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Reot to her knees and looked up the shaft at hiapsThere’s nothing here, Sam”

Remi took another two , then pushed the block back into place Sam reached down and lifted her up She pursed her lips and puffed a strand of hair from her eyebrow “I was afraid of that Karl Müller found three bottles here So to find the rest”

Sam nodded “Whatever Laurent was up to, it doesn’t seeether”

“Well, it orth a try We know one thing for sure: Laurent did in fact use his cicada stamp”

“Come on, time to leave the party and find a way out”

They replaced the grate and walked down the tunnel away froainst one wall, Sam the other Ten feet from the end, Sam suddenly stumbled backward into an alcove and landed on his b

utt with an umph

“Sam?” Remi called

“Looks like I found so”

He looked around Only three feet deep, the rear half of the alcove’s floor was taken up by a hatch, this one unbarred

Remi walked around the oubliette between theht into the hatch, then dropped through, followed by Re perpendicular to the tunnel above, a crawl space stretched into the darkness

On hands and knees they started crawling, Re to miss any side branches, every few feet they reached out and touched each wall

After a full , Sam tapped Reain Ahead the tunnel stretched on

“Did you notice the walls?” Remi whispered

“Yes”