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

When Zhang Wuxun heard Wu Xie mention Banai, his eyes moved slightly, but he didn't say much. Now was not the right time to say anything extra.

When he thought about how the fat man would react after knowing the truth, Zhang Wuxun couldn't help but feel a slight chill on the back of his neck.

He turned his neck a little uncomfortably and decisively changed the subject. "Based on the current situation, there should be more relics of the life left by this 'Snake Worshiping Clan' ahead. I just don't know what secret connection there is between the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress and the giant snake they worship."

Wu Xie hummed, not dwelling on it. Based on his past experience, even if the truth didn't come to him personally, it would still pass through countless hands, leaving a suspicious trail for him.

The three of them shared a flashlight and looked as they walked. The contents on the stone wall became increasingly richer, and large patches of mottled dark color began to appear.

"This seems to be a pilgrim group." Wu Xie pointed at the slightly clearer and more coherent gray-white blocks on the mural and said, "The clothing and accessories of these people have already vaguely the shadow of a civilized society. The clothes also look very uniform, with beads and accessories hanging on the upper body and long robes covering the lower body. It's just hard to tell which civilization they are similar to."

Zhang Wuxun understood the deeper meaning of his words, that is, before the ancient Lan people migrated here, there was already an extinct ancient civilization deep in the mountains here that was deeply influenced by the meteorite jade.

The fat man in front of him hissed, as if he had discovered something. "Strange, why do these little people cover their lower bodies with skirts? It's like they have no feet, and their feet are buried in the ground? Don't they have legs?"

"What did you say?" Zhang Wuxun's eyes flashed, and he immediately turned his head to look at the corner pointed out by the fat man.

The pictures in this part are located further forward, the figures are larger, and they have more accessories than the little figures in the back. It is obvious that they have a higher social status. Similarly, the mineral pigments used to depict the murals are deeper and clearer to the naked eye.

Zhang Wuxun saw clearly that the robes covering the lower bodies of the adults seemed to be blown up by the wind as they walked, forming a long straight strip, without any signs of separation caused by taking a step.

"They're probably a group of living zombies." The fat man said in a deep tone, which seemed to make sense.

"Tail." Zhang Wuxun said, "Under their robes, they don't use legs to walk, but tails."

"Tail?!" Wu Xie was horrified and subconsciously asked, "What tail?"

"The snake's tail. There is a snake path underneath for them to walk on. There is water flowing through it, and there are many evenly distributed stones." Zhang Wuxun narrowed the aperture of the flashlight and pointed it at a specific location.

Wu Xie has always been good at interpreting murals. He continued Zhang Wuxun's words, "This should be a strange creature with a human body and a snake tail. It is not clear whether they were originally like this or were mutated by the radiation from the meteorite. In short, it looks like they are in a hurry. They are going to a place through the snake path."

"Are they definitely going to the Snake Temple?" The fat man raised a reasonable question and began to speculate, "The snake spirit in Calabash Brothers seems to look like this. This thing is either imagined by the little people below, or it is a regression of their ancestors. Hmm, maybe their ancestors are actually the descendants of Fuxi and Nuwa?"

"Why don't you say they were thrown out by mud?" Wu Xie curled his lips.

The fat man argued, "As the saying goes, fish seek fish, shrimp seek shrimp, and turtle seek turtle. There must be some hidden relationship between these ancient people and snakes."

"Those villains worship snakes, could it be that they think they are snakes?" Wu Xie wondered, wanting to confirm some secrets unique to the Zhang family with Zhang Wuxun, but when he turned around, he found that Zhang Wuxun had gone back again. "Wooden fish?"

Zhang Wuxun hummed, his voice passing through the corridor and coming over vaguely, "Maybe, maybe... I discovered something incredible."

Before Wu Xie could ask further questions, Zhang Wuxun came back. Under the dim light, his expression looked a little strange.

Wu Xie asked curiously, "What did you find out? Why do you look like that?"

"It's not wrong to say they worship snakes. Those people do have an unbridled worship of snakes." Zhang Wuxun paused and continued, "But I suddenly discovered that those people and the snakes around them seem to be one and the same, or what is commonly known as companionship."

“Companion?” Wu Xie was extremely surprised. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that the weirdness somehow made sense. “What about the human body with snake tail? Could it be that like the human-faced bird, the lower half of the human body was swallowed by the snake, but because it was covered by the robe, the connection was not clear, so it created this visual illusion.”

"They have been here before." Zhang Wuxun murmured, his expression slightly excited. "The Zhang family has been here before, and there are snakes in the ancient building. So when did the ancestors of the Zhang family start raising snakes..."

Perhaps, a long time ago, before the decision was made to establish the West, a patriarch of the Zhang family once went deep into the underground here and found out the secret of the coexistence of humans and snakes of the snake-worshiping descendants ten thousand years ago. Perhaps he even brought a snake out from here.

Zhang Haike said that Wang Canghai once caught a big snake. Was that snake related to the disintegration of the Zhang family?
Wang Canghai stole the snake from the Zhang family and learned many secrets through the snake, so he began to "hunt" the Zhang family. So where did the snake go in the end?

In any case, it is definitely not in the hands of the Wang family now, otherwise why would those hyenas be so anxious to cast their nets everywhere.

The secret of the snake, the secret of the white sand, the bronze door, the octagonal bell, the clash between the two ancient tribes, the secret pursued by countless people - the secret is here, in the ancestral land!

"Let's go, Zhang Haike knows much more than us." Zhang Wuxun smiled with relief, "Find him, the things that the little brother left behind are also there."

With the words “Brother has been here too”, Wu Xie and Fatty suddenly felt like they were injected with chicken blood. Their waists and legs no longer felt sore, and they kept on moving forward.

The rough corridor looks like a fossil of a giant python's shed skin, lined up one after another and winding.

When they came to their senses, the three of them were already standing in front of a cliff.

This is a natural cave that is more than ten times larger than the previous one. As far as the eye can see, the surrounding rock walls are all covered with thick rusty chains, extending and crisscrossing like the tentacles of a monster.

The chains intertwined like an inverted black tortoise shell, and the entire space seemed like an enormous beehive, or in other words, a snake nest. (End of this chapter)