The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 432 - 327: Clues Pointing the Way

In fact, it was Chen Qinghan who noticed that Mike was particularly concerned about me, so he sent me to play the emotional card.

Sure enough, when he saw my insistence on going with him, Chen Qinghan didn’t intervene, and Mike hesitated.

Chen Qinghan acted as he said he would, disregarding Mike and me, and continued to retreat with Doctor Du and Huang Zaijiang.

Mike had to stop and persuade me to go back. I had words to counter him, saying that it was impossible for him to expect Chen Qinghan to send someone else with him deep into the city center, and even if Chen Qinghan agreed to let Mike explore the Light Source District, it would be me going.

"I don’t understand, is he really your fiancé?"

"Yes~" As if! Of course it’s fake. I answered fluently while internally rolling my eyes.

"He sends you into danger every time."

"This can also be understood as he trusts me, and I can handle things well."

"You’re a silly girl, just like my daughter."

"Alas, there’s a saying, ’One knows how it feels to drink water, whether hot or cold.’ Alright, I’ve decided to risk my life with you, let’s hit the road quickly."

"No, I can’t let you take risks."

Mike shook his head, his facial expression revealing his inner struggle. He looked at the light source in the city center and then at Chen Qinghan who had already disappeared from sight, gritting his teeth: "Let’s go, let’s leave here first."

He turned and went after Chen Qinghan, and caught up after just one street because Chen Qinghan’s group was moving slower than a snail.

Mike called Chen Qinghan ’despicable’, probably realizing that Chen Qinghan was playing the emotional card, but he had no choice. He could face death alone or drag someone else along, but he couldn’t take me to die.

Although Mike was dissatisfied with Chen Qinghan’s actions, he could only compromise now, either following us to retreat or taking me to die.

Trusting another person’s intuition, especially someone you just met, I know how hard that is, almost impossible.

Mike remained silent on the way back, but as we re-entered the dark passage, he suddenly stopped and stared at a spot.

If we assume the shadow monitoring Gu is an Evil Spirit, then its activity area is not limited to the city center but spreads to every corner of the Ancient City.

Where Mike stopped and looked was a place at the base of the wall to our lower left rear.

"What are you looking at?" Huang Zaijiang’s curiosity got the best of him, and he immediately asked when he noticed Mike’s unusual behavior.

"Just now..." Mike hesitated, paused, and said, "Just now, it seemed like someone was squatting there."

"What?!" Huang Zaijiang was walking behind Mike. The two of them were walking one after the other on the same side. Mike should have been able to see whatever it was.

But his current expression of surprise suggested he didn’t see it, standing behind Mike. If someone were squatting under the wall, he should have seen it more clearly than Mike.

Of course, Mike said it was just now, meaning it’s no longer there now.

The passage is so narrow that our group filled up the space. If someone really squatted by the wall, we would have hit them with our legs while walking without even looking.

Huang Zaijiang said the same, but Mike insisted that the person he saw was squatting inside the wall.

What kind of person can get into a wall? Doctor Du asked if it was the kind of shadow Gu talked about.

Mike said it wasn’t, if it were just a shadow, he might not have seen clearly, because the flashlight’s beam only illuminated the front, and the areas to the left, right, especially behind, were all hidden in the darkness. If there was a shadow in the darkness, however good his eyesight, he wasn’t Night Vision, so he couldn’t see clearly.

With Huang Zaijiang’s arms not being easy to use, Chen Qinghan, who was originally at the front of the team, came back and went to the place Mike mentioned to check.

There was nothing unusual about that section of the wall, unlike inside the ancient tombs where there were murals and stone sculptures, often mistaken by tomb robbers as human figures due to the play of light and shadow.

I’ve heard old tomb robbers tell such stories as jokes, all mishaps of rookies.

But what Mike was talking about, that wall had nothing that could be mistaken, and Mike’s expression was difficult to articulate. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"I, had another hallucination." He said in a strained voice.

"Not necessarily, in this ancient city there are many strange and bizarre things, it’s not impossible for someone to hide in a wall." I always felt that Mike didn’t hallucinate, he and Huang Zaijiang were both ordinary people. Last time he led the team in, it was a collective trap, if he really hallucinated, why didn’t Huang Zaijiang and Doctor Du have the same problem?

"Describe the person you saw." Chen Qinghan said.

"It was an adult man, with more prominent features." Mike recalled while describing, sometimes adding more details in the next sentence.