"This is weird," the three of them felt something was amiss, but none spoke further; instead, they hurried to attend to their wounds.
Once they had dealt with their injuries and rested a while to regain their strength, they all walked over to the edge of the vast pit.
Jin Ziyuan glanced down into its depths, a pitch-black abyss seemingly without end.
"I'll go down and take a look. Wait here for me," he said.
Gu Youyou shook her head, "We won't know until we see for ourselves, I must go." Then, turning to Searcy, she added, "Maybe you should stay up here with the luggage, and we'll go down."
However, Searcy protested, "How can that be? It was so hard to climb up here; would it not be a waste if I didn't go down to have a look?"
The back-and-forth went on until none of them was willing to stay up top, ultimately deciding to descend together.