The sound of water was strange. If they listened carefully, it seemed to be getting closer and closer.
Shining his flashlight ahead, Yan Xiao slowly walked toward the sound of water.
Shen Hai followed behind him without a word, his wound hurting terribly.
There were no more Paper Figures here, but likewise, the underground cave, which had originally shown no signs of human workmanship, now looked... rather like a passage in an underground tomb.
Under Yan Xiao's flashlight, both the ceiling and the walls on either side had become unusually smooth, and the passage had grown much lower and narrower.
At the same time... clearly defined patterns were carved into them.
"No... this isn't right... this looks like an ancient tomb," Shen Hai said with difficulty, clutching his waist.
His face and lips had lost all color, and he looked as though he might faint at any moment.
"An ancient tomb?" Yan Xiao knew nothing about burials. Had Shen Hai not mentioned it, the thought would never have occurred to him.
Now that Shen Hai had said it, he looked again at the passage beneath his feet, and that cold, mysterious sense of being in a tomb immediately emerged.
"Whose tomb?"
Yan Xiao asked.
"I'm not an archaeologist." Shen Hai involuntarily frowned from the pain. "Even an archaeologist couldn't reach a conclusion at a glance."
Despite saying that, Shen Hai did know far more about burials than Yan Xiao. Though his vision was a little blurred now, after steadying himself against the passage wall and carefully examining the intricate patterns carved into it, he still reached a rough conclusion.
"So that's it... this tomb wasn't built for a human..."
Yan Xiao was puzzled. He was looking at the patterns in the passage too, but he could make no sense of