After discovering the tunnel, Lu Chuanbei and others wanted to go down and find out what was going on, but before they could do so, He Xuebin's stomach started to protest.
Upon hearing this voice, Xu Qi instantly remembered the braised pork and fried dishes that he had forgotten about: "Oh no, our food is getting cold!"
"Oh, braised pork!" He Jingnian exclaimed in surprise.
"No, the braised pork won't taste good if it gets cold!" Xu Anjia rushed out in a hurry.
For a moment, the few people who were still paying attention to the tunnel quickly returned to the kitchen. Fortunately, Xu Qi placed the dishes on the stove after serving them out, and did not take them directly out the door. Otherwise, with the current temperature, the food would probably have really gone cold.
The temperature in Changbai Mountain dropped sharply at night. By the time they started eating, the temperature had dropped below zero.
It's still early October, and if it were the end of the month, the temperature in the mountains would be even lower.
Fortunately, this courtyard house not only has floor heating, but also a kang. Lu Chuanbei directly lit the kang in the main room and put a kang table that he had bought from other rooms on it. Soon the whole room became warm.
After sitting cross-legged on the warm kang and enjoying dinner, everyone changed into thick clothes and walked towards the secret room in the kitchen with flashlights.
There was no electricity in the secret room, and the tunnel was pitch black, so once inside, everyone had to rely on the brightness of their flashlights for lighting.
Song Tiantian and a few others held a flashlight, making the entire tunnel as bright as day.
The entire tunnel is about two meters high, so Lu Chuanbei and his team don't need to bend down when going down the tunnel, and there is no peculiar smell inside. From this, we can see that the tunnel is well ventilated, and even if it has not been used for many years, it can still maintain air circulation.
However, the depth of this tunnel surprised Lu Chuanbei and others. Moreover, this was not a single path to the end. There were several forks in it, and each fork led to a different direction.
Seeing these maze-like tunnels, Song Tiantian was eager to try them out. "Dad, is this the tunnel that Uncle Xie just mentioned that connects the entire village?"
"This should be it." Lu Chuanbei shone his flashlight around the fork in the road and said, "I just don't know where all these tunnels lead to."
"You'll know if you take a walk." He Jingnian said hurriedly and was about to go into a tunnel.
Only He Xuebin quickly grabbed his hat to prevent the boy from running away. "Wait a minute, do you know where this leads to? Why are you running around?"
"Didn't I tell you? We'll know if we just take a walk through it," He Jingnian said indifferently.
"Then if you walk there once, do you still know the way back?" When He Xuebin said this, He Jingnian was stunned.
He looked around and couldn't tell east, west, or north from west.
He Jingnian hurriedly looked towards He Xuebin: "Dad, do you still remember?"
"Well..." He Xuebin looked at Lu Chuanbei for help.
[Um... can I say that I can't remember which tunnel they just came out of? ]
The tunnels here are truly spectacular.
"I'm curious about where the tunnel leads, but if I walk through it alone, I'll definitely get lost..."
"I'm now even more curious about what happened to this village. Why was there such a vast tunnel dug underneath the village?"
[Was it dug because of the war? ]
[It's possible, but this place is so remote, is it really possible for someone to fight here?]
"That's hard to say. After all, isn't this a ginseng village? Perhaps someone came here specifically for ginseng and asked their village to harvest it?"
[What the above person said makes sense, but with so many tunnels dug, won't people here get lost?]
[I just want to know, can He Ge and the others still find their way back? ]
As soon as this comment flashed across the screen, Lu Chuanbei nodded and said, "I do remember the way back, but as for going further, I'm not sure."
During this period, Lu Chuanbei's memory has improved a lot due to the improvement of his mental strength.
But when he thought about what Xie Qiumu said, that the tunnel here connected the entire village to the bottom, he didn't dare to make any guarantees.
"You're right. We don't know the situation ahead, and right now..." He Xuebin hurriedly raised his wrist to check: "Ah, it's almost twelve o'clock now. No, children can't stay up too late. Let's go back quickly. How about we explore the tunnel again tomorrow morning?"
He Jingnian glanced at the forks in the road around him, and the place ahead where even a flashlight couldn't illuminate it at once, and couldn't help but nod and said, "Dad, you're right, it's too late now, let's go back first and come back tomorrow morning!"
Xu Anjia, who had been holding onto Xu Qi tightly since they got out of the tunnel, nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, let's go back quickly."
Song Tiantian was still very interested in the situation in the tunnel, but it was indeed too late at this time, and the tunnel was obviously chilly at night, which made people feel a little uneasy.
Lu Chuanbei rubbed the little girl who was still looking at the tunnel and said, "Let's go. Let's go back today. After a night's rest, we'll walk around here again."
Song Tiantian pulled Lu Chuanbei and nodded: "Yeah."
When Song Tiantian and the others turned around and walked towards the tunnel they were going back to, a few harsh curses suddenly came from the Sakura Country scientific expedition team somewhere in the deep forest of Changbai Mountain.
I saw a middle-aged man with a pointed chin and monkey-like face, watching the live video on the tablet and cursing non-stop. Especially when he saw the dark tunnels that looked like a maze, his cursing became even sharper.
The others around him all bowed their heads and remained silent throughout the whole process...
After making many twists and turns and returning to the kitchen secret room of the courtyard, Lu Chuanbei and others finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, although we know that there is no danger in the tunnel below, it is still quite stressful to walk in the dark and maze-like tunnel.
After returning to the courtyard, everyone washed up with hot water from the kitchen and then returned to their rooms.
A brand new mattress was placed on the bed board that had been tidied up in the morning. This was the unopened plastic-wrapped floor mat that Xiangfangnan and He Jingnian found in the morning.
Now you just need to remove the plastic wrap, and you will find a brand new Simmons mattress. You can then put the bedding kindly provided by the program team on it and fall asleep directly.
Needless to say, the right to use this bed was given to the two little girls.
Xiangfangnan and He Jingnian slept on the kangs on both sides with Lu Chuanbei and the others.
I saw them quickly put a brand new mattress on the kang, and then put a few quilts on it, and a big bunk bed was ready. Although the kang was not as soft as a bed, the brand new and soft cotton quilt made people not want to get up the moment they lay down on it.
Not to mention, before Xu Qi and the others entered the house, they lit up the kang and the floor heating in Tiantian's room. In an instant, both the kang and the room became warm.
After a while, everyone was immersed in the warm quilt and fell into a deep sleep.
I don’t know if it’s because Song Tiantian had been suppressing her mental power all day and hadn’t used it, but after she fell asleep, her relaxed mental power immediately became active again.
The system noticed the fluctuations in Song Tiantian's mental power, but did not find anything unusual, so it allowed Song Tiantian's mental power to explore the courtyard after she fell asleep.
Not only that, the system was also looking forward to seeing what Song Tiantian’s reaction would be when she woke up the next morning and found out that she had already gone around the whole place.
Song Tiantian, who didn't know what the system was expecting, was still immersed in a sweet dream. But maybe because the impression of going down the tunnel just now was too deep, she dreamed about the scene of her walking in the tunnel.
Besides, she was the only one there.
This made Song Tiantian a little confused, but the brave little girl did not retreat at all and continued to wander in the tunnel.
Her mental power passed through the tunnels, turning forward and going up and down, and soon she found several exits. Song Tiantian curiously pushed open the wooden doors and stones that covered them, and when she walked out, she found that these exits were actually in the houses and courtyards in the village.
Not only that, there are also several small paths leading to the mountains, which immediately aroused Song Tiantian's interest.
Just as Song Tiantian was exploring the tunnels, Fang Nan, who was sleeping next door, felt a familiar spiritual force nearby attracting him. His spiritual power, which was originally out of control, immediately chased after it after sensing this breath.
Not long after, Song Tiantian, who was walking towards the mountains along the tunnel, saw a familiar figure chasing after her.
"Tiantian?"
"Nannan?" Song Tiantian looked at him in surprise: "Why are you here too?"
"I don't know either." Fang Nan, who was still unable to control his mental power, was still a little confused.
"Maybe I was dreaming and dreaming about you." Song Tiantian knew it at this time and still thought she was dreaming.
"Is that so?" Xiangfangnan always felt that things were not that simple.
As he spoke, he looked around. When he saw that they were in a tunnel, Xiang Nan was a little confused: "Tiantian, are we in a tunnel?"
"Yes, I'm telling you, I've just found several tunnel exits here. They're really just like Uncle Xie said, they're all connected to the village. One of them is in the room that Niannian and I visited this morning. I didn't expect that there was a tunnel right under the floor."
"Also, I found four tunnels in the courtyard where we live."
"Four?" Xiangfangnan was a little surprised. "Didn't they say there were only three secret rooms and tunnels under the courtyard?"
"Three?" Song Tiantian blinked. "But am I dreaming? Are dreams going to be the same as Uncle Xie said?"
Although Xiangfangnan felt something was amiss, he nodded and agreed, "You make sense. It's like dreaming. Anything is possible."
"That's right. Let's go ahead and take a look. I want to know where this tunnel leads to!" Song Tiantian said, pulling Xiangfangnan and running forward.
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