After everything was ready, Xu Xin entered the underground cave carrying a stone spear.
He was a little sensitive to the word "underground" now, so even though Coco told him that there was no danger down there, he still kept his guard up and fed himself with red berries and oranges.
Entering the cave for the first time, Xu Xin looked forward. The cave was very narrow, only slightly wider than his shoulders. The cramped space couldn't even allow two people to walk side by side.
The direction of the hole is not forward, but tilted downward. Walking along the hole, Xu Xin's position will only get farther and farther away from the ground.
On both sides of the passage are bumpy earthen walls, which looks like a passage dug out by humans.
Xu Xin saw the end of the road at a glance. The end of the cave was only a few hundred meters away from him.
"Strange, a dead end?" Xu Xin asked in confusion.
As he walked, he checked the surrounding walls, thinking that there would be caves leading to other directions on the walls of the cave, but until he reached the end of the cave and touched the earth wall at the end with his hands, he did not find any other passages.
The end of the cave no longer sloped downward, but was flat land. Xu Xin calculated that his current position was about 20 to 30 meters above the ground.
He looked down at Coco and saw that she was digging the ground with her little paws at his feet.
Xu Xin looked closely and saw that the color of the soil was slightly different from the surrounding area. If it weren't for his night vision ability that allowed him to see in the dark as if it were daytime, even with a torch, it would be impossible for him to see the difference in the color of the soil.
The soil has been loosened.
The golden treasure chest must be buried here!
"Okay, Coco, leave it to me!" Xu Xin carried Coco, who was digging the ground hard, to the back, and took out a shovel, aiming at the piece of land of different color and starting to dig.
"Oh, oh, oh!" Xu Xin accidentally splashed the soil he dug all over Keke. Keke cried out in dissatisfaction, shook off the soil on her body, jumped over and hugged Xu Xin's calves.
"Haha, sorry, Coco!" Xu Xin couldn't help laughing. He reached out and touched Coco's head. He felt some dirt on it and patted it. "I'll give you a bath when we get home!"
"Hmm!"
Xu Xin continued digging, but even when the depth of the pit reached his waist, he still didn't dig out anything.
He looked at the soil in the pit. As he dug, the soil gradually turned red. Although it was not very obvious, Xu Xin could still see it easily.
"Is there really no danger?" Xu Xin hesitated. The soil under his feet seemed to be soaked in blood, reminding Xu Xin of the blood-red threads and blood-red barbs on the dark green vines, as well as the blood-red petals and stamens of the carnivorous plant.
He sighed, patted the little guy's head and said, "If something happens here, we'll die together."
"Ying!" Keke held Xu Xin's calf with one paw and patted his chest with the other paw, as if to say, believe it, if it says there is no danger, then there is no danger!
He decided to continue to believe in Coco.
We've come this far, it wouldn't be good to give up halfway.
He continued digging, but Xu Xin did not keep digging downwards. Instead, he dug diagonally upwards like the entrance to a cave, creating a path for him to walk up. He then spread the excavated soil flat in the passage to prevent it from blocking his way out.
Leave yourself a way out first. If you dig too deep, it will be difficult for him to get out.
He continued digging until the depth of the hole was almost as deep as his height. Suddenly, his shovel hit something hard, making a sound different from the sound of stones colliding, as if it was made of metal.
Xu Xin's eyes lit up.
Is it a treasure chest?
He increased the speed of digging and quickly cleared the soil under his feet.
There was indeed metal under his feet, but to his disappointment, the metal was not golden, but iron.
I don’t know how long this iron object has been buried in the soil, there is a layer of dark red rust on the surface.
Xu Xin cleaned the dirt around the exposed iron surface, but found that it was not a small gadget, but an underground iron door!
An iron gate leading deeper underground!
"How could it be a door?" Xu Xin muttered to himself as he looked at the rusty handle. "An iron door leading to the underground space?"
This iron gate gave him the same feeling as the manhole cover on the side of the road, except that the manhole cover was round, while this rusty iron gate was square, and there was also an iron door handle on it.
He dug around and found that the soil was still dyed red, which was completely different from the red soil Xu Xin had seen before.
Xu Xin reached out and grabbed a handful of soil.
[Contaminated Soil (Gray): Soil contaminated by an unknown force, useless to survivors.]
Sure enough, there is something wrong with the soil.
Throwing away the dirt in his hand, Xu Xin looked at the iron gate.
I can only go down.
He dug out an area where he could stand, reached out and grabbed the door handle, took a deep breath, and then pulled himself up with all his strength.
The iron door was very heavy, but fortunately, it had no lock. Xu Xin, whose strength had been increased twice, used all his strength and finally slowly pulled the iron door open.
The rusty iron door made a sharp and piercing sound and opened a crack.
Before Xu Xin could increase his strength, a strong and unpleasant smell came out of the gap and unexpectedly penetrated into Xu Xin's nose.
"Ugh..." Xu Xin retched, and the strength in his hands loosened. With a "bang" sound, the iron door that had just been opened a crack closed again.
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