The three of them rushed through the doorway and entered another tomb passage.
This passage was steep, sloping downward at forty degrees and leading ever deeper.
Behind them, meanwhile...
Chilling winds, fog, and eerie sounds followed one after another, quickly filling the entire plaza and showing signs of seeping into the passage.
However...
There seemed to be something unusual about this passage.
Although the door stood wide open...
The fog seemed to hit an invisible wall. It had grown incredibly dense, yet only a few wisps actually made it inside.
Jiang Qiao glanced back.
He saw countless things writhing in the thick fog, looking like mouths.
But they were not human mouths.
They were more like the mouthparts of some kind of worm.
They looked utterly disgusting.
"Fuck that shit," Jiang Qiao cursed under his breath, then turned to ask the Dragon Tiger Daoist and Shi Fei, "Where does this passage lead?"
"If I remember correctly..."
"It should be the main burial chamber, right? That's how it's marked on the map."
Shi Fei hurriedly answered.
Right now...
He was weak and injured. If he could not even provide information, he would have practically no value left.
"It is indeed the main burial chamber."
The Dragon Tiger Daoist nodded.
"In fact, most of this tomb has already been thoroughly explored."
"The map is basically accurate."
"What really makes things unpredictable is how the evil spirits appear. In the same place, you might encounter only an ordinary vicious ghost one time, then run into a terrifying evil spirit the next."
He said rather helplessly:
"Take that plaza just now. None of the accounts I've read mentioned that headless evil spirit."
"You said earlier..."
"That someone triggered a mechanism and caused this fog?"
Jiang Qiao asked.
"That's right."
The Dragon Tiger Daoist looked