"Everyone, don't worry. There must be a way out. Someone must have taken the things inside the box, yet we haven't seen their body," Jocelyn said calmly.
Her words eased our anxiety considerably.
We ate some canned food to regain our strength, then began to carefully examine the small room, hoping to find a mechanism that would allow us to leave.
Unfortunately, after thoroughly searching every inch of the room, we found nothing unusual. Our attention eventually settled on the stone table in the center of the room.
If there were no mechanisms around the room, then our only hope must lie with the table itself.
Despite my unease about the scorpions, I forced myself to remain calm and opened the box again.
To my surprise, the scorpions were gone.
In their place, at the bottom of the sto
