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

The huge white tree towers into the sky, with sturdy vines as thick as buckets winding around like pythons and deeply rooted in the water. The huge umbrella-shaped crown is like a giant stretching out his arms, embracing countless white fruits with intricate red patterns below.

Like the nerves and blood vessels in a living organism, the pale tendrils spontaneously weave into a net, firmly attached to the eggshell.

The surface of the heavy white egg is as smooth as glass, reflecting the red light emitted by the fire-colored energy stone in the cave, making the white egg itself give people the illusion of glowing.

Zhang Wuxun could sense very weak energy fluctuations in the nearby white eggs, but they were most likely generated by the eggshell itself. The snake species wrapped inside were probably not in good survival condition. After years of lack of energy activation from the mother, the young species were forced to sleep.

In comparison, the egg wrapped in Zhang Haike was obviously much more active.

Zhang Wuxun could even smell the scent of blood that belonged uniquely to the Zhang family. He swam in that direction, trying to send out signals to find his own kind.

He swam all the way to the bottom of the tree canopy where the white eggs were hanging, and only then did his sensing tentacles capture a very subtle response. Zhang Wuxun tried to distinguish it and found that it was actually an anxious signal for help.

Zhang Wuxun felt strange. He stretched his head and looked upwards, and saw that the surface of the white egg was shining brighter. The eggshell was gradually becoming thinner, and a struggling human-shaped black shadow could be seen inside.

"..."Could this guy have stayed in there for too long and drowned?

This shouldn't happen, Zhang Wuxun frowned. Then why didn't he feel any discomfort after soaking in egg white twice? Could it be that Zhang Haike has malabsorption?

The long oval white egg shook even more violently. Seeing this, the mother tree asked the surrounding vines to send out a few tendrils to help fix the naughty egg.

Then Zhang Wuxun saw that the patterns on the half-blurred inner wall of the eggshell suddenly came alive, stretching out long and thin tentacles like octopus to tie Zhang Haike up tightly.

Zhang Haike was trapped in the shell and was already lacking oxygen and on the verge of suffocation. Now he had no room to resist.

Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking air, and in Zhang Haike's blurred vision, he vaguely saw a white blade piercing in like lightning. The cage that he couldn't open no matter how hard he tried was easily cut to the bottom by the knife.

There seemed to be a broken mirror in front of him. Zhang Haike pushed hard against it, and the cage collapsed completely with a loud crash.

Zhang Haike fell back into the water with a thud, like a white fish that had escaped from a net.

Fearing of being hit, Zhang Wuxun quickly swam away to avoid it. Looking at the huge splashes of water caused by the heavy object falling into the pool, he belatedly realized the embarrassment.

After observing for a while, seeing that Zhang Haike quickly adapted to the water and floated to the surface after falling into it, Zhang Wuxun put away his magic knife and quietly swam behind a thick vine that protruded from the water. He climbed out of the water, took out a set of training clothes from the space and put them on, then took out a new waterproof bag to organize his equipment.

Zhang Haike surfaced, panting rapidly. He wiped the water off his face. Suddenly his ears moved, and he quickly turned his head to stare in one direction, shouting, "Who's there?!"

Zhang Wuxun poked his head out from behind the vines, smiled when he saw this, and beckoned to him, "Come over here."

Zhang Haike stared at his face, a little surprised. His lips moved slightly, and he swallowed the words that were about to come out when he thought of something.

He paddled over, holding onto a vine, and looked at Zhang Wuxun carefully. After a long while, he spoke, "Why did your face become like this?"

He knew that Zhang Wuxun had not worn a human skin mask like other disguises, but had directly changed the contours of his face and the skin and flesh that grew on it. He had always thought that this was irreversible, just like his face. Zhang Wuxun was stunned when he heard this, and subconsciously touched his cheek and looked at it in the water. He found that his face looked a little strange, but the sharpness between his eyebrows was vaguely familiar.

This is...his own face!

Zhang Wuxun reacted quickly. It seemed that due to the previous evolution, he not only shed his old skin, but also restored his original appearance.

He briefly told Zhang Haike what had happened before and asked him how his evolution was going.

Zhang Haike sighed and shook his head, "Although I had some hope before coming here, it is obvious that I am not suitable to be a snake species."

As he spoke, he stretched out his arm and patted Zhang Wuxun's shoulder vigorously. "I once promised an old friend that I would help her find a snake species that can inherit the legacy. Now, the hope of their entire clan will be placed on you."

"Are you planning to trick me?" Zhang Wuxun had a hunch that there was a trick, and he didn't even want to ask why. He threw him a set of training clothes and said coldly, "You wish."

Zhang Haike had no intention of explaining in detail. He stood up from the water and said as he put on his clothes: "They will find you, and you will need their help in the future."

Zhang Wuxun snorted and laughed, without making any comment. He already had enough troubles, who would be patient enough to take on another one? It wasn't like he was just sitting there with nothing to do.

"Where were those two guys dragged by the vines?" Zhang Haike decisively changed the subject and asked.

"They were not chosen." Zhang Wuxun confirmed, "There is no smell of Wu Xie and Fatty staying here."

Hearing this, Zhang Haike climbed higher, looked around, and then turned back to look at the huge tree behind him. He said thoughtfully, "It seems that this is not the original body of the ancestral tree. This should be just a part of it that has been separated to facilitate exploration and identification to find suitable young seeds for hatching."

This cave is so high that you can't see the top. In the gaps between the red rocks on the surrounding area, there are countless dark caves. The smallest is only the size of a fist, and the largest is even as big as a millstone.

Zhang Wuxun threw his backpack onto his back, concentrated his attention and carefully sensed the fluctuating smell, then pointed to a medium-sized hole on the stone wall and said, "Go this way, I feel the smell there is a little familiar."

Zhang Haike had no objection and nodded, "Okay."

The two men found a shortcut, swam over, climbed up the rock wall, and entered the cave.

There were many irregular old scratches on the stone walls in the cave. Zhang Haike stabbed hard with the dagger, but the marks left were very slight and almost invisible if you didn't look carefully.

He speculated: "It seems that these scratches were left by snakes that successfully hatched here a long time ago. Well, there were more than one."

Zhang Wuxun suspected that he was talking nonsense and retorted, "This is obviously left by some reptile with very sharp claws. No matter how hard the snake's scales are, at most they can only scrape off some stone foam."

As he spoke, he scratched the cave wall with his fingernails a few times and stretched out his hand to show him, "Look, there's no trace of Mo Zi."

Zhang Haike heard this with a meaningful expression, "How can you be sure that the snake species after hatching will be the original snake's form?" (End of this chapter)