Li Pan followed Kailian, first descending into the Water Dao, then through a secret passage, and next onto an underground railway, delving deeper into the earth's belly.
It was as if they were explorers in a party, venturing into an underground palace hiding some evil dragon and Demon King.
Especially when they followed the abandoned railway, which had been constructed with a huge investment by Takamanohara to withstand fleet bombings during the war, only to be left unfinished for various reasons, forming a revenue-generating underground air-raid shelter.
Gazing at those magnificent, sprawling manmade caverns, with unfinished buildings hanging from the rock dome like stalactites, the sense of almost teleporting into the Otherworld became increasingly irresistible.
It was as if, the Takamanohara of not so long ago was a completely different civilization.