I Received Messages From Future Self!-Chapter 293 - 289 Sudden Change
Chapter 293: Chapter 289 Sudden Change
Chapter 293 -289 Sudden Change
“Crack crack crack…”
As the cracks on Taoyong’s thigh grew larger and larger, pieces of terracotta began to detach from Taoyong, revealing strings of thumb-sized, oval eggs within him.
The egg-shaped objects within Taoyong, no longer restricted by the terracotta, finally lost their balance after a piece of terracotta fell off, tilting and pouring out of Taoyong’s body, piling up at his feet.
And more and more piled up, soon forming a small mound, plugging the hole on Taoyong’s thigh.
“Crack~”
A sound of an eggshell breaking abruptly rang out.
The egg at the very top suddenly cracked.
The broken egg writhed.
A shiny black leg emerged from the gap in the egg.
The next second!
A fearsome head popped out of the egg.
It was a thumb-sized black beetle.
The black beetle thrashed about for a while.
Making a “buzz buzz” sound.
The beetle took flight.
With the beetle’s takeoff,
A flurry of “rustle rustle” sounds came from the mound of eggs.
Then, the pile of eggs began to collapse.
One after another, beetles took flight.
Together with the first beetle, they circled around the burial pit of the trusted aide, lingering continuously.
As time went on, more and more black beetles emerged from Taoyong’s body, joining the ranks of the hovering beetles.
Until no more beetles crawled out from within Taoyong.
Only after all the eggs on the ground had hatched did these beetles fly toward the eighteen Stone Coffins, a dark mass of beetles densely packed around one of the coffins, making it completely airtight.
“Crack crack crack…”
“Rustle rustle rustle…”
A dense and constant noise arose from among the beetles, merging into a strange sound that made one’s scalp tingle.
As the beetles vibrated incessantly, a beeswax plug the size of a chicken egg on the side of the Stone Coffin, gnawed away by the beetles, revealed a passage leading into the Stone Coffin, from which a strange fragrance wafted, instantly filling the entire burial pit.
Upon smelling this odd fragrance, the beetles went mad, one after another, clambering over each other to crawl through the fragrant passage into the Stone Coffin.
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of large beetles had all swarmed into the Stone Coffin, as if they had never appeared, leaving only the hollowed-out Taoyong and his desiccated skeletal remains behind, silently telling of their past ordeal.
…
Fang Xiaocao and her two companions, following Taotie’s lead, quickly left the area of the burial pit of the trusted aide and came to another tomb chamber.
This chamber was also a burial pit.
However, it was no longer a burial pit for guards and trusted aides.
It was an animal burial pit.
To be precise, a warhorse burial pit!
The warhorse burial pit contained the same number of entombed warhorses as the previous pit for the trusted soldiers.
The remains of eighteen real horses were neatly scattered across the pit, and behind the skeletons of the eighteen horses were Pottery Horses, equal in number to Taoyong.
But these Pottery Horses were clearly not as exquisitely crafted as Taoyong; their rough and shoddy workmanship was evident. Some of the Pottery Horses could no longer withstand the erosion of time and had become incomplete or even collapsed, turning into a pile of terracotta pieces on the ground.
“This place is also a burial pit, prepared for those guards and trusted aides to have warhorses so that they could become Underworld Soldiers and Underworld Horses, continuing to campaign for the tomb owner even in the Underworld,”
Taotie said with a smile to Fang Xiaocao and the two companions.
“If I haven’t guessed wrong, the next chamber should be the armory,”
Taotie surmised based on his experience.
“Armory?”
“But don’t those Taoyongs already possess weapons?”
Fang Xiaocao asked in confusion.
“Those are just standard weapons, but you’d still find a variety of weapons used in ancient warfare.”
Taotie explained.
Hearing this, Fang Xiaocao nodded, her understanding seeming somewhat incomplete.
She didn’t dwell on it much longer.
After wandering around the pit with the war horses without finding anything of interest, Fang Xiaocao lost her enthusiasm. Seeing her expression, Taotie knew she wasn’t interested here, so he moved on toward the next tomb chamber.
Just then!
Tom’s footsteps suddenly halted, and he turned his head with a grave expression, looking behind him.
Following suit, Taotie also sharply turned to look back.
Hummingbird, the last of the three to react, swiftly drew her dagger from her waist and simultaneously pulled Xiaocao behind her.
Seeing Tom and his companions on high alert, Fang Xiaocao was first startled then belatedly realized that there might be some noise coming from a tomb chamber behind them.
It was highly likely that an enemy had caught up.
Thinking there might be an enemy, Xiaocao also drew her gun with a “click” as she chambered a round, her other hand holding a few steel nails.
Compared with her marksmanship, Xiaocao had more confidence in her steel nails.
“Hummingbird, can you tell if it’s a person or an animal approaching?”
Xiaocao whispered.
“It should be a person, the footsteps are very heavy,”
Hummingbird whispered back.
Xiaocao nodded and didn’t ask any further.
Tom’s eyes quickly swept the surroundings.
He said, “Hummingbird, you take the Princess Your Highness and hide behind those pottery horses. Don’t come out unless absolutely necessary. Judging by the footsteps, there is only one person. Taotie and I can handle it.”
Hearing Tom’s command, Hummingbird nodded.
Without waiting for Fang Xiaocao to react, Hummingbird pulled her into hiding among the funeral pottery horses.
“Old Tom, you hide too,”
“Cover me with gunfire!”
“There’s only one person, but I’m worried it’s a trap,”
Taotie said to Tom with a heavy voice.
Tom hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
He thought Taotie’s concern was quite reasonable.
Tom glanced around once more, spotting a beam overhead in the tomb chamber and promptly took out his flying claw to hoist himself up.
Tom climbed onto the beam using the flying claw.
Squatting on the beam, Tom drew his gun and gestured an OK sign to Taotie looking up at him.
Taotie shifted his gaze back to the tomb chamber door.
He gripped his spear more tightly.
“Tramp tramp tramp…”
The heavy footsteps grew closer and closer.
Taotie furrowed his eyebrows, feeling something was off. By the sound of the footsteps, this person had to weigh around three hundred pounds.
Moreover, there was the sound of metal clashing within the footsteps, which made Taotie wonder if the approaching figure could be some kind of robot.
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With a thunderous boom, the tomb door was pushed open.
A tall figure clad in black full-body armor, wielding a strange dagger that gleamed coldly, with a metal mask in the shape of a demon’s face, appeared before Taotie’s eyes.
“What the hell?”
“Seeing a ghost?”
Upon seeing the figure, Taotie’s eyes widened in shock, and he could not help exclaiming aloud.
