Urban Wolf King

Chapter 1227 1138: Trapped in the Burial Chamber

Emerging from the walls all around were piercing arrows, each arrowhead gleaming with a ghostly blue light, clearly tainted with deadly poison.

Seeing this, Hu Yiyi was startled and quickly shouted, "Get out of the way!"

Being from a family of tomb raiders, they had anticipated such a situation long ago. Immediately, Hu Yiyi and his two disciples each pulled an iron umbrella from their belongings and swiftly opened them.

Then they curled up their bodies, hiding beneath the iron umbrellas.

All they could hear was the continuous clanging, as countless arrows rained down, striking the iron umbrellas.

The clanging continued for a full three minutes. Around the iron umbrellas, hundreds of arrows littered the ground.

Beneath the umbrellas, Hu Yiyi and his disciples shuddered at the sight of so many arrows falling, knowing that without the iron umbrellas, they would have been turned into pincushions.

Three minutes may be short, but for Hu Yiyi and his disciples, it felt like an eternity.

Finally, when the sound of falling arrows ceased, and after waiting a while longer, Hu Yiyi dared to slowly lift the iron umbrella, peeking out.

Wherever he looked, arrows covered the ground, causing Hu Yiyi to shudder and feel a wave of dread.

Taking a few deep breaths, Hu Yiyi calmed down a bit, slowly stood up, and immediately saw his two disciples still hiding under their umbrellas, trembling.

Hu Yiyi kicked each of their iron umbrellas and scolded, "Useless, get up, hurry up!"

Only then did the two disciples dare to poke their heads out from under their umbrellas, pale-faced, asking, "Is it safe?"

Hu Yiyi cursed, "Safe my ass, you're embarrassing me, get up."

The two disciples slowly stood up, one shaking his head, saying, "That was terrifying. Without these iron umbrellas, we'd be dead."

The other said, "Poor rich kids, they probably look like porcupines. You check it out, I can't bear to see it dripping with blood."

The other added, "I can't look either."

The two of them even used their iron umbrellas to shield themselves, too scared to look at the other side of the burial chamber.

Hu Yiyi scolded, "Useless fools, how can you raid tombs if you can't even look at corpses?"

The two disciples muttered, "There's a difference between dry and fresh corpses in a tomb."

As they spoke, Hu Yiyi looked towards where Wang Yan had been standing.

Suddenly, Hu Yiyi exclaimed, "Ah!" and then fell silent.

Hearing this, the two disciples grew even more fearful. One said, "See, it must be bloody. Even Master got scared unconscious."

The other said, "Now I'm definitely not looking."

But after a moment, seeing that Hu Yiyi remained silent, their curiosity got the better of them, and they peeked from behind their umbrellas to look at Hu Yiyi.

They saw that Hu Yiyi was not unconscious at all but was standing there, eyes wide open, not moving.

Confused, the two disciples followed Hu Yiyi's gaze.

But with that one look, they also yelled "Ah!" simultaneously, their eyes wide open just like Hu Yiyi's, dumbfounded.

Because they saw that Wang Yan and the others were standing there unharmed.

Not only were they unscathed, but there wasn't even an arrow on them.

After a while, Hu Yiyi finally, with a trembling voice, asked, "How...how did you dodge them?"

Because clearly, the ground around Wang Yan and the others was covered with arrows.

Hu Wei chuckled and said, "We dodged them."

On hearing Hu Wei's words, Hu Yiyi shook his head in disbelief. How could anyone dodge such dense arrows?

But just as Hu Yiyi wanted to question further, his expression suddenly changed.

Because he realized that after the arrows were shot, the entire burial chamber had changed.

The tunnel on the ceiling had vanished. Originally, the burial chamber had only one door, but now there were seven more, each wall adorned with identical doors.

Looking at the eight identical doors, Hu Yiyi's two disciples asked in confusion, "Master, which door should we take?"

Hu Yiyi was wondering the same thing, but seeing Wang Yan carefully observing the eight doors, he suddenly had an idea.

Wanting to save face, Hu Yiyi pretended to chuckle and said, "This is just a maze of burial chambers; how could it stump the Tomb Raider Ancestor? Watch carefully, I'll show you how to find the gold distribution point."

With that, Hu Yiyi took out a bronze compass from his robe, started murmuring, "The first number of Kan one Qian six, the Ren case Qian Palace, the beginning of numbers, combine use of Shen Sha..."

After murmuring for a while, Hu Yiyi lifted his hand, took out the Wind-Still Banner, and planted it on the ground in front, pointing in the direction the banner faced, saying, "This is the door, let's go."

So saying, Hu Yiyi triumphantly pulled up the Wind-Still Banner and headed toward one of the doors.

The two disciples immediately regained their composure, strutting toward the door, they said, giving Wang Yan a sidelong glance, "Come on, this time we're saving your lives, or else you'd be trapped here."

But Wang Yan stood still, and because Wang Yan didn't move, neither did Beiming Xue and the others.

The two disciples angrily said, "Such ingratitude. If you want to stay here and wait for death, so be it."

Watching Hu Yiyi and his disciples enter the door, Fang Jinchun asked, "Big brother, did you figure out the trick to these eight doors?"

Wang Yan nodded and said, "These eight doors indeed hide the numbers of the eight trigrams, but there's a fluctuation of an array within. If I'm not mistaken, going through here should lead us into the Outer Guan Qin Family."

Hearing this, Hu Wei and the others were overjoyed. Finding the entrance to the Outer Guan Qin Family meant they were about to enter a dragon's den and tiger's lair.

Even knowing the danger, the five of them were eager and raring to go.

"Big brother, what should we do now? Do we charge straight in?" Ma Jun asked.

"Not so fast. Know yourself and know your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without defeat. We'll slowly uncover the secrets of the Outer Guan Qin Family. While the Qin Family is powerful, we'll sneak under their nose and strip off his mysterious cloak."

Hearing this, Hu Wei and the others instantly felt their blood boil.

To act in the presence of such a powerful family, the thought alone was exhilarating.

At that moment, the sound of talking came from the eight stone doors, "We see light, ha ha, we've finally made it out."

As the voice came, Hu Yiyi and his disciples emerged from the door.

But upon exiting, Hu Yiyi was stunned to see Wang Yan and the others still there.

The three looked at each other and immediately wore mournful expressions.

They had wandered around for so long, only to find themselves back at the starting point.

After a moment of disbelief, Hu Yiyi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I must have calculated wrong, let me try again."

So Hu Yiyi once more took out the Wind-Still Banner, carefully calculated again, and then led his disciples into another door.

But shortly after, they returned to the starting point once more.

Like this, Hu Yiyi and his disciples tried all eight doors, each time returning to the start.

Finally, exhausted and despairing, Hu Yiyi and his disciples returned to the burial chamber, plopped down on the ground, and burst into tears.

"It's over, we'll starve to death here."

"We'll never get out."

...

Just then, Wang Yan spoke calmly, "Let me find the exit."

Hu Yiyi weakly replied, "If I, the great Tomb Raider Ancestor can't find it, don't joke, rich kid, let's just wait to die."

Wang Yan did not respond, but with a wave of his hand, an array flag appeared in his grasp.

Seeing the array flag in Wang Yan's hand, Hu Yiyi's eyes widened in shock, "You have another Wind-Still Banner!"