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

Coming out of the deep pit, Zhang Wuxun and his team walked into a natural stone path shaped like a pot spout. After walking about twenty meters forward, they found a square, windmill-shaped Sanskrit symbol "卍" at a fork in the road.

"It looks familiar. What does this mean?" the fat man asked, gesturing with his fingers.

"It probably means let's move forward smoothly. This is a common auspicious symbol in Buddhism and is regarded as the heart seal of the Buddha."

The fork in the road was a bit narrow, and it was impossible to go in horizontally, so Zhang Wuxun put Wu Xie down, fed him some water with a syringe, and tested his forehead. He found no signs of fever, so he quietly left a small ball of energy on his wound, then changed his position and carried him on his back, saying, "Let's go in. There won't be any danger inside."

"Okay." The fat man replied.

Following Zhang Haike's instructions, Zhang Wuxun led them to turn right and continue walking along the rugged natural mountain crevices.

The top of the narrow path above one's head is out of sight. Since walking into here, the temperature around has become extremely damp and cold. The further one goes in, the more water vapor condenses into water films on the mountain walls. Some unknown gray-white spore plants also pop up from the cracks in the rocks in the corners of the wall. At first glance, they look like old snow that has not melted.

The fat man lagged behind, and looked back from time to time to see if there were any lizard heads catching up.

"Why is it getting colder? It looks like there is an underground river leading to the outside near this stone road. I wonder if I can go out directly from here." The fat man was panting as he walked, and his exposed skin was covered with tiny water droplets condensed from the moisture in the air.

"It's unlikely. At most, there are a few cracks in the mountain that connect to the outside." Zhang Wuxun shook his head and denied it. "It's downhill ahead. I feel like we might end up inside an ice mountain."

"Look, there's another mark at the fork ahead." Zhang Wuxun pointed in that direction.

The fat man leaned over his shoulder and looked forward. Within the limited range illuminated by the fluorescent stick, a silver compressed biscuit packaging bag was stuck in the crevice of the stone like a small flag.

The fat man sneered, and his tense expression gradually relaxed.

The fork road outside the safe road that Zhang Haike had explored for them in advance had tentacles of Hydra released to catch prey constantly lingering along the road, chasing them like snakes, but they were all blocked outside by the Tianxin Stone Powder that Zhang Haike had scattered in advance.

Following those strange signs along the way, Zhang Wuxun helped them pass through several complicated intersections safely.

An hour later, the road conditions finally changed. Signs of human expansion appeared on the surrounding mountain walls. Some ancient murals and pictures appeared sparsely on the stone walls. There were no special colors, just simple pictographic lines outlined on them.

Zhang Wuxun tried to decipher it and found that the part he could see clearly was all made up of various snakes. Even the few words were made up of small snakes. These snakes had no eyes, but no matter how their bodies were twisted, the direction of their heads remained unchanged.

"These murals depict primitive snakes, but since there are traces of artificial repairs, it means that there were more than just snakes living here in ancient times." Zhang Wuxun frowned slightly and concluded, "Humans and snakes coexisted."

Suddenly, there were several muffled coughs on my back, and the voice was hoarse, "Ahem, this is probably an ancient tribe that makes a living by raising snakes."

"Naive?" Zhang Wuxun was delighted and tilted his head to look back, "You're awake."

Wu Xie responded, blinking slowly.

"You finally woke up, kid. Next time there's any exploration work, I won't dare to order you to go. If you get stuck halfway, who can handle it?"

The fat man muttered to himself, and helped him put him down from Zhang Wuxun's back. "How do you feel? Are you still dizzy? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Wu Xie sat against the stone wall and waved his hands tiredly, "I've been awake for a while, but I couldn't muster the energy to open my eyelids. I just heard you two talking there."

"Drink some water." Zhang Wuxun unscrewed the lid of the water bag and handed it to his mouth.

Wu Xie took a few sips of water, and his throat was finally less hoarse. He continued the previous topic, "From the descriptions on the murals, before the Kangba tribe migrated to the Himalayas, there lived an ancient tribe that raised snakes for a living. Their faith was in snakes, and if you go back a little further, you should be able to see traces of human presence." Fatty continued, "I remember Zhang Haike mentioned something about the Fengtian Sacred Snake, saying that people at that time regarded the big snake as a messenger of God and worshipped it. Could he be talking about this tribe?"

"It's most likely." Zhang Wuxun pondered, "If the information provided by Zhang Haike is correct, we should see another temple if we go further."

The fat man pulled the stubble on his chin and hissed, "I haven't seen anyone along the way. Could it be that the old guy has already followed the murals and entered the temple?"

"Where did he hide the guy's stuff?" The fat man wondered, "Could it be in the temple as well?"

When he turned around, he saw Wu Xie staring at him, his eyes were actually somewhat intimidatingly deep, "Brother, is the second thing you told me to do related to this?"

The fat man's words suddenly stopped, his lips moved, and after a while he said, "How did you guess that?"

"It's too obvious." Zhang Wuxun said in a light tone, "From the moment you opened your mouth, you have always focused the topic on the temple. The second thing that brother wants Tianzhen to accomplish is to find the legendary temple, right?"

"You didn't say it before because you couldn't be sure whether the temple really existed, but it's different now."

Wu Xie stretched out his leg and lightly kicked him, urging: "Why don't you speak quickly!"

The fat man sighed and said helplessly: "I knew that I couldn't hide this from you for long. Yes, according to my own analysis, the second thing the young man mentioned was to find the temple."

"But what the little brother told me at that time was 'The Cang Teng returns to its nest to meet the Snowman.'"

"Although I still don't know what the second sentence means, I think that as long as we follow the murals of these little snakes, we should be able to find the so-called 'nest', which is the snake temple built by the snake worshipers for worship. I guess we will find more clues after we enter the temple."

Wu Xie struck while the iron was hot and followed up with, "What about the third thing? It's related to the second thing anyway, so why not talk about them together?"

The fat man kept his mouth shut like a clam and just shook his head. "The timing is not right. If I tell you, I will harm you."

Wu Xie's mouth twitched with anger. "Just keep it to yourself. I have something to tell you about Yun Cai. It's a secret I discovered in Banai. I was planning to tell you, but now I don't want to tell you."

The fat man got anxious, "What secret? You are not a donkey to me, are you?"

Wu Xie turned his head away and didn't look at him, as if he was performing a whole new kind of villain's success.

It is really hard to tell when Fatty is telling the truth to Wu Xie now, and when he is just fooling him.

He hesitated, "Tian Zhen, I'm telling you the truth, don't lie to me."

Wu Xie ignored him, took Zhang Wuxun's arm to stand up, stretched his hands and feet, and when he felt he could walk again, he leaned against the stone wall to look at the snake paintings.

As soon as the fat man saw his expression, he believed it immediately and hurriedly tried to pull him back. "Don't be so naive. Tell me now, even just a little bit will do."

"The secret is in Banai. It's what Yun Cai and her family have always wanted to know, but you don't know it." Wu Xie glanced back at him and dropped another hook.

The fat man scratched his head and thought again and again, and reviewed everything related to Yuncai. He had a clear idea in his mind and said, "Okay, let's both keep it to ourselves and see who can hold it in longer. Whoever speaks first is a coward." (End of this chapter)