Tomb Raiding: My Family's Last Clan Chief is Little Brother

Chapter 152 Burying Bones in Gold
The young man gestured to Zhang Wuxun in the darkness, signaling them to continue forward, and then quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Zhang Wuxun led Wu Xiaoxie and the others forward.

Pan Zi was worried that the road ahead would be dangerous after the markings changed, so he held the entrenching tool upside down and walked next to Zhang Wuxun, taking one step at a time like a blind man exploring the way, extremely careful.

After walking less than two hundred meters, a jade gate that had been blown open appeared ahead.

Pan Zi was taken aback, then turned to look at Zhang Wuxun, "You blew this up?"

Zhang Wuxun waved his hand and passed through the jade gate, "How could that be? It was already like this when I came here before."

The fat man looked nervous, craning his neck to look inside. "Could someone have beaten us to it? Are the treasures still inside? Are there any left?"

Zhang Wuxun burst out laughing, threw a cold firework on the ground, and stepped aside to let him see clearly, "Look, you probably couldn't spend all this stuff in eight lifetimes."

What comes into view is countless glittering gold items, agate gems, gold and silver utensils, crystal clear, shimmering and dazzling, simply blinding everyone's eyes.

Such an unbelievable scene left all of the fat man and his companions stunned on the spot.

The fat man's mouth was agape, his eyes bulging, and he was so excited he was incoherent. He patted Wu Xiaoxie next to him with trembling hands and asked, "I...I'm not seeing things, am I? Am I dreaming? This...this...damn it, quick, Tianzhen, pinch me!"

Wu Xiaoxie snapped him out of his daze with a slap, then slapped the fat man on the back of the head in an annoyed tone, "Idiot, you're the only one dreaming, yet you managed to drag the whole bunch of us into it."

Pan Zi was even more direct, slapping himself twice, then taking a closer look, he immediately grinned from ear to ear, "My goodness, I've lived almost half my life and this is the first time I've ever seen so much gold! This trip has made me rich!"

Zhang Wuxun pulled out several sturdy bags from his backpack and handed one to each of them. "I didn't lie to you, did I? Aren't you surprised?"

"What a surprise! This is such a fucking surprise!"

The fat man dove into the pile of gold and began rummaging through the sacks, exclaiming, "I never imagined in my life I'd be able to carry gold in a sack!"

Zhang Wuxun threw a few more bags onto the pile of gems, saying, "Pack as much as you can."

Pan Zi rummaged through the treasures for a while, then suddenly became worried. "No matter how many treasures we have, there aren't many of them that we can take out with us."

Upon hearing this, the fat man winked mysteriously. "Don't worry, we have a secret weapon. Let alone this little mountain of gold, even if another pile came, we could take it all." He then winked at Zhang Wuxun.

Zhang Wuxun gave him a disapproving look, then pulled the drawstring on the bag full of stuff in his hand and said, "Don't worry, I have a way to get it out of here."

Although Pan Zi was suspicious, he still chose to trust Zhang Wuxun and pushed the food inside after finishing what he had on hand.

Before long, several full bags stood up on the ground.

While the fat guy and his friends were frantically showing off their treasures, Shunzi's side was quite calm.

Wu Xiaoxie used all his strength to drag the full bag to the side of the others, wiped his sweat, glanced at Shunzi, and suddenly noticed something was wrong. He went over to take a look.

Beneath the dazzling array of gems lay several shriveled corpses.

Wu Xiaoxie broke out in a cold sweat the moment he saw it, and immediately turned around and shouted to Zhang Wuxun and the others, "Put it down quickly, put it down! These things might be poisonous!" Everyone was startled and looked at each other in surprise.

Zhang Wuxun got up and walked over there. "What happened?"

Wu Xiaoxie pointed to the corpses on the ground, dressed in old-fashioned woolen coats, half-buried under the gold, and said nervously, "Muyu, look, those people all died in the pile of gold. They've probably been poisoned. Could we be...?"

Upon hearing this, Fatty and Panzi quickly gathered around to take a look, and immediately became nervous as well.

Zhang Wuxun reassured them, "Don't worry, these things aren't poisonous. I already did a quick test, otherwise I would have warned you already."

"That's right, that's right." The fat man patted his chest, still shaken. "Tianzhen, you scared me half to death with your jump scares. I already filled two sacks. If it were really poisonous, something bad would have happened by now."

Wu Xiaoxie scratched his head. It was true. He had also suddenly seen those dead people, and his mind had gone blank for a moment.

"How did these people die?" Wu Xiaoxie asked.

“I don’t know.” Zhang Wuxun shook his head and squatted down to clean the gold off the mummies.

The fat man quickly helped, and they soon cleaned it up and dragged the mummified corpse to one side.

"Who are these people? Could they be our colleagues?" the fat man guessed.

Zhang Wuxun pulled out latex gloves from a small pocket on the side of his backpack and put them on. Then he opened the clothes of one of the mummies. "It's a woman, and she seems to be someone important."

The fat man leaned closer, "What do you mean?"

Wu Xiaoxie also squatted down and pointed to the mummified corpse's ears and hands. "The style of their clothes is the same as the style that was popular more than ten years ago. Moreover, the earrings and plum blossom watch worn by this corpse were something that you couldn't get without connections back then. So it's very likely that they came here with some kind of purpose."

Pan Zi speculated, "Could it be that some tourists who got lost in the past accidentally entered this place, and the marks we made along the way might have been made by them?"

Zhang Wuxun grabbed the backpack hanging on the mummified corpse, turned it upside down, and shook it. "There might be something in here that can prove their identities."

A bunch of things tumbled out of the backpack: a loosely bound novel with pages almost falling apart, a blue notebook, a worn-out pencil, Oxford rope, a tent, an old-fashioned flashlight, a rusty military knife that wouldn't open, an old-fashioned windproof lighter, a military water bottle, lipstick, sanitary tape, a first-aid kit including gauze, alcohol swabs and several kinds of medicated liquor, a military compass, and many other items—it was quite complete.

Zhang Wuxun rummaged around inside and found a green-covered work ID, but the pages inside were stuck together and tore apart with a gentle pull, making it impossible to read the identification information on it.

At this moment, Shunzi, who had been standing stiffly to the side, suddenly moved and knelt down in front of one of the mummified corpses, tears streaming down his face.

Everyone was startled. The fat man moved to the side and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with this kid? Is he having a nightmare? Or is he possessed?"

Wu Xiaoxie seemed to realize something, let out a soft "Ah," shook his head at Zhang Wuxun and the others, and sighed softly.

Everyone was confused.

Wu Xiaoxie then explained to them what he had learned from his conversation with Shunzi, and everyone observed a moment of silence.

(End of this chapter)