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

Chapter 230 Entering the Snake's Nest
After a thorough search, there were indeed no marks left by the young man on the stone wall, and the safety buckle could not be sensed either, indicating that the two people had obviously moved out of his sensing range.

Zhang Wuxun changed into a new oxygen tank and put on his gear. He then took out a three-pronged hook from his spatial storage, threw it upwards, and hooked it onto the edge of the water outlet. He tugged on the rope to make sure it was secure, and then climbed up against the constant rush of water from above.

After putting away the grappling hook, Zhang Wuxun braced himself against the stone walls on both sides, his belly pressed against the bottom, and climbed up the slope.

The force of the water flow was so great that Zhang Wuxun could only climb a short distance before being swept back halfway. After struggling for a long time and being exhausted, he turned around and saw that the water outlet was not far behind him. Damn it, all his efforts were for nothing.

If only this broken waterway had steps, at least the friction would be greater.

Wait, I have an idea.

With a thought, Zhang Wuxun felt a long bar gradually rise from the bottom of the waterway he was lying on, and one long bar after another extended forward.

My brain is really out of control. I have a cheat code but I don't use it, I just mess around with things.

With each step he took, Zhang Wuxun used his materialization ability to create a long bar for leverage where he could grab onto, and he moved upwards little by little.

After climbing for an unknown distance, a leather water bag floated by with the current. It suddenly stopped not far in front of Zhang Wuxun, as if it had been subjected to some force, and spun twice in place.

As Zhang Wuxun crawled forward, a small stream of water would push him backward. As a result, the water bladder seemed to suddenly find the right direction in life and suddenly disappeared into the darkness.

Zhang Wuxun was stunned for a moment, wondering what was going on.

He hurried up and took two more steps to catch up, and what he saw was amazing – it was a crossroads with waterways on both sides leading to unknown destinations.

As expected, fate had other plans. Zhang Wuxun didn't hesitate for long before choosing the direction in which the water bag had last disappeared and crawling inside. He thought to himself that if he went the wrong way, he could just climb back up again.

Fortunately, luck was on his side this time. Zhang Wuxun hadn't climbed far when the waterway ahead gradually became gentler and the space expanded. Eventually, he was able to stand up and walk while bending over.

Sunlight streamed in from the front, and Zhang Wuxun quickly took two steps outside, where the view suddenly opened up.

Taking a step forward, I stepped into a mud pit and realized that the exit was actually a valley.

The valley floor is full of silt formed after rain, and the broken branches and leaves that collapsed above are growing tenaciously here.

Looking around, the valley floor was full of corpses with half their bodies stuck in the mud, their equipment basically the same as that of the fat man and his men.

Clearly, these were all people in Wu Sansheng's team who had been bitten to death by snakes, and their bodies were transported to their burrow by pheasant necks to become new incubators.

Remembering that Wu Xiaoxie and Fatty were lured here by snakes in the original plot, Zhang Wuxun hurriedly took advantage of the fact that Wild Chicken Neck had not yet returned and walked around to check. None of the corpses that showed their faces were ones that Zhang Wuxun recognized.

Each corpse had two small, dark holes on the side of its neck, and its face was swollen and blackened from being soaked in mud and water. Lividity had already spread across its surface, and its swollen and bloated abdomen bulged out like a balloon, as if its belly would burst open at any moment, forming one after another living giant, even more terrifying than a water ghost.

Zhang Wuxun emerged from the mouth of a python beast with its jaws wide open, and the water flowing out of it all rushed into a large pool in the center of the swamp.

The water in the pool was not still; it was flowing towards the mouth of another python.

Zhang Wuxun stumbled along, avoiding the corpses, and approached the beast's mouth on the opposite side of the valley along the edge of the valley.

He had originally planned to try the same trick again, but when he peered inside, he found that the steep slope was almost vertical, hanging in the air at a ninety-degree angle. He simply gave up struggling and let the water carry him wherever it was meant to be.

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Inside the shaft, Wu Xiaoxie shook his dizzy head, struggled to move through the mud and water, and picked up the miner's lamp that had fallen onto a stone platform.

The water flow did not stop here, but continued to slowly descend along the snake-shaped beast's mouth at one end. However, the beast's mouth was blocked by dead branches and leaves that had been washed down over the years, so the water flow gradually slowed down here. Otherwise, he would have tumbled down in one go.

Wu Xiaoxie, holding a miner's lamp, hurriedly searched for the fat man who had been swept down the river with him.

Let's rewind to the previous scene.

The fat man used an octagonal silver dart to blast open the stone slab above the waterway, discovering a whirlpool underneath and suspecting that Pan Zi had been swept away by it.

So the two decided to go down and look for the person.

After tying two air-filled water bladders around their waists, the two jumped into the whirlpool one after the other.

The current was very strong, but luckily the fat man was wide and heavy, so he could get stuck in the waterway and use the current to propel himself down little by little, preventing the water from knocking them both over.

Unfortunately, their good fortune didn't last long. After sliding down for a short while, the slope suddenly became steeper, and the waterway widened. All the sewage from the waterways in all directions converged here, like a torrent bursting from a dam, rushing all over the two of them at once. No matter how heavy the fat man was, he couldn't withstand such an impact.

Caught off guard, the two were swept away by the current. Before they could protect their vital organs, their heads hit the stone wall, and they passed out.

When Wu Xiaoxie woke up again, he found himself hanging from a tree. The fat man was covered in blood, his limbs were cold, and he lay motionless in the pool of water, with two bright red pheasant necks hovering around his neck.

Wu Xiaoxie was so frightened that he dared not breathe. He didn't know if the fat man was still alive, but given the current situation, he was probably in grave danger.

Looking around, the exposed rock crevices in this valley were filled with red crested snakes, their tongues flicking and their eyes gleaming with venom.

Thank goodness, Wu Xiaoxie, covered in mud and hidden by bushes, was not discovered by the pheasant's neck, otherwise he would surely have met his end as well.

They remained stuck in the tree for a long time until the pheasants seemed to receive some kind of signal and swarmed out of the valley. Only then did Wu Xiaoxie, whose body was stiff, shakily climb down from the tree and scramble to Fatty's side.

Upon seeing the two red, now faintly blackened, bloody holes on the fat man's neck, my heart sank.

I thought to myself, "This is it, the fat guy is going to die here."

The last shred of relief vanished, and before I could even grieve, I suddenly noticed that the spot I was leaning against seemed to have moved slightly.

Wu Xiaoxie wasn't sure if he was just imagining things because he was too nervous. After hesitating for a while, he still placed his hand on the fat man's bulging belly and pressed it.

My palm was suddenly touched lightly.

Wu Xiaoxie was startled. After confirming several times that it wasn't her imagination, she realized that the fat man's belly seemed unusually swollen compared to usual.

Thank you to the dessert shop owner for the tip!
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