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

Chapter 227 Setting a Trap
The temple had completely collapsed, and they didn't even know where the door was. They randomly chose a corridor and walked in, avoiding the watery cracks in the stone. They discussed as they walked.

The sun was already halfway down the west, and this temple seemed to stretch endlessly. We had been walking for nearly four hours and still couldn't see where the edge was.

The gray and white ruins around them looked almost identical. If it weren't for the markings they had made along the way, they would have thought they were lost again, just like in the Devil City.

Panzi looked up at the sky, his face grave, and said, "We can't go any further. It gets dark very quickly here. We need to find a safe place to camp."

The group found a stone chamber with barely intact walls, cleared out a space, and pitched their tent.

To prevent the snakes from approaching again at night, Zhang Wuxun led Wu Xiaoxie to a muddy pit, where they dug out some mud and used it to cover the tent.

The fat man hung up his headlamp, set up a small fire, hung an iron pot on it, grabbed Zhang Wuxun's backpack, and started taking out food.

He first took all the vegetables out of the self-heating rice and cooked them in one pot, then poured water into the empty can and steamed the rice inside.

"Come on, stop busying yourselves and try Fatty's cooking. The first bite is free, and the second bite is like finding a precious artifact." Fatty said cheerfully.

Zhang Wuxun chuckled, put down the mud bucket, and beckoned Wu Xiaoxie to sit down on the ground. "You're quite the schemer; I could hear you from far away."

Wu Xiaoxie sniffed the aroma in the air and said, "What skill do you need to cook this? It's all ready-made. Just pour in water, heat it up, and you can eat it."

The fat man waved his hand, "You don't understand. This contains my deep feelings for food, which you can't comprehend."

Everyone was starving, so they grabbed their chopsticks and devoured the food in no time.

After the meal, the fat man drank the black tea brewed on the smokeless stove and continued the topic of their previous discussion.

"That Chen Wenjin might have the ability to see ghosts and see Ah Ning's ghost, which is why he was scared away."

Wu Xiaoxie didn't want to talk about this, so he changed the subject, saying, "Let's think about how to lure Chen Wenjin out first."

"I have a way." The young man put down the can, took the water bag, and took a sip of water.

Several people looked over curiously.

The young man pointed to the remaining broth in the pot and said, "Chen Wenjin has been wandering in the woods for so long, her food supplies have long since run out. We can use food to lure her out."

After speaking, the young man glanced at Zhang Wuxun furtively, seemingly a little guilty.

Zhang Wuxun listened to his serious nonsense and suppressed a laugh as he agreed, "I think this method works. We've taken everything edible from the camp. Even if she's a woman and has a lot of equipment, she must have used it all up after so long. We're the only ones with food within a hundred miles right now. Even if she doesn't come looking for food tonight, she'll likely come in the next few days. We just need to wait and wait."

Wu Xiaoxie almost laughed. This method seemed a bit ridiculous and unreliable, but Fatty and Panzi thought it was a good idea, so he didn't say anything more.

Without further ado, the fat man pulled out another box of self-heating rice and stir-fried the vegetables in the pan.

"It's impolite to let guests eat leftovers," the fat man said. "Let's treat them to good food and drinks. They're obligated to eat our food, and we don't have to worry about them turning their backs on us later." He simmered the fire down a little, warmed the pot on top, and then urged everyone to get into their places quickly, otherwise it would get dark.

To lower Chen Wenjin's guard, Wu Xiaoxie was specially assigned to stand guard not far from the campfire, while the others smeared themselves with snake repellent powder and mud, hiding among the surrounding ruins, and deliberately leaving the only way to pass open.

Everything is ready; we're just waiting for the fish to take the bait.

Wu Xiaoxie sat by the fire, initially feeling a little uneasy, constantly rehearsing a hundred ways to catch Chen Wenjin in his mind, but even as the moon rose, Chen Wenjin's shadow did not appear.

With a sigh, it seems all my efforts tonight will be in vain.

The surroundings were too quiet, and drowsiness gradually crept in. Wu Xiaoxie yawned, remembering Zhang Wuxun and the others' suggestion that he should fall asleep, so he didn't insist anymore. He leaned back against his backpack, closed his eyes, and started snoring softly in less than two minutes.

As the moon rose above the treetops, Zhang Wuxun and his companions squatted behind a pile of stones, their bodies covered in wet mud that clung to them like shells. Their clothes were already soaked. The temperature had plummeted at night, and the group was only wearing thin clothes. The biting cold seeped into their bones through their pores, and they couldn't move around much, making it extremely difficult to endure.

Time passed second by second, and none of them knew what time it was. There was not a sound from the area around the encirclement.

The fat man was an impatient person to begin with, and it was already quite difficult for him to endure for so long. He felt like he was crawling with fleas, itchy all over. He couldn't hold it in any longer, so he turned his head and whispered "piu piu" twice towards Zhang Wuxun.

Zhang Wu saw him about to speak, but quickly waved his hand to stop him, glancing at the time on his watch in the dim moonlight.

It's 3:27 a.m., the time when a person's cerebral cortex is most relaxed and when they are in the deepest sleep. Even if Chen Wenjin is going to come, he will definitely do so at this time.

The fat man gritted his teeth and had no choice but to keep waiting with his head down.

The moon was exceptionally low tonight, and the clouds in the sky moved quickly, occasionally blocking out the moonlight. The shadows cast by the surrounding buildings on the open ground were indistinct, lying there quietly like ghosts in the misty moonlight.

Under the deep darkness of night, the stone wall resembled a colossal monster with its jaws wide open, patiently waiting for its prey to walk into its trap.

Although Zhang Wuxun knew that Xiao Ge must have made some kind of agreement with Chen Wenjin and would inevitably walk into the trap tonight, damn it, Chen Wenjin was too patient. Wouldn't it have been better if he had just appeared earlier so they could finish work and rest? Luckily, it wasn't foggy yet.

As he was silently grumbling to himself, something suddenly flashed before his eyes. Zhang Wuxun immediately snapped back to reality and stared intently at the shadow that had suddenly emerged from the crack in the rock and was projected onto the ground.

Seemingly confirming there was no danger, the shadow moved little by little, and soon, a thin figure covered in mud emerged from behind the crevice, cautiously approaching the fire.

Upon seeing a person sleeping by the fire, the skinny clay figure immediately stopped in his tracks. Zhang Wuxun and the others held their breath and waited for a moment before the clay figure continued moving.

With a clear goal in mind, it headed towards the iron pot. Just as it stretched out its paw, Wu Xiaoxie, who was fast asleep, suddenly turned over.

Startled, the mud man immediately crouched down and lay on the ground, peering around for a long time to make sure Wu Xiaoxie hadn't woken up. Only then did he stand up again, hunching over, and grabbing the food from the pot to wolf it down.

(End of this chapter)