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Book 1
Book 1: Chapter 217: Ear Coffin
Before I could react, I heard Poker-Face continue to tap with his shoe. It hadn’t taken them long to invent a code using shoes. There must’ve been rumors in the industry that people in Wushanju invented their own language called the “Xie Code” because they worshiped Wu Xie (1).
Before I could figure out what Poker-Face had said in response, I was picked up and flung into the darkness.
I flew into the air again, but it was less than a second before I was grabbed by a hand and pulled directly into another dark hole.
As I fell into Fatty's arms, he grabbed me by my armpits to keep me from falling down. If I did fall, my feet would definitely be sliced into sashimi.
Once I got my legs under me, Fatty dragged me back a few steps and Poker-Face jumped down with a cold firework in his mouth. I wanted to ask them what they were planning. Why did Poker-Face suddenly disappear earlier? Where was Black Glasses?
I didn't see Xiao Hua next to Fatty, so who caught him? Was it Black Glasses?
But they didn't give me a chance to ask questions before they jumped down into the huge crevice. There appeared to be many holes in this crevice, so if you knew their positions and just jumped into them, you could avoid being hurt.
We continued jumping down in the dark. The whole process was no longer a mind game, but two people playing with my life. If any one of us stepped on a place and slipped, or scraped against the cave wall even a little bit, our bones would be the only thing left. But the other two didn't hesitate at all. Every time I was dragged and turned around, the rubber on the soles of my shoes would be cut. After fourteen or fifteen times of this, I felt that my soles were almost as thin as paper and would be cut through at any moment.
Every time I jumped, I made it about seven meters before I was dragged into the darkness like a marionette. We rushed down to the light below and finally stopped. At this time, I clearly felt that one of my soles was broken and a sharp reed had directly pierced my foot.
I immediately felt a wetness start to spread from the area. I didn't know how deep the reed had gone, but I didn't dare call out to the others. When we looked down, we finally saw the bottom of this floor.
At last! After jumping more than a hundred meters, the depth of this place far exceeded anything I could imagine. I could see that there were more bronze reeds extending from the crevices at the bottom of this floor. They were just like the tentacles of an octopus, sticking out from the crevices and surrounding the space at the bottom of the tower layer by layer. The whole bottom was just like a thousand-petaled lotus flower in full bloom, or a sunflower seed plate.
There was a huge, ear-shaped sarcophagus among all of these lotus petals or melon seeds.
Everyone in Boss Jiao’s team had descended into this space but were still hanging in the air. Boss Jiao seemed to be a bit dazed as he stared at the sarcophagus.
I watched as he slowly climbed down, stepped into the stone coffin, and then lay down.
I forgot the pain in my foot as I watched it all very carefully, the hanging lights enabling us to see everything clearly. “Should we stop him?" I mouthed at Fatty.
Fatty pointed to the opposite side, where I saw someone standing in a hole similar to ours. It was Black Glasses, and he had Xie Yuhua on his back. Black Glasses was signing at us: "Do it when it thunders again."
Do it? Do what? I asked myself. I saw Poker-Face quickly sign a response and thought to myself, so you can do it, too. You really do have a gift for languages. It really wasn’t appropriate to think more at this time. I only needed to focus on what they were really trying to do.josei
The next clap of thunder came in an instant.
The Wang family above was signaling down, but the people below were completely ignoring them. Boss Jiao was still lying curled up in the ear-shaped stone coffin. Then, Fatty suddenly came up behind me and started to take off my pants.
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TN Notes:
(1) Per Tiffany: “Shoe” is pronounced as “Xie” in Chinese. It's a stupid pun lol.
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Uhhhhh what? lol (Not gonna lie, I'm low-key surprised he actually had his pants on this whole time. We know his track record. I thought they were lonnnnggggggg gone with that first zombie general hahahahaha). 38 pages to go *breathes heavily*