Chapter 55 (Part 2)

The tunnel dug by the grave robbers was dug from high above. As soon they slid down, and before they could reach the end of the tunnel, Qin Cheng stepped on both sides of the tunnel to prevent himself from falling right into the tomb. Behind him, Wu Hai also hurriedly supported himself in the narrow tunnel with both hands.

“What’s wrong?” Wu Hai lowered his voice, and asked. “Is the entrance of the grave robber’s tunnel ahead?”

“Yes.” Qin Cheng said. Then, he took a small flashlight from the pocket of his jacket and illuminated ahead. With the help of a little light, Qin Cheng carefully observed the structure below. He saw a reddish brown soil, and some murals on both sides of the wall. The passageway below was slender and narrow.

“What have you found?”

“It seems that we’re at the top of a passage, and the height of this tomb path is about three meters high. We have to be careful when we jump down.”

As soon as he said that, Qin Cheng put away the flashlight. After thinking about it, he dug out a few big stones from the tunnel’s wall, thrown them into the tomb below, and quietly waited for a reaction. After waiting for a minute, Qin Cheng took out all the food in his backpack and handed it to Wu Hai. “Those people won’t dare to come here, because there must be hidden weapons and traps inside this tomb. I dragged you into this, so I’ll go down first. If there’s nothing wrong down there, you can jump. If something happens…. you have to stay here. I think Jiang Ping is a capable person who will be able to find you.”

“You motherf-” Before Wu Hai could say it, Qin Cheng loosened his feet pressed on the walls of the tunnel, and jumped down. As he held his breath, Wu Hai heard the sound of Qin Cheng landing on the ground, and hurriedly asked in a lowered voice: “How is it?”

“There’s nothing here!” Qin Cheng took out the flashlight and shook it upward. “But, you shouldn’t come down. It’s fine here, but that doesn’t mean that there will be nothing ahead.”

“What the hell are you talking about?” Wu Hai roared, released his hands, and jumped down.

Once he saw that Wu Hai had followed him, Qin Cheng laughed: “Aren’t you afraid to die?”

“Aren’t you the same?” After blankly staring at Qin Cheng, Wu Hai took out a flashlight from his backpack. “I also want to know what’s going on with this ‘Xu Dynasty’ situation. When the answer is right in front of me, how can I step back? Not to mention….” After thinking about those people who said that Li Guoxian had killed several people, as well as a murder that happened 10 years ago…. Wu Hai took a deep breath. “You’re not the only one who wants to know the truth about what happened during this period of time.”

Qin Cheng took a breath, and replied: “Do you believe what those people said?”

“Do you?” As he squatted on the ground, taking out some tools from his backpack, Wu Hai looked up at Qin Cheng: “You believe it, don’t you? Before, you mentioned Zhang Jun and me to not believe in what Li Guoxian said ….”

“I wouldn’t believe everything those people said. But, something is definitely wrong with Li Guoxian. It’s just that I don’t think that everything they said about him, happened the way they said it did.”

“That’s true.” Wu Hai took out the necessary things they’ll need, and when he saw Qin Cheng unexpectedly taking out a piece of paper and pen from his bag, he couldn’t help but be puzzled as he said: “What are you doing, taking out pen and paper? Are you going to write a suicide note and put it here?”

What Qin Cheng took, was in fact the paper that Su Jingmo drew for him, in which he depicted where the Xu Dynasty would often set up the chambers and traps mechanisms. However, when he heard what Wu Hai said, Qin Cheng was stunned.

When he got back to his senses, Qin Cheng laughed out loud: “Wu Hai, I used to think that you were too strict and serious, that you didn’t even know how to joke. But, in fact, you do know how to joke, huh?”

Wu Hai, who has always been on good terms with Zhang Jun, seemed to be easily influenced by him.

“Who’s joking?!” Wu Hai, in the end, couldn’t hold back his laugh any longer after hearing Qin Cheng’s words. Then, he squatted beside Qin Cheng, and said: “We should really write a suicide note though. In any case, if something goes wrong, we can leave behind a note to our parents.”

Qin Cheng falsely coughed twice, corrected his expression, nodded his head, and said: “Actually, that’s a good idea. Who knows what we will meet ahead?”

Then, Qin Cheng took out a note book he brought with him, and turned to the last page. After thinking about what he should write down for a while, he finally wrote a few words.

What was originally a joke, was now a reality, leaving behind a bad taste in his heart. Qin Cheng looked aside and saw Wu Hai, who had also taken out his notebook, and wrote a sentence. At this, Qin Cheng smiled, and asked: “What did you write?”

“You can read it. It’s not a secret.”

Qin Cheng looked at the two sentences written by Wu Hai: ‘Mom, dad, don’t be sad. Your son apologises.’ It took a while before Qin Cheng could ask: “Aren’t you leaving behind your bank account number and password?”

“My parents already know.” After saying this, Wu Hai turned his head and flashed the flashlight at Qin Cheng’s notebook, reading what he had written. When he saw the last sentence, Wu Hai was stunned: “This Su Jingmo is…”

Qin Cheng smiled, but didn’t answer. He simply closed the notebook, took a bag and put the notebook inside. Then, he put the bag at a corner of the tomb. After this, he opened the drawing he took out before.

With the help of the flashlight, Wu Hai looked at the drawing on Qin Cheng’s hands. When he saw the detailed description above the drawings, Wu Hai’s brain lost the ability to direct its own actions, standing frozen in place, and staring at those drawings in a daze.

The beautiful calligraphy that gave a detailed explanation of the possible traps set up in the tomb, although it may not be too specific, it also described the ways to avoid those traps.

“This… this is….!”

Qin Cheng looked at the tomb passage mechanism on the drawing, and observed the shape of the tomb passage in front of him. Then, he took out a compass to determine the east, west, north and south direction. As he observed this, he recorded it next to the drawings. The tomb’s passage was a slope of about 280 degrees from south to north, which should be four meters wide, three meters high, and for the horizontal length,…. Qin Cheng visually measured the distance between the two sides of the passage, thinking that it should be at least 30 meters long. At the entrance of the passage, at the east side, there was a mural showing a procession of honor guards wearing armor and war robes. Behind the guards of honor, there was an Azure Dragon at the north, and at the background of the city wall, there was the Imperial Palace. The city walls were square in the corners, and the Imperial Palace was at the south side of the wall. Inside the city, there was a large number of honor guards marching with flags and weapons. At the west side of the mural in the tomb’s passage, in addition to the painting of the White Tiger and the Azure Dragon, there was also the painting of a Dragon and a Phoenix flying up to Heaven.

Su Jingmo wrote that starting from the entrance of the passage, the Xu Dynasty would set a barrier every five meters. If any mechanism was touched, the passage would tilt down. The smooth passage wouldn’t let people attach themselves to anything, making them fall down to the middle and lower parts of the tomb. Below, there were inverted bronze spikes, and if you fall, those spikes would 100% pierce your heart and lungs, and you will die instantly….

When he thought of this, Qin Cheng hurriedly told Wu Hai: “Wu Hai, come here and look at this. This map shows that there are a row of mechanisms five meters away from each other in this passage. If you touch them, it will trigger a trap. If we’re not careful, we will fall on top of bronze spikes.”

As he looked at the drawing, Wu Hai suppressed his surprise, and asked: “Where did you get this from? Is it really true what it says? I can see that this type of paper is from our era…. it can’t be that you took these drawings from that tomb, right?” Speaking of which, Wu Hai said: “Qin Cheng, please don’t say that these drawings were painted in a mural. Even though I didn’t carefully observe the structure of the tomb that day, at least, I know that the murals don’t show the secrets of the tomb passages.”

Moreover, these drawings were completely drawn with a brush. Wu Hai studied calligraphy, and even though Qin Cheng’s writing was good with a hard pen, the calligraphy on this drawing, simply can’t belong to Qin Cheng….

Wu Hai asked so directly, that he certainly wouldn’t accept Qin Cheng’s avoiding answers. After lowering his eyes, and thinking for a while, Qin Cheng finally said: “This is what someone I met in the tomb told me….” There wasn’t any need to hide this now. Qin Cheng continued with a smile on his face: “I met a man in that tomb, and he told me a lot of things. Even about this Xu Dynasty’s Imperial Mausoleum in Pingyao, Shanxi….. he told me about it too.”

Someone he met in that tomb? Wu Hai wasn’t stupid. Where would he meet someone inside that tomb? It must be….

“He’s not human, but a ghost, isn’t it?”

“That’s not important.” After saying that, Qin Cheng picked up the drawing, and stood up. Then he looked at Wu Hai, and shook his head: “Now it’s not the time to talk about this. Should we move forward, or stay here?”

Wu Hai looked at the drawing in Qin Cheng’s hands. After a moment of silence, he asked: “Is that drawing reliable?”

“Yes, I believe in him.”

“Then, what are we waiting for? Of course we’re moving forward. This place is too remote, and even if we wait here, we might starve to death. Jiang Ping may not even be able to find us, so we better get out by ourselves. Those people must be still waiting there, and when you made us run here just now, they must want to skin us alive and remove our bones, don’t they? We have to move forward, even if we die, we still have a chance to survive, am I right?”

“We don’t necessarily have to die.” Qin Cheng smiled. “I don’t want to die yet. I still want to go home to spend the Spring Festival with my parents. And I should also pay a visit to Zhang Qishuo’s parents.” After he said this, Qin Cheng laughed. “If I were to die here, Zhang Qishuo would probably beat me.”

And….he still hasn’t been able to figure out how the Xu Dynasty disappeared, which he promised Su Jingmo he would do….

Qin Cheng’s heart aches at the thought of Su Jingmo being trapped for more than a thousand years inside that tomb. He still wanted Su Jingmo to leave that tomb. If he died so easily, then in the future, Su Jingmo would be left alone in that tomb for thousands of years…. two thousand… three thousand….

Forever staying in that small side of the world, where his soul can’t be reborn, and it cannot be destroyed….

And in Qin Cheng’s next life, he will long forget about this person….

Just as he thought of such a scene, Qin Cheng’s heart felt extreme pain. He has never felt like this for other people before. It wasn’t until he met Su Jingmo that he knew that sometimes the heartache he felt wasn’t for himself, but for that person. He doesn’t want to see him lonely, and he doesn’t want to see him making a fake smile anymore.

Qin Cheng didn’t know what he liked about Su Jingmo. He didn’t even know whether he would like him more and more over the years, or if he would no longer like him after a few years.

The only thing he knew was that when he looked at Su Jingmo’s vivid expression for modern technology, and when he thought that ‘it would be nice to get along with him like this everyday’, he fell in love with him even more. It was the first time that Qin Cheng wanted so desperately to be with someone, to cherish them every day. He wanted to be with Su Jingmo forever….

As he closed his eyes, to hide the pain that was overflowing inside him, Qin Cheng firmly said: “I will certainly not die!”

Aldhskdjs Qin Cheng always gets romantic and sentimental at the weirdest times XD

Ahhh they’re finally inside that tomb!! Now they have to be careful! Because that tomb is filled with traps:;(∩´﹏`∩);:

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