Imperial Treasure
Chapter 117 - 92 Ghostly Thing

Chapter 117: Chapter 92 Ghostly Thing

"I say, Miss Sui Yi, you rarely speak, so why is it that when you do, it’s so horrifying!"

"Sui Yi, how long has your family’s ancestral tomb been built?" Ninth Miss’s voice sounded somewhat strange.

Sui Yi couldn’t be bothered to explain that she wasn’t from this family, so after a thought, she replied, "No more than thirty years."

Specifically, she wasn’t sure.

Ninth Miss didn’t need an exact figure, she just uttered a light exclamation and said coolly, "But for this Human-faced Moss to grow so large, it would need at least a hundred years or more."

The original silence immediately turned into dead stillness, as the people hanging on the ropes all subconsciously gripped tighter onto their ropes.

Ninth Miss’s words were even more horrifying.

Just as everyone’s hearts were getting cold and they were on guard, someone suddenly spoke up weakly, "Hey, do any of you feel like these faces are moving?"

The remark was so sudden and eerie that Sui Yi reflexively looked at the stone wall. On the stone wall, those mossy faces seemed to have all split their mouths and opened their eyes wide, and even their ears and skulls were giving off green dots... and a buzzing sound...

"Not good! Something’s crawling out!"

Feng Sha urgently shouted, inside the Human-faced Moss there were living bugs or something like that, and with the buzzing so dense, it was likely they could fly!

Ninth Miss’s face changed slightly, "Put on the head covers! Quick!"

Their outerwear hats were connected to thin membrane masks that could block some biting insects, only to hold off for a while, because the oxygen inside could only last for so long.

And indeed... one by one, the green dots flew out of the Human-faced Moss, heading toward them...

Sui Yi had good eyesight, as far as she could see, those dense green dots looked like a swarm of green flies, fluttering their thin wings...

For insects that could live in such a place, there was bound to be something strange about them, and getting pinned by them was no comfortable matter.

"Speed up!"

No sooner had Ninth Miss commanded than they heard someone scream in agony, letting go of the rope and plummeting into the black hole below...

The sound of a body falling into the abyss ended with a muffled thump.

"It’s Xiao Wang," Feng Sha said.

Falling down meant certain death, yet to fall after just such a bite...

Facing these little bugs, swords, knives, and guns all seemed useless. Could it be they are to perish before even exploring the Ancient Tomb?

"Turn off the lights at your waist!" Sui Yi suddenly exclaimed!

"What?"

"These little bugs are coming towards the light~~ We just shone the light on these Human-faced Moss, that’s what made them crawl out... Turn off the lights!"

Sui Yi had already turned off the light at her waist before. When Ninth Miss looked at her, she indeed saw very few bugs around her.

Off!

At her command, the sounds of switches clicking off rang out one after another. Then came the buzzing sound, along with the cold wind rushing up from the bottom. In everyone’s heart was a block of ice with a dead fish inside, its cold, fishy scent slowly fermenting.

The buzzing sound thinned out and disappeared after a while.

Ninth Miss let out a soft breath and privately thought bringing Sui Yi along was indeed wise; this woman was quite adept.

That’s when Feng Sha suddenly asked, "How long has it been since we last heard from Brother Ma and the others?"

After a silence, Ninth Miss heard herself say, "Get ready."

The cold wind below grew stronger, and the air more humid, indicating they were reaching the bottom.

Since they didn’t know whether there was more Human-faced Moss, they didn’t turn on the lights, each gripping their guns tight. Sui Yi had also been given a finely crafted pistol; she wasn’t familiar with this kind of thing and didn’t know the model. She had fired it before and it had been clipped to her waist ever since. Presently, she also pulled out the gun; it was naturally more effective for distant attacks than a sword.

With a click, as Feng Sha’s toes first touched the icy, damp ground, both Sui Yi and Ninth Miss had also stepped down. Sui Yi’s first reaction was to feel her boots slip against something slick as mucous, so she prodded it slightly with the tip of her sword, followed by a whiff of blood mixed with a wave of stench rising up.

"There’s blood!"

Ninth Miss responded faster, immediately turning on the light at her waist. The light had barely shone when it captured long shadows surging from both sides of the pathways towards them.

The figures were slender with what seemed to be four paws and long dragging tails—unidentifiable animals.

They moved swiftly and appeared ferocious.

Swish, swish, swish!

Gunfire erupted simultaneously!

Muzzles flashed, and black shadows struck by the bullets howled; Sui Yi watched as two shadows rushing at Ninth Miss were either blown several meters away by the bullet or fell to the ground.

It was clear that Ninth Miss’s marksmanship was extremely deadly.

As for herself...

She fired two shots, both off course.

Unaccustomed, extremely unaccustomed.

"Idiot!" Ninth Miss spat, but she rushed toward Sui Yi,

Sui Yi directly slipped the gun into her waistband as an approaching shadow brought a pungent smell to her face, and she opened her backpack...

Could it be that she planned to use menthol oil to ward off these creatures?

A row of sharp teeth, reminiscent of a crocodile’s, emerged right before Sui Yi’s eyes.

"Idiot, get out of the way, I’ll shoot..." Just as Ninth Miss was aiming her gun at the dark figure, a cold and narrow light suddenly slashed diagonally across the creature’s head.

Pfft~~

Blood sprayed out as Sui Yi turned around and delivered a flying kick, sending another dark figure that had crept up behind her flying away. It was almost the size of a hyena, but with such a kick, it was sent flying seven or eight meters away, crashing heavily to the ground.

With a flick of the wrist, the Xiezhi Dagger spun several times in her hand. Her footsteps slid away as she moved swiftly, and with a few swift puffs, it was like chopping cabbage with a kitchen knife.

One by one, the dark figures couldn’t even make a single move in Sui Yi’s hands before they were all lying in a pool of blood on the ground, either bleeding or howling with broken legs...

"Impressive!" exclaimed Ninth Miss, shocked, but with a laugh.

"Mutual."

"Heh, I was talking about your knife."

"I was talking about your gun, and also, this is a dagger."

Hmph!

Ninth Miss snorted as each bullet she fired sent one of the dark figures into the abyss, even though they moved like specters in the darkness.

Sui Yi, the girl who didn’t use a gun, was actually more lethal than the rest of them. The members of Feng Sha felt a bit ashamed and began to focus earnestly, backing up against each other to deal with the dark figures rushing from all sides.

But the more they fought, the more difficult it became.

"It seems like there’s more and more of them!" Zhang Wei, the young man with the sallow and greenish complexion, spat out.

"The blood has attracted them... Damn, did Brother Ma and the others all die?"

"Those creatures have very sharp teeth... My hand was scratched, and it hurts like hell!" complained the chubby Han Gao, cursing under his breath.

The three doctors were no slouches in shooting, at least better than Sui Yi. One of them, Lin Feng, seeing this scene, said, "Based on the species characteristics of these subterranean community-dwelling creatures, they won’t disperse as long as there is still food, no matter how many of their kind have died..."

Upon hearing this, Ninth Miss made an immediate decision.

Retreat!

"Miss, I’m afraid it’s too late to retreat..."

The dark figures on both sides were dense.

Sui Yi and Ninth Miss exchanged glances.

A narrow escape from death.

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As the Xiezhi Dagger made a turn in Sui Yi’s hand, the chill became more intense.

As Ninth Miss reloaded her gun.

A new wave of dark figures was already charging at them, and they chose to break through the row on their right.

Because of "men left, women right"—that was Ninth Miss’s reasoning.

Rip... When the Xiezhi Dagger split open a leaping dark figure in mid-air, the smell of rancid blood water spread all around.

Sui Yi and Ninth Miss led the way, quickly blazing a bloody trail, while behind them, the dark figures chased after them furiously...

Everyone tried to minimize talking to maintain their pace. Streams of light ahead swept out a path, but didn’t give the group time to determine which was the best escape route—the easiest path was the best!

Huffing and puffing, the three doctors with the poorest physical condition soon couldn’t handle it and slowed down their running speed. When Sui Yi looked back, she saw a man being pounced on by three dark figures, and amid his screams, he was dragged into the swarm of shadows.

Ninth Miss and the others couldn’t even rescue him before they saw his skeleton laid bare as he was gnawed on...

"Ugh~" Lin Feng felt a surge of nausea, but Feng Sha grabbed him and pulled him forward to run with all his might!

The fear of death inexorably drew out their potential.

Run, sprint!

"There’s a river ahead!"

A river, an underground river, where the water burbled in the light of their lamps, shimmering, but from this side, the river seemed not too deep. Sui Yi and the others had no time to worry about what might be in the river; they treaded the waters toward the riverbank. As they stepped in, the water that submerged their calves was ice-cold, biting to the bone. Underground water was always chilling, but no one cared now; everyone was running for their lives, and behind them...

"Those damn creatures don’t dare to enter the water!"

"Bloody hell! Just as I thought, none of them dare to come over..."

Feng Sha and the others breathed a collective sigh of relief.

At last, they had gotten rid of those terrifying things.

Shining the light on these eerie creatures, Feng Sha finally saw clearly that each of the dark figures was very peculiar, with heads like Tihu Heads, a meter-long beak filled with rows of sharp, neat teeth, a lizard-like body, beefy hind limbs, and short forelimbs...

"These things look like dinosaurs!"

"Underground creatures are always strange, with many mutants... Let’s get to the shore quickly," said Ninth Miss, not convinced that these creatures were dinosaurs—as if this was some kind of sci-fi novel. Besides, the environmental conditions here were not suitable for dinosaurs. But... that Human-faced Moss still made her feel uncomfortable, so she involuntarily glanced over at Sui Yi.

At that moment, Sui Yi was frowning and looking down at the river water.

"What’s wrong?" Ninth Miss had just asked when she saw Sui Yi’s expression suddenly change dramatically...

"The sand in the river is moving..."

Ah!

Lin Feng screamed, and like a man being dragged into the depths of Hell by evil spirits, he disappeared into the river, which was only deep enough to cover the calves. (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit qidian.com to cast your recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)