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

Chapter 396 is Black Flying Son
In the end, the Wang family only took the small octagonal bronze bell; they left the sheepskin map behind, tucking it into the pages of their notebook.

As if guided by fate, Zhang Wuxun sensed an inextricable connection between the sheepskin scroll and the ancient city of Sizhou beneath Ma'an, so he carefully stored both items away.

Although the mother blood silkworm inside the giant cocoon is still alive, this place can no longer be left. It's hard to guarantee that after Zhang Wuxun and the other two leave, the Wang family will send people here again to take the things away and harm people.

Once burned, all grudges, hatred, resentment, and falsehoods will turn to ashes with the flames.

Zhang Wuxun and Xiao Ge sprinkled alcohol in the stone chamber, then exited the passage filled with hair.

The outer moth cocoons also had to be burned. Zhang Wuxun brought out all the liquor fuel he had stored in his space, and the two of them scattered it along the way as they spiraled up the stairs.

As they walked, the young man suddenly raised his hand to block Zhang Wuxun, his face cold. "Listen, someone's coming down."

Zhang Wuxun calmed himself, closed his eyes, and his sense of danger spread out.

He "saw" three brownish-red figures holding weapons slowly descending the three-dimensional space above the stairs, their postures extremely cautious. Clearly, they knew who was below.

The three shadows were only a turn away from Zhang Wuxun and his companion.

It seems that after the two phoenix tattoos failed to silence them, the Wang family sent many more people over, and the mechanism at the wellhead has been triggered at some point.

However, Zhang Wuxun and Xiao Ge did not hear the warning explosion, indicating that they had taken some measures to prevent the sound from spreading.

Zhang Wuxun tilted his head and said silently, "Three little mice, each with a gun."

The young man nodded slightly. "Take your leave first."

The location here is too cramped. If there is any unusual movement, the other side will immediately open fire with three guns. No matter how skilled Zhang Wuxun and his companion are, they will be riddled with bullets.

Most importantly, the wine that Zhang Wuxun and his group spilled was too strong, and the aroma of the wine had basically given away their location. The other side could easily set it on fire and trap him and Xiao Ge here. If they went up, they would fall into the other side's trap.

Since going up is difficult, we might as well just lure them down.

If the Wang family wants to obtain the Heavenly Longevity Silkworm, they must continue down this path. Zhang Wuxun doesn't believe they would give up something they've spent over thirty years developing.

The two quietly retreated back into the stone chamber. Zhang Wuxun looked at the large cocoon on it and immediately had an idea.

He made a few hand gestures to the deliveryman, instructing him to keep watch at the entrance. He then quickly climbed up the enormous cocoon, widened the opening the deliveryman had made earlier, crawled inside, took out a dozen or so hand warmers, peeled off the stickers, and stuck them all onto the large, jade-red silkworm.

He then took out two tear gas grenades, and pulled out two sturdy silk threads from his side to tie to the pull ring, hiding both tear gas grenades in the notch.

He set the trigger wires at different heights to ensure that either of them would be activated when the Wang family members went in.

Everything here is flammable, so there can't be any open flames. This is the only trick he can use.

He refused to believe that the Wang family members would bring such complete equipment when they came down here. Even if they carried gas masks, those few seconds of delay would be enough for him and his brother to blow their air out.

He was a little worried that the Wang family might use snakes to scout ahead. Although the strong smell of alcohol masked their tracks, snakes hunt not only by smell but also by sensing heat sources, which was why he put heat patches on the giant blood silkworm.

After slightly covering the gap, Zhang Wuxun slipped off the pillar and ran back to Xiao Ge's side, giving him a gas mask with goggles and a full case of MP5s. He also stuffed a bottle of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor) into Xiao Ge's coat pocket, telling him to hide it well before unscrewing it.

Although he was not afraid of close combat, he still had to be careful when facing the strange Wang family members head-on, and avoid fighting if possible.

After arming themselves, the two climbed up the wooden lattice on either side, crawled into the millstone-sized cocoon near the cave entrance, curled up inside, and quietly waited for the arrival of the uninvited guests.

This is an excellent vantage point, offering a view of the cave entrance while also keeping the giant cocoon within firing range.

Zhang Wuxun carved a small hole in the callus in front of him so that he could look out, and squinted out with one eye.

After waiting for five or six minutes, there was movement in the white velvet at the entrance, but the movement was a little strange. It seemed that there was something big inside that was crawling along the ground.

Zhang Wuxun pulled out a small telescope and pressed it against the small hole to look carefully.

Upon seeing this, my scalp tingled – damn it, it's Black Flying Tigers!
He saw very clearly that a person crawled out of the white silk at the entrance. The person was crawling along the ground in a bizarre posture that exceeded the limits of human twisting. All the joints of the body were as soft as mud, and the person was moving on the ground like a snake, moving at a moderate speed.

Zhang Wuxun also saw something thin and long sticking out of his mouth, its fine black scales flashing by.

He guessed that the three members of the Wang family must have smelled the alcohol and, out of fear of the unknown opponents below, returned to the top and used snakes to control and bring down the Wang family members who had died under the trap needles. Fortunately, he had anticipated this and taken precautions.

After the first black snake crawled in, its black-scaled snake head kept sticking out of its mouth, its tongue trembling as it caught scents in the air. However, the alcohol concentration here was much higher, and Zhang Wuxun and Xiao Ge's scents were completely masked by the smell of alcohol.

Soon, the black-scaled snake used the pit in its cheek between its eyes and nose to locate the most obvious heat source, and then hissed a few times.

Immediately afterwards, two more black flies crawled out from behind it and climbed to the side of the first black fly in the same strange posture.

The three serpent heads hidden in their mouths flicked their tongues and hissed continuously, seemingly communicating.

Zhang Wuxun turned his gaze to what was behind them; something else was approaching from there.

However, they were very cautious. Even though Black Flying didn't issue any danger warnings, the three members of the Wang family remained hidden in the white silk and did not show themselves.

But they issued a search order, and Zhang Wuxun saw that three black flying snakes started moving. They drove the corpse like snakes, quickly climbed to the bottom of the pillar, and then spiraled up the pillar, their bodies incredibly flexible like noodles.

But they didn't go directly into the large cocoon; instead, they lingered at the opening, constantly flicking their tongues to gather information. The large blood silkworm, awakened by the warmth emanating from the outside, sensed danger and began to wriggle inside the cocoon, attempting to escape from the other end.

Black flies are very clever. Although they cannot distinguish whether the living creature in front of them is the one they are looking for, no prey that they have their eyes on can escape.

One of the black flies climbed onto the cocoon and waited at the other end.

The giant blood silkworm was equally sensitive to danger. Zhang Wuxun could only see the inside of the cocoon vibrating. Soon, a red hairy head the size of a washbasin emerged from the bottom of the cocoon. Two fine jaws extended from the opening, opening to their maximum extent, and began to gnaw around the opening.

The silkworm twisted its body, and just as it was about to emerge halfway out, a black fly silently crawled up to its side and pounced on it with lightning speed, biting off half of the blood silkworm's head.

Silkworms do not have vocal organs, but the moment they are attacked, the large blood silkworm shrinks half of its exposed body back into its hole, curls up, and uses its abdominal legs to kick the black fly that is attached to its body.

Black Flying Sparrow hunts in exactly the same way as snakes, coiling its body tightly around the Great Blood Silkworm, squeezing inwards in circles.

The giant blood silkworm had no room to struggle and could only open its mouth wide to scream silently. The entire hunting process was basically carried out in silence.

The enormous cocoon trembled incessantly, and Zhang Wuxun watched with trepidation. He was afraid that when these two big guys fought, they would pull the threads attached to the tear gas canisters, causing them to trigger prematurely and the Wang family outside to escape in a heartbeat. Wouldn't that mean all his efforts would have been in vain?

A silver dart appeared in Zhang Wuxun's palm. He tore open the callus and reached out, about to throw the silver dart to cut off the head of the snake, when he suddenly caught the cracking sound of bones colliding in his ears.

He immediately withdrew his hand, picked up the binoculars, and looked towards the entrance.

Sure enough, a flashlight beam appeared through the white silk, and a tall man in black wearing a golden fox mask bent down and walked out, followed by two men in silver fox masks.

This was the first time Zhang Wuxun had seen the golden-masked man from the Wang family. Ma Chongshan's notes also mentioned the golden fox-masked man, who was of a lower rank than the bronze fox-masked man.

However, he was familiar with the two silver-masked men behind the golden-masked man. The Wang family member he had chased down and killed in the snake swamp jungle was the silver-masked man.

It's unknown whether the skinny Wang family member who set a trap for Ma Chongshan back then is still alive or dead. However, judging from Jinmian's practiced manner, it seems that he is the one who has been secretly helping Ma Chongshan handle things all these years.

Zhang Wuxun's gaze shifted to Hei Feizi, who was attacking the Great Blood Silkworm. Due to Hei Feizi's swift attacks, the Great Blood Silkworm was powerless to fight back and had its upper body wrapped up by Hei Feizi.

The mucus inside the giant blood silkworm was also squeezed and swollen together, looking like a sausage tightly wrapped with several rubber bands connected together. It felt like the blood silkworm's skin was about to burst.

However, after the sound of bones grinding together, the ferocious black fly stopped squeezing, but did not release its prey.

A black-scaled snake, as thick as a human calf, was coiled around the golden fox's body; this was the snake king of the batch of snakes he possessed.

Through the feedback between the snakes, he only knew that the black flying snake inside had grabbed something while he was outside. He originally thought it would be Ma Chongshan or that "Wu Xie", but unexpectedly it turned out to be the giant blood silkworm that the former leader had given to Ma Chongshan.

This blood silkworm is still useful to the family, so it can't die so easily. Golden Fox hurriedly stopped Black Flying Son's attack.

The three men, including Golden Fox, stood guard with their guns at the ready. This "Wu Xie" was no ordinary person. Although they hadn't found the bodies of the two silver-masked men, Golden Fox was certain that they had been killed.

Ma Chongshan, that idiot, might not be able to deal with Wu Xie, but strangely, judging from the snake's feedback, there seemed to be no other living creatures here besides the female Heavenly Longevity Silkworm.

Snakes have a perception ten thousand times greater than that of humans. Golden Fox himself is a snake trainer, and these snakes are like his right and left arms. He has great faith in the snakes' judgment.

Could it be that "Wu Xie" has already left this place?
What about Ma Chongshan? Or perhaps Wu Xie already knew about the Heavenly Longevity Silkworm and came here to take advantage of the situation, and that he had already killed Ma Chongshan and fed him to the male silkworm?
Golden Fox counted the cocoons hanging on the wall under the lamp, and his expression behind the mask suddenly turned ugly.

There were thirty-seven cocoons, one more than before. It seems that Wu Xie was indeed after the Heavenly Longevity Silkworm. They arrived too late, and the silkworm eggs might have already been taken away by him. The mechanism at the wellhead was a trap to lure them down.

"Damn Wu Xie! He beat us to it again." One of the silver foxes was furious. "Boss, what do we do now?"

Golden Fox glared at him. "What else can we do? Go check inside the cocoon. If Wu Xie really took the Heavenly Longevity Silkworm eggs, we can only take the mother Heavenly Longevity Silkworm back and then find the leader to receive our punishment."

The two silver foxes sighed. Their mission this time was to bring back the Heavenly Longevity Silkworm Eggs; the mother silkworms were secondary.

Unexpectedly, "Wu Xie" beat them to it again. This "Wu Xie" is more powerful than they imagined. This person and the people around him have ruined their plans several times. He is truly despicable and powerful.

The two men approached the large cocoon with their guns in hand. The large blood silkworm hanging below the cocoon had been tormented by the black flies and was now panting heavily. It was hanging there precariously, clinging to the edge of the cocoon hole by only a few short, stout abdominal legs.

The man in the golden fox mask slightly curled his fingertips, and after another soft sound, the black flying creature that had bound the giant blood silkworm released its grip. The other two black flying creatures also crawled over along the cocoon and circled around the giant blood silkworm.

With the combined weight of the three silkworms and the giant blood silkworm, the opening at the bottom of the cocoon finally gave way and crashed to the ground.

The giant blood silkworm began to struggle again, raising its head, trying to break free from the encirclement of the black flies.

Although Black Flying Sparrow did not receive the order to kill, it instinctively prevented it from escaping. The Great Blood Silkworm twisted and rolled in the pavilion, and Black Flying Sparrow on its body also got entangled and fell into the silkworm shell behind the pavilion.

The dry silkworm shell was instantly crushed into pieces, and countless black mists rose up from inside. Large swarms of black, unidentified creatures flew out from the gaps in the shell, their buzzing wings creating a buzzing sound that filled the entire stone chamber.

The entire space in front of them was shrouded in a gray-black mist, and countless ghostly faces were rampaging through the space.

Some of the ghost moths pounced on the black flyer and began to devour him, while others fluttered into the air, quickly locking onto the intruder and attacking the three members of the Wang family standing at the entrance.

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