The door leads to a small room, and a trap door at the end of the room, lanterns hang on the room walls. Behind that trap door, there a lantern light leaking through the crack between the door panels. Crown Prince Lam light 3 lanterns with a simple spell and open the trap door with the 2 guards. Beneath the door is a stone staircase, leading deep down to the ground about 4 – 5 lias, Crown Prince Lam still can see the faint lantern light and the shadow of that man at the base of the staircases. They press down the staircases to and narrow tuner. The tuner slightly slopes downward held up by wooden beams every 3 – 4 lias, it wider than the previous narrow path but still only have enough space for one person to maneuver.
As of now they had lost sight of that man, his lantern light has swallowed by the thick darkness of the tuner. Striding through the darkness, Crown Prince Lam do not sure which direction this tuner leads, but he guesses, maybe it run opposite to the direction from when he following the man. One of the guards concerning, but overwhelming with curious Crown Prince Lam still step forward. After 5 – 10 minutes or so, the tuner opens to a big cave, they cannot estimate how big that cave is, far from where they stand, there are wooden lantern poles arranged into a semicircle with a few lit lanterns on top of them. The lanterns shine punily, doing their best to withheld against the surround thick darkness of the cave, they light up a stone pedestal in the middle of the columns semicircle. With the two guards, Crown Prince Lam approaching the pedestal, this place looks like some kind of altar. About a few steps away from the pedestal is a small pond with tree roots, that 5 – 6 time bigger than a house's column, haft submerge in the water. Crown prince guesses these roots must belong to the gian cerpidar tree he saw on the surface.
When they came near the pond Crown Prince Lam realized he was wrong. The pond containing no water, but some kind of strange, stove's ash greyish colour and viscous liquid, right the moment he set eyes on that pond of liquid, once again, a sense of dread erupting inside Crown Prince Lam's mind. A brocade Cloak Guard come near the pond's edge and held his lantern forward, his lantern light run across the pond's surface to a big root near the middle of the pond and stumped all three of them. The lantern light lit up a shrinkage dry corpse, half submerge in the greyish liquid and enveloped by a web of smaller roots branched from that big root. Few seconds late, they realized that the corpse is wearing the yellow cloak of the Brocade Cloak Guard, not only that, scattered in the pond there were many corpses in the same condition, some dressed as a Brocade Cloak Guard, some dressed like an Imperial official. Furthermore, right at the middle of the pond, there is something look like a stone sarcophagus overgrowth with tree roots. The sarcophagus is about 1lia7 in length, seem to have carving with strange symbol, but most has worn out through time and Crown Prince Lam cannot make clear what are they look like.
The trio still overwhelming by surprise, and unknown to them, from the darkness of the cave, lantern lights appeared and silently creeping toward them.