Book 1: Chapter 29

Book 1: Chapter 29

"Stop taking pictures." Fatty was uncomfortable with the blinding flash, but I kept taking pictures anyways. But no matter how many I took, I still couldn't see it.

"Theres a problem. Get our equipment out!" I shouted at him.

Fatty turned his head to the darkness behind him, listening attentively for a moment before he said to me, "Is it that thing that was on my back?"

I looked at the photos on my phone, but they were too blurry. "Maybe it's the one that was on my back," I said to him.

Just now, we both had something on our backs, but the one on my back had fallen here and disappeared. It may have been hiding in the dark corner this whole time. I hadnt been under such pressure for a long time and didnt react in these last few minutes. If it was the me from before, I might have died a long time ago.

I thought of that lingering fear again and realized that I was in a state where I couldn't defend myself at all. I saw Fatty pull out three homemade pistols and hand them to me, which made me feel a little more at ease.

This kind of gun was a modified starter pistol (1), so the bullets had to be fired one by one. I opened it to see what the bullet looked like and found that it was a modified rifle casing. The bullet head was probably made from iron scraps. It was said that this kind of gun couldnt hit a target more than four meters away, but those within the four-meter range would be shredded like a cucumber. Since this was a rifle bullet, though, people with weak hand muscles might end up dislocating something.

"What the hell is it?" I asked him as I held my phone in one hand and the gun in the other.

Fatty spit, "Do you see these thunder god statues? Theyre all hollow. Look at them carefully, they werent fired in a kiln."

"Howd you reach that conclusion?" I was back-to-back with him now, and his back was so thick that my sense of security immediately skyrocketed.

Have you ever heard of corpse coral?" He asked me.

Corpse coral was a kind of hollow coral that looked like a person. The shape was so different that it almost looked lifelike. Legend had it that there were ancient corpses inside them, because the coral had grown along the corpses to form a human shape. Since they had been labeled exotic goods, they were brought to the brink of extinction and were very rare now. There was a saying among those who scoured the sea that corals produced corpses, and most of those corpses carried treasures. The sea god was afraid that the treasures would decay after the corpses were sunk, so he had the coral encase them. If you found this kind of coral, you would often find treasure inside.

But I knew it was a lie, because I had made it up in order to sell a batch of coral beads when I was down on my luck before. But if there were too many false words, then we wouldnt be able to tell the truth from fiction. Fatty had also helped with the later part of this story, so I suddenly wondered if he had Parkinson's disease (2).

I paused and looked at Fatty before knocking back, "Who are you?"

"Im Liu Sang," the other party answered.

"How do you know our code?" I knocked back.

"It's simple. I listened to it," Liu Sang replied.

The ground below us suddenly shook and a big bubble of mud burst forth. Then, the mud sank down as if a hole in the ground had been blown open. As the mud began pouring into the next level, I heard Liu Sang shout from below, "Hurry down. Weve found the main tomb." As soon as he finished speaking, I saw a thing get swept along with the mud that was pouring down. Liu Sang shouted, "What the fuck is that thing?! Where did it go?!"

Fatty and I jumped into the mud and slid down to the next level. When I turned on my phones light, I saw Liu Sang looking for something in the mud, "There was something here just now."

At this time, we all saw something lying on his back. It was a long face with all kinds of facial features.

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TN Notes:

(1) A blank handgun that is fired to start track and field races, as well as competitive swimming races at some meets.

(2) Parkinsons Disease can lead to dementia.

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I'm sorry to do this to you all, but after extensively debating on it since "Ultimate Note" aired, I have decided to get my lazy butt in gear and change all the "Yunyun" references to "Yun Cai". I think I caught them all, which means the pdfs for Vols 6 and 7 have also been updated. Just go to their pages if you want to re-download them. I'm sorry for always changing things () but I want to be as consistent as possible (Lord knows we're confused enough when it comes to the DMBJ universe lol). Thank you for putting up with my failings as your translator and being so supportive. You all are seriously the best! (* *)