The Lost Tomb Vol. 1

Chapter 61: Qimen Dunjia

The huge figure was almost as tall as the stele. She could vaguely make out a head and neck that seemed no different from any human, but the figure's posture as it stood there was very strange. The way that it was hunched over at the waist was enough to make people's hair stand on end.

Chen Wen-Jin immediately broke out in a cold sweat. The group of students was standing where the stone steps met the bottom of the pool, only five steps away from the giant. The distance was neither long nor short, which left them in an awkward situation. The fog continued to swirl around the bottom of the pool but all they had were a few lower-powered flashlights so it was impossible to see whether this thing was a human or a ghost. Plus, there were so many people in their group and they had searched all over the area just now. The bottom of the pool was only ten meters wide, and there was nothing else to be found other than the four Sea-Calming Monkeys in the center and the blank stele. When did this huge "man" appear here? Nobody knew.

And this damn Zhang Qiling seemed to be completely unaware of it as he continued staring at the stele in fascination. Chen Wen-Jin clenched her teeth in anger and annoyance. She didn't know what he was studying, but as one of the people in charge, she knew couldn't just leave him here. With no idea what to do in the present situation, she turned to the people behind her and told them not to move.

After five or six minutes, the giant "man" was still hiding within the fog, as if he had no intention of taking any action.

At this time, Huo Ling couldn't bear it anymore and whispered, "Brother Zhang, what are you doing? Stop standing there like an idiot and come over here quickly."

Chen Wen-Jin was so frightened that she immediately moved to shut her up. Zhang Qiling was too close to that thing. If the situation suddenly changed, it would be difficult to get away considering how that thing was only two steps away from him. The best course of action was to temporarily maintain the status quo.

Chen Wen-Jin quickly analyzed the figure. Although there were many dangerous things in ancient tombs, as long as you knew what you were up against, you would naturally have a way to deal with it. It was when you were in danger but still hadn't figured out what you were up against that you would end up dying an unknown death.

After thinking about it, Chen Wen-Jin felt that there wouldn't be any zombies in this place because the ancient tomb's location was very good. The Xisha Islands had rarely been disturbed by humans for hundreds of years. Several ring-shaped islands and reefs dotted the sea's surface but were actually connected underwater, forming a continuous underwater mountain range. These "mountains and rivers" hidden at the bottom of the sea gathered wind and nourished qi, just like a mountain range on land. With a dragon head in the east and a dragon tail in the west, it was a very rare underwater dragon vein.(1) It was said that dragons first lived in water before they flew into the sky, so water dragons were considered slightly more important than mountain dragons when it came to feng shui.

If there was a coffin in such an ideal place, then the owner must have been a really rich and powerful figure. And if this ancient tomb really was built by Wang Zanghai, then he must have been lacking water in his wuxing(2) so he sought to remedy that by being buried in an undersea tomb. This way, there would be ideal harmony between nature, man, and heaven.

So unless all the feng shui books were full of nonsense, there would never be any zombies here. Once Chen Wen-Jin thought of this, she immediately felt relieved. If it wasn't a zombie, then it had to be a person or an animal. And as long as it was a living thing, they had enough people here to catch it, whether it was two meters tall or three meters tall.

At this time, one of the boys spoke up, "Chen Wen-Jin, I think something's off. I remember that one of the stone monkeys should be in that spot. Maybe something is standing on it?"