Tomb raiding: following the plot while tearing up the script

The four first observed the newly appeared tomb chamber at the entrance of the passageway, and finally unanimously decided to go in and take a look.

Zhang Qiling placed the little corpse demon back into Su Li's arms, then flipped his wrist, and the Black Gold Ancient Blade appeared in his hand.

Wu Xie and Fatty Wang stared wide-eyed, having always thought this skill was unique to Su Li.

Ignoring the surprised looks on their faces, Zhang Qiling drew his knife and stepped into the tomb first.

Remembering that there was a dead cat's mummified corpse in the tomb, Su Li reached out and pulled Wu Xie along, making him follow behind her.

(Wu Xie was afraid of dead cats. When he was a child, his family would hang the cat that stole fish from a tree and let it rot. Young Wu Xie was frightened by the falling rotting cat carcass.)

P.S.: It's reasonable to suspect that Wu Laosan did it.

In the empty tomb chamber, only a huge coffin made of Phoebe zhennan wood was placed in the middle of the chamber. When a flashlight beam swept over it, it seemed as if gold sand was flowing on the surface of the coffin.

No wonder some people say that even if you've never seen Phoebe zhennan wood before, you can definitely recognize it at a glance.

Its features are just too conspicuous.

Tomb raiders can't help but get their hands on coffins when they see them, let alone such a magnificent and dazzling giant coffin made of golden nanmu wood.

Even the coffin is so ornate, made of such superior materials; one can only imagine that the burial goods inside are of immense value.

Fatty Wang couldn't resist rubbing his hands together and pulling out the essential small candles for tomb raiders from his backpack.

Wu Xie, who came in with Su Li, immediately saw what Fatty Wang was planning to do and couldn't help but curse, "You fatso, are you so desperate for a coffin that you'd risk your life? We only have this much air, and you're going to light candles?"

Fatty Wang chuckled and pointed at Zhang Qiling, who was groping around the coffin. "This isn't Fatty's problem. Didn't you see our little brother is already preparing to open the coffin? Shouldn't Fatty hurry up and light the candles?"

After he finished speaking, he squatted down in a corner, took out a windproof lighter from his bag, and prepared to light the candle.

But as soon as the fire was lit, what he saw terrified him so much that he fell to the ground.

"Fuck..."

A startled cry startled Wu Xie. Seeing Wang Pangzi suddenly fall, he hurriedly went to help him up, but Su Li grabbed him.

A vine swished and dragged Fatty Wang back to their side.

"Fatty? Fatty? What's wrong?" Wu Xie patted Fatty Wang's face and called out a few times. "What's that over there? Why are you so scared?"

Wang Pangzi was brought back to his senses by Wu Xie's shout and wiped the sweat from his face. "A dried-up cat corpse, damn it, that scared the hell out of me."

Some things in their line of work are quite contradictory.

They were doing immoral things while also being bound by many taboos.

I don't know what the tomb owner was thinking, putting a dead cat in the tomb, wasn't he afraid of the corpse rising up?

Caught off guard, the cat corpse delivered a devastating blow. Once he recovered, Fatty Wang stood up, returned to the corner, kicked the cat corpse aside, and lit the candle in his hand.

After hearing Wang Pangzi say that there were cat corpses over there, Wu Xie gave up the idea of ​​going over to take a look and followed behind Zhang Qiling with Su Li.

Just as Fatty Wang went to relight the candles, Zhang Qiling had already found the Eight Treasures Exquisite Lock on the coffin.

He flipped his hand and took out a toolbox from his spatial storage, then used the essential underground tools inside to tinker with the seams of the coffin.

With a click, the mechanism on top opened.

At the same time, the coffin lid, which had been stuck in the mechanism, was freed and sprang upwards, releasing a stream of black water along with a strange stench.

"Beep beep, a strange item has been detected - a golden nanmu wood coffin for raising corpses, which can be exchanged for 3000 points. Do you want to exchange it?"

Wow!!!

What an expensive coffin!!!

This is probably the most expensive thing he's ever encountered besides the story reward points.

This coffin is so expensive, and there's that little drought demon inside...

We have to sell them all later; we can't let them get lost like that forbidden woman from before...

Thinking of that lost Forbidden Woman...

No, it hurts a little...

Thinking of this, Su Li's gaze suddenly turned to Wu Xie beside her...

It's okay. That forbidden woman loves Wuxie the most. As long as Wuxie is by my side, I believe it won't be long before the lost points obediently return to me.

Hehehe...

A strange stench spread, and the little corpse demon held in Su Li's arms suddenly began to wriggle restlessly, making anxious squeaks as if it had encountered some natural enemy.

"Ah Li, what's wrong with the little zongzi?" Wu Xie was initially creeped out by Su Li's gaze and wanted to sneak away from him, but then he saw the little corpse demon, who had been nestled obediently in Su Li's arms, start to make a fuss, so he couldn't help but ask.

“There’s something inside, and it’s very fierce. The little guy is scared.” Su Li patted the little corpse demon to comfort it while moving closer to Wu Xie.

"What?!" Wu Xie exclaimed, trying to stop Fatty Wang from opening the coffin. Little Zongzi thought that anything ominous would at least be a large zongzi, and Fatty was so close...

But it was too late.

Obsessed with getting rich, Fatty Wang didn't care about the disgusting liquid and eagerly reached out to push open the coffin lid, ready to make a big splash.

When he saw the scene inside the coffin, he blurted out "Holy shit!"

"Damn it, how come there are so many rice dumplings!"

Wu Xie's heart skipped a beat. There really were zongzi! And so many?!

But the fat guy didn't seem to be running away.

"Do you need a translator?" Su Li asked with a smile as she leaned closer.

Wu Xie looked completely bewildered.

Su Li ignored her and continued, "What Fatty wants to say is, why are there so many corpses?"

"Corpse?"

Wu Xie took a few steps closer.

Through the black water inside the coffin, one could vaguely glimpse the chaotic scene inside.

The limbs inside the coffin were intertwined, making it impossible to accurately determine how many corpses were piled up inside.

These corpses had undergone a waxy process, sticking together tightly to form a massive mass of body parts. He could count more than a dozen hands just by looking at them, a sight that made one feel nauseous.

"yue..."

Caught off guard, Wu Xie turned pale and vomited.

After listening to Fatty Wang explain the meaning of the Qi-Nourishing Corpse-Hidden Coffin, Wu Xie's face turned green.

"The owner of this tomb is too cruel. Even if they are from a collateral branch, they are still his bloodline. How could he go down there..."

Su Li shoved the little corpse demon in her arms towards Wu Xie. "This is also the bloodline of the tomb's owner, a close relative."

The meaning is clear: if they can harm even their closest blood relatives, how much more so would they harm collateral relatives?

Wuxie: ...

"And there's only one person in there."

"What?" Fatty Wang exclaimed, looking at Su Li in disbelief.

Wu Xie looked at Zhang Qiling in confusion, seeking confirmation.

Zhang Qiling nodded, confirming Su Li's statement, and then pointed to the corpse in the coffin. "Look at the head."

Following Zhang Qiling's words, Wu Xie and Fatty Wang began to examine the heads in the coffin.

Upon closer inspection, I actually discovered something interesting.

Apart from the topmost head with complete facial features, the rest are more like tumors than heads, lacking facial features and bones, simply piled together.

This result was even more terrifying to Wu Xie than several people being stuffed into the same coffin at the same time.

In that era, could such a deformed monster really be raised?

That's not necessarily the case.