My first reaction after realizing that the mechanism had been triggered was to tackle Song Laosan and the monkey to the ground.

Before I could even get up, I saw Ivan pointing a gun at me, and my mind went completely blank.

Thump!

Before I could react, Song Laosan next to me had already pulled the trigger.

The shotgun fired at close range shattered Ivan's head, spraying blood all over me.

"Easy to get a user!"

Sasha was already prepared to betray us. When he saw Song Laosan fire his gun, he roared and raised his gun as well.

Now that things have come to this, our team has completely broken down. I know that Sasha and Ivan are both ruthless people who have lived on the edge, so I steeled myself and fired at him too.

Thump!

My shot missed Sasha because Zhou Peng tackled him as soon as I pulled the trigger, and the gun went off accidentally as he fell, sending sparks flying off the wall.

This shotgun has a lot of recoil. I fired a shot hastily, and my chest was throbbing painfully from the butt of the gun. Even breathing became difficult, but I still managed to reach into my pocket to take out another bullet.

As soon as I reached out my hand, I heard Sasa let out a hysterical scream. I instinctively shone my flashlight in the direction of the scream, and my mind went blank.

When I fired the shot, I initially thought Zhou Peng's actions were to save someone, but I saw Zhou Peng lying on top of Sasha, biting her neck tightly, with blood gushing from her artery like a fountain, staining her cheeks red.

At this moment, Zhou Peng's movements were strange; he didn't look like a human at all, but rather more like a wild beast, his head constantly shaking.

"Go to hell!"

Seeing Zhou Peng's strange behavior, the monkey raised the gun in its hand.

"roar!"

As soon as the flashlight shone on him, Zhou Peng let out a sharp roar and nimbly charged towards the corridor.

Thump!

As soon as the monkey fired the shot, Sasha, whose throat had been bitten off by Zhou Peng, was hit by a bullet and ended her suffering with convulsions.

"Xiao Duan! Get out of the way!"

Seeing that the monkey's first shot missed, Song Laosan loaded another bullet into the barrel and pointed it at the long corridor ahead.

Illuminated by the flashlight beam, Zhou Peng moved with the agility of a monkey, dashing off from the other side.

"Splash!"

The porcelain vases outside tilted and shattered under his impact.

Immediately afterwards, babies, each about the length of a forearm, rolled out of the broken porcelain bottle.

These little babies had their eyes closed and their skin was deathly pale. Apart from looking a bit shriveled due to dehydration, they looked no different from living people.

I saw the liquid soaking the little dolls flowing down the corridor and shouted, "My guess was wrong! These bottles are full of mercury! Everyone cover your mouths and noses and get out of here immediately! Be careful of mercury poisoning!"

Looking at the flowing mercury, the monkey, still shaken, reloaded the gun: "Young Master Duan, did you see Zhou Peng's eyes just now? That's not a human gaze at all. I feel like he's really possessed?"

I heard the sound of porcelain shattering coming from the other side of the hall, and I waved my hands repeatedly: "Never mind that! The mercury concentration outside is too high. The symptoms of acute mercury poisoning can kill a person within minutes. We have to leave as soon as possible!"

"Waaaaah!"

As I was speaking, the sound of a baby crying came from the corridor behind me again, and this time it was even louder, as if it were echoing in my ears.

Song Laosan looked at the babies floating on the mercury, then glanced at Sasha and Ivan's corpses, cursed under his breath, and strode into the corridor.

Our passageway is a downward staircase. The mercury from those jars flowing in will naturally follow our direction. Once this liquid metal evaporates, the resulting toxic gas can kill a person within minutes due to organ failure. The reason why the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum has not been excavated to this day is directly related to the large amount of mercury poured into the tomb.

To save my life, I covered my mouth and nose with my elbow and sped away behind Song Laosan.

After running about twenty meters, the road suddenly disappeared in front of us. The walls of the tomb passage were still on both sides, but the ground had turned into a deep pit more than ten meters long, with only four iron chains connecting it to the other side.

There was a constant sound of flowing water coming from beneath these iron chains, but when you shone a flashlight down, it was as if there was fog, and the bottom was nowhere to be seen.

Old Song stopped and asked me, "What's the deal with these iron chains? Could they be connected to mechanisms too?"

"If you want to set up a mechanism here, you can leave it empty! These iron chains are likely the suspension bridges used when the tomb was built, but the wooden planks on top have rotted away."

I stepped on an iron chain to test its weight-bearing capacity and said to the two of them, "These iron chains are quite sturdy. Let's use them to get to the other side. The cliff here can just stop the mercury behind us."

Because we didn't know the depth of the abyss beneath our feet, we could only crawl along the iron chains, the swaying of which echoed throughout the corridor.

"Giggle!"

As I crawled, the constant crying of babies surrounded me, making me restless.

Just as I had crawled three or four meters out, Zhou Peng's roar suddenly came from the corridor behind me.

Hearing the sound, Song Laosan, who was crawling on the iron chain next to me, bit his flashlight and shone it behind him.

Inside the corridor, Zhou Peng, like a gorilla in a zoo, was running towards us on all fours, splashing mercury everywhere with his movements.

Seeing Zhou Peng covered in blood, I instantly felt breathless.

At this point, we all had flashlights in our mouths, and to maintain our balance, our arms and legs were all hanging from the iron chains. We couldn't shoot at all, so we could only crawl faster to try and create distance between us.

Zhou Peng, in his frenzy, was much faster than I had imagined. He rushed to the edge of the cliff and, without stopping, jumped directly towards the monkey next to me.

"Splash!"

Zhou Peng grabbed the iron chain and, like a python, quickly gave chase.

As Zhou Peng began to move, the iron chain started to shake violently. In order to avoid being thrown off, the monkey could only hold on tightly to the iron chain to maintain its balance.

Song Laosan and I are seated together. I'm the second one from the left, Monkey is in the middle, and Song Laosan is on the far right.

Seeing Zhou Peng getting closer and closer to the monkey, Song Laosan spat out the flashlight and stretched out a hand to the monkey: "Grab my hand! Come over here!"

"roar!"

As Song Laosan reached out, Zhou Peng rushed behind the monkey, grabbed his leg, and opened his mouth to bite down on his ankle.