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

Chapter 228 Disappeared into thin air
"Damn it!" Zhang Wuxun cursed inwardly, the fish had finally taken the bait.

The fat man couldn't contain himself any longer and gestured to the others, signaling them to rush up and surround her as soon as possible.

Zhang Wuxun poked his head out and glanced at the young man, seeing that he had also moved.

The group cautiously emerged from behind the rock, crouching low like thieves, and stealthily approached the center, attempting to tighten the encirclement and capture the target in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, the clay figure was very cautious. Just as the group took two steps, she seemed to sense something, suddenly stopped chewing, and turned her head to look around.

Upon closer inspection, he saw four dark figures lurking around him with gleaming eyes. He paused for a moment, let out a short scream, dropped the pot he was holding, and immediately turned and ran towards the nearest fat man.

The fat man quickly stretched out his arm, trying to stop her in the manner of a mother hen protecting her chicks, while shouting and yelling, trying to scare Chen Wenjin.

Unexpectedly, Chen Wenjin didn't fall for his tricks at all. She crouched down and slipped under the fat man's armpit. The fat man tried to grab her but missed. He quickly turned around to grab her but only managed to grab her sleeve.

Chen Wenjin struggled slightly and shook her hand; the wet mud on her sleeve was slippery, and the fat man easily let go of her.

Seeing that things were going badly, the other three immediately turned around, changed direction, and sped up to surround them.

In terms of physical strength, Zhang Wuxun and his group, who were well-fed and hydrated, were ultimately superior. After running more than fifty meters, they finally cornered her in front of a low stone wall. The fat man also rushed over and stood behind the wall. The three of them slowly moved their feet to tighten the encirclement, each guarding one side.

Now that there are people all around, Chen Wenjin has no chance of escaping even if she had wings.

Wu Xiaoxie, who had been awakened by the noise, also followed the sound and was overjoyed to see that the group had indeed cornered Chen Wenjin. He quickly took a few steps closer, holding up his headlamp.

Chen Wenjin's little face, covered in mud, was filled with fear and panic. She kept looking around, trying to find a gap to escape.

The headlamp shone on her face, and even though it was covered by mud, you could still clearly feel from her eyebrows and eyes that the person in front of you was extremely young, yet had an excessively weathered look in her eyes.

When those eyes saw Wu Xiaoxie, they suddenly stopped, their expressions filled with complex emotions, as if they had a thousand words to say, but in the end, they could only turn into a deep sigh.

Wu Xiaoxie was about to speak when she froze on the spot by her gaze, somewhat at a loss for words. "Um... Aunt Wenjin... don't be afraid, we are just... um?!"

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Wenjin suddenly sprang up, slapped the wall for leverage, and leaped up like a light butterfly, flipping over the low wall in an instant. He then darted into a crack in the wall like a monkey, his shadow flashing as he disappeared from everyone's sight.

Wu Xiaoxie's voice rose in surprise, "Holy crap, chase after her! We can't let her get away!"

The fat man cursed his miscalculation. Seeing that he couldn't squeeze into the crack in the wall, he immediately turned around and went behind the crack to chase after him.

Panzi rushed over to help him.

When Zhang Wuxun and the other two squeezed through the crevice and met up with the fat man, they were all empty-handed and looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Where is he?" Pan Zi wondered.

Zhang Wuxun was surprised, "You didn't stop her?" The fat man cursed angrily, "Damn it, Lao Pan and I went around her and didn't see her at all."

"No way." Wu Xiaoxie looked at the long stone path in front of him and exclaimed in astonishment, "In such a small place, where could she hide in the blink of an eye?"

Suddenly, there was a series of running footsteps outside the wall. The young man immediately reacted, squeezed out through the crack in the wall, and saw a small, thin figure running away in the moonlight. He immediately gave chase.

Just as they were about to reach out and grab him, Chen Wenjin suddenly slumped down and vanished into thin air before their very eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the young man also made a jumping motion, and then disappeared as well.

The group was stunned. They quickly chased after the opening and found a hole about the width of a person with half of the edge collapsed, where water was still splashing.

Half a minute later, the young man emerged from the water, wiped the water droplets from his face, took a breath, and said, "The passages below are interconnected and lead to many places. She went in and couldn't find her."

No sooner had they finished speaking than they heard the sound of water splashing from a dozen meters away. The group immediately gave chase, following the wet footprints on the ground, past several stone walls, until the footprints disappeared completely at a pool of water.

The young man handed the black gold ancient knife behind him, and the instant he let go, he jumped in, disappearing into the water as soon as the waves rippled.

Zhang Wuxun quickly took the knife, stared at the dark and bottomless pool, cursed inwardly, placed it on a rock to the side, patted Wu Xiaoxie on the shoulder, and said, "You two stay here and watch the knife. Don't wander around. I'll be right back."

After saying that, without waiting for Wu Xiaoxie to react, he took a deep breath, dove into the water, and swung his arm to the bottom.

The bottom of the pool was full of rotten mud and black grass. After circling around it without finding an opening, I swam a little further up and soon found a small stone door that could be rotated on the pool wall.

With a forceful push, the stone door swung open vertically, revealing dark openings on both sides. Zhang Wuxun squeezed in from the right side. The space inside was very narrow, a narrow passage like a chimney. The walls of the waterway were covered with soft, wet mud, and the water was quite murky, with many unidentified creatures floating around. He had no choice but to close his eyes and swim forward by feeling along the walls.

After making several turns until the oxygen in his lungs was exhausted, he forced himself to swim a few more meters forward. A faint ray of light pierced through the water's surface. Zhang Wuxun opened his eyes a crack, swam towards the light, surfaced, gasped for breath, and looked around.

All around were broken walls and stone walls, and there were no footprints on the ground at the exit.

Zhang Wuxun immediately realized that there was something strange about the stone door he had crawled through.

After climbing ashore, I took out my diving gear from my spatial storage, put it on, and swam back into the water to the small stone gate. However, I found that the stone gate had been closed by the current. When I reached out and felt around, I realized that the small, broken gate could only be opened from the outside.

"Damn it!" Zhang Wuxun cursed inwardly. He simply took out a waterproof time bomb from his spatial storage, set the timer, fixed it to the small stone door, and then backed up the waterway to the first bend, pressing himself against the wall and quietly waiting for the countdown to end.

With a loud bang, a huge torrent of water surged over, pushing Zhang Wuxun two meters away.

His eardrums were ringing. Before Zhang Wuxun could even steady himself against the wall, a loud bang of water came from the flushing, as if the toilet had been flushed. The water swirled and twisted like a dragon sucking water, engulfing Zhang Wuxun and plunging him headfirst into the gaping hole in the wall.

(End of this chapter)