I Found a Hole in my Yard. It Might Be a Dungeon, but That’s Now my Garbage Dump

Today, we’ll be taking topsoil samples from several locations in your yard, and after doing a boring investigation, we’ll be using the university’s equipment for analysis.]

 

 

[Ehh……]

 

 

[What is it?]

 

 

[By boring, you mean digging deep into my yard’s soil, right?]

 

 

[Yes, that’s right.
Though I say that, we’re really just going to dig a hole of a few centimeters in diameter, so you don’t have to worry about the groundwater.
We’ll make sure it won’t affect the nearby buildings.]

 

 

Hiroki felt anxious at his words.

 

 

If the hole in his yard had stretched wide, the laboratory’s boring drill might have arrived at the garbage he had thrown into the hole so far.

 

 

Despite Hiroki’s worries though, the people in the lab began to prepare for the boring by setting up a tripod made of steel pipes.

Of all places, they were setting it up near the galvanized iron sheets hiding the hole!

 

 

[……Are you going to dig there?]

 

 

[Yes.
This is far enough from the residential buildings that it won’t affect them much even in the case of an accident.]

 

 

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Researcher Ishida made a good point, so Hiroki couldn’t object.

 

 

[Then, digging start.]

 

 

With his words, the boring drill was lowered from the tripod, and with the power of the jack, it dug deeper and deeper that an extension pipe was even added.

“”

 

 

[……It’s digging quite deeply.]

 

 

Judging from the length of the extension pipe, they must have dug about 4 meters already.

If there was an underground cavity underneath the hole, they would have breached through it by now.

 

 

[It will be alright.
The guys in the lab are used to this.
So far, it doesn’t seem like we’ve hit any rocks or groundwater.
The surrounding area used to be farmland, isn’t it? I think the ground around here is very solid.]

 

 

[Is that so?]

 

 

Did the area they buried just happened to have no underground cavity in it?

In any case, Hiroki felt lucky.

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

 

 

 

 

 

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That night, after sending off the people who had been dispatched from the university laboratory, Hiroki happily opened a can of beer.

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[Well then, I’ll send the test results to the company later.
I still wouldn’t know the details until after the analysis, but from what I see, I don’t think there will be any problems.
After all, even for a waste disposal site, this place is very clean.]

 

 

Researcher Ishida assured him as such.

 

 

Even so…… Hiroki wondered if the young researcher Ishida noticed anything about the secret of the hole.

Even among the many young people in the lab, he was a man of leadership, and he’s eloquent, even when talking with the older Hiroki.

 

 

Thinking that such a person would eventually rise to the top in his organization, Hiroki slumped down a beer with a strong bitter taste.

 

 

Well, whatever.

Hiroki thinks that he should just leave the smart work to the smart people, while people like him will do the work appropriate for him.

 

 

Tomorrow morning, he’ll start working on throwing all the piles of garbage brought by the hopeless people into the hole.

 

Hiroki could feel it…… He has to fill that hole.

 

 

To do that, he has to collect more and more garbage.

 

 

The conviction to do this steadily rose within him.

 

 

 

Crumpling up the empty beer can with one hand, Hiroki threw it into the trash can in the corner of the office.

 

 

Thereupon, Hiroki heard the sound of a stray cat running away, startled upon hearing the sound of a heavy metallic trash can being dented.

 

 

As the full moon shone brightly in the night sky, the black hole in the ground opened up.