Book 1: Chapter 26: Block the Sound of Thunder

Book 1: Chapter 26: Block the Sound of Thunder

I knew it was the thunder god statue I saw before. It mustve quietly crept onto my back when I passed by it earlier.

I reached behind me and grabbed it to try and tear it off, but its hand was as strong as a steel bar.

My surroundings were dark and the ground collapsed again in an instant. I was thrown about two or three meters and hit the wall as the entire tomb passage collapsed. I scrabbled for purchase but couldnt catch anything and ended up falling deep into the tomb passage below. I landed sideways in the mud as gravel pummeled my face. When I got up, I found that there was a layer of mud at the bottom of the tomb passage that reached my thighs.

I got up, spit out a mouthful of mud, and shouted, "Fatty, on your fucking back!"

At that time, I heard a lot of noise coming from all around me. Although I couldn't see anything, I felt as if I was in a huge market. I went to put my hands over my ears, only to find that the thing on my back was already covering my ears. I didnt know if these sounds were really coming from my surroundings or from the thing on my back.

All my hair stood on end and I immediately used my Kukri to slash towards it. Sparks went flying everywhere.

Fatty didn't respond, and I wondered if he had fainted.

During my crazy struggle, I stepped on empty air and suddenly found that the bottom of the tomb passage under the mud wasnt actually flat. It seemed that there was a deep pit hidden there. When I stepped in it, I immediately began to sink into the mud.

I couldnt resist at all. The muds suction was too strong to fight and I started to sink deeper as I struggled forward for a while. By the time my foot touched solid ground again, the mud had reached my chest. I reached behind me again, but found that the thing was gone.

But when I did this, I found that something was wrong. It wasnt a burial figurine under the mud, but a strange thunder god statue that was holding something. I stuck the cold firework in the mud and stretched out my hand to touch whatever the thunder god was holding. It was a corpse.

This was a burial pit, not the main path to the tomb.

When I pulled my hand out of the mud, I saw some hair under my nails. The corpses hair hadnt rotted away since it had been protected by the mud.

Just as I was wondering why Fatty told me not to turn any lights on earlier, I looked at the burial pits wall. It was covered in eye-patterned murals, and all the eyes seemed to be staring right at me.

Poker-Face's knock suddenly came from somewhere off to the side, sounding much closer than before.

Fatty still didn't respond.

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TN Notes:

(1) The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. Wiki link here