Tomb raiding: following the plot while tearing up the script

Lao Yang carefully took off the backpack that had stayed with Lao Tai the whole time and carefully examined the supplies inside.

Although everyone in Uncle Tai's team carried supplies, the key weapons and equipment were actually in the hands of Uncle Tai and Er Mazi.

Lao Yang took out the items from his backpack one by one and laid them aside, quite satisfied with the bag of bullets in front of him.

Luckily, he hadn't thrown away the gun that was out of bullets before. Now that he had supplies, the scrap metal without bullets had turned back into a lethal weapon, which was really nice!

He now wants two more monster monkeys to come and blow his head off a few more times.

Wu Xie: I think you're trying to blow my head off.

While Lao Yang was licking the bag, Liang Shiye was studying the thundercloud patterns on the tree trunk in front of him.

When he saw the blood flowing down the tree trunk in spurts, he felt as if he had grasped something.

Now, with his headlamp on, he observed closely and actually managed to see something.

The lines on the tree trunk are too deep; they don't resemble the lines on the bark, but rather seem to be deeply etched into the trunk.

These don't look like ordinary seal engraving patterns; they resemble blood grooves on an altar.

It simply changed from a two-dimensional altar to a three-dimensional one.

"Boss, do you have a dagger? A small knife will do too," Liang Shiye asked Wuxie.

A box the size of a palm was handed to Master Liang.

"You might need this."

Liang Shiye took the box handed to him by Su Li, opened it and found a box containing a series of small tools including tweezers, a knife and steel needles.

He took out a small knife from the box and carefully scraped it a couple of times in the crevices, picking out some dried black substance. Liang Shiye was basically certain that these were traces left after the blood had dried.

Whether the bloodstains belong to humans or animals remains unknown.

A small, round, sealed box that usually only appears in laboratories was once again shoved in front of Master Liang.

"If you can't figure it out, just take it back and study it."

Master Liang: ...

Is Master Li truly helping every researcher realize their dream?

After assisting Liang Shiye's research, Su Li washed her hands of the matter.

Because the texts they saw were written from Wu Xie's first-person perspective, many things were Wu Xie's guesses. It would be good to take some back and study them.

Hmm... I'll break off a few more branches to take back later.

With that thought in mind, Su Li decided to get to work. She lay down beside the main trunk and reached out to touch a small branch that was only as thick as her forearm.

Ok?

Out of the corner of their eye, they seemed to see something peeking around a little distance away.

Su Li suddenly looked down, and the light above her head shone on the spot where she had just glanced at it, just in time to see a long tail that hadn't had time to retract.

Wow, these masked monkeys are interesting. They even send out 'scouts' to gather intelligence.

They probably felt a little apprehensive after witnessing Wu Xie's rampage, and weren't as fearless as they appeared.

It's also possible that they aren't actually fearless, but rather that the things on their faces make them fearless.

Thinking back to the group of gray-haired monkeys they encountered in the First Line of Sky, whose size and fur were extremely similar to these ghost-faced monkeys, Su Li felt that he had already guessed how these ghost-faced monkeys replenished their troops.

So this is actually a family business.

Seeing that the restless big tail could no longer be hidden, revealing the tip of the tail, the accompanying vines grew rapidly, bypassing branches of all sizes and heading straight for the area where the tail was located.

Before the little scout could react, it was already being pulled by the hind legs and thrown into a super-accelerated pendulum swing.

With a 'splat', it was thrown in front of Wuxie.

"Oh my gosh."

The masked monkey that was thrown directly in front of him startled Wu Xie, who was completely unprepared, so much so that he jumped back several steps.

I'm so glad the tree trunk has enough space for Wu Xiaogou to stand on, otherwise the accompanying vines would have created another extreme situation.

"Ah Li, you scared me again!"

The innocent dog's eyes were full of grievance.

Of the five, Ali listens to Xiao Hua and Xiao Ge the most, loves to banter with the blind man and then go out to play arm in arm, and loves to huddle in the kitchen with the fat man for a late-night snack...

When it came to him...

I love scaring him, teasing him, and watching him miserably being trained by the blind man...

Why is that? Why is the way the child is presented to him like this?

"hey-hey……"

Su Li skillfully patted the dog's head, her smile both obedient and adorable.

"Unexpected, this is truly unexpected."

"So none of those things were accidents, right?" Wu Xie asked with dead fish eyes.

"..."

You've killed the conversation.

“That little thing was just hanging behind us spying on us; those monkeys might come up again in a bit,” Su Li said, forcibly changing the subject.

Although Su Li's skill at changing the subject was really not good, Wu Xie still followed his words and looked at the ghost-faced monkey on the ground, whose hands and feet were bound by vines as soon as it landed.

I was so focused on fighting that I didn't notice, but now I'm facing this incredibly lifelike and eerie stone face, and it's really giving me the creeps.

"Aren't you going to sell it directly?" Wu Xie asked, seeing that Su Li had the ghost-faced monkey pinned under his foot and unable to move, but hadn't sold it immediately.

"I'm a little curious, so I'll catch it and take a look."

As Su Li spoke, she pressed down slightly on the monkey's chest with her foot, bent down and grabbed the strange stone face that was stuck to the monkey's face. She was careful not to accidentally pull the monkey's head off, so she controlled the pressure in her hand.

A strange sound, unlike tearing, came from behind. The mask, which was originally stuck tightly to the monkey's face, was pulled away a little. However, Su Li did not feel any reduction in the resistance in her hands and continued to pull upward with force.

"yue..."

Seeing the scene under the mask clearly from the side, Wu Xie's face turned green, and he subconsciously touched his neck.

He felt a tightness in his throat and couldn't help but gag.

The long, tentacled thing under the mask stretched straight into the monkey's mouth, and the part that was pulled out could still be seen with branching tentacles wriggling.

Judging from the length that Su Li has pulled out, this thing might extend all the way down the throat and into the stomach.

"Beep beep, a strange creature—a Chi Gu—has been detected. It can be redeemed for 300 points. Do you want to redeem it?"

With a final, forceful pull, the mask was completely detached from the monkey's face. The monkey, which had been struggling at his feet, suddenly convulsed violently a few times and then stopped moving...

Su Li looked at the pale human face mask in her hand, and the tentacles extending from under the mask, reaching out towards her, covered with suspicious slime.

Ugh, that's disgusting. Luckily, I was wearing the gloves Lao Yang gave me.

Wearing a mask... no, it's a gray-furred giant monkey parasitized by a Chi Gu that's worth 350 points. The Chi Gu itself is worth 300 points, so these monkeys are only worth 50 points despite their size...