Chapter 37: The Encounter in the Tomb Chamber

  "The damage from the arrow is so high!"

  Everyone in the tomb passage was shocked by Zhao Feng's rapid loss of blood. The newly spawned armor only had about 1 point, and the piercing arrows could almost cause full damage. Each arrow that went down caused Zhao Feng a high amount of damage, up to 50 points.

  Three consecutive arrows, that's 150 points!

  Zhao Feng's strength was only 5 points, and his maximum health value was the same as Hu Si Ming's initial value of 200 points. After withstanding this round of damage, his blood volume instantly dropped by three-quarters. However, this was only the physical damage directly caused by the arrow, and the curse attached to it was what was truly terrifying.

  The Curse of the Pharaoh

  Those who dare to disturb the Grandfather's long sleep will have to endure the Grandfather's curse.

  The cursed target will suffer 10 points of magical damage per second for 8 seconds. The curse effect can be stacked.

  For newborns with zero magic resistance and extremely slow health recovery, this curse is simply fatal. After stacking three layers, the damage from the curse reached an astonishing 30 points per second. In just 8 seconds, that's a total of 240 points!

  Zhao Feng was stunned by the sudden attack, to the point where he didn't even have time to react. Just one second later, the cumulative damage from the three-layer curse had already brought his blood volume down to 20 points.

  The red halo of life symbolizing residual blood is particularly eye-catching in the dim tomb passage.

  "Treatment!"

  In a moment of panic, Hu Shiming was the first to calm down. He activated the temporary ability given by the archaeological camp to team members in the next second - treatment.

  A white halo descended from the sky and landed on Zhao Feng's body.

  This camp bonus skill, magic consumption is only 20 points, can heal 40 points of life value at a time. Although the cooldown time is slightly longer, it's still a very practical skill. This sudden extra 40 points of life helped Zhao Feng block the second round of curse damage.

  "What are you still stunned for? Hurry up and add blood! All of it should be added to Zhao Feng!"

  Liu Feng and Zhang Hao were still in a daze, so Hu Si Ming quickly reminded them loudly. His voice startled the two, who were in a panic, and after Zhao Feng first gave himself some health, Liu Feng and Zhang Hao also hastily activated their healing skills. Three consecutive healings managed to temporarily pull up Zhao Feng's health.

  However, the curse's damage continues!

  30 damage per second is nothing for a hero, but it's really deadly for these freshmen. As the 8-second curse passed, Zhao Feng's blood volume dropped to the bottom again. Seeing this, Yan Shao put out the last healing in his hand and pulled Zhao Feng back.

  "My god! That was a close call just now! Luckily I chose healing..."

  Zhao Feng's soul was still unsettled and he broke out in a cold sweat, but once he confirmed that the cursed state had disappeared, his legs went limp and he sat down on the ground with a thud.

  "Thanks a lot, friend!"

  Seeing his good friend safe and sound, Zhang Hao let out a sigh of relief and thanked Hu Shiming on Zhao Feng's behalf - if the treatment had been delayed by just half a second earlier, the critically injured Zhao Feng would have died on the spot!

  "It's nothing, after all we're teammates, helping out is what should be done..."

  Hu Si Ming didn't have any intention of boasting, he was also frightened by the sudden change just now. It's only been a few minutes since the unified exam started, if they lose one member at the beginning, how can they fight for the next two hours? Out of fear, he couldn't help but remind them: "The difficulty of the unified exam is extremely high, everyone must be careful. Hanging up on such an organ is really too much of a loss."

  "It's lucky I chose treatment, otherwise I would have died unjustly!"

  Zhao Feng muttered the sentence to himself several times, gradually calming down and shaking off the shadow of the previous ambush. Knowing he couldn't delay any further, he didn't give himself more time to recover, rubbing his face with his hands before standing up and saying to Hu Si Ming: "Continue on, but we need to switch people to the front. My health isn't full yet, if we encounter another trap I'm dead for sure."

  "How about we head back?"

  Hu Si Ming glared at him fiercely and said, "What are you talking about? We've come all the way here, how can we possibly go back! Besides, do you think the road back to the surface isn't dangerous?"

  "Haizi, don't talk nonsense!"

  Zhao Feng is a sensible person and also said to his friend: "We can't retreat!"

  Seeing his teammates' opinions were very firm, Zhang Hao didn't say anything else. In fact, he also knew in his heart that to survive in the college sometimes required taking risks.

  Because the previous water element had disappeared, Yan Shao asked hesitantly: "Or should I summon another water element to scout ahead?"

  "No need!"

  Hú Sī Míng firmly denied his words: "We don't have many blues, so let's save them. No matter what, you should always keep one blue for treatment and summoning. Next, let me go ahead."

  So speaking, Hu Siming took the initiative to take on the responsibility. His current life value is as high as 240 points, which should be very high in the new life, and he also has a displacement skill. Since Zhao Feng dared to walk first, he had no reason to be afraid.

  Because it was almost an accident, the next few steps, Hu Shiming was also particularly cautious. Perhaps he was lucky, or perhaps it was not suitable to set too many traps near the tomb chamber. In short, the five of them entered the underground palace smoothly amidst fear and trepidation.

  The trapezoidal hall has a tomb passage on either side of the lower base. Hu Si-ming and his team entered from the left tomb passage. The pharaoh's coffin and statue are placed on the north side of the underground palace, which is also the upper base of the trapezoidal hall. Next to the golden sun god statue and the pharaoh's coffin, there are four small stone coffins standing upright. These four small stone coffins do not have lids, inside are placed four mummies wrapped in white bandages.

  "It feels like it's gotten even colder here..."

  Hu Si Ming, walking in the front, furrowed his brow. He could clearly feel a stream of intangible chill emanating from Pharaoh's coffin. The temperature here was even colder than at the entrance of the tomb passage.

  "It's indeed very cold."

  Zhao furrowed his brow and sized up the tomb, which looked very shabby. In the end, he decided not to pursue it: "Whatever the reason, let's just split up and search quickly. We've wasted so much time and almost got killed. If we don't find anything useful, that would be a huge loss."

  "Alright."

  Hu Si Ming nodded and cautiously walked forward, preparing to touch the coffin of Fa Lao - not that he had any thoughts about the corpse, but this tomb was really too empty, there was no place to hide anything. The only thing that came to mind at a glance was this huge coffin.

  "Who?"

  Just as Hu Shiming was about to push open the coffin lid, footsteps suddenly came from afar.

  The five members of the Tianhui team suddenly fell silent. In this underground tomb, there was no one else except for the monster and the Ye Mei team. No matter which one came, it seemed like nothing good would come out of it.

  "What bad luck! We just entered the tomb and already lost one. Even if it's a new life, it's still too useless!"

  As the footsteps approached rapidly, a complaint came from the right side of the underground palace. Then, four members with the Nightmare Academy emblem on their chests flashed into the underground palace from the right tomb passage.

  Although they met a few seconds earlier than expected, both sides were still stunned when they really met!

  No one had expected that a unified exam with an escape theme would turn into a confrontation just a few minutes after it started!

  "You guys actually thought of this hidden content too?"

  After a pause, the person in the center of the four Nightmares students slowly opened his mouth. He was about 1.7 meters tall, with dark skin, and seemed unremarkable among the four, but his sharp eyes and aura proved that he was the strongest one. Hu Siming subconsciously probed him, but got very limited information.

  "Rōnin! He's that rōnin!"

  Hu Si Ming immediately reacted and loudly reminded his teammates.

  The previous guess turned into reality at this moment. In their first unified exam, they indeed encountered the seniors who had been left behind last year. Although the battlefield arranged four newcomers among the best for them, Hu Siming still didn't have any confidence in his heart. The strong performance of Assistant Awu made him subconsciously produce a little fear towards the seniors.