Chapter 100

Some people had already begun sighing in spite of themselves.

Among the folk tomb-raiding archaeologists, every year there were accidents and deaths.

Although the state encouraged civilian archaeology and repeatedly stressed that personal safety came first,

there were still those who chose to take the risk—after all, fortune is to be sought amid danger!

But without solid skills, even charging in headlong would only mean getting the worst of it.

Now that Zhang Lin had spoken up with a hint, didn't it prove that Chen Pi A-Si's feeling was accurate?

He must have encountered something utterly bizarre here in the Mirror Palace!

Only at the time, Chen Pi A-Si certainly wouldn't have trusted his own intuition and backed out of the underground palace.

A man like him wouldn't release the eagle without seeing the hare!

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"At this moment, Chen Pi A-Si's flashlight continued sweeping across the underground space, hoping to see something beyond the arhat statues. Just then, his hand suddenly stiffened, and the beam of the flashlight stopped at one spot."

"On a protruding ledge about six or seven tiers below him, he shone his light on a strange arhat statue."

"This arhat statue was different from all the others—its face was not looking downward, but raised, staring straight at Chen Pi A-Si, fixing its gaze dead on his eyes!"

"When the flashlight shone on it, for a flash it revealed a terrifying pale face; had it not been perfectly still, Chen Pi A-Si would almost have thought he'd run into a ghost."

"Chen Pi A-Si was instantly so frightened that his whole body turned ice-cold, unable to move at all. He felt his legs begin to go weak, and his body start sliding downward!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, think about what kind of person Chen Pi A-Si was. Would he be afraid of ghosts?"

"He had killed so many people—his crimes were monstrous—yet not even one or two ghosts had come to exact revenge on him?"

"So, this statue with its face turned up toward him—Chen Pi A-Si wasn't afraid of that. But the fact that this face happened to be aimed directly at him struck him as off!"

"Could it be that the builders back then had calculated that he would tunnel down from this very spot, and deliberately placed this thing here to scare him?"

It had to be said, Zhang Lin had a way of working up the mood.

With just a few words, he had already made some in the audience unable to stop themselves from growing tense along with him.

It even gave people an involuntary chill running down their spine!

True, an arhat statue was nothing to fear—an arhat statue was, after all, an inanimate object.

But if, before Chen Pi A-Si, someone had already calculated that he would come down this way,

and placed a terrifying arhat statue here to frighten him,

then damn, that was the kind of thing that got more terrifying the more you thought about it!

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