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

Chapter 243 A Brocade

Zhang Wuxun has a sense of crisis and can foresee danger. When they encounter a small group of snakes, they will fight their way through, but when they encounter a large group, they will immediately hide and avoid them, without lingering in battle.

The path in the well was winding and twisting, and after walking for more than an hour, Zhang Wuxun's sense of the safety buckle in the distance suddenly changed to two.

An idea struck him, and his eyes lit up: the young man was also in front of him!

"Let's hurry, there shouldn't be any more snakes ahead." Zhang Wuxun waved to Wu Xiaoxie and the other man.

With Pan Zi and Hei Xiazi protecting Wu Sansheng, there shouldn't be any major problems. Zhang Wuxun decided to go find Xiao Ge and Chen Wenjin, who were closer to them, first.

After turning two corners, the safety buckle's sensor will be here, with particularly obvious traces of snakes crawling on the ground.

After confirming that the snakes in the vicinity had gone far away, Zhang Wuxun shone his headlamp on the ground and saw that the mud cocoons in the crater in front of him had been broken into pieces.

The fat man crouched down and peered deeper inside, when he suddenly met a pair of dark, shining eyes. He was startled and quickly covered his mouth, taking a step back. He frantically waved to Zhang Wuxun and the other man, silently shouting, "Get the hell out of here! The mummy in here has come back to life!"

"Huh?" Wu Xiaoxie was startled. The bones here had been sealed for thousands of years, how could they possibly come back to life?

Just as I was about to say that you might be too nervous and misread it, I heard a faint clicking sound coming from the dent, which sounded a lot like bones rubbing together.

Wu Xiaoxie was shocked, thinking to himself, "Holy crap, no way."

Zhang Wuxun waved his hand to tell them not to rush, squatted down, shone the light inside, his pupils contracted, he immediately turned off the light and turned around, coughing a few times awkwardly, "Ahem, well, Sister Wenjin, don't stay hiding in there, come out quickly."

"What? Wen Jin?"

Upon hearing Zhang Wuxun address him in that way, Wu Xiaoxie was first taken aback, then greatly alarmed, and immediately tried to squat down to look inside.

"Hey, hey, hey..." Zhang Wuxun quickly grabbed him, "What's the rush? You'll see her when she comes out."

I was thinking to myself, "You son of a bitch, you can't watch this now."

Upon hearing that it was Chen Wenjin, the fat man immediately got into position to block one of the well gaps, fearing that she would slip away again while the three of them weren't paying attention.

A rustling sound came from the pit. Chen Wenjin got up, peeled off the mud off his body, and then whispered to Zhang Wuxun, who was blocking the entrance of the hole, "Comrade Xiaoyu, could someone lend me a piece of clothing?"

Zhang Wuxun pulled a hooded windbreaker from his backpack and handed it to her with his hands behind his back.

After a rustling sound of fabric, Zhang Wuxun felt a tap on the shoulder.

Zhang Wushen stepped aside, and a thin, frail figure walked out from inside. She was very petite, and the windbreaker she wore was so big that it looked like a raincoat. Fortunately, there were two drawstrings on both sides of the windbreaker's waist, which, when tightened, made it almost like a belt.

Wu Xiaoxie was stunned, unable to tell whether she was excited or moved, and asked in shock, "Aunt Chen... Wenjin, what are you doing here?"

"You...you...you weren't caught?!" Wu Xiaoxie's mind went blank, and he stammered incoherently.

Chen Wenjin was amused by his reaction and burst out laughing, "What do you mean, 'caught'? What do you take me for?"

Wu Xiaoxie scratched his head, staring blankly as she used her clothes, which she had previously covered in mud, to tie up the bones and then mixed them with mud to block the well opening behind them.

Zhang Wuxun patted him on the shoulder, "What are you standing there for? Give me a hand."

"Oh, oh." Wu Xiaoxie seemed to wake up from a dream and hurriedly pulled the fat man over to help. "Sister Wenjin, you can rest. Let the two of them do the dirty work." Zhang Wuxun smiled and took out some compressed biscuits from his backpack and handed them to Chen Wenjin.

Chen Wenjin smiled slightly, whispered a thank you, took the package, tore open the packaging, and quickly took a bite.

Zhang Wuxun then handed her the water bag.

Chen Wenjin used up all the remaining water in his water bag to mix with mud.

As the fat man smeared mud onto the piled-up skeleton, he turned to look at Zhang Wuxun with a wicked grin on his face, his eyebrows dancing with excitement, and his lips moved as he silently uttered something.

Zhang Wuxun replied irritably, "Get lost, what are you muttering about?"

The fat man shook his head and clicked his tongue twice.

After quickly plugging the well, Chen Wenjin checked it over before sitting down cross-legged.

Wu Xiaoxie moved closer to her, as if afraid of scaring her away. He wanted to ask, but didn't dare to. In the end, he could only scratch his head and sigh silently.

Chen Wenjin smiled at him, "What's wrong? Can't you react yet?"

"Huh? Hehe..." Wu Xiaoxie chuckled dryly, "Indeed, it's been so many years since we last met. I don't know how to react right now. I actually have so many questions for you... I mean, um, what exactly happened between you two back then? My third uncle... he, he's been looking for you, but we got separated. Um... if he saw you, he'd be so happy!"

Chen Wenjin sighed softly, "It's a long story, but I remember you were much more fun when you were little than you are now. You were so cute back then. Why do you stutter when you speak now?"

Wu Xiaoxie rubbed his hands awkwardly, "Actually... uh, you're quite cute too, no, very young..."

Wu Xiaoxie became more and more anxious as she spoke, forcing a dry laugh, "Well, don't mind me, I'm just a little shy, oh no, it's been so many years since I've seen anyone, and suddenly seeing a living person from a photo..."

"Pah, pah, pah, what nonsense am I spouting?" Wu Xiaoxie lightly slapped herself. "Aunt Wenjin, please don't mind."

Two muffled laughs came from the side, and Wu Xiaoxie gave each of them an elbow, "Shut up, don't laugh."

He should have kept quiet, because the moment he spoke, the fat man next to him burst into laughter like a deflated balloon, making a series of "puff puff puff" sounds.

Wu Xiaoxie's face darkened, and he forced a bitter smile.

Chen Wenjin's eyes crinkled into crescents, and her smile was exceptionally beautiful. Seeing Wu Xiaoxie's embarrassment, she patted his arm comfortingly like an elder and said softly, "Who said it's been a long time? Didn't we have tea together not long ago?"

"Huh? When did we have tea? Where?" Wu Xiaoxie was stunned, his mind not quite processing it.

"Tsk, you idiot." Zhang Wuxun patted him and prompted, "Inside Zhuoma's tent."

"Holy crap!" Wu Xiaoxie stared at Chen Wenjin's face for a few seconds, then suddenly realized what she meant and pointed at her, stammering, "You, you, you, you are that Dingzhu Zhuoma's daughter-in-law!"

"I understand!" Wu Xiaoxie slapped his thigh. "After the camp was attacked by the scorpion swarm, you said you left, but you were actually following us all along. So, the message was also something you decided on the spur of the moment and had Dingzhu Zhuoma deliver to us, right?"

Chen Wenjin nodded. "That's right. In this emergency, I had no other choice but to ask her to pass on the message."

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