Chapter 622
: 1 Corpses
"Why are you here?" Chen Ze asked, frowning.
Tian Sixuan wiped away the tears from her eyes and smiled, "My parents asked me to come. They want to know how you've been doing. They also asked me what you've been doing, saying you haven't been home for a long time."
"I'm fine now, let's leave quickly, or it will be too late!" Chen Ze urged.
Tian Sixuan pointed to the entrance of the passageway ahead, indicating that Chen Ze should follow the passageway.
"You know the way?" Chen Ze asked, puzzled.
“Of course, it’s not like this is my first time here,” Tian Sixuan said.
Chen Ze: "Then why didn't you say so sooner?"
Tian Sixuan rolled her eyes and continued forward.
Soon Chen Ze and his group passed through the passageway, and sure enough, there was another path.
"What's going on with this passageway? Why is it straight?" Chen Ze asked, puzzled.
Tian Sixuan: "Are you stupid? Didn't we already guess? The tomb of this deceased person is upright. Did you think it was horizontal?"
"Where does this road lead?" Zhang Bing asked.
“How would I know!” Tian Sixuan replied.
"So what do we do now? Go back the way we came?" Tian Tian asked.
Chen Ze held his phone up for light, "No need, let's try walking first, and we'll see if it works!"
The three continued walking along the tunnel, but this tunnel was not straight; it was winding and twisting.
As they walked, Tian Sixuan stopped. "Look!"
Tian Sixuan pointed to a groove in front of her.
Zhang Bing walked to the edge of the cave wall, pressed it, and then said, "It's hollow down there."
"Let's go!" Chen Ze was the first to crawl down, followed by Zhang Bing and Tian Tian, with Tian Tian still holding tightly to Chen Ze's sleeve.
"Is this a sealed space?" Tian Tian exclaimed in surprise.
Zhang Bing sensed it too, and clenched his fist. "There seems to be no way out here!"
Chen Ze: "It's okay, we can break it open!"
"You all step back!" Chen Ze said.
As Chen Ze spoke, he took out his blade, preparing to chisel open the stone wall.
However, before that, Chen Ze took out a few silver needles and carved a formation on the stone wall.
"What are you doing?" Zhang Bing asked curiously.
"Break the formation!" Chen Ze said calmly.
Tian Sixuan: "Wow! You're so handsome!"
Zhang Bing: "Uh..."
Chen Ze quickly set up the formation.
Then Chen Ze took out a few pieces of wood from his bag and threw them into the groove.
Chen Ze lit the firewood with a lighter, and the stone wall immediately turned red. Chen Ze took out a dagger and cut his wrist, and the blood dripped onto the firewood.
Soon, the firewood caught fire.
Chen Ze seized the opportunity to make the fire bigger, and then stood aside and watched quietly.
The flames grew larger and larger, but Chen Ze's target was inside the stone wall. At this moment, Zhang Bing also understood Chen Ze's intention: to use fire.
Soon, Chen Ze burned through the stone wall, and from this position, the scene inside could be seen: a bronze coffin was presented to everyone.
Chen Ze stared at the coffin in silence. He had imagined countless times his father, his future mother-in-law, his grandparents, and even dreamed of giving them the best things in the world when he grew up.
What Chen Ze had been dreaming of turned out to be a coffin, and a tomb at that, containing so many skeletons. This devastated Chen Ze.
Chen Ze didn't know whether the tomb owners were dead or not, because the tomb doors were closed.
But regardless of whether they were dead or alive, Chen Ze had arrived at their graves nonetheless…
"How about that? Aren't I awesome?" Tian Sixuan said smugly.
"Amazing my foot!" Chen Ze muttered, then walked over and pushed the coffin lid open.
"Creak—"
The coffin lid moved slowly, making a piercing sound.
Chen Ze gently pushed open the coffin.
"Ah—" Tian Sixuan suddenly screamed. Chen Ze quickly turned around and saw that Tian Sixuan's face was deathly pale.
"What's wrong with you?" Chen Ze quickly closed the coffin lid.
Tian Sixuan said, trembling, "I saw a black shadow floating inside."
Chen Ze patted Tian Sixuan's head and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, it's just a shadow."
Tian Sixuan nodded and followed behind Chen Ze.
Tian Sixuan's flashlight was not very bright, and the environment was dim, so she could not see very clearly.
Tian Sixuan had no choice but to hold Chen Ze's hand.
Chen Ze held Tian Sixuan's soft, boneless hand; Tian Sixuan's hand was very cold.
"Cold?" Chen Ze asked in a low voice.
Tian Sixuan shook her head.
Chen Ze stopped talking and let Tian Sixuan hold him. Tian Sixuan was very strong and seemed very flustered.
Chen Ze did not resist, but chose to trust Tian Sixuan.
Finally, guided by Tian Sixuan, Chen Ze and the others reached the end.
Chen Ze released Tian Sixuan and tapped the stone wall a few times with his index finger, and sure enough, there was an echo.
"Looks like we're out!" Tian Sixuan said happily. She didn't even notice that she was holding Chen Ze's hand and was still gripping his palm tightly.
Chen Ze was slightly stunned. Tian Sixuan was holding his hand. This was the first time Tian Sixuan had taken the initiative to touch him.
Tian Tian: "Then let's continue looking for other passages, hopefully we can find a way out."
Chen Ze nodded.
Zhang Bing: "So what should we do here?"
Tian Tian: "Destroy it!"
Zhang Bing: "Okay!"
Chen Ze: "Does anyone have a bomb?"
Zhang Bing shook her head. "No!"
Tian Sixuan shrugged, indicating that she didn't have any either.
Chen Ze: "Then I'll go look for it."
"I'll go find it!" Tian Sixuan volunteered.
Chen Ze nodded in agreement, since he still needed her help with this matter.
Chen Ze and Tian Sixuan left the stone chamber, leaving Zhang Bing alone in the same spot.
Zhang Bing squatted down and studied the stone chamber for a while. He found that the layout of this stone chamber was similar to the stone chamber that Chen Ze had encountered at the top of the cliff before, except that there was no coffin in the stone chamber, which meant that there was no one in the tomb.
Zhang Bing felt it was necessary to re-examine the designer of this mausoleum.
As Chen Ze and Tian Sixuan stepped out of the stone chamber, Chen Ze heard Tian Sixuan's voice, "Huh, is there a hole here?"
Chen Ze followed Tian Sixuan's voice to the cave entrance, glanced inside, and saw that it was indeed a cave, and it looked quite deep.
"You wait here, I'll go in and take a look," Chen Ze instructed Tian Sixuan before walking into the cave.
As Chen Ze entered the cave, he was greeted by a chill that was unlike the eerie winds he had encountered in the grottoes before.
I wonder if there are any secret mechanisms here.
Chen Ze looked around warily.
As Chen Ze ventured deeper inside, he found the chill to be even more intense. He wondered if it was because his body's resistance was stronger or because the temperature here was higher than outside.
As Chen Ze was walking, he suddenly felt something approaching him from behind. He turned around and threw two lightning balls at the thing.
"Boom, boom!"
Two muffled claps of thunder exploded in Chen Ze's ears, making his eardrums ache.
The things Chen Ze threw out were also blown away.
Using the aftershocks of the explosion, Chen Ze was able to see what had attacked him.
It was a skeleton.
Chen Ze couldn't help but swallow hard. He never expected that there would be such a terrifying skeleton here. Although it was just a skeleton, the appearance of the skeleton could still be vaguely identified as a male corpse.
Chen Ze cautiously walked over and examined the area, but found nothing unusual.
Is this skeleton just placed here to scare people?
Chen Ze continued forward, still puzzled. (End of Chapter)