Chapter 56: The Cave of the Living Thief
While walking down the cave passage, Shaan saw absolutely no signs of Chelsie’s presence in this place, even though he and Nalira had walked quite far from the cave entrance. Damn it. Where exactly is Chelsie?
"Nalira, do you see-"
"Psst." Nalira stopped her movement. Shaan... do you hear that? That voice... it sounds like someone calling for help."
"Huh? What voi—" Shaan’s face instantly went pale. He heard it too now. "My god... that voice—it sounds like Chelsie!"
"That’s right. Hurry up, we need to help her immediately."
They immediately accelerated their footsteps until they reached the end of the cave passage. A tense look appeared on Shaan’s face when he realized that right at the end of the cave passage, there was a wide room surrounded by thick walls of creeping vines.
"Shaan.... Let’s split up," Nalira suggested. "This room’s too large. If we stick together, it’ll take too long."
"Yes, I think what you say is true, Nalira." Shaan nodded his head. "It’ll be easier to cover more ground that way. But... are you sure—"
"I’ll go this way," Nalira said, already turning to head down one of the overgrown paths. "We’ll meet back here after we find Chelsie."
’Gosh, this woman is so weird.’ Shaan shook his head. "Never mind, instead of thinking about that. I’d better get going and start looking for Chelsie’s whereabouts," Shaan walked in the opposite direction of Nalira.
While walking through the cave, Shaan kept pointing his torch forward and saw many black-colored mushrooms with black spots appearing all around the place. The size of the mushrooms was also unusual, as they were twice the size of Shaan’s fist, which was not the typical size of most mushrooms Shaan knew.
’Damn, I’ve never seen a mushroom this big at all.’