The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb! Chapter 478 - 341: Burden

I was alert because I noticed the bite marks on the bones were still fresh, which made think that whatever gnawed the bug corpses might not have gone far, or perhaps hadn’t left at all and was still nearby digesting.

But the Ancient City had already collapsed and sunk underground, so where could ’people’ co from in the desert?

Suddenly, the sand around us bulged into small mounds, which then grew larger, moving toward us from four directions simultaneously.

There was sothing beneath the sand, there was no doubt about that. I waited until they were almost upon us before grabbing Miss Tang and leaping into the air. The things in the sand jumped up too; they were four mummies, but unlike typical ones. I noticed their clothes looked sowhat familiar, like what I’d seen back when we pulled corpses out from the Ancient City’s drainage ditches.

Oh, it’s the Non-human Team mbers!

Miss Tang was more familiar with them than I was; she gasped and shouted, ’It’s them.’

She had discussed the matter of the high person with Chen Qinghan during the past few days of travel. After entering the Death Zone, she also sensed sothing strange about the Non-human Team, but she still agreed to the high person’s suggestion of keeping their activities hidden from ’outsiders’.

She did this to protect Gu. She had talked about these matters with him after they got out. In those circumstances at the ti, if she hadn’t shown any reliance on the high person, none of them, including Gu, would likely have survived.

Excluding Gu and the others kept them safer.

As for herself, having reached this point, even if she saw that there was a problem with the Non-human Team, she had no choice but to see it through to the end because she was more eager to find her father.

Chen Qinghan asked her if she knew about the core, and she honestly said she did, and also knew how powerful it was, wanting to find and destroy it.

Gu asked her if the high person intended the sa, and she said no, that person wanted to obtain that energy. She couldn’t oppose openly and could only appear very interested.

When asked why the high person didn’t discard her after entering the city, it was because they hoped to find Mr. Tang and use her as leverage to force her father to hand over the research data.

But it wasn’t that they were determined to keep her alive. According to Miss Tang’s recollection, at that ti the high person intended to use her as a bargaining chip, but for so unknown reason, he left suddenly.

Wang Le ntioned that the energy field near the core was strange, and Evil Spirits were secretly taking action. Perhaps during a ti when Miss Tang wasn’t aware, the high person received a black handprint, left suddenly, and was controlled by an Evil Spirit which called him away.

However, we never saw the corpse of this high person. Of course, we couldn’t be sure we had searched every nook and cranny of the underground drainage system. After the ’magic’ disappeared, it’s possible he died in a hidden corner.

Yet, with the Non-human Team mbers appearing in front of us again, I’m forced to suspect that the high person might not be dead.

The power controlling the dead in the Ancient City had already disappeared. The Crystal Stone had been in our possession for several days with no effect on anyone, so Chen Qinghan and I both believed it could only function within the light sphere.

I didn’t believe that the Non-human Team mbers appeared because of a summoning by the Crystal Stone. Why would the Crystal Stone make them gnaw on bug corpses? It’s unnecessary.

My mind was processing, while my hands didn’t hesitate. I dealt each jumping mummy a blow with the Hook Stick.

Directly piercing through the skulls, with a thrust and a pull of the Hook Stick, the mummies’ heads ended up with large holes.

Miss Tang was obviously frightened, burying her face on my shoulder, not daring to watch this violent and disgusting scene.

Indeed, seeing a corpse with its face torn into a big hole can be quite unbearable for those with an average psychological tolerance.

Since the mummies’ heads were still intact but faces gone, with brains like walnuts spilling out, it’s likely that Miss Tang wouldn’t want to eat walnuts anyti soon, and might even gag at the sight of certain beverage advertisents.

"Don’t throw up on , just swallow it back, out of sight, out of mind." I had to remind her, just in case.

"Stop talking!" ca Miss Tang’s feeble voice, and then she bit down on my shoulder, taking a large mouthful.

I opened my mouth, but swallowed back the words I was going to say. This shirt hadn’t been washed for days, having been rolled through sand and caves day and night, covered in dust and possibly the blood and brain matter splattered from battling large bugs.

It didn’t bother at all that she took that bite, I was just afraid she might hurt herself.

But if I pointed it out, and she lost control of her emotions, it would just cause trouble for . Better to... let her go peacefully without knowing.

"Ugh..."

Why couldn’t she just go peacefully?