Things had gotten serious.
It wasn't that people lining up to commit suicide had never happened, but it absolutely should not have occurred in a perfectly normal Search and Rescue Team.
Especially after the sole survivor described what he had experienced.
The whole place erupted!
What had happened in the morning led to an investigation team being dispatched that afternoon.
It included experts in medicine, geology, biological viruses, the environment, and various other fields, all prepared to conduct a thorough examination of the cave.
Because in their view,
the most likely reason such a thing had happened was that some unknown hallucinogenic toxin existed inside the cave.
However,
after investigating for several days in a row, they found nothing.
And the strangest thing was,
even though so many people had witnessed the Search and Rescue Team jump into the cave, and the incident had even been captured on camera, they still failed to find the team's bodies at the bottom of the cave!
Still,
unlike the hasty search before, the Relevant Department now conducted an extremely meticulous examination of the cave floor.
They practically turned the ground upside down.
Even details that had gone undiscovered for years were uncovered.
First,
among the piles of bones covering the ground, the experts found several extremely unusual god statues.
These statues were only the size of a thumb.
They looked as though they were meant to be hung around one's neck or carried on one's person.
In addition,
they discovered that the pile of bones contained not only human bones, but also some snake bones and dried-up insects.
Centipedes, scorpions, toads...
But strangely,
all those insects were white, and they were enormous—at least three times larger than normal.
Yet,
aside from these new discoveries,
they still failed to find the bodies of those