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

Five days later, after thoroughly studying the mine map that had been brought out of the crystal coffin, Zhang Wuxun and his three companions, along with a blue-robed man named Dan, headed to the Golden Sphere Valley, which was heavily guarded by the Khampa people.

It wasn't supposed to be this fast. Zhang Wuxun and his group were originally searching for places where mines might be hidden in the snow-capped mountains of southern Tibet, but Dan, who came in to find Zhang Wuxun, only glanced at it and recognized it as the place hidden behind the old site of Kham, beyond a snow-capped mountain.

Before this avalanche, the Khampa tribe had relocated once due to some reason beyond human control. The mine they were looking for was there, but they needed to enter the Golden Sphere sinkhole created by the meteorite.

With Zhang Wuxun's status as the young clan chief as a guarantee, the Khampa people did not strongly resist him bringing outsiders in.

Dan further warned them that living people couldn't stay in Golden Sphere Valley for long, "That place is cursed; people will go insane if they stay there too long."

Therefore, the guards of the Golden Sphere Valley in Kangbaluo take turns during the day and retreat at night.

In Dan's words, that area forms a special "ghostly realm" at night.

Wu Xie asked curiously, "What's so special about it?"

For the first time, Danmu's wooden face showed a look of recollection and even avoidance. "It was probably sixty years ago, when I was just over ten years old. A team went there under the pretext of exploration and searching for rare minerals. Those people were mostly young and very skilled. I remember it very clearly. The old chieftain initially did not agree to let them enter Golden Ball Valley, but later the leader of the team said something to the old chieftain and suddenly agreed. Uncle Gongbu led me and a few people from the tribe to transport supplies for them."

"But later only three people came out of Golden Sphere Valley, and they all went mad, as if their souls had been sucked away by the devil. Their skin was covered in sores, but they still protected a very heavy lead box."

Upon hearing "lead box," Wu Xie and the others exchanged glances, already having a pretty good idea of ​​what it was.

"Those who remained outside the valley quickly contacted the outside world and took the box and the injured people away."

Dan drew a jumble of tangled, irregular lines on the paper, with a circle that looked like an eye in the middle. "There's a distinct embossed emblem on that box, and that's the design."

At this point, Dan looked at Zhang Haike and said, "After I inherited the position of clan leader, I saw from the notes left by the old clan leader that the leader of that team was surnamed Zhang, and the mine they went to belonged to the Zhang family."

"But we still got robbed." The fat man chuckled, picked up the paper and looked at it from left to right, front to back, but he still couldn't figure it out. "What is this thing? It's incoherent, with only one eye in the middle, a complete mess. Who would be so bored as to make this thing to fool people?"

"Even a child's doodle looks more like rice crust than this. It's so abstract. You really don't remember correctly, it's been sixty years?"

Wu Xie stared at the paper, racking his brains, but couldn't find any totems in the ancient books and rubbings he had read that matched the pattern.

Dan glanced at the fat man indifferently: "My memory is one of the best in the entire clan. Chief Rengo divined and only received a proverb from the Great Sun God: 'The transgressors who came with alien stars will one day make a comeback.'"

According to Lao Renge's analysis, this should only be a shadow that He once projected into the world, so it cannot be described and is just a thought that can be described by imagination.

Zhang Wuxun said in a deep voice, "Just like the idols that the Germans made, what can be drawn and written on are only man-made concepts." So Rengolawa divined this matter sixty years ago and suffered a backlash. After that, he would not perform divination again unless absolutely necessary, but he still could not escape the shackles of fate.

Wu Xie's greatest strength is information integration. He quickly extracted clues from the details in Dan and Zhang Wuxun's conversation. Combining this with the badge he had obtained from the sleeve of the Tibetan robe of the Little Brother statue, he concluded: "From what you're saying, the one who possesses that badge as a mark is the very mysterious team under Zhang Qishan's command back then."

"They also went to the snake mine. What did they take away from there?"

The fat man clicked his tongue and interrupted his thoughts, "No matter what Zhang Qishan's team took away, that's all ancient history from sixty years ago. What's important right now is to get down to business."

“Whether he’s dead or alive, we still have to go inside to get what Xiao Ge left for Tianzhen. First, explain to us what this Ghost Realm is all about. Is it some kind of ghost maze?” the fat man asked.

“Of course not.” Dan was slightly displeased with his frivolous attitude. “I saw a record in the journal that the team consisted of more than 30 people, who entered the place in three batches. However, after walking 20 kilometers, the first batch of people who went in all lost contact.”

Six hours after the first group went missing, the second group was sent in. To prevent any accidents, they were to communicate with the camp every fifteen minutes.

The valley has a complex terrain with many rocks. The second group found traces left by the first group. Time seemed to be accelerated here. They found that the items left behind showed obvious signs of aging. The first group had only been in there for less than a day, and the discarded iron cigarette box was already rusty and crumbled into pieces with a touch of a finger.

Everyone felt a chill run down their spines, but after checking themselves and finding nothing unusual, they explored further and discovered no new signs of activity.

It seems that the first team had an accident here. After reporting the situation to the camp, the team leader decided to rest here and arranged for someone to keep watch at night.

But that very night, strange things happened: the two men on the first night watch also mysteriously disappeared.

Upon hearing this, everyone felt something was amiss. Under the guidance of the team leader, they split into groups of three, tied with ropes, and began searching the surrounding area for the person.

Then it was discovered that the team members who went out to search for people would mysteriously disappear after going beyond a certain distance.

Nighttime is when panic is most likely to build up. After the team leader discovered that he could not contact the camp, he decided to retreat a distance along the way they came. The rest of the team did not sleep and stayed awake until dawn.

During the day, a headcount revealed that half of the second group had disappeared. The losses were too great, and the pressure was increasing. The team leader finally couldn't hold back any longer and ordered everyone to evacuate from Golden Sphere Valley.

"They all disappeared at night, that's so weird." The fat man joked, "Could it be because they got into a fight over the gold inside and were killed?"

Dan shook his head, his tone enigmatic, "Gold is the medium of the curse." (End of Chapter)