49: Chapter 49 He couldn't hold back any longer!

Recalling that face, which still wore a faint smile even after falling to the ground.

A pang of regretful sorrow suddenly welled up in Professor Yang's heart.

He turned his head to look behind him at every one of the archaeological scholars who had followed him and completed several missions.

Everyone was deathly pale, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.

In his heart, he had long regarded these people as his own students.

He did not want to see anyone else die before his eyes.

These people were in the prime of their lives.

They were all the future pillars of the Great Xia Archaeological Team.

They could not just sacrifice themselves here in vain.

Thus, Professor Yang turned to look at the Bodyguard Team Captain beside him and said bitterly:

"We… let's retreat first!"

The Bodyguard Team Captain beside him was momentarily stunned upon hearing this.

Then he turned to look at Professor Yang beside him, observing the paleness on the latter's face and the trace of bitterness in his expression.

The Bodyguard Team Captain also seemed to understand something.

He nodded slightly, then turned to order the bodyguard personnel nearby:

"Scatter fire, cover the Archaeological Team's orderly retreat!"

"Yes!"

Immediately after, gunfire in the corridor began to become sporadic and scattered.

Under the protection of the bodyguards, the Archaeological Team began to retreat rapidly and orderly towards the back of the corridor.

…

Meanwhile, the audience in the Live Stream Room watched this scene in the corridor and couldn't help but explode with reactions.

"What is this??? Bullets have almost no effect on these Terracotta Figures!"

"Are you kidding me, these Terracotta Figures are already dead! What effect do you think these bullets will have on Terracotta Figures? Kill them again?"

"I can't hold it anymore, how on earth did these Terracotta Figures come back to life?"

"I can't take it, I bet I'll have nightmares tonight after watching this!"

"I feel like throwing away all my life-sized anime figures at home right now! I really can't take it anymore!"

"Too terrifying! I really can't hold it anymore!"

…

In the Seminar Hall, the experts looked at the scene before them, their faces deathly pale.

No one knew how these Terracotta Figures had come back to life.

Now, only two words kept flashing in their minds—Absurd!

Too absurd!

They had excavated countless ancient tombs, big and small, but this was the first time such a terrifying scene had occurred.

Suddenly, an eerie atmosphere permeated the hall.

Panic enveloped everyone's hearts.

Professor Zhou stared at this scene on the central big screen, his gaze flickering uncertainly.

He reached out his hand several times, wanting to press the button on his headset to give commands to the Archaeological Team's operation.

But after hesitating, Professor Zhou finally lowered his hand powerlessly.

He also had no way to deal with these eerie Terracotta Figures; this ordeal could only be endured by the Archaeological Team themselves.

If he were to command them blindly and forcefully.

It would not only fail to help the Archaeological Team but would very likely lead to chaos.

So now, everyone could only pray silently, hoping that the Archaeological Team would be okay.

…

Corridor

The members of the Archaeological Team, under the protection of the bodyguards, kept moving through the corridor.

In these corridors, there were many forks in the road.

But because the situation was urgent, they had no time to think; they turned through countless side paths along the way, traveling a long distance through the corridors.

But… they seemed to have underestimated these Terracotta Figures.

No matter how they circled in the corridors, it was as if these Terracotta Figures had installed trackers on the members of the Archaeological Team.

Every time the Archaeological Team thought they had shaken off these Terracotta Figures.

These Terracotta Figures would always accurately find the Archaeological Team's location.

The Archaeological Team had been running in the tomb until now, unable to even catch a breath.

They could only keep running in the tomb, avoiding these Terracotta Figures.

And at this moment, after turning through several side paths, the Archaeological Team suddenly discovered… they had walked into a dead end!

Both sides of this passageway were made of blue stone walls, with two rows of candlesticks hanging on them.

At the end of the fork, there was a thick wall.

The Bodyguard Team Captain stepped forward and knocked, and two dull sounds immediately came from behind the wall.

Immediately, everyone's hearts sank to the bottom.

It was obvious that this seemed to be a solid wall.

In other words, they had truly entered a dead end.

The Bodyguard Team Captain's gaze sharpened as he looked at the distant corridor, which was already submerged in darkness.

"Let's go, leave here, we'll change direction!"

As he spoke, the Bodyguard Team Captain prepared to lead everyone and run out of the corridor.

Preparing to enter another fork in the road.

"Hopefully it's still not too late!"

The Bodyguard Team Captain couldn't help but mutter to himself.

The members of the Archaeological Team behind him also immediately followed the bodyguards and ran quickly back in the direction they had come from.

However, heaven did not grant their wish.

Just as they stood up, chaotic and heavy footsteps suddenly came from the direction they had just come from.

Everyone's faces became deathly pale at this moment.

Their eyes also turned lifeless and gray in that instant.

These were the footsteps of the Terracotta Figures.

They… had already caught up.

At this point, it was already too late to go back to the fork in the road they had come from and change direction.

Otherwise, they would inevitably bump into these Terracotta Figures.

Suddenly, the Archaeological Team fell into a panic.

"It's over! There's nowhere left to run! Are we going to die here?"

One of the Archaeological Team members burst into tears, their words filled with deep despair.

In this situation, the speed at which despair spread was beyond imagination.

In an instant, it seemed as if all the archaeological experts had given up resistance, and they all slumped to the ground.

Their eyes were already filled with the lifeless gray of despair.

They could all imagine what would happen next.

The scene of Xiao Liu's head being separated from his body couldn't help but flash before their eyes.

The scene of the head falling to the ground and blood spraying from the headless corpse appeared again.

And the rigid smile on Xiao Liu's severed head, which had fallen to the ground, seemed to have become everyone's nightmare.

At this moment, it was crazily eroding everyone's sanity.

It seemed to want to devour the last shred of composure in everyone.

Professor Yang, standing in the team, saw the appearance of his team members, and his face couldn't help but turn livid again.

He gritted his teeth hard, wanting to reprimand these team members, but in the end, he slowly sighed and said nothing.

Because he knew that at this time, saying anything was useless!

For no reason, Professor Yang recalled the scene when he first went into a tomb, where a mechanism designed in the coffin caused the corpse to sit up the moment the coffin was opened, and he was almost scared to the point of wetting himself.

Fear is not shameful, but if you cannot overcome fear, that is the most shameful thing!

Every archaeological worker needs to resist the fear caused by these supernatural occurrences on their own.

If they only rely on outsiders, they will never achieve anything in their lives.

Thinking this, Professor Yang slowly raised his head and looked at the distant corridor submerged in darkness.

As if he had already seen the fierce and wicked, eerie Terracotta Figures rushing towards them.

The world seemed to have become quiet at this moment!

Everyone in the corridor was waiting silently for the arrival of the Terracotta Figures at this moment.