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

Chapter 537 The Remains of the Undead
"Find the statue, and then what?" Wu Xie's palms were slightly damp; he was a little nervous, like a prisoner awaiting sentencing.

“What is the second thing?” he asked slowly.

The fat man picked at the dirt under his fingernails, not looking at him, and said, "The second thing is something you haven't achieved yet, so I can't tell you."

Wu Xie's breath hitched, and he almost lost control of his expression. "If you tell me, won't I be able to get there faster?"

“If I told you, with your stubborn nature, you would definitely spend your whole life searching for this thing,” the fat man said confidently.

"Then let's look for it. Isn't my whole life spent in endless pursuit and searching?" Wu Xie suddenly found it a bit ridiculous. "You all leave me with clues, luring me to look for them. Every time I catch a thread, someone suddenly jumps out and says, 'You shouldn't look for it. You should go back.'"

Wu Xie chuckled, then sniffed, his head drooping, his voice gradually lowering, "How else can I go back? I've already come this far, seen countless mysteries in this world, and there are always new things and new people closely related to me waiting for me ahead."

"It's too late to go back."

The fat man moved his lips, looking at Wu Xie, who was hanging his wet head like a drowning puppy, looking dejected as if he had been abandoned by the whole world. He felt really bad for him.

But it's not just Xiao Ge who's Wu Xie's friend; Fatty is also Wu Xie's friend. He has his own principles when it comes to friends, and he doesn't want to see Wu Xie waste his whole life chasing after a vague and unattainable goal.

Does that thing really exist? Nobody can say for sure.

After a long pause, the fat man spoke up: "I will continue to walk with you, and I believe we can achieve the second condition."

Zhang Wuxun glanced at the fat man, then turned his gaze back to Wu Xie, who was genuinely showing his emotions, with a somewhat suspicious expression.

He was about to speak when he heard Zhang Haike's voice coming from behind the bronze tablet, "You guys have gone too far. Can you stop being so cheesy?"

The fat man was stunned for a moment, then suddenly looked up at Wu Xie, just in time to see that he had put away the mournful expression on his face, and his cheeks were dry, with no tears at all.

"Damn it!" The fat man jumped up, his finger pointing at Wu Xie trembling. "You...you...you were faking it just now!"

"Damn, you're trying to use this self-inflicted injury to trick Fatty into giving you a second thing."

The fat man realized what had happened and his eyes were filled with disbelief. He had thought that his failure to tell his little darling had hurt her heart, but it turned out that she had been faking it.

"Insidious, so insidious," the fat man gritted his teeth, fuming. "Who taught you to be so wicked? You weren't like this before."

He almost fell for it just now. Although he still stubbornly refused to say it in the end, he was really surprised and somewhat gratified that Wu Xie could come up with a way to deal with him in such a short time and hit him one-on-one.

Wu Xie snorted, "You're allowed to keep things from me in private, but I'm not allowed to lie to you even a little bit?"

Although there was an element of acting in that move, there was also genuine emotion involved.

In the past, if he knew that the fat man had a definite clue but refused to tell him, he would have been extremely anxious.

He assumed that the fat man said that because the second item was on him, so he would definitely steal it from the fat man, just like he used to chase after his third uncle.

The fat man let out a long sigh and said frankly, "That thing is in the place you will eventually reach. There are many things there, but you don't know which one it is. I will tell you which one he wants you to see."

Zhang Wuxun pondered for a moment and said, "Brother, are you saying that the thing will only be useful after the second thing is completed?"

The fat man nodded. "That's right, and the third thing is the thing we got after completing the second thing." Seeing that Zhang Wuxun and Wu Xie were both looking at him without saying anything, the fat man spat. "It's not that I don't want to say it, I'm not being pretentious, it's just that after thinking about it carefully, I feel that it's safer to understand Xiao Ge."

“Naive, let me tell you, his business is his business. I don’t know, you don’t know, and I doubt even he himself is entirely clear.” The fat man was as calm as an old crocodile protecting its eggs. “What he wants you to know is definitely about you.”

Wu Xie was filled with melancholy. He felt that Fatty's condition was not right, as if he was about to go crazy from the secret.

"You know that, right?" The fat man suddenly turned his attention to Zhang Wuxun.

Zhang Wuxun was stunned. "What?"

“You know what Xiao Ge is doing, you know what the Zhang family is doing, you… including all the mysteries surrounding yourself, you know them all, but you never tell us. Even if it’s absolutely necessary, you still won’t let us know,” the fat man said bluntly.

Wu Xie stiffly turned his head towards Zhang Wuxun, feeling like he was about to go crazy.

"I don't know." Zhang Wuxun's voice was very soft. He turned to look at Wu Xie, looking somewhat tired.

He then turned around and strode resolutely toward the back, where Zhang Haike was waiting.

The emotions in that glance were extremely complex; it was as if he wanted to say something, but Wu Xie couldn't understand it.

That was the only time in Wu Xie's life that he saw Zhang Wuxun with such a broken look in his eyes. Years later, when he recalled it, he suddenly realized that there was a farewell in that look.

Zhang Haike seemed oblivious to their conversation. He simply called out to Zhang Wuxun as he approached, "Come here quickly, I've found a door here."

"What else?" Zhang Wuxun asked casually, bending down to look at the place he was pointing to.

On the stone wall at the end of the side chamber, a low stone door appeared.

The water in front of the gate was piled with many human bones.

“And the craftsmen who created everything here,” Zhang Haike said.

The human bones were scattered, but some of the bones on the ground were pressed down by the ones above, so they were still in the positions they were in before they died. It can be seen that these people wanted to open the stone door, but they all died before the stone door was opened.

Zhang Haike sighed a few times and guessed, "Do you think they want to escape through the stone gate, or are they blocking it here to prevent anything behind the stone gate from coming in?"

“The stone door to the side chamber was sealed from the inside,” Zhang Wuxun said.

Zhang Haike shrugged. "So, they don't want the things inside to get out."

"What could be here?" He looked up and around, but didn't see anything suspicious.

The most strange thing is these bones.

The pile of bones was very high. Zhang Wuxun put on two layers of rubber gloves and gently scooped up a piece of human bone that was half above the water. With a little force, the upper half of the bone shattered, as if he had squeezed a handful of dry, rotten leaves.

The rain in Yucun never stops, as long as the waterfall doesn't dry up.