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

Chapter 529 Centipede
After some tentative exchanges, both of them had their own thoughts and considerations, and the conversation came to an end.

Zhang Wuxun stood up, brushed the dust off his hands, looked up and waved to them, "Come down, I have a feeling there's something else underground."

After the sand at the bottom of the pool receded, the cliff became even deeper, estimated to be three or four stories high. Wu Xie and his two companions quickly hammered in rock bolts along the edge of the cliff and then climbed down one by one using ropes.

As soon as Wu Xie's feet touched the ground, he wanted to ask Zhang Wuxun if he had discovered something. He had only opened his mouth halfway when he was suddenly startled by a tremor under his feet. Then the ground began to shake violently, and the bricks in the center of the pool near the Yama statue suddenly sank down.

Like a bridge that had been blown up and collapsed, starting from the foot of the Yama statue, all the paving stones cracked and broke one by one, falling down into the pitch-black abyss below. In the blink of an eye, the collapsed area was about to spread to everyone's feet.

It was too late to climb back up the pool wall, so Zhang Wuxun made a quick decision: "Quick, jump onto the statue!"

Without saying a word, he grabbed Wu Xie's waist with both hands, turned sideways, and swung him into the air.

In the weightless feeling of being suspended in mid-air, Wu Xie only had time to stretch out his body. When he got close to the statue, he stretched out his arm and grabbed Yama's arm, and climbed up and stood firmly in a few quick movements.

Before he could catch his breath, he saw a large, dark shadow roaring as it flew over and crashed into the statue with a thud, clinging tightly to the head of the King of Hell.

The ground collapsed faster than expected. The moment Zhang Wuxun and the other man lifted the fat man up and threw him out, their feet suddenly lost their footing, and they immediately lost their balance and fell.

"Wooden fish—"

Wu Xie clung to the supporting stone arm, stretching out his arm in vain, shouting hoarsely.

With a crisp "snap," a streak of silver light, like a remotely controlled shuttle, bypassed another stone arm in front of it and then firmly gripped it. The silver thread hanging behind it was taut, and two people were vaguely visible hanging from its lower end.

Directly below them, there appeared to be many long, dark shadows spreading outwards, extending to the surrounding stone walls and becoming fixed there.

"Muyu!" Wu Xie's eyes widened, his eyes stinging. "Muyu, are you alright?!"

"I'm fine," Zhang Wuxun replied, tilting his head back and raising his voice slightly.

It turned out that at the very moment of falling, Zhang Wuxun activated the mechanism on his wrist, releasing the small silver dart while simultaneously grabbing Zhang Haike's arm with his left hand.

Although they fell quite a distance before regaining their balance due to gravity and inertia, thankfully they escaped unharmed.

Zhang Haike's right hand was wrapped around Zhang Wuxun's arm, and even though there was a bottomless abyss beneath his feet, he showed no panic on his face and had the leisure to observe his surroundings.

Looking up from their position, the Yama statue that Wu Xie and Fatty were lying on was actually carved directly onto the top of a huge, long stone pillar that resembled a stalactite.

Surprisingly, beneath the stone pillar, hidden in the darkness, are nine stone corridors, each about two meters in diameter, which, like stars surrounding the moon, encircle the stone pillar where the Yama statue stands high in the center.

The stone pillar resembles the thick handle of an inverted, nine-pronged giant umbrella, with an unidentified creature, resembling both a snake and an insect, coiled and carved around it.

It resembles a snake, yet it has countless legs; it resembles an insect, yet its body is covered with hideous scales—it's a complete oddity.

At close range, Zhang Wuxun couldn't find the head of this strange creature at all. He slowly looked up based on the long, winding shape and suddenly realized that the Yama statue above seemed to have only twelve arms like the Thousand-Armed Guanyin, and the body of the Yama was connected to this abnormally large centipede with an absurd number of legs.

His mother's words are a bit terrifying. Could it be that the Zhang family members have been staying in this dark and gloomy place for too long and are feeling suffocated, resulting in a lack of mental stability and thus creating such an advanced mutated species?
This thing looks like it suffered even more radiation contamination than Godzilla did.

Zhang Wuxun: ...

He silently looked down and exchanged a glance with Zhang Haike, both of them somewhat bewildered.

Although they didn't understand it, it was, after all, the work of Zhang's ancestors, so he and Zhang Haike kept their expressions steady and showed respect for their predecessors.

The stone bridge supporting the stone pillars looked very ordinary. Zhang Wuxun observed it and found that it was supported by a common triangular bridge structure, with nothing special about it.

The cave is surrounded by natural cave walls, with some scattered and irregular shimmering green halos faintly visible between the crevices, as if all the glowing liquid from a lit glow stick had been flung onto the rock walls.

The fluorescent lines meandered intermittently along the stone wall, their green light spreading throughout the space like a superimposed image of the Gobi Desert starry sky, chaotic and without any discernible pattern.

Zhang Wuxun also looked around and recognized that those were just tiny traces of meteorite jade exposed on the outside of the rock, since the entire volcano was formed by falling meteorites.

This space appears to have been formed by meteorite fragments that broke off from the same meteorite and crashed through the mountain. It was located not far from the bronze gate, and thus the Zhang family used it for their own purposes.

Zhang Wuxun thought for a moment and then didn't care much. He then looked away and said to Zhang Haike, "I'll throw you up there."

"No rush." ​​Zhang Haike squinted and peered behind the stone pillar. "You're right, there really is something down there."

"What?" Zhang Wuxun tilted his head, but because of his poor position, his view was partially blocked by the stone pillar, so he did not see what Zhang Haike was talking about.

“We need to go down to those stone bridges,” Zhang Haike said. “I’ll go take a look first.”

Zhang Wuxun nodded, "Alright."

Wu Xie and Fatty above were looking on anxiously, only vaguely hearing the two talking.

"Hey, what are you two doing?" the fat man shouted, cupping his hands to his mouth. "Why are you chatting like this? If you're going to chat, at least find a place where you can set up a table. Hurry up and come up here. I'll set up a long story for you two. Hanging down there like two bungee jumping gibbons, do you want to die?"

Zhang Wuxun laughed and cursed, "Get lost! Can't you use a nicer analogy?"

"That sounds nice when it's written in an essay. Fatty's just a rough guy; it's good enough if he can describe something even halfway." Fatty chuckled twice, then said, "After dawdling for so long, have you discovered something?"

Zhang Haike had already taken out a flashlight from his pocket, shone it on the spot he suspected, and said, "I see it, there's an arched doorway down there."

good night