After walking for half a day, everyone was yawning repeatedly. Wu Xie was exhausted, and Ling Xiao had to support him the whole way.
After a while, the old man stopped leaving.
Pan Zi glared at him and snapped, "What trick are you up to now?"
The old man saw the bushes nearby and said, "There...there's something there..."
The thing flashing in the grass was a cell phone, still stained with blood. Wu Xie muttered to himself, "It seems there are more than just us; some people are injured!"
He picked up his phone and looked through the phone book; there were only a few international numbers.
Ling Xiao thought for a moment and whispered two words: "A Ning".
Qin Feng had told him about a foreign force called Jude Kao, who had a woman named Aning who was very loyal to him. Could this phone have been brought in by Aning and her group?
Ling Xiao spoke very softly, and no one could hear him clearly, except for Xiao Ge...
The young man glanced at him, and the system's voice rang out again.
[Host, some things, if said in reality, will be punished.]
Ling Xiao realized it was those two words he had accidentally uttered, and mentally told the system, 'Punish me later, find a less crowded place!'
The system didn't reply, and Ling Xiao knew it had tacitly agreed. Then the old man spoke up: "That group of people from two weeks ago, there were about a dozen of them, and they still haven't come out. Gentlemen, let me give you a piece of advice: it's not too late to turn back now!"
"I'm going to relieve myself." Ling Xiao glanced at everyone and headed up the mountain next to them.
After waiting until he was out of sight of everyone, Ling Xiao accepted the system's punishment. This time, the punishment was short, but the pain was more intense.
When everyone saw Ling Xiao come down, he was drenched in sweat, and his lips were chapped again...
Wu Xie stepped forward and asked, "What? Did that girl pester you to kiss her again?" Wu Xie thought about what Ling Xiao had said that morning, and the more he thought about it, the more something seemed off. But when he saw that Ling Xiao's lips were chapped, he became curious again.
Da Kui immediately asked, "What girl?"
The deliveryman also said, "Apply the medicine!"
Ling Xiao looked at the young man, shook his head and said, "No need, the medicine is on the lips, it will be gone in a while."
The group continued walking and saw a dozen or so tents, so they decided to make do there and have a simple dinner.
Da Kui and his group searched through the usable supplies and found that the items that symbolized their identities had all been torn off, deliberately leaving no trace.
During the meal, the old man told us about the monsters in the mountains, looking around as he spoke, as if afraid that the monsters would come.
The young man pointed to the fox-faced spot on the map and said, "We should be here. This is the place of sacrifice. Below is the altar, and the burial goods should be down there."
Wu Sansheng grabbed a handful of soil, smelled it, and gestured for Da Kui to shovel a few times. The others quickly found tools, and after Da Kui shoveled a few times, blood gushed out of the soil.
Wu Xie stepped forward and said, "I've read Grandpa's notes. There's blood in the soil. This tomb is no ordinary one."
Wu Sansheng lit a cigarette and said, "No matter what, let's dig it open and see."
Just then, a rustling sound came from the left. Ling Xiao pulled Wu Xie to his side, adopting a protective stance, and looked in the direction of the sound.
The old man plopped down on the ground and scrambled toward the crowd, shouting as he ran, "Snake! There's a snake! A huge one! It's the mountain god showing himself! We're all doomed!"
The young man gripped the black gold ancient knife tightly, preparing to deliver a fatal blow to the snake, but the snake kept staring at them, as if it wanted to come closer but dared not.
"Bang, bang!" Pan Zi fired two shots at the snake, and the snake crawled back.
"Panzi, kill it. We can't let it go back to get reinforcements," Wu Sansheng instructed Panzi.
At that moment, a spear swept through the air and pierced straight into the snake's body. The snake immediately emitted black smoke and was dead beyond any doubt.
Everyone turned around and saw that it was Ling Xiao, whose hands were still bleeding.
"Oh dear, you're bleeding! Quickly, bandage it up!" Wu Xie stepped forward to check on Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao stopped them, saying, "I'll bandage myself. Don't touch that spear." With that, Ling Xiao went to bandage himself.
The snake was very strange. Just in case, Ling Xiao used his own blood, fearing that the snake might not die.
When Ling Xiao returned, Da Kui had already dug a very large hole and cleared out a large section of wall bricks.
Everyone put on their headlamps and went down. Ling Xiao retrieved the Thousand Chance Umbrella and followed them down. Wu Xie was waiting for Ling Xiao to go with them, Da Pan was waiting for Wu Xie, and Xiao Ge followed at the back.
At this moment, Da Kui was about to tap the wall bricks with his finger when the young man behind him hurriedly shouted, "Don't touch it!"
Da Kui quickly withdrew his hand, and then saw the young man stretch out his "treasure-hunting finger" and feel around on the wall: "There's a security layer here, you can't push it or smash it."
Wu Xie asked, "Then how do we get the bricks out?"
The young man inserted two fingers into the crack in the wall and pulled out the brick.
This was the first time Ling Xiao had ever seen such a skill, and he was quite shocked. He had always heard Qin Feng talk about Xiao Ge's understanding of things, but today he saw it with his own eyes. This feeling could not be described by cold words. Perhaps, they really were living people, not just cold characters in books.
If he goes back, will these things still exist? Will his story be recorded in the book? If he can't go back, will the people in the world he truly lives in really forget him?
He suddenly remembered Qin Feng's words: "I don't know you." How cold, so suffocatingly cold. Would the people in that world never recognize him again? What would happen to his parents? Would there be new children, calling others "good kids"? Would the fat man protect others as he had protected him?
While Ling Xiao was distracted, Xiao Ge and Pan Zi had already poured the acid from the wall into the well.
Ling Xiao snapped out of his daze and found everyone moving bricks. He went to help move bricks too. He couldn't help but wonder if he had been too careless about this place, which was why he had missed so many things.
Wu Xie stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, saying, "Lingzi, once you're in the tomb, you can't just sit there daydreaming, or it'll kill you!"
Ling Xiao nodded, indicating that he understood.
"Alright, everyone, let's go," Wu Sansheng said, then threw a tinderbox into the cave.
The stone slabs on the ground are covered with dense ancient characters. The slabs are arranged in an octagonal pattern, with the outer edges being larger and the center being smaller. There are eight eternal lamps around the perimeter and a four-legged square zun (wine vessel) in the center.
“Look up there,” Wu Xie said.
The sun, moon, and stars are carved above the tomb.
"There's a coffin over there," Da Kui pointed straight ahead.
Looking at the words carved on the ground, Wu Sansheng asked the young man, "Young man, do you know who the owner of this tomb is?"
The young man shook his head.
Da Kui and the others lit the ever-burning lamp, and then they saw Pan Zi lying on the cauldron shouting, "Third Master, there's treasure here!"
Inside, there was only a headless mummified corpse and some jade jewelry.
Wu Sansheng said angrily, "These are all prisoners of war, headless, they are sacrifices."
Before Wu Sansheng could finish speaking, Pan Zi jumped in, pulled out a large jade bottle, and shouted for everyone to turn the cauldron over so they could see what was inside.
[Ding—Please stop the young man from kneeling and kill the blood corpse.]
'What? What did you kill?'
[Ding—Please stop the young man from kneeling and kill the blood corpse.]
'I? '
Yes, it's the host.
'How can I kill it? It's a blood corpse.'
This is outside the scope of the system's considerations.
"Besides giving me the bloodline and the Thousand-Mechanism Umbrella, you haven't given me any martial arts manuals. I do have some rudimentary skills, but those are from blood corpses! You want me to kill blood corpses? You want me to die?"
If the host doesn't go, they won't be able to return to the real world.
'I go! '
After hearing Ling Xiao's reply, the system stopped responding. Ling Xiao adjusted the Thousand Chance Umbrella to the form of a battle spear and headed towards the young man.
The young man made a 'clucking' sound, which startled Wu Sansheng so much that he quickly pulled Pan Zi out of the cauldron.
The stone coffin began to shake incessantly, and the croaking of frogs could be heard from inside.
The young man's face grew increasingly grim, so Ling Xiao quickly stepped forward, grabbed his hand, and shook his head, saying, "You guys go first."
After saying that, he walked towards the coffin. For some reason, the coffin stopped moving and became silent. Ling Xiao said to Wu Sansheng, "You guys go ahead first, I'll come find you later!"
Wu Sansheng agreed and was about to lead everyone forward, but Wu Xie wanted to stay and wait for Ling Xiao.
The young man then said, "Whatever you do, don't touch that coffin!"
Everyone nodded and cautiously approached, except for Ling Xiao, who stood near the coffin. Seeing that they had all moved away, he said to the blood corpse, "Come out!"
When the young man heard that Ling Xiao was challenging the Blood Corpse to a duel, he was startled and quickly gripped the black gold ancient sword in his hand, preparing for battle.
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