out of the subway walked on this passage. Many of them lowered their heads and pointed their fingers in the air as they walked.

Bai Jinshu knew that they were clicking on a terminal that only they could see, commonly known as the live broadcast room.

The people walking back and forth in the tunnel were all tour leaders. Many of them came out of the subway, tapping the air in front of them as they walked in, as if they were preparing the materials they would need to go through the formalities later. There were also people coming out of the tunnel and walking onto the subway. Some of these tour leaders looked relaxed, while others looked solemn. Some of them saw tour leaders they had known for a long time walking together in twos and threes, chatting as they walked.

It seems that if we ignore the fact that this is a weird story and that the subway with passengers constantly picking up and dropping off has never actually moved, these tour leaders coming and going look just like the citizens coming and going outside the government hall.

Yuan Shanming asked them to lower their heads and click on the air like those people did, probably to make them look more like team leaders who came down to go through customs clearance procedures like himself.

Seeing that everyone around him was imitating the leaders and aimlessly clicking around in their live broadcast rooms with their heads down, he continued, "This is the transportation hub of the entire Novice Village. The subway is the only fast means of transportation in the Novice Village. Everyone who enters the Novice Village, whether they are newcomers or leaders, needs to go through the subway, and the fastest way to move around in the Novice Village is also by subway."

"There are roughly two types of team leaders walking here. The first type is like me, who leads team members across areas. The second type is when the time comes to enter the Novice Village to lead the team. The third type is when all the newcomers have logged out and are ready to leave the Novice Village," Yuan Shanming introduced quickly. "The first type of team leader comes here to submit the team members' passports for customs stamping. The second type is to get the list here, wait for all the team members to be in place, and then go to their carriages. The third type has finished their work and comes here to wait for the subway to leave the Novice Village."

Bai Jinshu's eyes flickered slightly.

All captains who are ready to lead the team into the Novice Village at a certain time will appear here. Does that mean that the conversation he heard before he entered the Novice Village between Yuan Shanming and another man about the rising interest rates in the investment bank and which area they were going to also appeared in this place?

That is to say, regardless of whether it is necessary to take the subway to transfer areas during the team leadership process, each team leader must enter this place twice, once to pick up his assigned team members, and then take the subway with them to the area where they will stay for the next fifteen days, and once to leave the Novice Village and take the subway to complete the work.

He originally thought that the investment bank's novice village was like the space within the foundation, where people would log out automatically at a certain time. He didn't expect that only the newcomers were like this. Did the captain still need to take the subway?

How does the subway cross the distance between spaces? Does this strange subway have some ability to teleport across spaces, or is this god-level space actually connected to certain spaces in the investment bank?

Bai Jinshu and Guan Hongyan looked at each other and saw a familiar and subtle look in each other's eyes.

But thinking so much is obviously an occupational disease for the two foundation employees.

Apart from the two of them, Xiao Tang and Huang Mao had never thought of this. Huang Mao scratched his head and asked in a low voice: "So we are not really the first team member to enter here?"

"At least I don't know," Yuan Shanming's lips moved slightly, "or maybe someone had mistakenly entered before, but they were not discovered that time, so the news did not spread."

He said this as if he hadn't said anything.

Yuan Shanming thought for a moment and added, "I'm not sure what will happen if the team members are discovered entering here, so I suggest you... listen to him."

This "he" naturally refers to Huai Jiamu.

Xiao Tang frowned slightly: "Then where are we going now?"

"Go to the place where you register your information," Yuan Shanming walked forward, whispering so that only they could hear him, "Later you will..."

Before he finished speaking, a loud curse suddenly rang out from the side: "Damn it!"

"Hold!"

Everyone was shocked.

Xiao Tang was about to blurt out "Fuck!", but luckily Huai Jiamu had threatened her a second ago that she would be killed if her identity as a team member was discovered here, so she held the words back the moment she blurted out.

But this person really scared everyone.

After swearing loudly, the man seemed to be still unsatisfied and suddenly threw something to the ground. With a loud "clang" sound, the sound bounced back and forth in the cave, reflecting one echo after another.

Now, everyone else in the corridor stopped and looked over with frowns on their faces.

Only then did everyone dare to look back with the others.

The person who was cursing was a man wearing a leather jacket. The color of his hair was very peculiar, a grayish-white color. It was unclear whether he had dyed it or had premature graying of hair.

What he smashed to the ground seemed to be something like a gong. In any case, it should not be something in the cave, but something he brought with him.

The people in the corridor paused for a moment because of the sudden noise, but after a few seconds, everyone continued to walk forward and do their own things as if nothing had happened.

"Let's go." Yuan Shanming lowered his voice.

Everyone quickly put away the surprise on their faces, changed their expressions to the same indifferent ones as the people around them, and took a step forward.

"Damn it! Useless thing!" The man behind him was still cursing.

"His team members are dead," Yuan Shanming said in a low voice after walking a few meters, without keeping the secret. "It's just like what I told you before. The subway needs lives to operate. Each team has a minimum number of deaths. His team members are dead."

No wonder people around are used to it.

Every team leader who enters here is aware that his team members may die, but some people, like Yuan Shanming, have strong confidence in the strength of the team members they lead across the area, and believe that they will not die inside. Some people, like the young white-haired man, probably hold a fluke mentality that as long as they can survive to the end and not die in the front, it will be fine.

But the operation of the subway requires human lives, so someone will die eventually.

So the people here are probably used to things like the team leader suddenly getting furious because of the death of one of their team members.

The cursing voice of the gray-haired leader behind them gradually faded away. Following the route of Yuan Shanming and most of the leaders, everyone passed a fork in the road and walked into the passage on the left.

This passage is visibly much more lively.

Everyone in the passage consciously lined up in several rows. The team leaders who had been clicking on the terminal with their heads down seemed to have finished the work at hand. Everyone looked around and easily found acquaintances and started chatting together.

Yuan Shanming signaled them to pretend to be a team leader he knew and come closer, so that they could relax a little when they got here.

"Captain Yuan?" A female voice sounded from behind. "Hey, long time no see."

"Long time no see," Yuan Shanming quickly put on a smile and turned around to greet him, "How have you been lately?"

"Well, let's just leave it at that," said the female team leader, who had a thick coat on her hands. "The points are hanging on the edge of the death line, but we won't die anyway."

She shrugged, waved to everyone around her good-naturedly, and then yawned: "Hey, when will this line end... I'm so sleepy."

"There seem to be more and more people coming recently," Yuan Shanming looked at the crowded hall in front and sighed, "They said we should add a few more windows."

"Adding a few more windows means adding a few more salaries, and adding a few more salaries will kill the investment bank," the female team leader rolled her eyes and leaned against the wall next to her without any courtesy. "I gave my suggestions to the higher-ups, but I was scolded and passed the buck."

She seemed quite dissatisfied with the current situation, and complained to Yuan Shanming smoothly: "Anyway, we team leaders are the lowest of the lowest. We do the work of kindergarten teachers, have the heart of selling cocaine, and get the money from selling cabbages. Anyone can step on us."

"Hey," Yuan Shanming patted her shoulder, signaling the team members beside him not to answer, and it was best not to leave too deep an impression on others. He continued with the female team leader's words, "I have run into former team members outside several times, and they still call me Brother Yuan, but their level is much higher than mine, which makes me feel uncomfortable."

"Tsk," the female team leader sneered, "At least your teammates are willing to call you brother. I risked my life to save a newcomer, but when I met him later, he didn't even look at me and just walked away. I don't know how disgusting it is."

"It's just a bit impressive in front of the newcomers. When people outside hear that you are the leader of the Novice Village, they look at you in a weird way. Please, I am the leader of the Novice Village. I have no criminal record. Without these leaders, you will die when you first enter the investment industry."

Her complaints seemed a little loud, drawing sympathetic glances from several team leaders nearby.

Not far away, one of the team leaders who was chatting cursed and said angrily: "Someone in my team died."

"It's okay, it's okay. Are there many deaths?" his friend asked with concern.

"The one who died was the weakest one," the leader scratched his head irritably, "I thought he was going to die, but who knew he wouldn't even try to hide."

Several friends nearby came to comfort him.

Someone patted him on the shoulder and said, "Oh, what's that? Last time I was sure to win and thought it was okay, but the one with the most potential in the team was screwed over. That's what's miserable."

"Alright, alright, it's good enough that he's the worst one to die. Just consider it as escorting the others..."

A little further back, there were a few team leaders who seemed to be talking about regional matters.

"Where are you going? District W, that's pretty good."

"There is a buff in area W. A lot of people have been going there recently. Are you familiar with that place? If you are not familiar with it, you won't be able to grab anything."

"I've been there a few times before, so I'm pretty familiar with it."

"Hey buddy, it's on our way, let's go together after we get off the subway."

It seems that this place is really just a transit station for the team leaders, and everyone is very relaxed.

Yuan Shanming walked forward while chatting with the female leader: "Hey, that's enough, it's not the first day I know that the leader is at the bottom of the contempt chain. It's enough to just get enough food and clothing."

The team moved forward slowly.

As the team walked, the complaints in the team gradually increased.

From time to time, the team leader would complain that someone had died in the team again.

"Who is betraying our ancestors? Get out here if you dare!" Someone was provoked by the fact that too many members of his team had died. He raised his voice and cursed, "Instigating the members of your team to start a massacre? Didn't your mom and dad teach you what manners are? Fuck your ancestors, all the members of your team will die when we get out of here today!"

"That's enough," his friend pulled him up, "That's enough. It's going to explode at any moment. There are so many people here. We don't even know if all the dead are in one place. Why are you so crazy?"

"Don't let his mother know who did it!" The team leader was still cursing when he was stopped by his friends.

"Hiss..." Yuan Shanming took a breath of cold air at the right time, "Someone in my team died."

"Ah?" The female leader next to him sighed sympathetically, "Is it important?"

"Tsk..." Yuan Shanming's acting skills burst out. He frowned and made a "tsk" sound. He didn't reply, but just stared at the terminal with a frown.

Judging from his performance, it seems that the new guy who died was still a good candidate.

"Take it easy..." The female team leader felt that Yuan Shanming was in a bad mood and whispered to him.

"You... forget it, you don't understand." Yuan Shanming hesitated to speak, his expression becoming more annoyed.

He paced back and forth for a few times, looking like he wanted to speak but didn't know where to start. Finally, he pounded the wall in frustration and swore at something.

When the people around him saw his performance, they naturally knew that another unlucky team leader had lost his seeded player, and they all showed a little sympathy on their faces.

In addition to sympathy, most people also showed a sense of relief on their faces.

After all, there are a limited number of deaths in each game. The more people die in other teams, the smaller the probability of death in your own team when it is your turn.

Comfort is just a face-saving project. If people really have the choice, most people will definitely choose to let the members of other teams die.

"Lao Zhou," the acquaintance of the female leader came to his rescue, waved his hand and whispered, "Come here, I have something to talk to you about."

The female team leader hurried over there. Yuan Shanming glanced at the team leaders around him who were secretly rejoicing, and secretly waved to Xiao Tang. Xiao Tang understood and went forward to comfort her. The two of them exchanged a few words, and Xiao Tang came back again.

"Brother Yuan said that when we get close to the customs window, one of us should suddenly start swearing, saying that all his teammates are dead, and then go back swearing. The angrier the better," Xiao Tang whispered, "and the rest of us should pretend to be his friends and chase after him while trying to persuade him."

"This is a good idea," Huangmao's eyes lit up, "Then we won't have to go to the front."

"If we go out, Brother Yuan must sign our passports," Guan Hongyan lowered her voice, "We are not familiar with this place, where are we going then?"

"Brother Yuan told us to go the other way," Xiao Tang looked around and whispered, "He said that all the team leaders on the other side are waiting for their team members. Some team members died in such a tragic way or the cause of death was so troublesome that it takes a long time for the investment bank to settle the matter. In extreme cases, it may take several days to wait for all the team members to arrive. We will pretend to be waiting for the team members when they are done, and when they wave to us, we will pretend that all the team members are here and walk to the subway station."

It seems that Yuan Shanming has thought about it carefully.

"Who will perform later?" Guan Hongyan lowered her voice.

"Let me do it," the yellow-haired man volunteered. "My hair shows that I'm a second-rate thug. It's reasonable for me to quit if I get angry."

"Okay," Bai Jinshu quickly decided, "Later, Huang Mao will pretend that all the members of the team are dead, and Xiao Tang and I will pretend to be his friends and give him some advice. You will just leave us behind and head towards the exit, and then we will catch up with you."

Everyone nodded.

The team moved forward slowly, and the shadow of a window could be vaguely seen.

Yuan Shanming gave everyone a wink, and Huangmao started performing immediately.

"Fuck!" He suddenly kicked the wall next to him and looked at his screen terminal fiercely.

His voice startled everyone around him.

After seeing clearly that it was yet another team leader getting angry at the terminal, many people looked away with a lack of interest.

"What's wrong?" Bai Jinshu asked.

The corners of Huangmao's mouth twitched angrily, and his face twisted into a fierce and angry expression: "Three people in my team suddenly died just now. Who the hell did this?"

He kicked the wall hard several times, as if to vent his anger, and cursed as he kicked. The curses were dirty and ugly, which made many team leaders nearby frown in disgust.

Usually, when a team member dies, many team leaders have no place to vent their anger and can only curse, but it is rare to see them curse so dirty.

"Alright, stop cursing. It's no use taking your anger out on the wall. There are still many more to go after three of them died," Xiao Tang advised from the side. "Just be more positive."

The yellow-haired man stared at the wall. After a few seconds, his expression regained some calmness and he glanced around: "Don't let me know who is instigating his team members to kill people."

His expression surprised Bai Jinshu for a moment.

It’s not that Huangmao’s acting was bad, on the contrary, his acting was so realistic.

The moment he raised his head and looked around, he was completely different from his usual yellow-haired self. Several team leaders around him moved away from him. It was obvious that they had seen too many team members suddenly die and went crazy here, so they thought it was better to move away from him.

Just when the atmosphere had recovered a little and everyone was relieved, the yellow-haired man suddenly kicked the wall very violently, and a clear "bang" sound could be heard.

"Hiss..." Guan Hongyan was startled and turned her head suddenly.

When I turned around, I saw the yellow-haired man standing by the wall. His expression was extremely ugly. He was staring at the air in front of him, his eyes really bloodshot.

"What...what happened?" Xiao Tang asked cautiously.

Huangmao didn't reply this time.

He stared at the air with an unpleasant expression for several minutes, and suddenly slammed his head behind him: "No more!"

He turned and left.

"Hey, hey, hey," Bai Jinshu and Xiao Tang looked at each other, and Xiao Tang hurriedly chased after them, "Why are you so angry? How can we not do it!"

"They're all fucking dead! What should we do!" The yellow-haired man cursed without even turning his head.

As soon as these words came out, Bai Jinshu clearly heard soft inhalations coming from all around him.

"Hiss..." Someone lowered his voice and whispered to his friend, "Why are all the team members dead?"

"Could it be that someone really was slaughtering people in there today?" someone asked in surprise and suspicion.

"Don't talk nonsense!" His friend hit her, "Stop it now!"

"Pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh, I was just talking nonsense just now, there is no taboo, no taboo." The man spat quickly.

But he was definitely not the only one who had this guess. For a moment, the team leaders who were still queuing became anxious.

The noise around suddenly became much louder, and no one paid attention to the unlucky team leader whose team members were all dead, and his friends who were chasing after him.

Everyone quickened their pace and headed outside.

Many team leaders had already completed the formalities on the way. The yellow-haired man maintained that look of incompetence and anger, cursing as he walked, making everyone in the corridor know that all of a person's team members were dead.

Guan Hongyan followed behind and whispered to Bai Jinshu, "This kid is quite smart."

Yuan Shanming only told them to go to the fork in the road that led to another team, but when they actually went there, they realized that the road was full of various team leaders. Everyone had completed the formalities and came out of the same place. If they went to the other side, they would definitely receive a lot of strange looks. If they revealed any other clues at that time, people might think they were newcomers.

The yellow-haired guy was indeed smart. He cursed as he walked along, acting like an incompetent and angry gangster to the extreme. Since he was already so angry, it was not surprising that he did anything.

The yellow-haired man in front of him was cursing and shouting at the people who were watching him on the road: "What are you looking at! Haven't you seen it before?"

"Sorry, sorry," Xiao Tang followed behind to apologize, "My friend's teammate had an accident, so he's in a bad mood right now."

The team leaders present naturally would not bother with such people. Everyone quickened their pace and actually made way for a vacuum zone.

"Don't follow me!" The time was ripe and there was a fork in the road ahead. Huangmao impatiently shook off Xiao Tang's hand, turned around and walked quickly to the other side of the fork in the road.

"Hey——" Xiao Tang paused and said, "You..."

"Let's go," Bai Jinshu's eyes flashed, "Follow me."

"Don't be so angry, it's not like you don't have enough points..." Several people hurriedly chased after him.

There were surprisingly few people at this fork in the road.

Huangmao walked in front, and the others followed behind. Xiao Tang and Guan Hongyan shouted a few words in a serious manner. As they went deeper and deeper, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is this okay?" Xiao Tang let out a long sigh and sat down on the ground. "Oh, I'm so tired from acting."

"You run really fast," Guan Hongyan twitched her lips, "We almost couldn't catch up with you just now."

"Aren't you afraid that someone will catch up with you?" The yellow-haired man also stopped and his face returned to its usual state. "I feel very tired too."

He touched his throat and said, "I'm hoarse from shouting all the way."

"You acted quite convincingly," Bai Jinshu said half-seriously, "I almost suspected that you were like this when you were a gangster outside."

“No way…” The yellow-haired man waved his hands quickly. “Before I died, I really was a guy driving a modified motorcycle. The way I acted just now was imitated by a famous gangster in our area. Before I left, I heard that he stabbed someone to death during a conflict and ended up in jail. I just imitated him.”

"You've learned it pretty well..." Xiao Tang muttered, and stood up from the ground. "Come on, let's go inside quickly. Don't sit here. The ground is quite cold."

When she said that, Guan Hongyan shivered subconsciously: "Hiss, it's a bit cold."

"It's a natural cave," Huang Mao nodded, "it's normal to be a little cold."

That's true.

They are connected to the subway station here. The subway is underground, so the temperature is lower than the surface temperature. In addition, there are stone walls all around here, so it is normal to be a little cold.

"It should be much warmer inside." Xiao Tang took the lead and walked in front.

Yuan Shanming said that this is where the team leaders gather waiting for the team members to arrive, so the temperature shouldn't always be this high.

However, compared to the other passage, this one was much quieter. We walked such a long distance here but didn't see anyone coming from the opposite side or behind us.

"No, why is there no one here?" Guan Hongyan suddenly stopped and looked behind her.

The fork in the road from which they came was no longer visible. Looking back, all they could see was an endless tunnel and an incandescent light overhead that would light up every few meters.

And ahead, there is also a road with no end in sight.

"Are we going the wrong way?" Xiao Tang was a little hesitant.

"That shouldn't be the case..." Huang Mao said quickly, "Didn't Brother Yuan just say that it was at a fork in the road, with the customs on one side and the team leader waiting for the newcomers on the other? I just came in because I saw the fork in the road?"

"Why is there no one here?" Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes.

There are many teams in the Investment Bank Novice Village. According to Yuan Shanming, the teams that choose to cross regions are originally a minority. Among these teams, there are some who will not take the subway but take the ground line. In this way, the teams that can take the subway are very few.

And even with these few teams, there are so many tour leaders that they need to queue up in front of customs to go through the formalities.

Wouldn’t there be more new people appearing every moment?

With such a large number of employees, it is impossible that there is no one here after walking for so long.

"Did we... accidentally enter a place we shouldn't go to?" Xiao Tang swallowed and looked at Huai Jiamu nervously, "Do you know where the front is?"

Bai Jinshu also turned his head.

Following their gaze, Huangmao and Guan Hongyan also looked over.

"I don't know," Huai Jiamu said calmly under everyone's expectant gazes, "I've never been here."

"You haven't been here, so how do you know that they will be killed on the spot..." Xiao Tang complained weakly, obviously not believing it.

But the other party refused to say, what could she do?

"Should we... turn back?" the yellow-haired man stammered.

"No," Bai Jinshu quickly denied, "If this place is a place that cannot be entered, then wouldn't it be even more conspicuous for a few of us to walk out of it?"

Their goal now is to disguise themselves as team leaders. If this place is really a forbidden area that the team leaders believe cannot be entered, then it will be a big problem for them to get out of it.

"Why do I feel it's colder than before?" Guan Hongyan shivered.

"Ask about the barrage?" Xiao Tang exited the live broadcast room without hope.

"It's useless," Bai Jinshu shook his head, "I've already checked it."

There were a lot of people in his live broadcast room, but most of them looked confused, and many of them were commenting:

【Where is this? 】

[Where is the anchor? ]

[Why did the anchor go to the subway station? ]

[The host is pretending to be the leader. He cannot let other leaders find out that he is a newcomer.]

[The host is very careful and we will definitely not go to other live broadcast rooms to make random comments! 】

The barrage doesn't know where this is.

"It shouldn't be a forbidden area..." Bai Jinshu frowned, "If it is a forbidden area, then the comments would know more about it."

After all, team leaders also have live broadcast rooms. If there is a place that they know clearly that they cannot go, then these barrages cannot be unaware of it.

"Could it be that we accidentally entered a door to another time and space..." Xiao Tang laughed dryly, "A fork in the road that only newcomers can see, the kind that even the leader can't see?"

"It's possible," Guan Hongyan touched his chin and actually confirmed Xiao Tang's nonsense, "Maybe it's because no newcomers have ever entered here before, so the team leaders don't know there is a road here, and the barrage doesn't know there is a road here either."

"Is it true?" Xiao Tang looked up, "Sister Hua, if you say so, I will believe it..."

"In that case, didn't we suddenly disappear in the eyes of those people?" The yellow-haired man suddenly spoke.

Everyone paused.

If it's broken, that's a bigger problem.

"Was there any special reaction outside when we walked in just now?" Xiao Tang quickly grabbed Guan Hongyan's hand.

"It seems not..." Guan Hongyan frowned and recalled for a moment, "Huang Mao cursed everyone he saw at that time. In order to avoid trouble, all the team leaders avoided him."

"That means...it's possible that no one saw us come in, right?" Xiao Tang breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's possible," Bai Jinshu nodded, "but if we go out now, a lot of people will see us appear out of thin air."

The problem is bigger.

Everyone looked at each other and had to admit that they had somehow put themselves in a strange dilemma.

"Why don't we go inside?" Xiao Tang looked at everyone and said, "No matter what this road is for, we're already halfway there, so we might as well go inside and take a look."

"If it really doesn't work... don't we still have this big boss..." She looked at Huai Jiamu weakly, "Big boss, you don't know what's inside, but you know we won't die if we go in..."

"I'm not sure. You can try it. Then you'll know." Huai Jiamu raised his chin.

Xiao Tang closed his eyes with a fearless attitude.

"Okay, stop scaring her," Bai Jinshu curled his lips, "There's not even a single person here. If this passage is used to trick newcomers in, we can only accept it. After all, if we stick our heads out, we'll get hurt, and if we hide our heads, we'll get hurt too."

If we go back, we will face the risk of being discovered by a bunch of team leaders, so we might as well go down and see what it is.

"Let's bet!" Xiao Tang waved his fist. "Let's go. I want to see where this road leads to!"

After she spoke some heroic words, she weakly pulled Guan Hongyan and said, "Sister Hua, come with me."

The cave was long and dark, and it seemed like there was no end. They didn't know how long they had walked. Xiao Tang went from being startled by the slightest movement to complaining about his feet aching and the low temperature. Finally, they saw the end of the road.

"Damn, it's finally the end," Xiao Tang straightened up and looked around, "Is there nothing at the end?"

There was no light at the end of the cave. It looked dark and empty with nothing in it.

She pulled Guan Hongyan and bravely walked forward a few steps.

"Well?" Guan Hongyan suddenly asked in confusion.

Bai Jinshu looked up.

At the end of the cave, there was nothing.

There was only an empty, lonely well.

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