Chapter 61: Holy Shit, How Is It You Again?
Wu Xie and Lin Yan stood stunned, feeling a chill on their scalps.
No, where’s that door? Where’s that huge door? The door with that enormous Golden Silk Nanmu coffin?
They thought this mechanism would only activate once in a long while, but now that they thought about it, the activation cycle might be much shorter than they assumed. Before, when they came out of the tomb passage, the mechanism activating could be considered a coincidence, but this happened again in less than ten minutes, which meant this tomb was much more complex than they had imagined.
Not to mention, how did the tomb owner manage to activate the mechanism silently, and what was the energy source maintaining it? As a tomb built underwater, the tomb itself was under tens or even hundreds of times more pressure than one on the ground. If this mechanism had been operating non-stop since the tomb was built, what kind of energy could sustain it for so many years?
While Wu Xie was still lost in thought, Lin Yan had already dragged him towards the Jade Door.
“Huh? Slow down!” Wu Xie snapped back to reality and realized they were already close to where they had triggered the mechanism. He panicked a little and quickly grabbed Lin Yan to stop him: “Be careful, I don’t know if this mechanism can be triggered a second time!”
Lin Yan looked at him with confusion: “If you get shot, you get shot. It’s not a real arrow, you won’t get hurt, what are you afraid of?”
That made sense! Wu Xie felt a sudden enlightenment. Since they wouldn’t get hurt, what were they waiting for? They should just charge forward! So he also started walking forward calmly, and in just a few seconds, he was the one pulling Lin Yan along, walking faster and faster.
“Why are you walking so fast? Do you know where Fatty and the others are?”
Wu Xie shook his head: “I don’t know their exact position, but I’m sure that after they discover we’re missing, they’ll find a way to look for us. Waiting here will take too long, and I don’t know if our oxygen will last until then. It’s better to find a path first, and we can meet up ahead. Huh, wait a minute—” He suddenly stopped and looked at Lin Yan: “Didn’t you drag me this way at first? How do you know? No, you saw something?”
Lin Yan looked bewildered: “I-I don’t know, I just thought we should find a path to walk. Isn’t this little guiding sprite still here? It’s better to go inside and see if we can run into them as we walk.”
How could that be called “if we run into them”? That’s called “we definitely will run into them”! The Iron Triangle Law states that after being separated by the tomb’s mechanisms, they will inexplicably reunite! Since they were going to reunite anyway, why wait around? It was better to explore more areas, maybe they could even find an exit.
“This…” Wu Xie was speechless. Although Lin Yan was stumbling upon it by chance, it coincided with their current goal.
On the way, the little coffin of the little jar sprite was still scattered casually in the tomb passage. Wu Xie picked one up and placed it with the little jar by the Jade Door: “Here, little guy, your home is here, don’t get lost.”
Lin Yan thought this person was childish and snorted: “Is that any way to talk?” Then he crouched down and said to the little jar: “Little guy, I think you’re probably a burial attendant for this tomb. Why don’t you tell us who the tomb owner is and where his treasure is?”
Wu Xie pulled him up. This Lin Yan was getting more and more unreliable. Could this little jar really answer? He just thought it might be a child inside, estimated to be one or two years old when buried alive, and felt a bit pitiful. Demanding treasure in front of the tomb owner’s burial attendant, how could he do that? Wasn’t he afraid something would pop out of the jar and “snap” him?
Lin Yan didn’t care. He casually patted the jar and was about to enter the door with Wu Xie.
Just then, a crisp “click” came from behind them, like the sound of a mechanism being released. The two froze instantly.
Could it really be a little zombie coming out?
If they had turned around at that moment, they would have seen a little white-furred hand reach out from the jar and quietly open the lid of the coffin next to it. The sound Wu Xie and the others heard was the sound of the coffin lid falling to the ground.
Lin Yan, who was closer, quietly turned his head to look behind him, but saw nothing strange in his peripheral vision. So he quickly turned his head back to look—
The little jar was still in its place, but the coffin lid had been opened, revealing what was inside.
In the small coffin, the corpse had vanished, leaving behind a thumb-sized, perfectly round bead that shone with a blood-red light, occasionally flashing white under the searchlight.
Seeing that there was no movement for a long time, Wu Xie also turned around, leaned over Lin Yan, and picked up the bead to examine it.
As he looked, he gave Lin Yan a strange look: How come all the good things happen to you?
Good thing? Lin Yan was completely bewildered and quickly asked him, “What is this bead? How is it my good thing?”
Wu Xie scanned him up and down and said, “I brought this coffin here, how did this thing get given to you?” As he spoke, he tossed the bead into Lin Yan’s arms: “This is a blood-infused bead, although it’s not a thousand years old, it’s still a few hundred years old. This little guy was too young when he died, and he had plenty of yin energy. After being startled, he probably rose as a zombie and left this inside. Its effect is probably similar to the one you just ate. Keep it, you can use it later.”
This works too? You can just pick this thing up for free? Lin Yan subconsciously put the bead away and patted the side of the jar, “Little guy, thank you!”
The jar seemed shy. After shaking in place, it rolled back the way it came, even abandoning its own coffin. It actually looked a bit cute, didn’t it?
Lin Yan scratched his head and looked at Wu Xie, who was still looking wistfully at the little jar: “What, you’re envious? Maybe you’ll get one next time?”
Wu Xie thought for a moment: “Better not, I still feel a bit creepy. Don’t you think it’s a bit scary for a little zombie to give you a gift?”
“What’s so scary about that? It’s giving a gift, not jumping out to eat you.” Lin Yan looked at him strangely. Seeing the jar almost disappear at the end of the path, he resignedly picked up the coffin and headed over: “Hey little guy, you left your coffin again!”
Halfway there, he saw a tall figure illuminated by a faint light ahead, looking somewhat bloated.
Huh? Fatty? Did they come out?
He happily raised his foot to go meet Fatty, but then realized the figure’s shape was a bit off. How to put it, was its head a little too big?
Upon closer inspection, Lin Yan was so scared he turned and ran back, almost throwing his searchlight with him. Wu Xie, following behind, didn’t quite react to him running and was almost dragged by Lin Yan, stumbling to his death in the tomb passage: “What’s wrong? Isn’t it Fatty?”
At this moment, the shadow behind him also quickly caught up. As he was about to turn to look, Lin Yan suddenly sped up, pulling him towards the Jade Door like lightning: “Fatty my ass! That’s a goddamn Sea Monkey!”
“Holy crap! How did this thing get in here?!”
