Liang Huaxin hurriedly called to his brother on the ground, "Er Mao, wake up!"
Qi Xili also found his son: "Xiao Linzi, how are you? Don't scare your father!"
Both of them were a little flustered and didn't even notice that their clothes and backpacks were different.
As they were violently shaken, Qi Lin and Er Mao slowly opened their eyes.
"dad?"
"Captain Liang?"
The two people had clear voices, which did not sound like they had been unconscious for a long time.
"How are you? Is there anything wrong with your body?"
Qi Lin and Er Mao carefully examined themselves and shook their heads: "We're fine, we feel quite energetic."
Qi Xili and Liang Huaxin breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly went to wake up the rest of the people.
The guards opened their eyes one after another, including Shen Yanming and An'an.
"Captain, Stinky Egg is missing!"
"Spread out and search to see if it's lying somewhere else that we haven't found."
As a result, they searched for hundreds of meters on both sides of the passage but still couldn't find the rotten egg.
The group returned to the spot, sat down, and looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Tell me, what do you all remember? Let's analyze how we got here."
"I don't remember anything, Captain!"
"I... I remember, we came here to find space stones. We filled a whole bag and were so happy. Captain Chen said that was enough and we had to go back. But Captain Liang said that since we'd come all this way, we should collect as many as possible. Otherwise, someone else might pick them up."
Liang Huaxin's face darkened upon hearing this. But he remembered it; it really wasn't just something people were making up.
"I remember the smoke, it was so thick and hot, it felt like my body was on fire."
Liang Huaxin and Qi Xili turned their attention to him: "Are you burned?"
The man took off his clothes to check, and found that he didn't have any scars on his body, but said, "My clothes are different!"
"What do you mean the clothes are different? You're still wearing that tattered cotton-padded coat."
"I, I, I, my underwear is different!" The person felt so ashamed that they stammered.
Everyone was taken aback and began to check their clothes.
Without exception, everything inside had changed. And they were all quite clean, which was strangely comfortable.
"Could we have been violated?"
"What nonsense are you spouting!" Qi Xili's face darkened. "Who would even look at rough old men like us? Besides, given this environment, at least make some plausible guesses!"
Shen Yanming nodded slightly, thinking to himself that the usually serious guard could be so silly.
However, the potions and spiritual fruits worked well; at least everyone forgot their memories of the space.
But Qi Xili noticed his subtle movement and asked with a half-smile, "Yanming, what's your opinion?"
"Me?" Shen Yanming pointed to himself, feigning confusion. "I don't know! All I want to know right now is how to get out!"
"Yeah, why think so much? We're trapped here, shouldn't our primary concern be how to get out?"
"The food in the bag... the food in the bag isn't what we brought. Look, how come the steamed buns have turned into milk tablets and biscuits?"
"There are no more space stones left!"
"Who changed it for us? Why do I feel a chill in the air?"
"Could there be other people inside?"
"Maybe it's a demon or monster?"
"Why don't you just say it's a deity!"
"I also think they're gods, otherwise how could we have survived falling from such a height unscathed!"
"Alright, let's not talk about that anymore. Let's move forward and see if we can find a way out. Also, let's see if we can find Stinky Egg."
After Qi Xili finished speaking, he casually picked up a backpack and put it on. Seeing this, the others also put on the backpacks they had.
"Let's go, let's walk forward a bit." After Qi Xili finished speaking, he saw Er Mao pick up the space stone at his feet.
It must be quite heavy; he noticed the veins on Er Mao's forehead were throbbing.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Er Mao quickly explained, "I've run out of stones in my bag, I can't have come all this way for nothing."
"You should think about whether you can get out of here first." Qi Xili glanced at him and shone his flashlight ahead. "Put the stones down and let's find a way out first. Once we find it, you can come back and pick all of these up; I won't object."
Don't you even know what time it is? You're still greedy for such a small thing.
"Alright, alright!" Er Mao reluctantly put the space stone on the ground and then followed the group forward.
The group walked for two or three hours, but still hadn't found the end. They just kept encountering more and more spatial stones.
There wasn't a single fork in the passage; the group could only follow the path forward.
After walking for another two hours, everyone was exhausted. We sat down for a drink of water and a bite of biscuit. After a fifteen-minute rest, we continued on our way.
"What's going on here? There's not even a bug. Are we going to be stuck here?"
"Don't be discouraged. At least there's plenty of oxygen in there, and we still have food. Let's keep looking; maybe we'll find a way out soon."
Qi Xili kept encouraging everyone, but the guards were all a little irritable.
Shen Yanming and An'an quietly followed the group, neither speaking nor complaining. At most, they would drink some spiritual spring water to replenish their strength.
A day and a night passed in the blink of an eye, and they still hadn't found the end. Qi Xili and the others were discouraged.
Even Bi Qiaoan, who was in the space, wanted to call Shen Yanming and An'an back.
But Shen Yanming wasn't in a hurry at all, because he noticed that the air here had changed.
How should I put it? It has a refreshing feel to it. But it's different from the air in the room.
He couldn't quite describe the feeling, but he really wanted to quicken his pace and see what was ahead. But everyone was too tired to move.
Shen Yanming asked, "You don't want to stay here and wait to die, do you? The food in your bags is getting less and less, aren't you worried?"
"I'm anxious, but it's no use."
Shen Yanming pursed his lips and said, "Let's hang in there a little longer, we've been walking for so long."
Qi Xili agreed with Shen Yanming's statement, but still said, "Let's rest for a while longer, and set off again in half an hour."
Shen Yanming nodded, patted An'an's arm, and let him lean on his arm to sleep for a while.
An'an shook his head, saying he could still manage. Shen Yanming didn't say anything more.
The group lay on the ground for more than half an hour. After feeling their fatigue subside, they got up and walked forward.
Suddenly, a huge mine shaft appeared before them.
It was the size of two or three football fields, and the ground and cliff walls were covered with black spatial stones, as well as some transparent crystals of other colors.
"What is this? Is it crystal?" Liang Huaxin asked in confusion.
Shen Yanming shone his flashlight and saw "crystal clusters" of black, purple, red, blue, yellow, and transparent colors.
They grow in clusters, extremely densely, alongside the space stones.
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