383: Chapter 383: [Mysterious Stone Coffin] 383: Chapter 383: [Mysterious Stone Coffin] In everyone’s extremely frightened gaze, a stone gate on the wall slowly opened.
Ye Chenfeng actually succeeded!
He had successfully opened the ancient tomb’s gate.
Immediately, everyone backed away far, fearing they might trigger some mechanism.
However, after waiting for a long time, nothing happened.
The tomb was very quiet, eerily quiet.
Looking into the tomb, it was pitch black.
The flashlight’s beam reached in, but due to the depth of the tomb, the light gradually weakened and finally revealed nothing.
“So deep!” Ye Chenfeng couldn’t help but exclaim.
The thief furrowed his brows, taking several steps on the ground as if predicting something.
“Ye Chenfeng!”
Just then, an exceedingly cold voice suddenly came from behind.
Everyone was startled and turned around; to their surprise, seven or eight people had appeared.
These individuals were all in tight clothes, carrying long knives, assault rifles, and other weapons.
Moreover, they were all wearing black masks, only exposing their eyes that continually flickered with a murderous intent.
But that wasn’t the key point.
The key was that two of the individuals were holding two women, Chu Qingxue and Chu Qingfei, the two sisters with their mouths bound, only their eyes pitifully looking at Ye Chenfeng.
The knives in their hands were pressed tightly against the women’s necks, a slight force would suffice to pierce through their tender skin.
“Who are you?” Ye Chenfeng’s face turned utterly cold.
“Ye Chenfeng, you don’t need to worry about who we are.
What you need to do now is to enter the ancient tomb, and we will protect your women for you!” said one of the leaders coldly.
Ye Chenfeng snorted coldly, “What if I refuse?”
“Then I’m afraid, unfortunately, that two peerless beauties would perish early!”
“Wu wu…” Hearing this, Chu Qingxue and her sister shook their heads.
“Fine, I agree.
But if you hurt a single hair on them, I assure you that you will be permanently resting here!” Ye Chenfeng eventually agreed.
Ouyang Qingcheng, with a look of confusion, quietly asked, “Why not just fight them directly?”
Ye Chenfeng’s lips curved into a cold smile, “Isn’t it good to have a few more people serve as cannon fodder?”
Ouyang Qingcheng nodded, seemingly understanding.
“Let’s go!”
The thief, seeming to have discovered something, led the way with a tense face.
Ye Chenfeng and the others followed close behind, with the six mysterious individuals carefully taking Chu Qingxue and her sister into the ancient tomb last.
The first part was a narrow corridor which, unlike the previous corridor, was narrow enough to allow only three people to walk side by side, but oddly, nothing was out of the ordinary.
“Stop!”
Suddenly, the thief halted.
“Clack!”
The thief threw a small stone ahead, and instantly, sharp whooshing sounds began, and perforations appeared on the walls on both sides, shooting out arrows from within.
Looking at the ground not far away filled with arrows, their tips black, it was clear they were dipped in deadly poison.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, sweating coldly.
“Continue!”
The thief moved forward, and everyone followed.
They encountered several more traps, all of which the thief managed to disarm.
But it was extremely dangerous, and an ordinary person might not have even survived the arrow trap.
“Hmm?”
Suddenly, the path in front of everyone opened up.
From the corridor, they entered a very large and deep cave.
The cave was square, with a height of four or five meters, a width of over ten meters, and a depth of several tens of meters.
It was obviously carved out of the middle of a mountain, but the walls were flat and smooth, neatly done.
The last six people took out their bright flashlights, and the strong beams of light combined to illuminate the entire cave.
Around the cave, wooden boxes were placed, and due to the passage of time, many of the boxes had decayed, but they revealed shimmering jewels inside, of various kinds and colors, refracting dazzling lights under the illumination.
But what puzzled Ye Chenfeng was that these people, upon seeing the priceless jewels, did not even blink and quickly shifted their gaze away.
What on earth did they want to obtain in the ancient tomb?
Ye Chenfeng wondered.
“Is the tomb just this small?” a guy with a mask asked from behind.
Indeed, compared to the grandiose scale of the Thousand Years Profound Ice outside, this place seemed rather petty.
The Thief shook his head, “This is a typical chamber tomb; this should be a decoy tomb, definitely not the main tomb!”
“Look quickly, what is that?”
Bai Jie shone her flashlight over there, only to see a very large stone coffin in the center of the cave, three to four times the size of a normal coffin.
“Is a giant buried here?
Why would it need such a big stone coffin?”
“You guys go take a look!” the masked men spoke again.
Ye Chenfeng and the others had no choice but to walk towards the stone coffin, which was covered with a half-meter-high lid that was undoubtedly very heavy, likely weighing a ton, making it very difficult to open.
Ye Chenfeng and Li Yang exchanged looks and began to move the stone coffin with effort, their faces turning red, yet the stone lid did not budge at all.
“Both of you get up there!” the man behind the mask ordered.
Immediately two people went forward and began to earnestly move the stone lid.
But no matter how hard they tried, not even a crack appeared as though the lid and the coffin were cast together.
“Stop wasting your energy, there must be a mechanism here!” Ye Chenfeng said with a laugh.
“Where is the mechanism?” The Mysterious Leader’s eyes shot out a cold light.
Ye Chenfeng waved his hand, “If I knew, I would have opened it already instead of wasting time talking to you.”
The leader glanced at Ye Chenfeng, then turned his gaze to Chu Qingxue and her sister, “You had better not play any tricks, or else I can’t guarantee their safety!”
Ye Chenfeng’s expression changed, and he couldn’t help saying, “I really don’t know what the mechanism is, but I think you could blow it open!”
“Are you sure?” The man’s eyes overflowed with cold light as he looked at Ye Chenfeng.
Ye Chenfeng glanced at them and said, “You should have C4 explosives, right?”
The man nodded, “That’s right, bring the C4 explosives!”
The C4 plastic explosive looked like a lump of dough used for baking bread and could be kneaded into various shapes.
Someone went up and attached the C4 explosives, which had a sticky material, to the stone coffin like mud, then inserted the ****.
Everyone hid far away, and then the Mysterious Leader detonated the explosives.
“Boom!”
The loud explosion made it seem as if the whole mountain trembled.
And the stone lid was forcefully lifted off, chunks of stone flying upwards, smashing the glazed tiles on the roof with a series of bangs.
“Quickly, get in the stone coffin!”
Ye Chenfeng and the Thief simultaneously shouted, and then Ye Chenfeng grabbed Ouyang Qingcheng with one hand and Bai Jie with the other, and ran towards the stone coffin.
“Follow them!” the Mysterious Leader shouted loudly, and everyone hurriedly chased after them.