Imperial Treasure
Chapter 118 - 93: Your Ancestor, Your Ancestor!

Chapter 118: Chapter 93: Your Ancestor, Your Ancestor!

Lin Feng disappeared too eerily, and before Feng Sha could even feel shocked, he felt his body slip into the water, his hands fluttering a couple of times, as the body that was originally submerged up to his calves fell straight in...

The others felt their bodies sinking into a swamp-like quagmire at the same time...

"No!!!!" Someone cried out.

The sound was swallowed up.

Sui Yi with an expressionless face had already been completely dragged into the water by the terrifying riverbed silt.

At first glance, the river indeed didn’t seem deep, but that was under the assumption that the group of "Living Sand" was establishing a foundation; if the Living Sand moved...

It was enough to drag a person deep into the water.

Gurgle gurgle, underwater bubbles rose from below, and with the waist flashlight turned on, sweeping the light around, Sui Yi seemed to see several other people being dragged into the water as well.

It truly felt horrendous underwater, especially since her several near-death experiences had all involved water, and at this moment, it was the same.

It was just uncertain whether she could still turn danger into safety this time...

Sui Yi felt her legs being dragged down relentlessly by the soft yet forceful silt, a brutish strength, and she decisively curled her body, the waist flashlight illuminating these twisting sand creatures, as she saw the earthy yellow silt boil like mud in a swamp, bubbling up with gas...

There was something in the silt!

Sui Yi’s eyes were cold as she, curled up, viciously slashed at the silt on her legs with the Xiezhi Dagger in her hand.

Splat~~

A trace of red surfaced amid the silt.

As expected, the painful and fearful sand tentacles released her legs.

Once freed from the constraints, Sui Yi quickly paddled, heading towards the falling silhouette in front of her.

Gurgle lurl, Ninth Miss with her hair floating in the water, looked like a dying Water Demon, and if her eyes rolled back, she’d be a Water Ghost.

Sui Yi helped her cut off the sand tentacles on her legs, and seeing this, the others also promptly started moving their hands, each curling up like shrimps.

And at that moment...

Ninth Miss’s eyes suddenly widened, staring behind Sui Yi...

"Wuuu wuuu~"

She tugged on Sui Yi’s arm...

As Sui Yi turned her head, she saw a huge... wave of silt.

Smack, it scattered them all in the blink of an eye.

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In the dark and gloomy damp tunnel with seven twists and eight turns, it was unclear which direction was the correct path. In such a place, on a large moss-covered rock, a squirming object lay like a worm, and it was emitting a nauseating...

"Ergh~~~ Ergh~~"

Standing beside, shaking the silt off her clothes, Sui Yi fell silent for a while before finally turning to Ninth Miss, who was lying on the ground, and said, "You’re making it very easy for others to feel sick by doing that."

Ninth Miss immediately turned her face, glaring, "None of your business!"

Despite being pale and weak, she still had her haughtiness.

Sui Yi coolly observed her, glancing under her, "Haven’t you noticed that you’re lying on Human-faced Moss?"

"What!"

Ninth Miss immediately rebounded from the rock but slipped, seemingly about to fall back into the eerie river...

Her collar was pinched by a finger.

Sui Yi looked down at her dispassionately, pulling her up as Ninth Miss grabbed onto her sleeve, still shaken.

"Are you afraid of eels?"

Sui Yi’s question made Ninth Miss’s expression stiffen, she clenched her teeth, "Nonsense! I am not~~"

Stubborn as a mule, Sui Yi turned her face away, checking the gun on her waist and the contents of her backpack...

Having been saved by Sui Yi in the river once before, Ninth Miss had some trust in her abilities, not to mention having been defeated by her twice, she couldn’t maintain her princess attitude and quieted down, scanning the surroundings, and then she was startled.

"That’s not Human-faced Moss! You lied to me!"

"Hmm"

"Can you get any more nonchalant?"

"Oh"

"....."

Sui Yi shook her gun, expelling the water inside, and Ninth Miss rolled her eyes at her, "One glance and I can tell you’re clueless about this. Although this is a Russian revolver, it’s not sophisticated inside, a little water won’t immediately ruin it, but it could still backfire. Do you think guns are rags? Shake it off, wring it out, and it’s good to go?"

Is that so?

Sui Yi fiddled with the handgun for a moment, thought it over, and decided to tuck the gun into the side pocket of her backpack again, while gripping the Xiezhi Dagger, "Based on your experience, which way do you think we should go?"

Just like with guns, she was utterly clueless in this area.

And Feng Sha and the other professionals were also separated from them; now they had no idea where they were, nor which direction to search.

"In this line of work, fate determines life and death. I know you’ve walked this smuggling path before - it makes no sense that you can’t see through this," Ninth Miss spoke with a cool tone, seemingly indifferent about the life and death of Feng Sha and the others.

Sui Yi remained silent. Didn’t care? Just now, she didn’t know who was desperately trying to fish for Feng Sha and the others in the water...

Acting tough when she herself was like a weak shrimp.

"I’ve checked already; this tunnel is naturally formed, not man-made, so there’s no Nine Palaces labyrinth or puzzle, but it’s definitely been processed by your ancestors, which means we should follow the path with the most human traces,"

Ninth Miss squinted her eyes and pointed at a row of footprints on the ground.

"Regardless of whether these footprints belong to another group of people, or to Brother Ma and his team... or perhaps..."

She didn’t say it out loud, but Sui Yi understood. He slung his backpack over his shoulders and followed Ninth Miss into the dark passageway where the footprints spread.

Along the way, the two of them tested the walkie-talkies and found out that the signal was completely blocked. According to Ninth Miss’s experience, there were only two possibilities: one was that the natural magnetic field of this strange underground area was disrupting the signal, and the second was that someone had placed a jammer underground. Therefore, in front of Sui Yi, Ninth Miss cursed her ancestors again.

The deeper they went into the tunnel, the thinner the air seemed to become. Suddenly, Ninth Miss stopped in her tracks and shone her torch on the cave wall for a moment,

There was a row of characters carved using a small knife, but they were obscured by scratches that followed.

Ninth Miss’s face turned ugly. "I’m sure these were left by Brother Ma. He’s always had this habit, and the width of the cuts matches the small knife he carries... but..."

"They were being watched."

"Right, it could be your ancestors!"

"...."

Sui Yi thought, thankfully it wasn’t her ancestors; otherwise, she might have to jump out and strangle this woman now~~~.

However, as she was thinking this, Ninth Miss suddenly felt a chill on her neck, "Eh!" Her neck was being squeezed!

Bang!

With a twist of her arms, Ninth Miss pried the hand open. She spun her body to dodge the person pressing up against her...

And a Snapping Kick from Sui Yi followed suit, thump!

The assailant smashed against the wall, and both the Xiezhi Dagger and Ninth Miss’s curved knife slashed across his throat...

Snicker...

The head was severed from the body.

Yet, it remained on top of the shoulders.

The eyes were wide open, the skin pale, lifelessly fixing a steady stare on the two of them.

Ninth Miss’s breathing tightened.

"Li Yang..."

Sui Yi also recognized this man as being with Ah Hai, Brother Ma, and the others; she didn’t know what happened, but now he was suddenly attacking them.

And he looked quite eerie.

Although personally ending the life of a former comrade wasn’t easy on their emotions, Sui Yi wrinkled her nose slightly and exchanged a glance with Ninth Miss. They stepped sideways, and Ninth Miss used her curved knife to flip Li Yang’s shoulder, rolling him over from the wall...

The limp body thudded to the ground, and the head rolled off with a plop, moving strangely.

Indeed, Sui Yi and Ninth Miss’s first reaction was to find their own thoughts weird, but they couldn’t help feeling...

The head seemed very light.

And the gaping, bloodied hollow on Li Yang’s back was starkly visible in front of them.

The stench came from the bloody cavity on his back.

"Look at this," Sui Yi’s gaze flickered, falling on a hole in the wall.

"There wasn’t this hole just a moment ago, was it made in an instant?"

The size of a fist, it looked as if it had been punched through. The hole was very deep... at least too deep for them to cut through the wall and trace its inner parts.

Sui Yi thought for a moment and shone the strongest beam from her torch directly into the hole.

Soon after, a shrill and terrible laugh came from inside.

Ninth Miss got goosebumps but kept her grim expression, spitting out one word: "Bitter Ghost Doll."

What?

Sui Yi frowned.

"Sui Yi, your ancestor’s tomb... exceeds my imagination," Ninth Miss said.

"...."

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Brother Ma, Ah Hai, and others were indeed breaking out in cold sweats. Pressing against the wall at a turn, they faced the twisted, hive-like passageways ahead. The mass of holes gave off a terrifying vibe.

Behind them, the hands of three men holding knives trembled; their faces were pale, their hair damp, "Brother Ma, Brother Ma, are those ghostly things still around?"

Ptui! Brother Ma spat, flipping the machete in his hand, "How should I know? I’m not a roundworm in the guts of those ghostly things," he snarled.

Ah Hai sniffed, "Seems like those ghostly things like to burrow into our bellies..."

"Damn it, you two, please stop talking about it, just thinking about what those ghostly things look like makes me feel sick... I’ve been raiding tombs for so many years, living as a rat for so long, and I’ve never seen such a bizarre creature. Right, Doggy?"

Doggy nodded, trembling, his forehead sweating cold, when suddenly, the five of them heard an eerie laughter...

It sounded like a woman, yet also like a baby, close by but also seemingly far away,

It was chilling to the bone.

"It’s catching up! Dammit..."

Brother Ma cursed in his local dialect, gripping the knife tightly in his hands, fixating on the dense openings in front of him. Soon, he expected a ghostly thing to pop out from one of those holes, then latch onto their faces, or bellies, and burrow into their bodies...

To devour their flesh and blood, hollow out their brains, just like the aliens in the movies crawling out of their bodies.

Damn, just the thought of it made him shudder. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at qidian.com with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)