Book 1: Chapter 42

Book 1: Chapter 42

The three of us looked at each other for a long time, but there was no denying the fact that a wall had really appeared in that place.

"Whats your period (1) doing here?" Fatty asked me.

"Its your fucking period," I retorted as I walked to the rock wall. I found that there was a continuity between the mural and the wall. It wasnt an extra wall that appeared out of thin air, but the wall of the tomb passage that had suddenly opened like a door. The opened "part" had just sealed the tomb passage, meaning this was a mechanism.

It was just like walking down a corridor and a gust of wind suddenly slammed the door shut, locking you out. If the mechanism was good enough and the pivot point of this wall was in the right position, the tomb passage would be sealed without making a sound.

"Is this the Five Ghosts Transportation ritual?" Fatty looked at me. We all remembered the things Qianjun Wanma had said to us. I patted the wall and found that the rock was very thick. If it was really carried by the five ghosts, then they must have graduated from Lanxiang (2).

I took a deep breath, stepped back, and started kicking the wall. If it could open, then there had to be a structure like a door shaft that shouldnt be too strong. I kicked it a few more times, but the door still didnt budge.

Fatty tried pushing it for a long time, but was a little depressed when it didnt move for him either. Now we were completely trapped and the only way out was this hole.This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

But I didnt panic because we already had a way to deal with this situation. There were cracks in the rock and we still had detonators, so this wall couldnt stop us. I was just a little upset that we had fallen for this kind of mechanism. Considering how this was the most obvious kind of mechanism, it seemed that our skills had really become a little rusty.

Without an ounce of hesitation, I crouched down, lay on my stomach, and started crawling into the hole. Poker-Face lay down and kicked the stone wall with his feet, followed by Fatty.

I kept crawling forward to make room for them, but I couldnt go any further after ten meters. "Fatty, are you in yet?" I asked loudly.

"My detonators stuck," Fatty replied.

Just as he said this, I heard a loud boom, as if the stone wall had pressed up against the entrance of the hole.

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TN Notes:

(1) He means like your menstrual period. First he said Wu Xie was going through menopause, now hes saying Wu Xies period is here lol.

(2) Its a vocational and technical college in China that offers courses in subjects like cooking, auto repair, construction equipment operations (mainly excavators), and computer skills (some say computer hacking). More info here but the Chinese version is more in depth.