Tomb raiding: following the plot while tearing up the script

"Did you hear anything?"

Su Li, who was looking at the bizarre product section of the points mall with Zhang Qiling, suddenly looked up and asked.

Zhang Qiling lowered his head in thought, then nodded.

Su Li looked up and around. Fatty Wang had run away. So, what would happen next?

"Oh no, are Wu Xie and the others being attacked by a swarm of corpse beetles right now?!"

Zhang Qiling: …

He forgot too.

"Let's go, let's hurry, or they'll be missing limbs!"

Su Li put away the system panel, quickly sold the blood corpse in her hand, earning 500 points, and then hurriedly headed towards the route she had previously planned.

……

At this moment, Wu Xie felt like he was about to lose an arm or a leg.

As soon as that broken mechanism activated, he was thrown headfirst into the secret passage, landing in a daze and coming into close contact with a rotting corpse that had been dead for who knows how long.

If Pan Zi hadn't arrived quickly, he would already be lying down with that guy on the ground, serving as a buffet for these corpse beetles.

At this moment, Wu Xie was carrying the seriously injured Pan Zi on his back, while the fat man who had suddenly fallen down was waving his burning clothes around to drive away the corpse beetles.

He felt that their downfall was inevitable.

In a daze, he seemed to hear the sound of mechanisms turning again. Ever since he entered this tomb, this sound had been giving him PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Whenever this sound came out, nothing good was coming.

"Hey, what happened to these dead bugs?" Fatty Wang, who was vigorously waving his clothes, suddenly yelled.

Wu Xie raised his heavy head and saw that the once ferocious swarm of corpse beetles was retreating as if they had encountered some natural enemy.

"Do any of you bosses below need rescue services?" A clear, youthful voice rang out from above them.

Just as Wang Pangzi and Wu Xie were marveling at their narrow escape, they looked up and saw a head peeking out from the mountain wall above them, with a high ponytail swaying down to the side of the face due to gravity.

"You, you, you..." Wu Xie supported Pan Zi with one hand and pointed at Su Li above with the other.

"I, I, I... what?"

"Weren't you here for tourism?"

Su Li nodded. "Yes, they're here for tourism."

"Then how come you're here?" Wu Xie truly believed that he was here for tourism. What kind of idiot would bring such a small, delicate-looking child to raid tombs?

Dumb-headed Black Bear: You yourself have very delicate skin, okay?

"Didn't I already say? I'm here for tourism."

"You... came to the tomb for a visit?!" Wu Xie's CPU was about to overheat.

Su Li's smile was as irritating as a bear's. "Huh! Is that not allowed?"

Fatty Wang looked up, then at the man beside him. "So, you two know each other too?"

How come everyone knows each other? Could it be that Fatty is the only outsider in this entire tomb?

"Without further ado, would you two like our rescue services? Oh, and the one who fainted, I also have emergency medical services available, would you like to know?"

Zuli said with great expertise.

"Yes, yes, Fatty wants it! Please lend me a hand!" Fatty Wang immediately chimed in. Without a doubt, the retreat of those corpse beetle armies was related to this kid.

"Five hundred for one person rescued, one thousand for emergency care. Thank you for your patronage." Su Li smiled.

"Five hundred? So you're not a tomb raider, you're a robber?" Wu Xie asked in shock.

"Hey? How can you talk like that? Be careful, or I'll sue you for defamation! This is a purely friendly price, okay? My last order brought in 50,000!"

Zuli shouted in disapproval.

How come Black Bear can easily earn 50,000, but when he asks for 500, he gets accused of robbery?

Five, fifty thousand?

Wu Xie gasped, "Is it really that dark?"

"Five hundred, five hundred, save us, the three of us, plus emergency care, two thousand five, Fatty, here you go!" Fatty Wang chimed in. After all, he and Fatty Wang had been dragged into this mess because of him, and that brother was seriously injured, so he had to pay for it.

"Ouch!" Su Li, who had just finished the business and was about to get up, was suddenly hit on the head with a flick. Sure enough, when she looked up, she saw Zhang Qiling looking at her with disapproval.

"You're not allowed to learn it," Zhang Qiling said.

Before, they only imitated his clothes and his sharp tongue, but this time they've started imitating that blind man's greed.

"Brother! Brother, are you alright?" Wu Xie shouted happily when he saw that the big shot who had fallen from the sky was Zhang Qiling, who had returned to the Blood Corpse Tomb.

Zhang Qiling nodded down and looked at Su Li.

Su Li smiled ingratiatingly, her eyes narrowed, and with a few swift movements, she bound the three people below tightly.

The accompanying vines, doing their miserable work, swayed their branches and pulled the three of them up.

"Wow, little one, what was that just now? It was amazing!!"

Having witnessed such a miraculous scene, Wu Xie stared intently at Su Li's hand as soon as he landed, the hand that had just retracted the vines.

Fatty Wang also came over and circled around Su Li twice, but his focus was different.

"You're incredibly strong, young man! This fat guy is huge, and he was actually lifted up like that? Who would believe that!"

Su Li grabbed Wu Xie's hand, which was itching to examine his palm, and bared her teeth fiercely. "Don't touch me, or you'll be charged."

Upon receiving Zhang Qiling's gaze, Su Li, who had been grinning, immediately switched to a well-behaved smile and made a shushing gesture. He didn't want to, but he just couldn't control his mouth.

Zhang Qiling laid the unconscious Pan Zi on the ground and examined him. He found a large gash in his abdomen that was more serious than the other wounds.

It feels rather hard when you press your hand on it, and it's still moving slightly.

Wu Xie thought of the corpse he had seen below, which also seemed to have had its soft areas, such as the abdomen, gnawed the most. He stared at Pan Zi's wounds with a pale face.

"Hey, bro, is Panzi alright?"

"One of them crawled inside."

As Wu Xie watched Zhang Qiling finish speaking, he pulled out a gleaming dagger from somewhere.

"Hold him down."

"Wh-what?" Wu Xie's voice was trembling, but out of trust in Zhang Qiling's reliable formula, he still shakily grabbed one of Pan Zi's arms.

Seeing this, Fatty Wang quickly grabbed his other hand.

"Ari."

"Coming." Su Li knelt down upon hearing the summons.

"disinfect."

"Gah?" What is that?

Zhang Qiling: …

I forgot, the child wouldn't understand.

"Cleansing technique".

Su Li said she had learned something new, and with a wave of her hand, she cast a cleansing spell on Pan Zi.

Pan Zi, who was just a moment ago covered in filth and a mixture of blood and mud, was instantly clean, except for his clothes being a little tattered.

Seeing that Wu Xie and Fatty Wang, who were acting as the guardians of the divine beasts, were staring at him blankly, he casually cast the same cleaning spell on them as well.

Wu Xie and Fatty felt a cool breeze envelop them from above, and in the blink of an eye, they felt clean and refreshed, without even a trace of sweat.

Mom, I think I met some gods in the tomb!

"Ugh!" A painful groan woke the two of them.

While they were still stunned, Zhang Qiling had already swiftly and decisively cut open the flesh of Pan Zi's abdomen, and with his right index and middle fingers together, he probed inside and began to grope and stir.

The sight of the bloody scene made Wu Xie want to vomit. The intense pain made Pan Zi, who was unconscious, struggle to wake up, but then he fainted again from the pain.

Zhang Qiling pulled out a bluish-green corpse beetle by pinching it between his fingers.

"Beep beep, a strange creature has been detected—a corpse beetle (normal version). It can be redeemed for 0.1 points. Do you want to redeem it?"