Five hours later.
Lin Dong returned to the temporary tent. He felt fine, but Fox, who had accompanied him the whole time, was exhausted. He immediately found a comfortable place to sit down and massaged his calf with both hands. Philip, on the other hand, was more concerned about his image. After he sat down, he nodded to everyone elegantly, greeted them, and picked up his coffee cup.
Apart from the small team responsible for guarding, the rest of the genetic soldiers were taking the time to rest in their tents.
Griffon was also snoring loudly.
Big Ivan, on the other hand, was persevering, waiting for the final result.
"Found it?" Josiah asked excitedly. He had a hunch that Mr. Wood must have deciphered the pattern left by the Mayans. Otherwise, he would not have stopped.
"There should be another passageway, but I can't guarantee what's in it." Lin Dong decided to rest first and recuperate before setting off again.
"Do you want a massage? I've learned professional techniques! "asked a female soldier, who was wearing a singlet that revealed her fit figure.
"Thank you, but not for now. I'll be fine after resting for half an hour!" Lin Dong casually found a relatively clean place to lie down. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Soon, he fell asleep. Eric Jr. saw this and immediately instructed the female soldiers, "You guys rest too. Oh, right, the passageway may not be safe. You have to be prepared to ensure Mr. Wood's safety!"
Half an hour later, Lin Dong woke up.
The soldiers got up one by one to organize their equipment after being called by their comrades on duty.
The group ate something and recovered their strength. They lined up behind Lin Dong, waiting for him to open up a new passageway.
The female soldier in charge of protecting Lin Dong was wearing a bulletproof vest, once again hiding her fit figure. She inserted a dagger into her calf and quietly introduced herself to Lin Dong, "Mr. Wood, my name is Vanessa. If you need anything, just let me know!"
"Alright!" Lin Dong nodded.
The female soldier named Mary, who was slightly behind, also wanted to come forward and introduce herself to Lin Dong, but Fox firmly occupied the position next to Lin Dong, not giving her a chance at all. Fortunately, Fox was alone. If she could split herself, even Vanessa wouldn't be able to touch Lin Dong. Behind Vanessa, Philip strode to catch up.
He and Fox had been protecting each other along the way.
Lin Dong pressed on a few shells.
No one could tell what was going on.
Just as Griffon yawned for the third time, the wall inlaid with countless beautiful shells suddenly shook, and a door opened with a rumble.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Josiah would never have believed that there was such a passage behind the rock wall. This opening was too unbelievable. There was no gap at all. Josiah realized that there was a line in the opening of the passage that went straight through the shell. But he dared to swear that he had looked at this shell no less than ten times before, and had not found anything suspicious at all. The most maddening thing was that the opening of this passage was very large. It was five meters tall and three meters wide. Such a large door, with dozens of people staring at it, actually did not find any trace of it. It had to be said that this was really a miraculous design.
The indigenous Mayans had such a brilliant civilization?
To be able to design such an exquisite mechanism?
It was too unbelievable!
But.
This was yet another fact that could not be questioned in front of their eyes!
"Let's go!" Lin Dong took the lead and walked into the dark passage. The female soldier, Vanessa, quickly followed. On the other side, Fox was slightly slower. But before she set off, she seemed to have exchanged a look with Philip.
They walked in the passage for ten minutes.
They saw another palace-like existence.
In this palace, besides the gold inlaid patterns and various statues, there were all kinds of gems.
With a flashlight, the light was so bright that it blinded everyone's eyes. Some genetic soldiers wanted to use their daggers to secretly dig a piece of the wall. But seeing that Lin Dong did not stop, Josiah hurriedly waved his hand and ordered, "Follow up, no one is to leave the team!" The genetic soldiers reluctantly walked past the gem-inlaid rock wall with regret. Each of them swallowed hard, but Lin Dong had no intention of stopping. They could only grit their teeth and follow.
After walking for another five minutes or so, a huge throne appeared in front of everyone.
The throne was made of pure gold.
It was inlaid with the most dazzling and gorgeous gems.
Even Eric Jr. and Josiah felt a sense of suffocation. As for the female soldier, she held the throne with her hand and did not want to leave for a long time.
"Have we not reached the real treasure trove yet?" Fox had amazing control over gems. After taking a few pictures on the throne, she hurriedly followed behind Lin Dong, who continued on their way.
"This might be the treasure trove, but I want to find the source of the radiation. I want to know what caused the creatures in this underground world to mutate! "Of course, Lin Dong did not care about the gold and gems. He wanted to find something more important. Now, he vaguely had a feeling that someone had left a treasure here, and that was why such a large-scale biological mutation had occurred. Although it could not compare to the underground creatures in the Dragon's Mouth Mine, there was the Dragon Slayer Daoist's Heaven and Earth Formation there. There was no Heaven and Earth Formation here, but there was such a huge change. Then the treasure that was left here should be something powerful.
"Follow up, everyone follow up immediately!" Eric Jr. ordered the genetic soldiers to move immediately.
"It's good to dig one out. These are all priceless treasures!" Those genetic soldiers were a little tempted. There were so many gems, but they did not want to take one?
"If we don't go, we'll die!" Josiah was furious.
They could keep the gems and slowly dig them out, but if Lin Dong lost them, would there still be any meaning in this underground journey?
What he was most afraid of was that the other party would continue to go underground, follow the underground river or some other tunnel, and come out again. At that time, it would be harder than ascending to heaven for the Mayflower Formation to make him stay! The best thing to do now was to keep following him and not give him a chance!
Passing through the palace of the throne.
Lin Dong found a heavy stone door.
After opening it with a mechanism at the side, they found that there were actually three tunnels inside.
One was slanting upwards, and one was slowly going downwards. The middle one was zigzagging forward, and no one knew which was the most correct path.
"Which path should we take next?" Eric Jr. looked at Lin Dong, hoping that he would give an answer again. Unfortunately, Lin Dong shook his head this time. "Sorry, I don't have enough information. I can't be sure."
"Should we send someone to scout ahead?" Josiah did not want to split up. If Mr. Wood did not keep an eye on him, he might find a chance to escape.
"Let's send someone to scout all three paths!" Philip gave a kind suggestion.
Every five genetic soldiers formed an exploration team.
In less than half an hour.
The team that went up returned, indicating that they had reached the end of the path above.
After another fifteen minutes, the team in the middle returned. They reported that the end of the path was a cliff of unknown depth.
After asking for the opinions of Lin Dong, Philip, and the others, Josiah made the decision to go down. "Go down. If it doesn't work, we'll take the middle path!"
The entire team walked down for two hours, but they still did not meet the exploration team that had returned. Everyone felt that this was the correct path, and they were in a good mood. After resting for fifteen minutes on a slightly damp platform, they found the people who had left the exploration team's marks and continued on their way. About an hour later, they finally reached the end of the winding path.
At the end, there was a stone door that the genetic soldiers opened with a mechanism.
They passed through the stone door.
Lin Dong felt a wave of humidity hit his face.
Before finding the obvious marks left by the exploration team, less than five minutes later, Lin Dong heard the sound of running water in the underground river.
"God, this riverbank is full of golden sand! And this stone, look, I dare say it's diamond! There are actually diamonds here. Damn it, the reason why those bastards are so enthusiastic is because they came to the riverbank to find diamonds! " One of the genetic soldiers found a white diamond the size of a pinky on the gravel bank of the underground river. Apart from that, he also found a layer of shiny golden sand under the gravel.
"There's one here too!" When the genetic soldiers bent down to search, they quickly found something. Another genetic soldier found a diamond ore that was as small as a grain of rice.
"I found one, and it's red. How lucky!" The soldiers were going crazy.
"Diamond?" Lin Dong picked one up with a thoughtful expression.
"Order them to return immediately!" Josiah did not want his team to become a treasure hunting team.
"Communication is being strongly disrupted by the magnetic field. We are still unable to contact them!" The soldier shook his head, indicating that he was powerless.
"Blow the whistle and tell them to return. Gather urgently!" Josiah was very angry. He was already very annoyed when the soldiers wanted to dig up the gemstones. It was not that they could not get rich, but they had to obey orders.
A shrill whistle sounded in the darkness.
But it sounded a few times.
Apart from the flowing water of the underground river, there was no other response.
Josiah immediately felt that something was wrong. No matter how bad the genetic soldiers' obedience was, they should not have heard a whistle and not responded.
"Be on guard!" Josiah immediately ordered the team to be on guard. If the exploration team could not hear the whistle, then they were attacked by monsters.
"Search!" Eric Jr. led a few genetic soldiers to the left, while Josiah led his men to the right. He asked Lin Dong, Fox, and the rest to stay at the edge of the river and wait for them to return. Of course, in order to monitor Lin Dong, he left a few female soldiers behind, saying that they were preparing some food for Lin Dong and the rest to replenish their strength.
After searching for a long time, there was no result.
Except for the darkness and the river.
There was nothing else.
Lin Dong gestured to the female soldier called Vanessa beside him. "Take the flashlight and shine it forward. No, it's about twenty degrees. Okay, that's about it. Wait, it's here. Give me a few more flashlights. I think I see something …"
The flashlight did not shine very clearly. The female soldiers saw a black rock in the middle of the river about a hundred meters away.
The rock was estimated to be at least ten meters tall.
At first glance, it looked like a monster.
The female soldiers swept the rock with their flashlights and did not find anything strange. They were about to turn off the flashlight to save some power. Suddenly, the huge rock seemed to move. Fox quickly snatched the flashlight from Vanessa's hand and swept it up and down. Then, everyone who stayed behind saw the rock slowly sink in the dim light of the flashlight.
"Oh my God!" Griffon's face was pale with fear.
"What the f * ck is this thing!" Big Ivan was scared out of his wits.
"Beep beep …" Vanessa blew her whistle frantically, calling out to the two groups of companions who were gradually moving away.
The "rock" in the middle of the river disappeared without a sound before Josiah and the rest could return. Josiah and Eric Jr. were still asking questions when Lin Dong suddenly pointed. Fox used her flashlight and found a new target.
Less than fifty meters away from the river bank, a huge black shadow was rapidly approaching the bank.
Everyone turned on their flashlights and shone them on the river.
It seemed to have sensed it.
The black shadow that had swum over from the bottom of the river suddenly emerged from the surface. The water flowed like a waterfall, and the rumbling sound pierced into everyone's ears. Coupled with the huge object that was so overwhelming that even the strong Josiah and Philip were trembling. Fox held onto Lin Dong's arm tightly. At that moment, she felt that besides being by his side, nowhere else in the world was safe.
The black shadow stood in the middle of the river like a small mountain.
Its two huge lantern-like eyes emitted a faint green light under the light of the flashlight.
No one could tell how big it was, but just the part that was exposed from the water was already more than twenty meters …
"What do we do?" Josiah suppressed the fear in his heart, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and asked Lin Dong in a trembling voice. Everyone once again placed their hopes on him. They hoped that the omniscient and omnipotent Josiah would speak again and resolve the crisis!
"Now, no one should provoke it. We should not be on its menu. Everyone, step back slowly and leave this big guy's territory." Lin Dong's words made everyone feel a little better. They were prepared to act according to his suggestion, but just as Lin Dong finished speaking, intense gunshots rang out in the distance. When the bullets whizzed toward the black shadow, everyone's mind was filled with the phrase "Pig Teammate"!
Damn, this is too much!
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