Although it is said that respecting the old and loving the young is a traditional virtue, we had no respect for this old woman who had tricked us.

What's more, after tricking us, she even wanted to stab Hu Wazi with a dagger. Such a vicious old hag was nothing but a menace.

Seeing that she wanted to steal our water, Old Wei said with a look of disgust, "We only have a few bottles of water, and who knows how long we'll have to last in this ancient tomb? It's not even enough for ourselves, how can we spare any for you!"

Hu Wazi sneered, "Even if we had extra water, we wouldn't give it to her. This old hag is so poisonous, she deserves to die of thirst!"

Speaking of this, Hu Wazi stood up and said to Old Wei, "Old Wei, this old woman has a very bad heart and dirty tricks. We should be careful. Did you bring the silver bracelets? Give her a pair!"

The "silver bracelets" that Hu Wazi mentioned were not the silver bracelets worn on the arms of silver ring snakes.

When Old Wei heard this, he immediately nodded and said, "You're right, this old thing is no good. She almost stabbed you just now, who knows if she'll attack the brothers."

After speaking, he took out a pair of silver bracelets from his backpack, directly lifted the old woman up, and cuffed her to the stone statue.

"Don't you like this stone statue? I'll make you a pair. You can keep it company for the next few days!" Old Wei said with a cold face.

The old woman, with her hands cuffed, knew that she couldn't struggle, so she began to play the victim, wrinkling her face and crying, "Oh! My old man is gone, and the dog I raised was killed by you. Only I, an old woman, am left with a worthless life, and I'm still being bullied by you people. There's no justice! There's no justice!"

We were too lazy to pay attention to her, letting her cry non-stop.

Finally, Xiao Liang was a little annoyed by her crying, and couldn't help but say, "Cry, the more you cry, the more you talk, the drier your mouth will be. Anyway, we can't possibly give you our water, not even a sip. You'll just die of thirst, and you can't blame anyone else."

When the old woman heard this, she glared at Xiao Liang and said, "You're just a young girl, how can your heart be so poisonous? Don't you know what it means to respect the old and honor the elderly? Don't you have any old people at home? Can you bear to see me die of thirst?"

Xiao Liang was tongue-tied and didn't know how to retort. At this time, Silver Ring Snake stood up and said, "Forget it, you old hag, you still have the nerve to say that others have a poisonous heart? I think all of our hearts combined are not as poisonous as yours alone!"

The old woman was still not reconciled, and said stubbornly, "How am I poisonous? I'm avenging my old man, how is that poisonous? You all deserve to die! You all deserve to die!"

Hu Wazi really couldn't stand it anymore, so he walked over and slapped her twice in the face, knocking the old woman unconscious on the spot.

"Damn it! So much nonsense! Knock her out and it's over!"

After speaking, he silently walked to the corner and sat down to rest again.

With the old woman unconscious, the tomb became much quieter.

Although this tomb was not completely sealed, it was, after all, an underground environment, and a relatively closed space. For a while, air couldn't get in, and we all felt a little difficulty breathing.

In this situation, the brain becomes hypoxic, and after the brain becomes hypoxic, you become sleepy.

I sat by the wall for a while and started yawning non-stop.

As a result, yawning is contagious, and soon everyone started yawning.

When Old Wei saw this, he said to us, "If you're sleepy, go to sleep for a while, it'll save energy. It's only been three hours, just hang in there, hang in there for seventy-two hours and someone will come down to rescue us."

I nodded, leaned against the corner of the wall, and lay down, ready to sleep with my backpack as a pillow.

Xiao Liang curled up next to me, lay down next to me, and also prepared to sleep.

Although this tomb was damp and dark, and had a sour and stinky smell, we had no other choice. It was good enough to get our lives back.

Not long after we lay down, when I was drowsy and about to fall asleep, I felt Xiao Liang quietly nudge closer to me, and then her mouth quietly touched my ear.

The breath of her breathing hit the back of my ear, and the feeling was numb. I was startled, and all my sleepiness disappeared. I almost sat up with a jolt.

I was about to ask her what she was doing, but I felt her hand press on my arm, telling me not to move.

I heard her say close to my ear, "Chen Rongsheng, don't sleep too soundly, keep an eye on Silver Ring Snake. I always feel like she's unreliable. Be careful that she doesn't do anything while we're sleeping."

Hearing this, I quickly nodded imperceptibly.

After communicating with me, Xiao Liang slowly retreated to her original position and lay down to continue sleeping.

After a while, I also fell asleep. Because Old Wei had arranged for several Xiaoling Guards to take turns sleeping, with those who were awake being responsible for guarding the post, I didn't actually need to force myself to stay awake.

In this way, we slept for a while, woke up for a while, and in the blink of an eye, we had endured for more than ten hours in this ancient tomb.

In these ten or so hours, eating and drinking were not a problem. The biggest problem was going to the toilet.

Because the tomb was a closed space, and there were both men and women, whoever wanted to pee was almost like being publicly executed.

Old Wei finally found a feng shui treasure—behind a stone coffin on the left side of the tomb. We, regardless of gender, all changed to squatting to pee, squatting behind the stone coffin, so no one could see, at least ensuring privacy.

But the sound of peeing couldn't be covered up. Even if the person peeing deliberately whistled to cover it up, you could still hear the sound.

What's even more embarrassing is that the smell was too strong, because the tomb was a closed space, and the smell couldn't dissipate at all.

Finally, Old Wei couldn't bear it anymore, so he suggested that everyone try not to pee easily. First, the smell was getting stronger and stronger, really hitting the nose, and second, reducing drainage could also save some water resources, allowing everyone to last a little longer.

We endured like this for another five hours, watching as we had persisted in the tomb for twenty hours.

But this was less than a day and a night, and to be honest, this was just the beginning.

If we really wanted the public officials on the ground to realize that something had happened to us, we would have to endure for at least forty-eight hours.

At this time, the first one who couldn't hold on was still that old woman.

After all, she was too old, and Hu Wazi had beaten her up, and she had been cuffed to the stone statue without drinking a drop of water.

In the end, her two wrists were swollen like eggplants, purple and distended. She also began to be a little delirious, closing her eyes and constantly talking nonsense, saying things like "I won't let you go even if I become a ghost."

When Old Wei saw that she was really not doing well, he wanted to release her, at least take her down from the side of the stone statue and let her lie on the ground.

But Hu Wazi was unwilling, and said with a cold face, "Old Wei, why do you care about her life or death? She wanted to harm us, in my opinion, she deserves to die!"