Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Phoenix’s Blood [9]

Translator: Xah

Firm scientific development concept had long been broken to pieces, and now when Zhang Qiu heard about the Phoenix’s spiritual soul, he was not surprised, but felt: oh, it turns out that the red bead is so bullish ah!

But how could it be second brother’s?

Zhang Qiu endured a belly full of questions. Li Shu took his hand and walked along the dark road behind Pixian Hui Wang and his second brother. The corridor was narrow but enough to walk side by side, their luggage was missing except for the one on his back from this morning.

After a while, Zhang Qiu’s eyes were adapted to the dark environment, and he could faintly see the blurred figure. Suddenly he heard the gasp of “fuh-fuh–” in front of him. It was too coarse to sound like a person’s voice. The voice was sometime louder and sometime smaller. Zhang Qiu tightened Li Shu’s hand.

“It’s Jin LaoDa.”

Li Shu’s voice was low, and being closed to him, it sounded like he was drilling through his ear. Zhang Qiu’s ears were getting a little hot. He nodded, afraid if Li Shu would not see him, he whispered, “What to do now?”

“Set it right.” Li Shu’s voice was kind of sharp, like carrying a killing intent.

Zhang Qiu shivered. In his impression, Li Shu loved to release the cold air, but he had never been killing. He could not help but remember the way Jin LaoDa and the two men killed Lao Fei and the rest. His nose seemed to smell a strong bloody smell.

“Cold?” Li Shu approached a bit closer, with a gentle voice and some warmth, which was not exactly like what he had just sounded.

Zhang Qiu knew it was a bad idea, but when he heard Li Shu treating him differently, his heart was sweeter than that of a little girl. He was hopeless.

The clenched hand suddenly loosened, and Zhang Qiu suddenly became nervous, “What’s the matter?” After hearing the rustling sound in the dark, the next moment he wore a coat; it was Li Shu’s coat.

“Stretch out your arms.”

Zhang Qiu stunned through the entire process of Li Shu setting the clothing on him. this time was actually very short, because Li Shu was very smart to do anything, both of his hands had already been pulled back. Li Shu walked ahead, Zhang Qiu felt the cool coat because Li Shu did not have a warm body temperature, but he felt particularly warm at the moment.

“You have low body temperature and still gave me your clothes.” Li Shu was wearing only a T-shirt. Zhang Qiu was a little embarrassed, “I’m not really cold either.”

Li Shu did not turn, “I’m alright.”

“Rest assured that he will not freeze.” Pixian Hui Wang suddenly supplemented from behind.

Zhang Qiu subconsciously looked back, only to see the shadow of two people. He did not know why Pixian Hui Wang said so, but perhaps Li Shu was very good!

The gasping sound in front of him disappeared and the light was dimly visible. Zhang Qiu subconsciously slowed his steps. He heard a subtle noise, but could not hear what it was. As he walked into the room, the sound grew louder and louder. Zhang Qiu heard and his scalp numbed.

“Ka Cha, Ka Cha, Ka cha.”

It was like something chewing on a bone. Facing the front from a distance in the dark and bright all around with the flashlight on the ground dimly lit, Jin LaoDa could clearly be seen. Jin LaoDa was leaning back against the wall, nibbling with something in his hands, turned his head to look at them.

Boom!

Zhang Qiu was shocked speechless by the scene ahead. If he was right, Jin LaoDa was holding a zongzi, full of liquid, not knowing whether it was Jin LaoDa’s or the zongzi’s. When Zhang Qiu thought of those mummy-like zongzi,  he could not help but retch and vomit on the wall.

Jin LaoDa threw away his half-eaten arm and looked at them. “You guys do not need to bother, you can’t go out alive.” He looked at Zhang YuShui at the back, and a bizarre laughter appeared in his voice, sounded blood-curling in the narrow tomb corridor. “Give him up and you’ll get a chance, otherwise you’ll all be buried with him.”

“I’m watching you.” Almost at the same time, when Li Shu shot out, Jin LaoDa pushed open the stone door and went out. Zhang Qiu could even hear the sound of Jiangshi’s hissing outside, but echoed with Jin LaoDa’s words, I’m watching you.

Jin LaoDa was not afraid of these Jiangshis.

Zhang Qiu’s gaze moved to the scattered gnawed Jiangshi and held back his nausea. “Is it possible for Jin LaoDa to gnaw on this jiangshi and not be eaten?”

Li Shu shook his head, did not know whether it was a negative answer or not.

Even Zhang Qiu could not get down to it. It was too hardcore. He would rather be gnawed by Jiangshi than gnawed on it.

“We must continue to move forward. There must be some way out. Jin LaoDa is just scaring us.”

Li Shu slightly narrowed his eyes, showing cold meaning, “the way out is outside the corridor.” He pointed to the front. “This is a circular corridor. If you keep walking, you will only be in a circle.”

“There are nine pillars outside the corridor.” Pixian Hui Wang said.

Zhang Qiu also figured out that the narrow path inside could avoid the Jiangshi, but it was not the way out of here, they had to get out to the outside of the corridor, but there were thousands of Jiangshi outside. Listening to Jin LaoDa, it seemed that they would not be coming out from the robber’s hole where they came in.

“What should we do now?”

“Ah Yan…”

Zhang YuShui hugged Pixian Hui Wang and pushed his head to his (PHW) neck. The heat of his exhalation swept down the skin of Pixian Hui Wang, he murmured the name of Pixian Hui Wang. Pixian Hui Wang stiffened, his skin was numbed, but his face was cold. He wanted to push the man out of his arms.

“Imperial Uncle.”

Suddenly the head at his neck cried, and Pixian Hui Wang pushed away his hand, stiffened. But the other person obviously did not know to retreat, but went further; his whole lip pressed to his (PHW) neck, tenderly licking and kissing, “Da’er[1] is so hot, Imperial Uncle, you help Da’er…”

Not far away, Zhang Qiu also heard Zhang YuShui’s talking. He could not see it clearly. Just when he wanted to ask if Zhang YuShui was awake, he heard Zhang YuShui’s words behind him sounded like a spoiled child, but more than acting spoiled, it seemed to be the mixture of dominance and lust…?

“… Imperial uncle, is Da’er not good enough for you? If it’s still not good enough, do I have to ruthlessly go in that place again? Make you cry for me, you can’t go anywhere.”

Zhang Qiu:…

I seem to have heard something that should not be listened to, so awkward, do I need to pretend not hearing it?!

Zhang Qiu looked at the blurred shadow of Li Shu and asked silently what to do.

In the darkness, Li Shu saw Zhang Qiu with a face of embarrassment and a red face staring at him. When Li Shu thought of Zhang Qiu’s sleek butt and holding his moaning red face, suddenly his eyes turned crimson and full of desire.

A flash of crimson light flashed past Zhang Qiu’s blurred eyes.

“Have you seen the red just—”

“Bang!”

Zhang Qiu turned back when he heard the noise. A dark shadow was over there, with a faint flashlight in the distance, he saw Pixian Hui Wang, who seemed a little angry. On the ground near the wall was Zhang YuShui, his second brother.

“What’s wrong?”

Pixian Hui Wang subconsciously touched the neck’s side and deliberately lowered his voice. “It’s nothing.” It was just that the voice was no longer calm as before, but a little angry.

The Zhang YuShui, which was thrown on the ground, was still calling Imperial Uncle. It was pitiable to hear.

Zhang Qiu now had no other way to face the calls of Imperial Uncle from Zhang YuShui. When he heard ‘thought I had killed you’ or something, where was it seemed pitiable? But this was his second brother, being on the ground was not good; there was his physical problems. Zhang Qiu walked over, but was pulled back by Li Shu.

“Second brother he –”

Li Shu scanned Zhang YuShui on the ground, looked at Pixian Hui Wang, and said lightly, “You don’t have to do the work; he’ll be dead in an hour.”

“You!” Pixian Hui Wang wanted to say something but did not go on.

Zhang YuShui on the ground was still calling Imperial Uncle and Ah Yan; Pixian Hui Wang’s face was confused. In the end, as if he was resigned to his fate, he once again supported Zhang YuShui to get up with a cold face. Zhang YuShui, like a snake immediately glued to him. He was as tall as Pixian Hui Wang, but his arms were wrapped like iron arms. His head went down the neck of Pixian Hui Wang, and he whispered ‘lovers honeyed words’.

Zhang Qiu had never known that his externally unperturbed, indifferent and self-restraint manners and highly skilled second brother, Zhang YuShui would say something so unrestrained. Simply drowned his ears.

It was too dirty.

“Go.” Li Shu took Zhang Qiu and walked on.

Zhang Qiu did not understand. “Didn’t you say there is no way from inside?”

“Outside this door is full of Jiangshi.” Li Shu said.

Zhang Qiu could not tell how much of Jiangshi were out there from the sound and the stone gate was odd, that to advance, they needed to find the latch like Li Shu did from outside, but it was easy to push it away from inside. They walked for more than ten minutes. Li Shu stopped when they passed by the stone door this time.

In the darkness, Zhang Qiu saw Li Shu staring at him with sharp, beautiful eyes, and he could not help being flustered. “Wh–what?”

Li Shu did not speak, but suddenly he patted Zhang Qiu’s shoulder. Zhang Qiu was a little stunned by Li Shu’s action. He did not know why he smell a little blood. He was about to say something, Li Shu had pushed the stone door open.

Pixian Hui Wang at the back, sneered at the bloody fingerprint behind Zhang Qiu’s coat shoulder. So that’s what it was. He carried Zhang YuShui, who was still making trouble around his neck, with impatient eyebrows and eyes, he bit his hand and drenched the blood on Zhang YuShui’s shoulder before carrying the man out.

Zhang Qiu imagained the door being besieged by Jiangshi, but he did not see the scene. Because the tomb passage was too dark, he could discern only a few bits from the Jiangshi’s dark red eyes. When the Jiangshi saw them, they hesitated and stood in place, seemingly dared not to rush up.

The stone door creaked, Zhang Qiu looked back, saw Pixian Hui Wang and second brother Zhang YuShui.

“Hiss.” “Roar –“

The Jiangshis, which had just wandered around, seemed mad. They rushed to Pixian Hui Wang, raised their necks and hissed. Li Shu dealt with a few and frowned. “Here they are.”

“Ad—advanced first!” Zhang Qiu was anxious, and the group of jiangshi was like mosquitoes saw the blood. There was no need to look behind the corridor. A group of whispering voices made roar sounds. He wondered if it was an auditory hallucination, that he even heard the words of Jin LaoDa: ‘I’m watching you.’

“No need.” Li Shu coldly said.

The clatter of footsteps was getting closer and closer, and the smell of the stinky Jiangshis was pungent, as if the whole Jiangshis in the tomb was coming.

Zhang Qiu’s anxious brows pouring cold sweats, but he did not reach for the stone wall, he stood beside Li Shu, trusting completely.

“A narrow escape from death.”

Li Shu stared at the black pillar in front of him. It was unknown how it happened, the black pillar collapsed.

The whole tomb shook, the jiangshis’ footsteps stopped and the roar disappeared. Zhang Qiu was delighted. It was really working.

“Bang!”

Pixian Hui Wang suddenly fell to the ground next to him, with his whole body full of blood. His whole person looked as if transparent, and the gorgeous features twisted because of pain.

Zhang YuShui, who fell on the ground suddenly opened his eyes, and his pupils glowed with brilliant yellow light.

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Footnote:

[1] 炟 [dá]= a word used in a person’s name; Emperor Zhang of Han’s name is Hui Da

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