Chapter 19

Chapter 19: Phoenix’s Blood [8]

Translator: Xah

Zhang YuShui’s eyes were so complicated that he blurted out ‘Ah Yan‘ as if he had called it tens of millions of times.

The atmosphere solidified for a moment.

Zhang Qiu stood behind, glancing back and forth. He very much wanted to remind them that in this setting, it was not good to talk. If there were thousands of words to say, that could be put off until after they left the tomb. There was always a feeling of being the zongzi’s dinner in the place of thousands of coffins, as if they would jump out in a minute—

The scene was too beautiful, he did not even dare to intervene.

“Cough -”

“Who the fuck are you?”

Zhang Qiu’s fake cough was interrupted, almost choked by his own saliva and turned into a real cough. He glanced at Lao Fei who said next to him as he held up his gun and pointed it at Pixian Hui Wang on the platform. This was indeed the trick of ‘no die without death’. He didn’t even know what to say.

On his back, there was a cold strong hand gently stroking; it was Li Shu. Zhang Qiu unconsciously relaxed, slowly stopped coughing.

Zhang Qiu saw that on the platform, Pixian Hui Wang smiled. Obviously there was no laughter in his eyes, but it gave birth to a very gentle feeling. Staring at him with such a smile, Lao Fei was apparently shocked. Although all of them were straight men, Pixian Hui Wang’s look and killing power were too outstanding.

But why was there some cold whizzed from behind?

Zhang Qiu looked back and saw Zhang YuShui’s face turned as deep as water and his eyes were crazy and paranoid. Pixian Hui Wang’s eyes really seemed to strip life away. He had never seen Zhang YuShui like this before. It was scary.

Lao Fei returned to his senses and was angry when he thought that he was staring at a sissy. “Fuck your mother!” He took a gun and shoot directly at Pixian Hui Wang on the platform.

‘Bang—‘

Almost in a split second, Zhang Qiu felt a flash in the eye. Zhang YuShui’s figure had reached behind Lao Fei, and he was able to snap the arm of Lao Fei’s gun right behind him. Lao Fei uttered a scream like that of pig in slaughter house, and echoed through the tomb. In a second, Pixian Hui Wang, who was still on the platform a moment ago, arrived in front of Zhang YuShui.

He was holding the red bead in his hand and stared at Zhang YuShui.

“The thing I owed, today return it back to you.”

Pixian Hui Wang seemed to have deliberately lowered his voice so that he did not appear too gentle, but his lips were peculiar in shape and his mouth had rose slightly, as if he were laughing at a love affair.

Zhang YuShui was obviously seen to be enthralled. His anger had faded and his voice gentle, “You–”

Just after opening the mouth, Pixian Hui Wang with a very quick technique had directly put the red bead into Zhang YuShui’s mouth.

Zhang Qiu, who stood at the side was absent-minded for a second, and then responded, “what is that?”

“Hahahahaha.”

The laughter was blood-curling that Zhang Qiu’s question was forgotten. When he turned to see, Jin LaoDa had climbed over the platform and became even more proud to see them looking at him. “I wiped hypertoxic on the bead. He’s going to die.”

“Impossible!” Pixian Hui Wang flashed nervously, subconsciously held Zhang YuShui’s hand.

Zhang YuShui turned his hand to seize ownership and pulled to hold Pixian Hui Wang tightly. He looked pale and delighted. Just like Jin LaoDa’s words, his face suddenly turned white like paper, and his throat was gushing out with fishy sweetness.

Jin LaoDa saw the effect coming out and called out to act.

Li Shu pulled Zhang Qiu behind him, but it what they thought it was. Two of Jin LaoDa’s men suddenly pulled out their knives and stabbed Daoba and half-chewed face. They were mad and very fast. The two that thought they were on the same side was unprepared; they were stabbed several times. The people were directly thrown into the ditch. Zhang Qiu even heard the piercing sound of the two bodies at the bottom edge.

A series of changes made Zhang Qiu somewhat confused and unable to think.

“The smell of blood is so strong that the corpses will soon be here.” Li Shu’s eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the Jin LaoDa in front, “you are not Jin LaoDa.”

Zhang Qiu repeated, “is he not Jin LaoDa?” This is obviously Jin LaoDa!

As soon as Jin LaoDa’s temperament changed, he was not afraid of the pressure released by Li Shu. He grabbed Lao Fei on the ground. The strong man in his eighties cut through Lao Fei’s neck with a knife like he was a chicken. Blood splashed everywhere. Lao Fei had no resistance and died instantly.

In less than a minute, the three lives were gone, and their death was even so tragic, Zhang Qiu was shocked speechless, his head full of paste.

“Clang- clang- clang –”

The smell of blood spread, and the whole chamber suddenly sounded loud. Thousands of dark coffin boards were faintly reddish, and there seemed to be something crashing inside. As the sound grew louder and louder, Zhang Qiu could even feel the bang of the nearest coffin.

The ground was shaking, Jin LaoDa and the two people ran out.

“Corpses, keep up.” Li Shu grabbed Zhang Qiu’s hand and ran out, but Zhang Qiu immediately became anxious. “Second brother is still inside!”

“Somebody will save him.”

Pixian Hui Wang in the original place listened to the louder and louder sounds, then looked at the frail Zhang YuShui. His eyes flashing fiercely at the hands but still stretched out his arms to carry Zhang YuShui. Then, he walked away.

The stone gate had been destroyed and thousands of zongzi could not be kept inside. There were no shadows of Jin LaoDa and the two men in the tomb corridor, and they did not know where they had leaped forward and backward. The sound behind was getting louder and louder, from far away could hear the sound of hissing.

Li Shu pulled Zhang Qiu quickly from the front of the track running; Pixian Hui Wang with Zhang YuShui was not a bit laborious, quickly followed up.

They did not run for a while and Zhang Qiu heard from behind the hissing and howling sounds getting closer and closer. There was also a clutter of steps; one after another. His face turned white and his stomach was not giving him strength at the moment. He looked back in pain and, by the light of his flashlight, saw a dozen of zongzis scattered behind him for more than a dozen meters. Their clothes were worn out and shabby in unrecognizable shape. They looked a little dry, a bit like a mummy, and the two eyes of a black hole were dimly covered with silky red mist.

“Zongzis are catching up.”

The tomb corridor just now was narrow, coupled with the organic barrier, the zongzis inside could not run out of a moment. They ran a distance. Behind them, the zongzis had multiplied, and there were more flexible footsteps.

“This is not the way.” Pixian Hui Wang put Zhang Yu Shui down to lean against the wall. He pulled out a dagger from his waist, held the blade in one hand, and the blood gushed out. Then he drenched his blood on the ground. The Zongzis, which came from behind, were afraid and slowed down.

Zhang YuShui at the moment was already unconscious. His forehead was sweating and his face was white.

Pixian Hui Wang once again supported Zhang Yu Shui in his arms and when he heard Zhang Yu Shui’s murmuring voice, he trembled. He looked at Zhang YuShui with a complicated look in his eyes and said nothing but kept running.

Once again they arrived at the black talisman pillar.

Li Shu suddenly stood motionless, his eyes glancing sharply around him, and Zhang Qiu urgently asked, “Is there anything wrong?” As he finished, he heard zongzis hissing again, and Pixian Hui Wang frowned. “My blood can’t stop these zongzis.”

“Absorbing the Phoenix’s spirit of the millennium, these zongzi are not ordinary.” As Li Shu spoke, he felt the lines of the black pillar with one hand. In the dark tomb corridor, Zhang Qiu could not see exactly what Li Shu did. Zongzis were getting closer and closer behind him. Zhang Qiu’s heart was in his throat. He heard a “click” sound, then slowly the stone door behind the pillar opened.

Li Shu pulled Zhang Qiu into the stone gate, and Pixian Hui Wang followed him with Zhang YuShui. Nearly the next second, a shriveled Zongzi’s face gathered behind him, the flashlight in Zhang Qiu’s hand swept right across the Zongzi’s face. He stepped back in horror and was held up by Li Shu. The zongzi went in, hissing, Li Shu’s hand swiftly pushed the stone door directly, ‘click’ and zongzi’s head fell to the ground. It growled under Zhang Qiu’s feet, and the eyes of two black holes stared at him.

Zhang Qiu was scared, his body was covered with cold sweat, and his stomach ached to death. He directly fainted.

–

When he woke up again, his stomach was still stuffy and uncomfortable. He thought for a few seconds slowly. He suddenly remembered that he was still in the thousands of zongzis tomb before fainting. With his eyes opened in darkness, Zhang Qiu was scared and whispered, “Li Shu?”

“You woke up.”

Zhang Qiu’s fear disappeared when he heard the familiar voice. He reached out into the air and grabbed around. Li Shu handed over his hand; the temperature in his hand was cold, but it gave Zhang Qiu an exceptional peace of mind.

“What about second brother?”

Li Shu took Zhang Qiu’s waist in his other hand, and placed his hand naturally on Zhang Qiu’s stomach and said, “He’s beside you.”

Zhang Qiu heard that the person was alright, he let out a sigh of relief. “Why not switch on the flashlight?”

“I just dropped it.”

“The road is dark, can’t see.”

Li Shu was silent and said, “I can see it without a light.” Then heard the voice of Pixian Hui Wang at the side, “so do I.”

“There are the two of you, will do.” He felt a little strange, but he could not say anything strange. In a flash, Zhang Qiu thought of something else. “I said it was strange when we entered the tomb. It turned out that Jin LaoDa knew all about the tomb. Otherwise, only his baggage contained bows, crossbows and ropes.” He grasped the hand of Li Shu. “What do you mean Jin LaoDa is not Jin LaoDa?”

“He’s the one who grabbed the box.” Pixian Hui Wang suddenly supplemented, his voice was very sure, sneered, “I killed him at that time.” At that time, he was just woke up and the first thing he saw was the Emperor’s face; his memories became chaotic and vague. Without thinking, he went to bite him. Then the thing in his hand was robbed, so he chased and killed the other party.

Now that Jin LaoDa was dead, who on earth was the man who followed them all the way to the car and ate in disguise as Jin LaoDa?

Yet Li Shu said, “maybe he is really Jin LaoDa.”

“Jin LaoDa is not dead?”

Li Shu did not say anymore, “Let’s go first. Jin LaoDa and the two people are in this aisle.” Pausing, Li Shu looked at Zhang Qiu, “your brother’s life is still in the hands of Jin LaoDa.”

“Yes, yes, it’s important to save lives. I don’t know if Jin LaoDa has any antidote for my brother’s poison.” What did Zhang Qiu think of? He could not see where Pixian Hui Wang was. He looked at the direction of Pixian Hui Wang’s voice. “What did you give my brother to eat?”

Speaking of this, Pixian Hui Wang looked gentle, but Zhang Qiu could not see it.

“His own Phoenix’s spiritual soul."

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