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

Chapter 80 Finding the Exit
Zhang Wuxun was worried about Wu Xiaoxie. There were several tree holes of similar size in front of him, and he instinctively chose the leftmost tree hole to crawl into.

There was a short, narrow path in front of me. After taking two or three steps to cross it, I found myself facing three more tree holes.

Standing at the cave entrance, Zhang Wuxun cursed inwardly, wanting to swear.

This is a damn maze!
"I'm going to die!" Zhang Wuxun hated these winding passages the most; they were time-consuming, laborious, and mentally taxing.

Turning back to the tree hole where they started, Zhang Wuxun pulled out a ball of white yarn from his spatial storage.

This was a gift from the kind shop owner when he went to the market to buy bedding sheets for decorating his house. She saw that he bought a lot and gave it to him as a bonus when he paid. There were several colorful wads of them. Zhang Wuxun didn't know how to knit sweaters and was afraid that Pan Zi would find them and laugh at him when he cleaned the closet, so he just stuffed them into his space. Anyway, they didn't take up much space. He didn't expect them to come in handy now.

Zhang Wuxun unraveled the yarn, tied one end to the dagger, and firmly inserted it into the wall of the tree hole. Then, following the previous order, he walked through the leftmost tree hole, carving a fish in seal script at the entrance of each hole and marking it with numbers for identification.

After passing through five tree holes, Zhang Wuxun saw a tree cocoon hanging inside one of them. It was Liang Shiye, who had been suffocating for a long time and whose body was stiff.

Master Liang's eyes were tightly closed, and it was unclear what he was seeing in his hallucination. A joyful smile played on his lips, and his face was serene and relaxed.

This scene looks incredibly eerie no matter how you look at it.

Zhang Wuxun shook his head, not wanting to dwell on the details. He used his knife to cut the vines binding Liang Shiye, put the body down and moved it aside without paying any more attention. Then, he continued drilling the hole while rolling the yarn in his hand.

In the tree hollow behind, there were also some tree cocoons hanging from time to time. The corpses inside had dried into dried meat. Their clothes were so rotten that it was impossible to tell their age. Their faces were twisted, joyful, horrified, and sad. They had probably suffocated to death while trapped in the illusion. However, I did not see the fat Boss Wang, Wu Xiaoxie, and Lao Yang.

Zhang Wuxun couldn't help but start speculating about a conspiracy, suspecting that this was a deadly move set up by Lao Yang using his materialization ability, designed to separate everyone and take Wu Xiaoxie to achieve his ultimate goal. In that case, Wu Xiaoxie wouldn't be in any immediate danger.

Having passed through forty-six tree holes and gone through three skeins of yarn, Zhang Wuxun was dizzy from all the twisting and turning. Finally, the tree holes ahead overlapped, and it was the twenty-fifth tree hole he had passed before.

Zhang Wuxun cut the yarn and used the dagger to fix it to the wall of cave number twenty-five. Then he lifted his foot and walked towards the tree hole next to him, where no yarn was sticking out.

The journey was relatively smooth. We navigated two side roads, which led to hard tree trunks. On the third attempt, we finally found the exit.

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On the plank road, Wu Xiaoxie accidentally dozed off when a miserable scream suddenly came from beside him, startling him so much that he opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the sound.

By the faint light of the torch, he saw countless vines descending from the sky, and huge, dark shadows engulfing everyone. Boss Wang and Master Liang had already been swept into the air and disappeared, while Lao Yang, due to his limited mobility, lay on the ground and temporarily escaped the disaster.

Once a vine entangles its prey, other vines around it will spontaneously gather to help entangle it firmly, and then retreat in a rush, quickly disappearing into the darkness.

The vines that attacked him and Zhang Wuxun were quickly cut off by Zhang Wuxun with his knife, leaving behind the words, "I'm going to save people."

Then he quickly ran towards Lao Yang.

(End of this chapter)