The Counterattack Plan of A Villain With Ten Thousand Fans - Chapter 291

Chapter 291

Seeing Qi Yang silent, Chen Yue anxiously pondered; clearly, the weight of these iron chains was not something a girl could handle alone. "Qi Yang, what's wrong?"

"What should we do now? Pull the chains over?" the short man spat into his palm, eager to start.

"Wait, let me take some pictures first. If we open the coffin later, it might get damaged. It's rare to see such an artistically impressive and upscale ancient tomb." The bespectacled man finally remembered the DSLR in his backpack, quickly took it out, and started snapping photos.

Finally, the timid fat man spoke up, "No, that’s not right. We've discovered an ancient tomb. We should report this first and then call a professional archaeological team to excavate. What we're doing now could be considered damaging cultural heritage."

Although Chen Yue's attitude seemed a bit strange, after a silence, Qi Yang took the lead and lifted an iron chain, "Each of us take one, Xiaoyue and Fatso take one together, I'll count to three, and then we pull together."

The fat man seemed to want to say something, but seeing his companions ready, he obediently stood by the iron chain.

"One, two, three!"

As the five of them exerted force, the four iron chains made a clattering sound, and the tightly pulled links loosened a bit.

Although it was only a little, it was enough for them to start unlocking the chains wrapped around the coffin.

"Host, the seals outside have been almost completely broken. When do you plan to go out?" 098 asked, noting that at about this time in the original text, Cangyu broke out of the coffin and did not meet with the male lead's group.

"By the way, 098, what do I look like now?" Ling Chunann licked his itchy fangs, changing the subject.

"Uh," 098 was somewhat stumped, and finally chose a tactful way to express it, "You should know, this body has been sealed here for over a thousand years, and even before it was sealed, it had been a long time since it last ate..."

In short, the description was pale, emaciated, looking like a complete mummy, quite different from the seductive appearance of the grand villain that appeared later in the story.

After seeing this appearance from the images 098 transmitted, Ling Chunann nodded in satisfaction, "We'll wait for them to leave before we go." He wondered what the young girl's expression would be when she saw his current state, taking delight in the potential disaster.

The group quickly unlocked the iron chains on the coffin, and finally, the bespectacled man and Qi Yang together pushed open the coffin lid.

Chen Yue stared intently at the coffin, and as soon as it was opened, she moved closer, then her actions stiffened, and her gaze flickered, uncertain what she was thinking.

"This mummy is preserved so well." The short man also moved closer.

"Why is there a talisman on his forehead?" the bespectacled man who had handled the coffin lid raised a question, "If we take it off, he won’t come back to life, will he?" He joked after saying this and reached his hand into the coffin.

"Wait!" Qi Yang and the fat man both shouted.

Startled, the bespectacled man looked at the talisman paper he had already taken off, then at the two, "What, what's wrong?"

Qi Yang didn’t answer him but looked warily at Ling Chunann in the coffin. After a while, seeing no response, he relaxed, "This body is indeed very well preserved."

"It seems like there are no burial goods in the coffin, that's not scientific. How can such a grand ancient tomb have no burial goods?" the short man's attention had already shifted elsewhere, "Could they be underneath him?"

"I still insist on letting a professional archaeological team come." The bespectacled man, having recovered, threw the talisman paper aside, picked up his camera, only to find it somehow broken, muttered a curse, and then took out his phone, just as he opened the camera app, suddenly realizing his phone was also unresponsive. Despite his good temper, he couldn't help but utter a swear word.

"What's wrong?" Several people looked at the bespectacled man.

The bespectacled man looked around, "This place is really haunted. My camera was fine just now, then it mysteriously broke. I was about to switch to taking photos with my phone, and now it’s frozen and shut down on its own."

"My phone won't turn on either."

"Mine too."

"Mine, too, could there be ghosts here?" Qi Yang, seeing the off state of his phone, then looked at Chen Yue, who had been silent since the coffin was opened, and tried to probe nonchalantly

: "Xiaoyue, do you know the way out?"

"In..." Chen Yue started to say something but quickly shut her mouth, her face a bit pale.

"Huh? Xiaoyue, do you know where the exit is?" At that moment, the other clueless individuals gathered around the two.

Unable to dodge the question, Chen Yue hummed softly, revealing an embarrassed expression, "I once saw a design of this ancient tomb in my family's ancestral records, but it wasn’t very complete, so I was embarrassed to mention it. Do you want to leave now? I think I could try to find the exit."

"I think we should first see if there are any clues we missed here."

"Yeah, we finally found an ancient tomb, and to leave without clarifying what era it's from would be too embarrassing."

"Can we move this body?"

"Better not, what if he jumps up and bites you?"

"Then I’ll go look at the murals, maybe there’s something to discover."

Ling Chunann, bored listening to the group's unproductive argument, nearly fell asleep. He touched his hungry stomach, though the smell of the people around him wasn’t appealing, having food right in front of his eyes was too tempting for Ling Chunann to ignore.

While the group was focused on finding clues, Ling Chunann reached under the pillow in a recess, lightly touched it, and a silent silver light shot towards his face. He caught the small silver pearl with his hand and returned to his original position before Chen Yue next to the coffin could notice.

Chen Yue, undeterred, looked at Ling Chunann in the coffin, "It’s impossible, shouldn’t the Zombie King have left the moment the coffin was opened? Why is there still a body in the coffin? Could it be that he bit to death some cannon fodder before he was sealed? That’s a possibility, but why wasn’t this mentioned in the original plot?"

"Xiaoyue, what are you talking about?" Qi Yang suddenly appeared behind Chen Yue.

"Nothing." Chen Yue was startled, and seeing that Qi Yang did not continue to ask, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Qi Yang frowned and looked at the body in the coffin, his expression a bit solemn. Ever since entering the ancient tomb, he had felt a call, which became clearer and clearer, but it suddenly stopped after the coffin was opened.

Why was that?

Suddenly, Qi Yang's gaze fell on the hands of the body inside the coffin, as if compelled, he reached out his hand.

"Qi Yang! What are you doing?"

The voice by his ear made Qi Yang pull his hand back as if electrified, only then realizing that his hand had almost touched Ling Chunann, "It's nothing, just wanted to study why he hasn’t decayed for a thousand years."

"But you shouldn’t touch him, what if you damage him?" Chen Yue disagreed.

"I know, I won't touch him anymore." Qi Yang shrugged, "Xiaoyue, you’re getting fiercer."

"I..." Chen Yue was at a loss for words, indeed breaking her character, "I'll go look elsewhere." Saying this, she walked over to the other three.

Qi Yang refocused his attention on Ling Chunann's hand, feeling that the thing calling him was there.

"Host, the male lead looks at you like a wolf starved for days, his eyes gleaming." 098 warned, "Should I keep the inheritance stone first?"

"No need." Ling Chunann rejected 098's perfect suggestion, then loosened his grip when the male lead's hand reached in.

Half an hour later, with nothing gained, a somewhat disappointed Chen Yue led the group back, of course, Qi Yang did not share his findings with anyone.

Just minutes after they left, Ling Chunann lifted the coffin lid that had been re-covered and then stood up and stretched.

"Host, what did you do with the inheritance stone just now?" 098 didn't believe Ling Chunann would be so kind as to give away his treasure to the male lead for free.

"Just a little gift." Ling Chunann smiled, looking in the direction the group had left, "Now I'm ready to give them a new gift."

"What gift?" While 098 asked, he was preparing to mourn for the group.

Ling Chunann didn't answer, but directly stepped out of the coffin, first walking to the column on the east side, and slapped it with his hand.

With a bang, the column thick enough for two people to embrace broke in half.

As the four columns completely broke apart, the several dozen feet high ancient tomb's dome uncontrollably cracked open, and large and small stones began to fall.

At the same time, the group walking in the tomb passage also felt the disturbance behind them, the unstable space almost making them unable to stand.

Walking at the rear, Qi Yang dodged a falling boulder and yelled, "Run! The ancient tomb is collapsing!!

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"How could this happen? We didn't take anything just now!" the fat man used all his lifetime's potential to run.

"I swear I didn't step on any mechanism!" the bespectacled man, in a panic, pushed his glasses which were about to fly off.

Chen Yue seemed to think of something, subtly glancing at Qi Yang, could it be the male lead just obtained the inheritance? No, the male lead hadn’t left her line of sight just then, he shouldn't have had the chance to take the inheritance.

"Ah!"

Somehow running at the rear, the short man suddenly got hit by a stone on his shoulder, cried out in pain, and almost fell. Qi Yang timely grabbed him, dodging an even larger stone.

All this happened in the blink of an eye, but because of this delay, their path was completely cut off, a giant stone fell between them and the other three.

Seeing the giant stone in front, the short man almost cried, "What do we do, what do we do? Are we going to die here? I don't want to die yet!"

Qi Yang was slightly more composed, he shouted loudly to the other three who were equally panicked but had stopped to wait for them, "You guys run! We'll go back and see if there's another way out! Xiaoyue, take them out!"

"Such a dedicated male lead." Ling Chunann commented from outside the tomb, watching the excitement.

"Host, the male lead won’t die, will he?" 098 was a bit worried, the male lead dying so early in the story was unheard of, the host would definitely become infamous.

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