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Menace Under Otari - 4 The Barricade

After the web-infested cave, the passgeway leading deeper underneath the street of Otari appears to be mostly natural, but someone, or something, has worked to open the cavern and level out the floor, making the passge easily traveled. A crude barricade made from old wooden planks and part of a barrel blocks the entrance to a side tunnel, while the main passage coontinues off into the gloom.

Words

barricade

bar·ri·cade1 /ˈbærəkeɪd, ˈbærɪkeɪd, ˌbærəˈkeɪd/ noun [countable]

  • a temporary wall or fence across a road, door etc that prevents people from going through:
    • The fans were kept back behind barricades.

crude

crude1 /kruːd/ adjective

  1. not exact or without any detail, but generally correct and useful →approximate :
    • a crude estimate of the population available for work
  2. not developed to a high standard, or made with little skill:
    • a crude wooden bridge
    • crude workmanship

plank

plank /plæŋk/ noun [countable]

  1. a long narrow piece of wooden board, used especially for making structures to walk on:
    • a long plank of wood
    • a bridge made of planks

gloom

gloom /ɡluːm/ noun [singular, uncountable]

  1. literary almost complete darkness:
    • He peered into the gathering (=increasing) gloom.
  2. a feeling of great sadness and lack of hope:
    • a time of high unemployment and economic gloom

Chinese

穿过布满蛛网的洞穴后，通往奥塔利街道下方更深处的通道看起来大多是天然形成的，但有人——或某种生物——曾在这里挖掘扩宽，并将地面整平，使这条通道更容易通行。一道由破旧木板和半个木桶搭成的简陋路障堵住了通往侧边隧道的入口，而主通道则继续延伸进幽暗之中。