The Seventeenth Chapter

As the four of them were searching around, "Squeak squeak..."

A dense sound echoed around them. Hu Bayi asked in confusion, "Is that the sound of rats?"

Yingzi heard him and said, "That doesn't sound like rats."

Hu Ming, however, looked towards a ventilation opening and said, "It's coming from this ventilation opening."

Just as Hu Bayi and the other two were about to go over, a large number of giant bats suddenly appeared and flew down from the ventilation window, rapidly attacking in the direction of Hu Ming and the others.

Fatty cursed upon seeing this, "I'll be damned!"

Hu Ming reminded them, "Shoot quickly!" As soon as he spoke, everyone immediately pulled the triggers of their guns.

"Rat-a-tat-tat..."

Hu Bayi looked at the dense swarm of wolf-headed bats, his scalp instantly tingling, and his heart filled with dread.

Hu Bayi cursed under his breath, "Damn it, where did so many bats come from!"

Fatty replied, "Who knows! What's going on here!" The wolf-headed bats were exceptionally fierce and fed on flesh and blood.

At this moment, the group kept firing, constantly changing magazines, and gradually, the ground was covered with shell casings.

For some reason, the more bats they killed, the more there seemed to be, as if they were endless.

"Damn it, everyone be careful, up there, there are still a lot of wolf-headed bats!" Hearing the continuous sounds, Hu Ming continued to warn Hu Bayi and the other two.

Hu Bayi, seeing so many bats for the first time, couldn't help but say, "Damn it, Mingzi, have we fallen into a bat's nest? There are just too damn many."

Soon, Hu Bayi ran out of machine gun ammo. Unable to reload quickly, he used the butt of his gun to smash the attacking bats.

Hu Ming also said, "You're right, I think this is pretty much the wolf-headed bats' lair. Be careful, don't get yourself killed!"

Not long after, watching the endless stream of wolf-headed bats, Hu Ming finally noticed that they were mainly coming from three ventilation openings, with no bats emerging from the others.

Hu Ming said, "You guys take cover, I'm going to throw grenades."

Upon hearing this, Hu Bayi and the others immediately found a place to hide. Hu Ming took out three grenades and threw them at the three openings, destroying them.

Seeing that the source of the bats had been blown up, Hu Bayi and the others quickly used their guns to deal with the remaining bats in the room.

After they finally finished, they all collapsed, panting heavily, sweat dripping from their foreheads. Fatty took out two bottles of water, tossed one to Yingzi, and the other was for Hu Ming and the other two to share.

Hu Ming sat to the side drinking water. He suddenly felt a faint breeze blowing from his left, bringing him a cool sensation. He looked up and saw a ventilation opening about a meter in diameter. He looked closely and realized this opening was much larger than the others. So, he casually shone his flashlight inside and discovered there was a ladder. This wasn't a ventilation opening at all, but a pipe.

"Mingzi, Fatty, look over there, there are two children watching us." At this moment, Hu Bayi suddenly noticed two ancient children in a corner, who had quietly peeked their heads out at some point.

Their blank eyes stared directly at them.

As he watched, Hu Bayi was certain that the gaze of these two little ones was fixed on Fatty, as if they wanted to convey something.

Fatty, seeing both of them staring at him, felt his scalp tingle and said, "Why don't we... take care of them."

Hu Ming disagreed, "Forget it. We brought so many things to ward off evil. Most ghosts would have run away by now. If they're still insisting on finding us, they must be begging us for something!"

"Begging? Begging for what?" Fatty wanted nothing more than to get this over with as quickly as possible.

"If I'm not mistaken, these two little ones must be child sacrifices, a boy and a girl, buried with the deceased," Hu Ming said, revealing what he had suspected all along.

Then, Hu Ming continued, "Moreover, these two little ones have pale eyeballs and many moss-like spots on their bodies. It's likely they were killed by having mercury poured into their bodies. At the same time, there are ligature marks on their necks, suggesting they were also strangled to death."

"Hiss!"

"Hiss."

Hearing Hu Ming's words, Fatty, Hu Bayi, and Yingzi all felt a pang of heartache for the two children at that moment.

"Mingzi, stop talking," Fatty immediately interrupted, unable to listen any longer to Hu Ming's conclusions.

"Mingzi, just tell me what to do. Do these two little ones have any unfinished wishes that I need to fulfill?" Fatty asked.

Hu Ming said, "That's right. I estimate they want to leave this place and be properly buried!"

Hu Bayi heard this and said, "Yes, as Mingzi said, Fatty, they probably just want to leave here as soon as possible and be buried properly, which is why they've been bothering you, wanting to use your help."

"Bothering me! Wanting to use my help?" Hearing Hu Bayi's words, Fatty seemed to recall something... However, being constantly bothered by these two little ones, Fatty thought, it wasn't a good situation.

Setting aside whether he felt sad or not, just looking at those two pale eyeballs made him feel terrified.

Fatty had no choice but to say, "Old Hu, Mingzi, quickly think of a way! We can't just have them staring at us like this!"

Hu Ming rolled his eyes at him and said irritably, "Since they want to be properly buried, why don't we just find their bodies and take them out? Let's get up and look!"

Fatty quickly responded, "Oh, oh..."

However, as the group searched for the bodies of the two little ancestors, the big zombie in the tomb chamber had already broken free from its corpse-binding rope. It smashed its coffin, covered the glutinous rice with the broken coffin boards, and then slowly walked out.