382: Chapter 382 [Spreading Fear] Seventh Release!
382: Chapter 382 [Spreading Fear] Seventh Release!
Chapter Seven!
“What what what is this?” Li Yang’s teeth were chattering, and even he was feeling a sense of fear at this point.
“Crack!” Just at that moment, a shocking sound burst from the dark gleam in mid-air, and everyone’s hearts jolted in an unprecedented manner, as if their souls and spirits were scared away.
In this suffocating situation, suddenly hearing such a sound could absolutely scare one to death!
“Quickly, look what’s happening inside the temple!” Bai Jie suddenly shouted,
Everyone looked towards the temple and saw streams and whisps of black qi rampaging about.
The monks’ bodies shrivelled rapidly amid heart-piercing screams of agony, and then their flesh gradually disappeared, leaving only their skeletal frames draped in their robes!
“Ah!” A sense of dread rose within everyone’s hearts.
All the monks in the temple had turned into ghastly skeletons and then, amid thunderous roars, the temple disappeared under the massive force of destruction.
“This is a mirage!
Everyone, don’t be fooled by the sight before your eyes!” Ye Chenfeng suddenly said, giving everyone a jolt of awakening!
“It’s the guardian beasts of the tomb; they secrete a special liquid.
Just the smell of it and hallucinations will appear before everyone’s eyes!” the thief explained.
In an instant, everyone discussed in fright, all of them on edge as beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down their foreheads, their teeth chattering, and their voices trembling.
The thief, holding the compass and chanting an unknown incantation, gradually made the terrible illusory realm before their eyes disappear, and everyone reappeared in the corridor.
To everyone’s surprise, after all this time they hadn’t moved forward even a step; their position in the corridor hadn’t changed at all.
“Look at the walls!”
On both sides, the walls were crawling with dense swarms of insects, the very same ones seen earlier within the decomposed bones.
“Seeking death!”
Li Yang took an M22 portable flamethrower out of his backpack and fired it at the insects covering the walls.
Instantly, a dragon of flame surged forth, the fire almost drowning everything, and the smell of scorched flesh aggressively assaulted their senses, nearly making them vomit.
Without the obstruction of the beasts, everyone’s movements sped up considerably.
The corridor was long, and although there was a musty smell drifting through, it was surprisingly not moist at all but rather dry and comfortable.
“Such beautiful murals!” Ouyang Qingcheng couldn’t suppress the joy in her eyes when she saw the murals on the wall.
Ye Chenfeng also looked up at the murals on the walls.
A huge mural was carved there, seemingly depicting an imperial palace.
A row of maids was striking bronze bells with T-shaped mallets and long sticks, wearing deep robes from the Qin or Han Dynasty, tight-fitting and trailing the ground.
And the bronze bells were a set of chime bells popular from the Warring States period to the Qin and Han Dynasties.
It depicted a scene of maids playing chime bells in the Qin Dynasty imperial palace, positioned in a staggered arrangement that highlighted each other, all carved vividly and lifelike.
However, everyone didn’t pay too much attention to this and continued walking straight ahead.
Finally, they reached the end of the corridor, which was blocked by a thick stone wall.
“This must be the entrance to the ancient tomb, right?” Ye Chenfeng asked himself.
“Look, there’s the place for the key!” Li Yang shouted, pointing ahead.
Indeed, there were nine slots carved in the stone wall ahead, shaped exactly like the Bronze Disc.
And the arrangement was quite peculiar, probably as Li Yang said, according to the phrase ‘all those facing the battle form up in front’.
“Ye Chenfeng, take out the key!” Ouyang Qingcheng nodded and took her key out of the safe as well.
“Okay!” Ye Chenfeng nodded and also took the key out of the safe.
“Hold on!”
After the Thief spoke, he held the Compass in front of him and began to work with it.
It took a moment before he said, “You can continue!
It’s safe here!”
Then, Ye Chenfeng and Bai Jie stepped forward, inserting the keys into the slots one by one.
After the last slot was filled, everyone held their breath and fixed their gaze on the Stone Gate, eagerly hoping for a miracle to occur.
“Creak!”
But after a long while, the Stone Gate didn’t make a sound.
The slots seemed as if they had been filled with inconsequential stones.
“What’s going on?
Could it be that Ye Chenfeng you…?” At this point, Ouyang Qingcheng actually began to suspect Ye Chenfeng.
In an instant, an intense killing intent enveloped Ye Chenfeng from Bai Jie and the other two women, while Li Yang pointed a flamethrower at them.
Ye Chenfeng smiled, “Miss Ouyang, I was actually worried it was you playing tricks.
If I were cheating, I wouldn’t have come with you all.”
“Then why hasn’t the door opened even after we inserted the keys?” asked Ouyang Qingcheng, unable to hide her impatience.
“Oh, they always say beauty without brains, today really proves it,” sighed Ye Chenfeng heavily.
Apparently angered, Ouyang Qingcheng glared at Ye Chenfeng with her charming eyes, “What do you mean by that, Ye Chenfeng?”
“Can’t you see?
Just getting to the entrance of the Ancient Tomb took so much effort; did you really think it would be so easy to enter, even with keys?” Ye Chenfeng said helplessly.
Ouyang Qingcheng looked at him and couldn’t help asking, “Are you suggesting that just having the keys isn’t enough?
We need something else or a different method?”
“Yes!
Explaining to a woman with big breasts is so exhausting!” Ye Chenfeng replied irritably.
Although very angry, Ouyang Qingcheng forcefully suppressed her anger and cooed, “My dear boyfriend, you definitely have a way.
Hurry up and open the gate to the Ancient Tomb, will you?”
Ye Chenfeng felt goosebumps all over his body at her words, but replied, “Let me sort through the clues!”
“Alright, we’ll all give it some thought too!” Everyone fell silent, pondering the clues.
A while later, Ye Chenfeng’s eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at everyone with a smile, “Have you figured it out?”
Everyone unanimously shook their heads.
Ye Chenfeng said unhappily, “As a man of both looks and intelligence, I feel under a lot of pressure!”
“My dear boyfriend, have you thought of a solution?” Ouyang Qingcheng’s sweet voice came, taking Ye Chenfeng by surprise.
Ye Chenfeng, leading the way, said lightly, “Do you remember the mural of the maidens playing the chime bells we saw earlier?”
“What?
It’s related to the mural?” Everyone was shocked.
Ye Chenfeng nodded, “Yes, it’s related.
I noticed earlier that there were exactly nine maidens in the mural, corresponding to the number of keys.
Moreover, their positions were distinct and orderly, like musical notes varying in pitch.
Therefore, we need to strike the nine keyholes following the rhythm of their arrangement!”
“Ah!
My dear boyfriend, this is just too amazing!” Ouyang Qingcheng couldn’t stop exclaiming in admiration.
Ye Chenfeng didn’t respond but instead went in front of the Stone Gate and, based on the positions of the nine maidens in his mind, translated their arrangement into tones of rhythm and started to tap on the keyhole-filled slots.
Once again, everyone held their breath in anticipation.
“Rumble rumble…”