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

Chapter 229 Accidents happen one after another
At the edge of the pool, the fat man was peering inside with his headlamp on, peering over the edge.

Suddenly, a loud explosion came from below, and the surging water splashed all over the fat man's face.

“It’s broken, it’s broken!”

The fat man, ignoring the water droplets on his face, turned around and shouted at Wu Xiaoxie and the other man who were sitting against the rock, "Muyu and the others might be in trouble. They've even used bombs."

Wu Xiaoxie and his companion were shocked and quickly rushed over. The aftershocks caused waves to continue lapping against the pool walls, and it took several minutes for the water to calm down.

“Naive Old Pan, you two wait upstairs, I’m going down to see what’s going on.”

After saying that, the fat man took off his shoes and shirt, jumped into the water shirtless, and surfaced half a minute later. He gasped for breath and said urgently, "The pool below was blasted open with a big gap, but it's too narrow in the back, smaller than a doghouse. I got stuck after going in less than two meters and couldn't move around at all."

What should we do now?
The three looked at each other, and Wu Xiaoxie said, "How about this, I'll go in, and you and Panzi can take our equipment and walk up here. Every meter I go, I'll tap inside with a stick, and you two can follow the sound when you hear it."

“No way.” The fat man waved his hand. “I’ve seen it. It’s very deep in there. We don’t have professional diving equipment. We can’t last more than a few rounds.”

"So what do you suggest we do? We can't just sit here and wait to die. If we delay any longer, we might not even be able to find them again." Wu Xiaoxie said, somewhat annoyed.

Panzi thought for a moment and told them to go back to the camp and get their equipment first.

“We don’t have diving equipment, so we can only use the most rudimentary method of storing oxygen,” Pan Zi said. “We fill empty water bags with more air and hang them on our bodies to increase buoyancy.”

The three of them went back to pack up their equipment and returned to the pool.

Panzi tied the empty water bag to his waist. "I can hold my breath longer than you two. I'll go into the water, and you two can follow me from above."

This is the only option now. Pan Zi is experienced and has the best combat ability among the remaining three, so it is most appropriate for him to go down.

Pan Zi gave a few instructions, then said to the fat man, "Take good care of Third Master."

The fat man put his arm around Wu Xiaoxie's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, you can count them yourself afterward. You'll definitely find every hair on his head."

Pan Zi quickly dived into the water, while Wu Xiaoxie and the other two, covered in equipment, waited.

A short while later, the sound of an empty tin can hitting a stone wall came from about ten meters ahead.

Wu Xiaoxie and his companion quickly followed, and responded by tapping the can twice with their own cans.

They continued walking until dawn. The waterway seemed endless, but thankfully, the temple was far from the jungle, and the poisonous fog did not spread here.

The fat man suddenly reached out and grabbed Wu Xiaoxie, his expression somewhat off. "Tianzhen, did you hear a knocking sound just now?"

Wu Xiaoxie was taken aback. Because the waterway followed a fairly regular pattern, they had been walking like this for a long time and were almost numb. It was only after Fatty reminded them that Wu Xiaoxie realized something was wrong.

The two quickly ran back to the spot where they had last heard the knocking sound and banged on it several times. After waiting for a while, they still received no response.

"Oh no, Old Pan is in trouble too!" the fat man shouted.

Wu Xiaoxie also became anxious, "It's very likely that the air has run out."

The fat man dropped his equipment and quickly rummaged through Zhang Wuxun's backpack. "I wonder if Muyu brought any detonators. We need to blow this floor open quickly, or Lao Pan will suffocate inside."

After rummaging through my backpack, I found it was full of food.

"Damn it, we're doomed now." The fat man plopped down on the ground, dejected. "Now it's just the two of us left."

Something flashed through Wu Xiaoxie's mind. "Wait, I have explosives." He quickly took off his backpack, pulled out an empty can from the bottom, opened it, and found it full of octagonal silver darts that Zhang Wuxun had given him a long time ago.

"This is very powerful, we need to be careful not to hurt Panzi," Wu Xiaoxie said.

The fat man was overjoyed and quickly took the canned food, telling Wu Xiaoxie to take the equipment and stay far away.

Then he quickly activated the mechanism on the octagonal silver dart, placed it on the ground, immediately weighed it down with a stone, and dashed behind a stone wall to hide.

After a loud bang, the ground was blasted open in several places and caved in.

The fat man picked up his entrenching tool and smashed the rock down twice, revealing a dark hole.

The sound of rushing water echoed inside the cave. Shining a miner's lamp down, they saw a turbulent whirlpool below.

The water in both waterways flowed down the slope and into the whirlpool.

Wu Xiaoxie and Fatty exchanged a glance and immediately decided to go down and find someone.

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On the other side, Zhang Wuxun, swept away by the current, tumbled and rolled in the waterway like a ball, stumbling and falling until he was dizzy. The smooth walls on both sides offered no support, and he could only let himself drift away with the current.

Suddenly suspended in mid-air, a feeling of weightlessness washed over him. With a deafening roar, Zhang Wuxun crashed heavily into the water, sinking almost to the bottom before the impact subsided.

Because they couldn't regulate their breathing while rolling around, there wasn't much oxygen left in the oxygen tank.

Zhang Wuxun struggled to the surface, lay on the stone steps, took off his mask, and gasped for breath.

Once the dizziness subsided, he had time to check his surroundings.

This is a large reservoir with a huge opening on each of the four walls, through which all the water from the waterways flows.

Below the water outlet are layers of stone steps, which have been smoothed and flattened by the water flow over the years.

The stone wall is covered with many small snakes that are intertwined and coiled up, like the lamp holder of a lamp surrounding the large python in the center.

These little snakes all have a spiky crest on their heads, clearly depicting a specialty of the Queen Mother of the West's kingdom: pheasant necks.

The large snake in the middle is very long, stretching all the way up the wall to the top of the stone chamber where the reservoir is located. The four snake heads converge from four directions, and in the very center is a large round plate that looks like a lotus flower, on which are finely and densely engraved crooked characters.

Zhang Wuxun couldn't understand it, so he climbed onto the stone platform, took out a camera and a miner's lamp from his spatial storage, and took pictures with the light, intending to show them to Wu Xiaoxie later.

The stone chamber was pitch black. Zhang Wuxun wandered around for a while but couldn't find anyone other than himself.

"That's strange, where is he?" Zhang Wuxun muttered to himself.

That small, dilapidated door had only two entrances. The right one was blocked, so he blasted open the left one. Logically, if you come in with the water, this should be the place. Where did Xiao Ge and Chen Wenjin go?

Zhang Wuxun wondered, could there be more than one reservoir?
Thinking about it, it makes sense. The Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West is such a large territory. If there were only one reservoir, wouldn't it flood during the rainy season?

So he's gone astray again?

"Damn it!" Zhang Wuxun cursed with a dark face, "It's like I'm having the worst luck, even drinking cold water gets stuck in my teeth."

(End of this chapter)