Chapter 15

Black Glasses walked slowly around the bottom of the pond, stepping on the dried mud.

Deep holes had been dug everywhere. No matter what Young Master Yushka was looking for, he must have been searching for it for a long time.

In the headset, he could hear Boss Xie talking to a person with a strange accent but he couldn’t hear what they were saying very clearly. He had to focus on walking carefully so as not to fall into one of the numerous deep pits.

When he got to the center of the pond, he saw a huge pit that was ten times bigger than the other pits. It had to be at least ten meters deep. He squatted down by the edge and looked at the bottom of the pit.

What the hell were they digging for?

There was nothing at the bottom of the pit. He was just about to jump down when white noise suddenly came through the headset, followed by a loud sound.

Black Glasses paused and listened carefully. The loud sound disappeared and Boss Xie’s voice continued coming through the headset. Feeling that something was wrong, he listened quietly for a while and found that the voice being transmitted over the headset began to distort again.

The voice was normal for a while, but then it would become strangely shrill before suddenly sounding drawn out or becoming more like a whisper.

Black Glasses tapped on the headset, but this time, Boss Xie didn’t respond. Was he too focused on chatting with the other person?

Not likely. Xie Yuchen would never make such a careless mistake.

He stood up and looked around. After years of experience in dealing with strange things, he knew that something began to change nearby and Xie Yuchen could no longer hear his voice.

With his eyes, he could see all the details around him clearly. This was his advantage. Ordinary people would be scared to death just imagining what could be out there in the darkness, but he wouldn’t.

He smiled and gave up the idea of ​​jumping into the huge pit. Instead, he just stood there and looked at the darkness all around while listening to the voice in the headset to try and figure out what the hell they were talking about.

Nothing showed up.

The voice in the headset continued distorting to such an extent that the normal voice could no longer be heard. Now, all the sounds coming from it were so distorted that they almost sounded like someone was chanting a strange incantation.

This was a sign that something serious was happening but there was still nothing around. Something was approaching but it seemed to be invisible.

Black Glasses thought for a moment and suddenly realized that this might not actually be the case—the four cardinal directions weren’t the only way to get close to him. He jerked his head up and looked towards the sky.

There was nothing overhead.

He looked down at the bottom of the huge pit again. At this time, he suddenly saw something that definitely wasn’t there before.

A tightly sealed brass box had appeared at the bottom of this deep pit.

Black Glasses took a deep breath. At this time, the sound coming from the headset no longer had anything to do with Xie Yuchen. Instead, it had turned into a Japanese broadcast.

The voices were so muffled that he couldn’t understand them, and he could hear what sounded like air raid sirens in the background.

Black Glasses looked up at the sky but still didn’t see anything. When he looked down at the pit again, the brass box had disappeared.

The only thing at the bottom of the pit was just another pile of dirt and mud.

“What the hell are you doing?” Black Glasses said as he looked at the bottom of the pit. At this time, a white light suddenly filled his eyes and he couldn’t see anything.

He put on his sunglasses, knowing that someone was pointing their flashlight at him. When he looked back, he saw that Zheng Jingyin had appeared behind him, “Did you find anything?”

At this time, Black Glasses’ headset suddenly returned to normal and Xie Yuchen’s voice came through crystal clear. But what he said next didn’t make any sense at all.

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Hmmm if the author keeps these updates going, wonder if I need to shift this story out of the Misc tab and put it in its own tab like “Notes in Rain Village”. What do you all think?

Pic added 6/3/2023 (fan translation courtesy of me)