The long tunnel exploration continued for some time.
The team from Fiery Flame Land, lacking the Prophet Psychic and Silver Core Chips to record the map, had to use various detection instruments to examine the different forks in the tunnel, deploying methods like sonar and water dye tracing to probe and mark their route. The process was inefficient and exceedingly cumbersome.
The most terrifying aspect was that many tunnels, which seemed to lead to distant places, wound back to the main tunnel after a series of twists and turns—a giant 'U' shaped structure that appeared frequently, significantly dampening their spirits.
After a while, even the Spiritual Machine Church's monk team began to whisper amongst themselves, and the normally patient captain who could lie in wait in the jungle for days without budging grew anxious.
——This exploration was purely accidental, not a planned event.
