It was clear that Jiang Qiao had poured his heart and soul into searching for his wife. His store of information was far richer than Jiang Yue had imagined.
Sure enough, after they crossed a difficult stretch of rocky terrain, a deep, gloomy passage appeared before the three of them. It looked entirely natural, without the slightest trace of human excavation. But a strange passage like this, deep beneath the earth, clearly defied common sense.
Still, ever since the Era of Strangeness began, the world's old order and understanding had been overturned time and again. A deep passage appearing here didn't seem entirely impossible to accept.
"This passage shows no sign of having been dug out. But I suspect it wasn't here from the start. The Underground Race must have carved it out by brute force when they entered the underground world in the previous era. It's just that the two eras are so far apart, and the passage has been shaped by countless years, that it looks natural now, without a trace of man-made excavation."
Jiang Qiao had reached his own conclusion about the passage.
San Gou didn't care how the passage had come to be. Instead, he asked with interest, "Second Uncle, does this passage lead straight to the Underground Race's territory? Just how big is their lair? And Second Aunt disappeared in the Central South Military Region. Can we really find her in the Western Frontier Military Region?"
San Gou hadn't read much, but his concern was clearly reasonable.
"I wanted to find a passage from the Central South Military Region too," Jiang Qiao said. "But unless the Underground Race opens one of their passages themselves, we have almost no chance of finding one and getting through it. If we hadn't destroyed the Bizarre Tree in the