I felt my sense of smell beginning to deteriorate as well. I thought to myself, what fishy stench? I translated Fatty’s concerns to Jennifer, who said, “I smelled it a while ago. I thought something was wrong with my nose, but it turns out Fatty also noticed.”

I thought, the Stone City has been abandoned for so long, everything should have returned to dust. Where is this fishy smell coming from?

Despite my doubts, we didn’t stop moving forward.

After walking for another half hour, we finally reached the end of the tunnel.

At the end of the tunnel, we found a stone door made of bricks and stones, connecting to the tunnel. The materials and design of the stone door were clearly different from the underground tunnel.

I recalled the direction the tunnel extended, which seemed to be towards the pyramid. So, I said to the two of them, “This… this is the entrance to the pyramid.”

It turned out that this underground tunnel was a passage connecting the city to the pyramid.

Perhaps the answer lies inside the pyramid. Fatty didn’t hesitate and walked through the stone door.

The passage inside the pyramid was a steep slope at a 45-degree angle downward. It was very steep, and you could easily roll down if you weren’t careful. Fatty walked while grabbing the rock on the tunnel wall to avoid rolling down the slope.

We cautiously explored downwards, not knowing where the tunnel led.

After passing the steep slope, the tunnel continued to extend. Fatty led us to continue deeper. After the steep slope, there was a gentle slope, but the direction of travel was still downwards.

The pyramid we saw on the submarine was only part of it above the water. There was actually a part underwater.

There was still no lighting inside the pyramid, and Fatty’s light stick was gradually dimming.

We finally arrived in a very flat space, which seemed to be the end of the tunnel.

“There’s wind,” Fatty suddenly stopped.

I felt it too. Not only was there wind, but I also smelled a fishy stench mixed in the wind.

I noticed a pile of broken eggshells that had fossilized in the corner of the space. Most of the eggshell fragments had weathered into dust. From the appearance of the eggshell fossils, a complete egg was about the size of a human head.

Could it be an ostrich egg? But how could there be ostrich eggs here?

I bent down and sifted through the eggshell fragments, trying to find clues about the type of egg.

After searching for a while, I found a weathered white bone in the gaps between the eggshells—damn, it was a snake bone! The snake’s skull was as big as an egg, and its vertebrae were half a meter long.

A newly hatched snake was actually half a meter long. In my memory, even python eggs were only the size of a palm. What species of snake was this?

I quickly called out to Fatty to leave: “Fatty! Something’s wrong here. We’d better leave quickly.”

After saying that, I looked at Fatty. Fatty was making an embarrassed shushing gesture, but it was too late, the words had already been spoken.

Just then, the light stick in Fatty’s hand went out.

Fatty tremblingly lit a second light stick. With my blurry vision, I saw that Fatty’s light stick seemed to be pointing at a wall. I thought, could we have reached a dead end?

I walked over to take a look—damn, this wasn’t a wall, it was the head of a giant snake!

The snake’s head was the same size as the tunnel space, making us look particularly small in front of it.

The fishy wind just now was being exhaled from the snake’s nostrils.

It was still alive!

Suddenly, the snake’s eyes opened. The light emitted by the light stick was reflected by those terrifying black eyeballs. The snake’s gaze fell on the three of us.

"Run!"

Fatty shouted, quickly pulling me and Rou Yi and running towards the tunnel behind us.

Perhaps because it had just woken up from hibernation, the snake’s body was not yet adapted and its movements were relatively slow, giving us a chance to escape.

The gentle slope in the tunnel could still be climbed quickly, but the steep slope above was particularly difficult to climb. No matter what, we couldn’t climb fast, especially Fatty. He was already struggling enough carrying three large oxygen tanks. Climbing such a steep slope, even using both hands and feet, it was difficult to increase speed.

My legs and feet were not flexible, so I couldn’t pick up speed either. Seeing that the snake was about to catch up, Fatty had an idea. He opened the valve of an oxygen tank and threw it towards the snake’s head. Then, he lit a bundle of light sticks at the same time and threw them as well.

The oxygen tank bounced when it hit the snake’s head. The sprayed oxygen happened to encounter the burning light sticks. When the light sticks encountered sufficient oxygen, there was a violent burst of combustion, startling the snake and causing it to shrink back.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, we quickly climbed up. After Fatty unloaded an oxygen tank, his speed increased a lot. He pulled and dragged me upwards. I felt like my bones were about to fall apart.

Raising a giant snake in a pyramid was a scene I had never seen before in my life. We scrambled and crawled out of the pyramid, and returned along the original route of the underground tunnel.

Before long, we heard a low roar behind us, and the fishy stench became stronger and stronger. After realizing that it had been tricked, the snake angrily chased after us...

The giant snake charged around in the narrow underground tunnel, breaking rocks and digging earth, and let out bursts of roars. The entire underground tunnel shook, and dust and gravel kept falling from above our heads, making it feel like the tunnel could collapse at any time.

We ran all the way, and the snake chased all the way. The snake regarded rocks and soil as nothing, and its thick and hard scales made it easy to break through rocks and clear the way.

As we ran, we suddenly felt the fishy stench and roar behind us disappear. Could it be that the snake wasn’t chasing us anymore?

There was no reason not to chase when its prey was right in front of it. Fatty didn’t hesitate and continued to lead us forward.

Suddenly, we felt vibrations under our feet, and a rumbling sound came from underground.

“Not good, the snake is going to drill up from underground!” Fatty said in panic.

We ran forward desperately. Fatty unloaded another oxygen tank to free up space, and carried me on his back. I hung on Fatty’s body and was carried by him as he ran wildly.

Suddenly, the giant snake drilled out of the ground in front of us, and tens of meters of the tunnel floor collapsed, and we fell into the collapsed crevice...

It turned out that the tunnel below was not solid rock and soil, but there was another tunnel.

This tunnel had been artificially filled and sealed before. The snake’s drill just now happened to destroy the sealed layer.

Fatty held me tightly, and Jennifer hugged Fatty tightly. The three of us fell into the tunnel below the crevice.

Fortunately, the tunnel below was not too steep, but a relatively gentle slope. Fatty, carrying me and Jennifer, quickly adjusted our positions, and the three of us slid down from above like a slide.

Although we didn’t know where the tunnel below led, we were more willing to take the risk than face the threat of the giant snake above.

After sliding for about a hundred meters, we came out of the exit at the other end of the tunnel and arrived in a closed space, which seemed to be an artificial underground fortress.

Unlike the dark underground tunnel, there was light in the underground fortress.

The entire underground fortress was only the size of a badminton court, but it was surrounded by many giant stones weighing several tons, as if to deliberately seal something.

Fatty suddenly discovered something. He trembled and pointed to something in the center of the fortress and said, “Young… Young Master, this… this is…”

I squinted my eyes to see clearly, but I couldn’t see clearly. Behind me, there was a “hiss~ hiss~ hiss~” sound. The giant snake had caught up...