This is the place we'll use to rest tonight, and we must ensure it's safe. Qinghan and Mike checked the cave carefully once more.
Inside the cave, they found a patch of soft sand. When they probed with a shovel, the shovel's handle was all that was left, and it still hadn't reached the bottom.
Qinghan switched to another shovel, which could be extended by joining handles. Probing down over one meter deep, he pulled it back up, and the shovel head was covered with a clump of mud.
He used this shovel to probe several places, measuring that the mud pit beneath the sand was only as large as a drain's opening, with a 1.8-meter thick sand layer in between the mud pit and the surface.
If the Stone Children frequently moved around inside this cave, there would be traces of their crawling on the sand, but when we checked before coming in, there were no such traces.
Wang Le whispered to Huang Zaijiang, wondering if the stories they told had summoned it.
