The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 34: This Can’t Be Real

Chen Qinghan suddenly stood up, drew the large treasure sword from his back, grabbed my arm, and pushed me towards the straight mineshaft.

"Get in quickly, they’re coming."

I looked above and to the side; both sides led to death, and escape was no better than a fight.

"There are more of us, let’s fight them." I held the crowbar at my waist, standing next to Chen Qinghan.

"Damn it, if I’m going to die, I want to know why. I want to see what these singing creatures really are!" Wen Jing steadied his pushcart, aiming it at the exit of the upper mineshaft, gritting his teeth as if planning to crash the monster to death.

Shunfeng’s ’magic tools’ were all gone, and the cart was too heavy to use as a weapon. He fumbled around on his body and, finding no weapon, finally took off his belt, folding it in his hand.

Forcing Chen Qinghan to flee, a creature that could kill the Water Monster, would hardly be killed with a belt, but saying that would surely discourage Shunfeng’s eagerness to fight, and even if he had a gasoline bottle in hand, he might not win.

I didn’t say anything to dampen enthusiasm, Chen Qinghan did, saying we were no match for those things and told us to hide quickly.

Boss Lu followed his command most obediently, jumping into the mineshaft without hesitation. I estimate as long as that door isn’t opened, staying inside the mineshaft should be safe, which is why she went in so decisively.

"Don’t dawdle, hurry and take them away!" Chen Qinghan signaled to Wen Jing, his tone was firm and irrefutable.

"If you die, we can’t get out either. If that thing can kill you, killing us would be even easier, and we can’t open that door; entering the mineshaft is also death." Wen Jing and the others obeyed Chen Qinghan completely, but not me. I’ve seen too much death — helpless death, angry death, willing death, despairing death — all different yet leading to the same final point.

Since that thing threatens Chen Qinghan’s life, it could easily kill us. Running further only to die exhausted doesn’t make sense, and surely Wen Jing and the others hadn’t eaten enough earlier, running till they’re starved would turn them into pitiful hungry ghosts.

Moreover, if Chen Qinghan dies here and we die inside, scattered all over, it hurts cohesion; a team should be united, dying together.

"Exactly, Little Fu is right, if you can’t beat them, what about us? We’ll just wait to die."

"Yeah, better if we all fight together!"

Seeing the two insist, Chen Qinghan didn’t argue further. The four of us stood together, each holding our weapons, ready to fight the unknown monster to the death.

A chill wind blew past, making Wen Jing and Shunfeng shiver. My flashlight’s beam aimed straight at the path from the mineshaft, time ticked by, but no monster leapt out to bite us.

"What’s going on? Is Miss Cheng sleepwalking?" Shunfeng shifted the belt to his left hand, rubbing the palm of his right hand on his trousers.

Wen Jing moved the cart forward, placing it horizontally at the mineshaft entrance. This way, if something came in, even if we couldn’t see it, we could hear it.

Unless those things treaded air, flying invisibly to us. Perhaps Wen Jing thought of this, after placing one cart, he moved back to stack Shunfeng’s cart on top.

The two carts stacked together blocked two-thirds of the shaft entrance. Though Chen Qinghan hadn’t said what those things looked like, I vaguely saw their form — humanoid, not likely insects or birds.

"What the heck, false alarm, nothing is coming." Wen Jing complained, turning around to see Miss Scream standing behind him.

None of us noticed when she stood up, got off the cart and walked behind Wen Jing; normally, there would be some noise.

But she made no sound, appearing behind Wen Jing like a specter, sticking close to him, as if that was the distance they should have.

"Oh, my goodness—" Wen Jing was startled, moving several steps forward, quickly widening the gap with Miss Scream.

As Wen Jing stepped aside, Miss Scream’s face was revealed, and we saw that her eyes were still closed.

"La, la... lala... ah..." Miss Scream, eyes closed, hummed a somewhat familiar tune.

Chen Qinghan extended his arm to block me behind him, while Shunfeng and Wen Jing huddled together, slowly edging to our side.

"Is she, is she possessed?" Wen Jing stammered nervously.

As soon as he spoke, Miss Scream suddenly opened her eyes, her pupils turning golden and slightly glowing.

Those warning light-like eyes were fixed on me, devoid of emotion, like mechanical components, yet I didn’t understand why they only stared at me.

I moved slowly from Chen Qinghan’s right to his left, and those headlight-like eyes followed me left.

"Little Fu, you’ve lived inside that Evil Tomb for years, aren’t the demons and ghosts in there familiar with you?" Wen Jing cast me a sideways glance.

"No, my activity area was limited, I haven’t seen most of the creatures."

"Makes sense, you might not know them, but they know you, like unseen neighbors." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"#W*A%*A%￥#" Miss Scream stopped singing, saying a string of gibberish to me.

It sounded like a foreign language, but I couldn’t tell from which country, so I looked to Chen Qinghan, hoping this professor was fluent in many languages.

Chen Qinghan’s brow twitched, seemingly surprised. Having a reaction meant he understood, and I wanted him to translate, but he pushed me hard instead, making me stumble two or three meters forward.

Simultaneously, golden light glared within the mineshaft, as a basin-sized pit appeared where I’d stood.

I turned to look at Miss Scream, her raised arm didn’t retract but adjusted direction, pointing her palm at me again.

The golden light had emitted from her palm, instantly smashing a basin-sized deep pit into the stone ground.

Seems that sentence didn’t need translation, it must be something like ’In the name of the moon, I’ll punish you.’

"It’s gotten stronger, you should leave, its target is you," Chen Qinghan shouted.

I want to say, how is that possible? It’s the Tomb Guardian Beast, I’m the tomb master, how does a guardian beast hunt its master?

Yet the fact is, it’s so ruthless, so cold, so unreasonable, aiming at me and firing a second golden light.

I dodged aside, no retreat was possible. I had no choice but to grit my teeth and escape into the mineshaft leading to the Gate of Death.

Who knows what kind of setting allows it to shoot lasers from its palm? I desperately wish an expert would explain, telling me it’s normal, just a peculiar natural phenomenon, haha!

How can we, a group of free players wielding kitchen knives at the newbie village, contend with a pay-to-win player who just logged in and instantly leveled up to 88?