Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1490 - 710 Found the Clothing Fragments_3

Chapter 1490: Chapter 710 Found the Clothing Fragments_3

Is this imprisonment or punishment?

Although the two monsters appeared incapable of causing lethal harm to humans, Douglas Cooper still went ahead and shot them dead.

He then dragged the monsters over and sliced open their bellies.

"Jesus, they eat their own kind!" Douglas exclaimed in surprise as he examined the contents of their stomachs.

Sean Knight glanced around and could clearly see some sparkling objects in the magma.

However, those things were not important at the moment. He turned and said,

"Let’s go, at the fork we passed before entering the cave. We might find clues there to locate Cheryl!"

Elijah Hastings, Lincoln Harrington, and Douglas Cooper all knew this matter couldn’t be delayed, each rapidly crawled into the stone cave heading towards the hall.

They returned on the original path, squeezing through the crevices to get back to the second fork in the road.

"Eat something along the way," said Sean. "Replenish some energy. Don’t hurry, I’ll lead..."

"Boss, let me go ahead!" Lincoln stepped forward. "You stay in the middle."

"I’ll go, I’ll go, we must keep the order!" Elijah took out a piece of compressed dried food, munching as he squeezed his way into the right cave first. "Let’s not fight over it!"

The four of them ate as they groped along, quickly making a new discovery.

Here, fresh blood was spilled on the ground.

Someone had been dismembered, some fragments of clothes, and parts of outdoor equipment were scattered around.

They all looked at Sean Knight.

"It’s not Cheryl," Sean shook his head. "A middle-aged white woman."

The group moved on in silence—the dangers of the wilderness were indeed omnipresent, especially in places that had rarely been explored.

In the darkness, strange noises began emanating from the cave ahead. Sean’s Sky Eye was always on, and he spotted three monsters about twenty meters ahead hanging upside-down from the ceiling, communicating with each other.

These three monsters bizarrely did not charge at them, which seemed quite unusual.

As Sean and his team quickly moved forward, the three monsters retreated and soon disappeared into the long cavern.

The cave continued downwards, spiraling, constantly changing direction. Sean guessed they had gone deep underground.

Finally, they arrived at an underground space.

This was it. The underground space wasn’t large, about the size of a basketball court, but it was very high, with the ceiling about twenty meters above the ground, going straight up and down.

Sean looked up and saw, about ten meters above the ground, a barely visible cave entrance.

If it weren’t for Sky Eye, even with a flashlight, it would have been difficult to spot that entrance in this setting.

There were faint bloodstains near the entrance, the smeared kind.

"They must have gone in there," Sean pointed upwards.

"I’ll climb up!" Lincoln acted immediately.

"Let me do it." Sean was much quicker, using the not-so-obvious protrusions on the rock wall, he easily climbed up like a gecko. A minute later, he reached the entrance and then lowered a rope to hoist Elijah and the others up.

The entrance wasn’t deep, just four or five meters. The four men walked through the passageway and emerged into a massive space reminiscent of an underground city.

Occasionally, pillars like load-bearing columns supported the space above and below, but the vast connected spaces gave Sean the illusion of entering a city at the heart of the earth.

The eerie noise resounded again. Sean looked in the direction of the sound.

Thirty meters above them in the cave ceiling, seven monsters were hanging upside down looking at them—fresh blood traces at the corners of their mouths, their pale white eyes gazing at Sean and his team like they were looking at delicious food.

Greed.

Yet, there was also caution. They did not pounce.

Without hesitation, Sean walked forward, pulling out a high-powered flashlight—the kind that illuminates a wide area.

"That direction, seven monsters. I’ll shine the light, and when you spot them, start shooting!"

Sean walked a few steps forward and noticed one of the monsters seemed scared and tried to flee. He instantly turned on the flashlight!

The entire underground space suddenly lit up like daytime!

Screams erupted instantly!

Those monsters, they can’t stand bright light!

While they covered their eyes, Elijah and the others had already made out their targets and began to shoot, "bang, bang, bang, bang!"

In this moment of life and death, no one held back.

Though these monsters seemed to have a much stronger vitality than ordinary people, under the care of four pistols and dozens of bullets, they eventually dropped one by one to the ground, twitching, finally falling silent.

Gunshots echoed in the underground space, the smell of gunpowder slowly dissipating, Sean and his team did not approach the monsters, instead swapping magazines in pairs.

It’s common to encounter unexpected failures in dangerous places; no one dared to be careless.

After reloading their bullets, Douglas approached and cut open the bellies of these monsters.

"They’ve eaten human flesh."

"It’s not Cheryl," Sean confirmed again.

Douglas also breathed a sigh of relief; he did not wish to find that the bloody, mangled flesh he pulled out of the monsters’ stomachs belonged to Cheryl, the lovely princess.

"Let’s keep moving."

The underground space was quite large, but with the help of Sky Eye, Sean could still see that this space was slightly rectangular, and they were facing the longer direction.

They could vaguely see the boundaries on both sides. It was unclear whether it was the gunshots or the monsters’ dying screams, but as they walked nearly a hundred meters, they did not encounter any other monsters.

Right up to the end of this underground space, Sean suddenly noticed some things scattered on the ground.

He was startled and stopped.

"Boss, what’s wrong?" Elijah, sensing something amiss, asked.

"Up ahead... clothes." Sean pointed ahead, next to a column, where fragments of clothes were scattered.

"Cheryl’s clothes?" Lincoln, the calmest at the moment, immediately asked,

"I’ll go check!"

Pulling out his flashlight, Lincoln discovered the clothing fragments.

Indeed they were women’s clothes, but they seemed to have no bloodstains.

"These clothes..." Lincoln turned to look at Sean, "Boss, they’re torn up, but there’s no blood."

However, in Sean’s Sky Eye, there were faint bloodstains near the clothes.

Cheryl’s!