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

Chapter 544 The Battle of the Evil Zongzi
The two of them talked things out and came to terms with each other.

"If you dare to do that again, I'll really beat you up." Wu Xie reached out and pulled Zhang Wuxun up from the ground, patting the dust off his back.

For some mud stains that couldn't be patted off, he would pinch his sleeve and wipe them off.

"No need," Zhang Wuxun stopped him. "It won't get clean, just leave it there."

Wu Xie's eyebrows furrowed as he listened, and he glanced at him sideways, "Hey, big brother, what happened to your old germaphobia?"

Zhang Wuxun sensed the sarcasm in his words, quickly wiped the mud off his hands onto his face, and laughed as he stepped back, saying, "It got eaten by a dog, didn't it?"

"Damn you!" Wu Xie, caught off guard by the sneak attack, pointed at him with a straight face, but couldn't help but laugh the next second.

The fat man in the sleeping bag next to him peeked out and met Zhang Haike's eyes.

Zhang Haike was enjoying the gossip when he noticed the fat man's shifty eyes and silently asked, "What are you doing?"

The fat man ignored him, glanced at the two people standing harmoniously together in front of the wooden tower, laughing heartily, made a shushing gesture, then crawled back into his sleeping bag and closed his eyes peacefully.

Zhang Haike shook his head knowingly. If it came to judging people's hearts, this seemingly carefree fat man was clearly a master at it. Indeed, there are always talented people in the world, and the world will surely be filled with kindness and righteousness.

Zhang Wuxun and Wu Xie were chatting quietly.

Wu Xie asked, "Where did the Infant Bone Demon go after it disappeared?"

Zhang Wu pointed to the group of wooden towers, both near and far, and said, "They're all inside. This is a maze of towers. We destroyed one tower at the beginning, which alerted them."

"How did you and Zhang Haike initially realize that this was a formation?" Wu Xie was still somewhat puzzled.

“Follow me.” Zhang Wuxun beckoned him to follow, and the two walked up the steps and went straight through the layers of wooden towers.

Wu Xie followed Zhang Wuxun around for two or three minutes, until he completely forgot which direction he had come in from.

A gray fog gradually spread around, making the whole place pitch black, and the flashlight beam couldn't even illuminate a distance of half a meter.

Zhang Wuxun simply turned off the light and led him forward.

After a sharp turn, Wu Xie noticed that Zhang Wuxun, who was walking in front of him, slowed down his pace considerably.

"Look ahead." Zhang Wuxun turned the flashlight back on.

In the gray fog, under the thin beams of white light, a colossal stone tower appeared before the two, more than three or four times larger than any of the wooden towers they had seen before.

The stone tower is covered with patterns of the Khampa people, and the tower's levels are piled with various items.

Through the openwork lattice, one can see countless chains hanging inside the stone tower, the ends of which all converge at the center of the tower, where a human-shaped shadow sits.

Wu Xie wanted to get closer and look through the gap to see who was sitting inside. He felt that the body didn't look like a child's.

Unexpectedly, Wu Xie only took a few steps forward, and in the blink of an eye, when he looked into the gap again, he found that the figure sitting in the stone tower had disappeared.

Wu Xie was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked around to search. He thought that maybe because of the distance and poor visibility from the light, the shadow was not in the center of the stone tower.

Thinking this, he turned to Zhang Wuxun and told him to come closer and shine the flashlight directly inside so he could take a look.

After saying that, Wu Xie turned around and looked at the gap again. He suddenly paused and began to feel uneasy. He also made a move to retreat at any moment.

Because the crack he had just been looking through suddenly turned pitch black, without any warning, as if something had blocked it from the inside, completely obscuring the faint light that could get in. Having descended into so many evil tombs and experienced so many bizarre things, Wu Xie felt that the mysterious shadow inside the stone tower suddenly coming back to life and enthusiastically greeting him didn't seem so unacceptable.

Wu Xie sighed. It seems that growing up is not just about getting older. A young person can be mature beyond their years, and an old person can be disrespectful. Ultimately, it's a matter of experience.

Those who are mature in thought, stable in emotion, and unperturbed by honor or disgrace, and unperturbed by worldly affairs, must have experienced many joys and sorrows in their lives, which are of varying lengths, but they simply do not tell the world about them.

The reason is still because of what he went through.

The moment this sublime thought arose, as if unable to bear seeing Wu Xie do well, the chains in the stone tower rattled, and a claw emitting black smoke suddenly reached out from the gap, knocking away the burial objects on the shelves and grabbing straight at Wu Xie's neck.

"Damn it!" Wu Xie used his big white dog leg to trap the hideous paw and cursed, "You son of a bitch, you've been locked in the stone cell and you still haven't learned your lesson. You all come to bully an honest man like me."

Zhang Wuxun stepped forward with his knife, but Wu Xie stopped him as soon as the blade was drawn.

As a seasoned veteran, Wu Xie is now incredibly confident.

He held the big white dog with one hand and shouted, "Wooden Fish, don't move! Today, I'm going to teach this guy a lesson and show him who the real King of Zombies is!"

Zhang Wuxun stared at the dark claw for two seconds and thought for a moment. "Alright, you come and finish this quickly."

The owner of the claws ignored Wu Xie's grumbling, shoved the big white dog off his fingers, and with claws as nimble as a spinning windmill, lunged at Wu Xie's face again.

"Trying to ruin my appearance? You're asking for trouble!"

Wu Xie was furious. He gripped the big white dog and slashed and hacked at it. The blade and the sharp, iron-like fingernails collided, producing a series of clanging sounds, sending black smoke and scales flying everywhere.

The claw belonged to some strange creature, covered in fine scales, with thick, long finger bones. It seemed to be held together by a webbed membrane at the base, which inadvertently facilitated Wu Xie's attacks.

He feinted, and just as the claws were about to grab him, he slapped them away with a backhand slash. The claws slammed into the stone tower like a washing mallet, barely wedging into the gap in the grid that Wu Xie had planned in advance.

Wu Xie pressed his advantage, slicing the claw's webbed fingers with his blade, then cutting down to sever the last three fingers of the claw in one fell swoop.

The shadow in the stone tower let out a hoarse and shrill roar. Wu Xie followed up and cut off the other two fingers in the same way.

So, the half-claw that had managed to escape from the gap after losing its finger looked more like a club when it was unable to swing.

Wu Xie, a little smug, put his hands on his hips, turned his head, and raised an eyebrow at Zhang Wuxun with a smug look.

Zhang Wuxun pursed his lips and remained silent, only raising his hand to point behind him.

"What?" Wu Xie asked in confusion, but the next second he heard a whooshing sound behind him. He instinctively bent forward to avoid the attack, relying solely on the muscle memory he had developed from being beaten by Hei Xiazi.

Turning around and looking closely, I saw another dark claw emerging from the gap.

Wu Xie had a tactical epiphany: Oh right, this thing should have another claw.

It's okay, we can just cut it off again.

This time, Wu Xie was more experienced. He seized the opportunity and slashed into the claw gaps, quickly shaving off several of its fingers.

Then, like hitting a tennis ball, he swung his knife twice, knocking the two bare clubs back into the stone tower one by one.

good night