Chapter Eleven: Extremely Flustered and Bumped into a Wall by a Ghost

  Inside the tomb, it was extremely spacious. Inside this vast hall, except for the endless darkness, the firelight seemed as small as the stars at night. Within the range that the firelight could illuminate, I tried my best to penetrate the darkness and see further, but unfortunately, the hall was too dark to see far away.

  The deeper we went into the tomb, the more intense the feeling of unease that surged up to my heart. Fortunately, Second Brother's eyesight was extraordinary and he dispelled that danger, otherwise we would have been in a precarious situation.

  "Is the grave owner's two warnings just meant to scare us?" I thought to myself.

  At this time I actually hope something will happen. Walking for so long and nothing has happened makes me very anxious.

  Without light, we can only wander around like headless flies in the dark hall, and the thick darkness makes everyone feel suffocated.

  At this time, the sixth brother who was walking at the back suddenly said: "Big brother, I always feel like there's something behind us, quietly following us. When I look back, I don't see anything." The sixth brother's words were full of a terrified tone.

  "Just follow closely and don't look back no matter what's behind you, got it? If something calls out to you, don't respond." I replied.

  "How can you not look back when you clearly feel something is following us?" Sixth Brother muttered.

  It's unlucky to look back when walking at night and encountering something ominous. The more you look back, the more you'll confuse your mind, and once your mind is confused, those unclean things will take advantage of the situation.

  Seeing that my sixth brother's mind was already confused, I feared that he would make a mistake if he walked behind me, so I let him walk in front of me instead. I then took his place and walked at the very back.

  As expected, just as Liu Di said, I also clearly felt that there were a pair of eyes peeking at us from not far behind. However, this is what I was expecting, and it's about time something happened, otherwise it would be too peaceful in a place like this. But thinking again, what could the thing behind us be? If it's a ghost, there should be a gloomy atmosphere; if it's a monster, there should be an eerie aura. Yet, it was so quiet and soundless, as if it wasn't something that a living thing could do.

  "Unless... unless this thing can hide its evil aura or demonic energy. If that's the case, then things are going to get really tricky." I thought to myself.

  It might be because I have a heavy aura that the thing behind us actually slowly pulled away from me by a distance, but still followed us at a steady pace. When we stopped, it also stopped. At this time, everyone didn't know what I was thinking in my heart, but I started to get impatient.

  "Let's expose its true nature first," I said to myself.

  He quietly pulled out a bottle of urine from his bag and threw it at the object behind him, only to hear a loud "crash" sound in the darkness.

  Hearing a noise behind them, everyone stopped in their tracks and turned around to see me looking back. They hastily asked me what had happened.

  I shook my head and told everyone about the abnormal situation I had just experienced. After listening to me, Sima Lin smiled and said: "Brother Ghost Dao, we have seen this kind of thing before, it's probably related to the road ghost or something, don't worry, as long as we don't confuse our minds, we'll be fine."

  "No, if it were a ghost or monster, there would definitely be a yin energy and a demonic aura appearing, but the thing behind him doesn't seem to have any yin energy or demonic aura, so I think it's very strange. The bottle with the urine of the child obviously hit it, you give me the torch."

  He took the torch from Sima Lin's hand, drew out his golden dagger and carefully made his way to the back. The bottle had apparently hit something hard, with shards scattered all over the floor. Behind him, apart from some Buddha statues either lying or standing, what else could there be?

  After carefully examining the trail of urine droplets, it was strange to find that the bottle containing the child's urine had been smashed on a handheld demon-suppressing device held by a demon-suppressing master. The master stood with both hands raised high, eyes wide open and staring at me in anger. The demon-suppressing master, splashed with child's urine, was filled with an inexplicable sense of unease.

  Everyone saw me and gathered around, full of curiosity. Seeing me staring at the Demon-Subduing Master in front of me with a thoughtful expression, they all looked puzzled.

  After staring for a long time, I still couldn't understand why the child's urine would splash onto this stone statue. So I turned to the crowd and asked: "Can anyone see anything strange about this stone statue?"

  "The stone statue doesn't seem strange to me," said Guo Ling. "The bottle of Tongzi urine didn't hit anything behind it, did it? These statues might be placed here to ward off evil spirits and monsters, we don't need to pay attention to them."

  "It's impossible! I'm usually very careful and rarely make mistakes." Kouryuu's words left me a bit disappointed.

  "I also feel that this stone statue is a bit off. If I'm not mistaken, when we passed by here earlier, there was a firelight shining on the roadside statues, and it seemed like this one wasn't among them? Does anyone else notice this anomaly?" Sima Lin said hesitantly, looking at everyone, apparently he didn't have much confidence in his own words.

  I'm not sure if what Sima Lin said is true, because I was too busy paying attention to the strange thing behind me and didn't have time to check the situation around me. Seeing that everyone else was shaking their heads in silence, it seemed that Sima Lin was indeed meticulous after all, he's an old hand at this line of work. However, his words did leave everyone a bit bewildered.