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

Chapter 506 The Door Disappeared
As soon as I stepped into the bronze door, the blue light vanished, and the surroundings turned pitch black.

After the dizziness subsided, Feng immediately realized that the fat man who had been walking in front of him was gone, because he could no longer hear the fat man breathing.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Wuxun and the other two disappeared. Feng couldn't detect their presence at all in the darkness, which means that the three of them vanished the moment they entered the bronze gate.

There were only him and Zhang Haixing in this place at the moment. What was even more strange was that the ghost soldiers who came in with them had also disappeared.

Feng tried to reach out and explore his surroundings. The place felt like he had suddenly fallen into a dark well. The air was very oppressive, and he felt as if he were enveloped by a large, damp, and cold mist. The chill seemed to seep into his bones.

The space inside the door seemed very small, but he wandered around and groped his way around, yet he couldn't find the edge. The surroundings were empty, and everything here seemed desolate. Even the giant bronze door behind him had disappeared.

Despite this, Feng was not afraid; on the contrary, he felt a secret joy that he should have done this long ago.

Inside the door, all the strange phenomena cannot be understood by common sense. The boss once said that the world inside the door is a world that exists independently of time and space.

Soon, Feng heard the clicking sound of a flashlight being switched on and off repeatedly. He knew it was Zhang Haixing, who was following behind him, trying to turn on the light.

But Feng knew very well that inside the Zanshen Gate, no ordinary light could be emitted.

Having already entered this place, Feng decided not to pretend any longer. He told Zhang Haixing with certainty, "Don't waste your energy. I can tell you very clearly that your flashlight is not broken, but rather that the light it emits cannot appear in this place."

Zhang Haixing stopped what she was doing, turned her head to look in the direction of the sound, and after locking onto his location, asked in a cold voice, "How did you know?"

“There’s something strange about this place. No ordinary light source can appear here.” Ignoring her hostility, Feng continued, “Here, apart from the lamp in Bai Ci’s hand, any light source that appears will be blocked by something, making us unable to feel its presence.”

In other words, the light was still there, but they couldn't see it; their eyes were as if they were blindfolded by something unknown and invisible.

So it was the environment here that absorbed light? Zhang Haixing's heart eased slightly, and she silently drew her dagger, tentatively asking, "What else do you know?"

Feng chuckled and said confidently, "I know a lot more, such as why Bai Ci and the other two suddenly disappeared, and where they went."

“For example…” Before Feng could finish speaking, Zhang Haixing’s eyes flashed with murderous intent, and she slashed a dagger straight at his throat.

Feng immediately dodged to the side, and after avoiding several subsequent moves, he used his short sword to block Zhang Haixing's dagger. He said calmly, "Miss Zhang, why are you in such a hurry? I'm not interested in what you want. I just want to get what I want. How about we cooperate?"

In the darkness, feeling the force of the blade rebounding from her hand, Zhang Haixing was secretly alarmed. She couldn't see the expression on Feng's face, but judging from his nonchalant attitude, this guy knew much more about this unknown environment than she did.

She weighed the truth or falsehood of Feng's words in her mind; this German was more troublesome than she had anticipated.

She then sheathed the dagger, as she needed this guy to provide more clues in order to deduce what might happen next.

Moreover, in her view, the other party's initiative to extend an olive branch was a deliberate attempt to lure her by using some of their trump cards as bait.

This also shows that even though he had some understanding of the environment, Feng was not confident that he could complete the task independently, which is why he needed to cooperate with her.

Sensing that Zhang Haixing's hostility had softened, Feng smiled slightly, then took out a lighter from his pocket, lit it, and used the fingers of his other hand to test the temperature, using the pain sensation on his skin to sense the location of the flame.

Then he took out a very small bowl from his pocket and held the rim of the bowl close to the flame.

Suddenly, a faint green light appeared before Zhang Haixing's eyes. Upon closer inspection, she realized that Feng was holding a small cup containing half a piece of rhinoceros horn wax. The cup was made of bronze and looked as if it had been buried for hundreds of years before being dug out of the ground, its surface rusted green.

Zhang Haixing was surprised for a moment, then realized why Feng was so calm; he had already prepared a backup plan.

"The door has disappeared too." Zhang Haixing turned around and looked at the darkness behind her, asking in a low voice, "Why did Wu Xie and the others suddenly disappear? Where did they go?"

Wu Xie and his companions' target was the Ancestral Bell. She had to find their whereabouts and seize the Ancestral Bell before Wu Xie could. Feng held up a burning rhinoceros horn candle and waved it around. Wherever the lake-green light touched, the darkness seemed to come alive and scatter in all directions.

“Your brother once visited the Zhang Family Ancient Building, and he must have experienced something similar: the same door, but different paths after entering,” Feng said.

Zhang Haixing lowered her head and thought for a moment before understanding what he meant. "You mean, the situation here is similar to the fault tolerance mechanism at the entrance of the Zhang Family Ancient Building, and Wu Xie and the others directly used the mechanism behind the door to enter another passage?"

The words had barely left her mouth when she immediately dismissed them, “But that doesn’t make sense. If it were a mechanism, it would definitely generate fluctuations during operation, and I wouldn’t be unaware of them.”

“Yes, Miss Zhang is indeed a smart person.” Feng casually praised her, then said, “'Passage' is just a figurative way of saying it. In reality, only those who bring the Ghost Seal here can find the correct path to the ‘ultimate’ under the guidance of the Ghost Seal.”

Seeing Zhang Haixing frown, Feng Youyou added, "But now that I'm here, I must have a way to find the right path as well."

"Stop keeping me in suspense!" Zhang Haixing urged impatiently.

Feng smiled mysteriously, answering a question that seemed unrelated: "Do you think gods exist in this world?"

Zhang Haixing's eyes were filled with disdain, as if a line of words were clearly written in them: What kind of bullshit are you spouting?

“The god I’m talking about isn’t the kind of deity from myths and legends.” Feng’s expression suddenly turned serious, and a hint of fanaticism flashed in his eyes. “It’s an incredibly magical energy, an energy without a fixed entity or shape, ethereal yet vast, omnipresent. It can exist in any form, with particles that can freely transform, possessing infinite possibilities.”

“I have felt it before, so I can feel it now. We are now standing within the range of that energy core.”

Zhang Haixing murmured, "The ultimate?"

“Yes, the ultimate.” Feng repeated, his expression composed.

"If what you say is true, that the ultimate is some kind of energy, then what about immortality?" Zhang Haixing asked. "Could the Zhang family's immortality also be a consequence of the influence of this ultimate energy?"

Feng shook his head. "I don't know about that. To be honest, I have never seen the ultimate version with my own eyes. What I mentioned earlier were the results of my boss's ancestors' research and analysis over a hundred years."

Seeing that Zhang Haixing was about to ask more questions, Feng cut her off first, "I've already given you enough information. I won't reveal the remaining clues until the crucial moment. You just need to know that their energies are of the same origin and are connected to each other. I can use this intuition to find the place with the strongest energy fluctuations."

Zhang Haixing took a deep breath, suppressing her inner turmoil. "Okay, what's the next step?"

“Bai Ci has the Ghost Seal and the oral experience of the clan elders. Given their speed of action, it’s impossible for us to catch up with them now,” Feng said.

Zhang Haixing frowned. "Then what do we do? Find another way out?"

Feng remained calm and composed, taking out a small, tower-like object wrapped in red cloth from his pocket and saying, "This is the energy catalyst. Next, we'll need something from Miss Zhang."

As he spoke, he half-squatted down, held up a finger, turned it over, and pointed it to the ground. "Look, this is the hint."

The light from the rhinoceros horn candle was so dim that Zhang Haixing bent down and stared at it for a long time before finally spotting something unusual in the dust on the ground.

She hurriedly dug away the dust covering the thing with her hands, and when she took a closer look, her heart skipped a beat.

On the ground where Feng pointed, there was a mark shaped like a flame.

The mark was very old, obviously it had been carved there for a long time. It was not the mark of the Khampa people she was familiar with, nor was it a mark of the Zhang family.

Zhang Haixing narrowed her eyes dangerously, which meant that another group of people had arrived here many years ago!
Furthermore, according to information received from family members, similar markings had also appeared outside the sealed gate at the entrance of the Zhang Family Ancient Building.

But before this, the family had never even noticed the existence of this group of people. They were even more deeply hidden than the Wang family. Only in the last hundred years did their activities gradually emerge like ghosts when they reviewed the Lu Huangbo.