When 'God' Decides To Start Over
Chapter 89 - 81: Mine Shaft

Chapter 89: Chapter 81: Mine Shaft

"Where is it?" Li Xiu looked around, but saw no sign of the Trial Gate.

Sha Chu walked over to a small pit, glanced down, then turned to Li Xiu and said, "It’s right here. Once you go down, you’ll naturally see the Trial Gate. You go down first."

"Such a small hole, why not make it bigger?" Li Xiu leaned over to look down.

All he could see was a pitch-black abyss, with no idea how deep it was. Moreover, the opening was just big enough for one person to pass through.

"Do you think I don’t want to? The geological conditions here make it prone to collapse, not suitable for digging a large mine, and there’s no time for that. Be careful not to collapse the mine when you go down," Sha Chu urged Li Xiu to hurry down.

Li Xiu had no choice but to tie the rope from the scaffolding around himself. He originally wanted to jump down like that, but Sha Chu made him enter the mine headfirst, feet up.

Sha Chu slowly lowered the rope from above, frowning involuntarily. Li Xiu’s body was extraordinarily heavy, heavier than usual. If it were an ordinary Trial Taker, they probably couldn’t even pull Li Xiu down.

Li Xiu descended bit by bit, the darkness growing deeper and soon he couldn’t see anything, relying solely on touch.

The opening didn’t widen as it went down, still just enough for one person’s body to pass through. He kept descending, not sure how many meters, until he finally felt the bottom of the mine.

Looking up, the opening seemed smaller than a teacup. He felt around the sides and quickly found a horizontal opening, just big enough for one person to pass through.

He untied the rope from his body and gave it three hard tugs before feeling it rise upward.

Soon, Li Xiu saw the small patch of sky overhead was completely blocked, meaning Sha Chu had come down.

Li Xiu explored and crawled toward the horizontal passage, moving in to create space for Sha Chu coming down.

Suddenly, Li Xiu felt a soft sensation under his palm, and his whole body broke out in sweat. He quickly pulled his hand back and retreated to the vertical shaft position.

He had no idea what he had just touched—that soft, mushy feeling was definitely not soil or rock, more like some kind of soft creature.

It felt like a snake or frog, the slimy sensation making his skin crawl.

Boom!

Li Xiu felt a heavy object hit his body, causing him to groan in pain, then he felt something soft and fragrant pressing against him.

"Why are you still here? Didn’t I tell you to crawl in first before I came down?" Sha Chu’s voice sounded in his ear.

She had jumped straight down without using a rope.

Luckily, Li Xiu was sitting against the shaft wall. If his head had been forward a little more, and Sha Chu had landed on his head, it might have snapped his neck.

Sha Chu used the shaft wall to cushion, occasionally pressing her hands and feet against it to slow her descent, so she didn’t step on Li Xiu when she landed, and the impact wasn’t too strong. Otherwise, even if he wasn’t killed, his legs would surely be ruined.

Now the two of them were squeezed together in the narrow mine shaft, bodies pressed tightly together.

The shaft was tight for even one person to crawl through, and now two were cramped together—Li Xiu sitting and Sha Chu straddling his legs, their upper bodies pressed together.

"I seemed to touch something alive just now, so I backed out. If I’d known we were going to such a place, I should’ve brought a headlamp. Why come down in the dark?" Li Xiu said.

"There was no time to prepare for that. What could possibly be alive in here? Don’t scare yourself. Let me go and look first," Sha Chu said, twisting her body to move toward the horizontal passage.

In such a cramped space, their bodies touched as Sha Chu moved over him into the passage, with Li Xiu cooperating.

Quickly, Li Xiu realized why Sha Chu hadn’t brought a headlamp; her body once again emitted a glow he’d seen before.

The faint glow wasn’t very bright, but it illuminated the nearby area a bit, allowing them to see some things clearly.

"There’s nothing here," Sha Chu said, crawling slowly ahead, somewhat displeased.

"Strange, I definitely felt something soft just now," Li Xiu said, looking toward the general area he had explored previously, only to find nothing there.

There were no openings on the shaft wall, and surely whatever it was couldn’t have vanished into thin air?

"With such little courage, why try to be a Trial Taker? Why not stick to being a Magic Armor Master?" Sha Chu crawled further, urging Li Xiu to keep up.

Li Xiu followed, watching her glowing backside and chuckled, "I see why you wanted me to go down first."

"Shut up," Sha Chu coldly told Li Xiu to be quiet.

Li Xiu didn’t mind a little time to admire the beautiful view, but now wasn’t the right time, place, or person.

He crawled after Sha Chu, pondering as he moved: "Why was Sha Chu in such a hurry to get here? What’s special about this Trial Gate? She mentioned not enough time—what kind of timing issue is there? The Trial Gate can’t just up and leave, so what’s the rush?"