The Lost Tomb : Sea Of Sands

Chapter 98: Human Snake

Under the rush, Li Cu and Su Wan began to run out of strength. It was already a miracle that they could keep up with Black Glasses' speed, especially because forcing themselves to follow him consumed more energy than ever before. Su Wan's physical strength was less than Li Cu's and he gradually began to fall behind. He shouted, "Run, I can't run anymore!"

In front of him, the frenzied lines flashing from the fluorescent light on Black Glasses' soles disappeared instantly, meaning he must have stopped. Li Cu and Su Wan panicked and tried to brake, afraid of hitting him, but they didn't have the ability to stop so fast and instantly ran more than a dozen steps.

In the darkness, Li Cu and Su Wan suddenly felt something forcefully grab the backs of their collars— it must be Black Glasses. Because of the strong momentum, the both of them were hauled up and sent flying, but the strong force maintained its hold on their collars, before it eventually flung them upwards.

If we could make out what was happening in the darkness, we'd see how Black Glasses grabbed the back collars of those two people, spun them around in a circle as if he were throwing two discuses, made a seven hundred and twenty degree turn, and then tossed them out.

Black Glasses was so strong that Li Cu felt like a piece of paper flying in the air, almost hitting the top of the tunnel during his ascent. Almost at the same time, he felt a behemoth passing under him.

It all happened so fast that Li Cu got up after landing, and instinctively ran back in the direction of the intersection. He knew Black Glasses' intention: he definitely didn't want Li Cu and Su Wan to outflank him, because they couldn't see anything.

Run for your lives. Black Glasses must definitely have meant that.

Without any guidance in the dark, he hadn't even run two steps before he collided with Su Wan. The two men rolled on the ground, got up, and ran forward together, but one second later, they both collided with the wall.

It was such a fierce, unreserved impact without any protection that it knocked the both of them to the ground and kept them from getting up for a long time.

When Li Cu finally managed to get up, he found his nose was covered in blood. He hastily wiped it, and then groped around to try to find Su Wan so that he could help him up.

Su Wan was right beside him. When he went to hook his arm around his waist and hoist him up, he suddenly felt like something was wrong.

What he touched wasn't Su Wan's clothes, but something else. He didn't know what it was, but it felt very strange— it was cold, rough, and had strange contours.

He immediately withdrew his hand, stepped back, and took a flare from his backpack.

Fear of the darkness made him unable to control himself and he lit the flare, the bright light instantly blinding him.

He narrowed his eyes and tried to adapt to the light, but when he looked forward, the creepy sight almost made him drop his flare.

Cold sweat and goose bumps exploded all over his scalp in an instant. He saw someone— no, it wasn't a person— in front of him. He had no words to describe it.

It was a corpse, but wasn't. Was it a piece of skin? He wasn't sure. If he had to describe it accurately, the thing in front of him was more like a "snake" shedding its skin.

But Li Cu could see clearly that it was in the shape of a person.

He calmed down and looked back, only to find that Su Wan had disappeared. It was obvious that at the moment of impact, Su Wan didn't hit as hard as he did and had already run away.