Chapter 14: Big Head Ghost By The Seven Star Coffins, Meeting A Ning In The Tomb Chamber Depths
Da Kui let out a miserable scream, but Pan Zi next to him was quick with his hands and eyes, raising his hand and firing a shot right at Big Head Ghost’s head.
Bang!
With a crisp sound, Big Head Ghost’s head was instantly shattered.
It turned out that it had a round pottery jar on its head, with only two holes dug out on top of the jar, but Pan Zi shot and directly shattered the pottery jar, nearly hitting the head inside.
“Damn it, you actually shot at me!”
“Big Head Ghost” was shot but suddenly spoke like a human and cursed, turning around to run. Pan Zi raised his hand to shoot at his back vest again, but Su Mo grabbed his wrist:
“Don’t shoot, he’s human!”
As he spoke, Little Brother had already leaped toward Big Head Ghost in one stride, grabbing at the other’s back vest and seizing the backpack behind him.
Big Head Ghost flung his arms, took off the backpack and jumped to the side, then ran forward.
Seeing this, Little Brother immediately chased after him, and the two disappeared from sight in an instant.
Uncle Wu San and the others couldn’t help but look at each other upon seeing this.
“Master Su, this guy is human!”
Da Kui said, seemingly still shaken.
Su Mo nodded:
“This guy put a jar over his head and was deliberately pretending to be a ghost!”
He knew that this guy pretending to be a ghost was Wang Pang Zi, but for some reason Little Brother had chased after him.
At this time, after a moment of silence, Uncle Wu San said:
“Never mind them. Pan Zi, Da Kui, you two go with Tian Zhen to check the other tomb chambers. I’ll go scout that tomb chamber over there.”
After speaking, Uncle Wu San turned and walked out of the tomb chamber.
Seeing Uncle Wu San turn and leave, Su Mo couldn’t help but show a trace of confusion in his eyes. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly realized.
Uncle Wu San and Little Brother had actually both been to Lu Wang Palace before.
Back then, after the first South China Sea archaeology operation in Huaxia, he and Little Brother had come to Lu Wang Palace, but that time they gained no harvest and returned empty-handed.
This time, Uncle Wu San found Little Brother to re-explore Lu Wang Palace, still for the Ghost Seal inside Lu Wang Palace, which was the key to opening the bronze gate and also essential for solving the ultimate mystery!
But upon seeing the corpses of foreign explorers in this tomb chamber and encountering Wang Pang Zi, the two decided not to delay any longer and prepared to quickly enter the nine-headed cypress area, open the coffin, and retrieve the Ghost Seal!
Precisely because of this, Little Brother had used chasing Wang Pang Zi as an excuse to leave first, and when Uncle Wu San saw Little Brother leave, he left to send Pan Zi, Da Kui, and the others away, then used checking as an excuse to leave the tomb chamber, preparing to head to the main tomb chamber position under the nine-headed cypress tree!
After figuring this out, Su Mo looked at Uncle Wu San’s back and secretly sneered in his heart.
Although it was his first time at Lu Wang Palace, with the Great Yin Meditation Technique and Dragon Seeking and Acupoint Finding Technique, this bit of tomb passage labyrinth couldn’t stump him!
Mountains, rivers, and lands all have qi veins, and although tomb chambers are places where yin energy gathers, they too have their qi veins.
With the Great Yin Meditation Technique, although Su Mo couldn’t see the path, he could discern the direction of the tomb chamber qi veins, and by following the flow of the qi veins, he could find the correct path!
Su Mo then stood in place, concentrating his mind, and soon discerned the qi flow direction between the tomb passages through the Great Yin Meditation Technique.
He then walked forward alone along the qi vein direction between the tomb passages.
The passage outside this seven-star coffin chamber was interconnected in all directions, with several tomb passages leading elsewhere, and there were other side chambers outside the tomb chamber. Little Brother and Uncle Wu San were already out of sight.
Su Mo stood in the tomb passage and looked carefully, still following the qi flow direction detected by the Great Yin Meditation Technique, soon passing through two tomb passages.
As he was walking, he suddenly heard a woman’s startled cry from ahead.
Hearing this, Su Mo frowned.
How could there be a woman’s voice in this tomb chamber?
Could it be…
A Ning?
He then followed the sound forward, only to see in a tomb chamber ahead that a dense crowd of black corpse beetles had gathered.
These corpse beetles were at least over a foot long for the smallest ones, and the largest were two or three feet long, looking like large dogs.
There were also several corpses lying on the ground, completely covered by corpse beetles crawling over them.
The sound of corpse beetles gnawing on dead flesh was crunching loudly, which was utterly chilling to hear.
Turning to look, on the shoulder of a two-meter-tall bronze statue in the corner of the tomb chamber stood a woman in leather clothing with a graceful figure.
The woman held a gun in one hand and a torch in the other, her pretty white face full of fear and terror. Upon seeing Su Mo, a glimmer of hope flashed in her eyes:
“Save me!”
It was exactly A Ning!
Seeing A Ning, Su Mo’s heart stirred.
Why was A Ning still here, trapped by these corpse beetles!
It seemed the corpses on the ground were her subordinates, already killed by the corpse beetles.
These corpse beetles had thick shells and were not afraid of bullets. If A Ning weren’t standing so high with a torch in hand, she would probably have been killed and eaten by the corpse beetles by now!
Su Mo didn’t dislike A Ning, but he also had no particular fondness for her.
This woman followed Qiu Dekao’s orders unquestioningly, and in the original story, she ultimately died in a snake’s mouth, which was both pitiful and lamentable. But now surrounded by corpse beetles, if Su Mo didn’t save her and let her flower-like jade body be gnawed by the corpse beetles, it wouldn’t sit right.
As Su Mo was thinking,
Seeing him standing there silently, A Ning thought he was afraid of the corpse beetles and quickly said:
“Big brother, save me! I have a lot of money on me, you can have it all!”
Su Mo couldn’t help but smile.
Although he had lived two lives, in this one he regarded money very lightly.
Since awakening to human martial arts, his goal was to reach the peak of martial arts, seeking longevity and achieving human immortal.
Money was truly worthless in the face of these things!
Seeing the disdainful smile on his face, A Ning knew this man didn’t care about money. Her eyes turned, and she suddenly pulled out a black object from her bosom and held it up:
“I know you don’t like money, but this thing is a treasure. If you save me, it’s yours!”
Su Mo looked closely and saw that what A Ning held was actually a claw, skinny and bony with sharp tips, entirely pitch black like ink, looking just like the ghost claw in the hand of that evil ghost outside the jade gate!
Su Mo’s heart stirred.
Right!
Outside the jade gate of Lu Wang Palace, the two evil ghost statues held a Ghost Seal and a ghost claw respectively. It was impossible for the tomb to have only the Ghost Seal and no ghost claw!
This Ghost Seal was said to be King Lu Shang’s object for commanding ghost soldiers, and the key to opening the bronze gate and solving the ultimate mystery. This ghost claw must also be something extremely mystical and eerie!
Thinking of this, Su Mo said to A Ning:
“Throw the ghost claw over and I’ll save you!”
A Ning’s eyes immediately showed disbelief:
“I’ll give it to you after you save me, otherwise what if you take it and run!”
Su Mo couldn’t help but laugh:
“Give it or not, up to you. Anyway, these corpse beetles only eat meat and not the ghost claw. I can take it after you’re dead just the same!”
Hearing this, A Ning looked down at the corpse beetles below, her face instantly filled with terror.
