Stranger Danger-Chapter 1144: You’re All Going To Die

Ye Qing chuckled. “Impressive, brother! You seem to know everything!”

“But of course!” Yi Pin declared proudly. “I was already tomb-raiding when these people were still playing with mud!”

“You’re a jack-of-all-trades, aren’t you?” Ye Qing gave him a thumbs-up.

The implication here was that Yi Pin was a master of none, but the jab bounced off the old Taoist’s back like water. “Yep! There’s no such thing as too many skills!”

“Yes, yes.” Ye Qing gave up trying to tease Yi Pin once he realized that subtle jabs like that wasn’t nearly enough to penetrate his thick face.

Meanwhile, a look of delight suddenly appeared on the face of the man with his whole arm sunk inside the mirror. Then, he slowly pulled out what looked like a wooden box that was painted gold.

“A golden box! There must be some good stuff inside!” All three men looked beyond delighted when they saw the box.

One man carefully removed the lid, and the next moment, dazzling golden light burst out of the box. It shot up into the sky and dyed the entire underground Buddhist temple gold.

A three-headed and six-armed Arhat could vaguely be seen standing at the center of the light. His presence was quite formidable.

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It took a dozen or so breaths before the golden light and the strange Arhat gradually faded into nothing. Sitting at the bottom of the box was a roll of sutra.

The sutra was overflowing with colorful lights and air of Buddhism. Even from a whole kilometer away, Ye Qing could still fill its vast and powerful presence.

That wasn’t all he could sense though. Underneath all that grandiose and spectacle, he could also sense subtle currents of darkness and evil.

“Hahaha! We’re rich! We’re rich!”

The three men laughed like madmen for a moment. Then, one of them closed the wooden box and urged their companion, “Well, what are you waiting for? Go check if there’s anything else to grab!”

His companion did not hesitate. He immediately plunged his arm into the Round Light Mirror and began fishing around once more.

“Got it!”

Just a few breaths later, the man’s eyes lit up, and he pulled out a tree branch. The tree branch was veluriyam in color and boasted seven flowers of seven colors. It was clear at first glance it was extraordinary.

“The Seven Treasure Veluriyam Branch?! I can’t believe it! Hahaha! This is it! This is the jackpot!”

The three Buddhist thieves laughed crazily. “Quick! Quick! There must be more treasures in this stupa! Get them!”

The man did not hesitate to put his arm into the Round Light Mirror a third time.

“Tsk tsk. Did they not know that too much greed always leads to great loss?”

Yi Pin shook his head when he saw this. “For a tomb raider or a treasure hunter, there is no bigger taboo than greed. In this trade, there is a popular saying that goes something like this: ‘Never explore a cave or search for a coffin more than once. Never take more than is necessary, and never take everything there is to take.’ In short, you should stop while you’re ahead. It is the same principle as not burning one’s bridges.”

It was at this moment Yi Pin noticed something. “Look, the color of the candle flame is changing.”

Right now, the candle flame was wobbling like someone was blowing at it. Not only that, its golden yellow flame was slowly but surely turning dark.

“Tsk tsk. A human lights, and a ghost extinguishes. The master of this stupa is warning these people to stop while they’re ahead.”

Yi Pin remarked scornfully, “If not, the candle will turn dark green, and it will be too late for them.”

Unfortunately for the three petite men, they were completely blinded by their greed. Not one of them noticed the changes happening to the candle flame.

“Oh no. Here comes trouble.”

The candle flame slowly turned dark green, and Yi Pin shook his head as if anticipating what was going to happen next.

He was right. As soon as he said this, the petite man with his arm inside the Round Light Mirror suddenly let out a bloodcurdling scream and fell on his butt. His right arm was missing, and the stump was shooting blood like crazy. It was bloody and terrifying.

“Shit! We need to leave, now!”

Finally snapping out of the haze of greed, the two men did not hesitate to grab the Round Light Mirror and climb up the rope with surprising speed. They did not try to save their companion at all.

“Help me! Help me!”

Eyes bulging, The man who lost his right arm screamed at his two companions.

“Help me… help me, you bastards!”

Large pools of blood dyed nearly the entire rooftop of the stupa red as the man crawled helplessly in the direction of the duo. For whatever reason, his mouth seemed to be growing bigger and bigger.

“If you won’t help me, then I’ll kill you!”

The next moment, the man’s face grew impossibly savage. At the same time, a bloody arm burst out of his mouth.

It was none other than the arm he had lost earlier.

“I’ll kill you both!”

The man leaped into the air, and the arm suddenly grew much, much longer than it had any right to be. His hand had grown many sizes as well. It crossed a dozen meters in an instant and grabbed the closest petite man.

The hole wasn’t big to begin with, so the large hand filled nearly the entire hole, giving the petite man no place to dodge. The large hand grabbed him just like that.

The petite man was a late-stage Spirit Master; a fairly strong warrior all things considered. Moreover, all tomb raiders or treasure seekers were masterful escape artists. Those who were not were simply dead.

The large hand seemed indestructible and unnaturally strong, however. No matter how hard the petite man struggled, he was unable to break free.

“Ahhhhh!!!”

The large hand squeezed, and the petite man exploded in a shower of blood and gore.

“Pull me up! Pull me up now!”

The last man of the trio was fairly close to his companion and so took a full spray of blood from head to toe. The sudden violence scared the absolute shit out of him and caused him to scream at the top of his lungs.

Right before the man would be caught by the large hand, a powerful force suddenly pulled him up and out of the hole in an instant.

“Block it now!”

After the petite man was out, a fearsome-looking man with short hair and one eye barked out an order.

The fearsome-looking man was the strongest warrior of the group; a Half-Step Trueman. He was clearly the leader as well.

It was obvious that this wasn’t the first time the group had encountered such a situation. As soon as the petite man was out, a couple of tomb raiders immediately lifted an oval-shaped stick of rock over to the hole and dropped it in.

The stick of rock was a perfect fit for the hole. It blocked the hole completely.

Boom!

The next moment, the large hand slammed into the stick of rock. The entire layer of ice seemed to be shaking from the impact.

The large hand was strong enough to crush even a Spirit Master into bits, but it failed to shatter the stick of rock. Not only that, every time it made contact with the rock, it sizzled as if the stick of rock was red hot metal.

However, the large hand—or rather, the petite man who seemed to have transformed into a Stranger—kept attacking the rock and the layer. He was covered from head to toe in blood, but he still pressed his face against the ice and glared at the humans above the ice, cackling.

“Keke… die. You’re all going to die!”

“Kekeke…”

The man’s strange cackle and words made the tomb raiders on the ground feel very uncomfortable. For whatever reason, they felt like something bad was about to happen.

Someone voiced their worry. “Are we safe, boss?”

“What do you think? Nothing will happen while I am here.”

The fearsome-looking man removed his eye patch to reveal a blue eye so pure and smooth it was like a jadestone. It was emitting a cold light and a vicious aura.

A moment later, the cold light of the eye slowly faded, and the fearsome-looking man moved his eye patch back into place. “I saw nothing. It’s all bark and no bite.”

The fearsome-looking man was called Blue-eyed Tiger. He was born with an unusual eye that could see ghosts and avoid evil. He later joined a gang called the Dragon Seeker Gang and learned how to seek treasures and raid tombs. His knowledge, skills, and eye gave him a distinct advantage over most of his competitors. Because his eye was as blue as the sky, and he was as ruthless, greedy, and cruel as they came, the people came to call him the Blue-eyed Tiger.