Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 243

Chapter 243

Orange flames flickered, driving back the darkness in the passage.

The young man tried to take a torch down from the wall, only to flinch back several times when drops of lamp oil fell from it.

“I’ve suggested many times that the torches here should be replaced with Fluorite Lamp.”

At last, Lance managed to remove the torch. As he walked, he said, “But Father is old-fashioned and has never agreed, so we’ve had no choice but to keep using traditional torches.”

The passage was filled with the stale smell of air that barely moved. In the silence, only the sound of their footsteps remained.

Beili gave a quiet “Mm” and followed behind him. Seeing the passage gradually widen, she couldn’t help asking, “So where is this?”

“This is the Tomb of the Former King of Tilisha.”

A smile appeared on Lance’s face as he answered in a light tone.

“A tomb…”

Beili murmured the word, her brows drawing together slightly. “Then won’t there be traps or mechanisms or something?”

After all, that was how it always went in movies.

Hearing her words-

“Traps and mechanisms? Of course there are-”

When he turned around again, his long, narrow fox-like eyes narrowed slightly. In a mysterious tone, he said, “Haven’t you noticed I’ve been holding your wrist this whole time, Luoluo? If I accidentally let go, and you happen to take one wrong step, the walls on both sides will immediately shoot out a barrage of poisoned arrows and turn you into a hedgehog.”

His dark eyes swept around them.

“Not only that, sharp blades will drop from above your head at the same time, and one-meter-tall spikes will rise from beneath your feet. All the mechanisms will activate at once.”

Beili: …

“You’re joking.”

Beili’s tone was calm. It was a statement, not a question.

But she quietly flipped her hand over and, in a very life-preserving manner, tightened her grip on the young man’s hand.

“That’s right. I was joking.”

Lance burst into laughter, the sound echoing through the passage.

After walking through the long passage, they arrived in a spacious treasure chamber.

Inside were piles of gold, gemstones, pearls, and all kinds of exquisite vessels, heaped up like little mountains.

“Anything you like, Luoluo?”

The young man pointed at the glittering jewelry piled on the ground and said, “Although I’ve heard all these treasures have been cursed, and even if you take away a single gold coin, you’ll die suddenly within a few days.”

Smiling, he continued, “But it’s fine, Luoluo. When I was little, I often came in here and took away pretty things, and nothing ever happened to me. So that curse is fake.”

“So don’t worry. If you see anything you like, just take it. It’s only gathering dust here anyway.”

As Lance spoke, he picked up a brooch shaped like a scarab and pieced together from multicolored gemstones, then gently pinned it to her sleeve.

Beili: …

How would she dare take it?

After the young man turned away, Beili silently removed the brooch and carefully put it back where it had been.

After leaving the treasure chamber, the next stone room was the main burial chamber, filled with stone coffins.

“Luoluo, look. That over there is the stone coffin of the Former King of Tilisha-my grandfather.”

The young man pointed at the largest stone coffin in the chamber.

Then he pointed at the other coffins, which were arranged neatly throughout the room, and explained, “As for these, they all belonged to people the Former King once favored. Some were the Former King’s Concubine, and some were his servants.”

Beili glanced around and saw that every stone coffin had been painted with special colored pigments to depict what its owner had looked like in life.

But who brought a friend to tour their family ancestral tomb?

Not knowing what to say, she could only nod and sigh. “These stone coffins… mm… are arranged very neatly.”

Beili sensed them briefly. She could feel some Mana belonging to the dead within the coffins, but it was not particularly dense.

Besides, most of these people were Lance’s elders. Even if Lance agreed, she would be too embarrassed to absorb it.
So when Lance led her toward the next stone chamber, Beili left without the slightest reluctance.

…

The next stone chamber was somewhat beyond her expectations.

Before she even stepped inside, a damp breath of air rushed over her face.

That was rare in Tilisha.

Although Tilisha had rivers, and rain fell at night, the air was more often dry.

The sound of rushing water drifted over.

She saw a curtain of water hanging like a door, separating the stone chamber within from the passage outside.

“Every time I pass through here, it soaks my fur.”

She heard Lance say helplessly.

Then the boy let go of her hand. A light breeze brushed past her, and a fox with fiery red fur darted out with nimble grace.

It traced a beautiful arc through the air.

“Luoluo, come on in. If you fly fast enough, you won’t get wet.”

The boy’s voice came from behind the curtain of water.

Beili lifted her hand slightly. The swarm of butterflies resting behind her hair flew out, arranging themselves into an arch in the water curtain and guiding the water to either side.

She walked in.

She saw that the ground where the water curtain flowed was covered in a layer of emerald moss, while a beam of light refracted down from a mirror directly overhead.

The hazy light fell on a rock on the ground.

The rock jutted abruptly from the moss, its curve gentle, its shape like a small bed.

Seeing the girl without a single drop of water on her, the fox miserably shook out his wet red tail.

Then one of the Morpho Butterflies flew over and paused on him.

The next second, all the moisture on his body vanished.

“…”

Lance silently swore in his heart that starting tomorrow, he would definitely study magic seriously.

The fox shook out his fur, then leaped onto the rock and lay down sideways, looking relaxed and lazy.

Beili finally understood what this rock was for.

But that was not the point. The point was, why had the boy brought her here?

What she wanted to find was clearly the place in Tilisha most saturated with evil.

But after looking around all this way, aside from those stone coffins, she truly could not sense any Mana that might be hidden here.

As she was thinking this, the red-furred fox lying on the rock shifted over, making a little space.

His pointed fox muzzle split open, revealing sharp teeth.

The boy’s voice came from inside:

“Luoluo-hurry up and use Beast Transformation. There’s still room here. Mm-hm, it’s more than enough for you.”

Beili blinked her red eyes lightly and sighed inwardly.

Since she was already here, she might as well see what trick the fox had up his sleeve.

And so, she used Beast Transformation.

She became a butterfly with shimmering blue-green wings and landed lightly on the empty spot on the rock.

“And then?”

The butterfly spoke in the girl’s voice.

“Don’t rush. I’ll show you right now. Just wait.”

The boy’s cheerful voice came from the fox.

After that, Beili heard the boy softly recite an incantation, and a ball of light lit up before the fox and the butterfly.

But it only lasted a few seconds before going out.

“Damn it…”

Beili heard the boy curse under his breath from the fox’s pointed, open mouth.

“What’s wrong?” Beili asked.

“Nothing, nothing. Give me a moment. Let me try a few more times.”

Lance answered.

Then she heard the boy muttering from within the fox again:

“This is bad… I think it’s been too long since I went to magic class. I’ve forgotten the incantation.”

Beili: …

Under the butterfly’s quiet gaze, the fox recited it several more times.

At last, a stable sphere of light shone in the dimness, brightening the entire stone chamber considerably.

“All right, all right. Now let’s look at the walls.”

The fox spoke in the boy’s bright voice.

As the ball of light dispelled the darkness, Beili finally saw clearly that the walls of this stone chamber were covered in brightly colored murals.