Urban Martial Saint

Nine-Fingers Wu Yong’s face rapidly changed; this situation was entirely beyond his expectations, leaving him completely unable to comprehend what was happening.

This Invading Army, it’s been over sixty years now, so long that no one wears these clothes anymore. Yet inside this Stone Corridor, there are still two people dressed like this, isn’t that really bizarre?

Nine-Fingers Wu Yong and Ye Qing exchanged a glance, both with puzzled looks. However, Ye Qing was still a bit bolder since he was an atheist. So in his view, these are just two people, and if they’re human, what’s there to be afraid of?

Ye Qing gave a slight wave to Nine-Fingers Wu Yong, signaling him to speak first and stabilize these two people, while he quietly approached them, preparing for a sudden attack.

”Two friends, may I know from which part of the Jianghu you are? Did you lay claim to this tomb first? However, since we’re all down here and have gone through so much effort, according to Jianghu rules, at least thirty percent should be shared,” Nine-Fingers Wu Yong said softly, using his words to numb them.

Ye Qing had already sneaked to the side, stealthily drawing near these two people. Suddenly, he leaped forward, directly pinning them to the ground.

However, once Ye Qing’s hand touched their clothes, he instantly sensed something was wrong. The moment he touched these clothes, they disintegrated into fragments, completely deteriorated beyond support. Moreover, through their clothes, he felt not flesh but several cold bones, which further shocked Ye Qing.

The moment Ye Qing pinned them down, he swiftly jumped back up. The strange situation left him unwilling to linger even a second.

When the two fell, the crowd hurried over, wanting to see the situation clearly. But as Ye Qing jumped up, everyone let out a cry of surprise, even Handsome Fatty Wang widened his eyes and exclaimed, ”Yo, Young Ye, did you hit too hard? You actually knocked their bones out?”

”Shut up!” Ye Qing snapped irritably as he walked over, sweeping away the tattered clothes so that everyone could finally see what these two looked like.

How could they be people? They were two skeletons. Two skeletons standing upright, with the clothes propped up by bones. With the hats on, from behind, it really seemed like two people were standing there. Now that Ye Qing knocked them down, the truth was revealed.

”What’s happening here?” Handsome Fatty Wang asked in astonishment, this situation was truly unexpected for him.

”This situation…” Nine-Fingers Wu Yong frowned deeply, glanced at Ye Qing, and said in a solemn voice, ”The legend among the villagers, it should be true.”

”What legend?” Handsome Fatty Wang quickly inquired.

”The one I told you before, during the war, near this pond, an Invading Army squad came. However, this squad later angered the Dragon King, resulting in their complete slaughter by the Dragon King,” Nine-Fingers Wu Yong said, looking at the two skeletons solemnly, ”Looking at these two’s attire, hehe, they should be from that batch of the Invading Army. They accidentally entered this place, ran into this Stone Corridor, and got trapped here.”

”Hehe…”

As Nine-Fingers Wu Yong finished speaking, a man nearby also chuckled. Handsome Fatty Wang scratched his head, looked at the two of them, and said, ”For just this, you’re laughing? What’s so funny?”

”Who laughed?” Nine-Fingers Wu Yong asked in surprise.

”You just laughed, didn’t you? Come on, trying to deny it?” Handsome Fatty Wang retorted.

”I laughed?” Nine-Fingers Wu Yong was a bit puzzled, about to speak, when another nearby man chuckled too, leaving everyone dumbfounded as they simultaneously looked his way.

”Tiger, why are you laughing?” Nine-Fingers Wu Yong asked in a deep voice.

”I… I didn’t laugh…” Tiger protested, innocence written all over his face, as if Nine-Fingers Wu Yong had wrongly accused him.

”You claim you didn’t laugh!” Nine-Fingers Wu Yong snapped, ”Everyone heard it, and you’re trying to deny it?”

”I don’t think so?” Tiger exclaimed in surprise, ”I don’t even know I laughed? I…”

Before Tiger finished speaking, another chuckle echoed again, filling the entire Stone Corridor with an indescribable atmosphere. Everyone’s hearts were suspended in apprehension; even an idiot could tell that this situation was far from good.

”What the hell is going on?” Nine-Fingers Wu Yong asked in a deep voice, still mostly puzzled on his face.

”You old Wang Ba, do you admit it now? Haha, you’re laughing...” Handsome Fatty Wang shouted angrily, but no one paid attention to what he said anymore. Everyone was looking at him in horror because the fat man was also laughing, and the situation was too bizarre.

Nine-Fingers Wu Yong fell silent for a moment, then suddenly turned around and squatted down, turning those two skeletons over. He picked up the two skulls, took a careful look, and his face instantly turned ice-cold. He shouted urgently, ”Not good, it’s laughing gas!”

”What laughing gas?” Everyone was taken aback, Ye Qing was even more confused, but Handsome Fatty Wang was the first to react and exclaimed, ”Damn, it really is laughing gas!”

”What is laughing gas?” Ye Qing asked.

”It’s a chemical substance that can make people laugh...” Nine-Fingers Wu Yong said in a deep voice, ”Some ancient tombs use this gas to guard the tomb, injecting laughing gas into a confined area. Once tomb robbers enter, they inhale the gas. If they can’t leave quickly, the tomb robbers will keep laughing until they literally laugh themselves to death!”

As Nine-Fingers Wu Yong spoke, he held up the skull and said in a deep voice, ”Look at the expression on this skull. It still looks like it’s smiling at its death. Who dies with a smile on their face?”

Everyone looked at the skull, and sure enough, as Nine-Fingers Wu Yong described, the skull’s mouth was open. Even though there was no flesh left, everyone could still see that the skeleton appeared to be smiling.

”Then let’s run!” Tiger exclaimed in surprise, ”If we stay here any longer, won’t we end up laughing to death too?”

Nine-Fingers Wu Yong looked at the stone wall they had entered through earlier and said in a deep voice, ”Now I understand why this stone wall is sealed. It turns out it was storing such laughing gas. This tomb is indeed very dangerous!”

Everyone’s expression matched Nine-Fingers Wu Yong’s; this situation weighed heavily on everyone’s hearts.

”I still don’t quite understand,” Ye Qing suddenly said, ”Since this stone wall is sealed, how did these two invading soldiers get in? Could it be that they also had a Famed Instrument in their hands? If they had a Famed Instrument, then in theory, that stone chamber should have traces of their entry. Why is that stone chamber still sealed? Could it be that they didn’t enter this stone corridor from that stone chamber?”

Ye Qing’s question left everyone stunned, and Nine-Fingers Wu Yong furrowed his brow tightly, saying in a deep voice, ”This situation is really strange.”

”Could there be another entrance somewhere else that you didn’t notice?” Handsome Fatty Wang walked over and knocked on the stone wall they had just come through. This time, however, the knocking did not produce a hollow thump but rather muffled sounds, indicating that the stone wall was not hollow but solid.

”This... this...” Handsome Fatty Wang was also stunned, and everyone’s expression changed.

Nine-Fingers Wu Yong was the first to walk over and quickly knocked a few times on various parts of the stone wall, getting the same results as Handsome Fatty Wang. The wall behind was completely solid, unlike before!

”What on earth is happening?” Kunzi took a few steps back, trembling, ”We clearly came in from here, but how has this place now become solid? What about... what about the stone chamber?”

”Stay calm!” Nine-Fingers Wu Yong shouted loudly, but before his voice could finish, he involuntarily laughed again. At this point, everyone else also started laughing, including Handsome Fatty Wang, indicating that the laughing gas was beginning to take effect.

The only person not laughing was Ye Qing, who wasn’t afraid of even deadly poison, let alone this laughing gas. However, his heart was also filled with shock now. This was his first time in a tomb, and what he encountered was truly reshaping his worldview. Dragon crocodile laughing gas, and those venomous snakes outside, were shocking enough. But the most shocking was still this current situation.

Since they entered this stone corridor, they had been standing in the same place, with the entrance they had come through right in front of them, without moving an inch. But why, in this brief moment, when they went to knock on the stone wall again, did it become solid? What happened to the original stone chamber?

The news about the stone chamber caused a wave of panic among everyone, and Nine-Fingers Wu Yong’s men were so scared that their legs went weak. Since the stone corridor was full of laughing gas and the stone chamber was missing, wouldn’t they be trapped here to die?

”Everyone, hold yourselves together, haha, no... don’t be afraid...” Nine-Fingers Wu Yong shouted loudly: ”Since the ancients built such a stone corridor, there must be a way out of here. Even if the stone chamber is gone, haha, after all, it was filled with snakes, we can’t, haha, go back there. So let’s quickly find, haha, another way, and we might have a chance to survive...”

Nine-Fingers Wu Yong’s laughter was becoming more frequent, as was everyone else’s. The eerie laughter in this dark stone corridor was akin to terrifying ghost cries, sending chills down one’s spine.

”Yes, yes, run, run!” Handsome Fatty Wang was the first to start running, shouting, ”Fat Lord is still young, Fat Lord doesn’t want to die, let’s all find a way out together.”

At this point, everyone had no other choice but to follow Handsome Fatty Wang closely, running in one direction down the stone corridor. Aside from finding a way to escape, there was nothing else they could do now.