In the middle of the night, in the deserted mountains and wilderness, there were human skins and shadows. This scene made Xu Ming a little dumbfounded, and he didn't feel safe no matter how he looked at it.

Xu Ming's throat was dry, so he carefully retracted and at the same time pulled the corner of Zhou Shiguan's clothes.

Zhou Shiguan lowered his head and looked at Xu Ming.

Xu Ming understood now that Zhou Shiguan didn't say anything, probably because he was afraid of disturbing those people.

He mouthed and asked: "Do you want to run away now?"

Xu Ming no longer wanted to know what was going on. He was only worried about whether he and his neighbors could leave here safely.

If the human skins don't notice now, there is still a high possibility of slipping away.

Zhou Shiguan said nothing.

Xu Ming thought he didn't understand the mouth shape, so he asked again in a breathy voice.

Zhou Shiguan shook his head.

Xu Ming was a little anxious, so he simply got up and wanted to pull Zhou Shiguan away, but suddenly there was a loud bang.

Xu Ming was startled and looked towards the source of the sound.

This empty valley is actually not too big. The eight human skins have already reached the mountain wall, and the light of the wind lantern illuminates the situation in front of them.

The rugged mountain wall turned out to be like a stone tablet. A part of it suddenly protruded outward, and the movement that Xu Ming heard just now appeared. Then the stone wall slowly moved to the side, as if controlled by some mechanism, and soon

A hole about one meter wide and two meters high was exposed.

The dim yellow light of the wind lantern shone straight in. From Xu Ming's angle, he could see most of the situation inside the cave entrance.

The hole was only about two meters deep, and there was the outline of a large object inside.

With the human skins blocking it and the shadow cast by the wall, Xu Ming couldn't see clearly what it was without anything else.

When the four people in front entered the cave and lifted out the contents, Xu Ming gained experience and immediately covered his mouth to prevent himself from making any sound.

What they carried out turned out to be a sedan with four lifts!

The sedan has a red body and a black top. You can see the gold and silver double lines on the red surface of the sedan body, which makes it look noble and beautiful.

But in such a situation, Xu Ming couldn't see the beauty at all, only felt weird.

After the human skins lifted out the sedan, they walked straight to the exit of the empty valley.

There were only four skins carrying the sedan, and the other four skins followed on both sides of the sedan, like escorts.

Seeing them approaching the pavilion, Xu Ming quickly lay down and clung to the ground.

Unexpectedly, when Xu Ming looked up, he saw Zhou Shiguan squatting half-crouching, his dark eyes staring at the human-skin sedan.

He was startled, grabbed Zhou Shiguan's hand, and pulled him down violently.

Zhou Shiguan may not have expected that he was caught off guard by Xu Ming and held him down.

He reacted very quickly and broke away from Xu Ming's hand almost instantly. He turned over and pressed Xu Ming on instinct, and hit Xu Ming's throat with his elbow.

Xu Ming almost cried out in pain from the impact. Taking into account the situation outside the pavilion, he spent all his consciousness to hold back the cry and mouthed: "I pulled you down because I was afraid that you would be seen.

Ah... let go..."

Zhou Shiguan was startled and relaxed his strength.

Xu Ming covered his throat and coughed silently.

The next moment, Xu Ming suddenly saw human skins passing by the pavilion. One of them seemed to notice something and suddenly turned its head to "look" into the pavilion.

From a close distance, Xu Ming used the light of the wind lantern to see that the human skin was still stained with blood and flesh, exuding an unpleasant rancid smell.

Xu Ming was as silent as a cicada.

Then, everything suddenly went dark.

Zhou Shiguan covered his eyes with his hands.

Xu Ming was stunned and pulled Zhou Shiguan's sleeve, trying to show that he was not scared, but Zhou Shiguan did not move his hand.

Xu Ming thought about it and simply accepted his neighbor's kindness.

However, what he didn't know was that when the human skin "looked" over, his hollow face twisted, as if he was about to have an attack.

Zhou Shiguan's eyes turned cold and he looked directly at Renpi, and a faint golden color appeared in his dark eyes.

Renpi paused for a moment, as if he didn't notice Zhou Shiguan and Xu Ming, he turned back and continued to follow the sedan.

The faint chanting gradually faded away. Zhou Shiguan frowned and watched them walk to the narrow exit of the empty valley. He took back the hand that covered Xu Ming's eyes and stood up.

"How's it going? Are they gone?"

Xu Ming quickly climbed up while holding on to the railing.

Xu Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Renpi had already carried the sedan out of the empty valley and was getting further away.

Only then did he realize that he was breaking out in a cold sweat.

"Neighbor, let's go back quickly. We won't spend the night in the mountains anymore." Xu Ming said and limped away.

After walking out of the pavilion, Xu Ming realized that Zhou Shiguan had not followed him and looked back at him.

"Why don't you leave?"

Zhou Shiguan jumped down from the other side while holding on to the railing and walked towards the tomb.

Xu Ming limped over and saw that the stone tablet had been moved back and the opening of the stone wall had returned to normal.

He said: "Neighbor, I know you must be curious about those human skins, but now is not the time to be curious. Let's go first and come back to find out what's going on."

Without saying a word, Zhou Shiguan knelt down in front of the stone tablet and groped the surface of the stone tablet with his long, straight hands.

Xu Ming knew that he was looking for a mechanism that could remove the stone tablet, so he went over and said, "Neighbor, what you are looking for has something to do with those human skins, right?"

Zhou Shiguan rubbed a circle of stone tablets and found nothing. He turned to the tomb at the back.

Xu Ming gritted his teeth and said, "If you don't leave, then I won't leave either. Those human skins may not come back. I'll help you find them!"

After saying that, as soon as he took a step forward, he saw Zhou Shiguan looking up at him.

Xu Mingdao: "Neighbor, you don't know that I specialize in archeology and I am more familiar with these than you. I can definitely help you find..."

"unnecessary."

Zhou Shiguan interrupted Xu Ming.

"Then I..."

"If you leave now, they will come back." Zhou Shiguan said.

Xu Ming was stunned for a moment, then realized later: "Neighbor, did you already know that those human skins would appear?"

"I don't know." Zhou Shiguan shook his head, "This is the only place nearby that can accommodate them. There are no such institutions in other places."

Xu Ming immediately said: "Then let's leave quickly."

Zhou Shiguan stood up and walked towards the mountain wall where the human skin had been: "You go, follow the path I told you."

Xu Ming followed up step by step and said: "This can't work. I can't leave you here alone. It's too unloyal. I..."

Zhou Shiguan suddenly turned around and looked at Xu Ming.

Xu Ming's words got stuck and he said seriously: "I can help you find the mechanism to open it."

In order to prove that he was useful, Xu Ming bypassed Zhou Shiguan and went to the mountain wall, but Zhou Shiguan stopped him with his hand.

Xu Ming saw that Zhou Shiguan's eyes were not warm, and he seemed to be thinking about something.

He opened his mouth to say something, but Zhou Shiguan suddenly stepped forward and approached him.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Ming felt pain in the back of his neck and his eyesight turned black.

Before he could say anything, his body fell backwards and fell firmly to the ground.

When he lost consciousness, Xu Ming vaguely saw Zhou Shiguan bending down as if to pick him up.


Chapter completed!