The Chinese construction team excavating Landon Hawkwell's treasure vault had never expected Ye Tong and the others to be so efficient. They had barely arrived, yet they had already traded barbs with the members of the Animal Protection Organization twice and stirred up trouble.
Not only had the Animal Protection Organization been completely unable to do anything about them, but the group had also swaggered away unscathed. It was enough to leave plenty of people stunned.
Next, Ye Tong asked to see the snake pit blocking access to the vault. The construction team naturally agreed and quickly made arrangements.
Landon Hawkwell's treasure was hidden halfway up a hillside, taking advantage of a natural underground cavern. It had originally been a treasure store for a local indigenous tribe, later remodeled with modern facilities. Otherwise, if the entire project had relied on local construction from start to finish, it might have taken hundreds of years to build a vault like this, given the pace of work in Africa.
Explosives had been used to blast open the cavern, exposing its entrance completely. It had originally measured only two or three meters across and high, but now it had been widened to five or six meters. Without the lighting installed inside, all they would have seen was a pitch-black, bottomless hole of unknown depth.
The workers leading Ye Tong and the others wore protective suits that covered them from head to toe. Snake fangs couldn't pierce the thick fabric, and their breathing filters were connected to oxygen tanks in case of an emergency.
They had no choice. There were too many snakes in the pit, of every size and species. They crawled all over the place, and no one knew when one might slither out of some corner and climb onto them. If they