"This should be the spot. It's been sealed up, but you can still see the difference in the color of the bricks."
The wasteland wasn't the point. In fact, Xia Xu and the other two stopped at the concrete slope.
There were shops on either side of the slope, facing the shops opposite and together forming the alley they had just passed through.
Because this slope led down toward the wasteland, it naturally created a difference in elevation on either side. After just a short distance downhill, the concrete floors of the shops to their left and right were already above an ordinary person's chest.
After only a few steps down, a patch distinctly different in color from its surroundings became clearly visible in the brick wall on the right. It was shaped just like an inverted-U doorway, roughly large enough for a teenager or an adult to stoop and pass through.
"There's a secret passage in there."
The voice that suddenly cut in startled Pan Long and He Qing. Even Xia Xu instinctively tensed his arm muscles.
Fortunately, he quickly realized that the voice was actually a young boy's. When he turned, sure enough, he saw a boy on a bicycle, about middle-school age.
What the boy had just said, however, gave them something to think about.
Although this "secret base" where Pan Yuanhang had hidden things wasn't particularly well concealed, surely not everyone knew about it?
"How do you know there's a secret passage in there?"
Taking the approach of asking whenever he didn't know something, Xia Xu casually began fishing for information.
"My friends and I went in there to play. It used to be an open hole. Someone only blocked it up sometime last year."
The boy spoke proudly.
Having explored a real secret passage at