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

Chapter 54 Water Battle with the Giant Fish
Relying on his excellent swimming skills, Lao Yang had already waded into the water and swam towards the steps.

Seeing this, Wu Xiaoxie also let go and jumped in. The water immediately rose to his chest, which startled him. Fortunately, he felt around and stepped on a stone.

"Holy crap!" Wu Xiaoxie shivered. "This water is fucking cold."

The cold air seeped straight into the bones.

"Wooden Fish, come down." Wu Xiaoxie looked up and called to Zhang Wuxun, who was hanging at the cave entrance. "There should be a flat stone slab down there. You can paddle across by the water."

"it is good."

Zhang Wuxun responded, found the right direction, exerted force with his waist, and leaped forward, landing about a meter in front of Wu Xiaoxie.

With a splash, countless water droplets were sent flying.

Upon touching the water, Zhang Wuxun wanted to curl up his limbs; it was just too cold. The chill penetrated his military boots and crept up his legs.

Despite the discomfort, I walked forward a dozen steps with a flashlight in hand.

A low stone door appeared on the stone wall above the steps ahead. People had to duck their heads and squeeze through, while also being careful not to let the foul water flow into their mouths.

Simply.

Lao Yang had already crouched down and crawled inside.

Zhang Wuxun shone his flashlight inside. The stone door led to a dark passageway with haphazardly carved white-gray rock walls on both sides.

He turned back and reminded Wu Xiaoxie, "Be careful, there might be some danger inside."

Zhang Wuxun knew that there was a carnivorous taimen inside, which Lao Yang had imagined, so he gave Wu Xiaoxie a heads-up in advance.

Wu Xiaoxie nodded, took out the dagger Zhang Wuxun had given him from his waist, held the knife in one hand and held the lamp in the other, and followed Zhang Wuxun into the low stone gate.

After walking another ten meters or so, a right-angle turn appeared before us.

Looking inside at the deep, dark interior, Lao Yang felt a chill run down his spine.

"Do you think there might be some big monster in this water?" Lao Yang said nervously, his scalp tingling.

"Pah, pah, pah!" Wu Xiaoxie cursed at him, "What nonsense are you talking about? This is just a man-made stone cave, there are no monsters here, stop scaring yourself."

As they were talking, several muffled splashes of water suddenly came from the stone path around the bend, echoing through the stone walls and clearly reaching the ears of the three of them.

A huge triangular dorsal fin sliced ​​through the water and slithered toward the three of them.

"Damn it!" Wu Xiaoxie cursed, "Lao Yang, you jinx!"

Lao Yang cried out in frustration, "How could I...know, know that there really is something in this water..."

"Shut up!" Zhang Wuxun snapped, impatient with his stammering.

Lao Yang immediately fell silent, not daring to utter a single word.

Because the aura emanating from Zhang Wuxun was too murderous, even though he knew that the murderous aura was only directed at the unknown creature in the water, he still chose to keep quiet.

Wu Xiaoxie swallowed nervously. "Wooden Fish, what do we do? Fight it?"

“No need.” Zhang Wuxun’s eyes were just as sharp in the dark as they were in daylight, and he could clearly see the shape of the unknown creature in the water. He estimated the fighting strength of both sides. “I’ll hold it off for a while. You and Lao Yang should find a chance to leave first, the farther the better.” Wu Xiaoxie was anxious when he heard this and was about to object, but Zhang Wuxun shut him down with “Don’t interfere with my performance.”

Okay, having strong combat power is impressive.

Zhang Wuxun took the backpack off his back and handed it to Wu Xiaoxie, instructing him to stand close to the wall and stay away, then hold his breath and dive underwater to swim towards the taimen.

The taimen quickly spotted its prey, flicked its tail fin, and swam over at a faster pace.

Wu Xiaoxie and the other could only watch nervously from the sidelines, their hearts pounding in their throats.

Zhang Wuxun closed his eyes, using the water flow to sense the direction of the taimen. Suddenly, he stopped moving, put his feet on the ground, and crouched down, narrowly avoiding the fish.

The taimen opened its blood-red mouth wide and then snapped shut, swimming over his head. Missing its first attack, it flicked its tail, nimbly turned a corner, and opened its mouth to bite again.

Zhang Wuxun bent down again to dodge, and the moment the fish's belly swept past his head, a triangular military dagger with a bloodletting groove appeared out of thin air in his hand. He thrust it upwards and pierced through the taimen's belly with a thud.

The strong smell of blood instantly spread through the water.

Lao Yang had already pulled Wu Xiaoxie along and taken the opportunity to run to the stone platform on the other side of the passage.

Wu Xiaoxie, shining his flashlight, saw the water churning as if boiling, and then blood gushed out. He was frantic and jumped off the stone platform to help, but Lao Yang grabbed him.

Lao Yang stammered, "Brother Mu... Mu Yu's skills, don't you know them? Even if you... you can get past him, you'll only make things worse."

Wu Xiaoxie knew that Zhang Wuxun was a formidable fighter, but this was water, not land. The water was the territory of that unknown creature, and Zhang Wuxun would inevitably be restrained in his actions. What if he accidentally got injured? The water was so smelly that it must have a lot of bacteria, posing a great risk of infection.

As for the possibility of not being able to beat them, that's not true.

Wu Xiaoxie had a strange belief in Zhang Wuxun and Xiao Ge's fighting abilities.

In the water, after Zhang Wuxun landed a successful blow, he simultaneously gripped the handle of the triangular bayonet with both hands and slashed it with all his might along the fish's belly toward its tail.

The taimen's belly was ripped open even more, and some of its internal organs spilled out.

The taimen let out a deep, hoarse roar in pain, swishing its tail and ramming its head into the ground.

Zhang Wuxun was thrown two meters away by a powerful impact. His weapon slipped from his hand and remained on the stomach of the taimen. His back slammed against the stone wall with a thud. He winced in pain and, caught off guard, swallowed a mouthful of foul-smelling water, choking him. He quickly thrashed to the surface to breathe fresh air, clutching his chest and coughing uncontrollably.

The enraged taimen, determined to take someone down with it even in its death throes, recklessly opened its massive jaws and pounced on Zhang Wuxun the moment he appeared.

Zhang Wuxun was somewhat exhausted from the choking he had just received, and could only shrink his head and try his best to dodge to the side.

At the critical moment, the taimen's head was hit by a backpack and narrowly missed Zhang Wuxun's face.

Wu Xiaoxie swung his backpack and continued his assault, smashing the taimen until it couldn't surface. Only then did he regain his senses and cautiously stare at the water below, panting as he asked, "Muyu, are you alright? Are you hurt?"

Zhang Wuxun coughed so hard he could barely speak, "Cough cough... cough it's nothing... cough it's nothing."

Wu Xiaoxie grabbed Zhang Wuxun's arm and quickly dragged him away from the spot, leading him up the stone steps.

A huge splash of water erupted behind them, spraying the two men with foul-smelling water. The taimen relentlessly pursued them, but the more it made a fuss, the more blood it lost. Eventually, it ran aground on the shore, its massive body twitching a few times before its dead eyes rolled back and it went completely still.

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