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

Zhang Haike threw away the dead snake in his hand, smiled at Wu Xie and the others, and said, "I've been waiting for you for a long time."

This guy just seemed to pop out of nowhere.

Wu Xie carefully observed his expression and confirmed that it was a human, then he relaxed his vigilance slightly.

He looked around and asked Zhang Haike, "What's wrong with these snakes? They were so active when we came down, why are they running away now?"

"Shouldn't it be your masterpiece?" Zhang Haike was puzzled at first, then he thought of something, his face suddenly changed, and he walked over in two or three steps, "What did you bring here?"

He was sure that the chill that suddenly appeared out of nowhere was not an illusion. Although the feeling was gone now, he was afraid that the real crisis had not been resolved.

Hearing this, Wu Xie and Fatty also became nervous and drew their swords and took defensive postures.

After waving the sword in front of him for a while, Wu Xie's mind calmed down and he suddenly thought of a problem that he had overlooked in the urgency of the situation.

Why hasn’t the wooden fish come down yet?

Damn it, he wouldn't take this opportunity to sneak away again, would he? !
Wu Xie was furious. He patted his chest to comfort himself that Mu Yu wouldn't be far away. He gave Fatty a look and said, "I'll go up and take a look. Mu Yu hasn't come down yet."

The fat man was stunned, and then he connected the strangeness with Zhang Wuxun, and cursed in a low voice, "Fuck, he hasn't come down yet. I guess he has released all his cuckold energy and is stuck up there again."

There was a considerable distance between the cave entrance and the ground, so Wu Xie and Fatty climbed up by stacking themselves up.

Zhang Haike stood behind them and listened to the riddle, his eyes flickering slightly, as if he was thinking about something, and then he understood something.

It seems that this special member of the Zhang family still has some unknown magical powers.

"What a cuckold spirit, it's ugly!"

As soon as Wu Xie poked his head out of the hole, he was hit on the top of his head, and his anger instantly turned into ashes.

Zhang Wuxun squatted in front of him, his face expressionless, holding a brown-red translucent egg in his hand, showing it to him, "Look, I found something good."

Wu Xie took it and touched it. It felt as cool and smooth as jade. When he looked through the light, he could vaguely see a coiled white baby snake inside.

"Fossilized snake eggs?" he exclaimed. "Such a big one. Where did you find it? How did the shell become like this?"

Zhang Wuxun smiled as if he had found something he had just found. "The stone that Fatty kicked out looked too round. I picked it up and found that the weight was not right. I knocked off the outermost layer of the stone shell."

The fat man was so angry that he screamed, "Why don't you two careless bastards come down and chat? Hurry up and get off, or I'm going to be crushed!"

Wu Xie pursed his lips and whispered, "He's jealous of you."

"What are you talking about? I heard it all." The fat man said unhappily, and then asked Zhang Wuxun, "How much is this egg-shaped jade worth in the market? Do you have any other ones? Dig two for me. I have made selfless contributions along the way, so I should take some souvenirs with me before I leave."

"Then I'll give you this. This is the egg of a very large snake. It's estimated to be thousands of years old." Zhang Wuxun said, "This kind of thing will be more valuable at auction. I remember a crystal python egg fossil was unearthed in the last century, and it has been sold for more than 9 million yuan."

"Really?" The fat man drooled after hearing this. He straightened his back like an old monk and waved his hand, "Good brother, no need to thank me. Next time Tian Zhen gets angry and wants to pick a fight with you, I will stop him in advance."

“Bah! My fighting power is now at an advanced level. Can you stop me?” Wu Xie jumped off the fat man’s back and said with disdain.

Zhang Wuxun ignored the two people who were used to bickering, greeted Zhang Haike behind him, and jumped down as well.

He let Zhang Haike see the jade egg first, as he thought Zhang Haike should know something.

Zhang Haike pulled out a fingernail-sized cultural relic mirror from under the dial. It had a specially modified soft light embedded on it, making it convenient for identification and observation.

Zhang Haike stared at the young snake in the jade, examining it carefully, his eyelids almost sticking to the antique mirror, his expression mysterious.

He knew what Zhang Wuxun wanted to ask, but he did not answer directly. Instead, he asked him how he did it.

Zhang Wuxun did not explain in detail, only saying: "My body has undergone some changes, which I discovered after entering the snake's nest."

Wu Xie left the fat man who was still mumbling, leaned over and asked nervously, "Is it a good thing?"

Zhang Haike flicked the jade egg with his fingers and said, "I don't know about others, and I haven't seen it either, but if it happened to him, it seems to be a good thing at the moment."

The fat man was confused. "Because of this egg?"

"Of course not." Zhang Wuxun gave the two a reassuring smile, "It's just a little similar in appearance. This change should have appeared a long time ago, but I have always ignored it. Recently, it has been affected by the environmental factors of the snake's nest, and the change has become more obvious."

For example, the night vision that does not require system energy supply.

"Then... do you still need this egg?" The fat man rubbed his hands expectantly. Zhang Wuxun glanced at him with a smile, picked it up and threw it to him, "Keep it."

The fat man held the egg and touched it with shining eyes, making "Oh-oh-oh" sounds from his mouth, just like a big hen sitting on a nest, happily accepting this unexpected egg.

The space below that contained the flaming red stone was much smaller than the cave above. The snake that had just been driven away by the "kingly aura" had slipped into the cracks in the stone and disappeared without a trace.

Wu Xie always remembered their destination. He searched around but couldn't find a hole for someone to get through. He then asked Zhang Haike, "How long have you been wandering here? Can't you find the way to the Snake Temple?"

Zhang Haike nodded seriously and pointed in a direction, "I found it, but it's all snake paths, not roads for people to walk on, so I decided to stay and wait for you."

Wu Xie trotted over there. There were seven holes on the fiery red stone wall, getting smaller from left to right. But even the largest hole was only as big as a child's head. Even if one shrunk his bones, he couldn't get through it.

He was just about to ask what to do next, whether they should go back a bit and find another way.

Zhang Wuxun suddenly untied the black cloth tied around his wrist, pinched it with two fingers to straighten it, then raised his hand to cover his eyes and tied it behind his head.

The fat man asked three times in quick succession, "What's wrong with you? Do your eyes hurt? Are you suffering from snow blindness?"

Zhang Wuxun shook his head and opened his thin lips slightly, "My instinct will tell me the right direction."

"Really?" The fat man was suspicious, took a deep breath, closed his eyes and felt it, then said, "My instinct tells me that if I breathe too much hot air, I will want to fart."

Zhang Wu looked for the black line, turned around and walked away. The uneven ground posed no obstacle to him.

Wu Xie encountered this sentence as soon as he came back, and said expressionlessly, "Get the fuck away from me first."

Zhang Haike waved his hands as if he was shooing away a fly, his disdain evident in his words.

The fat man obediently ran away.

When he came back from relieving himself, he saw Zhang Wuxun and two others digging the ground with shovels, and the sound of iron and stone colliding made a clanging sound.

In the southwest corner of the seven holes, there is an area where the fiery red stone is as red as arterial blood just flowing out of the blood vessels.

Those stones seemed to have life, and the overflowing red light really looked like the trembling muscle fibers on a fresh large bull head, which made people tremble with fear, fearing that they would come alive.

The fat man came over and took over Zhang Wuxun's shovel, "Is there a road underneath?"

"This place contains the most energy." Zhang Wuxun told what he felt. Instinctively, he knew why those red snakes chose this place as their molting place.

"Those little snakes need to use the hard red fire stones here to rub and shed their skins, and then absorb the energy from the rubbed stones to build harder scales."

The creatures with human heads and snake bodies described in the murals outside the snake's nest are walking on such hard snake paths. Before heading to their ancestral land, they need to grind off their old scales and finally complete their evolution in the ancestral land.

After trying their best, they only got a few white marks, which made them feel discouraged.

"Muyu, can't you suck these red stones? Those gray stones are very brittle." The fat man had a wild idea and divergent thinking.

Zhang Wuxun hesitated. He didn't know how to absorb the energy. He had only had some contact with it with the help of the system. After "eating" the giant egg in Qinling, his physical condition had indeed improved a lot. If he "ate" the energy here again, there was no guarantee that he would not evolve into a strange appearance in the future.

Just imagining it made him resist instinctively.

Zhang Wuxun lifted a little of the blindfold and stared at the stone under his feet with a frown.

Zhang Haike saw his hesitation, recalled the information he had collected from the ancient building, and revealed a little to him, "No, although I don't know what caused your change, but from your performance just now, it is obvious that your evolution source is very advanced, and the direction of evolution will be more primitive. This may mean that you don't have to stick to the form, and you will be more powerful."

Zhang Wuxun looked at him with one eye, "You suddenly speak so nicely, why do I feel like you are expecting something bad?"

"How could that be?" Zhang Haike showed a pure smile, "You are the most special member of the Zhang family I have ever met."

Zhang Wuxun still felt that his smile was inexplicably creepy. He suddenly thought of a blind spot, "How did the young man get in in the first place?"

"Yes!" Fat Xie's four eyes widened and he said in unison.

But soon Zhang Wuxun found the answer. He said in an unbelievable tone, "Have you noticed that the shapes of these large pieces of flaming red stones are very similar to scales!"

Wu Xie's heart skipped a beat, and he gestured at the ground in a panic, saying, "Could it be that these fiery red stones, this entire area, were formed by countless giant snakes that came here before dying and released all their energy, which accumulated over hundreds of millions of years and eventually formed the shape we see today?"

"So, their purpose is to raise cubs, just like the cycle of life." Fatty realized. (End of this chapter)