Weak in affinity talent? Female ghosts are eager to give hints.

"Rustling sound—"

Let's shift our focus back to Anlan.

After sliding down the slide along the [Dog Head Transfer Station], An Lan clearly sensed that something was wrong!

The last time he went down the slide, he felt it was incredibly smooth and he slid to the end in no time.

But this time...

Something's not right!

One minute...

Two minutes...

Three minutes...

I've been falling, and I still haven't reached the end?

A cold wind kept blowing from below, but there was no light at the exit. I don't know how long I slid down there; what was supposed to be a downward-sloping slide suddenly turned into a straight, parallel one.

With a loud clang!

An Lan could feel her body land heavily on the ground, and a strange earthy smell wafted over her.

"Um?!"

He squinted and looked for a while. He was now lying in complete darkness, with an earthen wall directly in front of him. There were five round holes in the wall, like those dug by grave robbers, just big enough for a person to crawl through...

"This is..."

An Lan stuck her feet against the wall for a while, hesitating to crawl into any of the holes.

The viewers in the live chat were also momentarily stunned.

Holy crap! This slide actually leads underground?!

Wow! This is a five-choice question! Will I die instantly if I choose the wrong one?

【I don't know! I have absolutely no clue. I remember there are dungeons with killers that can reach rank B, this is only rank C, it shouldn't be too dangerous, right?】

【...】

"Thump..."

"Thump..."

"Thump..."

Just as the barrage of comments continued, in front of An Lan, from one of the five holes, came a heavy stomping and crashing sound.

"Thump thump thump—thump thump thump—"

The sound grew louder and closer!

An Lan could vaguely sense that it was inside the fourth cave entrance...

An Lan's heart inexplicably quickened, and behind her, a series of curses rang out.

"Damn it! Damn it! What the hell is this place?!"

"Why hasn't it reached its end yet?!"

"team leader!"

"Are we going to stay stuck in this slide forever?!"

"Captain! Look! An Lan!!!"

Kim Chang-pak and Kojima Geun-jang have already arrived!

An Lan knew it was getting late, so she simply ignored the fourth entrance and rushed towards the first entrance!

"Rustling sound—"

In the narrow passage, as soon as you move your body, countless specks of dust fall onto you.

The cave continued to be drilled deeper and deeper, and after a short while, another wall appeared at the end!

There are only four holes left on the wall this time.

"Damn it..."

"Isn't this a maze?"

"What's the reason behind these cave selections?!"

(Catch him! Catch him!)

(This thing can't move as fast as us in the tunnel!)

Kim Chang-pak's voice rang out again in the air.

An Lan knew very well that these two had probably "particleized" him, which was why they could catch up with him at high speed in the tunnel!

Forget about it! There's no point in trying to figure out what's going on here! Let's just go through the motions and risk our lives this time!

The collar around her neck bounced, and Mo Lengxin's voice came through. An Lan didn't reply, and once again chose to crawl into the first cave on her own!

"Rustling sound—"

With all her might, An Lan dug her way through the dirt and crawled inside.

"Rustling sound—"

Soil kept falling from the surroundings, and although my clothes should have been dry and smelled earthy, as I crawled, the soil I was digging in began to get damp, and a strange dark red tinged the surrounding darkness...

"Clatter..."

"Clatter..."

"Clatter..."

An Lan subconsciously glanced at her palm, and her hand... was already covered in blood and dirt!

Yes!

Blood...soil!!!

The mud walls were mixed with thick blood, turning them a brownish-red color. The blood not only made the walls damp and muddy, but the air in the dirt path ahead was also becoming increasingly thin and foul-smelling!

"..."

An Lan paused, momentarily stunned by her digging motion!

It wasn't the gore that caused him to have a physiological aversion.

Instead...

As I dug into the soil with my palms, I seemed to touch something.

It's round and bulging... hard... and looks like... a child's head?!

(Anlan! You son of a bitch! Run away again! Run away again!!!)

(Baka! You can't escape now!)

The sounds behind her were getting closer and closer. An Lan didn't care what she had touched anymore; she just kept crawling deeper into the tunnel!

"Damn it! Damn it!"

"Why hasn't the cave entrance appeared yet this time?!"

"Tick-tock..."

"Tick-tock..."

She didn't know how long she had been climbing when suddenly a few drops of liquid fell from her head, running down her scalp and onto her nose. An Lan sniffed it; it was a very strong... bloody smell!

(An Lan! Kneel down before me!!!)

Before An Lan could react, a cold, stern voice rang out!

An Lan's crawling motion suddenly became heavy, and she involuntarily lay prone inside the tunnel!

【gravity】!

It's Kojima Negai who's really putting in the effort!

but...

It was precisely because of this moment that An Lan finally had time to see clearly what she was in!

"Wei Wei Wei——"

The moment his face pressed against the soil, An Lan could actually feel the soil moving beneath the soft earth.

Yes!

The soil... is moving!

Blood gushed from the crimson soil before my eyes, and a tiny face slowly emerged from it—it was the face of a baby!

The baby's face was pressed so close to An Lan's, its bloodshot, distorted eyes almost millimeter apart, staring directly at An Lan. Its features were contorted, and its mouth suddenly gaped open: "Ah—ah—ah!!!!!"

It wasn't a child's crying or babbling.

Rather!

A suppressed scream!

"Ah—ah—ah!!!"

The face pressed hard against An Lan, as if trying to pop out of the ground!

It caressed Anlan, and Anlan's head, uncontrollably, was pulled into the soil. Eventually, her entire head and shoulders were already buried in the earth...

Bloody, earthy, suffocating!

These sensations overwhelmed An Lan, who remained motionless, her upper body already pulled into the ground...

(Ugh...)

(This guy...this guy seems to have been infected!)

(So... what about the captain? Should we still help him?)

(Damn it! Why do we care? He's definitely dead! Something's wrong here! Let's go! Let's go!!!)

In the reddish-brown dirt road, dust fell in a rustling sound. Around the road, distorted baby faces squeezed out, screaming in unison, "Ahhh!"

A sense of oppression and despair swept through the entire space!

(Let's go!!!)

Just as Kim Chang-pu was hysterically urging him on, there was a loud "boom"!

The entire dirt road collapsed instantly!

This place has become a blood-red mud pit...

"..."

An Lan couldn't hear what was happening behind him. Just as his consciousness was about to fade, the colorful clock face beneath his eyelids began to flash, and the surrounding scenery started to rush backward...

"Buzzing—"

He went from being half-buried in the ground to sliding backwards out of the blood-soaked path.

After sliding out of this blood-stained path, he backed up to the original earthen wall!

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

The strange crashing sounds from the dirt road echoed in my ears again...

An Lan returned to the timeline where she initially chose the five cave entrances.

Lying down again in front of the five cave entrances, An Lan was still somewhat hesitant.

[Oh? Pretty boy! How will you choose this time?]

[Last time we chose the first entrance, but there were four more entrances after we went in... So, was entrance number one the right choice or wrong?!]

The collar kept bouncing.

Even Mo Lengxin seemed somewhat confused about how to solve this problem.

An Lan remained silent, her gaze lingering on the five cave entrances.

He suddenly thought of something!

That is—how did that investigator 0515 manage to leave the [slide] within three hours?

You have to understand, even if the investigators in this world have some extraordinary power, no matter how awesome they are, An Lan doesn't believe that "0515" has the same time ability as her, and can try and fail indefinitely!

Assume!

Without the ability to tell time, how did "0515" manage to choose the right way out from so many caves?

Enter the first cave; there are four more caves behind it.

So, even if we enter the second cave, there's no guarantee we won't encounter other caves, right?

"0515"...

How exactly did they find the correct passage?

(Ugh! Ugh! Why is there no end here?!)

(Captain! Are we going to be stuck here forever?!)

(…)

Kim Chang-pu's voice rang out behind him again.

Hesitantly, An Lan actually crawled into the [Cave No. 4] where the strange noise was coming from!

【You! Are you crazy?!】

Mo Lengxin's voice came in extreme terror.

Even if you can try and fail infinitely, you can't play it like this!

"No, no, no..."

"I'm perfectly sober!"

"You should remember that investigator who sprinted through here in three hours, right?"

"Oh? So what?"

"How did he manage to choose the right cave when he was standing right here? Luck? By sheer chance? No, no, no—if we exclude the possibility that he lacked both time and ability, and also luck..."

"So, he probably chose the most distinctive cave...entered to investigate! Then he found some clues and came out all at once!"

【Huh? What kind of inference is this?】

"I don't know either..."

"But I have a feeling the investigators chose Cave 4! Because they needed to investigate the anomaly, they approached the strange Cave 4, only to end up leaving!"

【this--】

[That's certainly a line of thought, because investigators are bound to look for the unusual... so they would definitely go into Cave 4, but instead, they came out safely? Cave 4... it's clearly problematic, yet it's the exit?]

【drop--】

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"Yes or no!"

"You'll find out soon!"

"Rustling sound—"

Without saying a word, they crawled into the entrance of Cave No. 4.

The entrance to the cave was initially extremely narrow, barely wide enough for one person to pass through. After climbing out for more than ten meters, the passageway widened to about two meters, allowing An Lan to stand inside and squint at her surroundings!

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

If you look closely at the source of the sound, a huge cylinder is emerging from the soil on the left wall! This cylinder is jet black, with a spiral ring every ten centimeters or so.

I don't know why...

The moment An Lan saw this object, a creature immediately came to mind: an earthworm!

Yes!

The earthworm is black, with a cylindrical body, and spirals on its body at intervals!

And right now!

This earthworm is really exaggerated!

What appears on the wall seems to be only the tip of the iceberg!

Its body seemed to ignore the collision of volumes, swimming in the soil like it was swimming, sometimes leaping up and sometimes sinking up, and it was through this alternating movement that the "thump thump thump" collision sound was produced!

"this..."

"What the hell is that?!"

Looking at the figure on the wall that stretched as far as the eye could see, An Lan unconsciously took two steps back.

He didn't even dare to touch that thing!

Holy crap! A giant snake!

How long is that, damn it?

This tunnel must be at least a hundred meters long, right? This insect's two-meter-wide burrow only shows a corner of it... so it must be at least ten meters wide, and hundreds of meters long?!

Holy crap, a prehistoric giant insect!

【...】

Bullet comments!

It exploded in an instant!!!