Wilderness Redemption Tour

While Arthur and Charles were not there yet, Lin Yan put the lantern into the cave to check out the general situation inside.

This cave was also artificially excavated, but the walls were not reinforced like the previous passage, but retained their original appearance when they were excavated. The entire cave wall was wet, and there was a layer of water on the ground, but the space excavated inside was much wider than the previous passage, and people could not only stand upright inside, but even two people could walk side by side.

Arthur walked over and looked at the unprepossessing cave entrance and said, "Compared to the passage outside, this cave entrance is really quite shabby."

"But the passage inside is much wider than the one outside." Lin Yan waved his head at him: "Let's go, I'll lead the way this time."

After saying that, Lin Yan took the lead and went in, holding the lantern.

Sadie was the second one to come in. After entering the cave, she looked around and said, "Hey! Don't be fooled by the simple entrance here. Walking inside is much more comfortable than before."

Charles was still following behind Lin Yan. As soon as he came in, he keenly noticed something. He raised his hand to feel the flow of air. He said confidently: "I feel the wind. There must be another exit here."

"Great, let's go." Sadie took two quick steps to catch up with Lin Yan and urged him to speed up.

Unlike the straight downward passage when they first entered the mine, this passage tends to be upward as a whole, so after Lin Yan and his companions walked for a distance, the accumulated water on the ground only existed in puddles of various sizes.

Just as Lin Yan was focusing on how to get around the puddle under his feet, Sadie raised her hand and touched Lin Yan's arm: "Jamie, look! There seems to be someone lying in front!"

"People? How can it be... Damn! It really is!"

Lin Yan was just about to say how there could be someone inside since the outside was sealed so solidly, but when he moved his eyes over, he found that there was indeed a person lying on the side of the road.

Sadie walked over and kicked the man, but she kicked nothing. It turned out that the man had been dead for a long time, and now his whole body had rotted away, leaving only a skeleton and the clothes.

Sadie walked around the skeleton and wondered, "How could this man die here? Looking at the clothes he was wearing, he shouldn't be a miner, right?"

Arthur and Charles came over and studied the body.

"Judging from his appearance, he could be either a tramp or a gold digger. Of course, in some ways, there is no difference between the two," said Arthur.

"Yeah." Charles nodded in agreement, "Maybe this person came in from another entrance, and after coming in, he drank the water here..."

Halfway through the conversation, Charles confirmed with Lin Yan: "Will the consequences of drinking this water directly be serious?"

"Of course." Lin Yan replied with great certainty: "The water here is extremely polluted. Even if you don't die immediately after drinking it, you won't live for more than a few days, and you will definitely be in extreme pain before you die."

"That's right." Charles continued after getting the answer: "He didn't know that the water here was poisonous. As a result, he died here not long after drinking it."

"But this is not the point." Lin Yan continued Charles' words: "The point is that his appearance confirmed that there are indeed other exits here, and they can be used for people to enter and exit."

After the analysis, the four set off again. After walking forward for a while, as the surrounding cave walls gradually dried up, the poisonous water on the ground also disappeared. However, Lin Yan knew that it was not time to relax their vigilance, as the air here was still harmful to humans.

As they walked, the traces of excavation around the cave disappeared, and disappeared very abruptly. What appeared next was a low, narrow, rough-style, and obviously naturally formed passage. To move forward from here, everyone had to squat and move forward. There was a narrowest place between the mountain walls that could only be passed sideways. Lin Yan, Arthur and Sadie, who were relatively well-proportioned, were fine, but Charles suffered more. He squeezed through...

Watching Charles pulling himself out of the gap with great difficulty, Arthur joked, "Fortunately Bill didn't come. If he had come, I would have had to starve myself to get out."

The road ahead will be smoother. With the lessons learned from the previous experience, as long as the road ahead is not too outrageous, it can be classified as smooth.

Afterwards, Lin Yan, who was leading the way, stopped again at another crevice in the mountain wall. He turned back and pointed at the crevice and the road ahead and asked the others, "Okay, choose one of the two. Which way should we go?"

Arthur smiled and pointed to the slightly wider crack in the mountain wall: "I can see the light coming from behind. If you don't go this way, go that way."

"Hey! You found me." Lin Yan smiled and got into the gap. "Wait here for a while, I'll go over and explore the way."

Lin Yan passed through the gap between the mountains without any hindrance, and suddenly felt that the surroundings were much brighter. Although it was still a little dark, at least he could see the surroundings clearly. This was much better than being surrounded by pitch black and relying on the weak light from the lantern to illuminate the way.

After passing through the gap, Lin Yan found that he was standing on a high platform. Right below him, there was a slope sloping downward. On the slope, a stream slowly flowed through the mountain. However, this water was not spring water in the ordinary sense, but poisonous water with a large amount of arsenic, the same color as the accumulated water that Lin Yan saw in the mine. The color of the poisonous water here was darker than that in the mine, and it looked more like some kind of filth. Judging from the color, it seemed that the concentration of the poisonous water here was much higher than that in the mine.

At the bottom of the slope was the other exit of the mine that Lin Yan and his team had been looking for. This exit was covered by a layer of water curtain, and the water flow rate of the water curtain was quite high, which indirectly became the perfect shelter for this cave.

Through the system map, Lin Yan learned that behind this layer of water curtain was the Paradise Pool they visited yesterday, and this layer of water curtain should be the small waterfall formed when the water from the upper reaches of the Kamassa River flowed into the Paradise Pool.

After taking a general look at the place, Lin Yan walked back to the gap and called out to his three companions waiting on the other side: "Come over, the exit is just ahead."

This time Charles had a smooth time and the embarrassing situation just now did not happen again.

Arthur walked to the edge of the platform and watched the reddish-brown poisonous water gushing out from the mountain and flowing unhindered along the slope below into the pond under the water curtain. Even though he was prepared for this, he couldn't help but sigh: "So this is the truth behind the curse of Butcher River Village..."