Imperial Treasure
Chapter 368 - 256: Quicksand and Bone_2

Chapter 368: Chapter 256: Quicksand and Bone_2

The desert was an absolutely uncharted territory for them, even Brother Ma, who had roamed around the south and north, knew very little about it.

After all, there were few tomb burials in the desert, and Ancient City was indeed prestigious, but the problem was that you didn’t have the capital to touch it, so Brother Ma was also somewhat pale now, drawing heavily on his big pipe.

He still remembered how those two camels were dragged into the quicksand.

Knocking out the ash inside his pipe, Brother Ma looked toward Sui Yi, standing beside him, "Miss Sui, what are you looking at?"

He followed Sui Yi’s gaze as well, and saw nothing but yellow puffiness - nothing interesting.

"Looking at people."

What? People?

Brother Ma jumped up, widened his eyes, and took a closer look, "Where?"

Still just a stretch of Huang Sha...

"You guys wait here, I’ll be back soon."

Before the others could react, Sui Yi light-footedly leapt across the sand dunes and ran forward.

Wei Feng’s eyes flashed, and he too began to run!

"Hey, hey, don’t run around!" Gao Yi and the other two guides were getting anxious, but they couldn’t stop the two, which ended up causing everyone including Gong Jiu to chase after them.

As guides, they were quite vexed when faced with customers who were so independent and had formidable martial prowess.

Sui Yi came to a stop, followed a step later by Wei Feng, but when he arrived beside her, what lay before Sui Yi was just a pile of Huang Sha...

Yellow mixed with white.

"Bones," Wei Feng’s eyes flickered, and he slowly opened the zipper of his backpack, pulling out a knife.

One arm-length, with a dark cyan sheath, it looked quite ordinary.

With a flick of the sheath, a gust of knife wind swept past, whoosh!

A spread of yellow sand was cleared away, revealing a pile of white bones.

The others, including Gong Jiu, who caught up, immediately changed their expressions.

"Damn, they’re human bones," Liang Qing squinted her eyes, suddenly frowned, picked with her short sword at the bones, lifted a hand bone, and plucked out a device.

It was a communication device.

She glanced at it and then looked at Wei Feng with a profound gaze.

Gong Jiu and the others were quite sensitive, their expressions becoming playful.

"Did your men all die on this path?" Sui Yi suddenly asked Wei Feng.

Wei Feng didn’t expect he could keep it a secret from this person and just smiled.

"As a matter of fact, I didn’t know where they died."

"Now, at least, I know where they perished," Wei Huan’s words made Gao Yi and the other two guides turn somewhat uneasy.

Death was taboo for these people, yet looking at Wei Huan and his group, they seemed like reckless desperados who didn’t value human life. Was the place they were going to –

"Gentlemen, you had told me before that we were just going to take a look along this route, but you didn’t say where we were going. Let’s be clear upfront, we will only take you to the middle area up ahead; we absolutely won’t go near the Netherworld Abyss...." Gao Yi didn’t finish his sentence before Wu Gu’s gun was pointed at his head.

"Old man, you’re not the one to call the shots," Wu Gu had just loaded the gun when the muzzle of Feng Sha’s gun was pressed against his temple.

Swish, swish!

Guns from both sides were drawn in unison!

One against one... Although Gong Jiu’s side had fewer people, the intensity was equivalent.

Gong Jiu smiled, "Skinny Monkey, after all, this is our person, and we can’t tolerate you threatening with force,"

She waved the gun muzzle, "Otherwise, I could use a bullet to blow the heads off all three of you!"

When it came to marksmanship, she was confident that she reigned supreme over everyone here!

Guns pointed at each other, a hair-trigger situation!

Wei Feng looked at Sui Yi and chuckled lightly, "You see, bringing too many people is never much good; you should have come alone, given how strong you are, what’s there to fear."

"Two fists are no match for four hands," Sui Yi said faintly.

"Then I should have come alone too... Just the two of us," Wei Feng’s smile grew nearly frivolous.

Sui Yi turned to look at him, her gaze deep, and suddenly asked a question.

"How long have your men been here?"

Hmm?

Wei Feng glanced at the communicator in Liang Qing’s hand.

"Li Kai, code name A67, from the third team..." Liang Qing’s face turned strange under Wei Feng’s scrutiny, and she said, "They were just dispatched here two weeks ago..."

Two weeks!

Many here could be considered elites, Gong Jiu and others not to mention, even Brother Ma and Feng Sha were individuals capable of standing out on their own, so at this moment, they all turned their gaze to the white bones on the ground in unison.

"Two weeks, discounting the journey time and the time to enter the desert, at most ten days. Even under the harsh temperatures of the desert, a corpse shouldn’t deteriorate to this extent in ten days..." Shen Di spoke slowly.

A completely white skeleton, so clean it seemed as though it had been preserved in formalin.

"And there’s no blood..." Liang Qing chuckled, "Such a clean death."

Everyone fell silent.

How did the person die?

That is a question.

But...

"I think the main issue is... it’s too light..." Wei Feng suddenly used the sheath to flick up a bone, clang!

The blade was drawn!

The bone that was tossed into the air was immediately sliced into two parts!

Not to shame a living wife, not to destroy the bones of the dead, this was basic human decency, yet the person before them had cut through the human bones without even batting an eye...

Not to mention that Gao Yi and the other three had darkened faces, Gong Jiu and the others also frowned unanimously.

They had known they were dealing with Ghost Teeth, but they hadn’t expected such ruthlessness!

Clack, the two segments of bone hit the ground, producing a crisp sound, similar to a tube... there were none of the solid sensations of bone!

"The bones are hollow inside?" Everyone was astounded. One of Wei Feng’s subordinates stepped forward, picked up the bone, and looked...

"Boss, it’s empty inside," he remarked.

Indeed, it was hollow as everyone just confirmed, but Sui Yi’s eyes twitched; her Magnetic Sensation had detected something off.

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