The Lost Tomb : Sea Of Sands

Chapter 94: Cave of Conservation

Li Cu asked him, "What is it? You said we could just take what we wanted. This place is very strange, so we shouldn't stay long."

The other said, "I'm sorry, I lied to you about something. I could only tell you about it here."

Li Cu asked, "Can't it wait until we go up?"

The man looked at Li Cu and said, "I left out a part about that dream."

"What is it?" Li Cu asked.

"If we don't accomplish one thing in this cavern, we may all die here," The other side said.

Li Cu and Su Wan looked at each other.

"What is it?" Li Cu asked. "It's not some secret martial art is it?"

"No." The other side said, "This cave has to remain constant. If you take something out, you have to leave something in exchange." As he spoke, the white man weighed his bag, kicked away some small pieces of gold in front of him, and exposed a flat stone.

Li Cu saw that there were all kinds of mummified human organs on the stone, including fingers, hands, ears, teeth, rotting skin, and genitals.

"These were left behind by our predecessors." He pointed to a bronze turntable in the middle of the stone plate: "Turn this, and wherever the spoon lands, you have leave behind the organ that it points to."

There were patterns of various human organs, including eyes and tongues, carved around the spoon.

"It's a gamble." The man in white said, "This gold is more important to me than my life."

"We don't want it." Li Cu said. Who the fuck would risk cutting his little brother off to ask for a pile of gold?

"Sorry." The man in white smiled: "The number of people that go out must be the same as however many came in. If I choose gold, you also have to choose gold. Otherwise, the three of us can't go out. Unless—"

"Unless what?"

"Unless someone dies here."

Li Cu smiled and picked up a gold rod from among the piles of gold: "Then I'll have to beat the gold out of you." Just as he stepped forward, Su Wan suddenly squatted down beside him and held Li Cu's thigh.

"What are you doing?" Li Cu was dumbfounded, but at that moment, Su Wan suddenly pulled out a golden awl and stabbed Li Cu's ankle.

The sharp pain had Li Cu crying out "What the fuck is wrong with you?!"as he took a rod and knocked Su Wan away. In the same instant, all the gold around him disappeared and darkness enveloped him. All he could feel was a terrible pain in his ankle, as if someone was stabbing him with something.

He writhed in pain and heard someone shouting from under him: "Pear, wake up! You can't close your eyes."

The snake was wrapped around him so tightly that he was almost cramping up with pain, but he managed to shout, "I won't close them, can you stop fucking stabbing me?"

The person below him immediately stopped: "Sorry!"

Li Cu recognized Su Wan's voice. As soon as the pain in his ankle disappeared, however, Li Cu immediately felt off, and that misty feeling appeared again. He immediately shouted: "Don't stop, keep doing it!"

"Can you make up your mind?" Su Wan scolded, before immediately and quickly stabbing Li Cu a dozen times. Li Cu cursed: "Can you not be so extreme?!"

When Su Wan slowed down, Li Cu asked him what was going on. Su Wan said he had also been ensnared by the snake right after Li Cu had been grabbed by those vines. The two must have been dragged into the sand at almost the exact same time.