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

Chapter 370 The Drum Corpse Melts
No one expected that there would be a cliff just outside the exit.

Xie Yuchen hung in mid-air, feeling numbness and pain in his palms; he could barely hold onto the vines.

Ignoring the pain, Xie Yuchen hurriedly wrapped his legs around several sturdy vines to secure himself. When he looked up and let go, he discovered that half of the nail on his right middle finger had been torn off, and his palm was red, swollen, and burning with pain.

The old vine I grabbed in the emergency was covered with many fine, hairy thorns, like a rope made of pig bristles. It scratched my palms, and the blood that seeped out was quickly washed away by the rain.

He cursed his bad luck inwardly, pulled out a piece of gauze from the side pocket of his backpack, wrapped it around his hand briefly, and then had time to observe his surroundings.

A strong, slightly bitter smell of grass wafted over, and my clothes were soaked with rainwater that had accumulated on the grass leaves.

He looked closely and realized that below was a long and steep cliff slope. The original cliff was covered with dense shrubs and vegetation. The person who had fallen earlier was now lying sprawled at the bottom of the slope, with a large patch of waist-high wild grass bent over by his weight.

"Thank goodness." Xie Yuchen touched the corpse he was carrying on his back. It hadn't been lost, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The others weren't as lucky as him. Those rushing to escape behind couldn't brake in time and were thrown around like bumper cars, tumbling down the broken edge. Afraid of being hit, Xie Yuchen quickly clung to the rocks to avoid being hit.

The guy who fell first took a long time to recover. Just as he was about to get up, he heard several screams from above. Then a large dark shadow crashed down and pinned him down again. He passed out without making a sound.

Xie Yuchen carefully climbed down, gripping the vines with both hands. Once he was steady, he removed the corpse that was tied to his back.

Just when everyone thought they had finally escaped death, a faint cry suddenly came from above, "Master Jie, Master Jie, save me..."

Xie Yuchen was startled and looked up. He saw that most of one of Pan Zi's men was hanging on the slope, his legs were stuck in the jade vein in the crevice of the rocks behind him, and his hands were still flapping and trying to get out.

"Quick! Save people!" Xie Yuchen shouted immediately, pulled out the folding shovel hanging on his backpack, grabbed the vines and climbed back up the slope. He secured himself on the smooth hillside and used one hand to swing the shovel and smash the jade vein with all his might.

The crowd below finally snapped out of their joy at surviving the ordeal and hurriedly grabbed their tools to climb up, joining Xie Yuchen in smashing the jade veins in the crevice.

However, this time the jade vein was several times harder than they had imagined, as if it had turned into stone completely. A shovel could only knock out a crescent-shaped white dot.

With great effort and using various tools, it took more than half an hour for everyone to finally break open the jade vein, drag the person out, and bring them down the slope.

After the guy was pulled out, he lay on the grass, complaining that his legs hurt.

All eyes were drawn to his legs, and upon seeing them, they fell silent.

The most timid of them all couldn't hold on any longer. He let out a short scream, turned around, and ran to the side to retch.

The guy initially thought his foot was injured or broken.

Seeing that no one spoke for a long time, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He struggled to sit up and see for himself, but the others quickly held him down. "Don't move, or the wound will start bleeding."

"Is it really just bleeding?" The pain made the waiter's face turn deathly pale. His eyes were bloodshot as he looked at Xie Yuchen and the others expectantly.

Everyone remained silent. The team doctor stood frozen to the side, holding a medical kit, unsure of what to do about the bizarre injury.

"What happened to my leg? Tell me!" He was on the verge of a breakdown. "Is it broken? Or is it crippled?"

Xie Yuchen moved his lips slightly, then sighed with some reluctance, "Help him up."

Two porters stepped forward and helped the man up. When the porter saw the appearance of his calves below the knees, he immediately thought he was hallucinating.

His two lower legs, along with his two feet, had turned into bare bones. The bones in his feet had even softened into grayish-white strips like putty, with not a trace of flesh or blood left. The muscles in that area seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Even more bizarrely, at the point where the flesh and blood disappeared, below the knee, not a single drop of blood had flowed out even after all this time.

"Am I seeing things? How could my legs have become like this? This can't be...this can't be..."

As if unable to withstand the blow, the man suddenly began to convulse and collapsed to the ground.

It seemed as if worms were crawling in and out of the flesh above his knees. Many thin, green, grass-like strands flashed past the cut. The man was in so much pain, as if he had jumped into a pot of hot oil, that he rolled around on the spot, screamed loudly, and scratched himself desperately.

The team doctor hurriedly called several people to come forward and restrain his limbs. They pulled off his clothes and saw countless bumps, each the size of a little finger, under his skin. These bumps quickly covered his entire body, as if earthworms had burrowed into his body and made holes in his flesh. In just a short while, they had crawled through his body and onto his face.

Everyone was immediately horrified and screamed as they backed away, "What the hell is that?"

Before an incense stick could burn, the man on the ground coughed up blood and died.

His face and belly were bulging like inflatable caterpillars, stuffed full of something that would occasionally wriggle and clatter, seemingly filled with liquid.

These guys were all seasoned veterans, but even they were at a loss in the face of this bizarre situation.

The air seemed to freeze at that moment.

Fine raindrops fell on everyone's faces and into their necks, the coolness making them shiver involuntarily.

The man's body continued to swell and grow larger, like a human-shaped balloon being continuously filled with air by an invisible pump.

With a bang, the bulging sac finally gave way and burst open, spraying pus and putrid corpse fluid all over the ground. Several people who were nearby were also splashed with the putrid fluid.

A pungent, sweet smell immediately spread, containing the soft, fishy odor unique to internal organs. Upon seeing the inside of the exploded corpse, almost everyone couldn't hold back and ran to the side to gag.

The man's body had melted inside, turning into a greenish, slimy substance containing wriggling, snake-like worms. As the skin sac disintegrated, these green, snake-like worms crawled out. The worms, which were previously less than the thickness of a little finger, had now grown to the size of a rolling pin and were relentlessly gnawing at the man's remaining flesh and bones.

A small portion of it slipped through the gaps in the grass under the shrubs and disappeared.

"What is that thing?" someone cried out in despair. "When did it get inside his body? Could we have something like that inside us too?"

Upon hearing this, everyone present panicked and frantically patted and checked inside their clothes.

Xie Yuchen suddenly remembered that Zhang Wuxun had mentioned at the end of the last video that a species symbiotic with Miluotuo in the jade vein could be countered by the small bottle of blood he left behind.

Xie Yuchen had witnessed the effects of Qilin blood in the cave of the Four Sisters Mountain. Based on his trust in Wu Xiaoxie, he distributed the bottle of blood to his subordinates and had them apply it to their clothes and hands. However, the only place that everyone overlooked was their legs.

Xie Yuchen suddenly felt a chill. Could it be that the strange species that Zhang Wuxun mentioned, which coexisted with Miluotuo, was this insect-like thing?

Thinking of this, he immediately took out the small porcelain bottle, casually broke off a long branch, placed the bottle mouth against one end of the branch and dripped a drop of blood onto it, then carefully extended it to the green unidentified creature still wriggling inside the corpse.

With a sizzling sound, as if chopped scallions had been poured into a hot wok, a small cloud of gray smoke instantly rose from the green creature's body, and the worm twisted and turned, trying to escape into the green corpse fluid.

With lightning speed, Xie Yuchen used a branch to lift the thing up, and then everyone watched as the long worm curled up into a dark, tangled mass within seconds and stuck to the branch.

Everyone was stunned. What was going on?
Xie Yuchen understood immediately; indeed, the blood of the Qilin was the nemesis of this thing.

Judging from the green liquid inside the corpse, it looks very similar to the sticky liquid on the jade vein. It is estimated that this is what has been chasing them in the jade wall and causing the jade vein to gradually soften and close up.

Panzi's partner was unable to get out in time and was trapped by the softened jade vein. The creature inside the jade vein took the opportunity to burrow into his body and melted and ate his flesh and bones in the same way.

When they were rescuing the man, they discovered that the jade vein had become extremely hard, which was probably because all the insects in that section had burrowed into the man's body, and the softened object had become the man.

After discovering that the blood Zhang Wuxun left them was a powerful weapon against these creatures, Xie Yuchen poured the remaining half-bottle of blood into a kettle, shook it well, and distributed it to the others to deal with the worms on the corpses together.

The diluted Qilin blood is still the natural enemy of those green, snake-like insects, only it takes a little longer for them to curl up into small black balls.

It took two hours to process all of this. To avoid any unforeseen complications, the man's body was burned in the presence of the other Wu employees.

Because it was drizzling, the group cut down a tree trunk as thick as a wrist to use as a pillar, and used a waterproof tarpaulin to create a shelter from the rain above the corpse. They left only one bottle of liquor, and poured the rest on the body.

Once the fire was lit, the corpse started burning from the very center of its abdomen. As it burned further, the incomplete human skin was dried out. An hour later, the corpse was completely reduced to ashes, and not a single bone, softened by the green worms, remained.

The men stood under the tree, watching from afar. They watched as the insects, huddled together in fear of the Qilin's blood, and the pitiful corpse vanished into nothingness. Only then did their tense nerves relax.

Curious about why this thing had a human face, Xie Yuchen kept a small black ball in a small porcelain bottle that had once contained Qilin blood, intending to study it later when he had time.

After dealing with this matter, Xie Yuchen used a compass to locate their position in a canyon separated from the camp by a mountain.

After a short rest and some food to replenish their energy, Xie Yuchen immediately led his men back to the camp.

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The words are divided into two parts.

On the other side, Zhang Wuxun finally managed to get out of this complex jade vein after two and a half hours.

The closer you get to the ancient building, the fewer jade veins remain in the rocks, and eventually they almost completely turn into volcanic rock with many pores on the surface.

Zhang Wuxun kept walking out along a crack that cut across the mountain. Some parts of the crack were so narrow that he couldn't even squeeze through sideways. Helpless, Zhang Wuxun could only shrink himself.

As he walked, he suddenly heard a muffled rumble of thunder, as if the Thunder God was trapped inside a bell, making a loud banging sound.

Zhang Wuxun immediately stopped and closed his eyes to carefully pinpoint the source of the sound wave. He was startled to find that the sound was coming from a place not far from where he was, and subconsciously thought that the Miluotuo King had followed him again.

But when he pressed his ear against the volcanic rock to listen carefully, he discovered that the sound was coming from a vent, and the other side of the vent was definitely still volcanic rock. Miluo Tuo couldn't enter the area covered by volcanic rock, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, I remembered that in the original plot, Wu Xiaoxie and Fatty encountered a Miluo Tuo with extremely keen hearing under the moonstone mirror. They eventually tricked and trapped that Miluo Tuo under the heavy bronze door.

Because of its sensitive hearing, each impact on the bronze door would further stimulate the Miluotu, causing it to ram the door even more frantically. The harder it rammed, the louder the sound from the bronze door became, which in turn stimulated the Miluotu to ram the door with even greater force, thus creating a vicious cycle.

Ultimately, the door will either be forced open, which is unlikely. The Zhang family must have considered the fighting strength of the Miluo Tuo guarding the door, which is why they made a sturdy and heavy copper door instead of a stone door, which is inferior to copper in both hardness and toughness.

It's possible that the Miluotu was just stubborn and smashed its head against the door, ending its tragic life, but that's unlikely.

The third outcome is the most normal: the Miluotu got tired of banging on the door and was too badly injured to get up. The bronze door, no longer subjected to impacts, naturally stopped making noises to stimulate it, and the cycle ended.

The sound that reached him through the vents in the volcanic rock was likely the Miluotuo relentlessly pounding on the bronze door, which indirectly indicated that he was not far from the true entrance to the ancient building.

Thinking of this, Zhang Wuxun immediately quickened his pace and started jogging at the back.

After traversing the rock crevices for another half hour, the slope suddenly rose. Zhang Wuxun used both hands and feet to climb up like a rock climber, and the space in front of him suddenly expanded.

With just one glance, Zhang Wuxun froze, his bones trembling slightly uncontrollably.

Zhang Family Ancient Building – This is the real Zhang Family Ancient Building!
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