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

Chapter 192 Incident at the Camp
The young man looked at Zhang Wuxun and said softly, "You shouldn't have brought him here."

Zhang Wuxun sighed, "The truth is often unbearable, but fate doesn't give people extra choices; they always have to go through these things."

We are all the same.

Zhang Wuxun stood up and patted Wu Xiaoxie on the shoulder. "Actually, sometimes lying to someone is ultimately for the purpose of better protecting that person. Your third uncle is like that. But you will eventually find out. It's just a matter of time."

Listening to their conversation, Wu Xiaoxie gave a bitter smile. "Whether I can bear it or not is for me to decide. Maybe the other person doesn't want to be protected; he just wants to know the truth and die a quick death. Is it too cruel to erase everything just because you say it's for my own good? Do you understand the pain of knowing nothing and being kept in the dark forever?"

The young man was silent for a few seconds, a faint sadness appearing in his eyes. "I understand, and I understand better than you do. There are far more things I want to know than you do, but I can never grab anyone and ask them like you do."

"I am a person with no past and no future."

"All I've done is try to find my connection with this world? Where did I come from? Why am I here?" He looked at his hands, his fingertips curling slightly as if trying to grasp something, but he could only let it slip through his fingers, powerless to do anything about it.

He said, “Can you imagine that there is someone like me who could disappear from this world one day and no one would notice, just as if I had never existed at all, leaving no trace? Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I often doubt whether I really exist or just a phantom.”

"Without a beginning, and with no end in sight, we travel endlessly through the river of time until we disappear."

Zhang Wuxun glanced away with some reluctance and walked to the side.

Wu Xiaoxie felt a heavy weight in his heart, as if a huge boulder was pressing down on it, impossible to move or remove, stubbornly stationed there.

He pursed his lips, forced a smile, and said in a strained tone, "It's not as exaggerated as you say. If you were to disappear one day, at least I would notice."

"Wooden Fish, Fatty and the others will find out."

The young man seemed to have heard something unbelievable. He paused for a moment, smiled slightly, shook his head, and said, "Anyway, I may know the answer to my own problems one day, and if you are still here, I will tell you. But you won't get the answer to your problems by grabbing me."

The young man stood up and gazed at the starry sky above. “It’s all still a mystery to me. I think you have enough mysteries already, and you don’t need any more.”

After saying that, the young man turned and left.

Wu Xiaoxie snapped out of his daze and quickly caught up. "I only want to know one thing: what exactly is behind that giant bronze door?"

"The ultimate, the ultimate of all things," the young man replied.

Wu Xiaoxie wanted to ask more questions, but Xiao Ge waved his hand to stop him, "Don't ask anymore. Besides, I'm on your side."

"Huh?" Wu Xiaoxie watched as his brother strode away into the distance, and these words caught him off guard, shoving a spoonful into his still-clumsy mind. "Wait, what do you mean?"

"Damn it!" Wu Xiaoxie tapped his throbbing head, then plopped down on the ground, lay down, and cleared his mind, not thinking about anything, just quietly looking up at the starry sky above.

No wonder the guy always likes to look at the sky; it really is quite beautiful.

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Zhang Wuxun walked over, holding a few safety amulets in his hand, and lightly kicked Wu Xiaoxie, "Go back to sleep, you're not afraid of getting buried in the sand here."

Wu Xiaoxie rubbed his eyes, got up, and brushed the sand off his body.

The two walked towards the camp.

"By the way, this is for you."

Zhang Wuxun took one of the jade rings and handed it to Wu Xiaoxie. "What's inside?" Wu Xiaoxie took it, shook it in his hand, and by the firelight, he could see two small streams of liquid flowing inside the jade ring, but they could not be merged together.

"Something to repel snakes," Zhang Wu asked.

Actually, it was just the egg white from Zhujiuyin's egg that he got in the Qinling Mountains, along with a small drop of his own blood.

While it can't stop pheasants from wandering around nearby, it can at least effectively deter them, making them wary and preventing them from directly biting and hurting people.

"This thing is extremely valuable, keep it safe, don't lose it," Zhang Wuxun said.

Hmm, it is indeed very precious. The Zhang family's old, hidden blood, plus the once-in-a-millennium Zhujiuyin Egg White, is one of a kind in the world, oh no, it's seven.

He used his materialization ability to make a total of seven safety buckles, intending to find an opportunity to distribute them to Xiao Ge and A Ning.

Moreover, he discovered something amazing.

He can sense the presence of anything he materializes within a certain distance.

That way, once Wu Xiaoxie and A Ning enter the Devil City, he can find them by following his senses.

However, the exact distance is still uncertain and cannot be verified at present.

"Oh, oh." Wu Xiaoxie responded, tied the small rope on the safety buckle together with the octagonal silver dart pendant that Zhang Wuxun had given him at the Cloud Top Heavenly Palace last time, hung it around his neck, tucked it into his collar, and patted it.

Just as he was about to say something, Zhang Wuxun suddenly grabbed him and looked warily at the tent area in the center of the camp.

Wu Xiaoxie couldn't help but feel nervous. What was going on? Had something happened at the camp in just a short while?
Just then, the young man and Black Bear suddenly walked out from next to a Land Rover, each holding two Type 56 rifles.

He tossed the gun to Zhang Wuxun and his companion, who were empty-handed. Hei Xiazi adjusted his sunglasses, glanced at the tent, and smirked, "This seems a bit tricky."

The young man remained expressionless and did not respond.

Wu Xiaoxie's heart skipped a beat. He quickly turned to look at Zhang Wuxun and asked in a low voice, "What happened?"

“The camp is surrounded,” Zhang Wuxun said succinctly. “We need to go in and wake them up, and find a way to get them to evacuate.”

Surrounded? Surrounded by what?
Wu Xiaoxie was completely confused. Suddenly, he remembered what the master Zhuoma had said in her message: "It" might have already arrived. What exactly is that "it"? Chen Wenjin's notes also mentioned "it," and the description of "it" was filled with fear.

But even after staring intently for almost his eyes, he still couldn't see anyone around the tent...

Holy crap! Wu Xiaoxie suddenly realized something was wrong.

Where are they? Where are the locals that Aning sent out to keep watch? They've all disappeared!

The sparks that flew up when the charcoal burned out and broke off shone brightly in the darkness above the campfire.

Within the limited area illuminated by the firelight, only the deserted sandy ground remained.

The entire camp fell into a despairing silence.

(End of this chapter)