The Lost Tomb Vol. 1

Chapter 23: Inner and Outer Coffins

My eyes were instantly transfixed and I couldn't look away at all. But even though I couldn't turn my head and it felt like I was in a trance, I didn't start hallucinating. I wondered if my mind remained clear because I had swallowed that copper scale from the belt.

At this time, I suddenly heard the sound of Uncle Three and the others rushing over and thought to myself, this is bad! They haven't experienced this fox corpse's sorcery and don't know how powerful it is. If they recklessly rush over, something will definitely happen. I wanted to shout a warning to them but it felt like something was stuck in my throat. I opened my mouth and tried to speak but no words came out at all. I became so anxious that it felt as if my veins were going to burst.

Then, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration as I realized that my hands could move a little bit. I immediately made a gun gesture with both hands and pointed them at the fox corpse's head. I kept pointing while shouting in my heart, Pan Zi, you have to be smart this time! If you can't even understand this gesture, then go eat shit and die!

After I made the gesture a few times, a gunshot rang out from behind me and the green-eyed fox corpse's head exploded right before my eyes. But my mouth had still been open at that time so the corpse fluid splashed right on my face and in my mouth. I immediately began to vomit; this stuff tasted even more disgusting than shit. After nearly puking my guts out, I looked back and saw Pan Zi in the distance. He was covering his wound with one hand and making an OK gesture at me with the other hand. I silently cursed at him as I used my sleeve to wipe the corpse fluid off of my face.

Uncle Three was still quite far from the sacrificial altar and vines were covering the ground the whole way, which made the situation very dangerous. But he came up with a clever idea to get around those vines by using stones to lure them away. Once they were distracted, he and the others were able to safely make it over and were soon climbing up the sacrificial altar.

He was very worried something had happened to me and immediately came over to see if I was ok, but he frowned and started gagging as soon as he got a whiff of me. I was annoyed with him at first, but when I saw him acting like that, I immediately jumped on him and gave him a big hug. He was so disgusted that he nearly fell off the sacrificial altar.

Seeing that they were all safe and sound, I suddenly remembered what had happened before and asked, "Uncle Three, why did you guys ditch me in the main tomb chamber and run away? You scared the shit out of me! How could you expect me to stay alone in that damned place?"

Uncle Three listened to me complaining and then smacked Da Kui on the back of the head, "I told this fucking guy not to touch anything but he wouldn't listen." Then he told me what had happened to them in more detail.

As it turned out, they saw a recessed wall in that other ear chamber. Generally, when there was a recessed wall in an ancient tomb, it meant that there must be a hidden room behind it. They obviously didn't expect all of the trapdoors in this ancient tomb to open downwards, but Uncle Three was a shrewd man. He was able to find the mechanism at a glance, but unfortunately, Da Kui moved before Uncle Three had time to figure out how it worked. As soon as Da Kui triggered the mechanism, they all fell down into the Western Zhou Dynasty tomb on the floor below, just like us. After that, the plot seemed to become very convoluted and bizarre. The more Uncle Three talked, the more outrageous it became and I wound up so confused that I begged him to stop.

"If you don't believe me, just take a look at this," Uncle Three said before taking a black box out of his bag. There was a snapping sound and then the box magically turned into a gun. I was shocked when I saw it because I had done a little research on guns before and knew that this gun was very famous.

It was a 9 mm Ares folding submachine gun, which used bullets the size of Chunghwa cigarettes.(1) It weighed less than three kilograms so it was easy to use, but of course, this gun's small size also meant that it wasn't very accurate.