The Lost Tomb : Sea Of Sands

Chapter 121: Life is Better Than Death

The other party continued looking at him without a surprised expression on his face. When Li Cu hit his head the second time, he had little strength left. Just because his brain was lacking didn't mean his body was. Li Cu got an amazing amount of exercise at school, and his body functioned perfectly. He felt so much pain the first time his head connected with the wall, that he instinctively forced himself to limit his strength the second time.

Li Cu didn't hit a third time, because he thought the effect of the blood flowing down from that first hit would be scary enough. When he was in junior high, he had once threatened a teacher by doing the same thing, but he didn't dare do it again after the nine year compulsory classes were over. His previous experience proved that it was quite effective, since this kind of behavior repulsed both those who wanted to hurt him, and those who wanted to help him.

But the other party didn't respond at all, and just watched the blood flow from his cheek to his neck.

If Li Cu thought he had good control over his facial expressions, then this person was either used to this kind of thing, or had the nerves in his face cut off.

"Is that all you can do?" The other side asked indifferently when they saw Li Cu no longer hitting his head.

Li Cu didn't know what to say since he didn't expect such a reaction. He instantly wondered whether his behavior was too childish.

In the world of adults or big bad guys, were these tricks too useless?

The other party sat down in front of him and said, "I don't want to do this, but if you're trying to tell us through this behavior that you're an uncontrollable person who will hurt himself at any time, then I can only say thank you." He cracked his neck and then continued: "There's no denying that you're very important to us, so we won't let you die. I don't know what impact the people you've met before have had on you, but compared with these past few months, it's impossible to change your nature. So I still have confidence in you, but unfortunately, you're unstable, so I have to take some precautions."

He held out his hand. Not only were his fingers long, but his joints were also strange, and seemed a little too developed. "I'll crush your spine from—"

He pointed his finger at Li Cu's chest, right under his collarbone, "I can start from here and paralyze the lower part, or lower it to your waist so it's very difficult for you to hurt yourself. It depends on you. Or, I can split it up and start with your waist. If you still don't obey, I'll crush it all the way up to your chest. If you still want to keep going after that, I can only start from your cervical vertebra, and then you'll only be able to move your eyes and tongue."

"Even so, I'll lick myself to death!" Li Cu said.

After he spoke, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat as he thought about what Wu Xie had said. These people wouldn't be frightened.

Sure enough, when the man had finished speaking, he pulled Li Cu up, held his finger to his spine, and began to poke each section one by one.

"Where do you want to start?"

Li Cu's cold sweat was accompanied by the itching sensation on his back, giving him goosebumps. He was quickly regretting opening his big mouth.

At that moment, the man suddenly applied pressure, and stopped his finger somewhere on Li Cu's back.

Li Cu realized that the other party had obviously felt the scar on his back.

The terrible scar Huang Yan had carved on him had already scabbed over and fallen off, but it was impossible for such a serious and shocking injury not to leave any traces. His original skin had been split open, and looked just like a snake shedding its skin.

The man tore Li Cu's clothes off his back, turned on a light to look at the scar, and then began shouting in that language Li Cu didn't understand.

In an instant, the onlookers got out of the way, and someone walked out of the darkness. The two men looked at Li Cu's back and started a heated dialogue.

Li Cu could feel the saliva from both sides raining down on his back. Neither of them regarded him as a human being, just as a living document. The two people behind him were just like Su Wan and the nerd at the front desk discussing problem-solving methods.

The man left after half a cigarette's time, but then all the black-clad men around him put their lights on the highest setting and shined them on his body.

The whole space was completely illuminated.

Li Cu wanted to ask another question, but restrained himself this time. He suddenly realized that everything Wu Xie had done could have worked out just like this.

He couldn't fully understand these people's behavior, but when he saw them start abandoning their wide-scale exploration of all the mine shafts, and start specially marking some of the shafts according to the figure on his back, he knew his scar must be very important. Maybe it showed the location of something along the lines of jade or pearls.

Sure enough, they soon began to transport equipment and people to one of the mine shafts, and then he was picked up and carried again.

"It seems that I really misunderstood you." The other side said. "It's really impossible you don't know what we're doing, and we were using the wrong method." He stopped the bleeding on Li Cu's head and added, "You don't have to hurt yourself anymore."

With that, all the black-clad men began jumping into the shaft.

Li Cu broke out in a cold sweat as he finally started to understand Wu Xie's various tricks. But he also understood their uncertainty.

He didn't know whether it was a secret place or an exit, but it seemed that the picture on his back enabled them to find wherever they wanted to go, and they obviously strongly believed in it.

These people didn't trust others so easily, so what Wu Xie had carved onto his back must have been valuable.

But was that really the case?

He really didn't think Wu Xie would be kind enough to engrave such crucial things on his back, and let his sworn enemies take advantage of it.

Wu Xie didn't explain this part of the plan to him, only telling him that the first step was to get out of the desert alive.

But he kept feeling like that couldn't be right. Wu Xie wasn't someone with a one-track mind and a single purpose; he had a diverse way of thinking, and once everything was arranged, it gave off a feeling that there were many possibilities.

But Li Cu quickly became distracted, because the mine shaft they went down was very narrow.

When Li Cu was dropped down, he was protected by people on both sides, so that his fall would be uninterrupted and wouldn't affect his wound.

This allowed him to remain alert, and concentrate on observing the mine shaft walls.

He finally noticed the real situation in these mine shafts, and the more he looked, the weirder he felt. There were a lot of depressions about the size of soccer balls on the walls, showing that something had obviously been dug out. At the same time, he could see that there were quite a few white grid-like things in these depressions. A closer look revealed that they seemed to be cast-off snake skins, and almost every depression had them.

What was going on? The things excavated in this mine weren't actually minerals, but were snakes? Or, were snakes using these mine shafts as nests?