Despite the fatigue Hans Wildau and Liu Daiyu were almost running inside the long tunnel. Obeying the instructions given by the Director, they had left the rest of the troop of soldiers behind, with orders to wait for them in a kind of wide chamber formed by the action of remote waters in the passageway. The certainty of approaching the goal had triggered the chief's recommendation of confidentiality and it was also clear that the expedition organized by Bluthund was no longer in the tunnel, so it was not a danger for which the soldiers were needed. What they were going to find was only for the eyes of the German and the Chinese captain, who apparently had the approval of the Director. Ahead of them was the umpteenth corner of the tunnel and Wildau's expectation was to meet at any time the
