Ye Zi was still shaken by the explosion.
"Can someone come and help me out?"
Among them, Sun Wukong was probably the most unfortunate. He was the slowest to escape, so after the explosion, the collapsing rubble buried him directly.
After digging out Sun Wukong, the group exchanged a knowing smile.
"Let's find a safe place to rest, and continue exploring tomorrow."
Today's experience for everyone was like riding a roller coaster, each ride more thrilling than the last.
After bypassing the collapsed tunnel, the five people arrived at a safe room, ate a little something, and then each found a place to lie down and rest.
The night watch is done by five people in shifts, with each person working two hours.
Hao Yun, who was in charge of guarding the last shift, saw that there was no danger, so he lit a campfire to cook soup.
The four sleeping people soon woke up, ate breakfast, and the five-person team continued to explore the ruins.
After wandering around for four or five hours, Hao Yun still couldn't find any trace of the missing adventurers. He began to suspect that the missing adventurers might have been eaten.
The great demon I encountered yesterday was gnawing on a fresh corpse.
"This underground ruin is huge! We didn't even see any of the marks left behind."
Ye Zi left a mark at the fork in the road and couldn't help but sigh.
"Yes, at our current pace, it would probably take ten days to half a month to explore the entire ruins."
The Time Machine, naturally lazy, leaned against the wall, too tired to move at all.
"It won't take that long. Our mission is to find the missing adventurers. If we can't find them by tomorrow, there's no need for us to continue searching."
Hao Yun squatted on the ground, speaking while constantly sketching a map of the ruins with both hands.
"No need to look anymore, why?"
The time machine leaned against the wall and sat on the ground, looking at Hao Yun with a puzzled expression.
"All the adventurers are dead, is there any point in us searching anymore?"
Ye Zi replied without thinking, though she had already given up hope of finding the missing adventurer.
At least a week had passed between the adventurers' disappearance and their subsequent search.
Given that much time has passed, those missing adventurers must be dead by now.
"No way!"
The time machine gaped in astonishment, not quite agreeing with Ye Zi's statement.
"What's there to not know? Yesterday we encountered a great demon. Do you think an ordinary adventurer would have any hope of escaping?"
Ye Zi's expression was very serious. Having been an adventurer for so many years, she knew the strength of most adventurers all too well.
My team is already considered an elite team among adventurer groups.
Even so, they were almost wiped out by the Great Demon. If it were any other squad, the Great Demon would probably have wiped them out in one attack.
"Don't be so pessimistic. I think there is still hope that the missing adventurers are alive."
Hao Yun slowly stood up, stretched, and patted Ye Zi on the shoulder with a smile.
"The great demon we encountered yesterday, there are probably only a few in the entire ruins. The dozens of adventurers who went missing shouldn't have been that unlucky."
On the third level of the ruins, the adventurers were wiped out in the lair of the poisonous spiders. Hao Yun counted carefully at the time and there were a total of eleven spider cocoons, which meant that eleven people died.
More than fifty adventurers have gone missing. Even after removing the eleven that have already been discovered, there are still more than forty left.
Hao Yun refused to believe that they would encounter a high-level monster like a Great Demon in such a large maze.
However, it was precisely because the maze was so large that Hao Yuncai lost the will to search. For the five of them alone, finding the missing adventurer in such a large ruin was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Let's set off and continue exploring the ruins in search of the missing adventurer."
"Sigh, I have to leave again. After walking around these past two days, my legs have gotten noticeably thinner."
The time machine couldn't help but complain, but in the end it still got up.
Click!
As Time Machine struggled to his feet against the wall, his expression froze instantly; he knew that voice all too well.
organ!
Can my luck be that bad? I triggered the trap yesterday, and it's happening again today!
"Time machine, let's go!"
The group set off, but when Sixth Brother saw that the time machine wasn't moving, he turned around and urged them to hurry.
The time machine gave an ugly smile and said to everyone.
"I think I accidentally triggered a mechanism just now."
The other four were now also unsettled. Yesterday's barrage of arrows had almost turned them into hedgehogs; were they going to have to go through that again today?
"Don't move."
Hao Yun stepped forward, squatted down in front of the time machine, and observed the mechanism he had triggered.
A protruding brick on the wall was pressed into the wall by the time machine. Because the time machine did not let go, the mechanism has not yet been triggered.
Even without triggering it, Hao Yun could hear a faint sound of gears turning inside the wall.
"Ye Zi, you lead everyone to evacuate first."
After Hao Yun finished speaking, the other three shook their heads repeatedly, and none of them left.
Hao Yun frowned and looked at the three of them, then shouted loudly.
"Hurry up and let's go, don't waste time!"
Under Hao Yun's intimidating gaze, the three reluctantly retreated into the tunnel, leaving only the time machine and Hao Yun in the room.
"Time Machine, just let go when I tell you to, don't be nervous."
The Time Machine, covered in sweat, nodded hurriedly to show that he wasn't nervous, but in reality, he was already extremely flustered.
Hao Yun took a deep breath, took a step forward, and prepared to rush out of the room with him as soon as the time machine let go.
"Ready, 3, 2, 1, let go!"
The time machine suddenly let go, and Hao Yun pulled him along, starting at 70 miles per hour and rushing into the tunnel in a flash.
The mechanism was triggered, and the wall the time machine was leaning against collapsed instantly, revealing a large, dark hole.
The five people inside the passage were on high alert, but after more than ten seconds, there was nothing unusual behind the collapsed wall.
"Why is there no sound at all? Could the mechanism be broken?"
Six-man peeked around and, seeing nothing unusual inside the hole, couldn't resist going in to check.
"Wait a little longer."
Hao Yun stopped Liuwa, deciding to wait and see, in case the mechanism was delayed.
They waited for half an hour, and only after seeing that there was nothing unusual did the five of them go into the room to check.
Behind the collapsed wall, a straight, circular passageway was revealed.
This passage is three meters long; if you peek inside, you can feel the air circulating.
Hao Yun took out a torch, lit it, and threw it down.
The torches fell very quickly, disappearing into the darkness in the blink of an eye, with the echo only returning a few minutes later.
The time machine started calculating on its fingers; based on the torch's falling speed, it would take at least several hundred meters.
Hao Yun stroked his chin. He felt that this passage should be the center of the ruins. If he explored along the passage, he should be able to explore the entire ruins very quickly.
Chapter 209 Rescuing the Adventurers
"Let's go down this passage and use it as a center point to explore the ruins."
Hao Yun took a rope out of his backpack, tied one end to a pillar, and was the first to climb down the cave entrance.
Descending along the wall, Hao Yun casually smashed open a section and slipped inside.
After looking around and finding no danger, he lay down at the cave entrance and shouted.
"You guys come down too, it's safe."
Following Hao Yun's instructions, the four climbed down the rope.
After the five people gathered, Hao Yun squatted down and began to draw a map, while explaining the structure of the ruins to the other four.
The ventilation shaft that the time machine accidentally discovered is the center of the ruins. The fourth level of the ruins, this honeycomb-structured maze, was built entirely around this ventilation shaft.
While Hao Yun was explaining, the other four were distracted because they had no interest in the structure of the ruins.
Realizing he was talking to a brick wall, Hao Yun didn't bother to explain.
"Let's set off and continue our exploration."
After a brief search of the surrounding area, Hao Yun led his team back, then left through the ventilation shaft and entered the remaining passages to continue their exploration.
After a day of exploration, the group had a fruitful day, scavenging corpses and finding many valuable items.
However, they still did not encounter the missing adventurers.
After a day of exploration, everyone was tired, so the five of them found a safe room and settled down to rest.
As everyone chatted and laughed while eating, a crisp tapping sound came from behind them.
The sound came from inside the passage, so all five of them craned their necks to look inside.
"Do you think it might be a great demon?"
The time machine looked at Hao Yun and thought that the voice was likely coming from the Great Demon.
"It doesn't seem like it. Should I go down and take a look?"
Sun Wukong was eager to try it out and prepared to go down and explore.