I held the dragon scale dagger tightly in my hand, looked at Fu Jie and Qian Zhiqi and said, "No matter what, we must rescue Professor Zhang and his daughter. Be careful when we go down, don't fall into Zeng Yichen's ambush."
Fu Jie and Qian Zhiqi nodded at the same time with solemn expressions.
According to the location pointed out by Fu Jie, Qian Zhiqi and I bent down and pushed aside the fallen leaves. Sure enough, a small mound appeared. In the middle of the mound was a stone slab with a bronze iron ring on it. The iron ring was covered with dense words engraved on it.
The stone slab was almost right next to the root of the tree. Qian Zhiqi and I had been standing on this stone slab before but didn't notice it.
Maybe this is the so-called darkness under the lamp, because we found the mark on the tree first, so we looked for it farther away without checking the bottom of the tree.
Thinking of this, I frowned, wondering how Zeng Yichen found this stone slab.
It would make sense to say that we didn't find this stone slab because it was dark under the lamp, but Zeng Yichen obviously came to this place for the first time like us. At that time, there were no marks on the tree and there were thin sheets on the stone slab.
Covered with soil, how did he discover it?
I looked back at Fu Jie and asked, "Did Zeng Yichen ask Professor Zhang to dig down the place as soon as he hijacked Xu Wenying?"
"No, when they walked past this tree, Zeng Yichen was stunned for a moment. After walking a few steps away, he suddenly turned back and asked Professor Zhang to dig up the soil!" Fu Jie said.
Having said that, I figured it out. The bronze iron ring on the stone slab was very large. Zeng Yichen probably accidentally discovered it by chance when he stepped on the iron ring while walking on it.
I nodded, and together with Qian Zhiqi, we pulled open the stone slab. Sure enough, a dark tunnel was revealed under the stone slab.
Qian Zhiqi subconsciously wanted to shine the flashlight into the corridor, but quickly stopped him and reached out to put out the flashlight in his hand.
Fortunately, he immediately understood what I meant and didn't ask any more questions. I made a gesture, and the three of us climbed into the corridor gently in the dark.
The corridor was dark and the ground was slippery. It must be that the blood from Fu Jie's wound had not dried up after he was injured.
Sure enough, as Fu Jie said, not long after we walked forward, a bright light came from the end of the corridor, like the light from a lighted house in the dark.
I gestured to Fu Jie and Zeng Yichen behind me, telling them to slow down and tiptoe towards the light.
This journey has been smooth, so smooth that it's a bit unusual and weird.
We slowly reached the door of the tomb. I pressed against the wall and looked into the tomb. The scene in front of me made me so shocked that I couldn't breathe.
That kind of fear was what I experienced when I saw Fu Jie's comrades being swallowed by the female fish, and when I saw the black dragon spitting fire.
The entire tomb is almost empty. Four fist-sized luminous pearls hang high at the four corners. The light comes from those four luminous pearls. There is a crystal coffin in the middle of the tomb, with crystal clear crystals.
It looked dazzling under the bright night pearl, but only one top of the entire coffin was exposed, and the entire lower half was completely obscured by densely packed black bats.
The bats were circling and flying half a meter away from the crystal coffin, surrounding the coffin tightly, as if they were performing some kind of ritual.
Under the bright light, the appearance of those bats is clear. They look like a mouse with a long tail and a pair of wings, but there is a snow-white skull pattern on one side of their wings, which is lifelike.
It looks like it was painted deliberately.
I grew up in the countryside with my fourth aunt and grandma. I was rarely afraid of anything, but I seemed to have an innate fear and disgust for creatures like bats.
Moreover, I have seen this kind of bat in the "Shengyuan Heavenly Book", and it has a very scary name, the ghost-faced bat.
Most bats feed on insects, but the ghost-faced bat is the only bat that feeds on vertebrates.
Fifty of these ghost-faced bats can eat an adult wolf.
However, according to records, this kind of ghost-faced bat has become extinct. I didn’t expect that there are such a large number of them in this ancient tomb.
It was so dark that there were hundreds of them at least.
My heart sank unconsciously. I didn't see Professor Zhang and Zeng Yichen. Judging from the huge number of ghost-faced bats, their current situation was very bad, unless they had escaped from this tomb.
Fu Jie and Qian Zhiqi also followed me and looked into the tomb. I obviously felt that their bodies stiffened instantly.
"Damn it, Hu Ling, why are there so many bats here?" Qian Zhiqi came to his senses before Fu Jie and asked softly in my ear.
"These are not ordinary bats!" I whispered to him, "They can eat people, so be careful and don't get close to the door of the tomb."
Fortunately, ghost-faced bats have no hearing and extremely poor eyesight. They basically rely on ultrasonic waves to identify direction and prey. We are hiding outside the tomb chamber and are blocked by the tomb wall, so they have not discovered us yet.
"Where are Professor and Wenying?" Qian Zhiqi asked again, "Have you discovered their whereabouts?"
"No, but there is no smell of blood here. He must have gone to another place!" I thought for a while and said, "Let's find out if there is any other exit here."
"Okay!" Qian Zhiqi responded. Seeing that those ghost-faced bats didn't notice us, the fear in our hearts instantly diminished a lot.
"ah--"
Just as we tiptoed around to find another way out, a scream came from the tomb, and it was Xu Wenying's voice.
Judging from the sound, she should be surrounded by those bats.
"Wen Ying is still in the tomb, let's go in and rescue her!" Qian Zhiqi turned to look at me and raised his feet to rush in.
I grabbed his arm and pulled him, "If you rush in like this, you will die. There are so many ghost-faced bats, they can tear you into pieces in a minute!"
"What should we do? Wen Ying is still inside, don't we care about her?" Qian Zhiqi shouted at me with red eyes.
"There are so many ghost-faced bats. Since they are still alive and there is no bloody smell coming out, it means they are not in danger yet. There must be some way to prevent those bats from approaching." I looked at him and said.
My words made Qian Zhiqi gradually calm down. He looked at me and asked, "Hu Ling, what should we do now?"
I thought about it, pulled them all to hide behind the wall of the tomb, and shouted in the direction of the tomb: "Professor Zhang, Xu Wenying, are you in there?"
It didn't come out for a while.
"Xu Wenying?" I hesitantly raised my voice and shouted again, holding the dragon scale dagger in my hand tightly.
"Hu Ling? Hu Ling, is that you? Don't come over. These bats are very dangerous. We are fine for the time being. You run away and leave us alone!" Professor Zhang's voice came from the tomb. This chapter has been completed!