abnabooks Chapter 262 Can I Pry It Off
Chapter 262 Can I Pry It Off
After resting for a long time, Boss Qian finally decided to let them continue walking.
Walking through the corridor, we entered the ear chamber with the door wide open, where there were even more wax blocks piled up.
Wax oil seeps out from the stone wall, like amber, crystal clear.
But the stone walls of this apse were different from those of the long corridor outside. They were unpolished and somewhat rough. However, in such a simple place, above their heads, there was a beautiful and bright night pearl the size of a watermelon.
"Damn... This emperor is so generous, putting such a huge night-shining pearl in such a small, shabby chamber?!"
Peng Zi raised his head and looked at the top of his head intently.
"Then look at those palaces we saw up there. Which one isn't made of real gold and silver?" Chengzi nodded and sighed. "We've found a real tomb. There must be more valuable things than those above."
"That's true." Peng Zi agreed.
"Hey, Mr. Qin, can I pry it open?" Boss Qian didn't listen to his guys chatting, but followed Qin Yuchen and Zhang Qiling, watching them studying the wax blocks.
Qin Yuchen plunged a knife into the giant block of wax, glanced sideways at Boss Qian, and did not answer.
When he drew his knife, Boss Qian subconsciously dodged, thinking that he had said something wrong and the knife was coming towards him. When the knife fell into the wax block, he was startled by the look in his eyes before he could even breathe a sigh of relief. Then he became puzzled by Qin Yuchen's actions.
Qin Yuchen exerted force with his arms and pressed the knife into the wax inch by inch. Finally, the wax seemed to melt, and oil seeped out from the position of the black knife. The smell was like fermented slop, with a foul odor.
"Ugh..." Boss Qian couldn't help but vomit and backed away from Qin Yuchen.
Qin Yuchen tilted his head, moved the knife downwards, and cut a huge gash in the wax block. He turned back to Boss Qian and said, "Tell them to dig this up."
"Ugh—cough cough cough." Boss Qian covered his mouth and nose, nodded, and called Xiao Zhao.
"Come on, come on, dig this up."
"Boss, don't we want this night pearl anymore?" Xiao Zhao asked while taking action. He successfully got a slap from Pengzi and went back to work honestly.
Zhang Qiling took Qin Yuchen back to the corridor. The ear chamber was now filled with the sounds of retching and coughing. Zhang Qiling frowned in disgust and watched Boss Qian follow them out.
Boss Qian's face turned pale from retching, with beads of sweat on his temples, and he looked a little sloppy.
He asked, "Master Qin, why are we digging that thing up?"
"The road is behind." Qin Yuchen replied.
"Is that so? Then this, this, this..."
Boss Qian hesitated, obviously still having some thoughts about the night pearl.
After all, it’s rare to come across a night-shining pearl as big as a watermelon, and judging from the brightness of its glow, it must be a top-quality product!
Both of them had their eyes on Boss Qian.
There were beads of sweat on his temples. Boss Qian smiled innocently and kept wiping them with his sleeves, and decided not to bring it up anymore.
"Whoever touches the Night Pearl will become one with the wax here."
Zhang Qiling's gaze shifted from Boss Qian to the inner chamber.
"It's a mechanism connecting the corridor and the attic. If anyone moves it, the wax will melt until a living creature is caught."
Boss Qian: “…”
He wiped his sweat faster, and in his heart he kept comforting himself. Fortunately, he had told everyone that if they wanted to survive, they had to listen to Qin Yuchen. Fortunately, everyone was relatively obedient, otherwise...
After wiping the sweat off his face, he patted his chest and made many small movements.
Suddenly, the corridor under his feet shook slightly. Boss Qian paused to wipe his sweat and watched Qin Yuchen and Zhang Qiling suddenly run into the ear chamber.
"Oh my god! What the hell is this?!"
"Get out of the way! Let's get out."
Wang Kan shouted loudly, retreating towards the corridor.
"call out."
The black knife flew past everyone's eyes, followed by the wind-filled figure of Qin Yuchen.
"I rely on."
The eight people watched as the wax figure who had just rushed towards them was hit directly on the head by the black knife. When he paused for half a second and wanted to move again, Qin Yuchen stepped on his shoulders and pressed him to the ground.
Qin Yuchen held the knife handle with both hands and twisted it clockwise. The wax figure's head suddenly exploded and broke into pieces.
He drew his sword and stood up, looking at the dozen or so wax figures standing opposite him who looked similar and were emitting heat.
"Go ahead and don't let them touch your skin."
Zhang Qiling instructed Wang Kan beside him, and rushed out quickly to repel the one in front of Qin Yuchen.
"An army of wax figures?"
Someone in the team complained, and Boss Qian moved nimbly, avoiding Qin Yuchen and Zhang Qiling and running forward.
Zhang Qiling and Qin Yuchen each had five people, and they tried their best to prevent the scorching wax from splashing on themselves like cutting vegetables.
"Let's go." Zhang Qiling shook off the hot oil on his hands, glanced at Boss Qian and his group who had already run far away, then looked at the wax figure that had been chopped into pieces by them and then half of its body was fused together, and said to Qin Yuchen.
Qin Yuchen cut off the head and kicked it away, then turned and ran in the direction where Boss Qian and the others were running: "Okay."
The two men chopped up the wax figures that followed them and quickened their pace, trying to get rid of them.
"Fuck!" Qin Yuchen looked at the wax that was gradually solidifying on the knife and decisively replaced the black knife with a gray one.
He blocked the wax figure behind Zhang Qiling and clearly felt that the wax figure seemed to smile. The waxy face without any facial features seemed to gradually show some faint eyebrows and eyes.
Qin Yuchen frowned, but the knife chopped off the wax figure's head very neatly.
"What the hell, copy?"
Qin Yuchen bent his red fingertips and felt that the eyebrows and eyes looked a little familiar.
Zhang Qiling kicked open the stone door that had been pried open and then closed again, and the two of them finally got rid of the wax figures that were chasing them.
They did not rush to find Boss Qian, but sat down in the passage away from the stone gate to rest.
The fingers burned by wax turned red. Qin Yuchen took out ointment and carefully treated Zhang Qiling. Seeing that there was nothing serious, he breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed the burned area on himself.
"I'm not sure." Zhang Qiling also saw it, but he didn't feel it as clearly as Qin Yuchen. Instead, he was confused for a moment, as if he had seen it wrong.
"..." The two fell silent at the same time, their eyes falling on their own knives tacitly.
The wax on Qin Yuchen's two knives had solidified into clumps and had a very unpleasant smell.
He pursed his lips and said silently: "Can I throw it away?"
Zhang Qiling paused as he took out his lighter, then silently melted the wax.
"No."
"Ah——" Qin Yuchen sighed regretfully and took out a lighter to melt the wax.
The narrow passage was filled with the smell of wax and oil, mixed with a stench of decay.
The more Qin Yuchen burned, the more he felt that it would be more practical to change a knife.
Zhang Qiling saw what he was thinking. After washing and wiping the black gold with clean water, he took the knife from Qin Yuchen and helped him clean it.