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

The people behind didn't realize what was happening, but Zhang Haike caught up in time.

But soon, the light in Zhang Haike's hand disappeared, and even the noise he made while running vanished.

A monster seemed to lurk in the rolling darkness ahead, swallowing Zhang Wuxun and his companion whole.

"Holy crap, why are you all so quiet? What happened?"

In the silence, the fat man couldn't help but ask.

The fat man was in the second-to-last position, his attention focused on the steep and narrow steps beneath his feet. He could only hear two consecutive "thump-thump-thump" sounds fading into the distance.

He subconsciously looked up, but everything outside the flashlight beam was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

Zhang Wuxun and the other two, who were walking at the front, disappeared from sight, so Wu Xie became the leader of the group.

Shining the light and gazing as far as he could, Wu Xie replied hesitantly, "I really want to hear the wooden fish say... 'It's there,' and then the wooden fish suddenly ran away, and Zhang Haike ran away after it."

“‘It’s there,’” the fat man repeated. “Who’s there? Who is ‘it’?”

"Did the young clan leader see something?" Dan, who was at the very end of the group, asked.

Wu Xie tilted his head, his voice tense, "Do you think what Mu Yu saw was that snake?"

“That’s unlikely.” Zhang Jiuri behind him immediately denied it. “According to what you said before, that snake was kept somewhere by the clan leader. How could it suddenly appear here?”

Listening to their discussion, the fat man behind them was so anxious that he kept stamping his feet. "If you ask me, whether it's true or not, let's just follow them and see for ourselves."

"Walk."

Wu Xie responded and continued forward.

Zhang Jiuri, who was behind him, stared at his back, seemingly lost in thought, and said stiffly, "Let's switch places. I'll go in front. Someone as important as you can't be allowed to get hurt."

"No need." Wu Xie turned his head to interrupt him, pointed at him with his finger, and his face turned unusually cold.

"Stop your little probing, or I'll tell Muyu and Zhang Haike about you once we get to the bottom."

After saying that, he turned around and quickened his pace.

Zhang Jiuri's expression was somewhat unpleasant, but he didn't refute anything. He just silently followed Wu Xie, constantly alert to the surrounding environment.

The further you go, the darker and more eerie it becomes.

Wu Xie had a feeling that something was wrong, but he was anxious about Mu Yu and the other two, so he quickened his pace and eventually started running.

Zhang Jiuri called out to him from behind, "Wu Xie, be careful..."

However, Wu Xie seemed to have lost his mind and rushed into the darkness.

Zhang Jiuri cursed under his breath and quickened his pace to catch up.

After running for a while, Zhang Jiuri suddenly stopped. The fat man who was rushing over from behind couldn't stop in time and yelled "Hey hey hey!" as he crashed straight into Zhang Jiuri.

Zhang Jiuri, with his superior skills, managed to steady himself. The fat man, his soft flesh slamming against Zhang Jiuri's hard back, was thrown backward by the recoil.

Just as he was about to roll off the stairs, Dan caught up in a few steps and grabbed the fat man by the collar, pulling him back.

"Holy shit, holy shit!" The fat man, his face pale, patted his chest and cautiously glanced out the stairs twice, still shaken.

This mine is like a bottomless pit; the ore chunks that the fat man kicked down earlier made no sound at all. "Damn it, I almost failed before I even started. My lifelong reputation is ruined. If word gets out that I'm really this humiliated, the Yang family will laugh at me."

The fat man cursed twice to bolster his courage before he finally had time to ask Zhang Jiuri.

"What's going on? Why did you suddenly stop here?"

Zhang Jiuri shone the flashlight beam a meter ahead, slightly turning his body so that the two fat men behind him could see him clearly.

"Look, there's no road ahead, and Wu Xie isn't here either."

"What did you say? The person got lost?" The fat man didn't believe it at first, but as he muttered to himself, he craned his neck to look into the distance and his eyes widened immediately.

Then you see that the stone steps ahead have broken off abruptly, revealing a gap of four or five meters in length.

"Damn it, there really is no way out."

The fat man squeezed past Zhang Jiuri and jogged to the gap.

He squatted down to examine the road closely, and immediately shouted, "Which bastard used a detonator to blow up my road?"

As he continued cursing, the fat man realized something was wrong. The gap was so long that it was practically impossible for Wu Xie to cross it with his skills.

So here's the question: the road is so narrow, where can Wu Xie go all alone?
Thinking of Wu Xie's terrible luck, Fatty panicked and hurriedly re-examined the edge of the cliff to see if there were any signs of someone slipping and falling.

After finding nothing, he breathed a huge sigh of relief. Thank goodness, it seemed that Wu Xie hadn't slipped and fallen.

Where is he? Is he really missing?

Afraid of disturbing the snakes inside the stone tower, the fat man shouted in a low voice, "Tianzhen, Tianzhen, where are you over there? Make a sound!"

"Naive~ Have you been captured by a monster?"

Zhang Jiuri leaned forward, shining a lamp over his waist to illuminate the mountainside, and muttered to himself, "Zhang Haike and the others might have climbed up there too."

Upon seeing the photo, Zhang Jiuri frowned and realized something was amiss.

Strange, where did the stone steps on the next level go?

The stone steps in the mine pit do not wind around the entire pit wall like a spiral staircase, but are carved directly into the pit wall like the cliffside highway in the Taihang Mountains, creating a space more than a meter high. The steps carved underfoot turn directly on the same mountain wall.

So when a person walking on the stone steps steady themselves and leans out, they can see the stone steps above that they have already walked on.

However, what's truly disconcerting is that the path they had just walked has vanished!
Zhang Jiuri told the fat man and the other man what he had discovered.

The fat man scratched his head, exclaiming in frustration, "This is really damn strange! The six of us walked this road step by step, how could it just disappear into thin air?"

"The young clan leader and the others also disappeared suddenly," Dan said, his brows furrowed.

"Could it be that there is some kind of hidden mechanism here, and the young clan leader and the others were moved to another path in the mountain wall by the mechanism when they passed by, so we did not notice it?"

Zhang Jiuri, seemingly lost in thought, said cryptically, "Is it possible that what actually disappeared wasn't them, but the three of us?"

The fat man frowned at first, then suddenly realized and clapped his hands heavily, "I know, it's a ghost wall!"

He lowered his voice, as if afraid of disturbing something.

"There's a ghost hiding here. This ghost has cast a spell to trap us. If you don't believe me, let's go back; we're sure to find something!" (End of Chapter)