Tomb robber: No more pretending, I’m from the Zhang family!

Chapter 174
Seeing him waking up, the black glasses grinned and said, "I'm going to rest for a while, call me when I'm done working." Then he walked into the tent.

On the other side, after a night of rest, Fatty and the others recovered their physical strength and energy to their peak.

Early in the morning of the second day, after they had breakfast, they continued to walk deep into the swamp.

Although Ah Ning broke half of his arm, his fate was saved, but it was inconvenient to do things, and he looked rather gloomy.

Soon, they came to the black swamp forest. Because of a heavy rain, there was a lot of stagnant water in the swamp, and the stagnant water was mixed with silt and dead branches and leaves, making it extremely inconvenient to walk.

A group of people walked in the swamp with one deep foot and one shallow foot.

Moreover, as the temperature rises, the humidity in this place changes greatly, and it is stuffy and hot, making people a little breathless. Since entering the swamp, the sweat of everyone has hardly stopped, and their bodies are sticky, so uncomfortable. How uncomfortable.

The fat man couldn't bear this the most. He wanted to walk shirtless, so that he could at least be cooler.

But Pan Zi said: "If you really want to walk shirtless, I guarantee that you will lose dozens of catties of fat in less than four hours!"

These words are not alarmist. There are too many poisonous insects, snakes and ants hidden in this swamp. If you really go forward shirtless, you will not have a piece of good meat on your body in less than an hour.

Because the carbon dioxide that people excrete from the body can easily attract the attention of insects, such as mosquitoes, grass bugs and so on.

After everyone walked forward for a certain distance, a long and gentle slope appeared in front of them. The water flow became turbulent once it reached here, and the terrain below became even more low-lying.

Farther away, there is a black swamp soaked in water. All kinds of aquatic plants are intertwined and grow very luxuriantly, so dense that there is not even a place to stay. This makes everyone dumbfounded.

"Damn it, this is a whole big piece of mud, how can we go here?" The fat man couldn't help but cursed.

The last time they came, it hadn't rained yet, and although it was difficult to walk, at least it wouldn't be like now, where the silt was directly below the knees, and the plants didn't grow as lushly.

In the past few days, the terrain here has changed so much, it has become more difficult to walk, and it is even more troublesome.

Looking at the black swamp soaked in the water, Pan Zi couldn't help but said with a headache: "The swamp that has rained and the swamp that has never rained are simply two worlds. It seems that we can no longer go the way we were before, we have to go to Walk in places where the water is shallow, otherwise it is easy to get stuck in the mud."

There will be a lot of unfathomable quagmire in the swamp where it has rained. Once you accidentally step on it, you will sink to the bottom, and there are many bugs in the mud. If you don’t leave for a short time, your legs may be covered by bugs. It's gone, it's more terrifying than a quicksand pit.

When Pan Zi was a soldier, he fought in the swampy rainforest. He has experience in this field, so he will lead the way.

Everyone followed Pan Zi's footsteps and moved forward.

This journey was extremely exhausting, and after only a few hours, it felt more tiring than walking for a day.

Since the route they traveled was different from the last time, they made a new discovery this time. After walking for several hours, they saw a huge black stone not far away, tens of centimeters above the water surface.

This black stone was not submerged by water, and it was still very dry, which was just right for everyone to rest, so everyone waded into the water and climbed onto the stone to take a rest.

After climbing up, they found that there were many carvings on the stone, which was a pattern of three blue birds. Only a small part of the stone was exposed, and most of it was submerged in the water.

In profile, it appears to be a gigantic square statue.

After seeing it, Aning said to everyone: "This should be the entrance of the Queen Mother of the West. This huge statue is the patron saint of the entrance. If I'm not wrong, its overall appearance should be born with a human head and a bird." , this is the totem of the Three Blue Birds of the Queen Mother of the West."

"I said that the people in the West Queen Mother's country are full of food. Why put such a big statue in front of the house? To scare people? Or to show his national power?" The fat man said puzzled.

Aning nodded and said: "You're right, it's really just to bluff people! At that time, there were dozens of countries of different sizes in the Western Regions. As the leader of the Western Queen Mother Kingdom at that time, the decoration at the door of the house should not be too shabby. The purpose of making such a large statue is to demonstrate national strength, and to deter envoys from other countries."

"According to what you're saying, this ancient man was quite good at psychological warfare?" the fat man said.

"The ancients were not only good at psychological warfare, but also paid more attention to psychological warfare! In the period of ignorance, you can't just rely on iron and blood methods to make people surrender, but also need spiritual suppression. For example, the promotion of theocracy and the like. As the absolute spiritual leader at that time, the Queen Mother of the West, Naturally, the homework done in this area is much more than other countries." Aning explained.

"Okay, Miss Aning, it seems that your company has done a lot of homework this time? You know so much." The fat man said.

"No matter how good the intelligence work is, it is far less important than experience. This time, our company died before we were able to succeed. Now only I, a disabled person, is left. I followed you in to explore the secrets of the Queen Mother of the West. This is the consequence of inexperience!" Aning said helplessly.

In front of the black stone, there are still many ruins. These are the relics of the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West, stretching all the way to the depths of the swamp. This shows how big this mysterious country was back then.

At this time, Tianzhen suddenly remembered the message from Wenjin that the old woman had passed to them before departure, saying that she would wait for them at the entrance of Tamu Tuo. Isn’t this the entrance of Tamu Tuo?

He stood on the stone and looked around. Where was Wen Jin's shadow?
"Could it be that we came too late and she went in first by herself?"

Naively looked at the depths of the swamp and thought to himself.

But right now everyone was exhausted, and he didn't have much thought about what Wen Jin was doing.

Then everyone took out food and water, ate some to replenish their energy, and rested for about an hour. After recovering their physical strength, they continued to set off.

At this time, the water they brought in was almost enough to drink. Fortunately, there was rainwater in the swamp. After boiling it and adding a few disinfectant tablets, it could be drunk, otherwise they would have problems drinking water.

In order to repel mosquitoes, everyone sprinkled some sulfur powder into their pockets. The choking sulfur smell can repel many insects.

It took another few hours to go like this.

Until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone's physical strength and energy had reached their limits, and they couldn't even lift their legs, so they found a relatively less humid place nearby to rest.

(End of this chapter)