The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 435 - 326: Sudden Change of Course (Part 3)

"You don’t really want to go back, do you?" Mike quickened his steps to walk alongside Qinghan.

"I do," Qinghan said.

"But we’re already very close, we’re about to find out what’s there, and the person you’re trying to rescue, she might not hold out until we call in more people."

"Do you believe what he said?" Qinghan retorted.

"What?"

"Living on light for a few years?"

"That... does sound incredible, but it might not be impossible."

"If what he said is true, Miss Tang should be able to hold out for a long time."

Qinghan’s words left Mike momentarily speechless. Yes, if living on light for a few years is possible, Miss Tang has only been in there for a few days, surely she wouldn’t freeze or starve to death.

Conversely, if she wasn’t as lucky as the cowboy hat, she might have met her demise a few days ago.

Mike is still undeterred; he feels we’re only a step away from the truth and sees no reason to give up.

Qinghan insists on withdrawing, this time he doesn’t give a reason, but I guess it’s his intuition kicking in again.

Like the feeling he had outside Wuyong’s room, perhaps he has a new premonition.

Such things as premonitions can’t be said to be entirely nonexistent. The sixth sense, intuition, sometimes really work in dangerous moments.

In the past, I secretly watched a tomb robber in the tomb, wanting to know when he’d throw away the backpack, because it was particularly heavy, he carried two, and should have dropped one to lighten the load since escaping at any moment might be necessary.

I was hiding in the partition wall, yet he kept looking back again and again, telling his fellow that he felt a pair of eyes were watching him.

The fellow looked around, there were no other creatures in the tomb passage, naturally saying he was imagining things.

But there truly was a pair of eyes watching him, no, to be precise, they were watching his backpack.

If Qinghan feels this city is unsafe, and the danger is beyond what we can handle, following his intuition may not be a bad thing.

Mike is quite persistent; he insists that Qinghan give a clear reason; otherwise, he will continue the mission.

He says Doctor Du and Huang Zaijiang don’t object because they are his subordinates, and when Qinghan’s decision seems problematic, he has the right not to comply.

Qinghan, although the captain of this rescue mission, and Mike as the guide, both are in a cooperative relationship.

Meaning, Qinghan doesn’t have the authority to command Mike on what to do.

I suspect Mike’s duties likely include more than just uncovering the truth of the Ancient City, probably also watching us.

Qinghan doesn’t talk much, but you can see at a critical moment he’s quite the ’ruthless person’.

He lets Mike do as he pleases; he’s welcome to continue forward, but only him, we won’t go with him.

"You leave, and I don’t, do you know what those guys will think?" Mike’s words were quite the threat.

He was sent as the ’representative’ from Kangaroo Country. If he comes and doesn’t return, we might be detained too, with no way to leave Kangaroo Country.

"I know, your mental defenses collapsed, creating hallucinations. We deeply regret any misfortune you encountered," Qinghan said with a genuinely regretful expression.

"You—" Mike was furious, turning his head to look at the light source in the city center, "Maybe you’re right. Emotion clouded my judgment, but to ask me to abandon it now, I’d rather die."

With these words, Mike turned and headed back, pulling a photo of him with his daughter from his pocket and handing it to me, "Take it, with this, hopefully, those guys will believe your tall tales."

"We’ll come back with reinforcements, it won’t take long, and that light won’t disappear so quickly." I awkwardly took the photo, reluctant to accept it, but he had thrust it at me; if I didn’t take it, it would fall to the ground.

The photo is surely important to Mike; dropping it on the ground seemed somewhat disrespectful.

"Little Fu," Qinghan called out to me.

I looked at him, and he signaled with his eyes, meaning for me to follow.

"Uh, you shouldn’t be alone, it’s not very safe. I’ll go with you." I absolutely follow the team leader’s instructions like a good team member; receiving the signal, I immediately picked up pace to follow. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

"No, you can’t come." Mike suddenly turned around, "You go out and live well."

I wanted to say, I’d survive anywhere, the problem is you won’t.

But as Mike was already ’breaking down’, I better not hit him over the head insistently following him.

Mike asked Qinghan to stop me, Qinghan said he’s a democratic leader, not interfering with the members’ personal decisions.

That’s nonsense, I silently retorted.