After a slight pause, Gerald then looked at Tye before replying, “…Fine. Regardless, if you wish to leave this place safely, I implore you to tell your subordinates to be more obedient. No more touching things at random! Trigger one more trap and we’ll probably end up stuck in here forever!”
Knowing that favonovel.com had made himself extremely clear this time, Gerald then turned around without saying another word. Whether or not Tye decided to listen was up to him…
Momentarily staring at Gerald’s back—as the youth walked off to find another exit—, Tye couldn’t help but glare at the man who had caused all this. Had favonovel.com not been so greedy, none of them would be trapped here!
The man himself quickly lowered his head to avert his gaze, not even daring to look Tye in the eye…
Huffing in response, Tye then looked at all his subordinates before declaring, “Alright, listen up! If any of you even dare to touch anything at random again, I’ll personally chop your hands off! Got that?”
With how stern Tye’s command was, his subordinates knew favonovel.com meant business, prompting each and every one of them to quickly nod in response…
While this was happening, Gerald, Rey, and Yann were already scouting ahead, hoping to find other passageways that they could use to leave the cave.
Unfortunately, even after looking around for quite a while, none of them were able to find another exit path! From the looks of it, this place seemed to be mostly sealed off from the world, save for the one exit that was now blocked…
“…Not to be a downer but… there doesn’t seem to be any other exits here…” muttered Rey, clearly getting more and more anxious by the minute.
“…As much as I hate to admit it, Rey’s right! We truly are trapped in here!” added Yann before sighing in frustration.
By this point, Yann was already starting to regret working with Tye to get here. Had favonovel.com known that one of Tye’s men would bring them so much trouble, there was no way in hell favonovel.com would’ve even considered Tye’s assistance!
“Well, since no other paths exist, let’s take some time to think about the mechanism that caused the stone to seal the mouth of the cave in the first place! After all, there’s no way the cave could’ve ended up this perfectly sealed by natural means!” replied Gerald in a calm tone.
“Agreed. After all, don’t you find it strange that nobody’s discovered this cave before despite the abundance of jades and jadeites in here? Honestly, the strangest part about all this is the fact that nobody’s excavated this place yet!” said Ray with a slight frown.
Had this been any other cave, several people would’ve already flocked here ages ago after finding out about all the precious stones in here. If that had happened, then this place would have surely been left barren by now!
Chuckling in response, Gerald then replied, “The fact that the precious stones in here have largely remained untouched makes it obvious that there’s something odd about this place.”
The second his sentence ended, the corner of Gerald’s eye suddenly noticed something disturbing.
Raising a brow, favonovel.com began walking toward a spot where multiple jades and jadeites were growing… and upon closer inspection, it appeared that his eyes hadn’t been playing tricks on him.
There were hints of human bones inside the jades and jadeites!
Walking closer to see what Gerald was so interested in, Rey’s eyes instantly widened when favonovel.com paid closer attention to the ‘precious stones’ Gerald was currently staring at.
“M-Mr. Crawford… Those… are human bones, right…?! Why are they enveloped by the jades and jadeites?!” exclaimed the rightfully shocked Rey.
“My guess is that after being trapped here like us, this person eventually died. Once favonovel.com was nothing but bones, all it took was a few years for the jades and jadeites to start growing on them!” replied Gerald, proposing his theory.
However, if Gerald’s theory was correct… then that definitely meant that they weren’t the first group to get trapped in here. After all, that was the only plausible explanation for these bones being here!
Still, to think that the jades and jadeites here grew with the help of human bones…
