The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 156: Professional Cremation

We are still navigating the waters of the Sea of Sunken Ships, because the fish outside are all bizarre, not only with fins sharp as knives but also with pointed teeth.

Some fish are irritable, and when people suddenly appear nearby, they hit the hull with their fin tails, causing the ship to bang loudly.

This Shell Ship is extraordinarily sturdy, left idle for years without maintenance, yet still robust, practicing a body of Golden Bell Shield, Iron Cloth Shirt.

No matter how lively it is outside, that’s just a fleeting glance, the troubles inside the ship are truly headache-inducing.

In the place where the screaming incident just occurred, a person is hanging in the corridor, already without breath.

The one hanging the corpse is exactly a long strand of hair, with one end wrapped around the pipe and the other around the corpse’s neck.

Qinghan leaped forward, hand raised sword dropped, cutting off the long hair.

The corpse fell to the ground with a thud, it seems the wig sprite is not harmless, but the fatal injury on the corpse is not on the neck.

His left chest has a big hole, heart missing without a trace, a large pool of blood on the ground.

After checking the corpse, Qinghan said, this person was first heart removed and then hung up by the wig sprite.

I heard him fall on the ground crawling, only crawled three, four times, the sound stopped.

Guessing by then, he was heart removed, the wig sprite for some reason joined the commotion, hanging his corpse up.

"Is it the fake Meng Qingyu?" I looked at the wound on the corpse’s left chest, the edge of that hole particularly neat, like drawn with a compass, definitely cut out by an extremely sharp circular tool.

"Not likely, he’s always hacking with that knife." Qinghan said.

I recalled what Bi Shi said, the rumor about the curse, why did Qinghan and others encounter only the fake Meng Qingyu, a madman, after a week down here.

And with my arrival, wig turned sprite, heart removed by Black Tiger, the mad began to avoid heavy and take light.

Before I told Bi Shi, this place is directly connected to the palace, definitely no danger.

I feel I should write a face-slap memoir, recording those times my face got slapped.

"Where’s Old Shi? Did you find him?" I looked at the corpse on the ground from Meng Qingyu’s team, curious about Old Shi who ventured alone inside.

"He was the first person controlled by that kind of power." Qinghan said, "That kind of power does not originate from this ship."

"You mean... he ventured down here alone, controlled by that power?"

Qinghan lightly nodded, saying they were ambushed by Old Shi, who is very familiar with the layout here, wanted to use the ship’s terrain to break them one by one.

But since they came down without acting separately, Old Shi had no chance, he then thought of ambushing, killing the last in the team.

Happened to be the fake Meng Qingyu walking last, poisoned Old Shi to death, then that power controlled him.

The deranged fake Meng Qingyu, no longer disguising his voice and walking posture, openly became a man.

When I saw him earlier, his face was odd, like a snake shedding skin, half the face’s skin hanging down the chin.

Half the face was Meng Qingyu, half an unfamiliar man, his disguise technique probably needs frequent maintenance.

Since the fake Meng Qingyu killed Old Shi, he became the second controlled person, Qinghan, the leader, and Beauty Snake didn’t dare to directly kill him, only wanted to hurt him and capture him.

But they quickly found they couldn’t injure him, the fake Meng Qingyu not only skilled with knife but also particularly tough, nothing happens unless hitting vital areas.

The only one using poison is fake Meng Qingyu, even if others dared risk being controlled to poison him, they don’t have that skill.

"And what’s about Beauty Snake, where does she want to take the ship?" I and Qinghan carried the corpse into an empty room.

"She only wants to leave the island, leave the Sea of Sunken Ships, discovering this ship can still be sailed, she ignored everyone’s objection, ran into the pilot room, locked the door."

Beauty Snake has been trapped on the island for years, living every day among bat droppings, indeed no one wants to leave this ghostly place more than her.

"We’ve already awakened something in this ship, first find the person disguised as Meng Qingyu." Qinghan said while doing something that surprised me.

He sliced open the corpse’s chest with the sword, tore off cloth from the corpse’s clothes, cut off a small piece of liver, wrapped it in cloth.

"We don’t have poison, but he’s a toxic person." Qinghan handed the cloth wrap to me.

He was right, everyone in Meng Qingyu’s team is poisoned, their bodies contain toxins.

"But the poison takes long cycle to act." Even if feed the fake Meng Qingyu with poison, waiting for it to take effect and kill him, would take days.

"At present this is the best way."

"Alright."

I stored the cloth wrap, followed Qinghan out to continue searching for the fake Meng Qingyu, because of my joining, the hide-and-seek rules changed.

Qinghan searched while shouting, informing the leader and them, our precise location.

Now he’s not afraid of exposure, even hopes the fake Meng Qingyu would voluntarily come to him.

Qinghan’s broadcast alert sent out, the leader found us first, then Guan Hai and Cong Zhibo.

Them still alive confounded me, but upon seeing their facial expressions, I guessed the reason.

Professor Liu sacrificed himself to save them, dismantled by the fake Meng Qingyu.

Guan Hai is better, Cong Zhibo completely collapsed, it was Guan Hai who slapped him twice, restored his senses.

Professor Liu already sacrificed, if they’re still confused and unable to save themselves, even dying would not justify facing their mentor?

As for the others, regardless of dead or alive, haven’t come out to regroup with us. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Qinghan warned them to be careful, there’s a living thing on the ship resembling hair, silently winding onto people.

Also things that can instantly dig out heart, after his warning, those three occasionally touched their back necks, other hand occasionally clutched their left chest.

In such a place, being cautious is necessary, never assume bravery and neglect those ’illusions.’

Of course, this balance is hard to grasp, exceeding a bit leads to nervousness, lacking a bit can cost life.

"Where’s Miss Wang?" Qinghan knew Bi Shi came with me, suddenly asked after the team gathered.

"Oh right, forgot her, no need to mind her, let’s continue hide-and-seek~" I’m not worried about Bi Shi’s safety, fake Meng Qingyu’s knife can’t kill her, hanging nor heart removal, wanting her dead isn’t that easy.

"Miss Wang?!" Cong Zhibo heard Bi Shi’s name, reacted like Zhou.

"Ah, she’s not dead, back to letting you know—oh dear~" My back head was slapped by Qinghan, Karmic Fire almost sprayed and burned through the ground.

"To let you know she’s safe!" I gritted teeth and corrected myself.