The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 446 - 331: Sacrifice

He suddenly appeared here, which really surprised me. I thought he had run away, whether dead or alive, that would have been on the way out of the city.

Unexpectedly, he came to the city center. I watched him warily because he might also be an Evil Spirit in disguise.

Gu, seeing that I hadn’t moved, suddenly turned around and lifted his clothes to reveal his back, giving me a start. I thought to myself, this isn’t right; in broad daylight, albeit without the sun, it should still be "avert one’s eyes from indecency."

Hmm... But Gu’s back muscles were quite well-defined, maybe he’s been trained.

"Come quickly, no handprints. I haven’t been possessed!" He raised his voice slightly.

Oh... So he wanted me to see his back was without handprints. Wait, does having handprints mean being possessed?!

I quickly walked over, and he motioned for me to hide in the shadows of the building. I crouched down and hid my figure, looking at the empty street. I didn’t know who he was guarding against; could he also see the Evil Spirits in the buildings?

"Why are you here?" I asked.

"Without destroying the core, no one can get out." Gu looked at me as if he was convinced I knew about the ’core’.

"Who told you about the core?" I was puzzled. Didn’t he say Miss Tang and the Non-human Team were excluding them? How would they tell him the ultimate goal?

"I wasn’t being honest before. I have a boss who hired me to join Miss Tang’s team, instructing me to find a chance to seize the core."

"Oh, you’re an undercover agent. Who is your boss, so capable of miracles? Is it convenient to reveal their name?"

"Not convenient."

"Then did you see my teammates? They flipped over in front of me... less than three seconds apart."

"I saw them."

"Where are they?"

"They fell down." Gu pointed to the manhole cover I was trying to pry open.

"No one even screamed before they fell down?"

"They were sucked in by a strong force, even their voices were sucked in."

"Oh my god, I need to take a look. Being sucked down with such a strong force, wouldn’t they become pancakes upon hitting the ground!" I stood up to leave, but Gu quickly pulled me back.

"Are you insane? They threw you out for a reason. Trust me, it’s safer below than above."

"What do you mean, they? Who threw me out, for what, to kill?"

"Haven’t you met the Insect Woman? Haven’t you heard about the Evil Spirits and the Cosmic Core?"

"Insect Woman, you mean... the one wearing the bug coat..." 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"That’s her. She is a slave to the Evil Spirits, marked by them."

"How do you know I’ve seen her?"

"The bugs on her have a unique smell, like brewing herbal medicine. I can faintly smell it on you, so you must have come into contact with her."

The smell in Wuyong’s room was nothing special, but to say it was strong, the smell of her bathing pool was indeed quite pungent. I haven’t actually smelled brewing herbal medicine before, but I imagine it must be very distinctive.

Of course, you have to have smelled it to recognize it. When he mentioned Insect Woman, it was clear he had seen Wuyong.

"Yeah, she was in the wolf den. I saw her when I was chasing the Werewolf." As I wasn’t sure about Gu’s background, I chose to reveal part of the truth and kept silent about Wuyong being my kin.

"How many years of life did you offer her?"

"Huh? Cough, not many years."

"Miss Tang exchanged five years of life for information."

"Really, I... exchanged one year for a bit of information, just a bit."

"No wonder you don’t know. Never mind, you and your team saved me before, so I’ll consider returning the favor. Entering the true central area requires sacrifices. The sacrifices are chosen by the Evil Spirits. Those chosen will remain on the surface, while the others can take a shortcut directly to the central area where the core is."

"Ah, you’re saying, I’m the sacrifice chosen by the Evil Spirits."

"Yes, the Evil Spirits in this area come out regularly. You will become their plaything. They enjoy creating illusions, watching people experience joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, only to eventually fabricate various terrifying or tragic conclusions, driving people mad with despair."

Gu said with a deep tone, "They take pleasure in stirring up people’s negative emotions."

"How do you know?" I asked.

"An expert in Miss Tang’s team..."

As Gu recalled, he explained the part he had previously kept hidden. The three of them hadn’t been discarded before the Non-human Team entered the city center. Rather, the expert hoped the Evil Spirits would choose them as sacrifices.

So he took them across a roadblock, but none of the three were chosen. The expert was very angry and abandoned them to fend for themselves.

The three of them had also been sucked into the manhole cover before, which is why he said it’s safer below than above.