The Lost Tomb : Sea Of Sands

Chapter 52: Two Liang Wans

Li Cu used the phone to look around and found that there still weren't any signs of the footprints turning back around. That meant Liang Wan should still be here. He tried to listen carefully, but he was panting heavily from climbing the stairs and being nervous, so he couldn't hear anything clearly. When he called out softly, it didn't quite reach the point of an echo since the room was pretty empty, but it definitely should have been heard by anyone there. Still, there was no answer.

Li Cu called again and suddenly felt a little strange. The footprints told him that Liang Wan was in the room, but he didn't feel anyone's presence.

He followed the footprints all the way forward, thinking to himself, is there some kind of secret door? But judging from what I can see with the phone's light, there shouldn't be any kind of access to other places.

At the far edge of the room, he could still see the footprints stretching all the way to the corner. Li Cu was a little worried: Why did Liang Wan go to that corner? And the footprints are so straight that it seems like she went there without any hesitation.

After thinking about it, Li Cu slowed down and walked over bit by bit, rigidly pointing the phone's light at that corner. After another three steps, the light finally illuminated the situation, and he saw Liang Wan standing there, facing the corner and clinging tightly to the wall. He didn't know what she was doing.

Li Cu finally calmed down after a moment. Unable to believe his eyes— or the situation he was facing— he stood there silently for two or three seconds, thinking over everything that had happened just now.

This was a farmer's house in a small town in Zhejiang that had been abandoned for a long time. At night, in a completely dark room on the third floor of the house where no light penetrated at all, he came here and found someone standing in the corner, facing the wall.

Anyone's first reaction at this time would be to run away, but whether Li Cu wasn't afraid of these things from the start, or because he had become more courageous in the desert, he resisted his desire to turn and run, and looked at the person in the corner from a distance. He even calmed down enough to use the phone's light to shine around the area to see if anyone was forcing Liang Wan to act like that.

When he was sure there was no one else in the room, he asked softly, "What are you doing?"

Liang Wan didn't respond at all, but continued to stand with her face toward the wall.

A cold sweat broke out on Li Cu's back and the hairs on his body stood on end. He took a step forward, calculating accurately so that he wouldn't be within biting distance whenever she decided to turn around.

After the first step, he softly asked again, "What are you doing?"

Liang Wan still didn't respond.

Li Cu took a deep breath and used the phone's light to look at her back carefully. That was when he noticed that she was standing very straight. Liang Wan was a very passionate woman and always seemed to be slouching while she walked. He had never seen her stand so straight before, and when he thought about it, standing like this would be especially tiring in heels.

But Liang Wan was also standing motionless, which was already very abnormal.

Li Cu said to himself: I've encountered enough strange things in the past month. If the situation before me is really beyond my understanding and develops in a terrible direction as I expect it to, then I'll never let it go. It's time to end it. Either you kill me, or I'll kill you.

Li Cu had just told himself to ignore the increasing fear and take another step forward, when he suddenly felt his backpack shake.

He had set his phone on vibrate and placed it in the backpack, so when it started going off, the vibrating sound almost gave him a heart attack. He immediately took it out. He originally didn't have a cell phone, but this was the one Black Glasses had given him. When he opened it, he found a number flashing on the screen, and saw Liang Wan's name above it. He had saved it when they were on the plane earlier.

But wasn't Liang Wan's cell phone in his hand? Did he hit dial by mistake? He quickly looked at the phone, but didn't see an outgoing call. Was it possible that Liang Wan had another cell phone that used this same number? But Liang Wan was standing in front of him, facing the wall.

Was the woman in front of him calling him in a way he couldn't see clearly? Impossible! Both of her hands were hanging by her sides!

Li Cu was terrified and looked at the person in front of him. He hesitated for a moment, and then picked up the phone, hearing a quick female voice say, "Where are you?"

Li Cu said, "I'm in that house."

Liang Wan gave an "Eh", and then said: "What do you mean, you're in that house? Which house?"

Li Cu said, "The address we were going to. I came back to find you."

Liang Wan said, "Didn't I tell you to meet me again in the morning? I'm also at that house, don't you see me?"

Li Cu looked at the person in front of him who didn't speak at all. He looked around again and said into the phone, "Actually, I do see you. I'm on the third floor. According to logic, I should be standing behind you, but the situation is a bit strange."

Liang Wan said, "What? No way! I'm in the alley right now, and the police haven't left yet. I haven't been able to get in."

Li Cu scratched his head, looked at the Liang Wan standing in front of the wall, and then said: "You're not bluffing, right? No... you must be messing with me."

Liang Wan said, "Am I that bored to mess around with you? It's you who's speaking so strangely! Where the hell are you? Confess. If you don't tell me the truth, I'm going to get angry."

Li Cu looked at his cell phone and then at the person standing in front him facing the wall, and suddenly felt his courage surge. Although he didn't know how she was doing it, he thought Liang Wan must be messing with him. Was it a recording or superpowers or something? Even if that wasn't the case, he was unwilling to go on like this.

He took a deep breath and ignored Liang Wan's question on the phone as he pushed the rest of the way forward, immediately grabbed the other person's shoulder, and pulled.

Li Cu believed that even though Liang Wan was older than him, she was still a woman with a very delicate body. So yanking her shoulder like this should definitely force her turn her around, but she didn't budge. She was obviously very strong and not soft at all. He would blush if he had to say it, but Li Cu knew what Liang Wan felt like. He gave two hard tugs on that person's shoulder, but still didn't manage to turn her around. His courage immediately disappeared, and he stepped back, starting to feel that creeping sense of fear again.

Liang Wan was still talking angrily on the phone, but Li Cu no longer paid her any mind. He watched as the strange person in front of him slowly turned and looked into the darkness behind him.

Liang Wan was standing right in front of him, and after seeing that face, he couldn't fight it any longer. He originally thought it was a stroke of luck to see another person here, but despite the fact that the clothes were the same, the face was definitely different.

But what he saw was really Liang Wan's face. She was standing in the corner with a strange posture, while another Liang Wan kept cursing on the phone.

Li Cu decided in that moment to run away. He couldn't understand what was going on, but the Liang Wan in front of him looked at him with a cold, blank expression. She hardly looked human.

Just as Li Cu was about to turn around and leave, the Liang Wan in front of him suddenly spoke. But instead of hearing the familiar voice he had been expecting, he unexpectedly heard a man's voice.

"Hang up the phone." The Liang Wan in front of him said. Her voice was very soft, but it was definitely male.