Chapter 155: Chapter 155: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Children
"Should we move all these back to the research institute?" A middle-aged man asked, pushing up his glasses.
"Yes, move everything. These patterns are of great research value. Once we get back, contact all the biologists and have them co take a look." The old professor nodded.
"Okay." The middle-aged man nodded, then instructed the cultivators to help cut out the patterns, each storing them in their storage rings, ready to be taken away.
At the end, as everyone was preparing to leave, they noticed the old professor hadn’t left but was staring blankly at a wall with nothing on it.
"Professor, what’s wrong?" The middle-aged man walked over to the professor and asked.
"Look, doesn’t this wall seem a bit thinner than the others?" The old professor spoke in a deep voice.
Hearing this, the middle-aged man was slightly stunned. He raised his head and examined the wall closely, his body shook suddenly—it was indeed as the professor had said.
The thickness of this wall was slightly less than the others. Just by running your hand along it, you could feel the unevenness!
"It’s about five ters wide, but the thickness is ten centiters less than the other walls. These are earthen walls, so it might have regrown." The middle-aged man spoke in a deep voice.
The walls here were made of earth and could gradually thicken. Given ti, this cave could cease to exist, and everything would be buried.
"That ans behind this wall, there may very well be a door or another hidden room." The old professor suggested.
This realization woke the middle-aged man, who imdiately sent people to break open the wall.
Rumble!
As the wall was chiseled open, a hole appeared in front of everyone.
"There really is another hidden space!" The middle-aged man exclaid. "Is this the professor’s observational skill?"
Such attention to detail.
How did he spot that?
The old professor said nothing, carefully walked over, bent down, and went through the hole.
Upon entering, his cloudy eyes gradually widened, and his pupils contracted.
Before him lay a skeleton of a creature, over a hundred ters long and dozens of ters wide, with a body reminiscent of a crocodile, quietly lying there.
Even in death, it exuded an incredibly oppressive and terrifying aura, making it hard to breathe.
"What is this thing?" The middle-aged man ca in, shocked.
He had never seen such a large creature before; not in the entire history of the world’s fauna had he seen anything like this!
"Not sure, but it’s a complete skeleton. It should still have DNA residue; take it back imdiately for research." The old professor spoke in a serious tone.
This creature definitely had research value.
"Okay." The middle-aged man nodded blankly, soon regaining his senses and instructed people to collect it.
"Professor, co quickly, there’s sothing written here." At this mont, a woman’s voice called out.
The old professor hurried over, quickly arriving by the woman’s side.
She was pointing to a line of ancient text carved into the wall.
"These ancient scripts." The professor adjusted his reading glasses, carefully examining the text. Although he had studied many languages and seen a lot of taphysics, he understood many writings. Yet he couldn’t understand these symbols.
"They look sowhat like letters, but not quite." The middle-aged man ca over and said thoughtfully.
The symbols in front of them were twisted and crooked, neither resembling letters nor graffiti. What could they be?
"Photograph them, and we’ll study them thoroughly later." The old professor said seriously.
"Okay." The woman nodded and imdiately took pictures.
Afterward, everyone looked around and, finding nothing else, decided to return ho.
They had already obtained enough materials for research; there was no need to continue investigating.
Soon, everyone used sword flight to leave the area.
But barely three minutes after they left, the cave collapsed, erasing any trace of its existence.
...
Ti flew by, and night fell.
In a small village in Huaxia, a major event had occurred.
Five children went out to play in the morning and never ca back!
Especially at such a critical mont, in a world plagued by demon beasts, losing children was a major issue.
The village chief quickly gathered all the cultivators in the village to help search for the children.
According to the account of one child, he saw the five friends heading into the deep forest that day, but he had to help with chores, so he didn’t go.
Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked. They knew that deep in the forest were many wild beasts, and currently, there were occasional demon beasts as well.
Those five children were probably in grave danger.
But whether alive or dead, they had to find them. The village chief did not give up and continued organizing a large-scale search into the deep forest.
As ti passed, everyone grew more desperate, having searched nearly the entire mountain without a trace of the five children or any clues.
If they had been eaten by a demon beast, there would be so evidence at least. Could the five children have just vanished into thin air?
They reported the situation to the cultivator managent departnt, and shortly after, help arrived.
With additional manpower in the search, a breakthrough finally ca!
"Everyone, co quickly, there’s a hole here!" One of the managers shouted, and everyone quickly gathered.
A deep hole was revealed before them, hidden under a large tree. Without careful exploration, it was impossible to find. Though small, it could fit a child.
Everyone looked at the entrance, troubled.
"It’s so small, how do we get down?"
"There’s no way; it’s too small. Unless we can shrink our bones."
"What should we do? The children likely fell in, and we don’t know how deep this hole is."
"How about we use spiritual power to blast through?"
"No, we don’t know how fragile it is below; if the children are down there, using spiritual power might harm them. That would be unacceptable."
None of the cultivators knew what to do. Faced with such a small entrance, they were really at a loss.
"Don’t worry, I have a way. I know the Earth Escape Technique. I’ll go down first and if there’s no problem, I’ll co back and open this passage." A manager suggested.
He had joined a sect and happened to be learning the Earth Escape Technique, allowing him to travel underground at will, and now it could be of use.
Upon hearing this, everyone rejoiced; it was a great idea.
Shortly after, the manager recited a few words and, with a whooshing sound, disappeared into the ground like a burrowing mole.
Soon, he ca back up.
"Below is a large cave, it’s spacious, but the children aren’t down there. We can break through here."
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