That night.
Grandmaster called me to the Steward's Office.
Earlier, he had asked someone to make another trip to Zhang Family Village to find the cave and verify what I had said.
Now word had come back.
"The person I sent did find the cave you mentioned."
Grandmaster said, "But there were none of the murals you described, no sound of a tiger roaring, and certainly no coffin or person who looked exactly like you."
His words left me momentarily stunned.
Even if the coffin and the person who looked exactly like me did not exist.
Surely the murals couldn't be nonexistent too!
Especially the tiger's roar. I wasn't the only one who had heard it. Zhang Rong and the others had heard it too.
"Grandmaster, could the person you sent have found the wrong cave?" I asked doubtfully.
Grandmaster shook his head. "No. He followed the map you gave me and found his way into that cave. Besides, it was the only cave in the area."
"There really was nothing inside. The villagers back then might have dug it out to store food or other things. It was actually just an ordinary cave."
"But how do you explain the things I saw?" I argued.
Grandmaster smiled. "The person I sent went through the cave. It has an end-a rock wall in the mountain. It wasn't 'endless' as you described."
"However, he did discover a few things inside. The deeper he went, the thinner the air became. With such a large entrance, the air shouldn't have been thin even if it wasn't circulating."
"Later, he discovered that, just as you said, there were some anomalies in the magnetic field inside, which restricted the airflow in the latter half of the passage. You should know that magnetic fields affect human brain