The Lost Tomb : Sea Of Sands

Chapter 118: Waiting

The scene goes back to the time when they were surrounded by the snakes and cypress vines in the filtration pool room. Black Glasses took decisive action after Li Cu and Su Wan were dragged away, and the situation became very chaotic.

At that time, he told Yang Hao and Liang Wan that jumping into the pool was their only chance of survival. He then told Yang Hao to find his way to an exit, because a large rescue force was already up there, and he had to report to them immediately.

In these complicated underground passages, the way in which the main path reached all of the exits was very clear— namely, the temperature control valve at the top of the tunnel.

The temperature of the pipes connected to the vent was much higher than that of other pipes, so the regulating valve here was used to monitor the temperature of each section of pipes. When warm air poured in, and the temperature rose to a certain degree, the thermometer at the top of the pipeline would tip over and close the switch. When the number of closures reached a certain amount, indicating that the temperature was too high, the vents would be notified and closed.

This instrument was very simple and practical, but most of the temperature control valves had been damaged due to long-term neglect. When something crawled over the controller, it would tip the thermometer over and make a sound similar to walking clogs.

Because this system on the main path was used very frequently, the broken control valves connecting the vents had been closed after the power was cut off. So as long as you found the closed control valves and followed them the whole way out, you could find the exit.

This was a simple, but time-consuming job, and Yang Hao's presence could give them a chance at winning.

Of course, this wasn't the only opportunity. Wu Xie obviously never wasted any chess pieces when thinking about these kinds of problems.

There were so many arrangements, that Black Glasses had to wait until Wu Xie gave him a hint before he really understood. This was also the reason why he had some inexplicable confidence in that guy.

He didn't think there was anything Wu Xie hadn't planned for when it came to this matter.

For example, Yang Hao's absorbent coat. After the coat absorbed water, the dripping time had to match the length of the tunnel here exactly.

Wu Xie had the perfect idea, so all he needed to do was preemptively put a designated jacket in Yang Hao's hands without any flaws.

Wu Sanxing's extensive investments outside the industry included several clothing brands. Advertisements and discount coupons of the brands were advertised in newspapers near Yang Hao's home, along with the types of magazines that Yang Hao's girlfriend liked to read. There were even new models and designs that matched Yang Hao's appearance.

Luckily, Yang Hao ripped his coat while playing soccer, and his birthday was coming up.

Even though all these things were linked together one by one, they were merely a category that needed to be factored into the plan, a mere possibility in the deduction process.

Who knew that the materials used in a garment would save them at least three hours of escape time now.

Unfortunately, there was still an uncontrollable situation—Li Cu's C4 explosion. If not for that, he would have been facing his fate very calmly and energetically, ready to face the next chaotic situation while at his best.

With the help of the dim glow from the luminol and blood stains, they stumbled to a wellhead.

Not every wellhead would lead to an exit, but this one showed the bloodstains leading up, not down.

Su Wan looked up at the tiny beams that looked like sunlight, and suddenly burst into tears. He wiped his eyes and said, "I will definitely do well in the college entrance examination, because I climbed out of the grave to review. God will be moved by me."

Black Glasses looked up over his head. Without fail, his aversion to sunlight would slightly be alleviated around this time. Su Wan wanted to climb up, but Black Glasses pulled him back and said: "Not yet."

"Doesn't every minute count?"

"Do I not have a respected position now?" Black Glasses asked. "How many hours are left of the three day deadline Wu Xie gave?"

"There are ten more hours before we reach seventy-two hours."

"There are still ten hours left... these ten hours may be the hardest ten hours of our lives."

"More difficult than the previous two and a half days?" Su Wan's face turned white.

"Most of my work during those two and a half days was to stand there and be cool." Black Glasses said: "For the next ten hours, the both of us will have to roll and crawl for our lives." At this point, the both of them saw that the light and shadows coming down had changed a little.

The light and shadows were formed by sunlight shooting down from the small gap above, so the change here could only have one cause— someone was walking up there, and their shadow was blocking the light.

Black Glasses made a gesture to be quiet and told Su Wan to listen carefully. Su Wan heard someone talking.

And that person wasn't alone. Listening to the sound, the area above was so noisy that he couldn't judge the situation. But it seemed like it was quite lively up there.

"Our goal in Beijing has also been achieved." Black Glasses whispered. "I hope they're still alive. Let's go. We can't get out for the time being, so we have to find a place to hide."

"Who are those people?" Su Wan was going a little crazy, "I don't care, I want to go out and surrender. I can't stand being down here any longer."

"These people came for money. They think a huge amount of wealth is hidden here." Black Glasses said. "Listening to their movements, there must be a lot of them, and they're packed like sardines."

According to Wu Xie, the most important people of this century were surrounded by those who had already gone stark raving mad in a tomb. This may be a scene the family couldn't imagine for several generations.

Even if Wu Xie called these people "herded sheep", now their reason and logic had been consumed by vast wealth, just like how hungry people could take food from lions. These people wouldn't be swayed by so-called fate. There was nothing that could calm them down and get them to use their brains to think about the current problems.

"Are these three days for those people to surround this place?" Su Wan asked surprised.

"Regarding that, I can only see through the surface now." Black Glasses said, but now he was also looking forward to the future. He couldn't understand what would happen after that, but he knew Wu Xie must have thought of all the possibilities that would happen later.

Xie Yuchen's interaction with Liang Wan was so secretive and ingenious, that if these people outside found out about it, Liang Wan would become very suspicious.

Liang Wan, who was walking towards the depths of the tomb, would be the focus of their tracking, and while she didn't take the floor plans out of that dark room in Chang'an Town, everything else she had done afterwards must have been exposed.

Wu Xie destroyed the information gap among those people, so now the mad dogs outside had the floor plan here, along with Yang Hao who knew the situation inside. Their desire to track Liang Wan—equal to their desire to enter the core part of the tomb—was the surface he had seen.

The most obvious and key point was that Wu Xie didn't give anyone any breathing space— neither his opponents, his own people, not even himself.