There was no light beyond the stone slab; it was absolute darkness. Xia Lei’s left eye could see in darkness but this light-less environment affected his ability too. He could only see close to 20 metres of the passage behind the stone slabs. 

There wasn’t anything much in the stone passage. Floor, walls and roof were the same stone slabs, plain and bare without engraving. An oil lamp was placed every few metres on both sides of the passage walls. The lamps were Pashtun-style duck-billed oil lamps, like the Aladdin lamp in ‘The Arabian Nights’.  

He did not know if the lamps were a few hundred years old or over a thousand years old. The copper was covered in corrosion and would obviously never light up again. 

Xia Lei stopped using his X-ray vision since he could see no further. He reached out to push at the stone slab before him but it was held together with mortar and wouldn’t budge. Xia Lei turned back and got the impact drill. He drilled some holes into the gaps between the slabs to destroy its stability before pushing...