Chapter 20 The Earthly Palace-The Northern School Tomb Raider’s Notes

We were burning leaves and twigs from the pit, some of which were still wet, and the fire didn’t burn much, but there was quite a bit of smoke.

I covered my nose with a cloth and said, “Alright Sango? There was a fire that was pretty big just now.”

After half an hour, most of the clay jar was blackened, Yao Wentze poked down with a stick, and this time he didn’t bring up the Corpse Horn Fairy.

“It should work, who goes down first?” Boss asked in a hushed voice.

“Me! I’ll do it!” Sun Lao San gritted his teeth and said, “I’ll go down and scout for you guys first, in case Second Brother is down there. I’ll be able to rescue him as well.”

He stepped over the edge of the tank and probed the depths with his legs first.

“It’s not much deeper, it seems to be next to the ground.”

All of a sudden.

There was a sound of debris collapsing from below, and Sun Laosan let out a cry of alarm!

“Hold on! Don’t wiggle around! Lao San I’ve got you! Yunfeng come help!”

I was busy running over to pull Sun Laosan’s other arm, Yao siblings also ran over to help, a few people worked together to pull Sun Laosan, whose feet were hanging in the air, up.

“What the hell Lao-san!”

Sun Lao San was dragged up by us, and he said in shock, “Good …… close, it should be stepped on and collapsed.”

Yao Yumen shone his flashlight down, and it was pitch black underneath the clay jar, so dark that he couldn’t see anything.

Undeterred, Sun Laosan made another suggestion, saying to tie a rope and slide down.

Not knowing how deep it was down here, we tied a climbing rope around his waist.

Boss and I tugged on the rope tightly.

“Sango be careful, if anything goes wrong just yell, we’ll pull you up right away!”

Sun Lao San nodded with his headlamp.

He then slid down the vat a little bit.

Two meters, three meters, five meters, and the rope was soon put to ten meters.

Yao Yumen frowned, “Could it be the underground palace down there? How could it be so deep.”

Finally, the mountaineering rope down to eighteen meters when it is not going, the following Sun Lao San should be to the head.

The Boss is sullen; after all, it’s his own brother who’s missing from the pit.

“What can be the use of just talking and guessing up there! If there was a big earthquake in any year in ancient times, it’s not impossible that it sank eighteen meters!”

“You guys pull the safety rope, I’ll go down and get Lao-san,” Boss Sun said as he gathered up the rope and began to wrap it around his waist.

“I’m fine big brother! You guys come down here and check it out, my goodness! I’ve never seen this before!” Loud shouts from Sun Lao San came from below.

So, a few people slid down one after another, with me being the third from the bottom and the Yao siblings at the end of the line.

I didn’t have much strength in my hands, and the hiking rope I was gripping tightly was hurting my hands.

The hole was dark, and halfway down I looked up and up.

In the hole mouth below the inner wall, there are crawling a few flat beetles, this is not burned just now the corpse horn fairy, I light a light, these beetles do not move.

Telling the Yao siblings above me, I grabbed the rope a little bit and slid down again.

This was followed by Yao Yumen, and finally Yao Wenze, who tied a rope noose to the vat as he came down, saying that he would need it when we returned up.