Tomb raiding: following the plot while tearing up the script

She nudged Zhang Qiling's arm discreetly and whispered, "Didn't I sell that blood corpse? How come there's still one?"

“That was King Lu Shang, this one is… King Zhou Mu,” Zhang Qiling replied.

Sure, sure, both generations of tomb owners were sold by weight by human traffickers...

No wonder that one was cheaper than this one; they were from different years, which makes sense.

The new blood zombie received the same treatment as its predecessor: a seed quickly took root and sprouted on it, and soon a fresh blood zombie-filled rice dumpling was ready.

Let them lie down side by side with that resentful ghost child, and sell them all before we leave!

Wu Xie and Fatty Wang had already witnessed Su Li's amazing abilities and accepted them well.

Only Wu Sansheng, who had been missing the entire time, and Pan Zi, who had been unconscious for a while, looked at Su Li with expressions of utter disbelief.

The cunning Wu Sansheng quietly began to take his eldest nephew away from Su Li.

Seeing that the others had gone to examine the blue-eyed fox corpse and the beautiful female corpse on the jade platform, Su Li did not go over to join in the fun.

Just in case, let's extract the spirit of the Hydra Cypress first.

Since the spiritual energy had already been gathered and sealed in the tree roots, bringing it out wouldn't cause much of a commotion.

After engraving array patterns on the tree roots, Su Li pulled out a small green ball of light and held it in her hand.

The little thing, who had only recently been enlightened, was still a bit dazed. It moved symbolically in Su Li's hand, resisted for a moment, but when it couldn't break free, it decisively gave up struggling and stopped moving like a coward.

Su Li: This little thing really has the style of me back in the day!

"Cough cough cough... Brother, what did you give me to eat?!" Wu Xie's frantic coughing came from not far away.

Wu Xie felt as if someone had poured a large bowl of bitter melon juice into his mouth; the bitter and astringent taste was simply too overwhelming.

He had just been pulled aside by his third uncle, who seemed to be very wary of Ah Li and the others, and kept asking him all sorts of questions in Hangzhou dialect.

Third Uncle said that Da Kui was suspicious, whether he had betrayed him or had been replaced, and that he had suddenly attacked him and tried to kill him as soon as he found the main tomb chamber.

I wonder if Xiao Ge and Pan Zi will be in the same situation. We should be especially careful of Wang Pangzi and Su Li, who appeared out of nowhere.

Wu Xie understood and respected his third uncle's suspicions, but in his own judgment, he felt that there was nothing about him, a weakling, that they could get close to and plot against.

Putting everything else aside, the bottle of pills that Ali gave him, and the jade bottle containing the pills, are worth more than he is.

Seeing that Wu Xie didn't care about what he said, and seeing Su Li squatting under the tree roots fiddling with something and not reacting to their movements, Wu Sansheng felt a little relieved.

They led Wu Xie and the others to the jade platform.

On the jade platform that occupied the very center of the space lay two corpses. One of them was a young-looking woman draped in white, her gentle face framed by closed eyes, her death peaceful.

After a careful inspection, apart from some slight signs of normal dehydration, there were no signs of decay on its body. If you didn't look at it carefully, you might think it was asleep.

And the other male corpse...

Wu Xie didn't know if this could be called a male corpse.

This is a corpse wearing a bronze fox-face mask, covered in armor, holding a purple-gold box in both hands, placed neatly in front of its chest in a guarding posture.

From Wu Xie's perspective, the corpse seemed to have almost no hair on its head, and the hand holding the box was strangely shaped, unlike a human hand.

Wu Xie felt increasingly uneasy, as if he were being watched by a terrifying, unknown creature. This feeling made his hair stand on end, and he wanted to get away from this place as soon as possible.

At that moment, a casual glance sent chills down Wu Xie's spine, making every hair on his body stand on end.

Beneath the fox-faced mask, the corpse's eyes were wide open, its eerie green pupils staring intently at him.

Those eyes were not human; they were filled with wildness and malice. Being stared at by those eyes, Wu Xie felt as if his feet, which wanted to escape, weighed a ton and he couldn't move an inch.

My brain was racing, trying to figure out how to escape, when Wu Sansheng's voice suddenly rang in my ears.

With his third uncle's prompting, he seemed to hear the whispers of a demon.

They had no shadows...

I found their bodies in other tombs...

He looked up at the other people not far away.

Fatty...

Pan Zi...

buddy...

Zurich...

They...have no shadows!

This realization caused immense damage to the already fragile innocence of the child, causing his sanity to plummet.

Wu Xie clenched his fists; a tough battle was about to begin...

"Snapped……"

Wu Xie was slapped on the back of the head by someone, still in shock and ready to fight back, but was briefly interrupted. Before he could react, a familiar pill was shoved into his mouth in a familiar manner.

The cool air cleared his mind, but before he could even see the face of the person who was giving him the medicine, something else was shoved at him.

Having grown accustomed to being given pills, Wu Xie instinctively opened his mouth to take it, and then...

"Cough cough cough... Hey bro, what did you give me to eat?!"

A strong, bitter taste filled his mouth. Wu Xie coughed as he looked around, paying particular attention to where everyone was standing.

What was that just now? A hallucination?

Thankfully, the shadows are still there; they're all alive.

The fat man next to him was covering his head, looking like he wasn't fully awake yet.

Wu Sansheng helped Wu Xie, who had regained consciousness. "Nephew, you've struck gold! That's Qilin Blood, and judging by its quality, it's at least a thousand years old."

"Qilin Blood?"

"Qilin Blood is a divine medicine formed from the blood of the legendary mythical beast Qilin. The older it is, the higher its value. The piece you just ate would fetch at least tens of millions if it were auctioned off."

Wu Sansheng clicked his tongue in amazement. He hadn't expected Zhang Qiling to give this treasure to Wuxie so easily; it seemed like he was going to owe him a favor.

"Thousands, tens of millions? Can eating this make you an immortal?" Wu Xie was dumbfounded. Good heavens, is this bitter stuff really that valuable? Just like that, his net worth has skyrocketed.

"It's not quite immortality, but it's said to make one immune to all poisons."

"hiss……"

Wu Xie was taken aback by the value. As a small business owner who had been kicked out of his family's antique shop after graduating from university, he had managed his Wu Shan Ju business with great success.

All I see are flies and ants all day long; I've hardly ever seen any real customers.

If it weren't for my uncle's help, I probably wouldn't even be able to afford the water and electricity bills.

And now, he actually swallowed a treasure worth at least tens of millions?

Grandpa, your eldest grandson has really made something of himself!