Chapter 5

Chapter 5: The Tomb of Hui Wang of Pixian [3]

Translator: Xah

Four people outside the van were camping. LaoDa was holding a piece of crumpled paper in his hand, rumpled, and inadvertently raised his eyes and looked around.

Zhang Qiu found out that the van was actually parked between the mountains and forests, surrounded by lush greenery. He was now indistinguishable from the southeast and the northwest.

Looking at Li Shu, who was sitting still on the side beside him, he asked, “What time is it?”

The other person looked at his watch and reported for a while.

Zhang Qiu squatted down, “I actually slept almost twenty-four hours!”

When Li Shu did not answer the latter, he saw Zhang Qiu touched his stomach and murmured, “No wonder I’m hungry.”

……

The fire was lit in front of the tent and hot water was burning on it.

Zhang Qiu was assigned a bag of compressed biscuits and sat in the corner, and with his teeth he torn it open. He bit and licked like a squirrel, the dregs fallen while he was eating. As he ate, his mouth dried. He looked at the burning stove. The hot water had not yet opened. And next to him, Li Shu handed over the cup into his hand.

“?”

Li Shu only gave him a look. Zhang Qiu responded a little slow. After a second he only knew that the other person had given it to him. He quickly took it, drank a bit, and whispered a good man’s card to Li Shu.

At the opposite, LaoSan stared at Zhang Qiu maliciously because the wrong person was kidnapped, he was scolded by Big Brother and all of his fire was now on Zhang Qiu’s head.

Stones in his hand, LaoSan pointed it at Zhang Qiu, who was holding the cup and looked up about to drink the water, his eyes flashed viciously.

Zhang Qiu was eating a biscuit and thirsty. He only heard a slamming sound from his ear. The front stove suddenly slammed and splashed with hot water.

“Damn, who’s doing it?!” LaoSan stood up and slumped over his wet clothes as he directed looked at Zhang Qiu.

Zhang Qiu :…

I just took a lick of biscuit!

Li Shu stepped in front of Zhang Qiu and swept coldly on LaoSan, who was furious. LaoSan was frightened by the eyes and looked as if his blood was going to freeze. He stood in the same place and waited for two seconds before responding: “Damn, I know it’s your hand.”

At the opposite, LaoSi and LaoWu also came up and obviously wanted to help LaoSan.

The three were tall and was standing in a row. It seemed that Li Shu was very thin.

Zhang Qiu leaned to Li Shu at this time, three versus two, was not an even battle.

The scene was a confrontation. The other three were scrupled, and no one had started anything.

LaoDa, who had been sitting and motionless, spoke suddenly and impatiently: “What are you doing! Doing nothing, go to bed early!” LaoEr then played the round field, whispered in LaoSan’s ear–who knew what he said– and LaoSan calmed down, then turned towards the tent.

The fire was extinguished, and only a faint lamp was on the camp, and everyone was scattered.

Zhang Qiu looked at Li Shu’s back. “Thank you.” Although he did not know what had just happened, Li Shu must have helped him.

“Sleep.” Li Shu finished then went into a small tent.

There was a total of three tents, Zhang Qiu could choose to sleep with LaoSan’s group of four, neither go to LaoDa’s tent –without thinking much, Zhang Qiu decided to follow Li Shu to the second tent drilling.

He probably slept too much during the day. He was not very sleepy at this night, rather he was very spirited.

Only the tent was very small. He did not have to look at Li Shu’s thinness to know that there weren’t much spaces to lie down. Zhang Qiu couldn’t sleep or dare to stand up. Nevertheless, he was closed to Li Shu’s skin. It was cold and strange. . .

“You have a low body temperature, you may have hypoglycemia. You have to eat one sugar each morning.” Zhang Qiu scrupulously said. He didn’t know whether he was right or not. He listened to the deep voice behind him uttering ‘hmm’. Zhang Qiu was a little happy and continued to say, “I know a good plum candy. I bought a lot, but I left it in Big Uncle’s house.”

Suddenly he discovered one thing and immediately turned over.

“I–”

Face to face, the two were very close to each other and their breaths were intertwined. It was like Zhang Qiu could talk to Li Shu’s lips with his lips.

Zhang Qiu’s head subconsciously fell backwards and Li Shu’s voice was heard in his ear. The low voice sounded like a laugh, and it began to linger in Zhang Qiu’s ear.

“What do you want to say?”

“Oh oh.” Zhang Qiu pressed down on his heart, and said very seriously, “I shouldn’t have wear shoes when I was kidnapped? Then, now under my foot, whose pair is this?”

He could not believe that LaoSan would buy him shoes to put on, this time he was rejoiced because last night he and his dad slept with clothes on.

“I helped you wear it.”

“Boom” – Zhang Qiu suddenly flushed, and felt that he was a little bit off the mark; being ashamed like a girl. Fortunately, the tent was dark, Li Shu should not see his red face.

The blood was concentrated on his face. Zhang Qiu dillydallied and gave Li Shu a ‘good man’ card. Li Shu’s voice was light when he said ‘sleep’. Zhang Qiu was a bit confused and fell asleep unwittingly.

Li Shu saw the person was fast asleep and reached out to touch Zhang Qiu’s ear lobe. The temperature of the lobe warmed his heart, and slowly he closed his eyes.

–

In the morning, Zhang Qiu was like an octopus who had bounced off Li Shu. He knew that his sleeping habit was bad but he had never thought it was so bad. He looked at him with embarrassment. Li Shu was unaware of Zhang Qiu’s embarrassment and greeted him with ‘morning’.

Zhang Qiu :…

Your attitude makes me think you enjoyed it last night!

Several people outside the tent whispered something. When Zhang Qiu and Li Shu came out, the topic of discussion immediately stopped. Zhang Qiu further confirmed that these five people were not in the same boat with Li Shu.

Breakfast was prepared by LaoEr; hot canned beef and compressed biscuits. Because Li Shu took care of Zhang Qiu along the way, LaoEr did not deduct Zhang Qiu’s weight this time. It was just that Zhang Qiu couldn’t stand the nausea when he opened the hot meat.

The smell was so bad.

Zhang Qiu was vomiting and LaoSan opened fire.

“Don’t you stop fucking up early in the morning? Is he pregnant with a bitch?”

Zhang Qiu did not say anything. Li Shu first looked coldly at LaoSan. LaoSan didn’t get up this time like he used to. He shrugged and shuffled to sit at the side, eating.

He was really pregnant.

Zhang Qiu thought that something was wrong and he gave Li Shu his canned meat. He himself ate some biscuits and drank some cold water.

–

The next morning, LaoDa took his wrinkled paper and took them around the hill. At noon, he returned to the camp. In the morning they had found nothing, LaoSan did not complained because he dared not send it to LaoDa. Zhang Qiu and Li Shu looked at each other and dared not said anything.

They walked towards another hill in the afternoon, but this time LaoDa asked his brothers to put things on their backs.

Zhang Qiu guessed that this LaoDa had guessed some of the entrance, but the defense was very heavy. It seemed that even the other four people were not clear. It was all about to being a thug.

Sure enough, the important big luggage bags were carried by the other four people. Li Shu only had a small bag containing simple food supplies. He had nothing else.

–

After walking for two hours in the afternoon, LaoDa checked the map with a glimmer of confusion in his eyes and carefully read it. Finally, he was not sure and beckoned the other four to discuss together.

Their voices were very small and ambiguous. Zhang Qiu couldn’t hear a single word. Li Shu also didn’t care about it. He was staring in one direction and his eyebrows slumped slightly.

The sound of swearing was getting louder and louder, and Zhang Qiu frowned, because it wasn’t like a voice at all,  but like something squawking in the clatter of the leaves on the ground.

Those who spoke also found something wrong, staring at the source of the sound, and saw the leaves on the ground suddenly being lifted up, like the waves, layer by layer, then darkness slowly extending towards their side.

When Zhang Qiu saw what it was, his scalp felt numb.

“Fuck, how are there so many spiders!”

“Too much, run and run!”

“Run!!!”

Zhang Qiu was dragged forward by Li Shu, only to hear the voices of the people behind yelling becoming more and more buzzing. He didn’t dare to turn back, he was afraid to see it. Those spiders were as big as an adult man’s large palm, and the dark glittering eyes were very strange.

As the buzz grew, Zhang Qiu’s legs were flying fast.

“Fire! Burn them.”

The sound behind his head was still buzzing. It didn’t take long for Zhang Qiu to smell a deep stench.

Li Shu suddenly stopped. He nearly fell and was pulled by Li Shu. Because he ran too fast now, he couldn’t breath smoothly and he couldn’t say anything. He looked at Li Shu’s chest, the undulation did not seem to be too erratic. his physical strength was really good.

The spiders were not chasing after them. He didn’t know if those tomb raiders had detonate the gas cans and alcohol used for cooking because the black smoke in front of them was accompanied by foul odors and the taste of barbecue mixed with made him felt disgusting nausea. Zhang Qiu vomited again.

The two men waited in the same place. The five people had all came over. Except that LaoDa was slightly better looking, and the other four were in filth.

Li Shu glanced over to LaoSan and LaoWu, and Zhang Qiu followed after him. He noticed that the two had bites on their arms and legs. The wounds that looked black were caused by the spiders’ bite. It looked like it was poisoned.

Zhang Qiu looked at Li Shu. Li Shu had already taken back his gaze. Zhang Qiu thought for a second, he was not going to mention it.

“HAHAHA!”

Suddenly a laughter bursting into the quiet air. Zhang Qiu saw LaoDa looked at the precious paper and smiled a little crazy.

“I finally found it! I finally found it!”

Zhang Qiu was not far away from him. He bent his head and saw at the corner of the hand-drawn messy yellow paper was full of black dots. He suddenly guessed what was going on.

Who knew where LaoDa got this hand-drawn map; the color of the paper was fading a bit. Someone had visited this place and left the map. It was no wonder that LaoDa was a little upset when he looked at the map because the terrain was probably right, but lacking the black dots.

Now that the dots had been made, it showed that they had found the tomb according to this map.

The Tomb of Pixian Hui Wang mentioned by Big Uncle.

However, since LaoDa had a map in his hand, why would he go to Big Uncle to make a collaboration?

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