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

Chapter 500 Surrounded
Seeing Zhang Haixing and the others disappear into the meteorite cave in a flash, Wu Xie was not in a hurry.

At this critical juncture, there's no use in rushing. His life is hanging by a thread right now, and the more he rushes, the more likely he is to make a mistake. He can only proceed cautiously, step by step.

The constantly surging fire cones pushed wave after wave of scorching air upwards, making the air in the entire space seem to be burning. Wu Xie had the illusion that he was in a microwave oven that was being heated to a high temperature.

With each breath he took, he felt as if his lungs were about to be scalded, and every pore on his body was screaming that it was so hot.

After this experience, I feel that he will never be able to eat braised pork lung slices again; he will only be able to eat them cold.

The fat man walked ahead with his head down, and Wu Xie followed closely behind. Before they knew it, the two had reached the middle of the chain bridge.

The closer you get to the middle, the more noticeably the chains sway with each step.

Wu Xie walked with trepidation, his eyes fixed on the chains in front of him. He only dared to take a step forward when he was sure of the next foothold. He didn't even dare to breathe too much, for fear that he might accidentally fall down again if he didn't catch his breath.

My muscles were constantly tense and I dared not relax. After a long time, I felt sore and tired. My gas mask was full of sweat and it was very stuffy.

Wu Xie stopped to catch his breath, wanting to see how far he was from the finish line. As soon as he looked up, his eyes started to sting, and sweat began to trickle in. He reflexively closed his eyes.

Unexpectedly, his ankle suddenly tightened, and something darted out from under the chain bridge, grabbing his leg and trying to pull him down.

Wu Xie reacted extremely quickly. The moment he fell, he grabbed the chains with both hands to secure himself, and with his other foot, which was not being held, he kicked the thing holding him several times.

The kick made the thing retract its claws in pain. Wu Xie immediately pulled his leg back, peeked out and squinted to look down, but did not see the thing that had been grabbing him.

He was absolutely certain that what he had just experienced was not an illusion, but strangely, the thing had disappeared.

Where did they go?

His left eye was throbbing painfully, so he had to use his other eye to look around, but he didn't find anything unusual in front of or behind him.

However, the moment his mind returned, he suddenly realized that something seemed to be crouching on the chain next to him.

Wu Xie's heart skipped a beat. He slowly raised his eyes and was immediately shocked, gasping for breath.

Good heavens! What the hell is that thing in front of him?

It has limbs like a human, but its head is like a bucket, twice the width of its shoulders, like a chopstick stuck in the bottom of a plate that has come to life. Its face has no normal facial features; its whole face is like a flatbread baked on charcoal.

This thing seemed to have suffered some kind of inhumane torture. Its entire body was covered with bright red and hideous burns, with not a single patch of good skin left. Its eyes and ears had also been cruelly gouged out, leaving only an ear hole on each side of its head.

It couldn't see, so it kept tilting its ears to catch sounds, squatting on the chains like a skinned monkey.

Wu Xie glanced down and his heart sank. The creature's two claws were extremely sharp, with barbs at the tips. Given the distance between the two chains, he had no doubt that if he made any noise and alerted the monster, the sharp claws would pierce through some part of his body the next second.

But lying on the chains like that wasn't going to work, so Wu Xie held his breath and used a 0.5X slow motion to tuck his hands and feet into a kneeling position so that he could stand up later.

Just as he raised his knee, a dark shadow suddenly loomed in front of him, and a large face covered with worm-like, twisted, and scalded scars suddenly appeared in front of him.

Damn it! Wu Xie's pupils contracted sharply, and he immediately held his breath, cursing a string of profanities in his mind. Luckily, this thing had no nostrils and no sense of smell, so it couldn't detect Wu Xie's scent.

If the enemy does not move, I will not move.

After Wu Xie's breathing stopped, the fire monster tilted its head and stood still for more than ten seconds before suddenly jumping down into the lava below.

Wu Xie's heart nearly jumped into his throat with that jump, and his gaze immediately followed.

Unexpectedly, the creature wasn't contemplating suicide. Instead, it used the long, thick whip tail with barbs on its back to hang from the chain, like a monkey swinging upside down on a tree branch in a zoo. Then, it grabbed the iron cage below, tucked its limbs together, and "whoosh," it slipped inside.

"..." Wu Xie was immediately horrified. This monster had actually crawled out of the iron cage.

In other words, there are at least a dozen of these fire-scarred monsters under the entire bronze chain they are currently on!

This is bad news. The appearance of such a monster means they are about to encounter countless troubles.

Thinking of this, Wu Xie quickly stood up to look at the fat man in front of him. He saw that the fat man was also tense, with one hand already drawing a knife and holding it. He stood motionless on the chain, seemingly confronting something in front of him.

He quickly shifted his gaze forward, and upon seeing the situation, his vision went black.

It's all over. Almost all the monsters in the cages hanging under the chains in front of Fatty have escaped, and the road ahead is completely blocked.

A sense of foreboding washed over him. He turned around and saw that his escape route was completely blocked.

One after another, the fiery monsters silently climbed up the entire bronze chain, and even the other chains around it.

They were surrounded by monsters!
Wu Xie cursed inwardly, "Damn it, why didn't these ghostly things appear when Zhang Haixing and the others went there?"

Even though they haven't been discovered yet, as long as these monsters take two steps forward, they will definitely run into him and the fat man.

The two were three meters apart, and Wu Xie could feel the fat man's body trembling. He himself couldn't help but tremble as well.

At this moment, Fatty suddenly turned around and glanced at Wu Xie, his eyes resolute and ruthless.

Wu Xie immediately understood what he meant; Fatty intended to charge forward and fight his way out.

Both of them knew very well that if they remained trapped in the monsters' encirclement and could not make a sound, they would be unable to retrieve water from their backpacks to replenish their fluids.

In such an extreme high-temperature environment, they would lose a lot of blood volume due to dehydration within half an hour and then faint. Pushing forward might give them a glimmer of hope.

Without further hesitation, Wu Xie immediately made a series of hand gestures to Fatty and pulled out the big white dog leg.

After the three countdowns ended, the fat man roared and charged forward on the chains, slashing and shoving, instantly pushing the two fire monsters into the lava.

Goodnight, Igbigu.

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(End of this chapter)