Chapter 278: Trouble

None of us expected the cave to be this deep. The three who fell in probably didn't stand a chance.  Even after securing the ladder as best we could, it still wobbled a lot. There was nothing at the mouth of the cave to tie it down.  So Bowen drove over to the construction site and grabbed about a dozen steel bars, each about two inches thick. We hammered them into the ground, left a bit sticking out, then tied the ladder to them with rope to keep it steady. Then we grabbed a thick, thirty-meter...