"Everything went smoothly."
"No evil spirits have been found for now."
Out at sea.
The subordinate continued relaying exploration updates and reporting them to Yang Ling aboard the flagship. Jiang Qiao, who was listening in, was somewhat curious. "This is still beneath the Nether Sea, and the ruins have been submerged for so long."
"How could there be no evil spirits?"
"Wasn't there a huge disturbance from the elevator shaft? It was very likely that someone died."
There were four entrances.
In the end, they chose the window as their point of entry.
For one thing, it was unusual enough.
The other three directions all had doors. Only this entrance was a window.
Moreover.
There was no room beyond the window.
There was a corridor.
For another, something had happened inside.
The people remaining in the corridor had clearly heard a roar coming from the elevator shaft and seen the floor number on the elevator indicator suddenly jump to the Negative Ninety-ninth Floor.
Yet.
After mobilizing personnel to enter, they discovered that everything in the elevator shaft was normal.
Of course.
To say it was normal...
It actually wasn't entirely normal.
After the first batch of personnel went down, they had sent someone back up midway to report. Based on the information they provided, this exploration team had collected the black, greasy layer inside the elevator shaft.
After analysis, it turned out to be human fat that had been partially carbonized.
It was quite strange.
An elevator wasn't an incinerator.
How had something like that gotten stuck to the shaft walls?
Besides that.
This exploration had also involved climbing upward along the elevator cable. They reached the end after roughly fifty meters, finding no exit leading out of the shaft along the way, nor any trace of an elevator car.