Imperial Treasure
Chapter 372 - 258 The Person in the Stone Pier

Chapter 372: Chapter 258 The Person in the Stone Pier

Everyone fell silent, but the sound became even clearer... and louder.

Gong Jiu and the others’ faces turned ugly.

Suddenly!

Ah!

It was a piercing scream...

Everyone was startled!

A few of the seated people were so frightened that they sprang up!

It was terrifying. Han Gao and others quickly drew their guns and other weapons...

"Playing tricks!"

The sound was coming from that direction!

Flower Demon’s whip lashed out, snapping!

A pile of weeds on the ground was flipped into the air... Amidst the scattered debris...

A corner of an object pressed under a tile was revealed, squared off.

"Isn’t this..."

"A communicator!"

Beating Wu Gu to it, Flower Demon coiled her whip and swept the dusty communicator into her hands. At that moment, the communicator was still emitting the sound from before, just weaker...

"Is this yours? It looks like your people have been here..." Flower Demon turned to Wei Feng and the others.

Everyone grew tense. If Wei Feng’s people had been there, why would they leave such important equipment behind unless they were attacked and fled in a hurry, or... they died.

The group quickly cleared the grass and other cover, searching, but found no remains or bones.

"Seems like they fled in a hurry, but how did this thing suddenly start making noise..."

"Nobody should have been able to hit the switch just now."

"I pressed it."

Eh?

Out there, always silent, Xiao walked in, holding another communicator in his hand.

This was the communicator found earlier in the pile of bones, which Liang Qing had later given to Xiao to deal with.

"I was just retrieving their previous conversation records... Our communicators always have the ability to remotely control, and this one can control another communicator. I accidentally pressed this button..." Xiao’s explanation illuminated the others, but Wei Feng took the communicator from Xiao’s hand, and his eyes darkened: "There’s another feature..."

"Recording."

He looked at the communicator in Flower Demon’s hand.

The sound just now must have been a recording, which would start if the communicator’s off button wasn’t pressed manually or if there was a long period without response, activating the automatic recording feature.

"If it’s a recording, that’s kind of interesting..." Flower Demon raised her eyebrows, about to playback the sound, but her expression suddenly changed...

"The battery’s dead."

"No problem, let’s just change the battery," said Gong Jiu, competently dismantling his own communicator to remove the battery.

Since they all carried functional communicators, they should work with a battery change.

Just as Flower Demon was fitting the new battery into the communicator...

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle...

The strange and unnerving sound made Flower Demon stop mid-action, her face darkening, "I haven’t finished installing it yet, who’s being a smartass, playing pranks now!"

"It’s that kid!" Han Gao pointed towards a spot.

Sui Yi looked over and saw a man sitting on a stone stool under the wall, one of Wei Feng’s men. It was unclear what his name was, but at that moment, he was sitting upright, his skin pale, with cold sweat on his forehead, just sitting rigidly.

At first glance, he resembled an image from a black and white photograph...

It was quite unsettling.

"Brother, you really know how to play dirty, pretending at a time like this..." Han Gao walked over and slapped his shoulder, his tone somewhat teasing.

Thump, the man immediately slumped over, collapsing limply.

Han Gao’s hand hung in mid-air, his expression frozen, glaring at the guns raised by Wu Gu and the others: "I didn’t use force. It was him..."

Gao Yi stepped forward to check the man’s breathing and face, saying, "He’s okay, probably heatstroke, just weakened. At least one of us is normal... But if not cared for, he could die..."

These words made Wei Feng’s people sour.

Heatstroke? So among their group, there was someone this frail?

The man who had fainted was moved to one side for someone to look after. Gao Yi heard camel noises outside and ran out, claiming he needed to check on the camels. Feng Sha, worried he would play tricks and escape, followed with Wu Gu from Wei Feng’s side.

The rest refocused on the communicator in Flower Demon’s hand, soon that eerie sound emerged again. Everyone listened intently, but Sui Yi walked aside, examining the stone stool where the unconscious man had been sitting.

She felt there was something off about that stone stool. Made of stone, they were all uniformly shaped and sized, and bringing such large stones into the desert was a luxury, unlikely to be used just for sitting. So, if it wasn’t a chair, what was it? Why the consistent design?