The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 393 - 308: Woo Woo Departure_3

I just didn’t express my own thoughts and found it quite entertaining to listen to the discussion of the other three.

Chen Qinghan and Mike didn’t join in the discussion either. The small train traveled slowly along the track, and half an hour passed without encountering any obstacles, though we did come across other stations.

There was a station every ten minutes on average. Chen Qinghan would stop the train, and Mike and I would get off to take a look. If there was nothing unusual, we would return.

The track didn’t extend straight toward the Ancient City; it was more like we were taking a sightseeing tour, exploring relics from ten thousand years ago.

I’ve seen that kind of black shadow more than once, sometimes even a few gathering together.

But they didn’t approach us, like locals pausing to watch tourists, silently observing. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

I observed the expressions of the others several times, and found they hadn’t noticed these shadows. It might be that when their gaze turned toward the shadow, it had already disappeared quickly.

This is interesting; the shadows don’t mind being seen by me, yet they don’t want to be seen by others.

We took turns getting off to check, and when it was just me, Chen Qinghan, and Little Red left on the train, I asked Little Red why it held onto me when it first activated.

Little Red said it was because I resembled someone familiar to it. When it opened its eyes, it scanned me, and the data showed I was the person it had to obey and protect.

"Oh? Are you saying I look like a resident of the Ancient City?"

"The similarity exceeds the recognition standard."

Little Red doesn’t reply with strings of data like other robots; talking to it is almost like talking to a real person.

"I see." Initially, I wasn’t curious about the residents of the Ancient City, but after Little Red said that, I started to be curious.

What kind of people would be similar to our Blood Mother tribe? Just looking at the bodies in the Amber Hall doesn’t reveal anything.

If we are of the same origin, why does this branch have such a complete range of people, from young to old, male to female?

With curiosity, when I got off the train to check, I was full of enthusiasm, no longer just taking a glance.

Every station the small train passed was a square stone chamber; I thought I could call them waiting rooms.

But when I pushed open the big doors leading outside from the waiting room, there was only rock and earth, meaning the space outside had already collapsed, blocked by the fallen rocks.

So none of the waiting rooms could lead outside. But when I was in charge of checking one waiting room, I spotted another black shadow on the wall.

Whether due to instinct or something else, I felt the darkness was watching me, like it was scrutinizing and observing.

This feeling was particularly strange, as if it had the five senses and emotion, standing like a living person right in front of me.

I’m used to being scrutinized by a stranger; back in the day, people would stare at me, ready to grab a weapon as the next step. It just ’looks’ at me, without ’attacking’, so it is harmless.

"We’re just here taking a look, don’t get excited," I whispered to the darkness.

This time, it was unlike any before. The moment I turned to leave, the shadow on the wall shifted to the wall beside me, and the shadow on the wall lifted its hand. I suddenly felt my wrist being grabbed.

Actually, it was the shadow on the wall grabbing my shadow, but the real sensation transmitted to my hand, as if the shadow was holding me.

Once again, I felt a weird sensation, as if it was trying to convey something to me, but it couldn’t speak. Its thoughts struggled to reach me, but it didn’t work, and I couldn’t receive it.

The feeling was like watching someone shout at me, yelling loudly, but hearing nothing, like watching a muted video call.

"Little Leng?" Doctor Du’s voice approached; she had just called me, and when I didn’t respond, she walked over.

"I’m here." The shadow on the wall released my shadow, and I turned to walk out of the waiting room.

"Nothing unusual over there. What about on your side? Any discoveries?" Doctor Du relaxed when she saw I was fine.

"No, let’s head back." The shadows didn’t want others to see them. Telling Doctor Du wouldn’t help much, only unsettle them, or worse, they’d suspect I was hallucinating.

This matter could only be shared with Chen Qinghan; he trusts me completely.

So when the next opportunity to be alone arose, I recounted the shadow grabbing my arm to Chen Qinghan.

"It just grabbed you, trying to tell you something?"

"Mhm."

"Little Red says you bear a strong resemblance to the residents of the Ancient City. Does your tribe have any special ways of communication, like not needing to speak to communicate?"

"Are you referring to something like sign language?"

"Yes."

"There is, but it’s yet to be determined if these people are from our tribe. Wait, what did you just say? What our tribe, it’s our tribe. You’re one of us now!"