Chapter 703 (1/2)

The light above his head vanished and it was all silent around him There seemed to be just him left in the world the moment the marble slabs shut above hireater His thoughts noere not of exploring this underground world, but of how to get out!

Xia Lei’s first thought was to call the Zodiac teaet them to blast the marble slabs open However, he took out his phone and discovered that there was no phone signal, not even for the satellite phone He started to regret telling the Zodiac team not to follow him, because if they had co up the et hih, made it clear that this method would not work

Xia Lei looked around the square “hall” under the marble slabs He was disappointed to find that there was no openingelse other than the black bones and black stone walls

However, he gradually cal for a way out

‘I did not hesitate to become an enemy of the CIA and the FA in order to solve the mystery of the ancient alloy and AE I’ve even almost lost my life on several occasions What is this ers I face? Since I’ out of this I don’t believe that Leonardo da Vinci would put in so much effort to have ht He raised the light stick and walked into the passageway, determined

Step… step… step…

His footsteps echoed in the passageway, bouncing off the black stone walls and giving one the ilooroundindeed

Xia Lei did not walk fast He s — the air, the terrain, especially the stone beneath his feet He had to look at all of the

Fortunately, it seeround maze was a sealed space but the air in it was not stale at all There see for hi froeway quickly came to an end, and three pathways opened up before hiht

A dried-out corpse lay in the entrances of the left and right pathways The corpses had been preserved well, and the facial features of the dead could still be seen clearly Both corpses wore long white robes, and leather armour-jackets The emblem of the Crusaders was on their chests Weapons lay by the corpses too One was a heavy mace, and the other was a two-handed axe Both weapons were rusty with age and it was obvious that these were artifacts hundreds of years old

There was no way to find out why the corpses of two Crusaders would appear here, but Xia Lei kne they died Their bodies were riddled with crossbow bolts Soh their bodies, while some stuck out of their chests and their heads It was a horrifying sight From the positions in which the corpses lay, and the direction in which the bolts stuck out of their bodies, it was plain to see that the bolts had coht It looked like the left and right sides were dead ends, and full of traps

The path ahead looked very clean in comparison — no corpses, no crossbow bolts The middle path looked to be the path of survival It was safe

But Xia Lei knew that this was just an illusion He picked up the mace from the side of the corpse in the left pathway, then ca the rusted ed as soon as the mace left his hand, and hid behind a stone wall

Theon a stone tile in the ground before sliding forward The stone tile it had struck sunk visibly, and in a split second, there was a swishi+ng sound as a host of crossbow bolts burst forth like a flock of startled sparrows

Clink! dink! dink!

Sparks flew, and bolt after bolt struck the stone walls and the stone tiles It was very loud, and a terrifying number of bolts too!

Behind the stone wall, Xia Lei broke out in cold sweat If he’d chosen to walk down the middle pathway, he would have been a human-shaped pincushi+on now

However, this was not due to his observational skills, but the map da Vinci had left on the canvas of the Mona Lisa This underground space was a h all the traps

Though Xia Lei had the whole o, he could not trust da Vinci fully This hy he had done that test He did not want to die for nothing because he’d trusted a man who had passed away It was a o after all, so ould he do if there were discrepancies?

After the crossbow bolts had been released, Xia Lei went to the pathway on the right He picked up the two-handed axe from the side of the Crusader, then threw it into the pathway on the right

Swish, swish, swish…