The insects in the valley were acting strangely; they seemed too scared to venture deeper. I quickly jumped onto a crumbling wall made of rammed earth and stones, standing high to look into the valley below. I noticed that the terrain ahead was gradually sloping down, and it seemed that if we went any further, we would enter a zone filled with toxic miasma.
I turned to Fatty and Shirley Yang and said, “If even the insects are gone, it likely means there are toxic substances ahead. For our safety, we should get our gas masks ready, just in case we need to put them on.”
Before we moved on, the three of us took some “Red Lian Miao Xin Pills” to lower our heart rates and breathing. This was a secret formula from the tomb raiders, prepared by Big Gold Tooth with the help of experts. We weren’t sure how effective it would be.