The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 166: Music Box

There is a large hole underground in the square, with a diameter of about five meters, surrounded by the wreckage of architectural debris, empty water guns, and overturned damaged vehicles.

Besides small water guns, there are also large water guns here, but still no traces of bodies.

A music box made of shells is placed at the edge of the hole, and to transmit sound so far to the outskirts of the city, I thought the music box must be quite large.

It turns out it’s about the size of a tablet, with every component exposed outside, and the material of the parts is unusual—some kind of glowing liquid.

The liquid acts as components in operation, producing the sound of the music box. They are in the shell, seemingly bound and drawn by some force, cycling continuously, spinning without rest, gathered but not scattered.

Why it can keep spinning, I really can’t see, and don’t have the time to think carefully, because Bi Shi had already picked it up.

"Quick, put it down!" I whispered to her, "That thing will wake up."

"Wow, this thing is great, need to take it back." Bi Shi didn’t listen to me at all, holding the music box and walked away.

The parts of the music box are liquid, with every step Bi Shi takes, my heart trembles slightly.

If by any chance she ’spills’ the music box, the things in the underground hole might become furious.

"Can you stop acting so paranoid? Both of us were released after being sealed for a thousand years, you enjoy helping others, I develop the economy, have we eaten anyone?" Bi Shi said confidently.

"That’s because we didn’t eat people before either." I quickly walked up, trying to grab the music box from her hand.

"Tsk, things we did before, might not continue after being released. Can’t you give people a chance to reform?"

I ignored Bi Shi’s sophistry, thinking of tying her up first, then going to take back the music box.

Who knew Bi Shi would ’snap’ the shell closed!

Well, now the ’hypnotic’ music stopped, the deep and thick snoring sound immediately disappeared, awakening faster than an alarm clock.

Bi Shi seemed to feel something, reopening the cover of the music box.

The music started, and the snoring sound immediately followed. I looked at Bi Shi with a cold expression.

"This thing might be very useful for me and part of my clan." Bi Shi was no longer grinning, maybe seeing I was really angry.

I still looked at her coldly without speaking. She had said it would be useful for her and some of her people, not including me.

Then I didn’t have any reason to waste time here for it. Bi Shi, holding the music box, said, "You go first, I will leave in two hours."

"You can’t take it out," I said.

"Let’s try." Bi Shi said casually, but her eyes were extremely serious.

I gritted my teeth and, with determination, took out my beloved phone from my pocket.

Yes, I always carry it with me, even if there’s no signal at sea, or no power banks underground, I still carry it.

When on the ship, I charged it full, then sealed it in a bag with the power off, following me through fire and water. These days passed, its lasting battery life makes me believe it still has power!

"Where’s your smartphone? Why are you taking out an old-fashioned phone?" Bi Shi’s cool face couldn’t keep it together, curiously eyeing the vintage old phone in my hand.

"Just in case, the smartphone can’t be used, this one is kept for listening to novels, Chen Qinghan got me a special battery, ultra-long standby, I haven’t been willing to use it yet."

"What are you going to do with it?"

"Record the music and play it for that thing. I sacrifice my beloved phone, don’t you think you should show some appreciation?"

"When I inherit He Su’s assets, I’ll buy you a hundred phones."

"Deal!"

I used the phone’s built-in recording function to record the melody of the music box.

Chen Qinghan said, this phone was assembled by someone he found, and its sound quality, standby, and casing are all top-notch.

As I pressed the play button on the phone, Bi Shi closed the cover of the music box.

The fact proved, the thing in the underground hole just liked this melody, not the music box itself.

We left the phone, took the music box and walked away, the phone’s battery was enough to support us leaving from here.

Halfway, Bi Shi suddenly said ’thank you,’ startling me a lot.

I thought she was possessed by the ghost of this underground place, but fortunately, she rolled her eyes at my exaggerated expression, putting my mind at ease.

She and He Su were planning something, I wasn’t interested, including those things that happened before, I wanted to let them become the past, quickly move on.

"Hey, why do you think that thing only attacks the Undersea People?" As we reached the bridge, Bi Shi suddenly asked.

"Grudge I guess, or... just likes it," I replied casually, just wanting to leave quickly, not wanting to seek the truth of the Undersea Civilization’s disaster.

"If we could take that underground thing away too..."

"Keep dreaming! Times have changed, do you think it’s still—" I stopped myself abruptly.

Still what? I didn’t know, the words rolled off naturally, but the following content, I didn’t know either.

"Sigh~ If you really want to live a normal life, it’s better to meet with your kind less from now on."

"Among the few I could meet, staying away from you two is enough!"

"Fool, actually... forget it, let’s hurry, or something might really try to dig our hearts out."

"Whatever, as long as it’s digging yours."

"I’m okay with it, the key is whether it’s good or not."

We occasionally bicker, running back to the bridge access point, when suddenly descending the bridge, Bi Shi asked again: "The entire city’s people encountered disaster, who put the music box there?"

"Are you here for adventure archaeology or looking for water? Shut up, let’s move."

"Uh, let me tell you something, don’t be afraid." Bi Shi’s expression was odd, she stopped there and didn’t move.

"I’m a zongzi that ran out of an ancient tomb, I won’t be afraid." I looked at her puzzled.

"I just heard a third set of footsteps." She said.

"Just echoes, and you are scared of that?" I felt she was deliberately nitpicking.

"No, really, just in... between us two."

"Okay, you seem to be addicted to telling horror stories today, even if there is, so what? As long as it doesn’t affect us leaving, whatever."

"You said that." 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"I said it!"

After hearing my answer, Bi Shi continued to follow me running forward, but because she mentioned it, I specially listened carefully to our footsteps.

But the echo here was particularly loud, it was hard to determine for a while, until after we passed through the passage, stepping onto the stairs to the dock, I truly heard the third set of footsteps Bi Shi mentioned.

Because the sound was particularly small, different from what I imagined, I might not have noticed it earlier.

Whatever made the footsteps surely wasn’t too large, either a small animal or a child.

And it was indeed between Bi Shi and me, as we walked a few steps apart, that sound was between us, easily masked.