Chapter Twelve: The Strange Encounter in the Ancient Tomb

  Qiu Shui is now hesitating whether to go in or not. If the people inside are not good-natured, then everyone here will not be able to come out, and there will be no luck, because this is a completely asymmetrical gap.

  Autumn water wrinkled her nose slightly, smelling blood. There was a smell of blood in the air. What's going on? Autumn water is really confused now.

  "Hey, Qiushui, why are you standing there motionless? Are we going in or not?" Ah Wei asked cautiously as he saw Qiushui standing still for a long time.

  Qiu Shui thought for half a day, then gritted his teeth and went in. Relying solely on the Taoist's method of breaking through the Gate of Life and Death, if he really wanted to cultivate some earth-shattering zombies, no one could escape.

  "Awei, lead the other team members carefully and remember, when walking, two people walk shoulder to shoulder, one person holding glutinous rice and the other holding a foreign gun. If something happens, don't panic, stay calm and listen to my orders. Do you understand?" Qiu Shui said seriously to Awei.

  After hearing Qiu Shui's words, Ah Wei knew that there must be zombies inside. Although he was afraid in his heart, he couldn't lose face in front of so many people. He gave orders to the crowd with a strong and calm tone, then stood together with Qiu Shui. Ah Wei was clear in his mind that if they encountered any danger, the other security guards would be unable to protect themselves, let alone rescue him. But standing next to Qiu Shui was different - she was an expert when it came to zombies, so if they were to encounter one, his own danger would greatly decrease.

  Autumn water handed the torch in his hand to A Wei, and then held a treasure sword in one hand and a handful of glutinous rice in the other. The treasure sword was painted with symbols mixed with chicken blood and black dog blood. After everything was ready, Autumn Water led the crowd towards the Gate of Death.

  Which door should I go through? Qiū Shuǐ didn't know, but the bloody smell was coming from the Death Door, proving that someone had gone in. There shouldn't be any danger.

  Qiu Shui and Ah Wei walked side by side, step by step, carefully making their way in. The glutinous rice in the palm of her hand was all dampened by sweat.

  After walking for about a quarter of an hour, the crowd arrived at a stone chamber. The stone chamber was as large as two basketball courts. The room was in disarray, with talismans and charms scattered all over the floor.

  In the center of the stone chamber was a stone coffin, and the lid of the coffin lay scattered on the ground.

  Qiu Shui was shocked by this scene. It seemed like a fight had occurred here.

  Autumn water carefully walked towards the stone coffin, took a look inside, and found that the stone coffin was empty, with nothing in it.

  "Ah..." Just as Qiū Shuǐ was looking at the stone coffin, a cry came from afar, scaring Qiū Shuǐ so much that his hair stood on end. He turned his head to look at the person who made the sound.

  Ah Wei was also startled by the security guard who shouted. After turning his head to look, he found that there was no danger and ran towards the screaming guard, directly kicking the opponent's butt with one foot. "What are you yelling about, do you want to scare me to death?" Ah Wei roared at the security guard who had been kicked down.

  "No, captain, there are two corpses over there." The security guard who was kicked to the ground said to Ah Wei in terror.

  A Wei heard this and, like a mouse hearing a cat's cry, quickly ran to Qiu Shui's side.

  "Where is the body?" Akira asked hastily.

  That team member seemed to be frightened silly, unable to speak, and only stretched out his hand to point towards a stone room.

  It turned out that next to this stone chamber, there were several small stone chambers. It seems that after the security guard came in, he found that it was an ancient tomb and his greed grew, seeing others walking towards the central stone coffin, while he secretly walked towards the side chamber, wanting to make a fortune.

  Qiu Shui saw the opponent's straight side room and walked over cautiously, while Ah Wei stopped at the back with the crowd and did not move.

  Qiu Shui saw it but didn't say anything. She just became more cautious.

  Qiu Shui looked at the stone door of the side chamber, which was slightly ajar. Earlier, when he had just entered, his attention had been completely absorbed by the stone coffin, and he hadn't noticed it. Now, looking at the side chamber in front of him, Qiu Shui understood that these side chambers were all tombs for burial.

  "Grind!" Autumn water stretched out her hand and slightly pushed open the stone gate, making a series of scraping sounds as the stones rubbed against the ground.

  When Qiū Shuǐ entered the house, she was also startled to find two corpses inside. What's more, both of them were still standing upright.

  One corpse wore ancient armor, and another corpse was wearing a Taoist robe.

  Autumn water slowly walked towards the two corpses, and saw that the corpse wearing armor had its hands inserted into the other's chest, while the corpse wearing Taoist robes held an ancient sword inserted into the other's heart, both perishing together.

  Qiu Shui saw the situation in front of him and thoroughly understood. It seemed that this Taoist priest had opened up this ancient tomb, startling its occupant, who was this armored figure. A great battle ensued, resulting in mutual destruction.

  Akira stretched out her hand towards the corpse wearing armor and touched some of the debris on it, putting it to her nose to sniff. It was a zombie, but Akira couldn't determine what level of zombie it was.

  It seems that the zombie in front of him had surpassed the level of knowledge that Akane had learned before.

  The Taoist who can break through the gate of life and death has absolute skills that are unpredictable by gods and ghosts, but he is destroyed together with the zombies in this ancient tomb. It can be imagined that the zombies in this ancient tomb are also not inferior to this Taoist.

  After observing the corpse of the zombie for a while, Qiu Shui discovered that it was killed by the mysterious Taoist with a sword through its heart. The weakness of zombies lies in their hearts; even if their heads are shattered, they can absorb the essence of the moon to regenerate after reaching a certain level. However, there is one point where they cannot regenerate - the heart.

  Unfortunately, the treasured sword that pierced through zombies was corroded by the zombie's aura, and its entire body turned dark black, it's unknown whether it can still be used. If this treasured sword could recover to its original state, that would be incredible, after all, this treasured sword can pierce through this zombie, which is not an ordinary sword. The treasured sword in Qiū Shuǐ's hand was already the best he knew of, but unfortunately, it wasn't used when facing Lǎo Tàiyé, and yet this treasured sword could pierce through a zombie that was who-knows-how-many times more powerful than Lǎo Tàiyé, heh heh, if only it could recover...

  Draw out the treasure sword and put it into the spatial ring.

  What's this? Qiū Shuǐ suddenly saw a yellow bundle under the mysterious Taoist's feet. After opening the bundle, he found two thick books without names and some unrecognized talismans. As soon as Qiū Shuǐ flipped through them casually, his eyes lit up, like someone who had been starving for hundreds of years and hadn't seen meat, while a sumptuous Manchu-Han full-course meal appeared before him, with wolfish glints in his eyes.

  Taoist secret book, that's right, it's actually a Taoist secret book. One is the ancestral secret book passed down from generation to generation, while the other is the various experiences written by the mysterious Taoist ancestors who have been dead for generations.

  They've struck it rich! This is even more exciting than winning the lottery. Even Autumn Water, who usually doesn't show much emotion on her face, was beaming with joy.

  If these two books were to be released outside, they would definitely cause a huge commotion.

  These two books contain far more than what Ninth Uncle knows. With these two books, Qiū Shuǐ knows that his chances of survival after returning to the cycle space will be greatly increased.

  After glancing at it twice, Qiu Shui felt that it should be put back into the spatial ring. This was a treasure, a priceless treasure.

  Just as Qiū Shuǐ had just put away the two Taoist scriptures in the spatial ring and was about to observe other things, à Wēi also came in.

  Originally, Ah Wei waited outside for a while and didn't hear any movement inside, so he took a peek and found no danger, then walked in, followed by the security guards behind him.

  "Autumn water, where is the zombie? What are these two corpses?" Ah Wei asked Autumn Water after entering and seeing the two corpses.

  "The zombies aren't here. These two corpses should be that Taoist priest who wore a Taoist robe, entered the ancient tomb and fought with the owner of this ancient tomb, then you also saw it, they both died together." Autumn Water pointed at the two corpses and replied.

  "The master of the ancient tomb!" Ah Wei asked, his teeth chattering as he spoke.

  "Don't worry, it's safe here now. You didn't see that they've all been wiped out? The corpses are all here." Qiu Shui said slowly.

  "Isn't Old Master Ren's corpse here?" Ah Wei asked cautiously as he walked behind Qiu Shui, his eyes scanning the surroundings.

  Qiu Shui was now enjoying a huge benefit, and had no mind to look for Lao Ye's corpse. If the corpse was really here, it would probably have been destroyed in the battle between these two powerful beings.

  "Not here, let's hurry back. Old Master Ren will definitely go find the person closest to him in blood relation tonight, and that person is Tingting. Let's set up an ambush for him." Qiu Shui said with a serious face to Ah Wei, but the joy in his eyes could only deceive someone like Ah Wei. If it were Jiu Shu, an old hand, he would definitely notice Qiu Shui's abnormality.

  "Alright, let's hurry back." Ah Wei replied after hearing Qiu Shui's words. Now Ah Wei didn't want to stay in the ancient tomb for another moment, it was too nerve-wracking.

  "Let's go, we're heading back." Ah Wei shouted at the other security guards.

  Just as Autumn Water was about to walk away, she suddenly saw something in the mouth of the dead zombie.

  As autumn water felt walking to the front of the dead zombie's body, when autumn water took out the thing in the zombie's mouth, it turned out to be just a pure yellow stone, and on the stone there were actually fresh blood-drawn talismans. Although autumn water didn't recognize them, autumn water was sure that this thing was definitely not ordinary, absolutely not something normal. Although couldn't figure it out, autumn water still put the stone into the spatial ring.

  Haha, what a big harvest! Autumn water felt that she led A Wei and the security team out of the ancient tomb.

  After walking out of the ancient tomb, Qiū Shuǐ took a deep breath, and indeed, the outside air was better.

  "Awei, I'll head back to Yizhuang first to report to Master, you go to the town and buy more glutinous rice, remember to deliver it to Yizhuang before sunset." Qiu Shui instructed Awei.

  "Alright." He then turned to his subordinates and shouted, "What are you dawdling for? Hurry up, let's go back!"

  After autumn water and Ah Wei went down the mountain, they parted ways. However, Autumn Water didn't know that next to the entrance of the ancient tomb's cave where he just entered, there was another cave hidden by dense grasses and woods. If Autumn Water had observed carefully, he would have definitely discovered it. Unfortunately, after obtaining the treasure in the ancient tomb, he couldn't wait to hurry back and his mind was no longer on this place, so he didn't discover it.

  Next to the cave, it was pitch black, with small puddles of water and the sound of rats scurrying about. Inside the cave lay a corpse, its body completely blackened, wearing tattered clothes, with no shoes on its feet. If one looked closer, they would notice that the corpse's eyes were wide open, staring wildly in all directions as if it could still see things. On its mouth grew two sharp fangs. This was none other than Old Man Ren. Next to Old Man Ren lay a long-dead black gorilla, its once robust body now shriveled up. At first glance, one could tell that the gorilla's vital energy had been sucked out by Old Man Ren, who had transformed into an undead creature.

  When a wet mouse ran onto Lao Lao Tai Ye's hand, his eyes suddenly looked over and he could actually see it. With a swift motion, he grabbed the mouse and stuffed it into his mouth, swallowing it whole.

  The cave was quiet now, with only the sound of water dripping onto the ground and the squeaking of mice.