"Um, Miss Bai, don't worry. Let me take a look, take a look. I, I... I'll find it now, find it now!" After speaking, Xue Yi nimbly took out his compass from his backpack and started searching around the room, afraid that his slow actions would lead to disdain.
Han Rui clicked his tongue, muttering softly, "Tsk tsk tsk, Little Xi'er is so powerful. It turns out that having absolute strength truly makes no one dare to provoke you. This Xue Yi immediately submitted."
Xuan Feng said faintly, "The eldest miss once said that only the weak need laws and rules to protect themselves. In front of absolute strength, as long as one does not break the rules, it is the greatest respect for this world."
Han Rui looked at Xuan Feng, who once again averted his gaze.
After a while, Xue Yi looked at the compass in his hand, confirmed it several times, and then walked up to Bai Xi, saying, "Miss Bai, to be frank, this tomb is not meant to be respectful to the tomb owner, but rather a form of suppression. Therefore, I believe the main burial chamber is located beneath this side chamber. However, there are no mechanisms here that can open it..."
Before he could finish, the bald man pressed his bandaged shoulder and stepped forward, saying, "If we can't open it, let's just blow up the tomb!"
With that, he opened his backpack, which was filled with explosives.
Xue Yi's expression changed slightly when he saw the explosives, and then he looked away.
In fact, many of his subordinates carried explosives. He had initially intended to use these explosives to completely destroy the tomb after retrieving the treasures inside.
Of course, this also included eliminating Bai Xi and the others to cover their tracks.
Although he no longer dared to do so now, he still felt guilty when the bald man took them out.
Han Rui was reluctant to blow up the tomb, as this was a test from the Han family, and the tomb owner had a certain probability of being his ancestor. Destroying his ancestor's tomb would be considered disrespectful.
Seeing Xue Yi's expression now, his anger intensified: "Mr. Xue, you truly are prescient, knowing that this tomb needs to be blown open. If one didn't know better, they might think you planned to destroy the evidence after leaving!"
At these words, Xue Yi's face immediately turned red with embarrassment. But when he met Bai Xi's gaze, it turned pale, as if he had been scared stiff.
He forced himself to remain calm and explained, "I've been in many tombs, so I naturally know. Brother Han Rui, please don't overthink things, don't overthink it."
Inside: Damn it, how could you guess so accurately? It's like seeing a zombie in broad daylight on the street!
Looking at his expression, Bai Xi, even without Han Rui saying anything, roughly understood Xue Yi's thoughts. She said calmly, "If there is malicious damage to the tomb, and other situations arise, I will only be responsible for the safety of the four of us."
Her meaning was clear: if Xue Yi chose to blow it up, she would only be responsible for their group of four, regardless of the consequences.
Xue Yi frowned slightly at her words, pondered for a moment, and said, "Then I'll look around some more."
With that, he resumed his search.
Han Mo hesitated for a moment, then slowly stepped forward and walked to the position of the golden boy and jade girl. After a moment of hesitation, he reached out to touch them.
The bald man immediately stopped him, "Don't touch them. I just touched these things earlier, and my finger bled inexplicably, which also caused these mummies to 'revive'. If you touch them again, they might crawl up again!"
This was not the first time he had accompanied Xue Yi on tomb raids, and he had encountered strange things before. However, in the past, he could subdue them with his martial prowess; one slash would split a mummy in half. This time, however, they were impervious to blades and spears. Had these "zombies" also achieved cultivation?
Han Mo looked at the two amber dolls in front of him and said faintly, "This place is at a lower elevation. During the fight earlier, there was a lot of blood here, but now this blood has dried up."
At his words, the bald man was even more horrified: "Are you saying these two little ghosts drank all the blood here?"
The bald man's words caused everyone to turn pale with shock, and they couldn't help but step back.
Han Rui even tightly grasped Xuan Feng's arm.
To be honest, compared to those mummies, he found the pair of children in front of him even more terrifying.
Bai Xi stepped forward directly, and as she did, she took out the deerskin gloves that Xue Yi had given her that morning as a token of goodwill. Putting them on, she said calmly, "Mo just thinks there must be cracks underneath, and the blood seeped down through those cracks, which is why the bloodstains have dried up."
After speaking, she went to examine the amber dolls.
As Bai Xi squatted down to inspect them, the dolls' contorted faces were directly facing her. Their tragic, lifeless eyes seemed to be staring intently at her. If she hadn't been accustomed to all sorts of bloody scenes and people who died with their eyes open, looking at them for too long might have left a psychological shadow.
After a careful examination, she found no abnormalities at all.
She tried to move the two dolls, but they remained motionless, as if they had been meticulously connected to the ground with some special craftsmanship.
Finding no mechanisms, Bai Xi looked up at Han Mo and shook her head slightly.
Han Mo said calmly, "If there are none here, let's look elsewhere."
Bai Xi nodded and stood up.
As she stood up, she could still see the eyes of the two amber dolls. Those eyes held fear, ferocity, unwillingness, and malevolence, as if they were cursing the world that had been heartless, shameless, and unreasonable at that time.
Thinking of this, she involuntarily extended her gloved hand and gently covered the eyes of the amber female doll: "If there is reincarnation, I hope you will be happy and worry-free in your next life."
Unexpectedly, the moment she finished speaking, the eternal lamps held by the amber dolls were extinguished without any warning.
At the same time, everyone seemed to hear another sound.
The bald man immediately said, "I told you not to touch those wicked things. It's over, it's over, these ghosts are going to revive again!"
Xue Yi's subordinates also raised their weapons, warily observing their surroundings.
Bai Xi frowned and, at that very instant, released her hand that was covering the amber female doll's eyes.
But in that second, she seemed to see the female doll within the amber actually closing her eyes.
As she was about to get a clear look, the ground beneath her feet shattered like broken porcelain. In an instant, it completely collapsed into a thousand pieces, unable to bear the weight of the people above.
Bai Xi moved forward quickly in the last second, grabbing Han Mo tightly.
But this time, the entire side chamber of the tomb collapsed, and everyone fell to the next level! There, it was a black expanse, like ten thousand fathoms under the sea, an endless darkness.
Bai Xi struggled to get up but couldn't move at all, finally sinking into the endless darkness.
After an unknown amount of time, she vaguely felt a beam of light.
The light shone upon her, exceptionally soft. At the same time, it seemed someone was calling her name: "Bai Xi!"
Whose voice was this? It was so unfamiliar, yet why did it feel so close?