Follow the signs.
Xu Yanxing entered the passage on the left.
He had not gone far when he realized he had entered a huge shaft. Spiral staircases wound around and around along the inner wall.
The bottom stretched into impenetrable darkness.
Yet looking upward, he could vaguely make out what seemed to be a small door at the top.
"The shaft below is very dangerous. The Research Institute seems to be raising something in there. Every so often, it sticks its head out."
He kept that young man's warning firmly in mind.
He climbed carefully up the openwork metal stairs.
He slowed his steps as much as possible.
He made sure not to make a sound.
The stairs were very sturdy and did not sway at all. However, the railing was very low, only about two feet high, and the stairs were narrow, barely wide enough for one person.
And with a Strange Entity possibly emerging from the bottom of the shaft at any moment,
Xu Yanxing could not help feeling tense.
"There seems to be water below." Every so often, he stopped to rest briefly, guarding against accidents caused by fatigue.
Without his supernatural power, he had to be cautious—extremely cautious.
Of course.
With his strength,
even if he had not lost his supernatural power, he still would have had to be careful.
At that moment,
hunched over on the stairs, he could not help looking down into the shaft.
First of all, he could confirm that it was extremely deep. The entire shaft seemed at least as large as a football field, yet when he looked down, his line of sight narrowed to something no bigger than a room by the time it reached the end.
Of course, the shaft had not actually become smaller.
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