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

Chapter 231 Who's Speaking?
Wu Xiaoxie noticed that the fat man's belly seemed unusually swollen compared to usual.

Did he drink too much water when he fell?
Puzzled, he simply unbuttoned the fat man's clothes and found that the most swollen part was his stomach. He reached out and pressed it, and holy crap, it was as hard as if he had eaten a weight.

The press was like winding up a toy; the fat man suddenly convulsed and curled up, his face contorted in pain, vomiting a mouthful of foul-smelling green liquid mixed with some red scales.

Got it!

Did a snake crawl into the fat man's stomach? This is outrageous!

He immediately prepared his dagger, pulled the fat man out of the mud, dragged him to the edge of the pool, grabbed the fat man by the armpits, turned him over, knelt down and pressed his knees against the fat man's stomach, and pressed down hard on the fat man's back with both hands.

At this moment, the fat man was like a fat salted fish on a chopping board. His limbs straightened up suddenly like a marionette, his neck was raised, and he kept spitting out green water from his mouth, which was mixed with some white cotton-like round lumps stuck together.

Wu Xiaoxie kept applying pressure until the fat man could vomit nothing more than acid reflux and his stomach deflated. Only then did he let go and carefully turn the fat man over so that he could lie flat.

At this moment, the fat man's breathing became noticeably heavier, although he still appeared to be half-dead.

Clearly, those white, cotton-like things had blocked the fat man's trachea, hindering his breathing.

Wu Xiaoxie used his dagger to poke at the large mass of gastric contents that the fat man had vomited. He discovered that the contents looked very much like the eggs of some kind of creature. Especially when he picked them up and looked at them closely, he saw many tiny, wriggling creatures inside the translucent vesicles. They were very active and seemed ready to crawl out.

He immediately gave Wu Xiao a good scolding.

"Holy crap! Could this be snake eggs?" Wu Xiaoxie exclaimed in a low voice. Upon looking at the red scales in the green water, he realized they were clearly scales that had fallen off the neck of a pheasant, which immediately made him even more certain of his guess.

This snake is so weird, it actually went into a person's stomach to lay its eggs.

Looking around again, I saw many corpses with the same equipment as the fat man buried in the mud. I dug one out, and its belly was also swollen. My mind immediately conjured up a lot of images.

Damn it, this is clearly the den of pheasant necks!

He dared not delay any longer. If he dawdled any longer, those snakes might come back, and then even the King of Heaven himself wouldn't be able to save them.

Wu Xiaoxie grabbed the fat man by the armpit, trying to drag him away from there, preferably back to the tree where he had been hiding. Unfortunately, the fat man was too heavy, and even with all his strength, he could only drag him two meters away.

What to do now?
Wu Xiaoxie was almost frantic with worry.

Just then, the calm pool suddenly came to life and began to stir, as if a super mixer had been installed inside. It stirred counterclockwise, faster and faster, and soon the pool of water became extremely turbid. The corpses buried in the mud at the edge of the pool were also swept into the whirlpool and quickly submerged in the muddy water, leaving no trace.

Wu Xiaoxie stared in disbelief. It seemed as if a colossal monster with a gaping maw was sealed beneath the pool, and after swallowing the corpses, it was not satisfied and wanted to break through the surface to devour them.

Wu Xiaoxie struggled to move his legs, which were numb from exhaustion, gritted his teeth, and the veins on his neck bulged out. Finally, he managed to drag the fat man around the edge of the valley to another beast's mouth where water was gushing in.

The soil around the pool was constantly collapsing due to the stirring, and thick black mist surged out from it, spreading very quickly and reaching Wu Xiaoxie in the blink of an eye.

Wu Xiaoxie hurriedly grabbed a wet piece of clothing to cover his mouth and nose, and looked down with half-closed eyes. The fat man lying on the ground had turned pale and was making "hoarse" sounds. He was obviously breathing heavily.

Oh no, Fatty is unconscious now, his resistance is naturally low, and he's already been poisoned. In the instant he lowered his head and then raised it again, the black mist had already risen above Wu Xiaoxie's head, and he was starting to feel dizzy.

He glanced back at the beast's jaws, steeled his resolve, and thought, "Damn it, I'll risk it!"
He tore off the vines beside him and tied the fat man to a rotten log. Then he went back to pick up the equipment that had been brought down with him, and dragged the young man's knife to the edge of the beast's mouth.

First, throw the equipment in, then push the fat man into the beast's mouth, watch the roaring water wash him down, pray in your heart, then put the Black Gold Ancient Sword on your back, slide to the front of the steep slope, and leap down.

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He slammed straight into the pool like a dead fish, feeling dizzy and disoriented. The pressure on his lungs almost made him vomit blood, and the black gold ancient sword on his body was so heavy that Wu Xiaoxie could hardly get up.

He choked on several mouthfuls of water before finally managing to climb onto the stone platform. He quickly dropped the knife, grabbed his headlamp, and started looking for the fat man who had come down before him.

Looking into the water inlet, they discovered that the rotten wood tied to the fat man was stuck at the outlet of the reservoir's branch. The fat man himself was slumped to the side with his head tilted to the side, his mouth and nose submerged in the water. This time, he was truly lifeless.

Wu Xiaoxie hurriedly swam over, tiptoed and cut the vines on the rotten wood. The fat man's weight suddenly pressed down on him. He pressed on the fat man's chest a few times, and a mouthful of dirty water came out. He then checked the pulse and found that there was still a not-too-weak fluctuation.

Overwhelmed with joy at surviving such a calamity, Wu Xiaoxie's eyes streamed with tears.

He thought to himself, "Damn it, that fatso really wasn't meant to die."

He waded through the water and led the fat man to the stone platform. He then retrieved the backpacks scattered around and took out the snake venom serum from the small iron box inside. He then gave the fat man two injections.

Then they pulled off the fat man's blood-soaked clothes, intending to bandage his wounds, but found that apart from some bumps and abrasions, the bite marks on his neck were the most serious.

Wu Xiaoxie suddenly realized why the fat man had been able to survive for so long despite being poisoned by snake venom; it turned out that the blood on his body came from the neck of a pheasant.

It's estimated that Fatty woke up relatively early after being swept down, and ended up bumping into the neck of a pheasant that was still in its nest. Plus, the safety amulet that was originally hanging around his neck had fallen off somewhere. The pheasant attacked, and Fatty fought a fierce battle with them, but in the end, he was no match for them and got bitten.

Considering the pheasant's action of putting the eggs into the fat man's stomach, the snakes probably didn't want to kill the fat man immediately, but rather wanted him to live, maintain a constant body temperature, and then help them hatch their baby snakes.

So the fat man only lost his ability to move, but he was still alive.

As for "A Ning," who was bitten to death in one encounter, firstly, she was completely unprepared, and secondly, she may have unintentionally entered the territory of that pheasant's neck, which is why she was regarded as an intruder and directly eliminated.

If she were still alive, she definitely wouldn't be able to accept knowing that her corpse would one day be used as an incubator by snakes.

Thinking of "A Ning," I let out another long sigh.

"Time is running out!"

In the empty stone chamber, amidst the roaring sound of water, a human voice suddenly emerged from nowhere.

Who is speaking?!!

(End of this chapter)