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

Chapter 18 Golden Jade Cage
Zhang Wuxun took off his gloves and burned them with a lighter. [If I accidentally disrupt the original storyline in the future, will that damn world consciousness still intervene to correct it?]
The world's consciousness will only correct itself if a particularly important plot point is disrupted.

[Okay, understood.]
Zhang Wuxun unwrapped a piece of candy and popped it into his mouth, expressionless.

From the bronze coffin, occasionally a cry of surprise could be heard, something about "Manas jade" or "jade inlaid in the coffin cover," and some even shouted that there were living people inside, it was quite a spectacle.

Zhang Wuxun stretched out his legs out of boredom, tilted his head back to stretch his neck, and suddenly heard someone call his name. He turned his head and saw Third Master Wu waving at him.

Fucking ah?
Zhang Wuxun pursed his lips, got up, brushed the dirt off his backside, grabbed a handful of Tianxin Rock Ash, and walked over.

"Is something wrong?"

Master Wu said with a smile, "Muyu, I can't handle this coffin by myself. I need your help."

Zhang Wuxun glanced at the coffin and knew that the old fox, Master Wu, still suspected his origins and his purpose in getting close to Xiao Tianzhen, and was testing him here.

He bent down and squinted into the gap between the lacquered coffin and the outer coffin, then stood up and waved to the fat man, "This job still needs to be done by Fatty, I'm not confident."

In the video clip the system sent him, it was the fat man who opened the lacquered coffin.

Hearing Zhang Wuxun's words, the fat man also came closer, looked for a while, chuckled, and then put his hand into the gap. After a long time, there was a crisp "snap" sound, and the lacquered coffin split neatly in the middle.

Zhang Wuxun pulled Wu Xiaoxie back a step, his eyes fixed on the lacquered coffin that was slowly rising from the inner coffin.

With a snap, the two cracked coffin lids fell to the ground, and a person in black armor popped out—no, a zombie.

Pan Zi instinctively aimed his gun at the target and was about to pull the trigger when Wu Sanye stopped him, saying, "You can't move it. This black armor is a treasure."

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be the legendary jade figurine, right?" Zhang Wuxun looked at the young man with a questioning gaze.

The young man nodded. "It is indeed a jade figurine, also called a jade casket with gold thread."

The young man spoke at a measured pace, recounting his story slowly and deliberately.

It turns out that this jade figurine sheds a layer of skin every five hundred years, and the figurine can only be removed when it sheds its skin; otherwise, the person inside will turn into a blood corpse.

The young man pointed to the lone blood-covered corpse head and said, "That blood-covered corpse was the previous owner of the jade figurine. When King Lu Shang was tomb raiding, he found it, took off the jade figurine, and crawled inside himself."

Wu Xiaoxie interjected, "So, the jade figurine is now hiding King Lu Shang?"

The young man ignored him, but his eyes suddenly turned cold. He walked straight forward, reached out and grabbed the jade figurine by the neck, and said coldly, "You've lived long enough. You can die now."

Then, the five fingers tightened forcefully, and the jade figurine let out a short scream before the young man crushed its throat bones, rendering it dead beyond any doubt.

Wu Xiaoxie trembled, opened his mouth, and looked at the young man with shock, fear, and even more curiosity.

Zhang Wuxun patted him on the shoulder and said, "It shouldn't be King Lu Shang inside, but his strategist Tie Miansheng."

Wu Xiaoxie quickly turned to look at him, "How did you know?"

Zhang Wuxun pointed to the purple jade box at the back of the lacquered coffin and said, "The answer is in there."

The fat man was already rummaging through the jade figurine, looking for any loose threads he could pull off.

Wu Xiaoxie opened the purple jade box, took out the gold-inlaid silk cloth inside, and huddled with Third Master Wu to study it, reading as they looked at it.

Seeing that there was nothing more for him to do, Zhang Wu went back to staring at the bloodied corpse head. Although the original plot said that Tie Miansheng had tricked King Lu Shang, pulling King Lu Shang out of the jade terracotta warrior and then crawling back in himself, he still felt that it didn't make much sense.

Since Tie Miansheng knew that the jade terracotta warrior could bring the dead back to life and could only be used once, and King Mu of Zhou had already become a blood corpse, how could Tie Miansheng, who was so smart, possibly crawl into it himself?

Moreover, when he said that the person in the jade figurine was Tie Miansheng, he clearly noticed that the young man's expression was slightly unnatural.

The guy was gone for so long, he probably got his hands on the Ghost Seal, so there's nothing more for him to do.

But none of that matters. What matters is how to get Wu Xiaoxie out safely later.

After the fat man finished tearing apart the jade figurine, he continued to rummage through the treasures inside the lacquered coffin.

Zhang Wuxun suddenly felt the bloodied corpse head in front of him move slightly, and thought to himself, "It's here."

The blood corpse head suddenly began to tremble violently, and a protrusion on its scalp was wriggling rapidly. Soon, a very small red corpse beetle crawled out from it, fluttering its wings as if about to take off.

"Damn it, run! There's a Corpse Beetle King here!" Zhang Wuxun shouted without turning his head, and then reached out his left hand to grab the Corpse Beetle King the moment it spread its wings and took flight.

"What? What?" The fat man was still terrified of being bitten by the corpse beetles earlier, so he jumped up reflexively. Before running away, he didn't forget the purple jade box on the ground, but unfortunately, he couldn't lift it.

When the young man saw Zhang Wuxun grasp the Corpse Beetle King, his pupils constricted sharply. "It's poisonous!"

Zhang Wuxun could feel furry claws crawling in his palm, seemingly searching for an exit. Suppressing his discomfort, he shouted to the young man, "Take them away quickly! I can't hold out much longer!"

The young man took a step forward, seemingly wanting to get closer. Seeing this, Zhang Wuxun picked up the blood-covered corpse's head with his right hand and rushed into the nearest cave.

The young man gritted his teeth and could only turn to the crowd, saying, "Run! The Corpse Beetle King is here. My blood can't control these corpse beetles. Let's run before the swarm gets out of control!"

Only then did everyone realize what was happening. Seeing the corpse beetles that had suddenly appeared around them and were converging on them like a tide, they cursed and grabbed some Stone Core Ash, scattering it haphazardly on themselves, and climbed up the thick trunk of the Nine-Headed Cypress.

Wu Xiaoxie climbed more than ten meters and looked back, only to find that Xiao Ge hadn't come up. He shouted at him, "Xiao Ge, what are you standing there for?!"

"I'm going to find him." The young man said this, picked up his knife, and ran into the cave.

The blue corpse beetles were very fast, and the entire area under the tree was densely covered with them. If you accidentally fell in, you would definitely be devoured until there was nothing left.

Although Wu Xiaoxie was worried about Zhang Wuxun and Xiao Ge, he didn't dare to waste any more time, because if he dragged it out any longer, they might all die.

Perhaps because the Corpse Beetle King was not dead, the swarm of Corpse Beetles did not go out of control and launch a reckless attack. Wu Xiaoxie was a little slow to retract his left calf and was bitten. Fatty got two bites on his butt, probably because his butt was too fat.

The group quickly climbed out through the crack above the tree trunk.

Old Master Wu rushed out of the bushes carrying a gasoline can, shouting, "Quick, grab the gasoline can! We'll pour it in and set it on fire to burn these carrion beetles to death!"

"No!" Wu Xiaoxie stopped him abruptly. "Muyu and Xiaoge are still down there."

Master Wu scolded him for being indecisive, but Wu Xiaoxie still firmly reached out to block the crack.

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