Chapter 589: This World Has No Ghosts

"Old Guo should have given birth by now, right?"

"If we calculate the time, it's about right."

"Should we go back and take a look?"

"I think we should forget it; I don't really want to go."

"That's true; anyway, we're not close to Old Guo."

"Even if the person isn't here, the gift should still be delivered!"

"Alright! I'll make a call now and have someone send a big red envelope over."

Tang Mi and Ouyang Moli gathered together, quietly chatting about Guo Yanru giving birth.

Not far away, Qi Yao was leaning against a large stone, closing her eyes to rest.

Don't be fooled by Qi Yao's calm exterior; she actually worries about her son.

When she went back last Monday, it scared her badly.

Lin Shiyi actually hasn't eaten anything for two days!

This made his parents extremely anxious, yet they couldn't get in touch with her.

The little one is too picky, won't drink milk formula, and even finding a wet nurse doesn't work.

He can actually tell the difference in the food's origin.

Before coming out this time, they had prepared a week's worth of meals for him in advance.

Each day they saved half, packed it well, used cold sterilization, then stored it at low temperature.

After trying it, Lin Shiyi finally stopped being picky.

But there's only enough for seven days, maybe it'll run out in six, so we need to finish things here quickly to go back and focus on the child.

They also took leave from school.

Fortunately, they are all top students from the medical college; Qi Yao listed out the knowledge that needs rote memorization in advance, letting them study on their own.

As for the research on that Bracelet, only a few days have passed and there's still no result.

"Boom~"

An explosion sound came from not far away.

Moments later, the walkie-talkie crackled with Zhao Xiaoyang's voice: "The treasury has blown open."

Qi Yao opened her eyes and stood up.

Not far away, Tang Mi and Ouyang Moli had just finished their phone call.

They also got up and walked toward the direction of the explosion.

This time the treasury's location is somewhat special: instead of hollowing out the mountain's interior, it was dug straight down from the ground.

When excavating, they evidently made use of the local terrain structure.

It's not a fortification, but a cave specifically dug for burying things.

It's pretty much like the cave where the witch sisters are located on the grassland.

When Lin Feng left, he pointed out that the estimated amount of buried gold here is relatively large.

Because when listening to the sound, he heard the noise made when gold collides.

Moreover, this place was originally a small gold mine known to few, with high elevation and good concealment, making it an ideal treasure hiding spot.

When Qi Yao arrived, she saw Zhao Xiaoyang and Liu Erwa, plus five young people sent from the island, standing far away.

An extremely cold and yin aura surged out from the exploded cave mouth.

Although the temperature here is quite high, like summer, the feeling is that this current seems to have crossed over from Antarctica.

It feels extremely cold, yet the thermometer still shows a temperature of 29 degrees Celsius.

It's really too strange!

Of course, this is just the feeling of Zhao Xiaoyang and Liu Erwa.

"Ghosts! This time there really are ghosts—I saw them, I really saw them!"

Liu Erwa pointed at the cave mouth, his face full of shock.

Qi Yao stepped forward, shone a flashlight down, and said lightly: "It's an illusion, the red lines at the bottom of the cave can affect people's vision,"

"Maybe when the airflow passes through the grooves it produces some sound, creating an illusion… or I should go down first!"

Qi Yao's words calmed Zhao Xiaoyang and Liu Erwa considerably.

Next, everyone got busy, spending over ten minutes to erect a sturdy metal triangular frame at the cave mouth.

They hung a pulley on the triangular frame and threaded a rope through the pulley.

After checking the rope and finding no problem, Zhao Xiaoyang said to Qi Yao: "Sister-in-law, it's good."

"Let's change it!"

Qi Yao shook her head.

Zhao Xiaoyang was puzzled.

Qi Yao looked at Liu Erwa.

Only saw Liu Erwa holding a knife, having cut the rope halfway.

Seeing Qi Yao and Zhao Xiaoyang looking at him, Liu Erwa asked blankly: "What are you looking at ***?"

Zhao Xiaoyang frowned and said: "Liu Er, you brat, why are you cutting the rope?"

Liu Erwa looked bewildered: "No! I was checking the rope; look, isn't the rope fine?"

Obviously, Liu Erwa has been bewitched.

A young man from the Ouyang family walked over, took out a bottle, and poured a bottle of reddish substance onto Liu Erwa's head.

Liu Erwa shivered, came to his senses, and looked at his hand.

Ah?!

How come I'm gripping a knife in my hand?

And the rope—it's actually been cut in half!

"No... I, I didn't mean to do this; this, what's going on?"

Liu Erwa looked flustered, utterly at a loss.

Just now, what he himself did, he himself didn't even know.

What had just been poured on his head was black dog blood.

Didn't expect it to be quite effective.

Tang Mi and Ouyang Moli felt the chilling wind, and upon seeing Liu Erwa, whose mind was bewildered and who didn't even know what he was doing, they both looked horrified.

What's even more terrifying is... under a nearby stone, a mouse is gnawing at its own belly.

It looks terrifying and disgusting.

The surrounding birds were scared away by the explosion, but the insects didn't flee; instead, they all lay motionless on the ground.

Even in place, staying still, one could hear the insects' "chi-chi" calls.

However, now the surroundings have become utterly silent, not even a wind sound.

The terrifying aura, centered on the cave, slowly spread outward.

In this stillness, Zhao Xiaoyang clenched his fist, slowly reaching his hand to his waist and gripping his handgun.

The five Ouyang family members behind him had bloodshot eyes, and their expressions gradually turned ferocious.

"You all leave first; wait for my notice."

Qi Yao's voice suddenly rang out.

Her voice, like a gust of wind, instantly blew away the terrifying aura.

"Hurry up and go!"

After Zhao Xiaoyang snapped to attention, he immediately grabbed Liu Erwa and ran off into the distance.

Tang Mi and Ouyang Moli, along with the five young Ouyang family members, also turned and ran.

They ran to a place where they could no longer feel the chilling aura before stopping.

At this moment, looking again at where the cave had appeared, somehow a light mist had arisen, and Qi Yao's figure was no longer visible.

As for Qi Yao here, there was nothing unusual.

She first put on an oxygen mask, then replaced a rope on the pulley.

The distance to the cave bottom wasn't great, so she simply tossed the rope down.

Wearing gloves on her hands, she directly gripped the rope and slid down.

After landing, she set the flashlight to a diverging beam and swept it around.

It must be said that Lin Feng's chosen spot was truly excellent.

Coincidentally, the exploded spot was the center of a strange formation.

Under Qi Yao's feet lay a huge rock, engraved with a circular rune formation drawn in strange script.

Looking up at the cave ceiling, there were dozens of desiccated corpses wearing red robes and the uniforms of Little Japan's minor officials.

They were hung by ropes, swaying slightly in the disturbance of the air currents.

Qi Yao recognized that the lines forming the rune formation were all Witch Tribe script.

The Witch Tribe are skilled at using visual, auditory, etc., energy to induce hallucinations, thereby creating a fear-inducing illusion realm.

This is merely another way intelligent life utilizes energy.

As for these hanging corpses, to Qi Yao they're useless, no different from bacon hung from the beams.

Of course, for others it's different.

Just a single swaying hanging corpse is enough to scare a timid guy into wetting himself.

Whatever terrifying illusion realm, chilly air—Qi Yao felt none of it.

Soon she determined that this place was actually, decades ago, a site where Little Japan researched Witch Tribe script, formations, and weapons.

Before Yamada Mitsumasa died, he indeed hadn't finished explaining.

The Witch Tribe corpses—such a major discovery—how could they possibly just dispose of them casually?

Moreover, not only the corpses, they also discovered the Witch Tribe's script……

As for afterwards, they hadn't even managed to research anything before being defeated by the Americans.

Next, these secrets were sealed away together with the gold.

It's even possible that the children who researched these things all ended up dead.

Qi Yao first walked forward along the narrow, elongated cave.

After walking several tens of meters, she saw an iron door.

The door was half-open.

She stepped forward and shone her flashlight inside; the interior was piled high with wooden boxes filled with gold.

Many of the boxes had rotted, and the gold bars inside had spilled out.

Looking further with the flashlight's beam, there seemed to be another passage ahead.

Qi Yao took a look, then returned to the location of the formation, and proceeded toward the other end of the cave.

The further she went, the larger the space became.

Inside the cave were many bronze-gold cast statues, all cut into pieces, piled up filling most of the cave.

Qi Yao walked forward a distance and discovered an office.

On the stone wall inside hung Little Japan's medicinal plaster flag.

Then there were various hand-drawn patterns, plus annotations marked in Japanese.

Qi Yao pulled open the drawer and found a work notebook.

She also understood Japanese; after flipping through the notebook, she realized that the Japanese research was merely to imitate the Witch Tribe's magic formation and mass-produce sea conch shells.

Although progress was slow, there were still some results.

At least for researching these, they filled in thousands of lives……

Qi Yao organized these materials and intended to take them away.

As for the so-called magic formation that creates illusions, just destroy it.

Qi Yao was about to turn and leave when suddenly the airflow behind her was disturbed.

She turned around and saw a woman in a white kimono, her face as pale as snow, her eyes empty and without pupils, her hair disheveled, standing close by.

Qi Yao widened her eyes.

Not fear, but curiosity.

What kind of structure is this thing?

She took out a scalpel from her pocket and slowly brought the blade tip toward the white face.

Pfft~

When the scalpel tip touched the cheek, the kimono woman deflated like a balloon, turning into a pile of skin that fell to the ground.

It turned out to be an extremely realistic inflatable skin doll!

Qi Yao shone her flashlight upward and saw several transparent threads falling from the cave ceiling, attached to the skin doll.

No ball meaning.

Qi Yao went around the skin doll, left the office, and returned to the place where the exit was,

She looked at the magic formation on the ground, picked up a military sword from the ground.

After chopping for a while, she finally broke the magic formation.

When the air flowed, the sound waves produced by the grooves of the magic formation, as well as the Witch Tribe characters that could affect vision, were destroyed in this way.

Half an hour later.

Zhao Xiaoyang and Liu Erwa, who were already in the cave, along with Tang Mi and Ouyang Moli, listened to Qi Yao's narration, all with looks of surprise.

So that's how it is!

Liu Erwa felt that he had learned something again.

"That is to say, when we see the mist, we have not actually escaped the influence of this energy?"

Tang Mi asked curiously.

Qi Yao nodded and said: "Yes, these sound waves cannot travel through stone walls, but through the air.

"Once this place is opened, the energy spreads through the air; those who approach will unknowingly be confused, like frogs in warm water, without even realizing it."

"It's really terrifying!"

Ouyang Moli sighed.

Qi Yao said lightly: "In short, everything can be explained by science. This world has no ghosts; just remember that."

Tang Mi and Ouyang Moli exchanged a glance.

This trip wasn't in vain!

At last we got to see the strange and wonderful things in this world.

At the same time, they truly witnessed the boss's prowess!

If it were them, they would have already been scared to death.