Chapter 10

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She won her bet. It seemed that the front of the tomb wasn’t adorned with any sharp arrow mechanisms, that was why she hadn’t been immediately brutally killed after she opened the door; just like the ancient tombs she had excavated with the professor, the lock mechanism was also placed on the side of the tomb door.

Some tomb chambers, once you get locked inside, you can’t exit unless it’s opened once again from the outside, even if there was a mechanism to open the enclosure from the inside. Qin Ge and the others had probably already withdrawn from the tomb excavation site and had called the police! When the bandits chased after her, although the result had been more than she had anticipated, they had mostly done what she had expected. She knew that the door wouldn’t be locked forever, she just had to fight for some more time.

All of a sudden, a ray of light shot in her direction.

The dark room was suddenly illuminated by light. She saw the shadowy faces of eight or nine men. They were all scattered around the room. In the deep part of the tomb, there lay a scarlet coffin. The color made her heart jump.

Carved tables and chairs, wooden cabinets, incense burners, wall paintings… Apart from the terrifying coffin, it could be seen with a glance that the layout of the tomb was actually like an ancient living room. Why… Why was the eastern tomb of the Emperor decorated like this…?

“She’s over there—”

Suddenly, one of them turned around. She smiled bitterly, watching as he shouted, making the rest look in her direction one after the other. A gunshot rang out and she closed her eyes in despair. However, the pain she had been expecting never came. She was taken aback when she noticed her body was being tightly held from behind.

“Hey, don’t make a sound.”

This low voice, this familiar scent, the warm palms around her waist… her eyes snapped open but the tomb had already gone back to its previous pitch-black state. She suddenly realized that the gunshot came from the man behind her with the intentions of putting the lights out.

She didn’t know where he was taking her. He was holding her tightly and quietly crouching forward. The only thing she knew was that, before the door to the tomb had completely fallen, he had snuck in so quietly she hadn’t even noticed!

Her Qin Ge.

Tears started accumulating in her eyes, it was if she was silently crying yet wailing loudly.

If she had truly been stuck here for her whole lifetime, she thought she wouldn’t regret anything.

He pushed her down into a crouch and let her lean on something hard, like a wooden plank. He held her face in both hands, and then grabbed his gun with his left hand. The frame of the gun was firmly gripped by his rough fingers. The hard and cold frame brushed dangerously against her cheek.

“Qin Ge—”

She murmured, puzzled, but he jerked her to her feet quickly, and a heavy muffled thud was followed by the ferocious cry of the bandits as they rushed out, “They’re over there!”

Then, everything flashed before her eyes:

She saw several lights resonate;

She noticed that she and Qin Ge were actually pressed against the emperor’s coffin;

She saw that the coffin’s lid was half open… it turned out that this was what Qin Ge had just pushed open…

She saw Qin Ge pick her up and place her into the coffin;

Dazzling gunfire that causes one’s heart to palpitate from fear. She saw Qin Ge, who was in front of her, turn sideways to hide. Her shoulder still throbbed with pain and Qin Ge’s white shirt was stained with crimson near his chest;

Then, a sudden “bang” exploded in her ear, and her vision turned black.

Before the lid of the coffin was completely closed, lights flickered around the room like a red candle had burst, and the ancient room’s appearance seemed to reverse back a millenium. She saw Qin Ge furrowing his eyebrows slightly, his eyes were very clear yet cruel, appearing exactly the same as they had been the evening he had hugged her. She was about to tell him a little white lie but couldn’t bring herself to do it as he stared at her so ruthlessly…