Xiao Dan hurriedly called Ah Kun over to pack the blankets and a few necessities from the mat into their backpacks, then folded up the folding table in the corner.
Only then did she follow Xu Feng.
The passages inside the mine were far more complicated than Xu Feng had expected.
This secret route incorporated both naturally eroded tunnels and man-made mine shafts, crisscrossing one another with countless forks.
At every junction, Tuhe turned into one passage without the slightest hesitation. He had clearly walked this route countless times.
As he walked, he tapped the stone walls lightly with his cane. Different walls produced dull knocks of different pitches, each distinctly audible in the quiet tunnels.
"These forks were made deliberately," Xiao Dan explained softly from behind Xu Feng. "The Sun Church has operated on Far Mining Star for centuries, connecting all the underground mine tunnels in this eastern mountain range.
"They also deliberately dug plenty of false branches and dead ends. Even if a Dragonfly Reconnaissance Craft detects cavities underground, anyone sent down here will get hopelessly lost."
Xu Feng said nothing, merely spreading his psychic power silently outward.
His psychic power extended along the tunnel walls, clearly sensing the course and endpoint of every branch.
At least half the branches were false, with nothing at their ends but smooth stone walls.
Several others led to deeper underground caverns, where a few makeshift storerooms held stockpiles of food, water, and medicine.
These arrangements would pose a challenge to ordinary martial artists, perhaps even Moon Gods.
But for a Psychic Master, finding someone here was hardly troublesome.
The group walked through the pitch-black underground passages for nearly an hour before an enormous natural cavern finally appeared ahead.
Its vaulted ceiling rose dozens of meters overhead, and they could faintly make