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

Chapter 63 is a snake spirit
Zhang Wuxun felt a wave of dizziness, as if ten thousand alpacas were rushing over his head.

The giant snake, unaware of the turmoil in his heart, instead revealed a hint of covetousness... oops, I mean, covetousness in its eyes.

Who knows how Zhang Wuxun could see the kindness in those huge purple eyes?

The giant snake used its tongue to clean the egg white off Zhang Wuxun's body, then used its tail to curl up the eggshell with a hole in it and placed it in front of Zhang Wuxun, flicking its tongue to signal him to eat quickly.

Zhang Wuxun: "..."

Zhang Wuxun: "!!!"

Good heavens! This giant snake probably thinks he's its own cub.

So hasty? Didn't it even have any doubts?
Seeing that he was dumbfounded and didn't react, the giant snake tilted its big head, went around to Zhang Wuxun's back, and "gently" nudged him.

Zhang Wuxun stumbled, but managed to steady himself by clinging to the eggshell.

The eggshell was like a small house, it was huge. Even though Zhang Wuxun was 1.82 meters tall, he was still more than a meter short of the top when he stood in front of it.

The giant snake clearly realized that its offspring was still too small to reach, so it kindly turned the eggshell on its side, and the remaining egg white flowed out from the crack.

Zhang Wuxun's face remained expressionless, but inwardly he was cursing.

The system suddenly emitted a sound.

[The host may wish to collect these egg whites first, as they contain the aura of Zhu Jiuyin, which can intimidate all snakes.]

Zhang Wuxun's eyes lit up. Oh right, how come he didn't think of that?

Busy, he took out containers that could hold liquids from his spatial storage, filled them with all the egg whites using bowls and jars, and then put them back into his spatial storage. This thing will be very useful in the future.

The space provided by the system was magical; time seemed to stand still inside. Zhang Wuxun once tried putting a mechanical watch inside, and when he took it out a week later, the hands were spinning rapidly. Eventually, it broke down completely due to overload.

The self-heating meals, guns, and ammunition inside won't move or breathe; they'll come out exactly the same as they went in.

Zhang Wuxun deduced from this that the space could only contain inanimate objects, not living ones; of course, egg whites were acceptable.

Zhang Wuxun kept his back to the giant snake while operating the device, and he also concealed the container of egg whites in his hand.

Therefore, when the giant snake saw that Zhang Wuxun had "drunk" all the egg whites, it licked his face as a reward. The cool and slippery touch made Zhang Wuxun shudder and realize that he had nothing on his body.

Gan!
Taishe is dead.

Luckily, Xiao Tianzhen and the others weren't here, otherwise Zhang Wu would have been so embarrassed he'd want to disappear into the ground.

Zhang Wuxun quickly pulled out a set of camouflage work clothes and a water bladder from his spatial storage, rinsed them off quickly, dried them with a towel, and put them on.

The giant snake stared at Zhang Wuxun for a while, then, finding it uninteresting, flicked its tongue and climbed onto the stone platform in the center of the cave. Its enormous body coiled up, resembling a small mountain up close.

Zhang Wuxun followed closely, stopping two meters away from the giant snake. He was afraid that if he got any closer, the snake might accidentally crush him with its tail.

Then he sat cross-legged on the ground, took out a self-heating meal from his spatial storage, prepared it, and waited while resting his chin on his hand, mentally typing to the system: [System, system, didn't I fall off the waterfall with Xiaotianzhen and Laoyang? How did I end up inside the giant snake's egg?]
The system avoided the question, only replying, "They are in another cave; the energy contained in Zhujiuyin's egg is useful to the host."

Zhang Wuxun knew that the dog system would always avoid discussing the issue of bronze tree energy.

[What happened to the little Candle Nine Yin that was originally inside the egg?]
The system said, "This egg itself belongs to the host." (This is one of the reasons why the wooden fish was able to suppress King Mu of Zhou, who had turned into a blood corpse.)

"?" Zhang Wuxun exclaimed in shock, "You mean, I'm actually a snake spirit?!"

The system choked for a moment, then said helplessly, "[The host is a human, a member of the Zhang family.]"

Zhang Wuxun touched his nose. That's true. If he were a demon, the Zhang family would have suppressed him before he even grew up.

He was just being attached to appearances.

He knew without even asking that the system was behind it all, but it wouldn't say anything, always just brushing him off with "the host is not authorized to know at this time," which was incredibly frustrating.

"Never mind," Zhang Wuxun sighed deeply. There was no point in worrying about these people now; the system would tell him sooner or later anyway.

Clearing his mind of questions, Zhang Wuxun finally had time to observe his surroundings.

This is a large cave, which has been modified and sculpted by human hands based on the original natural cave. The circular offering plate carved on the ceiling contains five fist-sized luminous pearls in a pentagonal shape, so that things can be seen clearly even without torches or lights.

This is a genuine luminous pearl, completely different from the fish-eye stone that he and Fatty had pried off the top of the treasure in the underwater tomb in Xisha. Although it's not as bright as day, it's still enough to see things clearly, not to mention that Zhang Wuxun also has night vision ability as a system reward.

Zhang Wushun gazed at the luminous pearl above, tears welling up in his eyes.

Out of the corner of his eye, Zhang Wu saw the large snake lying quietly with its one eye closed, and wisely chose to follow his heart.

Although he had absorbed the energy of the egg after hatching from it, and thus possessed the aura of Zhujiuyin, if he were to actually steal someone else's luminous pearl, there was no guarantee that the giant snake wouldn't mistake him for being naughty and punish him, then snap him in the mouth. His small body wouldn't even be enough to fill a tooth gap, let alone be chewed up by that big mouth.

In the very center of the cave was a huge stone platform, on which the giant snake was lying.

Apart from a branch of a fiery spring that passes through here, the rest of the place is deserted.

The walls of the cave were covered with a dense array of strange and chaotic carvings. After searching for a long time, Zhang Wu could only deduce that it was a scene of a sacrifice performed at some unknown time, and the object of the sacrifice was clearly Zhu Jiuyin, who was sitting steadily on the central stone platform.

Zhang Wuxun couldn't tell which period the people in the murals belonged to; this kind of brain-intensive research was only suitable for a naive girl.

Thinking of Xiao Tianzhen facing so many wolves and tigers all alone outside, Zhang Wuxun couldn't help but feel anxious.

[System, how long have I been inside that egg?]
[One day and one night] System reply.

Zhang Wuxun compared the timeline with the original plot. By now, Xiao Tianzhen should have already climbed down the cliff and passed through the maze of coffins.

In the original storyline, the sparks from the signal flare fired by Lao Yang ignited the pine resin on the ground of the coffin position, which then burned the coffins. Xiao Tianzhen and his friends were forced into a pit by the wall of fire and the fat rats that had made their home in the coffins.

Below the pit was a tomb chamber, and the largest coffin inside was double-layered. Lao Yang easily found the lower level and activated the mechanism.

(End of this chapter)