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

Chapter 214 Silver Fox Mask
The pheasant's neck retreated completely into the swamp and disappeared.

Zhang Wuxun's tense body relaxed, and he lit the lantern. He heard movement behind him.

When Wu Xiaoxie got up and opened his eyes, he was startled to see four or five bright red pheasant necks lying around him. He immediately drew his dagger, but the snakes were just lying there quietly without moving. Upon closer inspection, he realized that they were dead.

"What's going on?" he asked Zhang Wuxun hurriedly. "How come there are so many pheasant necks here? Did you kill them all?"

Zhang Wuxun pointed towards "A Ning's" body and said, "Look there."

At this moment, the surroundings were pitch black, with only a faint light illuminating the smokeless furnace.

Wu Xiaoxie turned on his flashlight and walked over. When he saw what was there, his heart skipped a beat. He took two steps back, his voice trembling, "A-Ning... has she come back to life?"

The fat man woke up from his sweet dream, and the first thing he heard was this. He immediately jumped up, shouting, "Who? Who's come back to life? What come back to life? Where is it?"

The others woke up one after another, and when they saw what "A-Ning" looked like, the fat man shouted in shock, "My goodness! Who did this! Who dug up the body?"

Pan Zi was completely baffled. "This... I was perfectly fine before I fell asleep."

All eyes immediately turned to Zhang Wuxun.

Zhang Wuxun rolled his eyes and said irritably, "Why are you all looking at me? I'm so popular outside, I'm not so desperate as to be that picky."

The fat man kicked the dead pheasant's neck, walked to "A Ning's" corpse, pulled out the bloodstained dagger stuck in the ground, and wondered, "There are crawling marks around the corpse, could it be the pheasant's neck that did it?"

Due to the high temperature, "A Ning's" body had begun to decompose from the wound on her neck, and lividity quickly spread to her entire body. Only her specially treated face remained, beautiful as a bewitching monster, pale to bluish, appearing particularly eerie under the dim white light, exuding an ominous aura.

Zhang Wuxun nodded, confirming his words, "The pheasant neck originally wanted to kill us all, but I took precautions in advance, and they didn't succeed."

When he recounted what had happened, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

“These snakes are strange. Before they move and when they retreat, cries can be heard from the dense forest not far away, as if they are directing their subordinates,” Zhang Wuxun said, frowning.

The fat man spat and cursed, "Are these snakes some kind of demon? What are they doing here carrying a corpse? Are they taking it back to fill their nest?"

Panzi shone his headlamp into the bottomless black swamp, examining it carefully, trying to find some clues.

The young man examined the body and found nothing unusual, so Wu Xiaoxie put the body back in.

The group turned on their headlamps, turned the brightness to maximum, and then each took a different direction to scan the deep black mud pit.

They had only shone their lights a few times when the fat man let out a strange cry, and the lights from the others quickly swept over him.

Suddenly, a thin figure covered in mud emerged from the mud pit, his body tense, as if he was about to flee, his eyes fixed on the people on the stone platform.

The fat man, feeling scorned, cursed, "Damn it, what the hell is this?!"

He picked up his gun and was about to chase after it, not caring about anything else, just to capture the thing first.

A look of shock crossed the young man's perpetually unchanging face. "It's Chen Wenjin!"

Before he finished speaking, he rushed into the swamp and headed towards the thing.

As he approached, the creature suddenly plunged into the water, swimming very fast and as agile as a loach. It disappeared into the muddy water in a flash.

The young man didn't give up, splashing through the mud and water in hot pursuit. Where the thing disappeared, he leaped into the water and vanished into the darkness. Zhang Wuxun and the others on the shore, seeing this, exclaimed, "Good heavens, what are you waiting for? Get the hell out of there!"
Several people grabbed lanterns and jumped into the swamp like dumplings being dropped into boiling water, chasing after the still-rippling water.

A commotion came from the dense forest rooted in the swamp. Zhang Wuxun saw two blurry, swaying black figures and immediately gave chase.

The young man had already caught up and grabbed the man's arm, but before he could say anything, there was a sudden rustling sound from the three o'clock direction. Something was running away at an extremely fast speed. He subconsciously looked over.

As soon as Zhang Wuxun ran up, upon hearing the sound, he immediately tossed a backpack from his spatial storage to the young man and said in a very fast voice, "I'll go after them."

Then he immediately turned around and chased after the source of the noise on the other side.

In that brief moment of distraction, Chen Wenjin seized the opportunity to break free from Xiao Ge's grasp and continued her escape into the depths of the dense forest.

The young man glanced in Zhang Wuxun's direction, didn't hesitate, picked up his backpack, and continued chasing after Chen Wenjin.

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Zhang Wuxun chased the dark figure further and further away, the dense, tangled branches on both sides mercilessly whipping against his body as he ran, causing a burning pain.

The shadow was incredibly fast, clearly very familiar with the dense forest. Moreover, knowing that someone was chasing them, it deliberately led Zhang Wu to a place with rugged terrain.

After running for an unknown distance, the figure in front suddenly stopped, turned around to face Zhang Wuxun who was chasing after him, and let out a very soft laugh, as if mocking him.

Zhang Wuxun stopped five meters away from him, his cold, sharp eyes fixed on the guy, his left hand behind his back, and pulled out a straight knife from his spatial storage.

The environment here is too cramped, and the Illusionary Blade is too long, making it inconvenient to use.

"You've managed to catch up to this point, that's impressive. I underestimated you before."

Beneath the silver fox mask, a deep male voice clearly reached Zhang Wuxun's ears.

Zhang Wuxun curled the corners of his lips and said coldly, "Good eye. Should I reward you for dying more easily?"

Upon hearing this, the face beneath the mask turned cold, and he sneered, "Overestimating yourself."

"What a pity. If it weren't for the Zhang family blood flowing through our veins, we would be happy to recruit someone as talented as you." The masked man said regretfully, then changed the subject, "But since you've already realized it, we can't let you live. Remember to be reborn into a better family in your next life. Goodbye."

Before he could finish speaking, a series of silver lights flew toward him at lightning speed, accompanied by the sound of air being torn apart.

"Have you ever heard the saying, 'The villain dies from talking too much'?"

The masked man's expression changed, and he quickly dodged the flying silver darts. Before he could even stop, a dark figure rushed towards him, its cold light flashing as it slashed straight at him. He hastily dodged and then drew his sword to block the attack.

In the blink of an eye, swords flashed and shadows danced, and the two had already exchanged dozens of blows.

Zhang Wuxun's attacks were swift and fierce, each strike aimed directly at vital points. The masked man was at a disadvantage from the start and could only hastily defend himself, trying to find an opening in Zhang Wuxun's defenses.

To answer readers' questions, the short content at the beginning of each chapter is to connect with the previous text. Because I type slowly and my update schedule is inconsistent, I apologize for that.

As for whether it will be included in the word count, it will not. I will add a body text of approximately the same word count at the end.

其实2000-2200字以内，点币的标准都是10个，只有超过2200才会收11个币，所以2038和2138的订阅收费其实没什么区别。

I usually update each chapter with no more than 2200 words, so I always get 10 coins. (If I feel like updating more later, the word count might exceed that.)
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