The stone chamber.
Hu Ba Yi, Xue Li Yang, Wang Pang Zi, and ‘Lu Feng’ stood facing each other, guns drawn.
Professor Chen lay unconscious on the ground, motionless.
“The stone casket said four people would enter the chamber, and one would open it.”
“I didn't understand before, but it seems one of us is a demon.”
“We must deal with the demon before we can escape.”
“Pang Zi, the donkey hoof!”
“To prove I'm not the demon, I'll do it.” Wang Pang Zi took a big bite of the donkey hoof. “Ugh, ugh, ugh, now you can see, right?”
“Miss Yang, now it's your turn.”
“Are you all crazy? How could there be a demon among us?”
Xue Li Yang felt like throwing up just looking at the donkey hoof. Did they want her to take a bite too?
“You're afraid?”
“Then you're the demon!”
“Just because I dreamed of the Queen of Jingjue's coffin, you think I'm a demon?” Xue Li Yang's face was full of anger.
“Not exactly.”
“Not exactly?”
“There are more than just prophets in this world with the ability to foresee. Lu Feng can also dream of places he’s never been, so your dream isn't strange.”
Xue Li Yang looked at ‘Lu Feng’ in surprise: “You can dream of places you’ve never been?”
“Yes.”
‘Lu Feng’ said.
“Fine, I’ll bite!”
Xue Li Yang held her breath and took a bite. Nothing happened. “Now can we leave?”
Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi looked at each other and said: “Now let Professor Chen take a bite.”
Xue Li Yang took the donkey hoof and shoved it into Professor Chen’s mouth.
Nothing happened!
“This?”
Hu Ba Yi, Xue Li Yang, and Wang Pang Zi’s pupils constricted as they all stared at ‘Lu Feng’. If Lu Feng was the demon, even if they attacked together they wouldn’t stand a chance.
Boom!!
The rocks blocking the chamber suddenly exploded, and Lu Feng stepped inside.
“Lu Feng?”
Xue Li Yang’s eyes widened, then she looked at the ‘Lu Feng’ who was there before, but there was no one there.
“Hallucination!!”
Hu Ba Yi and Xue Li Yang broke out in a cold sweat.
“Holy crap!”
Wang Pang Zi collapsed onto the floor, still terrified.
Lu Feng looked at the three of them and couldn’t help but laugh: “You guys look like you were about to fight each other.”
Hu Ba Yi lowered his gun, a sense of fear rising in his heart: “We just had a hallucination. We thought you were the demon.”
“This is the ability of the Corpse Fragrance Lily.”
Lu Feng cut his finger with his knife and flicked the blood onto their foreheads. “With my ‘Qilin Blood’, you should be less susceptible to hallucinations.”
“Qilin Blood? You're not human?” Wang Pang Zi exclaimed.
“You're not human.”
Lu Feng glared at him: “I ate a precious medicine called Qilin Jie, and my blood has the power to keep people awake.”
“I see.”
Everyone suddenly understood.
“I’m going to check what’s in the stone casket.”
When exploring, it’s always good to gather more information.
Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi walked over to the stone casket and found that the previous image was gone. This further confirmed that they had been hallucinating.
Lu Feng opened the stone casket. Inside was a sheepskin scroll.
“Hurry, let’s see what’s written inside.”
“It’s some drawings.”
“Drawings?”
“You should interpret them then, we’d struggle to understand.”
“Old Hu is right.”
Lu Feng studied it for a while, then organized his words and said: “The book says there was a sacred mountain in the Western Regions, what is now known as Zagrama Mountain. Four tribes used to live there…”
“One day, people discovered a bottomless pit in the mountain.”
“They were curious and wanted to know what was inside.”
“At this time, a high priest from the tribe crafted a jade eyeball, hoping to use the power of the true god to see into the bottomless pit.”
“The power of the true god?”
“Pang Zi, don’t interrupt.”
Pang Zi: “…”
“But not only did it not work, it attracted countless black-eyed snake monsters. These monsters killed countless people and animals.”
“Two of the tribe's saints gathered warriors to slay the mother snake and wipe out the snake horde. They regarded the bottomless pit as a pit of disaster.”
“Later, a prophet was born in the tribe who could foresee major events thousands of years in the future.”
Just then, the unconscious Professor Chen suddenly woke up and let out a sharp cry: “Don’t ever look at the inner—!”
Before he could finish, Lu Feng slapped him unconscious.
“Lu Feng, what was that?”
Xue Li Yang was furious.
“I knocked him out to stop him from going crazy,” Lu Feng said.
“…”
“Lu Feng, continue.”
Lu Feng nodded: “The prophet prophesied that eight hundred years after his death, his tribe had already migrated to the distant east to escape the disaster.”
“A new tribe came to Zagrama Mountain, the precursor to the Jingjue Kingdom.”
“The Queen of Jingjue had special eyes. She mastered the ritual to summon black snakes using a jade eyeball. She used this power to rule over a dozen neighboring countries.”
“But the Queen of Jingjue abused her power, angering the true god. The true god used a sandstorm to engulf the Jingjue Kingdom, burying everything under the desert.”
“And then you come in, as prophesied. The prophet predicted that there would be one of his descendants among you. Strange, this page is actually smudged out?”
“Smudged out?”
Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi leaned in to take a look. Sure enough, it was smudged out. “What’s going on?”
Lu Feng’s eyes narrowed.
Could it be that he was the unforeseen variable?
Hiss!
“Perhaps the prophet realized there was a change in his prophecy, so he smudged out this information.” Lu Feng guessed.
“What’s next?”
“It just says not to drop the sheepskin scroll, and if the sheepskin scroll does fall to the ground, it will be the beginning of the sandstorm.”
“Well, it’s not a complete prophecy.” Wang Pang Zi said.
“Anyway, Lu Feng has already cleared the path back, so we can just go back the way we came. We don’t need the prophet’s help.” Hu Ba Yi said.
“Let’s go, let’s leave.”