Chapter 18: Escaping with One's Life

  After seeing this scene, I felt like I had eaten a mouse, and I didn't want to look at her again. I turned around and followed the crowd running towards the exit.

  Just as they were about to catch up with the team in front, the old professor who was being supported by others suddenly shook off the crowd and ran back. He shook his head, raised his hands and shouted loudly: "It's all mine, it's all mine, no, not me, not me."

  I couldn't understand what he was shouting either, and I stood in front of him to try to stop him, but unexpectedly the old professor seemed to have taken a stimulant, his strength became extremely great, and he directly knocked me to the ground, then desperately ran back and forth.

  I was about to go pull him, Zhou Huan ran in front of me, stretching out his hand to grab me while saying: "It's too late, this cave is going to collapse soon, the professor has gone mad, none of us can save him now." After finishing speaking, he pulled me and continued running.

  I still couldn't bear to just throw the old professor away, struggling to look back, and saw that the old professor had already arrived in front of the coffin, knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately, instantly knocking his head until it was bleeding, then he raised his head towards the sky and let out a mournful howl. At this time, a bronze mirror fell down and directly split his head into two halves.

  Zhou Huan and the others must have seen this scene too, but they just paused for a moment and continued to escape. My heart felt like I had knocked over a bottle of five flavors, it was unbearable. This group of grave robbers really had hearts of stone, so many people died just for a jade pillow head.

  When we ran into the passage, the copper mirrors in the cave fell down like a knife, and if there were still people inside, being cut into eight pieces would be the lightest. As I walked along the passage for a while, I asked Zhou Huan: "You've lost so many lives, is it just for that broken pillow?"

  She was taken aback and looked at me for a moment before whispering: "If I have the chance, I'll explain to you. We're not safe yet."

  As soon as she said that, I remembered that there was a strange monkey in this passage, and I didn't dare to speak anymore. The lanterns we made of "ghost wood" were gone, because the strange monkey had a sense of heat source, so no one dared to turn on their flashlights, and they relied on their feelings when they came, step by step, groping their way back.

  I feel that I must survive and get out, having encountered so many dangers without dying, I absolutely cannot fall in this passageway. This experience has made me vaguely aware of many things, although there is still no clue now, but it must be related to me.

  After walking a bit further, I felt that we should have arrived at the large room where we were attacked by a group of strange monkeys. However, not only did we not encounter any attacks from the strange monkeys, but there was also no extra noise to be heard. Instead, I caught a whiff of a very peculiar fragrance.

  This woman is really shameless, she hasn't even escaped yet and she's already spraying perfume, a cold-blooded woman like her using perfume to bathe, I don't want it.

  Just then, Zhou Huan asked in a low voice, "Do you smell a fragrance?"

  As soon as she finished speaking, I felt that others also sniffed their noses hard, and I took a deep breath, feeling the smell getting stronger and stronger. As the fragrance approached, it unexpectedly bumped into Zhou Huan's body, so I whispered: "Stop pretending to be mysterious, it's the scent on your body."

  "What?" Zhou Huan seemed to not quite understand, after a while she said: "Turn on the flashlight, this way is not feasible, even if there are no strange monkeys we will definitely not be able to get out in the dark." As soon as her voice fell, four flashlights lit up.

  Their equipment was very advanced, the flashlight was small but the light was very bright. I found myself with my nose stuck to Zhou Huan's backpack and immediately reacted by saying: "Backpack, the fragrance is coming from your backpack."

  Zhou Huan immediately took off her backpack and opened it, and a strong fragrance wafted out. This scent was particularly comfortable, and then I saw that except for the jade pillow wrapped in clothes inside her backpack, there was nothing else. The fragrance must have come from the jade pillow.

  This is also wrong, this jade pillow was taken out from the coffin by me, if there is such a big fragrance I can not smell it? After Zhou Huan opened the clothes wrapped around the jade pillow, I was surprised to find that the jade pillow had turned into blood red at some point, emitting an extremely special light.

  "I think I know why we can't find the strange monkey anymore. This jade pillow contains the bodily scent of a female fox spirit, and nothing around here should dare to get close." Zhou Huan said excitedly.

  Everyone thought it made sense, and they didn't stay any longer. Zhou Huan led the way with the jade pillow in her arms, and we followed closely behind her. Along the way, Hei Lian's captain would occasionally take out that map to take a look, and after wandering around this underground labyrinth for a long time, we finally saw the entrance where I fell down.

  It seems that they also came down from here the earliest, now everyone looks very excited. I look up and vaguely feel that the sky is about to brighten, although it's just a stone's throw away, but there are all those wax oils on the wall of the cave. If no one receives us, we can't get out at all.

  I was just about to ask them what they were going to do when the black-faced captain pulled out a small, exquisite handgun from his pocket and fired a shot upwards at the entrance of the cave. To my astonishment, he had fired a signal flare. Did they have another team waiting outside?

  Time was not long, a relatively thick climbing rope was thrown in, I was overjoyed, and everyone pulled the rope to climb up. Although this was not easy, it was not too high after all, plus the desire to escape from death, I didn't spend much effort and climbed up.

  When I saw the sky and trees again, I felt that it was really good on the ground. Then I thought of Liangzi and Liu Bao, and didn't care about the height anymore. I jumped directly to the ground and started shouting loudly to find them everywhere.

  I had just walked out a few steps when several people suddenly appeared beside me, their guns raised and aimed at me. I was startled, but then I saw that they all had icy expressions on their faces and were wearing combat uniforms. I immediately understood that this was Zhou Huan's team, so I quickly raised my hands and smiled: "Friendly forces, friendly forces."

  "It's alright, put down your guns!" Along with the sound of footsteps landing on the ground, Zhou Huan's voice came over.

  I thought your team was really strong, with so many deaths inside and several outside. Seeing them put down their guns, I quickly asked one of them: "Excuse me, brother, have you seen three men, two young ones and an older one?"

  The person I asked just stared at me like an idiot, not saying a word. I thought to myself, "Is he mute?" Just then, Zhou Huan walked over and nodded at him, and the idiot coldly said, "Follow me..." before turning around and walking away.

  I followed him to the back of a big tree and took a look, and I immediately understood that Liangzi Liu Bao and Lao Lu were tied up with ropes, sitting on the ground unable to move, with cloth stuffed in their mouths. Liangzi stared at me with wide eyes, making "woo woo woo" noises.

  I quickly went up and pulled out the cloth from his mouth, and then I heard Liangzi cursing loudly: "Damn it, you son of a bitch, what kind of ability is it to launch a sneak attack from behind? If you have the guts, come on and fight me one-on-one."

  I immediately understood the situation and knew that after I fell in, the three of them were ambushed by Zhou Huan's guards, so no one came to rescue me. So I quietly untied their ropes while whispering to Liangzi: "Don't shout, can't you see they're all armed? This is a group of ruthless tomb robbers."

  A few people listened to me finish, and it seems that those people were also stunned. Liangzi still shouted: "Tomb raider, what's the difference between tomb raiders? I'm his mother's treasure hunter, we're all in the same line of work, no need to pretend."

  He almost made me laugh when he said, "Don't mention that treasure hunting team again. They didn't even bat an eye after so many people died. We're not even on the same level as them. Besides, they didn't do anything to you guys, did they?"

  Liangzi was about to scold again, but I stopped him with my hand. It seemed that several people had been tied up for a night and started exercising their hands and feet as soon as they got up. Liubao asked me what happened? I said it's hard to explain in just one or two sentences, let me tell you slowly when we have the chance.

  I saw Zhou Huan's team gathering on one side, so I led our people to go over and say hello before heading down the mountain. Just as we approached, I heard Liangzi's loud voice shouting: "Ah, my god, how is there another beauty? Won't it be a fox spirit again?"

  I was so angry I almost vomited blood, and didn't know what to say. Then I saw Zhou Huan smiling slyly at Liang Zi and saying: "This big brother of yours is wrong, I'm just a woman at most, but the beauty that your brother previously harassed is really a beauty."

  As soon as I think of the last look of that fox girl, I feel a chill all over my body. I'm too lazy to care about Liangzi and others looking at me with different eyes. I turn to Zhou Huan and say: "Zhou beauty, things are over, we don't want to stay here anymore. Shall we go down the mountain together?"

  Zhou Huan still smiled and looked at me: "We have our own arrangements, you can go first, looking forward to continuing cooperation next time."

  "Cooperation? I don't think so. I reckon we won't be seeing each other again in the future." I replied to her without hesitation, thinking that it's better to have less contact with this group of people.

  Zhou Huan touched her chin and continued, "Have you forgotten the condition I told you for telling me stories? From now on, we're in this together." After finishing speaking, she even gave me a few provocative glances.

  I really couldn't wait another minute, so I walked up to her, made a fist and said "see you later", then turned around and waved at Liangzi and the others before heading down the mountain. This group of idiots probably thought this was some kind of tomb raider etiquette, and they all followed suit one by one, making fists and shouting: "Beautiful lady, see you later."

  I burst out laughing with a 'pfft' sound as I listened to it earlier, suddenly feeling very sentimental, no matter what, it's good to be alive, and it's great to be with humans and friends!