Chapter 129: Unknown Fear

Take a closer look? Su Rou and Ling Ruyue both began carefully examining the snake skeleton after hearing my words. Su Rou looked for a long time but found nothing unusual, while Ling Ruyue only took a brief look before her expression changed to the same fear and worry as mine.

“What exactly is going on?” Su Rou said unhappily. He really had not noticed anything wrong.

“You are so stupid. Did you not see it earlier? There are very obvious gnaw marks on these bones, which means tooth marks,” Ling Ruyue said. Because of her fear, her voice turned sharp when speaking to Su Rou, no longer as cute as usual.

“Tooth marks? So what if there are tooth marks? Is that enough to make you all so scared…” Suddenly, Su Rou stopped talking. He jumped up and said, “That means such a huge and powerful snake was eaten by something else?!”

I really admired Su Rou. With such a large mass of flesh, he could still jump that high.

Yes. When I accidentally touched the snake bones earlier, I already felt some unevenness. That feeling was very obvious. When I pulled my hand away from the bone’s chilling cold, I subconsciously took another look and discovered those gnawing tooth marks.

Then, on closer inspection, there were even more of them. Facing Su Rou’s excitement, I said, “The worst part is not this. The fact that Hei Man was eaten here means the thing that ate it is inside this tomb.”

“To be able to eat a Hei Man, its strength must be far greater than Hei Man,” Ling Ruyue added.

“Stop talking. You are making my skin crawl. At least I know what that big snake is, so I had some sense of it, but…” Su Rou could not continue.

At that moment, a loud metallic sound suddenly echoed through the empty tomb chamber.

Clang.

The three of us exchanged a terrified look at the same time. Su Rou stammered at me, “San Wa Er, use the Heavenly Eye and take a look.”

There was no time to look anymore. I grabbed Su Rou with one hand and Ling Ruyue with the other and shouted, “Run!”

As I spoke, I dragged them both back toward the way we came. I knew that if there was any safe place, it was only there.

The two of them instinctively followed me. Behind us came an even louder crashing sound.

Bang.

That sound was definitely not coming from the hall, but from somewhere else in the tomb. But I had no curiosity left at all. Not even a bit.

We ran with all our strength. We were practically performing beyond our normal limits. Although the earth passage was filled with human bones that made us stumble, we still crawled and rolled our way back to the previous chamber beneath the crack.

“San Wa Er, how do we get up there?” Su Rou shouted anxiously.

I panted and roared back, “No need to go up. I have a way!”

As I spoke, I snatched Ling Ruyue’s oil lamp and rushed to the stone doorway, feeling around carefully.

At this moment, something even worse happened. We heard a loud roar, and we had no idea what it was. Ling Ruyue, after all, was still a young girl. She suddenly cried out, “I want Grandma, I want my sister…”

Su Rou could only pant heavily beside me. He was already panicking and had no time to comfort her.

Stay calm. I took a deep breath and forced myself to stay calm. Finally, I found what I was looking for and pressed it hard.

The entire chamber trembled, and a stone door crashed down with a heavy boom.

As the stone door fell, a small sense of safety returned to us. I exhaled tiredly and sat down in front of Su Rou and Ling Ruyue.

“Master once said that you must bear the consequences of the causes you create yourself. Whether the result is good or bad depends on your attitude toward it. We chose to enter this tomb ourselves, so now we must bear the outcome. Ling Ruyue, stop crying,” I said. This was both to Ling Ruyue and to myself.

Ling Ruyue sobbed a few times and finally stopped crying. Her face was completely smeared from the chaotic escape, covering her delicate features.

Su Rou sighed and silently took out a kitchen knife and a rolling pin. After choosing, he handed me the rolling pin.

“San Wa Er, my dad said that having something in your hand makes you feel more confident when fighting. I do not know what kind of thing is outside, but if we cannot stop it, we will fight it to the end,” Su Rou said.

Su Rou never lacked that kind of reckless spirit. Otherwise, he would not have been the leader of the troublemakers at the market town middle school. He had fought his way into that position.

I gripped the rolling pin tightly and nodded. At a time like this, there was only one option left: fight to the death. The best thing about youth was that there was always that reckless courage.

Besides, Master had once said that anything with a physical body could be affected by physical attacks, no matter what kind of demons or monsters it was.

In Master’s stories, even that powerful yellow weasel had been badly injured after being beaten by a group of people.

After calming down, Ling Ruyue wiped her tearstained face. Her face looked even messier now, but no one cared anymore. Even she herself did not care.

“Third Brother, how did you know there was a door here?” she asked.

“There,” I said, pointing at the mural text.

“The man said he was very skilled with mechanisms and discovered that this crude tomb actually had a stone door mechanism, almost like a small Dragon-Sealing Stone. He did not know why it was here, but to escape the giant snake, he hid here and closed this stone door. In the end, he could not endure hunger and thirst and decided to rush out. His fate is unknown, and he left this message behind.”

Ling Ruyue nodded and fell silent, lost in thought.

Su Rou took out steamed buns from his bag and handed them to us.

“Eat first. After eating, we will have the strength to fight for our lives,” he said.

At that moment, waves of vibration came from beneath where we were sitting. Listening carefully, there were faint and unclear footsteps.

What kind of thing could produce such terrifying vibrations?

Su Rou grew tense, and the bun in his hand was almost crushed.

Ling Ruyue said, “Third Brother, you are too panicked. You missed something. The crack above our heads was not there when the man left the message. Otherwise, a two meter gap would not have trapped him to death here.”

Su Rou said without looking up, “So what does that prove?”

“It proves we can get out from here. That stone door can help us block that monster,” I said suddenly, excitement rising in me as I shoved the buns and rolling pin back into Su Rou’s bag.

The vibrations on the ground grew stronger and stronger, and the footsteps became clearer.

I immediately shouted, “Su Rou, you go up first. I will lift you. I will not be able to pull you up afterward.”

With a thread of hope for survival, anyone would cling to it desperately. The gap was only about two meters high. I first lifted Su Rou up with effort, then picked up Ling Ruyue. Su Rou pulled from above and helped her up as well.

Finally, I took a deep breath and said, “Su Rou, hold the oil lamp steady. I will take a few steps back and jump up. Just grab me when I reach you.”

“Alright,” Su Rou nodded heavily.

Fortunately, I had trained my agility before. While not a master, my jumping ability was still stronger than an ordinary person’s.

I kept retreating until I reached the stone door area. Taking a deep breath, I was about to run and jump when a violent tremor suddenly shook the ground, and I fell over without warning.

I heard very clear thump thump thump footsteps. They sounded uneven, almost as if the steps were not continuous. I could not describe the feeling.

But those footsteps were not on the blue brick floor. They were dull, like they were stepping on earth.

“San Wa Er!” Su Rou shouted from above. He and Ling Ruyue could hear it too.

I forced myself to stay calm and stood up again. At that moment, the stone door behind me also began to shake. That thing actually knew we were here. How did it know?

Everything in this ancient tomb was full of mystery.

There was no time to think. I started running. Wind rushed past my ears. Just as I reached the wall, I pushed off hard and leapt upward. Su Rou caught me, but the force was so strong that it nearly dragged him off the ground, almost pulling him back down as well.

“Su Rou, hold tight!” my wrist hurt from his grip as I shouted.

“Do not worry. Even if someone up there wants my life, I will not let go!” Su Rou said through clenched teeth.