Chapter 718 Journey into the Underground Palace (2)

• In the shadowy passage, Lewis Snow crept forward, fully geared up, the rope at his waist trailing behind him like a long tail.
• The floor was solid, the walls laid with blue bricks. The tunnel rose over three meters high and stretched more than five meters wide. Aside from the damp, fishy smell hanging in the air, it wasn’t much different from any other tunnel. But the farther he went, the narrower it became. The silence inside was eerie—like a giant beast with its mouth wide open, waiting to swallow him whole.
• Every hundred meters, Lewis hammered a steel spike into the stone ceiling, clipped on a pulley, and fed the rope at his waist through it.