Chapter 343 - To-Mei (1/2)

There was no light beyond the stone slab; it was absolute darkness Xia Lei’s left eye could see in darkness but this light-less environment affected his ability too He could only see close to 20 e behind the stone slabs

There wasn’t anything e Floor, walls and roof were the sa An oil lae walls The lamps were Pashtun-style duck-billed oil lahts’

He did not know if the lamps were a few hundred years old or over a thousand years old The copper was covered in corrosion and would obviously never light up again

Xia Lei stopped using his X-ray vision since he could see no further He reached out to push at the stone slab before hie Xia Lei turned back and got the iaps between the slabs to destroy its stability before pushi+ng at the slab again He h for hio in ihter to test the air inside The flahter was normal and it moved a little as a result of a bit of an airflow in the passage

‘Is there a vent?’ Xia Lei ith curiosity There was no probleanised his backpack after entering and followed the stone slabs further in

He could see 20 y He turned on the tactical torchlight provided by Bureau 101 The torchlight could ‘see’ places further than his eye could in this colad to let his eye rest

Tip-tap, tip-tap…

Xia Lei’s footsteps echoed in the stone passageway and it sounded like several people alking A strange shadow appeared occasionally in the torchlight’s radius as if there was a ghost lurking in the dark The hair of even the bravest of men would stand on end if put in an environeas not level but slanted doards Xia Lei counted his steps as he went and only saw the end after counting over a thousand steps 1,400 steps - this stone passageas 700perpendicular but the incline of the passageas easy enough to calculate The end of the passageas located 100and a drop of 100 round, this was a great feat of engineering It was difficult to io were able to built this underground world

At the end of the passageas a thick stone door two h at least a few tonnes

Xia Lei glanced at the co straight at the stone door and tre I’ for must be behind the stone door’ Xia Lei was excited as he walked to it

There was a relief sculpture on the stone door of a girl froirl was vividly lifelike, poised, graceful and elegant, and it looked like she would step out of stone at any moment

Two Chinese characters were carved over the door: Mei Mound

‘This -Mei’s burial to-Mei, Zhu Ning-Yue’

There was no lock on the door or any sort of latch Xia Lei examined it closely, then went close to the stone door and called forth his X-ray vision to look beyond it

The stone door was about a foot thick and was of norh it easily with his power noever, soe happened The back of the stone door seelue and his vision was ‘stuck’ in it right after it went through, like it had gone into mud It was difficult to even keep his vision there, and it was costing hiy

What was this?

Xia Lei was stunned He stopped using his X-ray vision

This was his first tiot his X-ray ability

‘Who would put glue on the back of a tomb door?’ Xia Lei could not think of a reason why

He was unable to see through it and unable to open it - Xia Lei was left with only extreme options He pulled his backpack off his shoulders and took out the explosives which Bureau 101 had air-dropped to hi device He put four of these units in four gaps around the door and backed away He detonated the device

Booe stone door thudded to the floor

Squeaking cae, black mass suddenly rushed at him frooosebumps and he held his head with his arms as he threw himself to the floor

The bats did not let him off and had him surrounded in the blink of an eye He felt every bite and every grab at his clothing while flat on the floor, and all of his exposed skin becaet of the bats’ attack The bats bit at his flesh and sucked at his blood!