The Peerless Beauty Stuck With Me

Guan Zhenkong was afraid, afraid that it would be the same as it was half a year ago.

Staring at his companion's head bursting right in front of him, such nightmarish imagery had nearly driven him to the brink of collapse in these six months.

Why did he still come? Apart from the insane pursuit of tomb exploration, there was actually another reason—to fulfill the last wishes of the five brothers who had gone down into the tombs with him.

Monkey, Iron Guts, Ma Zhuzi, Wang Daxia, Wet Nurse...

Five people, brothers and partners for so many years, now only appear in his nightmares night after night.

Guan Zhenkong knew all too well that to escape this torment, the only way was to completely resolve this matter and thoroughly explore this tomb from top to bottom.

It would be an explanation for both himself and those five brothers.

"Boss Guan, these statues all look very peculiar." Library sat next to Guan Zhenkong, chewing gum and speaking.

Everyone turned to look at Library.

"Human body with animal heads, the type we are all familiar with should be the Twelve Zodiac Bronze Statues of Yunmu Garden. However, statues where the animal heads and human bodies are zodiac figures is something that didn't roughly exist before the Huang Dynasty, it only gradually appeared afterwards; in the middle of the Huang Dynasty, they appeared as animals held in human arms or atop their heads," Library said with narrowed eyes.

"But, these statues have experienced years, definitely more than two thousand years old; they are not artifacts from the Huang Dynasty," Library continued, stretching out his hand to touch these human-animal hybrid statues.

Everyone fell silent; few could measure up to Library in matters of historical research.

"Of course, you might say that historical research is just that, without a definitive conclusion. However, if you take a closer look at these animal heads, is there one that we have seen before? No! Even among all the creatures that have existed in the history of Blue Star, you can't find an original model, and this is the strangest part. Two thousand years ago, as you well know, cultural development was such that creation without any original model as a basis was virtually impossible. Even today, the forms of almost all imagined species actually have corresponding real creatures," Library continued to explain.

"You're not going to tell me that these things were built by aliens, are you?" Kevin scoffed, clearly disinterested in his eyes.

In the eyes of tech guys like Kevin, there was only fact and fantasy; any deduction or wild guesswork was just nonsense.

He only believed in 0 and 1, a staunch supporter of binary code.

"It's not impossible," Library shrugged, he had provided his analysis, and what other people thought was their business.

"Alright, this kind of archaeological stuff is futile to discuss. Don't forget who we are and what we are here for," Liu Shisan chimed in again, with a somewhat irritable tone.

She seemed to particularly enjoy snorting.

It could also be because smoking was not possible here, which made her temper uncontrollable.

"Old Guan, what have you prepared?" Tang Rao didn't join the discussion; he couldn't possibly tell these people that he recognized all these animal heads, right?

"Soundproof ear muffs," Guan Zhenkong rummaged through his backpack, pulling out two odd-looking headphones.

Most of the design was like normal headphones, but the ear cups were shaped to mimic the contours of human ears for a perfect fit.

In this way, they could prevent outside noises from coming in to the maximum extent.

Seeing this equipment, Tang Rao's brows slightly furrowed.

In fact, he didn't believe that the singing Guan Zhenkong heard was just an ordinary sound.

Could ordinary sound kill people? Could it make people's heads explode? Ridiculous.

But Soul Skill could.

And if it were a Soul Skill, these headphones would be useless.

"This is my creation, it can effectively block external sounds. Once worn, a thin film will adhere to the ear and create a local vacuum. Even if surrounded by loud gongs and drums, you won't hear a thing," Kevin said with a hint of pride.

Tang Rao paid no mind to Kevin, instead, he looked seriously at Guan Zhenkong.

"Old Guan, I advise you, don't go in," Tang Rao said extremely solemnly.

The mucus on the walls, the animal head statues from the Seventy-two Domains, everything was too weird.

Even Tang Rao himself started to have second thoughts.

Guan Zhenkong looked at Tang Rao in surprise; he hadn't expected Tang Rao to suggest turning back at this moment.

"Heh, if you're too scared to go in, you can just stand here." Liu Shisan said coldly. She seemed to have been disgruntled with Tang Rao from the start.

"I agree with Sister Liu." Kevin shrugged. If Tang Rao didn't want to go in, he could just wait here.

Anyway, this guy didn't seem to have much use.

So what if he's a Major from Special Ninth Department? What if he's the Young Master from Huang Dynasty Industries? Useless is useless.

At least, up to now, Kevin hadn't seen how Tang Rao could be of any help to the team.

"Tang Rao, it should be alright. Fei Jiu was born deaf and mute, so he's unaffected. Otherwise, I wouldn't have made it out alive last time," Guan Zhenkong said.

Fei Jiu...

Tang Rao turned his head to look at Fei Jiu, who sat quietly with his head down, seemingly completely deaf to everyone's conversation.

Deafness can block Soul Shock?

Tang Rao just wanted to say two words: Ha ha.

Old Guan, you treat Fei Jiu like a brother, but this Fei Jiu, he's got no shortage of secrets.

"Ah ah..." Suddenly, Fei Jiu stood up, walked over to Guan Zhenkong, and started making sign language at him with yiyiyaya.

While making hand signs, he pointed at the eerie stone slab not too far away.

Guan Zhenkong replied with a few hand signals to Fei Jiu.

Although Tang Rao couldn't quite understand, he roughly got the gist. Fei Jiu was suggesting that everyone should get up and give it a go.

"Is everyone ready? Go!" Guan Zhenkong gritted his teeth, stood up, and directly put on ear muffs.

Then, he passed another pair of ear muffs to Tang Rao.

Whether Tang Rao wanted to go in was up to him.

In fact, deep down, Guan Zhenkong was reluctant to have Tang Rao go in. After all, he didn't know what would happen next, and Tang Rao was the only one who understood him, his true friend.

The others quickly put on their headphones, too.

"A bunch of fools." Tang Rao cursed under his breath, they wouldn't be able to hear him with the ear muffs on.

Sigh, he couldn't just watch Guan Zhenkong go to his death.

Tang Rao took a deep breath, it's only by taking a risk that one can know the depths of the dragon's pool and the tiger's den.

After some fumbling, the stone slab slowly opened, revealing an even deeper passage before everyone.

"Ah ah..." Fei Jiu stepped in front of Guan Zhenkong, gestured, and then led the way in.

Five seconds, ten seconds, a minute—Fei Jiu just stood there inside for a minute.

"Ah ah!" Fei Jiu gestured swiftly, indicating he was completely fine, and motioned for Guan Zhenkong and the others to enter.

Guan Zhenkong clenched his fists tightly and charged in.

Behind him, Kevin, Liu Shisan, and the Library followed in succession.

As for Tang Rao, he tossed the so-called noise-cancelling ear muffs aside and stepped in.

The surrounding quietness unsettled Tang Rao, with no sign of the fabled singing.

Wait!

Something's not right! The air was trembling; everything around seemed to be rippling.

Damn it!

"Tap tap tap... tap tap tap tap tap... hmmm hmmm hmmm..." Suddenly, a broken, intermittent woman's voice went straight into Tang Rao's head.

The voice was ethereal, abrupt, and made one's skin crawl.