The crowd looked in the direction of the glowing skull, and saw the eerie green glow of the skull growing brighter. The skull's mandible began to move up and down, the upper and lower teeth colliding and rubbing against each other, making a "creak," "creak" sound, as if it were talking.

This glowing skull was too strange. The crowd was shocked, and Fatty hurriedly told the others to leave.

Professor Chen didn't hesitate. He and Fatty helped Wang Tienan to a stone chamber on the side. Although the glowing skull was valuable and of great archaeological significance, it had caused his assistant and students great pain, so Professor Chen didn't have much attachment to it.

The "creaking" sound of the glowing skull came from behind the group, growing louder and louder, making people's hair stand on end.

They ran back to the stone chamber they had just been in. The "creaking" sound gradually subsided, and they helped each other to the coffin for a rest.

Duan Pengfei's fingers were covered in dense blisters, which looked a little nauseating. Judging from his expression, his two fingers must have been extremely painful. Wang Tienan's hands were completely necrotic, and a pair of shriveled, charcoal-black hands, resembling chicken claws, looked particularly frightening. Having lost his hands, Wang Tienan's mental state wasn't very good either. The necrosis only affected Wang Tienan's hands, and the charcoal color only extended to his wrists. His arms could still move.

Fatty looked at their miserable state, both feeling lucky and sympathizing with them. He thought to himself that if Professor Chen hadn't excluded him at the time, he might have been the one to lose his hands.

Professor Chen looked tired, slowly wiped his sweat, glanced at Wang Tienan's hand with concern, and sighed, "I was negligent. We should have been more careful without the right tools. If we had testing equipment, and had tested for radioactive substances first, maybe this wouldn't have happened."

Fatty asked, "Does the professor mean that the glowing skull contains radioactive material?"

Professor Chen nodded. "Based on current judgment, it should be. The burns on their hands look like they were caused by radiation. If that skull really has radiation, we may also… we may also be harmed."

Duan Pengfei, looking pained, added from the side, "I guess there should have been a layer of lead shielding to block the radiation inside the metal box. We just overlooked that when we took out the skull."

"Alas…" Professor Chen sighed, feeling guilty and sad.

Rou Yi suddenly asked, "But if it's just radioactive material, how could the skull move and make sounds?"

Fatty subconsciously thought of a mechanism, but then rejected this idea. If it were a mechanism, the triggering conditions would be too strange. Did it need to be dropped to activate it?

Professor Chen shook his head and sighed again, saying, "This old man has been doing archaeology for half his life, and I've never seen anything like this."

First, the underground tomb, then the glowing, moving skull. These bizarre things had exceeded Professor Chen's range of knowledge.

Fatty and Rou Yi secretly exchanged opinions. The current situation could no longer be judged by common sense. This place was very likely affected by some kind of meteorite, causing some changes.

…

Just then, the sound of the glowing skull rang out again. The "creaking" sound came from that stone chamber, growing louder and louder, and also mixed with the sound of wood breaking, like "crack."

This was not a good sign. Everyone immediately became nervous and wanted to escape from this place as soon as possible. Everyone looked at Fatty, waiting for his instructions.

As Rou Yi got up from the coffin she was leaning against, she subconsciously glanced into the coffin, and jumped up with a "Ah!" She pointed to the corpse in the coffin and said, "The corpse… the corpse… the corpse moved!"

Fatty and Professor Chen and the others quickly gathered around the coffin and looked inside. The corpse was still lying in its original position, but its head seemed to have turned.

All the corpses in the coffins that had been opened were originally placed face up, but now the heads of the corpses in the coffins were turned to one side, facing Fatty and the others.

Just as everyone was wondering, the corpse's eyes slowly opened. Because the corpse's skin was dehydrated, the eyelids could only barely be opened a small slit. Although the eyes didn't open very wide, it was enough to shock Professor Chen and Fatty. The corpse's eyes were a cloudy color, like a dark pill, staring straight at the crowd.

"Damn, what the hell is this!" Fatty exclaimed in shock.

Even the calm Professor Chen began to lose his composure. His mouth twitched, and a sense of fear arose spontaneously.

It wasn't just the corpse in this coffin that was like this. The corpses in the other opened coffins had also opened their eyes and turned their heads to where they were standing.

Fatty was sure of one thing: if that skull really had a mechanism, then the mechanism must be to awaken these corpses lying in the coffins. There was no doubt about it. He didn't know what the corpses would do to them after they were awakened, but whatever they did, it wouldn't be good.

Fatty made a decisive decision: "Let's go, follow me."

Fatty had observed that all the stone chambers were tilted by a few degrees, and all in one direction. If he was right, then following the direction of the tilt of the stone chambers, they could find a way out and get rid of this stone chamber full of coffins.

Fatty led the group quickly into the tunnel behind the low-lying stone door. They passed through one stone chamber after another, full of coffins, and finally came to a sealed stone door. The stone door was two people high and more than three meters wide. This stone door looked like it weighed more than a ton.

Fatty reached out and pushed the stone door, but found that it wouldn't budge.

The others helped Fatty push together, but the stone door still didn't move. Professor Chen pondered for a moment and said, "Based on past experience, there should be a self-locking stone behind this stone door. The stone is stuck in the groove. It's absolutely impossible to push it open by force…"

Professor Chen's words were like a death sentence to everyone. Failure to open the stone door meant that there was no hope of survival. They could only wait for the unknown terror to descend.

And the sound from the tunnel behind them was getting louder and louder. This sound was no longer the original "cough cough crack" sound, but like something being dragged. At the same time, gusts of yin wind were blowing from the tunnel.