The Lost Tomb : Restart (The Sound Of Providence)

Chapter 137: Deep Connection to Thunder

I had heard about descending thunder immortals before. The leather figurine woman had already been burned, so had her soul returned to the thunder and come down to see me again?

Based on the previous situation, it wasn't infatuation, but a bug that had been flattened. Didn't they say it wasn't really human skin and had just been processed to look like a human?

I looked up at the rain clouds in the sky and saw that they were getting smaller and smaller. I started pulling Fatty back up the mountainside as those people continued standing there motionless in the rain.

After a while, the rain stopped and the thunder gradually faded away. Fatty and I were frozen, so I drank several mouthfuls of ginger ginseng wine to try and warm up while praying in my heart that I wouldn't catch a cold. When I swallowed the wine, I took some anti-inflammatory medicine as well. If I caught a cold now with my body like this, I would probably end up in the intensive care unit.

The group of people slowly started to move and began talking and laughing with each other. It almost seemed like they didn't care about the state they were in just now. Some people even took out notes and wrote some things down. I could vaguely hear them asking each other how they were doing before they started walking back.

Fatty and I shrank back and watched them climb up the mountainside in the distance. The man who had seemed to be possessed by the leather figurine woman's soul suddenly looked in our direction.

I shrank back in time and then followed them all the way back to the tulou. I immediately went back to my room and took a bath while pondering over everything. This group of people definitely wasn't working for Xiao Hua, so my theory about the fourth and fifth floors was incorrect. But where did they come from? These people acted strangely around thunder and seemed to have a deep connection to listening to it.

Fatty was holding a cup of ginger tea as he stood in his underwear with the rest of his clothes slung over his shoulder. He wrote on the wall: reverse inference.

"Come on, come on, come on. Let this Fat Master teach you idiots some logical thinking skills. First of all, we have to make sure that everything is normal and we haven't been deceived by Big Hua. So, the reality right now is that Big Hua's team on the fifth floor hasn't left their rooms and there's another team on the fourth floor with unknown origins. But, we're acquainted with many of those people, all of whom are big hands in this business. This mysterious team is also looking for a calling spring, or at least looking for clues related to a calling spring. Some of them can even listen to thunder."

He annotated the photos on the wall.

"At present, we know that the people on the fourth floor are very strong and lively, while the fifth floor is silent. But no one on the fourth floor interferes with the fifth floor, so this means several possibilities." Fatty started writing on the wall.

1. The fourth and fifth floors were surreptitiously working against each other. But we didn't know whether there had been a conflict between the two sides. Was the current balance between the fourth and fifth floors because Xiao Hua's defense was so sharp? Did the fourth floor group try to enter the fifth floor several times, but got pushed back and eventually reached this balanced state? But the people on the fourth floor didn't act like it. In fact, their attention wasn't on the fifth floor at all.

2. Or, the fifth floor was empty and the people on the fourth floor knew that. If Xiao Hua was no longer on the fifth floor, then that meant he and his team had found the calling spring and had entered the rescue stage of their operation. But if everyone on the fifth floor had left by the time the people on the fourth floor arrived, then all of the black cloths on the fifth floor windows would've been taken down. Xiao Hua was a very careful person who wouldn't leave traces of his movements. So, that meant that the people on the fifth floor should still be there.

3. Or, the people on the fourth floor knew who was on the fifth floor and dared not invade rashly. This seemed like the most likely possibility, which raised a new question: Why did Xiao Hua leave the people on the fourth floor alone?

In the past, I would have definitely removed those people from the fourth floor. Leaving such a group of sketchy people downstairs made me feel very uncomfortable.

Xiao Hua's decisions were usually very similar to mine, so he certainly would've had the same idea as me. Fatty looked at me, "Mr. Naïve, what do you think? See if your intelligence has recovered."

I took a sip of hot tea, "There must be some people on the fourth floor who made Xiao Hua feel leery, so the two sides must've reached a temporary agreement. Moreover, Xiao Hua must've felt that those on the fourth floor would never be able to find the entrance to the calling spring." I put down the tea, opened my bag, and pulled out a makeup bag. I began applying the makeup until my skin was a different color, and then roughened my skin a bit.

I then put on contact lenses and braces so that my face looked completely different. "I have to go and see for myself," I said to the Xiang Dun. "It's almost dinner, so you and I will go to the restaurant. Help cover for me."