Chapter 45: Strange

The entire tomb was dark and quiet, like a pool of stagnant water. Only the sound of our footsteps echoed in the tomb, which was not at all like someone had been there.

The darkness and silence are like the mouth of a monster, ready to devour people. Especially in the Hungry Ghost Tomb, there is an inexplicable aura that makes people’s emotions negative.

Fear, irritability, heaviness…

In this way, we silently walked in the tomb passage, and the reliefs of hungry ghosts flashed in our peripheral vision from time to time. I didn’t even look at these lifelike reliefs. At this time, I only had one thought: to find Master and the others as soon as possible.

After walking for five minutes in a daze, a small open door appeared in front of us. My first thought was of the secret room that Guo Er had mentioned, the secret room where the gu was kept!

“Do you want to go in and take a look?” I asked Su Rou and Ling Ruyue.

Su Rou nodded, and Ling Ruyue also agreed, but at this time, she took out Hua Feifei and laid it on her shoulder.

I really wanted to scold Ling Ruyue. Wasn’t this tomb weird enough? A little girl had a spider crawling on her body. How could this picture look any more weird? It was even more depressing.

I took a deep breath and resisted the urge to scold. I didn’t know why I was so irritable when I entered here, and it was even more irritable with impulse.

The three of us entered the secret room. When the oil lamp lit up the secret room, Su Rou couldn’t help but yell, “Master Jiang and the others have been here!”

It was true that there were many jars in the entire secret chamber, as described by Guo Er, which contained the eggs of the hungry ghost worms, but now there were pieces of broken jars all over the floor.

Guo Er had described on the wall that there were many pipes connected to a large jar above. The master had said that the large jar was used to cultivate a chamber worm king, but now, the pipes were all in a mess, and the large jar above was leaning to the side.

It seems that Master and the others really came here, but they entered the tomb in the morning, so why is there no movement at all now? The entire tomb is so quiet, where did they go?

“There’s probably nothing to see here,” said Su Rou, looking at the mess on the ground and wanting to leave.

Ling Ruyue, however, squatted down, picked up a piece of debris, looked at it carefully, and sniffed it in front of her nose. The flower on her shoulder, Feifei, became restless, making a more hideous appearance than before, as if it were about to attack something.

“Feifei,” Ling Ruyue called out, and gently touched the spider, as if to comfort it. Can spiders accept human comfort? In fact, the spider did calm down.

“What do you see?” I was curious about Ling Ruyue’s actions and couldn’t help but ask.

“It’s amazing. This recipe is almost lost.” Ling Ruyue threw the pieces down and didn’t say anything specific, then told me, “Let’s go.”

We walked out of the secret room and continued on. The tomb passage was a straight tunnel with no twists and turns.

Next, it was a place that Guo Er and the others had not explored. I don’t know why my heart was beating rapidly, and I felt like I was on an adventure. This was clearly a place that my master and the others had been to. Why did I have such a feeling?

The entire straight tomb passage seemed endless. We walked for another five minutes and came to another secret room.

We looked at each other and went in without hesitation, because the straight tunnel was really suffocating. There was no other scenery, only endless reliefs of hungry ghosts, no twists and turns, and it was deadly quiet. The sound of footsteps was obviously not a pleasant sound!

The appearance of this secret room was like a salvation, saving us from the endless boredom.

“Damn, I thought I would have to walk like this for the rest of my life. It seems that there is an end to this tunnel.” Su Rou couldn’t help but curse. It’s not his fault. My temper couldn’t be restrained in this tunnel, let alone him.

However, I also felt a sense of relief. The fact that there was another secret room meant that we were moving forward. The feeling I had just now was really like what Su Rou said, endless!

Ling Ruyue didn’t say anything, but she actually hummed a Miao folk song, so it was clear that she was also relaxed.

The three of us walked into the secret room with a relaxed mood. After all, this must have been handled by the master and his men, so there was nothing to worry about. At the very least, didn’t Ling Ruyue say that there was a Hua Feifei who could defeat the hungry ghost bugs?

There can only be one hungry ghost in a secret room, so there is no need to worry about the hungry ghost eggs.

But as soon as we stepped into the secret room, we were stunned. To be precise, we were dumbfounded. It was just as messy, just as devoid of life, but why did it look so familiar?

To be precise, we had clearly seen this secret room before.

“Haha, haha…” Su Rou laughed foolishly for no reason. This was a sign of stress. He turned to me and said, “Sanwa, Master Jiang and the others really destroyed this place thoroughly.”

“Yes, my grandmother…” Ling Ruyue also said the same thing.

But before Ling Ruyue finished speaking, I said, “What are you doing? Self-comforting? Take a closer look!”

In this situation, it is a cruel thing to stay awake. I also want to comfort myself by saying that this is another secret room destroyed by the master, but obviously it is not, because the jar that once bred the king of insects is even at the same skewed angle. Is this possible?

“Maybe it was Master Jiang and the others who did it?” Su Rou’s tone became uncertain, and the silly smile on his face disappeared, replaced by a look of confusion.

“Yes, it’s just destroying things. It’s all the same.” Ling Ruyue’s eyes also became confused.

I looked at them blankly. This can’t be right, can it? How can I force myself to believe something that is fundamentally wrong?

I was a little angry, so I grabbed Su Rou and said, “Look, look at this jar. It was in this corner at the time. You say my master and his men destroyed it, but look carefully. It’s impossible that the jars in the two secret rooms were all placed in the same place, right?”

Su Rou said very casually, “Sanwa, you’re thinking too much.”

I was furious and pushed Su Rou away. I then grabbed Ling Ruyue and pulled her over, ignoring the flower on her shoulder. I pointed to a piece of debris on the ground and said, “Ling Ruyue, this is the debris you threw just now. It was thrown here by the door. Didn’t you notice it?”

Ling Ruyue also replied to me in a vague tone: “Third brother, when the pot breaks, of course there are pieces everywhere. What’s so strange about that?”

I felt an indescribable anger well up in my heart, and it rushed to my head. Are they stupid? What are they doing? As I thought about it, I became furious, rushed over, grabbed Su Rou’s neck, and yelled, “Are you fucking doing this on purpose? Are you stupid?”

Su Rou pushed me away and shouted, “I think you’re the one who’s stupid, looking for trouble for no reason.”

Then he ignored me and said to Ling Ruyue, “The road is right, let’s go, Ruyue.”

“Don’t go!” I yelled furiously. Ling Ruyue turned around and looked at me coldly. Hua Feifei, who was lying on her shoulder, actually made a hideous expression at me. It seemed that if we didn’t get along, Hua Feifei would come over.

I was in a rage, but that couldn’t suppress my horror of spiders. Cold sweat instantly covered my forehead, but I just couldn’t stand to see the crispy meat and Ling Ruyue. I wanted to rush over and stop them.

Almost subconsciously, I wiped the cold sweat off my left hand, and a familiar aroma drifted into my nose. It was the agarwood I was wearing on my left hand!

The aroma had an indescribable, comforting flavor that I didn’t normally feel.

As the aroma drifted into my nostrils, I felt a sudden chill in my head, and I suddenly woke up from my rage. I suddenly thought of a possibility, and I couldn’t help but tremble.

Without thinking, I tore the agarwood beads apart. The agarwood beads scattered all over the place. I put them in my pocket and picked up two of them, then I ran after them without thinking.

At this time, Su Rou turned around and said to me, “Sanwa, have you figured it out? You want to come with us? I said this road is the right one!”