novelraw Chapter 580 - 375: The Underground Tunnel
Chapter 580 - 375: The Underground Tunnel
Chapter 375
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Bang!!!
Such a violent noise would certainly lead anyone with a brain and logic—who had also witnessed that suspended coffin—to think it had fallen down.
Miss Hua and the others were startled, yet the woman walking down the corridor seemed completely unfazed, as if she had anticipated everything behind her, or perhaps, she simply didn’t care.
Was their group her target?
Brother Ma’s prayers, a mix of local and foreign pleas, seemed totally ineffective, lacking in cosmic power and chakra; they were trapped in that dark room with only Sui Yi and that repulsive abomination, a mixture of Orochimaru and Sadako, as well as their painfully disarmed state.
Clearly, unless a miracle happened, they stood no chance against this woman.
What to do?
While Brother Ma and Han Gao murmured incessantly behind her, and Zhang Wei and the others remained silent, Yaofei suddenly gritted her teeth.
It seemed she had to make a sacrifice...
So, she took a step forward, causing Brother Ma and the others to widen their eyes. Just as they reached out to grab her, they heard... rip~
Miss Hua tore off her outer garment...
Revealing a bewitchingly attractive, sizzling sexy upper body... she was wearing clothes, of course, a tight leather tank top...
Even from behind, one could see her enticing curves...
Could it be that Miss Hua was preparing for a desperate, life-threatening struggle?
Or did she have some clever plan up her sleeve?
"Beautiful lady... how about we find a place to discuss life?"
Brother Ma felt as if he could hear the sound of his own balls shattering. Big sis, do you think this is some kind of gay bar where you can just chat someone up? Couldn’t you come up with a more constructive approach?
Yet what shocked them was... the short-haired, cold beauty actually paused, her gaze lingering.
Damn!
There’s hope!
"I told you, this type of woman is exactly who feels empty and lonely inside, not fond of men but rather more interested in women... Watch me captivate her for you all..." Yaofei whispered with a pinched voice as Brother Ma and the others behind her nodded vigorously—go for it, girl!
And then they saw the short-haired beauty silently draw a gun strapped to her thigh, aiming it straight at Yaofei’s forehead...
Yaofei: "..." Who wrote this script?
Brother Ma and the others: "..." F*cking hell! I knew it wouldn’t work!
The woman’s finger moved ever so slightly...
Silent, save for the flash of gunfire!
The bullet shot out!!!
Dodge it, dodge it, dodge it!!!
It can’t be dodged!
The bullet aimed directly at Yaofei’s forehead... Even though the other’s speed was neither fast nor slow, she still couldn’t avoid it.
This woman was too terrifying!
Suddenly!
Yaofei soared into the air...
Brother Ma and the others watched her feet leave the ground, her entire body lifted unnaturally into the air...
Whoosh!
She "flew" straight backward...
Swish!
Flying into an inner room!
There’s a ghost!
Brother Ma and the others were startled but also instantly reacted instinctively...
Get in!
The group rushed all at once into the inner room; as they entered, the door slammed shut with a bang!
Yaofei had landed, Hou’s true visage revealed, its tail flicking and pressing down on a mechanism.
The door is sealed shut!
Hou then stabbed its tail into the mechanism and stirred.
Creak, the mechanism broke down.
"What are you doing!!"
"Sealing the door? How are we going to get out!"
"And that monster is still inside!"
Even though they were amazed by this creature’s prowess, Brother Ma and the others were confused by its motives. If it hadn’t previously followed Sui Yi, they would have long suspected it was out to harm them.
"What are you dawdling for, get in here! There’s an underground passage!" Gong Jiu’s shout came from the basement.
And, ten seconds before.
Break open, break open, break open!
Gong Jiu wished she could bash the door open with her head, when suddenly... bang.
The door opened!
"Damn, I wasn’t even hitting it yet..." Gong Jiu was dumbfounded, wondering whether she had developed telekinetic powers unexpectedly.
Then she glanced to the side and saw Hou looking at her disdainfully, its hand pressing on a nearby mechanism.
Gong Jiu: "..."
You’re definitely not a Demon Beast, but a Goblin instead, right?
Regardless, the door was open!
Gong Jiu couldn’t care less whether Ao Yin or a Demon God was inside; she slipped through the opening...
However, she felt very strange because there was no sound at all in the basement...
Could it be that Sui Yi was already harmed? Or had Ao Yin been killed by Sui Yi?
Or perhaps...
With a thud, Gong Jiu leaped down the steps in two or three bounds and looked around as she landed.
No one was there!
The lights were bright, but the room was empty...
The only thing present was a door, neither too big nor too small, almost the same size as the two outside doors, but this passage was very deep and looked rather odd, with a slightly twisted appearance.
In any case, the visual effect was quite uncomfortable, like the intestine of a monster...
"Holy crap! A room within a room within a room! Does the tomb designer have some kind of problem? What a heavy taste..." Gong Jiu mumbled to herself, then heard the voices of Han Gao and the others outside.
There were enemies outside!
Her glance flickered as Gong Jiu turned toward Hou beside her.
"Monkey, it’s time for you to show your skills," she said.
Hou: "..."
I’m Hou, not Monkey!
Hou had an "invisibility" function, as Gong Jiu had previously seen it vanish and reappear like a chameleon. Thus, sending it out to rescue Yaofei and the others couldn’t be more appropriate. Clearly, this creature seemed to hold a lot of faith in Sui Yi and knew which side to stand on, as it was obedient...
Then all the people ended up gathering in front of this underground chamber and passageway.
Looking at the passage, Brother Ma laughed creepily, "We’ve been locked up here for so many days, and we never knew about this tunnel..."
"I bet Second Master Gong and his companion didn’t know either, or they wouldn’t have been at ease keeping us here. But their vision is pretty sharp, to find such a peculiar secret chamber..."
"Stop talking. That woman outside is a freak. I don’t think those two doors will hold her for long. Let’s go!"
The internal chamber’s mechanism was smashed by Yaofei, but once the mechanism was broken, the door’s defense weakened by more than half. For that woman, whose strength was not inferior to Sui Yi’s, it wouldn’t be hard to forcefully break open the door.
Like now...
Boom!
The door seemed to have fallen to the ground...
"Damn it, so violent! Can’t she be gentler?" Gong Jiu cursed under her breath, while running into the underground tunnel with a group of people...
"Gentle my ass! Have you forgotten how she knocked each of us out earlier? Where the heck did your Second Master find such a psycho...she’s like a super assassin... By the way, it seems the coffin outside has fallen..."
"I heard noises... Never mind that now, let’s find Sui Yi and get out of here!"
Gong Jiu initially came to investigate her parent’s cause of death. After finding out it was Second Master Gong who was responsible, she naturally felt great hatred and wanted to tear him apart alive, but right now the thought of pursuing them was not on her mind.
After all, she knew her priorities, and clearly, the safety of her best friend was more important than family vendetta.
However, as they ran through the tunnel, they did not hear any noise from Sui Yi or the Demon God.
Where had they gone?
Could they have run far ahead?
In the corridor, Sui Yi ran like the wind, her body blurring into afterimages, almost as if she were flying. But the white figure behind her was clearly faster, seemingly not even needing to touch the ground, just darting through the air with a whoosh, drawing ever closer to Sui Yi...
Soon, Sui Yi sensed something strange about the tunnel.
The incline was too steep!
From the previously odd twisting to the slope that went upwards, it had reached a forty-five-degree angle!
And it was getting steeper...
It was like the stairway to heaven!
This caused an increasing drain on Sui Yi’s physical strength, until...
There was a clear ninety-degree angle ahead, almost at the top of the peak, which changed her complexion.
The slope there left an opening only half a meter wide at the top, while the wall below was a sheer drop of a hundred meters, and the surface was incredibly smooth, like a slippery mirror, making it extremely difficult to climb up, let alone jump up...
Sui Yi paused in her steps, and suddenly felt a coldness on the back of her neck... A tongue ruthlessly hooked around her throat.
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"Damn it, what the hell is this tunnel about! Why do I feel more and more exhausted the further I climb?" Brother Ma couldn’t help but complain.
Gong Jiu and Yaofei, although stronger than the others, had been imprisoned for many years, and Gong Nie, intending for them to be weakened, hardly gave them anything to eat. So they were naturally very frail, and at this moment, completely exhausted.
Zhang Wei was also very weary, but he said, "This is an uphill path that seems to lead to an upper space within the tomb... This tunnel is perhaps the entrance, or there might be many similar entrances within this chamber..."
"I have no idea who this tomb owner was, just too strange... I don’t know where Sui Yi has run off to, we haven’t seen her at all on this path."
"Not seeing her might be better than seeing her. If we had seen her, that would mean she..." Han Gao didn’t elaborate, but everyone understood.
"Eh, have you guys noticed that that woman... doesn’t seem to have caught up with us?"
"Weird."
At this moment, outside the entrance to the underground passage, at the internal chamber door, the woman indeed could no longer pursue them.
Because she felt the long-haired woman was nearby.
There was a disturbance outside!
Going into the tunnel for a skirmish clearly wasn’t a good idea, especially since she might not be interested in entering the tunnel at all.
For her device on her waist had emitted a sound.
Her people were calling her.
She coldly glanced at the tunnel entrance and then turned and left.
Without finding any trace of anyone outside, she paused her feet briefly before entering the dark corridor...
After a while, a dark shadow slowly emerged from around another corner and walked into the secret chamber.
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Sui Yi was abruptly yanked and sent flying, the face of Ao Yin behind her, lacking any features, split open again, revealing sharp saw-like teeth. His mouth was actually quite large, big enough to stuff Sui Yi’s entire head into it...
But he didn’t do so. Instead, at the base of the tongue, there was a red, hollow tube, from which suddenly sprung a slick, piercing tongue...
A double tongue?
That slender tongue, as thin as a little finger, darted towards the back of Sui Yi’s head in the blink of an eye.
Sui Yi had already noticed that the severed heads or the heads on the Ghost Cup Tree had small holes, as if something had pierced them to suck out the brain and such... (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to go to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)