Tomb raiding: Today is another day I don't want to go home.

Chapter 136 Digging a Hole in the Boulder

Landing on the ground, Yan Huai looked at the extensive dark red bloodstains at his feet and murmured thoughtfully, "No wonder..."

"what happened?"

Yan Huai turned his head to explain, but found that although Zhang Qiling was facing away from him, her gaze was not focused on his face.

"Ok?"

Yan Huai was puzzled, then, a beat late, slapped his forehead – Zhang Qiling couldn't see him! The idiot only just realized…

Flashlight! Flashlight! Quickly!

Yan Huai searched the system space again, and finally found the only flashlight in the backpack Zhang Qiling had carried to the underwater tomb. How embarrassing...

"Here you go!" Yan Huai awkwardly handed the flashlight to Zhang Qiling, mumbling, "I forgot about your... cough, it's darker here than upstairs, so stay closer to me."

"Hmm," Zhang Qiling's eyes flashed with a smile upon hearing this. He had no intention of blaming Yan Huai at all. After feeling the familiar touch in his hand, he flicked his fingers and turned on the flashlight. "Just now, no wonder what?"

“Oh right,” Yan Huai’s intelligence returned, and the little voice in his heart was put to the main point. “According to Wang Jue’s memory, the third level of this underground palace should be a tomb chamber, but I have never felt any ominous aura from beginning to end until the vibration just now, when I noticed a trace of it.”

So I think the dog blood was used by the Wang family to suppress the malevolent energy, in order to hide the real tomb chamber. But this dog blood alone certainly wouldn't be enough; there would be other suppression methods later. Perhaps the tremor just now was related to the malevolent energy in the tomb chamber.”

The entire Wang family underground palace has now been almost completely emptied, with no trace of the Wang family's bloodline remaining. The only ones ahead of them were Black Glasses and Xie Lianrui, so the tremor just now was undoubtedly caused by the latter.

"In addition, as soon as that ferocious aura was released, the experimental subject I was carrying, who had been injected with the drug, went berserk."

As soon as the words fell in the dim and empty space, Yan Huai and Zhang Qiling both anticipated something. They exchanged a glance and then rushed towards the direction of Black Glasses and Xie Lianrui.

After the two of them passed through the stone bricks paved with dog blood, in an inconspicuous corner, a extinguished torch lay forlornly lying down—the embers of that torch had long since died out and turned cold, and in this underground palace, only the sound of swift footsteps echoed.

And "it" resembles a monster that is choosing its prey...

When the stone gate welcomed its new visitors again, the green glow emanating from the dog teeth had faded, and the surrounding area was filled with the black ash from the burning talismans, which scattered without wind.

The flashlight beam inadvertently swept across a bloodstain on the ground. Zhang Qiling stared intently, exchanged a glance with Yan Huai, and then walked closer to examine it: "It was left there not long ago."

“It’s Xie Lianrui’s,” the blood still retained Xie Lianrui’s peculiar scent, the same as the Demon Mother’s. “They’ve already gone in, let’s go!”

Zhang Qiling nodded in response.

Without pausing, the two stepped through the stone gate. However, Yan Huai lagged behind Zhang Qiling by half a step. His gaze swept over the Taoist Rebirth Mantra, which was half-burned on the stone gate. As for behind them, he wondered if there were any other potential threats...

"Old Xie, how long has it been?"

Black Glasses quickly changed his magazine, shouted to Xie Lianrui who was pressed against his back, and then aimed his gun at the monsters that kept charging at him.

They can't kill them all, they really can't kill them all!

What's even more surprising is that these monsters are just like the person Yan Huai saved earlier—shiny black fingernails, disheveled hair, lifeless black eyes, only able to roar instinctively, and utterly devoid of reason.

They all escaped from the cages that opened up around the fake tomb chamber. Whether they triggered some mechanism or not, the square stone platform beneath Black Glasses and his companions' feet had risen a level, and the original entrance was now blocked...

"It hasn't even been fifteen minutes yet, you haven't lost, and I haven't won either."

Xie Lianrui threw talismans while stabbing the monster with his dagger, not even having time to swallow. His wrist was still wrapped in bandages, soaked in blood—from the dog teeth on the stone gate. Yes, even the dogs' pulled teeth could bite! If he hadn't thrown his Rebirth Talisman quickly, he might have become a guardian on the dogs' road to the underworld by now!

Black Glasses grinned upon hearing this: "I'm just hoping you can win right now. There are so many of these, we can't hold out for even a quarter of an hour."

"You can hold on, but be careful!" Xie Lianrui took a moment to pat an exorcism talisman on the back of the man with black glasses, then turned around and continued fighting. Even though his lips had started to turn white, his eyes still looked sharp.

Although Black Glasses wasn't shocked, he still felt a strange sense of wonder, so he was happy to keep him company.

Meanwhile, Yan Huai and Zhang Qiling, who had followed the bloodline of the man in black glasses, were now standing at the blocked entrance.

The roars and gunshots coming from above were intertwined and made Yan Huai's head ache. He pressed his hands tightly against the stone blocking the entrance and tried to push, but the stone did not budge.

How can it be so big?!

Yan Huai could feel the reaction force of the stone surface on him, and knew that this was not just a simple stone. It was more like... a building with a particularly solid foundation, well, the kind of high-rise building that weighs tens of tons.

Yan Huai's surprise flashed by in an instant. Although Zhang Qiling was puzzled, he still praised the guy for solving the problem without brute force.

The tomb raider fumbled around on the stone surface for a while, then, under Yan Huai's stunned gaze, his two fingers suddenly plunged in...

"Ordinary megaliths, connected to mechanisms and underground palaces."

In other words, even if Yan Huai could use brute force to push the boulder away, the underground palace would collapse as a result.

Yan Huai snapped out of his daze, his gaze falling on the two dark holes in the stone. His throat bobbed involuntarily, but in the next moment, a certain idea flashed through his mind.

If pushing doesn't work, he can dig!

So, under Zhang Qiling's continued puzzled gaze, Yan Huai grasped his shoulder and settled him in a corner where he wouldn't be splashed by stones or dust, just to his right rear, not far away.

"Wait for me here."

After giving Zhang Qiling his instructions, Yan Huai turned around with a smile and walked to the boulder, revealing his two sharp claws to the latter...

Clang clang clang clang—

The claws left vicious marks on the boulder, and as Yan Huai dug deeper, those marks quickly and deeply overlapped.

A small stone rolled to Zhang Qiling's feet, whose pupils were slightly dilated. Then, a string in his mind snapped...