Chapter 913: Self-Destruction (5)
Yang Ruxin nodded, "So that means, even if there was something here before, it’s all been taken by these people now." Waving her hand, she added, "Let it be, we have already paid our respects, let’s put the lid back on." As she spoke, she clasped her hands together and bowed toward the two people inside the coffin, "Sorry for the disturbance, please forgive us."
Gu Qingheng then went over to lift the lid of the coffin, but Xiaolun, who had been wrapped around his wrist, suddenly shot into the coffin.
"What are you doing? Is there something highly toxic in there too?" Yang Ruxin called out to Xiaolun urgently, "Come back quickly."
Xiaolun, however, didn’t listen to her at all. It made a round inside the coffin before emerging, with a green pearl the size of a pigeon’s egg, the very one inlaid in the center of Zhao Gou’s hat, in its mouth.
"Is that pearl poisonous too?" Yang Ruxin frowned, "Since when did you start being greedy for wealth?"
Xiaolun twisted its body, unable to speak because it was holding the pearl, so it was impossible to know what it meant.
Just then, a gust of cold wind arose, and the candles at the four corners started to flicker. Furthermore, the red flames began to change color, slowly turning blue-green.
"This is bad," Yang Ruxin’s complexion changed, "Xiaolun, quickly put the pearl back..."
But Xiaolun ran off slickly.
"What’s going on?" Gu Qingheng asked as he had just managed to push the lid closed.
"There’s a saying ’when men light candles, ghosts blow them out’; it’s a rule among the tomb raiders, that if candles are extinguished, one cannot take anything away. But Xiaolun took the pearl from Zhao Gou’s hat..." Yang Ruxin swallowed nervously, "So... we need to get out of here quickly, or else... "
As she was speaking, a clattering noise suddenly erupted from inside the coffin.