The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 447 - 331: Sacrifice (Part 2)

Under the manhole cover was a passageway. The expert led the team quickly, leaving the three of them behind. The three discussed and thought it was unlikely to win if they continued walking, so they returned the same way, climbed up, and planned to escape out of the city.

But he really wanted to know what the Evil Spirit looked like, so he pulled the other two to lie on the barricade and peek.

It had rained heavily today, the traces they left a few days ago were no longer visible, and now I can only see my own footprints.

I interrupted him, asking where he came in from. He said there were multiple places where barricades were set up, and he came over from the next street.

Miss Tang and the Non-human Team also entered the city center from that direction; he heard sounds and came to take a look.

I remarked why there were no footprints of his on the ground; it made sense—the sealed-off area wouldn’t just block one street, the entire central area’s roads to the outside should have been sealed.

Each barricaded road had a manhole cover inside, which could lead directly to the location of the light source.

"Then I’ll go down now." Since Gu and the other two could climb up at that time, I should have no problem jumping down now.

"No, the Evil Spirit controls every blade of grass, every tree in this city, every building, every stone. You are their chosen sacrifice, the passage is closed to you."

"Huh?" I looked at the manhole cover not far away, got up and intended to go over, but Gu pulled me back again.

"You said they control every blade of grass and tree. As long as I’m in this city, no matter where I hide, they can find me. Nowhere is safe."

"Not necessarily, I found... they seem to have only linear vision, like walking on the street, unable to see the sides of the street, needing to turn around. As long as you don’t attract their attention, maybe you can dodge them." 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

"That easy?"

"Avoiding their sight is easy, but avoiding illusions is hard. The sacrifices coming in are all destroyed amidst illusions."

"Have you seen it?"

"Yes, we were curious, so we kept observing the chosen person."

The three of them lay on the barricade, only seeing the chosen person stand still, motionless, like a meditating monk.

Looking at him made their arms sore and legs numb, finally sitting on the barricade like mischievous kids on a wall, riding for an hour.

Then they heard the person left behind talking to himself, and over time, he laughed and cried, who knows what was going on in his mind.

Interrupted by this, I said, "Didn’t you say their team members aren’t human?"

Gu scratched his head, "I was also curious. You may not believe it, but I think their heads are human, bodies aren’t."

I nodded: "You mean like a puppet with a real human head sewn on its neck."

Gu took a breath, "Don’t compare it with horror movies, can you? I just meant, is there a form where a human brain can be attached to something else?"

"Isn’t that what I said?"

"Different, it’s more advanced than what you said."

"Oh, a real head on an advanced puppet body."

"You beat me, how can you not feel any urgency? I’m telling you, that person died miserably; he scratched himself to death, with his own hands!"

"Ah, that’s cruel." I feigned surprise symbolically.

"Can you not be so perfunctory? Do you not believe what I’m saying?"

"I believe, so what now, do you have a way for me to escape the illusion?"

"Um... according to last time, the Evil Spirit should have already arrived."

Following his words, we both looked down the street in the distance, a straight road leading to the light source in the city center, with nothing else in sight.

"What do they look like?"

"Black shadows, look closely at the buildings, ground; any moving black shadows could be them."

"There’s nothing." My eyes roamed the street, both sides of the buildings, and every nook and cranny I could see.

"Wait a little longer."

After waiting, ten minutes passed, and I grew impatient. This time, Gu didn’t stop me; I walked to the manhole, took out the Hook Stick, and pried open the cover.

Looking down after prying, there wasn’t a passage below; it was solid ground.

"What’s going on?" I looked at Gu, who had followed.

"I told you, they can arbitrarily change the city’s layout."

"Pretty impressive, how about you find a place to hide, hey? You’re not planning to observe how I scratch myself to death too, right?"

"If that were the case, why would I call you? I could just hide in the corner and watch."

"True, aren’t you going to destroy the core? Go, don’t mind me."