System: Infinite Evolution into Qilin Bloodline

Although no one knew what had happened, the fact that the money-loving fat man had thrown away all his treasures showed how urgent the situation was. After hearing the fat man's reminder, everyone dropped what they were holding and looked at him.

At this moment, the fat man not only threw away all his treasures, but also took out the kettle and kept pouring water to wash his hands.

"Everyone, quickly wash your hands too."

Upon hearing this, the others also poured out water to wash their hands.

"Fatty, tell me what happened!"

After washing his hands and drying himself, the fat man slowly said, "I found a corpse under these treasures. The corpse was completely black, clearly poisoned. These treasures must have been coated with a deadly poison!"

Ancient tombs are full of traps and mechanisms, and it's common for burial objects to be coated with deadly poison, so what the fat man said wasn't entirely unreasonable.

"Fatty, where's the body?"

"There it is, over there."

Zhang Hao walked to where the fat man was pointing, dug down a couple of times, and unearthed a corpse.

"Fatty, is this the corpse you're talking about?"

"Yes, this is the body."

Zhang Hao examined the corpse and saw that the skin was pitch black, which was indeed a symptom of poisoning. Perhaps the poison was too strong, because the body had not decomposed.

The clothes worn on the corpse were similar in style to those from the 1970s and 80s.

"Young Master Hao, could you let Shunzi take a look at this corpse?"

Zhang Hao turned around and saw Pan Zi holding a skinny boy beside him.

"What is the problem?"

"Shunzi said the body looked familiar, like his father."

"Then come and take a look."

Zhang Hao stepped aside and let Shunzi go forward to check.

Shunzi burst into tears after just one glance: "Dad, I've finally found you! I'll take you home right now!"

"Shunzi, is this corpse really your father?"

Pan Zi asked curiously.

"Yes, twenty years ago my father led a team into the Five Sacred Mountains and never returned. I have been searching for his whereabouts, which is why I became a guide leading teams into the mountains. But I have not been able to find him all these years. I never expected that he would die here."

"How many people were in the archaeological team at the time? How come only his body is here?"

"The archaeological team consisted of seven people in total, plus my father, making eight people in total."

"Quickly search the surrounding area to see if there are any other bodies."

Upon hearing what Shunzi said, Zhang Hao immediately sensed that something was wrong.

If there were really eight people who entered this place, it's impossible that only the guide died while the others were fine.

He emitted a peculiar sound wave in all directions, and after the sound wave was reflected back and received by his brain, the entire scene of the tomb appeared in his mind.

There were no other corpses in the tomb except for Shunzi's father's body.

Although we don't know what happened at the time, there must be something fishy about it.

"Shunzi, put on gloves, your father is poisoned."

When Panzi saw that Shunzi insisted on taking his father's body with him, he threw him a pair of specially made gas-proof and stab-proof gloves.

"Thank you."

Shunzi responded, then put on gloves, carried the body on his back, and followed the group forward.

After passing through the tomb chamber, there is a passageway at the back.

Zhang Hao walked silently at the back of the group. Once he was out of sight of the others, he had a thought and put all the burial objects in the tomb into his storage space.

Although money was of little use to him, he figured he might as well take these things; leaving them in the tomb would be a waste, so he might as well get them for free.

After storing all the treasures in the tomb into his storage space, Zhang Hao quickly walked up to catch up with the group.

Passing through the tomb chamber and entering the passageway, several loud noises were heard as soon as we entered, followed by a "boom" as flames burst into flames on the two stone spheres on the left and right sides.

Then the stone ball began to roll along the passageway, and everything in its path was ignited.

In just a short while, the passageway was illuminated by two flames on either side.

"This is the first time we've encountered such a trap on our journey. Something's definitely up. Everyone be careful."

Zhang Hao shouted a reminder.

As soon as he finished speaking, the fat man asked, "Did anyone hear anything?"

"It's a centipede!"

Upon hearing the rustling sounds coming from all directions, Zhang Hao immediately understood the purpose of the mechanism: to attract centipedes with high temperatures.

However, the Qilin inside him now has an insect-repelling effect hundreds of times stronger than before, so ordinary centipedes dare not approach him at all. And since the Centipede King has already been killed, he is not a threat at all.

The others in the team also knew how capable he was, so they weren't worried. They just moved a little closer to Zhang Hao.

Surrounded by the crowd, Zhang Hao walked through the passageway, which led to another tomb chamber.

As soon as we entered the tomb, there was another loud "boom," and the flames in the passage behind us were instantly extinguished.

This tomb chamber is exactly the same as the previous one, both in layout and in the mountains of treasures inside.

"Haven't we been to this tomb before? Why are we back here?"

"Could it be that we've encountered a ghost wall?"

Zhang Hao bent down and touched the gold and silver jewelry. There was still some water on it that hadn't dried completely. It was the water that everyone had used to wash their hands earlier. He immediately understood what had happened.

"I see!"

"Brother Zhang Hao, what do you know?"

"Uncle, do you know why we've come back to this tomb?"

Zhang Hao smiled and said, "You already know, right?"

Wu Tianzhen nodded and said, "That's right. I don't know if everyone remembers the situation inside the shipwreck tomb. This tomb is similar to that one. Just now, when we entered the passage, flames suddenly burst into flames, attracting everyone's attention."

Just then, the tomb chambers at both ends of the passageway began to move rapidly, but my attention wasn't on them, so I didn't notice.

"So that's how it is. I was wondering why two flames suddenly lit up the passageway; they were there to distract us."

"Alright, since that's the case, this mechanism is easy to solve. We just need to enter the passageway, keep watching, and when the tomb chamber rotates, we can break through the wall and crawl in."

Zhang Hao said something and then led everyone back into the tunnel.

As soon as they entered the passageway, the situation was the same as before: two stone balls rolled down from the wall and then burst into flames, illuminating the passageway brightly.

However, this time Zhang Hao and his group did not move, but stayed at the end of the passageway to observe the changes in the tomb chamber.

After waiting for about ten seconds, the tomb chamber at the end began to move.

Zhang Hao kept an eye on the movement of the tomb chamber. When the tomb chamber was completely moved away and a wall appeared, he punched it.

With a loud bang, the wall shattered, revealing a hole large enough for several people to pass through at the same time.

"Quick, everyone, get over there!"

Zhang Hao urged him on and crawled through the hole in the wall.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't push Fatty, I'm going to fall."

As soon as Zhang Hao arrived, he heard the fat man shouting. He looked ahead and saw a fissure in the ground that was more than a kilometer wide.

The crevice is flanked by sheer cliffs, with a bottomless abyss in the middle.

Countless bronze chains, each as thick as an arm, connect the two cliffs.

Between the chains hung countless corpses, densely packed together.

These corpses, hanging there like dried bacon, had long since dried out.