Chapter 128 There's a Ghost
After dinner, the follow-up work continued under the light.
The excavated bones were carefully placed in a wooden box.
The rest of the items that were cleaned out were carefully placed in boxes one by one because they were quite precious and sent back to the Archaeological Institute overnight.
Lin Xi read a book under the lamp for a while, went to a nearby resident's house to wash up, and then went to bed.
In the middle of the night, Lin Xi suddenly heard someone calling her.
She suddenly opened her eyes and saw a long shadow on the tent, accompanied by Chen Qianyu's sobbing voice, "Lin Xi, Lin Xi, wake up, I, I want to sleep with you."
Lin Xi unzipped the tent and Chen Qianyu rushed in holding a sleeping bag.
She moved in to make room, "What's wrong?"
Chen Qianyu hugged Lin Xi, "Yes, there is a sound."
"There really was a sound, coming from the box where the bones were kept."
The box containing the bones was not to be stolen, so it was just casually placed in the camp.
It wasn't far from their tent.
Lin Xi didn't use her spiritual sense, but listened first, and sure enough, she heard a strange sound, like someone grinding their teeth.
Chen Qianyu's face turned pale. "You heard it, didn't you? I didn't lie to you. The sound really came from that box."
"Before, I mustered up the courage to shout, 'Stop making noise,' and the sound disappeared."
"But after a while, it rang again."
"Tell me, will it be..."
She didn't dare to say anything more and hugged Lin Xi tightly.
Lin Xi was also a little surprised. Her spiritual sense swept towards the box, and her eyebrows slowly raised.
She crawled to the entrance of the tent, put on her shoes, bent down and went out.
Chen Qianyu said in horror: "Where are you going? You, you, you, don't leave me alone."
Lin Xi smiled and said, "I'm going to check out that box to see what's making the noise. Do you want to come with me?"
Chen Qianyu shook her head desperately. Lin Xi smiled and just turned around when she called out from behind, "Go, I'll go. Wait for me."
She put on her shoes and clung to Lin Xi like an octopus, and they walked together to the wooden box.
There was still noise coming from inside the wooden box. It was the middle of the night and right next to an ancient tomb, so it was no wonder Chen Qianyu was scared.
Lin Xi stretched out her hand and opened the box, and Chen Qianyu was so scared that she quickly closed her eyes.
Lin Xi touched her and said, "Don't be afraid. Open your eyes and see what's making that noise."
Chen Qianyu shook her head, "I don't dare."
Having said that, she secretly opened her eyes a little and looked into the box.
Lin Xi suddenly slapped the box, and a black shadow jumped out of the box and ran away quickly.
Chen Qianyu was almost scared to death, "What is that?"
Lin Xi chuckled, "It's a mouse!"
"The lid of the box wasn't closed before, so the mouse probably slipped in. Now that it's closed, it can't get out, so it must be causing trouble inside."
Lin Xi closed the box and said, "Let's go, let's go to bed."
Chen Qianyu hugged Lin Xi's waist and said, "You didn't lie to me, it really is a mouse?"
Lin Xi was helpless, "I let you see it, but you didn't dare to look at it. Why would I lie to you?"
"If you don't believe me, listen again later. There will definitely be no sound."
Chen Qianyu shook her head. "I don't care. Even if there's no sound, I still want to sleep with you."
"You are so powerful, even if there really is a ghost, I am not afraid."
Lin Xi was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. The two of them took off their shoes and went into the tent.
After a while, when Lin Xi was almost asleep, Chen Qianyu suddenly whispered, "There's really no sound anymore. It really was a mouse."
Lin Xi murmured "hmm" in a daze and soon fell asleep.
Next, every day was digging.
Some burial objects were found one after another.
In a blink of an eye, Lin Xi and his friends had been living in this wilderness for more than ten days.
That night, Lin Xi suddenly started having nightmares again in the middle of the night.
The scene before her death in her previous life appeared in her dream, playing over and over again as if in rewind.
Lin Xi woke up in a cold sweat and couldn't fall asleep again.
The space in the tent was small, and Chen Qianyu was sleeping next to him.
Lin Xi simply got up and walked out of the tent.
She cleared her mind and looked up at the stars in the night sky.
The autumn night was very cool. Lin Xi stood for a while and couldn't help but wrap her white cotton nightgown tightly around her body.
Suddenly, she caught a fleeting flash of light from the corner of her eye.
The location of the light is near the main tomb where the coffin will be opened tomorrow.
We dug until the evening today and basically dug out the coffin. As it was getting late, we didn't open the coffin.
Lin Xi turned around to look, but saw nothing.
She slowly turned her head, still looking at the sky, but released her spiritual sense.
She "saw" several furtive figures in the pit where the coffin was, trying to pry open the coffin lid.
This coffin is much larger than other coffins that have been unearthed and the wood used is also better.
It would be difficult to open the coffin lid without seven or eight strong men.
Although she knew that these people were unlikely to steal anything, Lin Xi couldn't let them steal.
She walked slowly towards the pit.
In the silent night, Lin Xi's footsteps were particularly clear.
The three people in the pit heard it and became nervous. "Someone is coming? What should we do?"
"Let's run quickly."
A brave man listened carefully and said, "Don't worry, it seems there is only one person."
The other man patted him and lowered his voice, "Are you stupid? Even if there's only one of us, if he finds out we're here and starts yelling, everyone will wake up. How can we still escape?"
The brave ones thought he made a lot of sense and said, "So what are you waiting for? Run!"
"Run to the stairs!"
The pit is several meters deep. Except for the steps dug out specially, the walls are all mud, so you can only go up this way.
A few people ran to the stairs and as soon as they came up, they saw a woman in a white long dress with disheveled hair standing in front of them.
Digging a grave in the middle of the night was scary enough, but suddenly a woman with disheveled hair appeared. The people were frightened out of their wits and ran away shouting "Ghost!"
The shrill cry quickly woke up the archaeologists in the tent.
One by one they crawled out of the tent.
Lin Xi naturally couldn't let them run away.
She picked up a small stone from the ground and threw it at the fastest runner.
The small stone hit the man's knee, and his legs went limp and he fell to the ground.
Then Lin Xi ran towards the one closest to her and slashed his neck with a knife, and the man fell straight down.
There was another person running in another direction. He took the time to look back and saw that the female ghost in white knocked him down with just one move. He became even more horrified and ran away.
Lin Xi quickly caught up.
Seeing that he was not far away, he kicked him in the back. The man staggered and fell forward.
Lin Xi grabbed his collar and dragged him towards the camp.
(End of this chapter)
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