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

Chapter 17 Blue-Eyed Fox Corpse
The silver thread automatically contracted as Zhang Wuxun fell, until it stopped and taut about two meters from the ground.

Zhang Wuxun kicked the tree, flicked his wrist, and the mechanism in the wrist buckle activated. The silver thread continued to retract, and the small silver dart stuck in the tree trunk was pulled out.

Zhang Wuxun landed smoothly, dropped the blood-covered corpse head, drew his sword and chopped off the head of the green-faced fox corpse, then kicked it far away.

Wu Xiaoxie was still locked in a fierce battle with the fat man. Having swallowed the Qilin Blood, Wu Xiaoxie had awakened from his hallucination and was now holding the small purple-gold box that the Blue-Eyed Fox Corpse was holding, ready to smash it on the fat man's head as he tried to kill him.

Zhang Wuxun sensed something was wrong and quickly reached out to stop Wu Xiaoxie, flicking his finger on the fat man's forehead with a crisp, clear "ding."

Wang Pangzi felt his head buzzing for a moment, and his vision went black.

Half-asleep, he saw someone waving in front of him. The fat man shook his head vigorously to wake up. He immediately covered his forehead and cursed, "Which bastard dared to hit me on the head, and so hard at that! My forehead is all swollen!"

Seeing that he was awake, Zhang Wuxun stopped paying attention and turned to look at Wu Xiaoxie.

It has to be said that Fatty is really ruthless. There were two dark handprints on Wu Xiaoxie's fragile neck, each three fingers wide.

Wu Xiaoxie clutched his chest, coughing laboriously, and cursing intermittently, "You...cough cough, you fatso, what...what grudge do I have against you...cough cough, you fucking...cough, you really want to strangle me!"

The fat man, feeling guilty, rubbed his forehead and hissed, muttering under his breath, "You can't blame me for this. Who knew that damned fox-man was so evil? My head still hurts. Who can I complain to?"

Wu Xiaoxie snorted heavily, "I'm too lazy to talk to you." He turned to Zhang Wuxun and pointed to the female corpse on the ground, which was twisted and crooked from the fight between the two, and said, "Muyu, look at that woman, there's something strange about the thing in her mouth."

Zhang Wuxun leaned closer and stared at the key in the female corpse's mouth.

It was a strangely shaped bronze key with a handle resembling two fish, and a dark green bead inlaid in the middle.

Unable to figure it out, Zhang Wuxun ignored it, reached out and pinched it, slowly pulling it out and severing the thread attached to it.

"Alright." Zhang Wuxun tossed the keys into Wu Xiaoxie's arms.

Wu Xiaoxie caught it, compared it to the keyhole of the purple-gold box, and his eyes lit up, "It really is from here."

At this moment, Wu Sanye and Da Kui also found their way out of the cave entrance closest to the ground. They first gave each other a lecture, and then showed off a gun they had picked up to Wu Xiaoxie.

Zhang Wuxun was too lazy to listen to his naive and innocent nonsense. He took the blood corpse head, sat on the steps, and stared at it with his own eyes, wondering to himself why the young man hadn't brought Pan Zi down yet.

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive.

The young man, carrying a scepter, descended from the sky with clean, neat, and handsome movements, landing steadily on the altar.

Pan Zi had already woken up. He thanked the young man and headed towards Master Wu.

The young man walked over and sat down, pointing to the wristband on his wrist, and said in a low voice, "Very exquisite."

Zhang Wuxun raised an eyebrow. "You've been up there for ages, you weren't researching this, were you?"

The young man nodded silently.

Zhang Wuxun was a little happy, "Then it's yours. I spent a long time researching and making this. It's definitely worth collecting."

The young man withdrew his wrist, said nothing more, and his expression remained indifferent.

Zhang Wuxun took out a few candies from his pocket, opened his palm and placed them in front of him, "Pick one."

The young man thought for two seconds, then took a plum-shaped candy, a sour plum coated with a layer of sweet maltose.

"Little Naïve," Zhang Wuxun called out.

Wu Xiaoxie was studying the enormous bronze coffin that had emerged from the nine-headed cypress tree after the altar mechanism was activated. Wu Sanye and the others were debating whether or not to pry the coffin open. "Hmm?" Wu Xiaoxie looked bewildered, his mind filled with the inscriptions on the coffin.

Zhang Wuxun tossed a candy to him, saying, "Stop thinking about it, have some candy to nourish your brain."

"Oh."

Wu Xiaoxie reached out and caught the candy, unwrapped it and put it in his mouth, then continued looking at the coffin.

"Fatty, do you want some?"

Fatty Wang chuckled, then trotted over and grabbed the rest of the candy. "Hey Muyu, you've practically brought the whole store here with you just because you went to the tomb."

"Don't give it back to me."

Zhang Wuxun reached out as if to snatch it back.

The fat man nimbly dodged, ran back and tossed one to Pan Zi, asked Wu Sanye and Da Kui if they wanted it, put the remaining two in his pocket, and then continued to study how to open the coffin.

The coffin was tightly bound with iron chains, and the wax carvings on it were all intact. The dark, ancient blue surface looked very mysterious and unpredictable.

Zhang Wuxun stroked his chin; this large coffin looked very valuable.

If it weren't for the difficulty of handling it when taking it out, he would have actually considered putting it in his spatial storage to take it out.

The coffin suddenly moved twice on its own, leading everyone to suspect that there were rice dumplings inside.

But Master Wu still decided to open the coffin. "All the valuable treasures in this tomb are here. We can't just come all this way for nothing. So what if there are rice dumplings inside? There are so many of us. We can fight them to the death. Besides, we still have Xiao Ge here."

The fat man stared at the coffin, still somewhat hesitant. "But what about these vines? If we touch them even slightly, we'll all be wrapped up and used as fertilizer."

Old Master Wu was prepared. “This tree is called the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress. See the stone next to it? This kind of stone is called the Heavenly Heart Rock. It’s specifically designed to counter this tree. Didn’t you see that all the vines are avoiding this stone? Let’s get some stone dust and smear it on ourselves. It’ll be a sure thing.”

The young man got up and walked over there. After taking two steps, he turned back to look at Zhang Wuxun, who waved his hand and said, "Go ahead, I won't join in the fun."

The young man nodded, grabbed some lime and smeared it on his body, then approached the coffin with Panzi and the others.

Zhang Wuxun glanced over there and, seeing that no one was paying attention to him, quietly moved closer to the blue-eyed fox corpse and listened intently to the sounds coming from that direction.

At the same time, he put on gloves, pulled out a dagger, pried open the armor plates on its abdomen, felt the position, and then stabbed down with the dagger to cut open the shriveled flesh. He held the opening with one hand and reached in with the other to feel around. Suddenly, he felt his fingertips touch something hard. He bent and hooked his fingers and grabbed the thing and pulled it up.

Without bothering to check, Zhang Wuxun quickly restored his armor and then crouched down next to the blood-covered corpse's head.

He initially thought the black gold box the system mentioned was a square box, but when he held it in his hand, he discovered that it was a round sphere, about twice the size of a ping-pong ball. After taking a closer look, he realized that the entire sphere was made up of overlapping mechanisms, which were very ingenious and he couldn't solve it in a short time.

[What use do you want me to have this?]
[The host will know later]

Zhang Wuxun pouted unhappily, "[Well, I want to know now.]"
[The host is not currently authorized to know this.]

"Damn it..." Zhang Wuxun cursed inwardly, angrily putting the black-gold ball into his spatial storage.

Fine, you're the boss, you're awesome, whatever you say goes.

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