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

Chapter 69 Wealth and honor depend on people
"Master Liang?"

After climbing more than ten meters, Wu Xiaoxie noticed that there was no movement behind him. Puzzled, he looked down and saw Liang Shiye standing there motionless. He asked in confusion, "Why don't you hurry up and climb up? Are you just going to stay there and grow mushrooms?"

Master Liang took a breath, struggled to get up, and rubbed his swollen knees. "I'm coming. You two go first, I'll be right behind you."

A climbing rope was hanging down in front of him. Liang Shiye was stunned and looked up.

"What are you standing there for?" Wu Xiaoxie shook the rope in his hand. "Hurry up and climb up, I'll pull you up."

A warm current suddenly surged in Liang Shiye's aged heart. His tired body seemed to be injected with energy, and he propped himself up, tied the rope around his waist, grabbed the branches and used it to climb up.

Seeing that he was moving, Wu Xiaoxie tied the rope around his waist and freed his hands to continue climbing.

No one had the energy to speak anymore. After an unknown amount of time, their movements became completely mechanical. They relied on willpower and dared not stop. If they stopped, fatigue and soreness would overwhelm them, and they might even faint from exhaustion.

The branches above became increasingly dense, making it easier to climb, but one had to be constantly careful not to fall. Nobody wanted to stay in this godforsaken place and be buried with Uncle Tai, who was like a lump of mud.

Using the light of his flashlight, Wu Xiaoxie discovered that the rock walls around this section of the bronze tree were beginning to change, with natural stalactite cones and some dissolved rock curtains appearing. The rock walls on both sides began to shrink, and some caves of varying sizes appeared on the rock walls, indicating that this place had clearly gone beyond the area that had been artificially excavated.

As the light swept across the cave, something seemed to reflect light in some parts of the cave. Wu Xiaoxie wasn't sure if he was seeing things, but he didn't dare to gamble. He became increasingly uneasy and didn't even notice that Lao Yang in front of him had stopped at some point. He bumped his head into Lao Yang's butt.

"Huh?" Wu Xiaoxie realized what was happening and quickly asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Old Yang's expression was solemn. He saw many white-haired monkeys wearing human-face masks that he had just encountered in the area he shone his flashlight on. Upon closer inspection, he found that the monkeys were already cold. Their bodies had been dried out by the hot wind blowing from above. Their limbs were twisted strangely and stuck in the dense branches. There were dozens of them. The human faces on the masks stared straight at Wu Xiaoxie and his two companions who were passing by, as if they could come to life and jump onto their faces at any moment.

The three slowed their pace and carefully observed the strange monkey carcasses.

Most of the mummies were intact, except for the twisted bones. The fatal wounds all seemed to be on the neck. Some of the mummies' heads were turned over, as if their necks had been twisted and turned by some enormous force before they breathed their last.

Wu Xiaoxie couldn't help but imagine Xiao Ge and Zhang Wuxun in his mind, and realized that with their skills, they could kill these monkeys without shedding a drop of blood.

Liang Shiye then climbed up, stared at the mummified corpse's mask for a long time, and suddenly hissed, "Don't you guys think the monkeys' postures are a bit strange? And the human face on this mask... I feel like I've seen it somewhere before..."

Wu Xiaoxie also leaned closer to take a look and asked him, "What's strange about it?"

With the lamp lit, Lao Yang carefully peeled off the mask of one of the mummies. Turning it over, he saw a fist-sized, spiral-shaped protrusion, like a snail shell, with a small hole in the middle, on the back of the mask, where the mouth should be.

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