One of the archaeological team members was brushing away dust with a small brush, working diligently.
"Help..."
The team member's ears faintly registered a cry for help. The voice was panicked and pleading.
The archaeologist's hand froze in place, almost dropping the brush. He quickly turned to look behind him.
He saw only statues behind him, no other people, and heard no one speaking. This sent a shiver down his spine.
He then looked at the teammates beside him.
"Did you just hear a cry for help?"
The archaeologist urgently asked his teammate.
"No, what did you hear? I didn't hear anything. You must have misheard, don't overthink it."
As the teammate spoke, he aimed his camera at the face of the statue again.
The archaeologist who had heard the voice now felt he must have misheard and continued to clean the dust off the statue.
The teammate taking photos couldn't press the shutter button, his whole body trembling, his legs shaking.
"What's wrong? Hurry up and take the picture. Once we're done here, we have the next one."
The archaeologist cleaning the dust off the statue, seeing his teammate's frightened state, couldn't help but be curious.
"You... you look..."
The team member's face instantly turned ashen. He then looked at the statue opposite him and said in a trembling voice.
The archaeologist glanced over with suspicion. It was better not to look, but upon seeing it, he was immediately filled with dread.
"Ah..."
The archaeologist let out a scream of terror as he looked at the statue.
The sound echoed throughout the space, startling everyone studying the statues. They quickly looked towards their location.
"What's wrong? Why are you shouting?"
Professor Lin looked at the two in front of him, his face displeased.
"Professor... this statue is moving. I just saw this thing smiling on its face, but now it's changed to one of terror..."
Upon seeing Professor Lin approach, the two archaeologists instinctively stood behind him, trembling with fear.
The mercenaries and Captain Lin, upon hearing this, quickly looked at the statue. Indeed, it was as they described.
The expression of terror on its face was palpable.
"I also heard a cry for help just now..."
The archaeologist who had heard the sound earlier quickly recounted it.
Seeing this situation, the other archaeologists instinctively distanced themselves from the statue.
Then, they heard a series of screams. Several team members immediately crouched on the ground, pointing at the statue beside them in sheer terror.
"Professor, I'm really scared."
"Me too, the statue wasn't like this before."
"I also heard a cry for help."
Several team members looked at Professor Lin with crestfallen faces.
Professor Lin and Elder Tang exchanged glances, then looked at the statues behind them. The appearance of these statues was indeed different from what they had seen before.
They were equally shocked.
In the live stream.
"Holy crap, why do I feel so uncomfortable? My heart is starting to feel fearful, what's going on?"
"It's not just fear, I'm scared. This thing is too eerie. This is different from the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor; that had a reason, but this doesn't."
"These archaeological team members are truly having a tough time. They've just gone through all sorts of life-and-death situations, and now they're experiencing this. I feel heartbroken just watching."
"They're archaeological team members. If it were me, I'd probably be broken."
"Damn it, what do we do now? How should this situation be handled? Should we call the big shot?"
"Wait, where's the big shot? What is the big shot doing?"
...
Inside the tomb.
At this moment, Zhou Lin looked at the mirror above. This mirror was directly above the sarcophagus below.
The red eyes of the skull above suddenly lit up. The mirror reflected a red light, which shone directly onto the sarcophagus below.
At this moment, the sarcophagus instantly turned from black to red. The red light illuminated the entire sarcophagus, looking extremely eerie.
Boom...
Boom boom boom...
A series of sounds came from within the sarcophagus.
Professor Lin, Elder Tang, and the metaphysics professor, hearing the sounds, felt the statues around them begin to move.
These statues one by one began to shed the dirt from their bodies.
The dirt from before also disappeared, revealing smooth, fair skin. However, the terror on their faces intensified, and they were about to turn and leave.
But the other statues behind them, with respectful postures, stepped forward to restrain the terrified statues.
"Come up."
Zhou Lin suddenly said.
Those below studying the statues, upon hearing the voice, hurried towards Zhou Lin's location.
Zhou Lin looked at the people opposite him. These statues began to attack the fleeing statues, and then he saw these people die at the hands of the statues behind them.
For a time, the entire space was filled with cries of agony and pleas for help.
And the sound of knives piercing flesh and blood.
It was a real-life scene of hell on earth.
"What do we do? Should we save them? They were just crying for help?"
Captain Lin looked at Zhou Lin, waiting for him to speak.
"You can't save them, and you can't. This is their destiny."
Zhou Lin shook his head, looking with pity at these individuals being slaughtered.
Blood instantly flowed out, dyeing the crevices red.
Zhou Lin stood on the high platform, looking at the blood. He picked up a brush and began to draw on paper.
As the entire pattern was sketched out, it formed a character.
"Hmm? This is..."
"卍?"
Elder Tang, seeing the scene before him, couldn't help but frown. This character...
"This is the Yin Yang Swastika Curse. The central point is this jade coffin..."
Zhou Lin looked at it, his expression darkening.
But looking at the swastika shape, it wasn't completed in one go...
Why?
Zhou Lin hesitated as he looked at these things.
"Damn it, what's going on with this blood? How is it flowing backward?"
Captain Lin, seeing the scene before him, was greatly alarmed.
They say people strive for higher ground and water flows downhill, but what is this situation?
Blood can flow backward?
Elder Tang, Professor Lin, and the metaphysics professor were looking at the scene unfolding before them. Only then did they notice a thin crack under their feet.
But this crack was like a spiderweb, already covered by red blood.
It was moving towards the sarcophagus. The jade coffin was also stained red by this blood, turning a bright crimson.
Anyone who saw it would find it extremely eerie.
In the live stream.
"Holy crap, am I dreaming?"