CHAPTER 423: CHAPTER 287: SUI YI, COME BACK QUICKLY~~

Chapter 287

Not a foot-binding cloth?

"!!"

Severely injured, Han Gao went straight to a corner to draw mushrooms..

Gong Jiu and the others, however, sighed with emotion. This Loulan’s lunatic really is a lunatic, casually tossing aside treasures and having all sorts of things.

"Although it seems like there aren’t any strange creatures around here, just stone walls, we still should be careful~~" Gong Jiu and others didn’t forget to stay alert while collecting treasures~~

"Strange creatures and such aren’t the biggest threat, what I’m worried about is encountering Wei Feng and Old Goat Monster’s groups... You know, now we are just six people, Sui Yi’s not here, Zhang Wei that fellow is also unaccounted for.. and we’ve separated from Xiao Yu and others, most importantly.. our ammunition is almost completely depleted."

Flower Demon tallied up their manpower, not optimistic about the strength of the people present.

"Their ammo should be about the same, it’s just that Wei Feng and Old Goat Monster are a bit trickier.. the two of us are no match for them, add Xiao Yu and it might be about even"

"Xiao Yu.. That military man might be reliable... but we can’t depend on him," said Flower Demon and the others, who didn’t have a high opinion of the official stance, perhaps due to years spent in the shadows, they had no fondness for the authorities.

Gong Jiu felt the same, although he had been in the military himself.

"Forget it, let’s hope we get lucky and not encounter them.. I think Xiao Yu’s group probably didn’t follow us down here, there are too many old, weak, sick, and disabled in their team"

Professor Ye and other archaeologists were grimly classified by Gong Jiu as old, weak, sick, and disabled.

As they were talking, Gong Jiu and the rest pushed forward through twists and turns. Each person used their own "professional knowledge" along with the so-called intuition of the two female leaders. Whether it was good luck or their treasure-finding skills were really MAXed out, at the moment, they could see a very large cave entrance from afar..

Based on the sensitive experience of professional tomb-robbing skills, Gong Jiu and Flower Demon quickly determined they had stumbled upon the biggest treasure cave by accident!

Man, this is like a salted fish turning over!

Just as they got excited..

Suddenly..

"Duck!"

Gong Jiu shouted fiercely, and everyone ducked in unison..

Pop pop pop!

A row of bullets swept fiercely over the area where they just stood, leaving pockmarked bullet holes on the wall, and bullets clinked as they hit the ground.

Whoosh!

Gong Jiu threw a bullet with a flick of his hand, a headshot!

Flower Demon immediately dived and rushed to the right with a long whip!

Crack!

Wu Gu was whipped across the arm, breaking it!

But Liang Qing appeared behind her in the blink of an eye, raising her hand with a small and exquisite crossbow bolt on her wrist.

Zhew zhew!

Cold arrows shot out like silver needles!

Peng peng!

Two bullets exploded the two streaks of cold light in the air.

Peng!

Wu Gu’s neck was caught by the whip and with a swing, he was thrown against the wall, his arm making a cracking sound. On the other side, Flower Demon swerved to avoid and exchanged glances with Gong Jiu, who fired the bullet to save her...

Xiao came from behind Gong Jiu!

Feng Sha’s sword attacked Xiao!

Brother Ma and Han Gao aimed their guns at Wu Gu and Xiao.

Brawl!

Wei Feng alone stood still, casting a cold glance at Gong Jiu and his group, and after noticing the absence of a particular person he feared, he raised an eyebrow and walked leisurely towards that great cave entrance...

Suddenly!

Boom!

A row of Black Meteor bombs came blasting!

Wei Feng dodged to the side..

And met Old Goat Monster’s gaze, as cold as an eagle hawk’s.

"Oh~~ look who’s still not dead~~" Wei Feng laughed casually, his demeanor composed.

"Mr. Wei is not dead yet, how dare I die.. what I like most is to have the white-haired send off the black-haired.." Old Goat Monster laughed sinisterly, pressing in from the left.

Frack!

Whatever you fear, it comes!

Unable to help herself, Flower Demon grumbled, "Gong Jiu, please don’t speak next time, your crow’s mouth is unerringly accurate."

Gong Jiu: "Motherf*cker, it was clearly you who mentioned them first this time!"

As usual, the two bickered but their hands stopped in unison...

Appearances were calm, but their hearts were crying out in unison, Sui Yi, come back quickly~~~

The three groups faced off..

On the other side of the large cave, leaning against the wall, a person watched these people’s movements with crystal clarity from a distance, through a wall and a not-so-close space.

"Magnetic Sensation directly amplified ten-fold.. the range of direct exploration has reached a hundred meters.. Coupled with sensory metamorphosis.. it could indeed be used as Clairvoyance and Sharp-Hearing Ear," Sui Yi said with a light smile, "Let Gong Jiu and the others block for a bit longer... jade must be carved to be fashioned."

Regarding Gong Jiu and the others’ abilities.. she felt they were still wanting, but in this day and age, martial arts had to be cultivated slowly, not like in novels where eating treasures or obtaining a supreme Secret Manual would result in sudden leaps and bounds..

Life-and-death battles were undoubtedly the best way to temper people.

So, the person Gong Jiu and Flower Demon were praying in circles for, was just one to two hundred meters away, leisurely heading towards those chests carelessly placed in the middle.

Perhaps because they had been soaked by water for countless years, these chests were still damp. If there were any paintings or calligraphy, they should have been ruined, so Sui Yi didn’t expect much, just used Magnetic Sensation to scan these treasure chests, and as expected, saw that several textiles and papers had decayed..

However, jewels and gems and so on remained intact...

Suddenly, Sui Yi’s scanning gaze halted, and with a tap of her foot, she leaped atop the pile of chests.

The roof ceiling.

At a height of about five meters, she easily jumped up, the Demon Que thrust into the wall and swiftly carved out a rectangle...

A slit was cut into the wall, and a stone slab fell into Sui Yi’s palm, along with a wooden box concealed within it.

She silently floated down, landing without a sound, unbeknownst to those outside because a screen-like wall separated the entrance from the inside.

This wooden box...

Sui Yi was already curious about the carelessly placed treasure chests below, and even more so about the deliberately preserved wooden box on top, but while the chests could be easily inspected through the air, the stone slab made it difficult to scrutinize the wooden box without opening it first.

At this moment, Sui Yi hadn’t opened the wooden box; she just gave it a Magnetic Sensation probe, and her expression paused, followed by a smile.

"’Empty Mountain Flowing Blade,’ ’Wind Evolution Blade Technique,’ ’Scold Red Brush,’ ’Return to One Technique’..."

"Falling asleep and being handed a pillow... Loulan, you do have some clever tricks."

What was in this wooden box?

It contained five secret manuals! The first three were martial arts technique manuals, and the last one was about cultivating Inner Strength... Regarding preciousness, naturally, the last one was the most cherished, almost as rare as a panda in today’s Martial Arts World.

Just a moment ago, Sui Yi was worried about Gong Jiu and others being too weak, and in the blink of an eye, she had acquired such treasures... Her mood suddenly brightened, but what was this last volume?

’Terrestrial Dragon Vein Insight Technique’?

The thickest one, placed behind the other four, was not a secret manual, but rather... a compendium of knowledge.

The handwriting seemed to be Loulan’s, whereas the previous four were each written in different styles, and none were Loulan’s work.

It was very likely that the four secret manuals were collected by Loulan, and the last one was his own creation.

Sui Yi didn’t think too much about it and stuffed the surprisingly lightweight wooden box straight into her now much-emptier backpack.

After thinking for a moment, she also took several other chests outside...

Of course, not to the side where Gong Jiu and the others were, but to a different location.

The gold silk map displayed the complex structure of these tunnels, which she knew like the back of her hand, including all the secret passages...

Of course, what she was thinking at the moment was anyone’s guess.

The chests varied in size and weight, organized based on their contents. With her Magnetic Sensation, Sui Yi didn’t need to unlock them to know what was inside and which ones were best preserved. She picked only those of the highest value to take and that wouldn’t be too heavy...

Of course, she also took those that she liked.

After three trips back and forth... the battle outside was finally drawing to a close.

Sui Yi was about to go out when her footsteps suddenly halted, and she fiercely turned her head toward the door she had come through earlier...

It seemed... something was coming.

——————

Without a doubt, Gong Jiu and his group were the weakest, forced to distance themselves from the grand hall’s cavern, while Wei Feng and the Old Goat Monster were pressing closer and closer...

"Damn it! Without Sui Yi here, we stand no chance!"

"There must be treasures inside... that lunatic Loulan has emptied the entire palace and dumped all the treasures here underneath..."

Gong Jiu and the others knew this, but they were pathetically unable to reach those treasures...

It would have been better if there were no treasures at all, but having seen them and being unable to obtain them...

Their hearts were being scratched to death!

The more they thought about it, the more dissatisfied they became, but the Old Goat Monster’s men were relentlessly closing in...

"Fuck! You old monster, we’re already pushed outside and you still attack!" Gong Jiu cursed from behind a wall.

"Heh heh, you lot are rather slippery, and you have quite the influence outside, I won’t be able to rest in peace unless I bury you all here... so it’s better if you all just die!"

The Old Goat Monster chuckled gleefully, plunging Gong Jiu and the others’ hearts to rock bottom.

Damn, this old ghost’s heart is really vicious!

"Old ghost, you should be worried about Wei Feng. Attacking us now might just give him the chance to take you out!"

That damn Gong Jiu! Wei Feng’s eyes gleamed coldly as he lightly smiled, "These annoying minions really do irritate people. I think we should clean them up first... What do you say, Old Goat Monster?"

"Good idea!"

Oh hell, how did that provocation backfire?!

Gong Jiu, whose eyes were rolling back, was fiercely glared at by the Flower Demon. Could you just shut your mouth, you troublemaker?!

Gong Jiu knew he was at fault, and just as the group was about to beat a hasty retreat, the Old Goat Monster’s men had already unified their attack on them...

They were indeed low on ammunition, the fight having turned mostly into close combat, but the enemy outnumbered them.

Plus, there were the two bosses, Wei Feng and his cohort.

It wouldn’t take long for them to be completely wiped out.

"Run!"

Gong Jiu and his people turned to flee...

Suddenly!

Boom!

A hand grenade exploded, killing three of the Old Goat Monster’s men instantly.

Everyone was startled...

They all looked towards the side passage on the right.

The voice of Xiao Yu, cool and collected, came through: "Miss Gong... Miss Hua... is our deal still on?"

"EU server oral test!" Gong Jiu said, beaming with joy. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to vote for it on Qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com to read.)