Chapter 717: 717
The workers only had only dug a corner of the tomb . The archaeologist had no idea how big the tomb was . They had to wait until the second gate was opened .
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The leader, an old man in his 60s thought they had to open the gate with caution so that the contents inside wouldn’t be damaged . Therefore, they wouldn’t open the gate until they were ready . According to their investigation, no one had ever broken into the tomb, so the tomb was well-maintained . The contents were untouched, which could be a big discovery .
“Such terrible weather,” a young man said as he looked at the nonstop rain .
“Yeah, the rain is really annoying . ” The old man in his 60’s looked up at the sky before going back into the tomb .
He was interested in the statues in the tomb, like the statue of the evil ghost standing in the middle of the corridor . It was very uncommon . It was his first time to find a statue of an evil ghost in an ancient tomb . After all, it was considered unlucky in ancient China . He could hardly see the point of putting it in a tomb . But, perhaps the owner of the tomb wanted it to guard his or her graveyard and stop tomb raiders .
The old man had to admit that the statue looked very real and scary . All his students were startled by the statue at the beginning .
Pictures of soldiers were engraved on both sides of the walls . It seemed that those soldiers were at war . They were led by a man riding a horse and holding a large blade . The leader looked tall and strong .
Further down on the gate of the tomb was an engraving of a conqueror and a Buddha’s warrior . It was not hard to understand that they were engraved to protect the soul in the tomb . The old man wondered what the story was behind the evil ghost statue and engraving .
As he was thinking about the statue, he suddenly heard yelling . “Help! Someone’s dead!”
What’s going on? He frowned .
His team had come across a number of problems since they started to dig the tomb . All the workers were uncertain whether they should continue or not . All that he could do was settle the workers . He couldn’t stop anyone from leaving .
“Let me take a look outside,” said one of his students, who had followed him for a number of years .
He soon came back with bad news . He looked terrible .
“Sir, a worker just died,” the student said .
Oh dear! thought the old man .
The team of diggers wanted to quit since several diggers had been injured . They agreed to continue to dig the tomb after their pay had been increased and the old man convinced them to stay . Now, someone was dead . The old man didn’t think the team of diggers would continue to work . It also cast a shadow on the archaeologists’ minds .
“This place is so odd,” a young worker said .
“The Feng Shui master said we should not dig up the tomb, but they insisted on continuing to dig,” another worker said .
“He is the son of Uncle Zhang . He’s going to get married next week . I can’t imagine what his family is going to face,” the young worker said .
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The team leader of the diggers came to advise the old man that he and his workers would stop digging . They had only been digging for a few days, but two workers had been injured and one was dead . Fortunately, some loss would be covered by insurance . However, it was still bad for the leader . He wouldn’t make any money out from the job and still had to pay wages and travel costs .
Without the diggers, the work couldn’t continue .
“Sir, I’ll contact another team of diggers,” one of the old man’s students said .
“OK,” the old man said .
It was still raining heavily outside . The sky looked gloomy . The archaeologist were resting in the shed . They suddenly heard the rain drop in the shed .
“It’s leaking in here,” an archaeologist said .
“Find the leak, I don’t want the tomb to be affected,” the old archaeologist said .
Bang! An archaeologist fell onto the ground after walking a few steps .
“Mr . He, are you alright?” The other archaeologists all went to check the person lying on the ground . His face had turned green, and he was short of breath .
“Take him to the hospital,” their leader said .
An ambulance came a moment later . Several archaeologists accompanied the person who had fallen to the hospital . Only three archaeologists were left at the tomb .
“Well, shall we all go back?’ the leader suggested .
He contacted the local government to arrange security guards for the tomb .
At night, the security guards were staying in the shed .
“Damn! Why did they ask us to guard a tomb in the middle of nowhere at night?” a guard complained .
“What can we do about it? Of course, they are gonna send new comers like us,” his colleague said .
“Do you think this place is haunted?” the guard asked .
“Don’t scare yourself,” his colleague said .
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Whoo! Whoo!
“What is that sound?” the guard asked?
“It’s just the wind,” his colleague said . “I’m gonna have a cigarette . ”
He took out a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it with a lighter . A gust of wind passed by, putting the cigarette out . He lit it again, but it was put out again . It happened several times .
“What is going on?” the guard asked .
The two guards’ faces changed . It was already a nasty job to guard a tomb in the hill at night .
“Hey, look, is that statue moving?” the guard asked .
“What moved?” his colleague asked . “Don’t scare me!”
They both looked toward the statue of the evil ghost . It bared its teeth in anger and had a scary look on its face . Its eyes were as big as brass bell . The statue seemed to be looking at the guards .
Whoo! A gust of wind passed . The light in the shed went out . It was completely dark .
Snap! The two guards heard a crispy sound .
“What the hell!” the guard cursed .
“Ghost?!” his colleague screamed .
The two of them ran out of the shed into the rain and went all the way down the hill in a hurry .
The shed was standing quietly on the hill . It was completely dark inside .
The guards were running as fast as they could in the rain without caring about what was beneath their feet .
“There is a village over there,” one of the guards said .
It was rainy and windy in the dark . They couldn’t see the road in front of them properly .
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“No!” The two guards suddenly disappeared .
It was still raining outside .
Meanwhile, the archaeologist who had fallen was still in a hospital in the county nearby
“Doctor, how is he?” his colleagues asked .
“It’s not good,” the doctor said .
The archaeologist had passed out for no reason . He had an irregular heartbeat with potential heart failure . He also had high blood pressure .
“Does he have a history of heart disease and hypertension?” the doctor asked .
“Not that I am aware of . We all had a health examination last month . He was fine apart from a kidney stone,” one of the archaeologists said .
“This is strange . His condition indicates he has heart disease,” the doctor said . “By the way, what does he do for a living?”
“We are all archaeologists,” the colleague said .
“Archaeologists?” the doctor asked .
“Yes, we’ve been working in an ancient tomb,” the archaeologist said .
“A tomb?” the doctor asked with surprise . He subconsciously thought, Did he bump into a ghost?
“I suggest you get him admitted into the hospital,” the doctor said .
The patient’s colleagues completed relevant paperwork for him to get him admitted .
“What do you think happened to him?” a young archaeologist asked . “He was fine, talking and laughing . How come he suddenly just passed out?”
“Do you think he was attacked by a ghost?” an archaeologist wearing glasses asked .
“Stop the nonsense,” a middle-aged archaeologist said .
“This is not impossible,” the young archaeologist said . “Think about it, we’ve had so many problems since we started to dig the tomb . Two workers were injured, and someone died this afternoon . Now, Mr . He ended up in the hospital . Do you remember that Feng Shui master said the tomb had problems?”
“Don’t scare yourself,” the middle-aged archaeologist said .
“Hey, our teacher is here,” the archaeologist wearing glasses said .
“Sir, what brought you here?” the middle-aged archaeologist asked .
“How is Mr . He?” the old archaeologist asked .
“The doctor has examined him . His condition is not good,” the middle-aged archaeologist said .
The old archaeologist went to speak to the doctor in charge . After knowing the old man was a well-known professor from one of the best universities in China, the doctor answered all the questions in more detail .
“Let him stay in the hospital for one night . If he doesn’t get better, we shall transfer him into a different hospital,” the old man said after walking out of the doctor’s office .
“OK,” the middle-aged archaeologist said . “Sir, shall I drive you back?”
He drove the old man back to the hotel .
The night passed without any issues . The rain was lighter the next morning .
When the group of archaeologist went back to the hill where the tomb was, they found the two security guards had disappeared . Their vehicle was still parked on the hill .
“Where are they?” the old man asked .
At the beginning, they thought the two security guards had just wandered off and would return soon . However, the two guards were still absent after a long time . After an archaeologist found a torch in the grass, they all became worried . The old man immediately asked his team members to look for the two guards .
The archaeologists couldn’t find the two guards anywhere on the hill . They went to the village at the foot of the hill, but they still couldn’t find the two guards .
In the end, they found the two guards in a large pit near the village . The pit was filled with water since it had been raining for days . The two guards were floating in the water . There was no breath after they were dragged out of the water . Two more people died .