After I woke up from my coma, although the pain had lessened to an acceptable level, due to the side effects of the medication, my body felt completely drained, and I was drowsy and unable to muster any strength.

In this environment of limited medical resources, the only way for me to regain my strength was to eat, consuming high-calorie foods to replenish my energy.

After resting for about two more hours, I was finally able to stand up on my own. Although my strength had not fully recovered, I could move around normally.

He stood up and stretched his limbs, then turned to look at Jiang Man and the others: "We've already wasted enough time, let's continue!"

Jiang Man was worried about my health and advised me, "Let's wait a little longer! Miao Jiang Immortal Palace is a dangerous place, and the other teams won't be moving very fast either. Your body has only just recovered, so you should rest more."

"The conditions here are limited. Without medication, my body cannot recover quickly in a short period of time. Rather than waiting here, I'd rather move forward slowly. If I feel tired, I'll stop and rest. I won't push myself."

I paused for a moment, then waved my hand and said, "I keep thinking about Duan Jinyan. You don't understand why I should stay here; it will only make it harder for me to calm down."

“Miss Jiang, let’s listen to my older brother on this matter. We lost a lot of things to avoid the ant swarm, and our supplies are very limited, especially food. The old master who taught me how to dig a hole once said something like, ‘Strive for three, look forward to four, guard seven.’ It means that when you’re tomb raiding, if you’re trapped in a tomb, if you have enough supplies for seven days, then wait for your teammates to rescue you. If you run out of supplies by the fourth day, you have to go back the way you came to find a way to survive. If you only have three days left, then you have to run out as fast as you can while you still have the strength. Otherwise, once the supplies are exhausted, you won’t be able to escape.”

The monkey pointed to our travel bags: "The compressed biscuits we brought are only enough for three or four days at most. If we set off earlier, the chances of us getting stuck will be smaller."

"Okay, I'll do as you say."

Seeing that we all suggested setting off, Jiang Man nodded: "Since everyone thinks it's appropriate to set off, let's go ahead and see what happens, but we must be careful. If we encounter any more dangers, Duan Shenxing's condition will be difficult to handle!"

After making their decision, everyone continued walking along the road.

Although the terrain here is designed according to the Eight Trigrams Formation, only two formations are designed due to the terrain. The entrance is the Wind Formation, and the exit is on the right front, corresponding to the Cloud Formation.

This basic ancient formation was no challenge for me; under my guidance, we quickly passed through the area.

After leaving the area where the Eight Trigrams Formation was located, there was a natural cave outside. However, the ground was very neatly prepared, and there were murals on the walls. The murals were made by carving grooves into the walls and then filling them with something. The patterns were the same as the statues we had seen before, all of them were triangular-eyed human faces.

Seeing the patterns on the wall, the monkey turned to me and asked, "Young Master Duan, do you think these ugly creatures might be the guardian deities or evil gods of the Miao Jiang Immortal Palace civilization? We saw a statue of one of these things before and were attacked by a swarm of ants. Do you think there might be something wrong here too?"

"No, this thing should be some kind of totem of this tribe. Before we met you, we also encountered a problem in a cave, but we did not find this kind of face pattern there."

I shone my flashlight on a rock near the wall: "This cave is very well-maintained, but this rock looks very out of place. It definitely didn't just appear here randomly, so it must have been placed here on purpose!"

The monkey became alert: "A trap?"

"It's more like an altar."

I shook my head: “Look closely at this cave. It’s curved overall, but the area opposite the altar is triangular, which means this is where the entrance is! If nothing unexpected happens, we’ll reach the second door a little further ahead! Now, everyone, turn off all your headlamps except for one. Wrap it in a cloth to reduce the spread of light.”

After we turned off the lights, everything suddenly went dark, with only the dim light coming from the monkey in front of us holding a flashlight wrapped in cloth.

We walked along the cave for a while when we suddenly heard the sound of flowing water ahead.

Upon hearing the sound of flowing water, the monkey's voice immediately changed: "Damn it, is there another underground river ahead? If the road ahead is blocked by a river again, we definitely can't fight those water monkeys in our current state."

When I heard the monkey say that, my heart jumped, and I quickened my pace toward the exit: "We've already come this far, let's go and see what happens."

At the end of this cave is a small platform about two square meters in size. Below it, about three meters below, is the rushing underground river. It is at least ten meters away from a platform on the opposite side.

The monkey shone its flashlight on a hole about the thickness of a thigh on the platform: "These two holes are symmetrical. If I'm not mistaken, they must have been a wooden bridge from years ago, but it has long since rotted away."

“There is only one road here. The people from Ping’an Village must have come from this road. There should be a place on the other side where you can throw a rope.”

I took the monkey's flashlight, removed the cloth cover, and checked the surroundings. I quickly found the knot of rope on a protruding rock at our feet, and then shone it on a rock on the edge of the opposite platform: "They must have hung the rope on that rock to pass through, and then cut the rope after they got across to prevent anyone from following behind."

"I'll do it!"

Jiang Man took out a rope gun from her backpack, aimed, and fired it at the opposite rock. After the hook got stuck in the crevice, she reached out and gave it a tug, then nodded to me: "It's okay. Are you in good physical condition to climb over?"

"Don't worry, I'm not as fragile as you think!"

I stretched my arms and then was the first to climb down the rope.

As soon as I climbed to the platform on the other side, I saw a white thing on the rock next to me. After confirming that there was no one in the cave behind, I turned on my flashlight and shone it over there.

There was a bandage hanging on the rock, and a cotton swab and a few strands of thread as thin as a hair were found in a crevice next to it.

Jiang Man was the second to climb over. Seeing me lying on the platform reaching for something, she came over and asked, "What happened?"

"Look at this."

I turned around and placed the things I had picked up on the ground: "Gauze, cotton swabs, and sutures. The bloodstains on them are very obvious, which means that something happened to the people from Ping'an Village here!"