Book 1: Chapter 72

Book 1: Chapter 72

That situation was so incredible that I still remember it to this day. After Liu Sang looked at the leather figurine woman, a series of peculiar-sounding words from that ancient language came out of his mouth.

"Climb inside!" Poker-Face ordered us.

I couldnt believe that a leather figurine woman was telling Liu Sang where to go and then Poker-Face was translating an ancient language for us. It certainly seemed like a far-fetched theory, but that was how things were looking at the moment.

Fatty thought about it and decided to let the leather figurine woman be the trailblazer. He stuffed it into the hole and said, "Sister, you communicate with them." Then, each of us took a rhinoceros horn candle and climbed into the hole.

Fatty had learned his lesson last time and refused to be the last one in, so I brought up the rear. Liu Sang had also recovered a lot by this time.

As we crawled forward, we found that those leather figurines that had blocked the tunnel before had all disappeared. We quickly crawled to the place where the distance markers had appeared on the walls and kept moving forward. Fatty said to Liu Sang, "Brat, dont hold back if you hear something."

Liu Sang scolded, "Fuck you and your bad luck. I want to get out of here quickly. I dont have time to joke with you."

We soon passed the location of the immortal door from before. I had thought that everyone up front would go through it, but they didn't. Instead, they climbed deeper into the hole.

"Don't look back." Poker-Faces reminder from up front made my blood run cold. This hole was like a highway; it was impossible to retreat. If we did, there would be countless leather figurines crawling towards us from behind. Although I didnt know if this time would be different from the last, Poker-Faces warning indicated that he had determined that something may have already appeared behind me. But he really didnt have to worry. I could only look back when I got to a place that was a little more spacious. The farther I went in, the narrower this tunnel became.

"You guys are so full of shit right now. You better not to drop the ball!" I said through clenched teeth as I kept crawling.

After crawling forward for at least five hours, my sense of time and any sounds reaching my ears seemed to disappear. I could only continue crawling forward numbly. After moving like this for a long time, I found that I couldn't feel anyone in front of me. The intense fear that surged up made me crawl forward crazily until I finally touched Liu Sang's foot again.

I didnt know how long it took before Fatty said, "Ive got it!"

I thought there was an exit and asked, "You found a way out?"

"Distance marker!" Fatty said. "I can feel a distance marker on the stone wall."

I was surprised that there was a marker in such a deep place. Fatty was silent for a moment as if he were trying to feel it out, and then he said, "I dont know this marker."

I urged them to move forward so I could feel the surrounding rock walls. I quickly found what Fatty was talking about and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Although I didn't know this distance marker, I knew it was a unit on the dinglan ruler.

Dinglan rulers were tomb-building rulers that contained the netherworlds units of measurement. The word that had been carved onto the wall here was "suffering".

This was a Han Dynasty tomb, so the dinglan ruler hadnt been invented yet. This word mustve been carved by an expert from the Qi family, but why use a dinglan ruler?

Was it a hint that we had reached the netherworld?

But the most important thing right now was that I had left that fucking ruler in the South Sea Kings tomb!