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

Chapter 97 A Flash of Inspiration

Did he lure me here just to verify this? If so, then he'd fight to the death with this bastard.

"You... what are you talking about?" Wu Xiaoxie's lips twitched, and he moved away from Lao Yang without showing any emotion. "How could something as absurd as immortality be true? Are you possessed?"

He scoffed at Lao Yang's talk of immortality and living people, and didn't have time to think about it. At the same time, he suspected that this "Lao Yang" was also the ghost that had turned into the "wooden fish" before.

Lao Yang suddenly stood up, startling Wu Xiaoxie. Then he burst into laughter, which sounded terrifying in the quiet space.

Wu Xiaoxie felt a chill run down his spine. Just as he was considering whether to risk everything, rush up and stab the guy, and then run away, Lao Yang stopped laughing and said to Wu Xiaoxie, "You said you saw this dark figure that looked like a wooden fish, but what I saw was my mother. Don't you find that strange?"

"What's so strange about that?" Wu Xiaoxie said dismissively, suppressing his doubts and keeping them to himself. "Maybe it's because the air here is toxic, causing hallucinations."

He had a gut feeling that Lao Yang probably knew something, perhaps related to the purpose of him bringing him here.

Now that things had come to this, he was too lazy to play guessing games with Lao Yang anymore, so he simply cut to the chase: "What exactly do you want by bringing me here? Is the benefit you mentioned just this giant corpse cocoon? Even if this thing is very valuable, ten of us combined wouldn't be enough to carry it."

“Of course not,” Lao Yang said. “Don’t you think the things we’ve encountered along the way are too coincidental?”

"What?" Wu Xiaoxie asked cooperatively.

Lao Yang continued, "Let's go through the strange places in the order we entered the ancient tomb. From the collapsed cave, we encountered the taimen in the mine. This is deep in the Qinling Mountains, sparsely populated and food is scarce. Logically, there shouldn't be such a large fish here, because it simply couldn't survive." "That's the first point. The second point is the intermittently erupting hot spring we encountered after coming down from the hidden door. We're inside a mountain, and this isn't a volcanic area. There's no reason the water temperature should be so high as to scald people, right?"

Wu Xiaoxie nodded, thinking that Lao Yang's words made a lot of sense, "Go on."

“This third point is especially important.” Lao Yang paused and said, “When I first came out of here, I didn’t encounter so many dangers. I had never seen those Chi Gu, giant monkeys, or the living vines and the Qilin before. It was just like an ordinary ancient tomb. Otherwise, I would never have been able to come out alive.”

"The fourth point is this corpse cocoon." Lao Yang pointed to the dark figure. "We both looked at it at the same time, but we saw different faces. What does that mean?"

This is a crucial step. Lao Yang intentionally guided Wu Xiaoxie to say it himself, which increased the chances of success.

Wu Xiaoxie stared at the dark figure, lost in thought. Yes, if what Lao Yang said was true, it was all too coincidental. How could one person be safe and sound while a group of people repeatedly faced life-or-death crises?

It can't be that this ancient tomb has its own consciousness and discriminates against people, and doesn't like groups coming to its territory for sightseeing.

Wu Xiaoxie frowned, when suddenly a brilliant idea flashed into his mind.

"I see!"

(End of this chapter)