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Unexpectedly the melting candle wax dripped onto the boy’s hand and he let out an unconscious yell of fright.The echo of his voice spread out through the whole tunnel and when he turned back, at the entrance of the tunnel he saw the same family that were having lunch before. Johnny’s heart rate went up straightaway, he blew the candle and started to run into the darkness. It felt like the tunnel was shrinking with every step he took, and immediately he realised it was true. Almost at the end of the tunnel, he couldn’t even fit while standing but it was nothing compared to the sewerage that he had to jump in order to survive. The situation looked kind of like from an action movie where a spy is crawling through air vent holes trying to sneak into secret forbidden rooms. Of course, Johnny’s situation was a bit different. It was a huge struggle for him to squeeze through the hole. He tried so hard to get himself in there that at one moment he felt as if his rear half of the body was left out in the tunnel and when he tried to look back he would just get his head banged on the wall. Even though he felt the tiring cold and