After everything was ready, Xu Xin entered the underground cave carrying a stone spear.
He was a little sensitive about the word "underground", 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.
When Xu Xin first entered the cave, he looked forward. The cave was very narrow, only slightly wider than his shoulders, and the narrow space could not even allow two people to walk side by side in it.
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 earth 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 puzzledly.
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 was no longer sloping downward, but flat land. Xu Xin calculated that he was currently about 20 to 30 meters above the ground.
He looked down at Coco and saw that Coco 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 land.
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 started digging.
"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 its head and patted it. "I'll give you a bath when we get home!"
"Bing!"
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 stained with blood, which reminded 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 will die together."
"嘤!" Coco held Xu Xin's calf with one paw and patted her 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 have come this far, it would be bad 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, making a way 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 gold, but iron.
I don’t know how long this iron object has been buried in the soil, and there is a layer of dark red rust on the surface.
Xu Xin cleaned the dirt around the exposed iron surface, only to find that it was not some gadget, but an underground iron door!
An iron gate leading deeper underground!
"How can it be a door?" Xu Xin looked at the rusty handle and muttered to himself, "An iron door leading to the underground space?"
This iron gate gave him a similar feeling to 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 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 infected 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 have no choice but to go down.
He dug out an area where he could stand, reached out for the door handle, took a deep breath, and then pulled himself up.
The iron door was very heavy, but fortunately it was not locked. Xu Xin, who had increased his strength twice, used all his strength and finally pulled the iron door slowly.
The rusty iron door made a sharp and harsh sound and opened a crack.
Before Xu Xin could increase his strength, a strong and unpleasant smell came out of the gap and unexpectedly got into Xu Xin's nose.
"Ugh..." Xu Xin dry-heaved, and the strength in his hands loosened. With a "bang" sound, the iron door that had just been opened a crack closed again.
Even Coco screamed in disgust at the smell and made a retching sound.
"What's in here? Why does it stink so bad?"
Xu Xin suffers from mild pharyngitis, and he can't help feeling nauseous when he smells something unpleasant. But this time the nausea has nothing to do with his pharyngitis, because the smell under the iron door is obviously far beyond the tolerance of a normal person!
This is really stinky! It's like spoiled canned herring with hairy pickled bamboo shoots. It's a smell that is completely unacceptable physiologically!
There was no other way, Xu Xin resorted to the same old trick again, using his clothes as a mask to cover his nose.
Grasping the rusty handle once again, Xu Xin exerted all his strength, and with a teeth-grinding sound, the iron door was opened a crack again.
Trying to suppress the feeling of nausea, Xu Xin increased his strength.
"Get up for me!!"
"Bang!!" The iron door was flipped over and hit the other side heavily.
A red gas diffused up from below, and the unpleasant smell instantly filled Xu Xin's nostrils.
Xu Xin couldn't bear it any longer, rushed to the passage above, pulled the clothes off his face and vomited.
It stinks so much! It stinks so much!
Xu Xin felt that the smell in this door was even more terrible than the Piranha Plant! This was simply a biological weapon!
Coco also scratched the wall of the cave with her little claws and made retching sounds beside him.
No, this hole is full of this smell!
Xu Xin grabbed Coco and rushed to the ground, breathing in the fresh air in the jungle.
He had never felt the jungle air was so fresh, and even felt that the faint scent of the carnivorous plant floating around was so pleasant.
After a pause, Xu Xin gritted his teeth. He couldn't just give up because of a little taste!
He had a tragic look on his face, and was ready to actually enter that extremely smelly iron gate this time.
Just as Xu Xin was about to go down the cave again, he suddenly stopped and looked at the cave that he had enlarged with a twitching eye.
A light red gas slowly floated out from inside, spread around the cave entrance, drifted to Xu Xin's side, and went into Xu Xin's nose.
"vomit!"