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

Chapter 511 Mobile Blood Bank

Zhang Haixing stared intently at the jade box in his hand, as if she wanted to drill a hole through it.

At this moment, she couldn't quite describe her feelings—whether it was excitement, panic, or both.

She struggled to suppress her excitement and changed the subject with difficulty, "You didn't plant these bloodsucking monsters here on purpose, did you, to prevent others from getting close to the bronze door?"

Zhang Wuxun noticed the fluctuation in her emotions and said calmly, "So what if it is, so what if it isn't?"

Zhang Haixing's breath hitched. A scene from the illusion suddenly appeared in her mind's eye, and she couldn't help but want to ask more questions. She pinched her palm hard, and the pain woke her up. "What do we do next?"

Zhang Wuxun's voice seemed to echo from a very distant place, reaching her ears: "Wait, wait for the earthquake to begin, for the underground river to surge, for the ghostly soldiers to pass through, and for the gates of hell to open."

The entire space fell into dead silence. After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Haixing suddenly opened her eyes and found herself sitting on the ground.

She hurriedly looked around and saw a bonfire that was about to burn out in the open space not far in front of her. Zhang Wuxun and the others were also fast asleep, each leaning against the surrounding rocks and backpacks.

When did I fall asleep?
Zhang Haixing frowned deeply. She searched through her entire memory but couldn't find any recollection of that period.

What exactly happened during that period?
Zhang Haixing had been staring at the people sleeping next to the stone for several minutes, and with Bai Ci's alertness, it was impossible for him not to notice.

wrong!

Something flashed through her mind, but it was gone in an instant, and Zhang Haixing couldn't grasp it in the rush.

She tried to recall, but a series of sharp pains came from deep within her brain, and even her whole body began to flare up. She almost fainted from the pain, and a metallic taste rose in her throat.

Her instincts told Zhang Haixing she couldn't think any further. Something was preventing her from investigating. She had a vague guess in her mind, and to save her life, she chose to temporarily ignore the clue. She had a premonition that the clue was connected to an enormous secret.

After keeping her eyes tightly shut for a long time, the pain finally subsided. Zhang Haixing, her face pale, moved over to wake Zhang Wuxun and the others, saying, "Get up quickly, we've all fallen asleep."

"what happened?"

"Strange, when did Fatty fall asleep?"

When everyone woke up, they were equally puzzled by what they saw.

Zhang Haixing's performance was flawless; apart from being a little pale, all her reactions were no different from Zhang Wuxun and the others.

"Think carefully, when did we all fall asleep?" Wu Xie asked.

Everyone tried hard to recall, but none of them had any memory of it and they were all confused. "I can't remember, but it feels like I slept for a very long time."

Zhang Wuxun stepped forward and turned over the fire, saying, "There's still embers. Judging from the pile of ashes at the bottom, we've been unconscious for at least two hours."

Wu Xie frowned. "Even when we're resting, we can't possibly leave no one on guard."

The fat man immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, his face turning ashen. "So we all fell for this together. Besides the corpse grass, there's something else strange about this place."

Zhang Wuxun turned on his flashlight and shone it around. After scanning the area, he quickly ran towards the bronze door. After crouching down to examine it, his expression changed. "Damn it, we've been moved. This isn't the cave where we burned the corpse grass before."

"what?!"

Everyone was shocked and quickly took out their flashlights to check the surroundings. After returning from the circle, they were all pale-faced. They couldn't detect anything different because the bronze door behind them was still there.

The meteorite cave above was pitted and uneven, and from this height and visually, it was almost indistinguishable, but Zhang Wuxun's tone was very confident, and Wu Xie and the others believed Zhang Wuxun's judgment.

Feng's lips trembled as he repeatedly made the sign of the cross on his chest, muttering something with his eyes closed.

“This door is fake.” Zhang Wuxun’s face was extremely pale.

Zhang Haixing hurriedly took out the photos she had taken earlier and compared them with the patterns on the door. She didn't find any differences, so she stared at him and asked, "How did you figure that out? This door is exactly the same as the one we saw before."

Zhang Wuxun beckoned everyone forward, pointed with a beam of light at the place where the giant gate met the ground, and said, "You see, in theory, this kind of gate should be very heavy. If it keeps pressing against the rock, it will eventually sink into the rock, and the ground will show signs of being pressed in."

“The bronze door we saw before had long, cracked edges spreading outwards from the bottom of the stones, but this one doesn’t.”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Haixing immediately went back, took out two glove-like objects from her backpack, put them on her hands, stepped on the large stone in front of the door, and leaped onto the bronze door. She then grabbed the patterns on it and began to climb upwards.

She moved very nimbly, and in no time she had climbed to the top of the door. The people below looked up and watched her climb from left to right with a light on, and then quickly climbed back down.

"What did you find?" Wu Xie asked her.

Zhang Haixing took a slight breath to suppress her inner shock and removed the claw gloves from her hands.

“It’s sealed very tightly, there’s not a single gap,” she said. “It’s so strange, the door looks brand new.”

The fat man scratched his head in a bit of a breakdown, "What the hell is going on? Are these bronze doors from your Zhang family mass-produced?"

"What if the foundation here has been specially treated?" Wu Xie said. "Or perhaps this door isn't as heavy as we thought."

Zhang Wuxun said firmly, "No matter what, this door must be fake."

Fatty recalled the situation at Zhang Family Ancient Building back then, "Could this be another maze set up by your Zhang family, with traps or something in the walls, so that we were moved to a different place without realizing it while we were sleeping?"

"Impossible. This space is too vast. To move silently without any disturbance would require a god," Zhang Haixing immediately denied.

Although the corpse grass here also showed signs of being burned, Wu Xie smelled the scent of burning gasoline, a very faint sour smell that was not easily detected among the rotten smell in the space. He walked a few steps with his lamp on and found a spot on the ground that had been doused with gasoline.

The fat man scoffed, "Anyway, it's either a god, a ghost, or a human playing tricks!"

Upon hearing this, Feng, who was standing behind the fat man, blinked, as if he had suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said, "If it really is someone playing tricks, then they must have a purpose. Everyone, quickly check if anything you brought is missing."

Zhang Wuxun had already checked the backpacks; the Ghost Seal was missing. The others' backpacks were also missing half their food, and possibly something else as well, but those with ulterior motives would never say that outright.

“The bronze door in front of us is fake. They took the Ghost Seal and may have already entered the real bronze door before us,” Zhang Wuxun said in a deep voice.

Wu Xie quickly deduced what had happened: "A group of people had been following us closely, monitoring our every move. After Bai Ci took out the jade box containing the Ghost Seal, they attacked us, taking the Ghost Seal and drugging us as they moved us to another location."

“If someone was monitoring us closely, there’s no way I wouldn’t have noticed.” Zhang Wuxun’s expression was grave. “But that doesn’t make sense. Since the people who attacked us were targeting Gui Xi, there’s no reason why they would spare our lives and go through all the trouble of moving us here.”

None of the people present were fools; after being completely unconscious for such a long time, it was impossible for them to wake up completely unaware.

Zhang Wuxun's expression turned cold. Thinking of a certain possibility, he immediately rolled up his sleeve and found a small bloodstain in the crease of his left elbow, with a bluish-purple edge around it.

“Those people took my blood,” he said. “A lot of it.”

Wu Xie and the others quickly rolled up their sleeves to check their arms. Of the five, only Fatty and Feng showed no signs of blood being drawn.

It seems that those people knew them very well, only taking the blood of the Zhang family and the Khampa people, and even taking Wu Xie's half-baked Qilin blood.

Zhang Wuxun's cold gaze swept over Feng. "I'm sure you all already know what's going on. Our tail has run into trouble."

Feng sensed his pointed gaze and was furious. He roared, "My reinforcements have been wiped out by both of you. This undercover agent cannot be attributed to me. Young Master Bai, your words are going too far."

The fat man was displeased. "You little brat, who do you think you are? What are you yelling for? Aren't you guilty? Of the five people slapped, you're the most suspicious one."

As he spoke, he strode forward to search Feng's backpack. Feng, of course, refused, and the two began to tug at each other. The fat man pulled hard, and the backpack zipper burst open, spilling all the contents onto the ground.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, a black button with a small red dot lay quietly among a pile of compressed biscuits.

Feng was speechless. The fat man scoffed sarcastically and told Wu Xie to restrain Feng, who tried to run away when he saw the situation was not right. They quickly tied him up.

Zhang Haixing pulled a very thin razor blade from her sleeve. "Do you need any help?"

Zhang Wuxun curled his lip, "What good would torture do? Gui Xi is gone. If they leave people here, they'll be used as pawns if they're discovered."

As soon as he finished speaking, the black button on the ground crackled as if it had been electrocuted, and the red dot flashed wildly. The two fat men hurriedly pushed Feng Li away, and just as they stood up, they heard a bang, and the black button exploded into a pile of twisted fragments.

Zhang Haixing shrugged. "Then there's nothing we can do. With these crippled parts destroyed like this, even if we had the equipment, we couldn't reverse track them."

Feng was still cursing on the other end when the fat man ripped off his boots, wrinkled his nose, took off his smelly socks, and stuffed them into his mouth.

Feng was so overwhelmed by the smell of his own athlete's foot that his eyes rolled back, tears streamed down his face, and he kept gagging.

"Waaah..." Feng curled up on the ground in anger, barely managing to push the stinky sock out of his mouth. He was so angry that he didn't even bother to speak Chinese anymore, and directly cursed the fat man's ancestors in German.

The fat man picked at his ear with his little finger, not caring at all, since he couldn't understand it anyway.

"What do we do now?" Wu Xie asked Zhang Wuxun. "Can you find that cave we were in before?"

Zhang Wuxun shook his head, "There are hundreds or even thousands of such caves in these mountains. There are all sorts of strange insects in the passages. If you disturb them even slightly, they will cause a large number of insect nests to be destroyed. In that case, we will all become nutrients."

"Moreover, the two hours only represent the time this fire has been burning, not the time we've been unconscious. Judging from the extent to which the food in our stomachs has been consumed, we've lost at least a day. That time difference is enough for them to do many things."

Wu Xie patted his wristwatch and said dejectedly, "Those people had already considered this, and they even broke our watches."

Everyone fell silent.

Zhang Haixing kicked a small stone in frustration, "We can't just sit here and wait to die, the remaining food won't last long."

"We'd better pray their operation fails, then they'll automatically come looking for us mobile blood banks." Zhang Wuxun gestured to the fat man to take out the pouch of grenades he had hidden on his body.

"If this door isn't as heavy as you might think, given its height, it's very likely that it's hollow inside."

"Having come this far, no one would be willing to give up halfway like this. We might as well take a gamble."

The fat man pulled out a grenade, tossed it up, and caught it again, his voice laced with a thuggish glint in his eyes, "What are we betting on?"

Zhang Wuxun looked at the fake bronze door with a deep gaze and said, "Let's bet on how sturdy this door is."

Zhang Haixing frowned. "Are you sure? What if it really explodes? Who knows if there's anything suspicious about this door?"

"Just stay away from it." The fat man had already squatted down excitedly in front of the bronze door; he was an expert at dealing with this kind of thing.

Zhang Haixing turned to look at Zhang Wuxun, seemingly wanting him to say something to stop her, but then suddenly remembered that he was the one who originally suggested blowing up the door. Her lips twitched, and she didn't raise any further objections. She turned around to look for suitable cover.

Wu Xie dragged Feng behind a rock in the distance, muttering, "He's gone mad, he's gone mad..."

In the past, he would have stopped it and analyzed all the pros and cons, but this time he didn't. Even though he knew that this explosion might be terrible, his feelings were extremely complicated, and he even had a faint expectation for the scene after the fat man finished blowing it up.

Wu Xie glanced at Zhang Wuxun, who was also approaching with a calm expression, then closed his eyes. "Go ahead and be crazy. Mu Yu must have his reasons for doing this. There are tall people to hold up the sky if it falls."

The fat man only took out a grenade to test the waters, then turned around to call for help, only to find that all of them had disappeared, hidden away completely.

He cursed, "Damn it, help Fatty bury the mines first before hiding them!"

"One of these things is not powerful enough. We need to use a lot of stones to weigh down the door crack, and then put a fuse a little further away. That way, the shock wave from the explosion will be absorbed by the stones, and the impact force will be directed inward."

Wu Xie wiped his face and was about to stand up when Zhang Wuxun patted him on the shoulder, "You stay here, I'll go."

Sorry everyone, the bronze gate part is too laggy, and no matter how many times I try to fix it, it just doesn't work right, so it's been delayed until now. I'll continue to update it from now on.