Tomb raiding: following the plot while tearing up the script

"My goodness! This isn't a human being, it's clearly a giant worm!" Fatty Wang exclaimed in amazement as he looked at the twisted mass of flesh inside the coffin.

"It's hard to see anything because of the water. How about... we go next door and get a few basins to scoop out the water from the coffin and take a look?"

Fatty Wang suggested, "And look, there's a stone slab under this body. Who knows what information about the tomb's occupant might be recorded on it."

The last sentence was clearly Wang Pangzi's way of manipulating Wuxie, as the kid was most interested in ancient tomb inscriptions and the like.

Sure enough, Wu Xie became interested as soon as he heard this. Since entering the underwater tomb, he hadn't seen a single word, and he knew absolutely nothing about the tomb owner's identity or anything like that.

The two hit it off immediately and turned to go back to the adjacent side room to get a container to scoop the water out of the coffin.

Zuli, however, did not give them that chance.

That side chamber could change at any time, so we can't let them just pass by like that. With Xiao Tianzhen's strange constitution, she's definitely going to get lost.

The sea monkey that drives the plot has already been sold off; who knows if another sea monkey can be summoned for the sake of the plot.

If it doesn't spawn, and there are no monsters chasing after it, what will happen if Little Innocent doesn't have the "Frantic Struggle" buff and can't reach that pool tomb?

That would really mean it's lost.

So Su Li quickly slipped a small magical artifact into Fatty Wang's hand.

Fatty Wang glanced at the soup bowl in his hand, then at the enormous coffin filled with black liquid, and fell into deep thought…

"Little Li, has Fatty offended you recently?" Fatty Wang asked sincerely.

"No."

"So you're planning to let Fatty use this small bowl by himself... to scoop out all this water?" As he spoke, he held up the soup bowl in his hand and shook it.

Su Li smiled and shook her head. "Try putting it in water first."

When Fatty Wang heard Su Li say this, he took the soup bowl in his hand with some skepticism and went into the black water in the coffin, intending to scoop out a bowl to try.

Unexpectedly, as soon as this ordinary little soup bowl touched the water, a suction force came from inside the bowl.

A steady stream of black water was drawn into the bowl, yet the bowl never seemed to fill up.

王胖子：(?1?1?6?8?1?1∞)震惊！！！

无邪：(?7?9?6?7?7?9)想要！！！

Until all the water in the coffin had been sucked out, Fatty Wang held the still empty bowl, his eyes gleaming. Wu Xie was also eager to try it out, wishing he could have another coffin full of black water to try it out too.

This little broken bowl... oops, this precious bowl is amazing! It's a real treasure!

I wonder how much water this little thing can hold. Xiao Lizi has a few more.

Do you think if we filled this treasure with purified water and sold it in the desert, it could make Fatty rich overnight?

If Wu Xie knew what this fat guy was thinking, he would definitely pour cold water on him without hesitation.

Even if you went to the desert to sell water, someone would still have to buy it, right? Otherwise, who would you sell it to? Cacti or mummies?

Ignoring Wang Pangzi's reluctant gaze, Su Li put the soup bowl away.

A bowl that has contained disgusting things is no good; just throw it in a corner to collect dust.

A bowl that was forced to be filled with disgusting stuff: Oh, my lord of clear soup, I am wronged!!!

Wang Pangzi looked pitiful, like a child weighing over 200 pounds, as his first experience card for a magical item expired. However, he also knew that such an awesome treasure was not going to be given to him.

So I wasn't too disappointed.

The water in the coffin had been emptied by now, and Fatty Wang quickly called everyone over to take a look.

"Oh my god, Fatty thought these guys were at least some kind of tumor, if not heads, but they're actually breasts..."

Before he could even utter that word, Fatty Wang was met with death stares from Zhang Qiling and Wu Xie.

Fatty Wang immediately realized what was happening and looked at the underage boss and the baby zongzi beside him.

"It's...it's actually a female corpse."

There's nothing wrong with just summarizing the results, right?

With the oppressive feeling gone, Fatty Wang secretly turned his head and breathed a sigh of relief...

Su Li knew what Fatty Wang wanted to say, but ignored him and looked with interest at the woman's body, where the abdomen was not very obvious due to the deformity of her body.

Zhang Qiling looked at Su Li. "Sold?"

Su Li shook her head. "It's still inside my belly, it hasn't come out yet."

Upon hearing Su Li's words, Wu Xie suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He realized that Su Li's statement about the small corpse demon being afraid of something in the coffin meant that Su Li wasn't referring to the deformed corpse, but rather to what was inside its stomach.

"Brother Zhang?"

Zhang Qiling looked at him with suspicion.

"Do you want to hit it first, or should I sell it directly?" Su Li suddenly asked.

I've been acting all delicate the whole way; I wonder if Brother Zhang wants to stretch his body a bit.

"Let's attack first," Zhang Qiling replied after thinking for a moment.

This drought demon isn't difficult to deal with. As long as you don't kill it and let the corpse poison spread, you can still manage to move around a bit by simply suppressing it and defeating it.

Su Li said she understood, ignoring the questioning looks from Wu Xie and Fatty Wang, and happily pulled them to stand against the wall by the tomb chamber.

Then one of them stuffed a Green Wood Spirit Fruit into his hand. (The fruits they had picked from the sect leader's herb garden in Chapter Eight were all eaten; this was taken from the storage bag of spirit fruits.)

Let's just sit back and wait to see the dramatic showdown between Nanshan Nursing Home and Beihai Kindergarten.

They didn't have to wait long. Without the coffin lid and the water, the woman's belly indeed began to move.

The innocent little girl and her chubby mother, who were enjoying delicious fruit, watched helplessly as the woman's belly was slowly stretched into a high arc by the outline of a small hand, before disappearing again.

The little hand disappeared for a short while, and then the shape of a pair of feet reappeared on the belly.

Then they saw the shape of a face protruding from the woman's belly.

Unlike the previous tentative probes, this time the thing inside seemed to be desperately trying to break out. The skin on the woman's stomach had been stretched so thin that it was transparent, and even the features of the thing inside could be clearly seen.

The two were so startled by the scene that they lost their appetite for the fruit in their hands and leaned against Su Li in unison, while staring intently at the other side.

"Pop..." A sound like a bubble bursting rang out in the quiet tomb. The belly, which had been stretched to the point of being transparent, finally couldn't bear it any longer and burst open. A small hand with white hair reached out from the female corpse's belly.

Seeing that familiar little hand, Wu Xie and Fatty Wang both looked at the little corpse demon in Su Li's arms.

Aside from being a little small, a little dirty, and a little sparsely haired, that little hand was otherwise exactly the same as the little corpse demon.

Su Li: Don't mention it, mine is cuter.

and……

"Beep beep, a strange creature has been detected—a drought demon. It can be redeemed for 1000 points. Do you want to redeem it?"