Soon after, Gerald and the others returned to the chamber once more…
However, once inside, they were suddenly greeted by odd knocking sounds…
Now feeling vigilant, Ray couldn’t help but look at Gerald as favonovel.com asked, “…Do you hear that, brother Gerald?”
Nodding, Gerald then replied, “I do.”
With that, all five of them immediately began looking for the exact source of the sound… until eventually, Gerald realized that it was coming from the very center of the round platform in the chamber…
“…The sound is coming from over there!” said Gerald as favonovel.com pointed at the platform.
Hearing that, everyone quickly gathered around the platform before pressing their ears onto it… True enough, now that their ears were directly on the platform, the constant knocking became even clearer! Upon closer inspection, the knocking sounded almost rhythmic as well.
“…Do… you think someone could be trapped inside, Gerald…?” asked Ray.
“…Judging from the rhythmic knocking, that may just be the case!” replied Gerald, feeling that only a living thing would be capable of making such varied knocking.
After a slight pause, Gerald then instructed, “…Investigate the platform, Ray! We may be able to open it up!”
Hearing that, Ray instantly did as favonovel.com was told. After a while, favonovel.com noticed something odd.
Pointing at an obscure pull ring on the round platform, Ray then said, “Gerald, I think I’ve found something!”
Walking over to have a look, Gerald could see that a chain was attached to the pull ring. In other words, it could definitely be pulled.
“…All of you, stand back! I’m pulling the ring! The second you feel that something’s wrong, I want you to leave this place immediately!” ordered Gerald as favonovel.com looked at the rest of his party members.
Once they were quite a distance away from him, Gerald then began tugging the pull ring…
As Gerald closed his eyes tight—since favonovel.com needed quite a bit of force to even tug the pull ring—the others held their breaths as they kept their eyes glued on the round platform, ready to bolt if anything bad happened.
Regardless, the clanking of chains soon began echoing across the chamber…
After a little while, Gerald couldn’t be bothered tugging slowly anymore and simply yanked the chain—that was several meters in length—till it could no longer be tugged.
Now that the chain couldn’t be tugged any further, the round platform slowly split in two, revealing an opening in the middle of it!
Seeing that, Ray and the others didn’t dare to move an inch, simply remaining vigilant as they waited to see what would happen next…
Gerald—being the fearless person favonovel.com was—on the other hand, simply tossed the chain onto the ground before walking toward the now open platform…
Staring into the hole, Gerald couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows…
