Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 625 - 426: Entrance to the Underground World?

What exactly is down here, they’ve been wanting to know for a long time.

Only by truly solving the underground problem can their Transmission Array be considered a safe facility.

Otherwise, each use is nerve-racking, which is really very uncomfortable.

The group arrived in front of the iron door.

Keke had already run up to the iron door and used her little paws to tug at it a few times.

"Let me open it."

Xu Xin lifted Keke onto his shoulder, then crouched down and tentatively grasped the handle of the iron door.

The handle remained very cold, but it was much better than before.

He pulled up on the handle with force.

In the end, it didn’t budge.

"Hmm?" He frowned and increased his strength.

The cold iron door only swayed slightly but still couldn’t be pulled open.

Can’t pull it open?

No, that’s not right.

This iron door should already be open.

Because this time, unlike the last, there was no beep indicating the iron door was locked, nor the bone-chilling cold that froze one’s hand directly.

Last time, that beep also mentioned that the iron door would open once the array was unlocked.

"Can’t open it?" Wen Guixin was a bit puzzled, "Is this door locked?"

"You can’t open it either?" Ji Chaoyang slightly frowned, "I tried once before and couldn’t pull it open."

"It shouldn’t be locked." Xu Xin stood up and looked at the red mark on his palm caused by exerting too much force, "Maybe it’s just too heavy; I can’t pull it open with my strength."

"Too heavy? Let me try!" Wang Lei immediately stepped forward, rubbing his hands together.

Xu Xin nodded and made room for him.

Wang Lei immediately squatted down, grasped the handle of the iron door with both hands, took a deep breath, and then pulled upward with force!

Then, to everyone’s surprise, the seemingly massively heavy iron door, in his hands, lifted and flipped open with ease, like it weighed nothing, turning to the side.

"Whoa!" Wang Lei used so much force that he lost his balance and fell backward onto the ground.

"Bang!"

The iron door slammed heavily to the ground on the other side, raising a cloud of dust!

"Whee!" Keke immediately jumped down from Xu Xin’s shoulder, ran to the already opened iron door, and looked down.

"It’s not that heavy." Wang Lei stood up from the ground, brushed the dust off his butt, and said.

Indeed, in his hands, this iron door was like a plastic one.

And rightly so, as he could lift five hundred times his own weight.

Perhaps this iron door weighed hundreds of times more, making it impossible for Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang to pull open.

But for Wang Lei, this weight was nothing at all.

"Oh! You’re really strong!" Wen Guixin clapped her hands standing behind the group.

All five of them were gathered at this underground entrance; she didn’t dare to get close and could only stand behind them.

Meanwhile, Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang had already started standing at the edge of the opened iron door, observing inside.

In fact, both of them initially prepared themselves for the possibility of blood-red mist emerging from inside.

After all, the entrance was ominously like the entrance to the underground world.

The same iron door, the same rust, the same doorknob.

However, after lifting it open, there was no Red Mist, allowing them both to breathe a slight sigh of relief.

But after taking a quick look inside, their hearts were gripped with tension again.

Inside the iron door was a square-shaped iron passage only wide enough for one person to go up or down.

On one side of the passage wall, an iron ladder was fixed.

Whether it was the iron walls or the iron ladder, they were covered in dark red rust, exuding a rusty, metallic smell.

Looking straight down, you couldn’t see the end at all.

It was pitch black.

Xu Xin was all too familiar with such a passage.

Wasn’t this passage just like the one leading to the underground world, including where they discovered the golden treasure chest?!

This...

"Whee...?! Whee!" Standing by the passage and tilting her little head, Keke suddenly thought of something. With a start, she quickly climbed up Xu Xin’s body onto his shoulder.

Back then, she followed Xu Xin through this kind of passage and naturally recognized it.

At that time, underground, Keke was quite terrified of those gigantic underground monsters, and now recalling those scenes, she was naturally a bit scared again.

Xu Xin patted her little head, comforted her a bit, and then turned to Ji Chaoyang: "In your foresight, was it going down a staircase?"

He was subconsciously influenced by Ji Chaoyang’s visions into thinking there were stairs beneath the iron door.

Ji Chaoyang also looked grave: "In my prophecy, I was indeed going down stairs, and they were spiral stairs, but... at the start of the prophecy, I was already on the spiral staircase. As for how I got to that spiral stairway place, I’m not clear."

Unexpectedly, underneath the iron door, there was indeed such a passage.

Xu Xin solemnly gazed downward.

"What’s up?" The others leaned over, peering inside.

"It’s just a traversable passage; why so tense?" Wen Guixin appeared unconcerned.

"Well, you can’t be so sure," Zhao Xiaochuan spoke up, "because while climbing such passages, if there are any trap mechanisms, there’s virtually no room for evasion."

Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang exchanged glances, wanting to say something, but hesitated.

Could they share this information with them?