I work as a security guard at a cemetery, and I overhear the dead chatting about getting rich quick.

The white mist had just reached her ankles when the duct armor cried out.

drop.

The yellow indicator light on his chest lit up by one level.

Lin Ye glanced down and continued reading.

There was no wind in the well.

But spiritual energy is everywhere, seeping into the skin, penetrating the nasal cavity, ear canals, and pores—leaving no place untouched. After walking only a dozen meters, the seven basic meridians had already begun to swell.

Lin Ye slowed his breathing and began to circulate the "Return of All Spirits to the Origin" technique.

He gradually dismantled the spiritual energy blocking his chest and channeled it into his shoulders, back, arms, and waist.

It hurts, but at least it didn't get messy.

Zhou Heng's voice came through the headphones.

"Pressure 37."

Lin Ye didn't stop walking.

"That sounds alright."

"Don't be too happy yet, you've only just gone in."

The section of guardrail ahead was broken, with half of it stuck diagonally in the ground.

Lin Ye stepped over, his flashlight sweeping across the well wall.

New cracks were spewing white mist outwards, and the tracks of the rescue aircraft remained on the ground. The tracks stretched forward before being cut off by rubble.

The first maintenance layer collapsed.

Only a small portion of the platform that originally lay in the well shaft remained, and the steel frame leaned against the rock wall. Further ahead was a dark slope, and the light from a flashlight was quickly swallowed up.

Lin Ye squatted down and picked up a cracked toolbox.

The person is not here.

There were obvious drag marks on the gravel, which slid all the way down into the depths of the inclined shaft.

A countdown began playing in my headphones.

"Twenty seconds left," Zhou Heng said.

"I heard you."

Lin Ye didn't rush down.

He closed his eyes.

The sharp sound of spiritual energy gushing from the well wall, the crisp sound of rolling gravel, and the buzzing inside the guide armor all crowded into my ears.

Too noisy.

He listened patiently.

when.

It's very light.

Two seconds later, it happened again.

Someone was hitting the rock face with metal.

"The person is down there."

Zhou Heng paused for a moment.

"Three minutes are up, don't move."

Lin Ye knelt on one knee on the edge of the platform.

"I didn't move."

"You'd better be."

Data is being continuously transmitted back to the wellhead.

A few seconds later, Zhou Heng spoke again.

"The resistance level is 52, so the rise isn't particularly fast."

Lin Ye asked, "Can we continue walking?"

"You have two more minutes."

Cheng Fang's voice broke in.

"Stop when it's time, don't pretend you didn't hear me again."

"The signal is bad in the well."

"Then I'll pull you up here right now."

"I heard it, I heard it."

Lin Ye got up and walked down the sloping shaft.

The main safety rope followed behind, gradually lengthening.

When I had descended about 20 meters, I suddenly felt a tightness around my waist.

He turned around.

The steel cable got stuck in the crevice above, and several pieces of rock were pulled down with it.

The wellhead operator immediately said, "Don't pull, pull it back a little, and reroute the cable."

Lin Ye had just taken half a step back when the knocking below stopped.

Immediately afterwards, a heavy, suppressed gasp was heard.

There was also the sound of the seatbelt rubbing against the rocks.

Very close.

Someone is hanging.

"I can't wait."

Lin Ye untied the main cable, hooked it onto a maintenance bracket that wasn't completely deformed, and tugged it twice.

The support frame remained unchanged.

"Leave the Lord here; I'll go and be ready."

Cheng Fang asked, "What if it gets stuck again?"

"Then I won't go far."

"Linye."

"The person is down there."

There was a two-second silence in the headphones.

Cheng Fang only replied with one sentence: "Don't show off."

"Know."

Lin Ye continued down the slope.

The shaft is getting narrower and narrower.

The rock walls on both sides almost brushed against my shoulders, and the yellow light on my guide armor quickly went up to the third level. The seven paths felt like they were filled with hot sand; even lifting my hand felt heavy.

Zhou Heng's voice also tightened.

"I'm sixty-five."

"good."

"Every time you say it's okay, I want to turn off the winch."

"Then just bear with it."

How much further ahead is it?

"The positioning is drifting wildly, probably within 30 meters."

Lin Ye looked up and listened for a moment.

"It's not that far."

A scream suddenly came from ahead.

Lin Ye's expression changed, and he quickened his pace.

After rounding a rock face, the flashlight finally shone on people.

Four researchers were crammed onto a sloping rock platform, two of them bearing injuries. On the outermost side, a middle-aged man lay prone on the edge of the platform, his hands gripping a safety harness tightly.

A woman was hanging from the seatbelt.

Half of her body was dangling in the air, with nothing beneath her feet.

Only one retainer remains, and it's still slowly sliding outwards.

Lin Ye immediately shouted, "Stop pulling!"

The middle-aged man looked up, his face pale.

"If I don't pull her, she'll fall!"

"If you move any further out, you'll both fall."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the remaining fasteners snapped open.

The woman suddenly fell downwards.

The middle-aged man was also pulled forward.

Lin Ye lunged forward and grabbed the seatbelt.

His right arm sank down instantly.

The old wound felt like it had been ripped open, and the meridians were pulled along with it.

The guide armor screamed.

Zhou Heng's voice suddenly rose in pitch.

"Abnormal pressure on your right arm! Don't force it!"

"No deadlift!"

Lin Ye braced his knee against the edge of the rock platform, and with his other hand, he quickly untied the spare rope, circled around a protruding rock, and tied a slipknot.

"Up, reel in the rope!"

The wellhead winch was started immediately.

Tighten the spare cable little by little.

The woman stopped falling.

Lin Ye finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Slower!"

"We can't slow down now!" the operator shouted. "The rock platform is slippery too!"

The middle-aged man leaned over the woman and reached out to touch her shoulder.

"Higher, higher..."

"Don't go forward." Lin Ye glared at him. "You step back first."

"I've reached it."

"You step back!"

The middle-aged man gritted his teeth and took half a step back.

The winch continues to retrieve the contents.

The woman was finally pulled to the edge of the rock platform.

Several people worked together to drag her up.

She curled up and coughed as soon as she landed, her face turning a frightening purple.

Lin Ye touched the side of his neck.

There is still a pulse.

"Where's the oxygen?"

A researcher nearby quickly took off a spare mask and put it on the woman's face.

Lin Ye sat on the ground and shook his right hand.

It was shaking violently.

Zhou Heng's voice came through the headphones.

"How's your hand?"

"It still works."

"Stop talking nonsense, does it hurt?"

"pain."

"That makes more sense."

Lin Ye took a couple of breaths and raised his hand to count the number of people.

"All five are here."

"Two sustained minor injuries, and one suffered from oxygen deprivation. All are currently alive."

Cheng Fang quickly replied.

"Well done."

Lin Ye leaned against the rock wall, a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth.

"Come back first."

The spare cable was re-secured.

According to the plan, the woman suffering from oxygen deprivation was sent up first.

Just as the safety buckle was fastened and before he even left the ground, Lin Ye suddenly heard a series of soft cracking sounds coming from above.

He looked up sharply.

"stop!"

The winch stopped immediately.

The crack above is widening to both sides.

"Get against the wall!"

Lin Ye pushed the people around him against the rock wall.

The next second, large chunks of rock crashed down.

The entire inclined shaft shook.

Everyone clung tightly to the rock face, the sound of falling rocks crashing overhead filling the air. A few seconds later, the noise stopped.

The way we came from has been completely blocked.

The spare rope buried under the rubble was stretched a few times.

Snapped.

broken.

Suddenly, my headphones were filled with static.

"Lin Ye?"

"Can you hear me?"

"say!"

Lin Ye raised his hand and pressed the earphone.

"They're all alive."

Cheng Fang visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where's the passage?"

"That's all."

"rope?"

"It's gone too."

"Your luck..."

"Don't start cursing yet."

Lin Ye stood up and shone his flashlight around.

It's sealed off.

Forcing the dig will only cause a secondary collapse.

The lights on the deflector armor also changed from yellow to orange.

I can't stay here for long.

A researcher leaned against the rock wall, his voice strained.

"Is it possible to break through from the outside?"

Lin Ye didn't answer immediately.

He turned off the flashlight.

Darkness suddenly descended.

Someone's breathing became disordered.

Why did you turn off the lights?

"Don't make a sound."

"I……"

"Don't speak yet."

The surroundings gradually quieted down.

Lin Ye closed his eyes and peeled back the chaotic sounds layer by layer.

The gravel is still rolling.

The seatbelt is shaking.

The injured person was breathing heavily.

Deeper inside, there was a very faint sound of airflow.

The spiritual energy is also heading in that direction.

It's not a dead end.

He turned the flashlight back on and shone it on the side of the rock platform.

Behind a pile of rubble, a narrow crack was revealed.

It's only big enough for one person to bend over and pass through.

Lin Ye walked over and tested the wind with his hand.

It sucks in.

"There's still a road ahead."

The researcher was looking at the crack.

"This line isn't on the blueprints."

Lin Ye bent down and crawled inside.

"The one above is on the drawing."

He turned and glanced at the crowd.

"We can't leave now."

No one spoke anymore.

Several people helped the wounded man up and followed him inside.

The crack went all the way down.

After walking several dozen meters, the surrounding turbulent spiritual energy actually weakened. Fine, translucent crystals began to appear on the rock wall, gleaming faintly white under the flashlight.

"What is this?" someone asked.

Lin Ye glanced at it.

"have no idea."

"Can I touch it?"

What do you think?

The man silently withdrew his hand.

At the end, a solid rock wall blocked the way.

The wind stopped blowing.

Lin Ye didn't stop.

He raised his hand and pressed it against the rock face.

thump.

A soft sound came from inside.

Several people looked at him at the same time.

"Did you hear that?" the middle-aged man asked.

Lin Ye didn't answer.

A few seconds later, the sound rang out again.

thump.

It was exactly the same sound as the one that shook the entire B9 before.

This time, however, it was so close, right behind the palm of my hand.

Lin Ye stared at the rock wall in front of him and gently tapped it twice.

It was quiet inside for a moment.

Then he replied again.

thump.