Imperial Treasure
Chapter 244 - 178: Cunning Fox!

Chapter 244: Chapter 178: Cunning Fox!

Suddenly, Sui Yi remembered Mao Gang mentioning that the People’s Liberation Army had once been to Mao Bamboo Village...

"Remains of the People’s Liberation Army soldiers?" Sui Yi used her Bamboo Cutting Knife to lift some objects and, after examining them, discovered that they seemed to include more than just the People’s Liberation Army...

"A Japanese Army bayonet..."

Sui Yi realized, was Mao Bamboo Village once a battlefield? But Mao Bamboo Village had never been strategically important, and there had never been mention of Japanese Army invasions in this area... Well, even if it wasn’t recorded in history, how could there have been a fierce battle in this cave?

Had the People’s Liberation Army hidden here back then?

Sui Yi was filled with doubts.

Luckily, as she continued searching, she didn’t see any fresh flesh. Perhaps, Xiao Dao was still alive.

If he was alive, then where was he?

Sui Yi glanced around; a sly fox has three burrows—now there were three entrances, one continuously emitting smoke, evidently leading to the terraced bamboo forest where Xiao Dao had disappeared; one was where she had just come in, and another...

Sui Yi looked towards the largest entrance.

She quickly walked in.

Perhaps all the doubts could be resolved at this entrance.

A cave, a fox’s lair, ancient bones of both the People’s Liberation Army and the Japanese Army. What else could there be besides these?

Sui Yi took about seven steps, crossed the threshold of the cave entrance, and as she walked in, she saw a space the size of a normal room, seemingly empty but with scattered debris on the ground, numerous bones, and something resembling a military flag, severely decayed.

However, just as she stepped past the doorway, Sui Yi saw a skeleton. This skeleton was strange, unlike the others lying on the ground, incomplete; this one had its back against the cave entrance, facing the interior of the cave with a bayonet thrust through its chest, pinning it to the wall. Perhaps that wasn’t strange, but what was odd was...

Its hand gesture—Sui Yi looked down and saw that the person’s hand was tightly clenched, the flesh having rotted away, only white bones remaining, but within the bones, it was clutching a small, crumpled object.

There was also a blood-stained Bamboo Cutting Knife at its feet.

—Mao Bamboo Village’s Bamboo Cutting Knife.

Sui Yi’s mind flashed with a thought, and without hesitation, she reached out and took the object from the skeleton’s hand, and instantly, Sui Yi knew what it was.

A sheepskin scroll,

A sheepskin scroll stained with blood.

Sui Yi had just unfolded the sheepskin scroll... intending to examine it closely...

Whoosh!

Suddenly, from the bunched-up military flag rag on the ground, something moved!

It shot out!

A massive shadow, like a tiger!

Sharp, ferocious, fanged!

"I’ve been waiting for you!" Sui Yi directly swung her Bamboo Cutting Knife...

But when she saw what the enormous fox-like creature was carrying in its mouth, her expression changed—Xiao Dao!

Such a cunning, wicked fox!

Reluctantly, she withdrew her knife and dodged to the side...

Although the Giant Fox was massive, it was extremely agile; it twisted its body, spun through the air, and landed on the ground, yet it didn’t immediately flee. Instead, it smacked its fluffy yet massive tail against the wall beside the door!

That was the spot beneath the skeleton, where with one smack, it sank inward, revealing it to be protruding out.

A mechanism!

Not good!

Sui Yi shifted to the side and saw the swiftly escaping shadow of the fox.

Boom, boom, the cave shook, dust quivered...

Whoosh!

A stone door, fully two meters thick, slammed shut!

In the blink of an eye, it concealed half of the doorway...

Bending down, she slipped underfoot.

Whoosh, Sui Yi hurriedly rushed down the corridor, while stuffing the sheepskin scroll into her pocket and gripping the knife...

Suddenly, she heard a ripping scream coming from the corridor outside.

Speeding up, Sui Yi’s figure flashed, and as she turned out of the corridor, she saw a chaotic scene by the entrance, Mao Gang and others, pale-faced from fright, and on the ground lay a young man, his body gruesomely mangled...

And Sui Yi, rushing out, nearly collided with Li Jingyang, who was running in; luckily, Sui Yi shifted aside just in time.

Just then, she saw the Giant Fox, about to dash out of the cave entrance towards the Mass Burial Mound in the bamboo forest, turn back and look at her; that look was full of cunning and malice. Then, it slapped its tail against the inner wall mechanism of the outer doorway.

Two layers of mechanisms!

"Everyone out, quick!"

Sui Yi’s stern shout startled everyone present, but driven by the preceding terror and the fear Sui Yi deliberately infused into her Inner Strength at that moment, everyone instinctively rushed out...