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

Chapter 476 Half-Corpse in the Frozen Lake
Whether the snow leopard came out to check the situation or smelled food, it still suffered a bit.

As Feng said, snow leopards are timid by nature, and they won't dare to go near this dangerous place anytime soon.

After the crisis was completely over, the fat man said that there wasn't much time left in the second half of the night, so he finished his duties immediately.

The others went back to rest as soon as possible.

The next morning, when it was fully light, Zhang Wuxun noticed the small, dark stone statue in the corner of the cave.

Looking at the dust around it, this thing had been sitting here for some time. Wu Xie asked Zhang Wuxun if he knew what it was.

That lump of statue really looked like a clay sculpture that had been accidentally dropped and flattened, its shape blurred into a mess, and it was impossible to make out what was carved on it.

Zhang Wuxun couldn't figure out what it was either. "If it was placed here by the Khampa people, it should be some kind of minor deity for warding off evil. I just don't know why there's no incense burner or shrine. Didn't you see those when you came in?"

Wu Xie and the others shook their heads, indicating that they did not see it. "When we came up here, this place was just bare with this as the only thing."

Zhang Wuxun hesitated for a few seconds, then asked, "Who was the first one to come up last night?"

Wu Xie and Feng both looked at Zhang Haixing.

Zhang Haixing said angrily, "What? Are you afraid that I'm secretly hiding something from you? What good can a broken stone statue do to me?"

Why are you getting so worked up? Wu Xie pouted. "You're the one who said that. We didn't say anything."

"You—" Zhang Haixing was furious and glared at him fiercely.

Zhang Wuxun touched the small stone platform with his fingertip, squinted slightly, and then said nonchalantly, "If you didn't take it, you didn't take it. Why are you so agitated?"

Zhang Haixing ignored them and went to pack her backpack.

The group stared at the broken stone statue for a long time, but couldn't figure out its name. They figured it wasn't anything important, so they didn't pay much attention to it.

After having breakfast, Zhang Wuxun and Fatty used ropes to climb down the cliff into a crevices. They needed to clear away the hidden mines that they hadn't managed to detonate the night before, to prevent them from causing trouble for any people or animals that came to the area later.

Led by Zhang Haixing, the rest of the group headed towards the other side of the canyon, intending to detonate all the detonators planted behind the wolf's lair.

Zhang Wuxun and Fatty were only two people, and they were fast runners; they could catch up with them in no time after they finished.

The valley floor was a scene of devastation, with craters from explosions and charred corpses everywhere. Some were severely wounded and died from blood loss and freezing. Old and new limbs were scattered haphazardly, making it a veritable mass grave for animals.

The mangled wolf carcass was in a mess, with its ruptured internal organs, brain matter, and charred fur all frozen solid.

Zhang Wuxun searched inside for a long time but couldn't find the wolf king's remains. It was possible that they were blown to pieces and couldn't be found.

After detonating the last few bombs, Zhang Wuxun threw a modified smoke bomb onto the battlefield, and thick, pungent white smoke immediately spread throughout the area.

The two men, wearing gas masks, quickly left the area, running quite a distance before the pungent smell subsided.

"Why did we have to go through all that? I almost threw up from the fumes," the fat man complained, taking off his gas mask.

Zhang Wuxun explained calmly, "I didn't find the wolf king's body. It's very likely that it was blown up, or it may not be dead. Wolves hold grudges. I used a smoke bomb to cover up the scent we left behind. Even if we want revenge, we have to make sure it can't find us."

The fat man clicked his tongue in amazement. "That's so mysterious."

Zhang Wuxun rubbed his stinging eyes through his eyelids, put his snow goggles back on, and replied casually, "After all, he's the Wolf King, so he has to be a little special."

The two caught up with Wu Xie and his group near the end of the canyon, and the group continued towards their destination. After walking through the snow-capped mountains for four days, they finally approached the mass grave ice mountain mentioned in De Ren's notes, a little faster than they had anticipated.

But looking at the huge gaping hole that had been brutally blasted open in the ice wall, none of the people standing on the stone bridge could feel happy.

"Are those bastards reincarnated bandits?" the fat man roared. "They couldn't even open such a simple mechanism, and it's blown to bits. Don't let me catch them."

Zhang Wuxun's expression grew increasingly solemn. He stared at the deep, dark passage behind the ice wall, a dark storm brewing in his eyes.

He wasn't worried if the Germans were just using modern firearms for gunfights; the Khampa people had plenty of guns. But what he feared was that they would use the terrain to create an avalanche with explosives before the Khampa people even realized what was happening.

Avalanches can completely submerge the homes of the Khampa people. Such a large-scale disaster can strike in an instant, leaving the unprepared Khampa people with nowhere to escape.

"Go into the tomb!" he said, suppressing his voice.

No one objected, and Feng, like a quail, shrank back at the very back of the line in an attempt to minimize his presence.

We hurried along, stepping over scattered ice blocks and stones on the ground.

As expected, the ice wall at the exit was also blasted open, revealing a huge, azure lake. The lake surface, along with the surrounding shore, was almost entirely frozen, with only a small area in the center reflecting the surrounding mountains.

The scenery was incredibly beautiful, but the half-destroyed corpse behind the snow-covered hill on the shore ruined the idyllic, fairy-tale landscape.

Zhang Haixing pulled Feng Kuai over to identify the body, drawing the attention of Wu Xie and Fatty as well.

Upon hearing Zhang Haixing say that the body had been killed by a bullet, the two immediately loaded their guns and cautiously looked around the lake.

Zhang Wuxun stood in front of the ice wall, his hands behind his back touching it. With a thought, the ice wall at the broken opening began to spread and grow automatically. First, a stone wall appeared, and then a thick layer of white ice covered the stone wall, sealing the exit tightly.

All of this was done silently, and Zhang Haixing and the others were so focused on the corpse that they didn't notice a thing.

“The bodies belong to the Germans,” Zhang Haixing said, pointing to the dozens of bullet holes in the bodies. “It seems that those people had a fight here, and their guns were turned on their own people.”

Feng stood there dumbfounded, his lips trembling as he murmured, "This is impossible, this is impossible..."

The fat man went up and kicked him over, cursing, "Stop babbling on and on, explain yourself clearly, what's impossible?"

Feng hurriedly got up, clutching his buttocks, angry but not daring to speak. Seeing that the fat man was about to beat him up again, he quickly hid behind Zhang Haixing and explained in a stammering voice, "This person should be the leader of this team. He's the one who contacted me to ask for the map."

"What? This loser is actually a leader?" The fat man picked at his ear and sneered, "Then it seems his leadership skills are terrible, he doesn't command respect. Look at those bloodshot eyes, I bet every single person in the team got a bullet for him."

"Where did his lower body go?" Zhang Haixing pointed to the cross-section where his body had been severed in half. "Was it eaten by some strange fish in the lake?"

Zhang Wuxun walked over and squatted down beside the corpse. He reached out and touched the frozen, stiff muscle tissue with his fingers, and said in a deep voice, "There are rapidly congealed blood clots and scabs on here. These things are very difficult to wash off with water. And you can see that the tissue on the entire bite mark is soaked in blood, and there is obvious bleeding in the broken bone and the nearby soft tissue."

"If you are shot to death first, in this extremely low temperature of minus thirty degrees Celsius, ice crystals will form on the surface of the muscles within five minutes of death, and the flesh will harden and become rough. If you are bitten at this time, the wound surface will not have the conditions I mentioned earlier."

"So, this person was bitten off while still alive."

The fat man felt dizzy listening to the whole thing. He didn't understand any of what Zhang Wuxun said at the beginning, and he only remembered the last sentence.

The German man had his lower body bitten off by a strange fish in the lake.

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