The Lost Tomb : Sea Of Sands

Chapter 106: Ringing Tunnel

The sound of the phone continued to ring in the hollow tunnel, its echo seeming to explode in all directions.

For a time, Liang Wan's head was still dizzy, and she was in a strange state between hearing the sound and not hearing it. The phone rang rhythmically, but it seemed as if it came from some corner of her brain, and all she had to do was shut the door and ignore it.

Just like when you're driving a car, she suddenly woke up with a start and shook her head. Once she was awake, she realized that the ringing had become very real.

She breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and then walked towards the direction of the ringing sound, finding that it was coming from behind a door set in the left wall of the tunnel.

The door was very similar to the one for the room where she had bathed earlier, which meant that it should be just as Black Glasses had said and the room had the same use.

The ringing was clearly coming from inside.

Liang Wan's hands trembled a little. She didn't care no matter what mysterious things happened in this place, but she still felt that this kind of thing was really strange.

This was a building complex under the desert. The buildings might have been used for mysterious purposes, but they were large-scale and had very strange structures.

All the clues pointed to here. The complex was built in the 1980s and had been abandoned for a long time. Although it seemed as if many people were interested in it, it was still rather outrageous to install a phone here.

After she opened the door, she took a few steps back, and shined her flashlight inside the room.

It was dark inside, but she could see several desks lined up neatly, piled with dust-coated papers that looked similar to archive records. She could see some more pieces of paper scattered on the ground, along with some ashes.

There was also a pool at the other end of the room, but it didn't have any water. All she could see was a lot of charcoal and ashes from burned paper.

They had clearly burned a lot of paper here.

The phone was still ringing regularly from where it sat on the third desk.

Everything was covered in a very thick layer dust, except for the area around the phone, and the phone itself. The dust had been diligently wiped off, leaving a clean circle behind.

Someone had been here and made this arrangement.

Liang Wan's head began to ache, and she hesitated for a few seconds before picking up the phone.

"Miss Liang Wan?" A voice from the phone immediately asked. "You're so slow to answer the phone."

Liang Wan didn't recognize the voice, but when she heard her name, she looked around and suddenly felt that this whole thing was completely absurd.

What was going on? Was this a middle school prank?

"Confused?" The other side asked. "Say something to let me be sure that you're actually Liang Wan."

"Who are you?" Liang Wan asked. The voice on the phone was very distorted.

"I'm glad to hear your voice, how have you been recently? It's not what you imagined, right?" The other side said. "This is the only phone line here, and the only way to contact the outside world after you enter this desert. There are only four people who know this line, plus you now. Since you picked up the phone here, I want to be the first to congratulate you."

Liang Wan looked at the floor plans in her hand and suddenly realized that this was all part of Black Glasses' trick.

This wasn't a safe route, but one that would definitely result in her receiving this call.

She hung the phone up with a "pa". She didn't like being a pawn in someone else's game, and didn't want to cooperate even if it was important.

When the phone rang again, she wanted to turn around and go. But she suddenly realized that if this line wasn't a normal one, then where else could she go? Back to Black Glasses to give him two hard slaps and a big fight?

She turned around and went to grab the phone again, but was so irritated that she didn't pick it up in time. If Black Glasses had asked her to come here to pick up the phone, then there must be a reason, maybe even an important one that might be to her own advantage.

The person on the phone, however, didn't see himself as a normal person of equal standing.

She was already on the verge of collapse because of the situation. Maybe such a scene was nothing for these people, but she was an ordinary person. In any case, talking to her with such a contemptuous tone while she was in such a state made her feel a little angry.

If you want to take advantage of me, at least know your position. Not everyone is willing to be taken advantage of under such circumstances. Even if she knew the person on the phone may be the key to her getting back alive, she still didn't want to bow down and worship this last hope.

Many of those who studied medicine had heard of Stockholm Syndrome to some extent, after all.

Liang Wan's resolve was very firm. She would follow the tragic result, but she was the one who would make the choice once she thought about the problem.

The phone continued to ring, but Liang Wan left the room. She looked at the floor plan and decided to follow the route Black Glasses had shown her before.

This was her own desire– to see what the core part of these buildings looked like.

She turned and continued to walk down the tunnel.

Because of this, she didn't see that there was actually a black shadow hiding in the corner above and behind the third desk where she had answered the phone.

The shadow slowly came out, hunched over at the waist as if it didn't have any shoulders, and then completely dropped down, hanging suspended for a moment.

The phone rang again as the shadow walked over, but then the sound was cut off as shadow yanked the line out of the phone.

On the Sichuan-Tibet border, a car had just entered a rest stop to get some gas.

Wu Xie had taken off his coat and was bathing in the highly penetrating Tibetan sunlight as a lama.

He needed to be a little darker.

Wang Meng was beside him, busy talking on the phone. His face changed a little, and he turned back to Wu Xie and said, "The line's been cut. That bitch hung up on me."

"You think you're in charge of the situation, and unconsciously reveal your superiority with your tone of voice." Wu Xie said. "Beautiful women are very sensitive to this sense of superiority because they become very familiar with it as they grow up."

"Boss, you don't have enough credibility to say such things. You don't even have a girlfriend." Wang Meng retorted. "What now?"

Wu Xie looked down at the magnificent scenery at the foot of the mountain. They had made their way up, and unwittingly reached such a high ridge. The same was true of people. Without knowing it, they reached a situation where even they became afraid.

In the process of flipping through the stack of photos that Lan Ting had handed him at that time, he saw a few key photos mixed in. All the way up to the present, from an incredibly inescapable net, to a seemingly naive plan that everyone despised at every step, to finding that one correct step hidden within a hundred silly tricks... it had all accumulated to this moment. His opponent had finally begun to feel fear.

Unfortunately, many things were just like human blood. A mere blockage in a blood vessel was negligible to a system so complicated that it had many twists and turns all over the place.

"There are still twenty-four hours to tighten the net." Wu Xie looked at his watch and said, "When we arrive in Motuo, it'll all be over."