Chapter 436: The Scalpel that Slays Evil

House Guarding Divine Beast, truly lives up to its name!

With Qi Yao beside me, those frightening statues and those strange incantations are all worthless junk, not worth mentioning.

Lin Feng walked up to one of the statues, shone his flashlight on it, and examined it closely.

It looked like it was made of bronze.

He picked up a dagger and tapped it with the back of the blade.

The massive statue turned out to be solid.

It wasn't iron; it looked more like copper.

Lin Feng then scraped it with the blade's edge.

It looked like gold!

"Yao Yao, come over here and see if this statue is cast from gold?"

Lin Feng shouted.

Qi Yao walked over.

After looking, she softly said, "Your eye for gold is much better than mine."

After saying that, she turned and went to tidy her instruments.

Lin Feng gave a hehe laugh.

He was too excited!

Because the statue before him was cast from gold, at least mostly gold!

Its two large eyeballs were also very valuable rubies, each as big as a fist!

The gold wasn't very pure; other metals were added, including some copper, otherwise it wouldn't have developed verdigris on the surface.

But even if the gold content were only a percent, smelting these two statues would yield over ten tons of gold.

We've struck it rich!

Lin Feng shone his flashlight deeper inside again; in the distance, there seemed to be more such statues.

He was feeling happy when suddenly a red shadow flashed past……

Lin Feng's hand trembled, and he almost cried out.

He could be certain that the red shadow just now was a woman's silhouette.

Last time he saw a white shadow in that ancient tomb.

Regardless of whether it's real or not, there must be a scientific explanation.

What about this red shadow here?

"Yao Yao, I've seen a ghost again……"

Lin Feng ran to Qi Yao's side, grabbed her clothing, and said.

Qi Yao softly said, "What the eyes see isn't necessarily real."

"Mm!"

Lin Feng nodded.

The outside sky had already grown dim.

Liu Erwa and Zhao Xiaoyang lowered large coils of wire with ropes.

Lin Feng received them below.

Besides the wires, there were also drum after drum of gasoline, each weighing several dozen kilograms.

Then came a box of light tubes.

Darkness inspires fear, but what if we lit up the entire underground space with light?

Lin Feng had thought of this when they arrived.

After lowering the gear, Liu Erwa also came down, leaving Zhao Xiaoyang outside to guard the entrance.

Liu Erwa not only skillfully drives a big truck, understands basic blasting knowledge, and also knows how to install water and electricity.

"Hummm……"

The generator suddenly roared to life.

It startled Liu Erwa, who was in the middle of connecting wires.

The generator's battery had been drained, so it started up automatically.

Liu Erwa gave an embarrassed smile, "These days' generators are quite advanced!"

Lin Feng had no intention of mocking Liu Erwa.

After the generator worked for ten-odd minutes, it stopped.

Its battery was fully charged.

The advantage of such a generator is that it doesn't keep running continuously.

After Liu Erwa connected the wires to power, he slung a coil of wire over his right shoulder, held a box in his left hand, and was ready to set off.

Lin Feng pulled Qi Yao and said, "Stop fussing with these things; let's go inside and have a look, then we'll talk."

"All right!"

As for Lin Feng's fear of ghosts, Qi Yao also felt helpless.

Given the haunted house she currently lives in, if she weren't there, Lin Feng wouldn't dare stay inside alone.

Even during the day.

She knows why Lin Feng summoned her.

House Guarding Divine Beast…… Thinking of this, Qi Yao's mouth curled up.

Lin Feng walked ahead with his flashlight on.

Qi Yao followed behind him, and behind her was Liu Erwa, who was laying the wires.

Liu Erwa moved forward while laying the electrical wires on the ground, took out a clip-like object from his pocket, clipped it onto the wire, and the light on it lit up.

These are LED lights that consume no electricity; you can install thousands of them on a single wire without any problem.

As Lin Feng advanced, the irregular underground space also became bright.

After advancing several tens of meters, Lin Feng suddenly stopped.

In the dim darkness ahead, a red figure floated in midair.

It was clearly a woman, wearing a bright red attire like a wedding dress, her eyes large and pitch-black.

Her beautiful face wore a half-smile.

"Did you see that?"

Lin Feng turned his head and said to Qi Yao.

Qi Yao nodded and said, "I saw it."

"I, I also saw it!"

Liu Erwa raised his hand and said.

Lin Feng raised his flashlight and shone it toward the female ghost floating in midair.

Upon seeing the bright light, the female ghost drifted to one side.

Lin Feng then moved the flashlight to shine on it again, and the female ghost shifted to another side.

With Qi Yao present, Lin Feng grew bold and continuously moved the flashlight.

Suddenly—

"Boing~"

A soft sound.

The female ghost fell from midair, crashed to the ground, and shattered.

Lin Feng pulled Qi Yao along as they cautiously walked forward.

Upon closer inspection, the female ghost was actually made of a wax-like material.

The cave maintains an extremely low temperature year-round, preventing the wax from melting.

The two large, pitch-black eyeballs were actually two black gemstones the size of a thumb.

The thing suspending this wax figure was a kind of transparent thread.

But why does it avoid light?

Qi Yao explained, "It should be related to this kind of thread; when light hits it, it contracts, triggering the mechanism connected to the thread, causing it to sway."

As she spoke, Qi Yao pulled out a… scalpel!

At that moment, a wind arose in the cave.

Gusts of cool wind howled past.

In the tent at the cave entrance, Zhao Xiaoyang was lighting a cigarette, lying at the entrance and looking at his phone while reading a novel.

Suddenly a gust of wind burst out of the cave, blowing the tent away.

Zhao Xiaoyang was blown by this wind, and his head felt dazed.

In a daze, he seemed to hear mournful wails.

This strange wind came and went quickly.

Soon Zhao Xiaoyang regained consciousness.

The cigarette he had been holding in his mouth had already gone out.

But upon closer inspection, it gave Zhao Xiaoyang a fright.

Only to see that on the cigarette paper there was a tiny handprint!

It was as if a very small child had pressed a wet hand onto it.

Zhao Xiaoyang quickly grabbed his phone and took a picture.

The tent had been blown away, but the iron frame standing at the cave entrance remained.

He hurriedly took the spare tent from the vehicle…

In the underground cavern.

Qi Yao picked up the scalpel and pried open the broken wax chunks.

An infant's corpse appeared, looking quite fresh.

"Ah—"

Suddenly, the infant opened its mouth and let out a cry.

Lin Feng and Liu Erwa were startled.

Only Qi Yao looked intrigued.

She glanced up at Lin Feng and Liu Erwa.

Lin Feng gave Liu Erwa a look, and the two turned away.

Qi Yao brandished the scalpel…

After a few minutes, Qi Yao calmly said, "All done!"

Lin Feng rubbed his nose.

Just now he smelled a foul odor.

After turning around, Qi Yao had already buried the infant's corpse with wax chunks.

Many of the wax chunks had turned red.

Qi Yao calmly explained, "It's because it had been sealed for a long time, the temperature inside the belly was low; when it encountered slightly warmer outside air, it expanded, and as the gas in the lungs was expelled, it vibrated the vocal cords."

She finished speaking, and Liu Erwa exclaimed, "Professor Qi, you know so much; just now, that crying sound almost scared me to death."

"And also this… found inside the corpse's belly."

Qi Yao took out a transparent glass tube, inside of which was a piece of black, metal‑like material.

Lin Feng, with his keen eyesight, immediately saw strange characters etched on the metal piece.

The characters were the same as those behind the statue—cursed script.

Lin Feng produced a lighter and set the red woman's garment ablaze.

Soon, a massive flame roared up in the hole.