System: Infinite Evolution into Qilin Bloodline

Once the suction disappeared, Zhang Hao and his group arrived at the entrance to a tomb passage.

The tomb passage was very wide, at least wide enough for two cars to pass side by side.

The floor tiles disappeared in the middle, and the latter half was littered with scattered stones.

The fat man exclaimed in surprise upon seeing the scene before him:

"Yi Sa, is this Khmer royal tomb still unfinished?!"

Yi Sa frowned: "Back when the Khmer Empire was at its peak, the tomb of the Khmer king shouldn't have been left unfinished."

That's what she said, but deep down she wasn't sure either, given the reality she was facing.

Although the tomb passage was built in a grand manner, it was clearly not yet completed.

"Look, there's another stone tablet over here, with some characters on it."

Wu Tianzhen pointed to the left side of the tomb passage and said.

"How come there are ancient characters that you naively don't recognize?"

Wu Tianzhen curled her lips: "The Khmer Empire left very little information in history. All we know is that it was very powerful at the time, and then it suddenly disappeared one day, leaving only ruins like Angkor Wat to prove that they existed. It's normal that I don't recognize their writing."

"Then what can we do? Even you don't recognize these characters, so even if we enter the Khmer king's tomb, we'll be completely lost."

The fat man looked helpless.

Ancient inscriptions found in ancient tombs often contain a lot of useful information.

Therefore, although Wu Tianzhen's skills are not the best, she is still an indispensable member of the team.

He has studied a great many ancient scripts, through which one can learn a lot of hidden information.

However, since he was not in China at the time, and it was a mysteriously vanished country, it was understandable that he did not recognize these ancient characters.

Zhang Hao looked at Yi Sa; she should be able to recognize these characters.

The Lancang River Yi family's sphere of influence extends into Cambodia.

She could find even the tombs of the Khmer kings, and she knew the location of the mechanisms and even deciphered them to enter.

She must know a great deal about the Khmer Empire.

At this moment, Yi Sa was standing in front of the stone tablet, deep in thought.

After a long while, she finally spoke: "I do have some research on the Khmer Empire, but they left behind so little that I can only barely understand it."

This should be a warning sign, admonishing those who come here that the tomb passage leads to hell, and those who enter will never see the light of day again.

"Ha ha……"

The fat man burst out laughing upon hearing Yi Sa's interpretation.

"Do you think the Khmer king was stupid? He made the tomb passage look unfinished, and he was excited that someone would give up."

Now, with this stone tablet stunt, isn't it just a classic case of protesting too much? It's clearly an attempt to scare away anyone who might covet his treasure.

Wu Tianzhen shook his head: "Fatty, do you think there's another possibility? The Khmer king's tomb was originally supposed to be built here, but they discovered that this place was connected to hell, so they abandoned the construction and left a warning marker?"

Yi Sa and Ding Yudie initially thought the fat man's words made sense, but after hearing Wu Tianzhen's explanation, they also felt that he had a point.

"So what do we do now? Should we go in or not?"

Ding Yudie said helplessly.

Yi Sa was also undecided, so she looked to Zhang Hao for help.

"Whether it's true or not, we'll go in and find out."

Zhang Hao wasn't sure what was going on inside either.

He hadn't fully explored the inside using acoustic positioning, as the length of the tomb passage exceeded the range of acoustic positioning.

So the only way to find out what happened is to go inside and investigate.

"Brother Zhang Hao is right. Let's go in now, but everyone must be careful to avoid any danger!"

Yi Sa listened to Zhang Hao's advice and led everyone into the tomb passage.

As soon as Zhang Hao stepped into the tomb passage, his eyelids began to twitch incessantly.

This is a warning signal from the body after it merged with the human-faced black porpoise and gained the spider's sensory abilities, indicating that there is danger.

This is the first time my body has issued a warning since my strength increased.

Zhang Hao truly couldn't understand how someone could possess a near-invincible physical body, immunity to all toxins, an illusionary Qilin bloodline, and the strength of hundreds of tons.

In this situation, what else could pose a danger to oneself and trigger a warning from the body?

Just how terrifying must there be inside for it to be like this?

Danger also means opportunity. Zhang Hao was not afraid of the warning his body gave him; instead, he looked forward to it.

The more terrifying the entity, the greater the benefits after solving the problem.

"Have you noticed that this tomb passage seems to have no end?"

Yi Sa led everyone into the tomb passage and walked forward for half an hour without seeing the end.

Based on a walking distance of one kilometer every 10 minutes, you would have walked at least 3 kilometers in 30 minutes.

No matter how powerful the Khmer Empire was, it could never compare to the Great Xia Kingdom.

Ancient tombs with underground passages exceeding 3 kilometers in length are rare even in the Bactrian Kingdom, let alone the tomb of a Khmer king.

"SaSa, are you saying there's something wrong with the tomb passage?"

Yi Sa nodded: "That's right."

"But we kept going straight along the tomb passage, and the surrounding environment changed accordingly, so it didn't seem like we were lost."

Yi Sa knew this too, and that was the most terrifying thing: everything seemed fine, yet problems arose everywhere.

For a moment, she didn't know where the problem lay.

Zhang Hao's throat trembled, and he emitted a peculiar sound wave towards the front.

Once his brain received the reflected sound waves, the situation hundreds of meters ahead appeared completely in his mind.

There is a straight tomb passage ahead, no problem.

If what you see is an illusion or a mechanism like the Suspended Staircase, sound wave localization can definitely detect it.

But the more this is the case, the more problematic it becomes.

Zhang Hao, however, did not understand where the problem lay.

"Ok?"

Suddenly he noticed a tortoise shell on the ground a dozen meters ahead.

The latter half of the tomb passage looked unfinished, with scattered stones. How could there be an extra tortoise shell in the middle?

He walked over, picked up the palm-sized tortoise shell from the ground, and examined it closely.

One corner of the tortoise shell was carbonized, as if it had been burned for a long time.

Two ancient characters remain in the remaining unburned area.

"Yi Sa, can you see what's written on it?"

Yi Sa took the tortoise shell and studied it, her face full of doubt.

"SaSa, what's wrong? Don't you even recognize the characters on it?"

Yi Sa shook her head: "No, I'm wondering what those two words actually mean."

"What's written on it?"

"The door appears."

The words "gate appears" were written on a tortoise shell, which puzzled everyone.

"Could it be that the tomb door will appear if I take this tortoise shell?"

"But we already have it in our hands, and the tomb door hasn't appeared."

When Zhang Hao saw the carbonized parts on the tortoise shell, a sudden inspiration struck him.

"Fatty, try lighting the tortoise shell."

"okay."

Without asking why, the fat man responded and took out solid fuel to light it, then placed the tortoise shell on top to ignite it.

"boom!"

The fat man originally thought that a piece of tortoise shell would be difficult to ignite, but it caught fire the moment it got close to the flames.

When the tortoise shell burns, a thick plume of white smoke rises.

The white smoke drifted forward and then gathered.

Slowly, a stone door appeared and disappeared at the end of the tomb passage.

At first, the group couldn't reach the end of the tomb passage, but the end appeared immediately after the tortoise shell started burning.

This is so fantastical that no one can explain why.

"It's too eerie; you have to light the tortoise shell to see the tomb entrance."

"Could what we're seeing really be the entrance to hell?"