Chapter 145: I’ll Go With You!
Uncle Tai frowned upon hearing this and calculated the time: “We’ve been out for at least fifteen minutes. I originally thought it would only take five minutes to look around, and if we went back in time, they shouldn’t discover it.”
Lin Yan smiled bitterly: “But did not expect that I followed along too, right?”
Uncle Tai shook his head: “No, I discovered it when you followed, but did not expect that as soon as we left, we ran into a Ghost Wall.”
Lin Yan felt somewhat strange: “If we ran into a Ghost Wall as soon as we came out, then how did we get down there before? Shouldn’t we not have been able to reach there at all?”
Uncle Tai seemed choked up: “Maybe we stumbled onto the correct path by accident? Or maybe it’s that person who was leading the way.”
But when they came over, the person leading the way wasn’t always Lao Yang; occasionally Wu Xie would walk in front too. Wu Xie shouldn’t have any issues logically, unless someone could swap out this living person right under his eyes!
Could it really be that they stumbled onto the right path by accident?
Lin Yan thought about it and gave up pursuing the question. The most important thing now was how to break this Ghost Wall hallucination: “Uncle Tai, do you have a way to get out?” Uncle Tai was an old hand too, and since he understood Ghost Wall so clearly, he probably knew how to break a Ghost Wall nine times out of ten.
Sure enough, Uncle Tai nodded: “Two methods.”
He held up one finger: “First, we go back to those coffins we dug up. Do you still remember the direction we came from? Just close your eyes and walk straight there.”
Lin Yan was stunned: “That simple?”
Uncle Tai nodded: “Correct, this Ghost Wall confuses vision. As long as we don’t rely too much on vision, it’s easy to get out. The worry is.”
“What?”
Uncle Tai looked at the surrounding coffins, a flash of fear in his eyes: “The worry is that there might be a mechanism somewhere, and with our eyes closed we won’t see it, which could be… dangerous.”
Lin Yan looked at the coffins around them. Many coffins were half-hidden in darkness, and it was unclear if there was anything behind them. If he accidentally stepped into a coffin then, offending someone else’s corpse bones would be one thing, but the fear was if there was something underneath or behind, he might die without knowing how.
Sometimes people really can only rely on their own eyes. It could be said that the person who set up the Ghost Wall really put thought into it, with a thorough understanding of human nature. This was a dead end.
“Then what’s the other method?”
Uncle Tai smiled bitterly: “See if among your companions or Master Liang these three people, any of them know Feng Shui or formations, and wait for them to come find us.”
Hearing this, Lin Yan’s eyes lit up. He didn’t know about Master Liang, but Wu Xie really knew some Feng Shui! Don’t forget, although his family didn’t have things like the Sixteen-Character Feng Shui Secret Arts, that Qimen Dunjia of the Forty-Two Bureaus was kept in the Wu Family! Wu Xie had previously hinted that he understood some, though it was unknown how much he’d learned, but just based on him being the protagonist, he shouldn’t be too inadequate?
Even if not as good as Xiaoge, breaking a Ghost Wall should be more than enough, right?
Lin Yan didn’t know that at the same time he and Uncle Tai got lost, Wu Xie and the others had also run into a bit of “small” trouble.
The reason for “small” wasn’t that the trouble was small, but that the trouble’s size was indeed a bit small. Just as Wu Xie was about to step into the cave with one foot, he heard Master Liang’s terrified voice: “Who?!”
“What’s wrong?”
He and Lao Yang turned back to look at Master Liang, only to see Master Liang staring behind him in terror, his flashlight sweeping around nonstop, which made Wu Xie’s eyes hurt: “Who did you see?”
Lao Yang shone his flashlight around: “No one else here, wh-what’s going on?”
Master Liang backed toward their direction while continuing to sweep his flashlight around: “Something darted past behind me!”
Wu Xie shone his flashlight back and forth behind him, but all he saw were coffins and a cliff, nothing else: “No thing there, are you too scared so you saw wrong?”
“Impossible!” Master Liang shouted: “It went right past behind me, brushing past my leg!”
As he spoke, he retreated to Wu Xie and Lao Yang’s side and couldn’t help scratching his leg; he really couldn’t forget that eerie sensation.
Wu Xie was half-believing, half-doubting; Master Liang was just too timid. If he accidentally bumped into a coffin or something, mistaking it for something else was quite possible.
Shining the flashlight around, all the coffins and corpse bones were fine, and no thing suddenly darted out from a coffin. Wu Xie gradually lost patience: “Alright, isn’t there nothing at all? Maybe you were too scared and felt wrong.”
Master Liang stiffened all over: “R-Really?”
Lao Yang rolled his eyes at him, also thinking it was too stupid to stay on guard here for half a day over someone who was just overly nervous, and turned to go into the cave to check.
Halfway there, he suddenly paused, quickly turned back to look at Wu Xie: “N-No, that’s not right!”
“What’s wrong?”
Wu Xie kept Master Liang by his side, not fully letting his guard down, and absentmindedly asked back, but Lao Yang’s answer gave him goosebumps: “L-Lin Yan? And that Uncle Tai, where are they?!”
Master Liang trembled all over upon seeing this, and Wu Xie, closest to him, felt it immediately. His intuition told him this was related to Master Liang: “Do you know where they went?”
Master Liang’s gaze flickered somewhat: “I-I only know Uncle Tai… your companion might have gone with Uncle Tai?”
“Then what was Uncle Tai going to do?”
Lao Yang turned back and walked up to Master Liang, asking him seriously: “Does this have something to do with you?”
Master Liang gave an embarrassed laugh, somewhat stammering: “I-I just wanted Uncle Tai to check if there were any more complete coffins, to see what person was in the coffin. I-I previously thought this was a cave burial, but the further we went the more off it felt, but I didn’t dare go look myself, so I just.”
“So you had Uncle Tai go quietly check?” Wu Xie took over the words. Now he was certain Lin Yan must have followed Uncle Tai. After all, Uncle Tai leaving quietly seemed very suspicious, so Lin Yan would definitely go check no matter what. He and Lao Yang, one busy leading the way and the other watching the path while keeping an eye on Master Liang, not noticing was understandable.
So the question was: where exactly did Lin Yan and Uncle Tai go?
“How long has Uncle Tai been gone?”
“Just left, not long!” Master Liang quickly answered. Seeing Wu Xie about to set off to find them, he hurriedly ran to his side: “Don’t leave me behind, I’ll go too!”
Lao Yang chuckled twice: “W-Weren’t you afraid of coffins? You were scared like that earlier, and now you’re not afraid?”
Master Liang just smiled apologetically without responding. For him, rather than waiting here alone, it was better to follow Wu Xie to find Uncle Tai and the others! He always felt that what he sensed before was definitely not an illusion—something definitely brushed past his leg! He didn’t want to stay here alone!
