Book 1: Chapter 43

Book 1: Chapter 43

Fatty! I shouted.

When there was no reply, I felt my heart drop and couldnt help thinking, hes done for. This guys been eating and drinking nonstop over the past few years, and has long lost awareness of his waistline. His lower body mustve been squished to minced meat. I tried to look back, but the small hole was so narrow that I didn't even have room to. I had no choice but to call to Poker-face, "Little Brother, did Fatty get in?"

Fatty finally shouted back at this time, "What kind of fucking stone is this? Shit, it hurts like a bitch!"

His voice seemed somewhat distorted because of the narrow space. When I asked him what happened, he said, "I'm fine. My tooth broke."

How the hell did you break your tooth? I asked him.

I came in backwards and it smacked me in the face, Fatty said. This mechanism is really ruthless to have such settings.

Without this small hole, the three of us wouldve really been inseparable. We wouldve been flattened into pancakes and rotted here together.

"Do you think this is all a trap?" He asked me. "This mechanism forced us to come in here."

I thought it unlikely since I couldnt figure what the motive would be.

I flicked my lighter on and illuminated the dark hole in front of me. At this time, there was no other choice but to go forward, so I said to Fatty, "Do you have a weapon I can use to defend myself in this kind of environment? I want to crawl forward."

If something crawled out from the opposite side, I would definitely suffer.

"You can take the flare gun, Fatty said. I loaded it earlier."

Seven yin.

Yin was an old unit of measurement, which was equivalent to about two hundred meters (1). So, the seven yin here was a distance of about fourteen hundred meters.

This was a distance marker.

"Mr. Nave, why arent you crawling? My urine reeks."

"Those words on the stone tablet outside said that there would be an accident when you went in more than a hundred meters, right?"

"Yes."

"How many meters did we climb just now?"

It was about forty meters, which was definitely short of the seven yin this marker was indicating. That meant that this unit of measurement was reversed. We were climbing from seven yin to one yin.

There must be something at one yin, I said to myself. And its more than fourteen hundred meters away from us.

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TN Notes:

(1) So, Im no expert, but my dictionary (and google-sensei) says yn () is equal to 10 zhng (), which is one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters. Most definitely not 200 meters