Volume 1: Ghosts of the Underworld Wail... Chapter 37: The Sudden Attack of the Sacred Beetle (1)

  Although he really wanted to kill the man now, Chen Long still endured it. There were three reasons for this: Firstly, they were not familiar with the situation in the ancient tomb and needed the cooperation of the middle-aged man; Secondly, how strong the opponent was could only be known through him, capturing this person might not make the opponent surrender, but at least it could reduce the conflict a little bit; Thirdly, whether Yuan Hua knew him or not still needed to be further confirmed.

  The four of them briefly discussed and decided to stop the bleeding for the middle-aged man first, but since they didn't have any tools, they couldn't remove the bullet, so they had no choice but to tie him to a pillar.

  After checking the large hall, Chen Long found that there was only one deep and dark passageway in front of him, which was obviously the entrance to the main tomb chamber. Those people must have entered this passageway. The question now is whether or not to continue advancing?

  All four of them hesitated, if they were to go in, they would have to leave one person behind to take care of the middle-aged man. Moreover, who knows what kind of things they would encounter inside? They weren't professional tomb raiders and their knowledge was too limited. If they accidentally triggered a mechanism, with bad luck, it could be poisonous gas, and that would be the end of them.

  "I'll go in and take a look, but not too deep, just get a general idea of the situation. Hopefully I won't run into those people." Chen Long gave the middle-aged man a nasty look, "Jiang Feng, stay here and keep an eye on him. If this guy dares to make any moves, kill him."

  No longer hesitant, Chen Long led Yuan Tian and Yuan Hua into the tunnel. This tunnel was much straighter and wider than the one before entering the hall. Chen Long discovered that there were many holes on the four walls of this tunnel, which made him vigilant. Because when building a tomb, it is impossible to dig out these holes, and such small holes are obviously not for theft. So, they must be natural, that is to say, many unknown animals have built their nests here.

  The path was very long, after walking for three or four minutes Chen Long stopped and said "Did you guys hear any sound?"

  Yuan Tian raised an eyebrow in confusion: "What sound? I didn't hear anything."

  "Ko ko-" "Ga zhi----ga zhi-" "Wa wa--" Very abrupt, loud sounds came from all directions, somewhat similar to the sounds they heard behind the stone gate before.

  "Run fast!" Chen Long's expression was more serious than ever before, he turned around and ran back the way they came, pulling Yuan Tian's arm along with him.

  The three of them ran hastily, soon approaching the entrance of the tunnel they came from. The three of them suddenly stopped and turned around to see a large number of bronze-colored beetles pouring out of the distant cave.

  "What is this?" Chen Long was also somewhat surprised and uncertain for a moment, with an inexplicable light flashing in his eyes.

  "Go first, let's talk later." Yuan Tian took a look and thought to himself that there were actually so many beetles, but his feet didn't stop, and he quickly surpassed Chen Long's position.

  Three people rolled and crawled out of the tunnel, Chen Long and Jiang Feng shouted a greeting, and with a swift motion, they cut off the rope binding the middle-aged man with their daggers, dragging him back in the direction they came from.

  "What's going on? What's that noise?" Jiang Feng looked at the shocked expressions on the three people's faces and knew that something had changed.

  "It's a dung beetle, the one we usually call a dung bug, but the ones we encountered are quite unusual. Have you seen the Tomb Raider? Do you remember the sacred scarab?" Yuan Tian explained as he retreated with the crowd.

  "You're talking about that man-eating beetle? Isn't what they said in the movie a bit exaggerated?" Chen Long dragged the middle-aged man, with a hint of unusual color flashing in his eyes.

  "It's not exaggerated, the movie just made it a bit faster, otherwise there's no difference. Now we're facing a highly aggressive species of sacred beetle, they're not scary individually, but if there are too many, we definitely can't handle it, let's hurry up and close the stone gate, I think that should be fine."

  Hundreds of meters away, tens of thousands of sacred beetles had already poured out, but their speed was not particularly fast, similar to ordinary beetles, indeed not as exaggerated as in the movie.

  "Hurry up! At this speed, we'll never escape!" The middle-aged man who had been silent all along suddenly panicked when he saw so many sacred beetles pouring out, and his calmness was completely gone.

  "What's wrong? We're faster than them, are you afraid we can't get out the door?" Chen Long glared at the middle-aged man, his face gloomy.

  "No!" A middle-aged man's eyes flickered with hesitation, but it quickly disappeared. "That stone gate takes much more time to close than open, almost two minutes, and it can't be pushed by manpower. If we don't hurry up, we won't make it!"

  "What!" The four people exclaimed in unison, Chen Long suppressed his anger and said: "Why didn't you say it earlier! Go close the door first!" After finishing speaking, he ignored the middle-aged man and ran back along the way they came.

  But now it's too late to say anything, the few people can only desperately speed up and run towards the stone gate, the middle-aged man seems to have forgotten his pain, following the four people stumbling and running, the speed is not slow at all, it can be seen that his body is indeed trained.

  Chen Long shed his excess weight, and in terms of speed, he was comparable to the hundred-meter flying man. He covered a distance of nearly two hundred meters in just over twenty seconds. With both hands simultaneously grasping two broken pulleys, he pulled with all his might, but the pulleys wouldn't budge. Chen Long was stunned for a moment.

  "It's not a pull! The outside is a pull, the inside is a rotation!" A middle-aged man tens of meters away saw Chen Long's action and suddenly shouted.

  "I..." Chen Long glared at the middle-aged man with a scowl, "Why didn't you say so earlier? Did you think I wouldn't dare to kill you?" However, his hands didn't stop, and the two latches were simultaneously rotated by him.

  The stone gate rumbled and slowly began to close.

  "You have the power of law, how do I know you can't even do this?" The middle-aged man finally ran to Chen Long's face and retorted.

  "Alright, alright, let's go out first and talk later. Wait for the door to close!" Yuan Hua pushed the middle-aged man and urged Yuan Tian.

  Everyone evacuated the Stone Gate, only to find that a large number of beetles had crawled halfway. What was strange was that although they were crowded, they, like Chen Long and his group, only crawled through the central passageway of the corpses, without any intention of crawling onto those corpses.

  Would these worms also pay their respects to the dead? The four of them looked at each other in surprise, momentarily forgetting how to speak.

  "What a great sight!" the middle-aged man sneered, "Those corpses are all sprinkled with substances that repel insects extremely, you'd better think of how to stop them from coming out! Before the door is closed, they will definitely arrive, and must be blocked for a while! Don't think I'm talking nonsense, these insects are not something we can deal with, their aggression is very strong, and according to our team's old guys, they also have deadly venom. One shot can only kill a few of them at most, these things aren't something that can be trampled to death, if hundreds of them come out, except for you who has magical powers, everyone else will die."

  The middle-aged man's words shocked everyone, and only then did they realize that the Stone Gate was so slow that it was impossible to close before the arrival of the Sacred Beetle.

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