Chapter 94 Escape

The bones were piled high. Those above the water were dry and fragile so they turned to dust as soon as Short Feng went to pick them up.

Being choked by human bone powder really wasn’t a pleasant experience. Fatty and I instinctively retreated since inhaling strange things in such a place was a big no-no.

Short Feng coughed a few times but nothing else happened to him. We wrapped our clothes around our noses and mouths and began to remove the bones.

There were more than forty craftsmen in total, which wasn’t a small number. Since the bones were badly weathered and fractured, I couldn’t figure out which ones were phalanges. It was only when a relatively complete body was moved that I could see the complete hand bones. Strangely enough, I didn’t see the features I was looking for.

It looked like not every Zhang family member had that deformity.

After revealing the stone door, we tried to push and pull it before determining that it was a push door. These people must have been trying to push the door open. The door shaft was relatively strong and didn’t break, but we found that after pushing, the back of the door was actually blocked by a heavy object.

Fatty took a few steps back and flew up like a human bullet, but he bounced off of the door and fell into the water with his feet in the air. The result was the same even with the three of us working together, and all I got was a swollen shoulder in the end.

There was a big gap in the stone door, so Fatty took the torch and tried to find out what was blocking our way. We pressed our faces to the crack and tried to look inside while Fatty pulled out a piece of wire from his shoe, tied it to the torch, and poked it in.

The gap was as thick as a palm and ran from the top of the door all the way to the bottom. We soon saw the outline of the object that was blocking the door—it was made of bronze and was standing right in front of the door.

I had experience with such disappointment and told myself that it was just another piece of junk. But just as I was looking at the bottom to see if there was a way to pry it open, the bronze thing behind the door suddenly turned, and then a face appeared in the gap.

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Updated 2/14/2022