Hon Yin pauses when Sai calls out and awaits his companions return. Now closer to the rooms silent occupants he takes a moment to study the bizarre corpses for a moment before the realization hits him. "Goengsi huh? Makes sense I suppose. Of course why your down here is another question entirely."

Sai Yun's mew comes out warbly and ends with him coughing.

Sai gets down low and examines the floor near the spilled ashes.

Liu Xin peers through the gloom to see his companion kneeling before the incense bowl. What is that fool up to, we have pursuers at our back, the dead to either side, and he wants to clean up a god damned tomb? Still, he has the darkvision, maybe he has seen something I haven't..

Liu Xin turns and sees that his companions seem to have readied their weapons. Everyone seems to be on edge, surely they don't expect the tombs to turn against us... Regardless, he double checks that his sword still draws easily in and out of his sheath. He then consults his companions

"Perhaps I should lift the hood of my lantern, you seem uneasy and I have detected no signs of pursuit. Maybe you would feel better if you could see our surroundings with more clarity."

Sai skulks back to his fellows.

"Up ahead, there's signs of someone else being down here. They tracked their feet through spilled ashes. I'll take point, but it may be better we stick together for the moment."

Sai then turns to begin leading them on.

"Do you have fear of the dark, Liu Xin?" Chen Wu giggles as he starts following Sai Yun. "If we aren't really alone down here, I prefer that our enemies do not know that we are here before we know about them. Besides, I'm not opposed to taking blind shots here and there." He raises his gun and smiles, unsure if anyone could see it.

Liu Xin frowns at the unexpected news "Let us hope it was only clumsy monk."

Still, he slowly unsheathes his sword as he follows Sai Yun through the room.

Sai goes down the steps, blades drawn and seeking threats, adjusting to being in the light with his companions just a few paces behind.

Sai sheathes his blades and looks around the room.

"Now what?"

Liu Xin carefully steps over the step his comrade slipped on and slips past the corpse. This seems like a very impractical place to place a corpse. I can't speak much for the priests interior decorating. Once it becomes apparent that there is no exit to the chamber. Liu Xin lifts the hood on his lamp so he can get a better look at his surroundings.

Bringing up the rear of the party, Hon Yin stops when he notices Liu Xin's lantern pause before him. "Why have we paused? It won't take forever for our pursuers to find these tunnels." As he speaks he looks back over his shoulder as though the very mention of pursuers will summon them before him.

Making his way down the stairs, careful to avoid the resting dead, he takes in the hall before him and the statue that serves as it's center piece. "The first emperor. Strange to find such a thing in a hidden crypt." He moves closer to the statue and inspects the statue in detail.

Chen Wu reaches the bottom of the stairs and apruptly bumps into Liu Xin. He then notices Hon Yin approaching the statue. "If you guys are going to start sightseeing in these catacombs, I might as well go back and tell our persuers we surrender." He frowns. "They told us that this is our escape route, and that's what we should be doing: escaping."

The hood lifts off the lantern and the room is thrown into relief. The polished stone of the tablets reflect the light, as do the various mirrors hanging on some of the them. The four stiff corpses standing around the room are illuminated, their greening skin sickening to the stomach, and the thin joss paper is yellow with red characters.

"If you guys have an birght ideas, then I suggest you act on them, because I don't see a way out, do you?"

Liu XIn goes to investigate the wall with the floral pattern relief, being extra careful to make a wide path around the corpses.